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Chapter 269: Intercontinental ballistic missiles make the United States feel like they are facing a formidable enemy

On January 1987, 1, New Year's Day of the Western calendar, Myanmar informed major countries around the world that it would launch an intercontinental ballistic missile into the South Pacific in two days.

The missile landed at approximately 173 degrees west longitude and 9 degrees south latitude, about 8000 kilometers away from mainland Myanmar.

At that time, the 50 nautical miles around the impact point will be a dangerous area, and relevant ships are requested to detour.

As soon as the news was released, major countries around the world instantly became alert.

At 3 p.m. local time in the United States, the CIA director, who was enjoying a rare Easter holiday, was forced to rush back to the Langley headquarters in Virginia due to a call from his subordinates.

"Director William, this is terrible news. Myanmar has reported a test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile."

"Jack, what did you say? Burma is going to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile?"

"That's right, Director William, you'd better come to the headquarters as soon as possible. The intercontinental ballistic missile reported by Myanmar has a range of up to 8 kilometers, and it will land in the South Pacific, a sea that originally belonged to us." Jack, the CIA officer on duty, reported the news reported by Myanmar to Director William in detail on the phone.

"Damn it, get me the fastest helicopter. I'm on Miami Beach. Go back to the hotel right now. There's a rooftop where a helicopter can land.

Also, call all the members of the Burma intelligence team to the headquarters. When I arrive, they must be at their workstations, otherwise they will be sent to clean the toilets. "

After listening to this, Director William ignored the pleas of his companion, the blonde with big wavy hair, and while making a phone call to arrange work, he hurriedly changed his clothes and returned to the hotel with several of his men.

The blonde beauty behind him shouted several times, but Director William didn't even turn around. He just waved his hand behind him, indicating that she should continue playing by herself.

The blonde beauty was originally thinking that there would be a romantic night party tonight, but she didn't expect that her male companion for the night would be called away by a phone call.

Originally, she saw this old white man, who was dressed very decently, wearing a rare Rolex watch, and had several burly bodyguards following him at all times. He should be a golden turtle very worth fishing for.

But now it's all gone.

No matter how she tried to persuade him to stay, he just didn't turn around.

This made her very upset. She thought that she should not have been so reserved after lunch. If she had done a good thing, she might be able to leave something valuable behind when he left.

What a pity. After watching the other person go away, the blonde beauty immediately picked up the latest Motorola mobile phone and contacted a suitor who had been keeping her in the dark and had not accepted the other party's invitation.

"Tang, please pass this check on to the female companion just now. Although she was not able to enter, she wasted so much of her time. It is not my style not to give her some benefits."

Director William only had time to deal with his personal affairs before boarding the plane. He hurriedly wrote a check for 5 US dollars and asked his subordinates to pass it to the other party.

"Okay, boss, I'll do it right away."

"Go ahead, bye, and tell her I'll see you next weekend."

After Director William finished speaking, the helicopter took off in a hurry.

The pilot knew it was an emergency mission, so he soared into the air and drove the Black Hawk helicopter at the maximum speed allowed.

"Jack, have all the members of the Burma intelligence team arrived?"

As soon as he entered the CIA headquarters building and saw Jack waiting there, Director William asked about the arrival of the personnel he had asked him to help gather.

"Boss, everyone is here. Originally, the intelligence on Burma was particularly abundant and complicated during this period, so no one left the headquarters far. Everyone stayed in nearby residences or tourist attractions to rest and play." Jack reported.

"Very good, go ahead and do your thing." William waved his hand and asked Jack to do his own thing, while he went to the office of the Burma Intelligence Bureau.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we called you here at this time because there is a more urgent matter. We need you to use your abilities to investigate the matter. Please download the briefing from the A13461 folder on the intranet."

As soon as William entered the Burma Intelligence Department, he quickly and decisively arranged his men to start working.

"Got it, boss, wait a moment."

"Wow, an ICBM launch notification? I expected this moment to come, but I didn't expect it to be so soon. Is the Quanjie formation so powerful? They created such a powerful weapon in just over two years."

