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Consulate General in the Southwest of the United States.

It was past nine o'clock at night. The blinds in the conference room were closed, and the overhead lights illuminated the entire room. Documents were scattered on the large table.

A group of analysts, still working overtime late into the night, were constantly extracting valuable information from these documents and pasting it onto the blackboard next to them.

"Shit, shit!"

"This is a new project, and yet another new project! They're going crazy, Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group is really going insane!"

Williams stood in front of the blackboard, a button undone on his shirt collar, intently studying the information coming from the entire Southwest and even the whole country, his whole being emitting a frantic low growl.

"Sir, we've obtained two pieces of information..."

At that moment, a senior operations officer in a suit and tie rushed in with two documents, excitedly reporting his findings.

"Their headquarters has issued a new strategic requirement to develop a supersonic bomber with an estimated range of 1.3 kilometers, which could directly threaten our defenses in Guam and even Hawaii."

Another issue is that their high-thrust engine design has gone wrong, and now they have to start over, but the new engine design and development cycle are uncertain.

This time, Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) is redesigning and overhauling their J-20 fighter jet, reducing its weight by more than 30%, so that using their J-10 twin engines can still meet the initial performance requirements…”

"You managed to gather project information in just two days?"

Williams took the document, pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers, and showed no obvious joy, but rather some suspicion at first glance.

Based on his understanding of this place, even with such a large-scale military strategic project now, it would be impressive if he could get accurate project information within six months.

The J-20 fifth-generation fighter jet project here was initiated in 01, and they kept it a secret for four years without discovering it.

It wasn't until 05, when the full parameters of their F-22 fighter jet were revealed and the performance and combat capabilities of the fifth-generation fighter were shown, that they began to accelerate the development at a frenzied pace. The mobilization of personnel and materials was so intense that they were able to discover information about the project.

Before we could dig any deeper, an old guy semi-publicly and semi-secretly announced a J-10 modification project.

At that moment, he instinctively felt that something was wrong.

But when they were sending key managers to this country, his superiors did not listen.

After conducting an investigation through the covert channels, the superiors determined that the technological barriers to fifth-generation fighter jets were too great. Therefore, the development of fifth-generation fighter jets was temporarily suspended, and the focus shifted to the J-10 modification project.

When the J-20 fighter jets took off here in the second half of 2011, he became a core manager of this country.

This experience made him instinctively wary of the two pieces of project information he had obtained.

"Sir, after the Lightning fighter was captured last time, the mainland raised the alert level here..."

The senior operations officer paused for a moment, then continued, "We'll gather these two intelligence reports and activate two key pieces of the game."

"Has a key piece been activated?"

Williams' expression became more serious upon hearing this. He picked up the two intelligence reports and began to examine them. After reading the first report, he immediately tossed it aside: "The first one is a smokescreen, it's fake!"

With the rapid development of various air-to-air missiles and fighter jets, the supersonic long-range strategic bomber system will become increasingly unsuitable for the development of the new era. At most, they will modify their existing H-6 bombers, but they will not develop a new strategic bomber.

The second one…

Williams carefully read through the second intelligence report, frowned, and suddenly looked at another person in the conference room: "Peter, check the mobilization data here from 05 to 10 for their development of the J-20 fighter jet, and then compare it with the mobilization data for this project..."

"Yes, sir."

A blond intelligence officer responded immediately, turning to go to the adjacent data room.

Williams watched the intelligence officer leave, picked up the second intelligence report and read it again, then turned to the senior operative in a suit: "The homeland sent us to investigate why our strategic pawns at headquarters were suddenly exposed. What's the progress so far?"

"Sir, there's been too little time; there's no progress yet."

The senior operative said in a deep voice, "But it is certain that they recently used a valid strategic intelligence report to conduct a thorough screening operation on various departments."

Besides our strategic pawn, two of our allies' strategic pawns have also been exposed.

To avoid further exposure, the mainland has decided to keep the remaining strategic pieces inactive for the time being, and they must not act without a signal to activate.

"No strategic intelligence has been lost... With such a huge investment, what information are they trying to protect, and what project are they trying to cover up?"

Williams frowned slightly.

As an intelligence officer with over a decade of experience, he knew very well that no matter which country it was, any piece of strategic intelligence that had not expired could not be used as a screening tool.

If it can be used as a screening tool, it must be to cover up information of a higher strategy, and to clear out and ban potential internal entities in advance.

"No information found at the moment."

"However, based on local speculation, this is most likely related to their military research projects."

The senior operative shook his head: "Because their core military industrial plants have recently added a supporting armed camp to provide outer defense, which has added countless difficulties for our intelligence personnel."

"Military research... Recently, apart from Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) launching a new project, no other military research institutes have started any new projects. Is this to cover up the projects launched by CAC?"

Because of the covert operations, the principle of using low-value information to cover high-value information is followed.

The project launched by Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) is undoubtedly a strategic project based on existing information analysis, but it is not so important as to need to use strategic intelligence that can instantly access strategic pieces from headquarters as cover.

