Genius is just the threshold for me!

Ding-dong-

As soon as I entered the lab and turned on my computer, a new email notification sounded.

[Chengfei Wei Gong]: Engineer Wang, please check the latest electronic multi-spectral microwave anechoic chamber test data, password number 8.

"Still busy on Saturday."

Lin Dong saw Wei's email, found the attached test data document, and entered Wei's 18-digit password (number 3).

The so-called No. 8 password was a password that he had Wang Xingguo and the project team members who went out to conduct experiments agreed upon privately.

Each person going out has a set of three passwords, and only the person in charge knows these three passwords, except for Wang Xingguo and Lin Dong.

When you need to transfer file data, choose one of the passwords, and each password can only be used more than three times.

This avoids sending the password and the file separately when transferring files.

This is because the account boosting files were sent directly to him, while the password had to be transferred to Wang Xingguo again.

Di-

After entering the password, press Enter to start the file and check the network environment.

After waiting three seconds to confirm that the network environment was correct, a large amount of dense spectrum data, interference data, and electromagnetic data appeared on the screen.

"This data..."

Lin Dong moved the mouse to quickly view some key data inside.

After reviewing all the data, Lin Dong thought for a moment, looked around, got up, grabbed a sheet of confidential paper and a pen, and began to calculate quickly.

slam-la-

The pen tip made a rustling sound as it glided across the paper.

The pages were quickly filled with densely packed formulas, symbols, and data.

Lin Dong had been calculating for half an hour. When the last data appeared on the paper, his eyes paused for a moment, his brows slowly relaxed, and he let out a breath.

—The plan is approved!

"I thought I'd have to wait another week, but I didn't expect it to be approved today."

"The experiment conducted by Engineer Wei is of very high quality..."

Lin Dong sighed inwardly, swept all the papers aside, opened the overall design drawings of the J-16D, and began to adjust the parameters and performance of the electronic warfare equipment, as well as its layout and distribution, based on the test data.

Twenty minutes later, Lin Dong finished adjusting the last parameter.

My eyes scanned the data, and I mentally verified it simultaneously. Once I confirmed that everything was in order, I uploaded and entered it into Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's core database, and then set the permissions and password.

"All done. 42 days, plan finalized... Not beyond my expectations." Lin Dong nodded in satisfaction, then took out his secure phone and sent a message to Wang Xingguo and Xu Ziming.

"Lin Dong, the swarm drones are out of power, it's about time to head back."

At that moment, the laboratory door opened.

Xu Qingling walked in, her breath hot and carrying a gust of cold wind from outside. Seeing the draft paper on the table, she asked, "Still busy?"

"I took care of a small matter during my free time, and it's done."

Lin Dong locked the screen, and the two of them stuffed the draft paper into the shredder.

Now that it's winter, he prefers to play games at home, where the small study feels warmer. Today, he just finished looking at the industrial plan when an email came in.

"Lin Dong, open the door! The swarm drones need charging!"

After the two finished cleaning the table, Li Tao called out on the lab's intercom.

Lin Dong pressed the switch on the laboratory door, and Li Tao and Zhang Yihao carried six or seven drones, while Huang Qingyao, Xia Ran, Su Yue and the others each took a few drones. They went into a charging room that had been newly renovated during the winter break.

"Lin Dong".

The group connected all the drones to their chargers.

Li Tao walked in and couldn't help but ask Lin Dong, "Why is the model drone slower even though I increased the power of the ducted motor today?"

"Do you want to fully understand and master it, or do you just want to improve the performance of your model aircraft temporarily?" Lin Dong asked seriously.

"Of course, you have to fully understand and master it."

Li Tao answered without hesitation.

But he didn't see that as soon as he said that, Zhang Yihao, Huang Qingyao, Su Yue and the others turned their heads away in embarrassment.

"Wait, let me find you some books..."

Upon hearing this answer, Lin Dong went to a room in the laboratory and brought out three thick books.

"This is my father's book; you can borrow it now to cultivate..."

Lin Dong solemnly placed the book in Li Tao's hands: "This is the introductory technique. After you finish learning it, there will be advanced techniques inside."

???

Li Tao felt his hands suddenly sink, and when he looked at the first to third volumes of "Introduction to Aircraft Design" in his hands, he was completely stunned.

"Li Tao, you've lost it all today, haven't you? You've forgotten what your dad does for a living... and you still think you understand it completely?"

Zhang Yihao grumbled from the side, "If you could fully understand and master it, Uncle Wang could step down and you could become the chief engineer."