A black-skinned intelligence officer opened the folder, glanced at the contents of the briefing, exclaimed and muttered to himself.

"Hey, Johnny, take action after reading this. Analyze the satellite images taken yesterday and today to see if you can find their launch site." Director William shouted dissatisfiedly.

"Okay, boss, I'll start now. However, our satellite's angle is still a little wrong. It's filmed at a high angle, so it's very likely that we won't be able to see clearly."

"I don't care. Since Myanmar has already informed us in such detail, their launch site should have been completed by now. It doesn't matter if we don't know. After we find the location, I will apply to NASA to change the orbit of a polar satellite."

"Okay, boss, I'll get started. Luckily our computers have been updated. The chips are the latest generation of CPUs manufactured by Intel using a 320-nanometer lithography machine. The image processing software on board can help me eliminate more than 90% of the natural terrain."

Johnny was typing on the keyboard at full speed with all ten fingers of both hands while introducing the latest computer at his workstation.

At this time, due to the participation of Xingyao Electronics, the personal computer industry's chip update and iteration speed far exceeds Moore's Law proposed by Moore.

On April 1965, 4, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, proposed Moore's Law, which is generally recognized by integrated circuit researchers. That is, the number of transistors that can be accommodated on an integrated circuit will double approximately every 19 to 18 months, while performance improves and costs decrease.

He first made this observation in his article "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits" published in Electronics Magazine.

In fact, at the beginning he said that the number of transistors doubles every year.

But by 1975, due to the increase in technological complexity, Moore adjusted the doubling period to 18-24 months.

This version has become the widely cited standard definition.

But starting in 1983, this law is no longer accurate.

Xingyao Electronics releases a new CPU every 8 to 14 months.

Its large-scale mass-produced chip process has maintained this update speed since it started at 1.5 microns.

This has caused great suffering to American chip companies such as Intel and AMD.

Before entering the 500nm process, Intel and AMD are taking their time.

Because at that time they already had the technology reserves for 380-nanometer process.

However, when they wanted to launch a 1985-nanometer CPU before Star Electronics at the end of 400, Star Electronics launched a 1-nanometer CPU one week ahead of them.

Although this CPU has not been sold on a large scale in North America due to software adaptation issues and market access issues in the United States, this chip has been very popular outside the United States. Many personal PC sales companies purchase this high-quality and low-cost chip, install it in their latest assembled computers, and sell it all over the world.

Of course, the Chinese market belongs to computer companies supported by Xingyao Electronics and several domestic scientific research institutions, and they cannot compete with them.

By 1986, Xingyao Electronics' computer business had begun to transform.

We will no longer expand the scale of assembly plants, but instead try to support assembly plants at home and abroad.

It maintains only one experimental assembly plant, retaining only one high-end brand and one mid-range brand, to test the latest chips.

Intel and other European and American companies, realizing they couldn't win, resorted to methods such as banning access and blocking news, which also resulted in many Americans not being able to see the series of electronic products released by Star Electronics.

So although Johnny is a CIA intelligence agent at this time, he is still using an Intel CPU with average performance.

About 40 minutes later, Johnny finally found a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile launch site from dozens of satellite images of northern Myanmar.

"Boss, I found it. Here, in a place called Xingangandi, there are several buildings that look very much like the intercontinental ballistic missile launch site you mentioned." Johnny shared the electronic map with William.

"Are you sure?" William looked at the very abstract pattern composed of pixels and said with a little doubt.

"There is a 90% chance that this satellite can only capture this clarity at the moment. Based on my previous observations of Soviet and Chinese intercontinental missile launch sites, this should be correct."

"Okay, send me the coordinates. I'll ask NASA to coordinate to change the orbit of another reconnaissance satellite and take overhead photos as soon as possible. We must see their launch sites and missiles clearly." After hearing the affirmative answer, Director William quickly made a phone call.

"Hello, this is James from NASA."

"James, this is William. You should have received the news. Myanmar is going to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile."

"I've seen the briefing. What do you want to say?" NASA Administrator James Fletcher was very dissatisfied with this intelligence chief. He always felt that something bad would happen if he came into contact with him.

