Wang Xuexin returned to Liyuan Airport with disappointment.
He did not ask Su Liguo to start research on artillery detection radar... If a project cannot be proven theoretically feasible, hasty launch will only be a waste of time and money.
Wang Xuexin originally wanted to seek help from the system for this problem, but quickly gave up the idea.
What the system provides is nothing more than technology. As long as Wang Xuexin can afford military industry coins, it will have no problem providing technology to Dongfeng Express.
The question is, can the Eighth Route Army build it?
What use are these technologies if they cannot be produced and converted into physical objects?
Therefore, Wang Xuexin knew very well that the system could not help him much.
If it could, the system would have already given a "ding", how many military coins are there for the solution, and has the host purchased it?
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the system dinged: "The solution is 200 million military coins. Do you want the host to buy it?"
I'll go... If you have a solution, why didn't you tell me earlier?
Damn 200 million! Aren’t I going to start from scratch again with nothing?
However, it cannot be said that he is completely destitute. Wang Xuexin has already exchanged 50 million US dollars in his account to prepare funds.
Two hundred million military coins, which is another twenty million US dollars, is real money, but you can only buy one solution?
However, after thinking about it, Wang Xuexin believed that whether this problem could be solved was very important to the future operations and development of the Eighth Route Army. It could even be said to have opened up a new field, so he gritted his teeth and chose to buy it.
The system beeped and a three-dimensional interface popped up, which looked like a radar. There was a text introduction below:
"Name: AN/APS-15 Ground Mapping Radar"
"Nickname: Mickey"
"R&D Country: Eagle Sauce"
"Development date: March 1941"
"Commissioned: February 1943"
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Wang Xuexin couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this information. It couldn't be worth 200 million military coins, which is 20 million US dollars, right?
I have seen people killing pigs, but I have never seen people killing pigs like this!
However, Wang Xuexin still suffered the loss of being dumb after all. Who let this be the information age?
If the system hadn't said that Yingjiang had such a mapping radar, how would Wang Xuexin know that there was such a thing?
Ask someone else?
Just kidding, radar is the latest technology in this era. Yingjiang developed such a thing because of its developed industry and its R&D speed, which is at the forefront of the world. It is estimated that this mapping radar is a military secret for Yingjiang.
Others don't even know.
But then a question arises: If this is Yingjiang's high technology and it is a military secret, how did Wang Xuexin know and buy Yingjiang?
Wang Xuexin was still thinking:
How about we build a similar ground mapping radar ourselves?
Anyway, the Eighth Route Army already has a Mark 3 radar and a C47 transport aircraft. Wouldn’t it be enough to move the Mark 3 radar to the C47 for ground surveying and mapping?
But after taking a closer look at Yingjiang's AN/APS-15 ground mapping radar, Wang Xuexin gave up the idea.
"Band: X, wavelength 3 cm"
"Error: 150 meters"
Yingjiang's X-band radar has a wavelength of only 3 centimeters, and its mapping error reaches 150 meters. If Wang Xuexin reluctantly puts the Mark 3 radar on an aircraft for mapping, the error will be at least doubled, right?
If the error of the digital map reaches a few hundred meters, and then the Mark 3 detects artillery shells with a little error... If the two errors are added together, can the artillery still hit the enemy's artillery position accurately?
If it can't hit accurately, is there any point in this artillery detection radar?
What's more, the Eighth Route Army only has the Mark 3 medium-wave radar at this time, and they need a microwave radar with higher accuracy... One day in the future, Su Liguo can develop his own microwave radar and further improve the accuracy of the artillery detection radar.
Thinking of this, Wang Xuexin no longer hesitated. He habitually wanted to send a report to Sun Erwei, but after thinking about it for a while, he asked the correspondent to call Derek.
Within ten minutes Derek appeared in Wang Xuexin's office.
This is because Derek and his men have been in the airborne training camp during this period, especially after the airborne troops withdrew from Yanmen Pass.
Needless to say why Derek did this, he just wanted to learn more and more comprehensive airborne tactics from the Eighth Route Army's airborne troops... This is quite ironic. Their military advisory group was originally here to teach the Eighth Route Army how to conduct airborne landings.
Fighters are now learning airborne operations from the Eighth Route Army.
"Comrade Commander!" Derek said to Wang Xuexin with an embarrassed face as soon as he entered the office: "First of all, congratulations on your brilliant victory in the airborne operation at Yanmen Pass. Secondly, I think I should apologize to you. In fact
Prove you are right, you know more about airborne operations than we do!"
Then, without waiting for Wang Xuexin's reply, Derek added: "But this is what I find strange. Comrade Commander, you have never had an airborne operation. You didn't even have a transport plane before, but you were able to carry out an almost perfect airborne operation."
Combat...If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t have believed it was true!”
To be precise, Derek did not "see it with his own eyes," but the entire process and command of the Eighth Route Army's airborne operations were kept transparent to Derek. After all, Derek and others were military advisers, and they might make suggestions on the command.
However, Derek could not make any suggestions until the end, because in his opinion, this was the combat mode that an airborne force should have.
"This is nothing, Captain!" Wang Xuexin replied: "There is a saying that 'all roads lead to Rome'. Although this is an airborne operation that we have never been exposed to, whether it is airborne operations or land operations, they are all
They’re all connected, right? All we need is some imagination, and then we’ll know what we should do!”
Derek nodded in admiration. He believed that what Wang Xuexin said was true, because there was no other explanation other than this statement.
Of course Derek didn't know that Wang Xuexin relied on modern knowledge to determine his tactics rather than any imagination.
Wang Xuexin called Derek here, but that was not what he was talking about. He changed the topic and said: "But this time, our airborne operations were not as perfect as you said. We still had some troops airborne into the mountainous areas and caused some damage."
Heartbreaking casualties! I wonder, is there a way we could have avoided this loss?"
When Wang Xuexin said this, he paid attention to Derek's expression.
Seeing Derek's hesitant expression, he knew that his guess was right... Yingjiang must have equipped the airborne troops with that ground mapping radar.
At this time, the 82nd Airborne Division was still the first and only airborne unit of Eagle Sauce. As a member of it, Captain Derek would of course know about the existence of this thing.