After all, even if the project here at Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group is completed, its value is likely only that of using it to identify intelligence this time.

Using completed strategic intelligence to cover up an unfinished strategic project... This isn't low-value covering up high-value, but rather high-value covering up low-value, so this speculation is simply impossible.

"Forget it, this matter is beyond the authority of our dispatched personnel. Let the local team take direct command and follow up. Our focus should still be on Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group."

Williams thought for a moment but couldn't figure it out, so he simply ignored the matter and instead earnestly explained: "Regarding the mysterious stealth fighter that suddenly appeared in Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, and the recent series of projects that have been launched."

Mr. Smith has already added a large budget to the domestic budget, and we will also further intensify our efforts to help Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group employees find their relatives.

Since our people can't get close right now, let those who can help us find out...

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noon the next day.

After school, Lin Dong went home, ate lunch, and instead of staying home to read books or work on papers, he leisurely walked to Laboratory No. 78 with his backpack on.

Di-

Enter your password and fingerprint to enter the laboratory.

Lin Dong took out today's math test paper from his schoolbag, quickly finished writing it and tossed it aside, then picked up the keyboard, entered the password, and opened the lab's server.

At this time.

Suddenly, a crack appeared in the wall connecting the side and rear to the adjacent final assembly workshop, and Wang Xingguo, Su Ruohua, and Xu Ziming walked in.

"Xingguo...is this how you usually meet with Xiaodong?"

Su Ruohua entered Laboratory 78, looked around, and then turned back to look at the automatically closing door crack, so small that it would be almost invisible unless you looked closely before leaving. A hint of surprise appeared on her face: "Did you learn this from the Hidden Front?"

"Engineer Xu learned it from a TV series."

Wang Xingguo gave a brief explanation, then walked over to Lin Dong and said, "Xiao Dong, it seems there's been some progress on the Emei project with Jiao Gong. He wants you to come over to the lab after dinner."

"Okay, got it."

Lin Dong nodded and remotely connected to his home computer, pulling over several files he had finished last night.

"Is this the problem the J-16D project is facing?"

Wang Xingguo saw the document Lin Dong had opened and looked at the structural diagram of the fully functional giant microwave anechoic chamber. He asked curiously.

"Yes, two difficult problems."

Lin Dong nodded, printed out the documents, and handed one to each of Wang Xingguo, Su Ruohua, and Xu Ziming: "One is that the large darkroom resources for collecting data in the early stages of the experiment are in short supply, and we have to wait in line for the experiment."

Another issue is that the fully functional giant darkroom, which will eventually accommodate the entire J-16D fighter jet for testing, has not yet been completed.

"Xiao Dong, it's just a microwave anechoic chamber... not a technical issue? Isn't your knowledge of electronic warfare aircraft something you're learning while working on the project?"

Xu Ziming looked at the document, which described a super-large scientific research building, and then further down, it became a high-precision heavy fighter turntable, a multi-angle high-speed radar simulation attack gimbal, and so on. His eyebrows twitched involuntarily.

Although, in theory, super-large scientific research buildings are civil engineering projects, not the assembly projects he is currently undertaking.

But the thought of pairing it with something like a high-precision heavy fighter turntable, or a radar simulation attack gimbal, made him suspect he was going on a business trip.

"Uncle Xu, my technique is fine. I've been learning for over half a month..."

Lin Dong said seriously, "I started learning from the day you went on your last business trip, and now it's been four days since you got back."

"Half a month..."

Xu Ziming opened his mouth, but was completely speechless.

Beside them, Wang Xingguo and Su Ruohua exchanged a glance and then silently looked up at the ceiling.

"I can solve technical problems, but the research and development buildings and industrial construction are things that only you, Godfather, can push forward."

Lin Dong found the email that Engineer Wei had sent last night and said seriously, "First of all, we need to guarantee the resources for the large-scale darkroom. We can't have to wait in line for a month for just one test, and we only have two days to prepare."

I checked and found that the construction of microwave anechoic chambers, a scientific research project, only began in the most recent five-year plan.

There are currently three large anechoic chambers in China that can meet the requirements for preliminary testing: one at China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), two at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CETC), and the others are still under construction.

Of these three darkrooms, we must have one dedicated to Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC).

One is for confidentiality reasons, and the other is for project schedule requirements; I don't have time to queue with them.

In addition, there is a fully functional giant anechoic chamber that can meet the testing needs of the J-16D aircraft. Currently, there is only one such renovation project under construction in the whole country, located at Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. I inquired about it last night, and Shenyang Aircraft Corporation replied that the renovation and construction will not be completed until September 2014.

This is the only anechoic chamber in China that meets the requirements, and also the second anechoic chamber in the world that can meet the requirements for testing the entire electronic warfare aircraft.

Other darkrooms, whether under construction or already existing, are neither large enough nor functional enough to meet this requirement.

There's no way around it; we can only try to speed up the construction and renovation process, ideally shortening the construction period to be completed before August 2013. Otherwise, it will delay the entire J-16D project's progress..."