"James, you know, the orbit of the previous satellite was not good enough, and it was very blurry when photographing the enemy's missile positions. So I would like you to help change the orbit of another satellite, preferably one that can shoot overhead. I will send you the specific target location." Director William needed a favor from James at this time, so he spoke very politely.

"Director William, it's not that I don't want to help, but the current situation is very troublesome. The previous satellites still have missions, and the new satellite was not successfully launched due to the previous accident. So if you need to change the orbit, please get the consent of the president first."

"James, the mission is urgent. The other side is about to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile that can hit our homeland."

"William, you'd better get the president's consent as soon as possible. I have something else to do."

"You~,..."

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There was a busy tone on the phone after the call was hung up.

"Damn you James, you are so stubborn. Don't think you are keeping it a secret. Now the president needs you to work hard. After the Soviet Union falls, you will be the next one." Director William was furious and said harsh words in the office.

Originally, he wanted to ask James for help to quickly change the satellite's orbit, take clear photos, and then report to the president.

Now he had no choice but to report to the president with the blurry photos.

"Mr. President, good afternoon. We have found the missile sites in Myanmar. It's just that the satellite orbit was not good, so the photos we took are blurry."

William faxed the marked missile positions to the President's office and then called to report.

"It's not blurry, but very abstract. Are you sure that is the enemy's missile position?" President Reagan said unhappily as he looked at the picture which was more abstract than Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

"Sure, but it would be better if there was a satellite that could fly overhead to take photos, so that we could take more clear photos when the other side launches."

"William, is it necessary to do this? This is probably a temporary position that will be abandoned after the experiment is completed. Aren't we wasting the satellite's fuel?"

"Mr. President, their internal intelligence is very difficult to collect. If we don't get more data when they are testing this ballistic missile, it will be very difficult for us to make a defense plan after they deploy it for combat."

"Hmm~, what you said makes sense. I agree. I will ask my secretary to notify James and ask him to assist you in completing the satellite orbit change as soon as possible."

"Thank you very much, Mr. President."

"For the United States."

"For the United States."

After President Reagan hung up the phone, he immediately asked his secretary to notify James to cooperate with the CIA to change the orbit of a certain reconnaissance satellite.

He then called the Navy's Pacific Command and asked them if they had a plan to respond if Burma tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The Secretary of State had previously reported to him the contents of Myanmar's notification. At first, he did not pay much attention to it because the flight trajectory reported by the other party indicated that the range of the missile was only about 8000 kilometers, which posed no threat to the US mainland.

But just now William mentioned that the other party may already have nuclear weapons, so we have to take it seriously.

So he immediately called the Navy's Pacific Command again.

"Ronald, Myanmar is about to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. Do you have any response plan?"

The commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Command at this time was Admiral Ronald J. Hays.

Admiral Hayes was a key figure in the U.S. military strategy in the Asia-Pacific region during the Cold War. He was responsible for responding to the Soviet Union's military expansion in the Pacific and strengthening defense cooperation with allies such as Japan and South Korea.

"Mr. President, I was just about to report to you that I have dispatched a squadron from Pearl Harbor to the sea area where the missiles landed as reported by the other side.

Prepare to see if you can snatch the opponent's experimental warhead after the opponent launches.

In addition, our bases in the Philippines, Guam and other places have been notified to conduct 24-hour combat duty, and the radar is turned on continuously. As long as the opponent's missile is launched, we can track and record the opponent's flight parameters throughout the process."

"Very good, Ronald. In addition to tracking and recording the enemy's data, your navy must also strengthen its research on anti-missile technology. After all, 70% of the world's area is ocean. The navy will play an extremely important role in future anti-missile missions."

"Yes, Mr. President. We have several anti-missile research projects underway. As long as there is sufficient funding, there will be good results."

"I will get Congress to approve the funding. I'll be waiting for your good news."

Just as the United States was making a big move and preparing to use satellites and the navy to detect Myanmar's intercontinental ballistic missiles, Wang Jiankun was also coordinating with various departments to ensure the complete success of the experiment.

(End of this chapter)