"Oh dear, I forgot about that."

Realizing what was happening, Li Tao quickly returned the three heavy books to Lin Dong and asked, "So, how do I improve the performance of my model airplane?"

"It's simple, just copy it."

Lin Dong calmly said, "Increasing the electric propulsion power of a model airplane is useless. If the shape is problematic, increasing the power will only make it easier to crash."

Go home and ask your dad for a blueprint of a subsonic fixed-wing aircraft.

Just scale down the blueprint to match its dimensions and build the model aircraft according to the blueprint parameters.

Once you've learned how to copy, the next step is to try modifying the design yourself, see if the effect improves or worsens, and why it improves or worsens.

A model drone with electric propulsion can only travel a maximum of 500 kilometers at most.

The speed of 180 kilometers per hour that Li Tao and others are currently building is far from reaching the performance limits of materials and aerodynamic shape; they can simply copy a real aircraft.

After imparting their experience in model aircraft making, the group left the laboratory and went home.

During their winter break model airplane competition, the afternoons and evenings were for improving the models, while the mornings were for test flights and competitions.

However, Lin Dong did not participate in the model airplane competition, so these things were not of much concern to him.

I went home for lunch and then strolled over to Lab 78 around 1 p.m.

Di-

Open the laboratory door and go inside.

"Xiao Dong, is the plan really finalized?" Wang Xingguo asked impatiently as soon as he saw Lin Dong come in.

"It's confirmed today, no problem."

Lin Dong turned on the lab's server, and the 200-inch screen lit up. He then opened a file and entered the access password.

A J-16 fighter jet appeared on the screen, but the cannon on the right side of the nose had disappeared, the shape of the nose had changed, and the hardpoints on the wingtips had been replaced with electronic pods.

"We received the final set of data today. All the data has been verified, the plan has been finalized, and the next step is the final design and verification phase..."

Instead of explaining the blueprints step by step like he had with the WZ-8, Lin Dong found an overview document, printed three copies, and handed them to Wang Xingguo and the others.

"The entire J-16D upgrade plan is very simple. First, two large electronic intelligence pods are installed on the wingtips. The left pod has 128 antenna arrays built in, mainly used to analyze the enemy's communication frequency bands."

The right-side pod is equipped with a high-performance frequency-hopping jamming module that can switch 600 jamming frequencies in 0.1 seconds to block enemy communications.

The airborne main radar has been replaced with an active phased array AESA radar, which has 2400 active gallium nitride T/R units and a radar transmit power of up to 12 kilowatts.

对于四代机探测距离400公里，对于f-22、f-35、歼-20等隐身战机探测距离可以达到150公里。

In terms of offensive weapons, it can carry the YJ-91 anti-radiation missile with a strike radar, a range of 150 kilometers, and a memory-based blind firing capability.

The LD-10 anti-radiation missile, which tracks the fire control radar of fighter jets, has a speed of up to Mach 6. If the enemy dares to turn on the radar, it will be destroyed directly along the radar wave.

In addition to the fixed pods on the wingtips, the J-16D can also carry electronic jamming pods using active phased array technology.

Depending on the configuration, it can perform functions such as interference in specific frequency bands, wideband blocking interference, precise interference and reconnaissance of high-frequency signals, and omnidirectional or dual-band coverage.

It can also be equipped with a tactical electronic deception pod, which can learn the enemy's radar waveforms and directly generate deception signals.

The entire fighter jet can carry up to four electronic pods at a time, and different pod combinations can be flexibly selected depending on the mission…

Can it carry four electronic pods?

Wang Xingguo suddenly stood up, and Xu Ziming, who had learned about electronic warfare aircraft during this period, and Su Ruohua also stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

"Two fixed pods, plus four more mounted, making six pods in total, with four of them flexibly combined... How did you solve the electromagnetic interference problem with such a complex system?"

Wang Xingguo asked in disbelief.

During this period, I checked Lin Dong's emails every day and also crammed on knowledge about electronic warfare aircraft.

He knew about an electronic warfare aircraft, in addition to the scanning capabilities of its main radar.

The overall performance of other reconnaissance, jamming, suppression, and electronic warfare attacks mainly depends on the number and effective power of electronic pods.

To put it simply, if an electronic warfare aircraft is a machine that can scan enemy aircraft, it is also a machine that can release blinding and decoy rays with 360° omnidirectional coverage.

So this electronic pod is like a flashlight that emits light.

Whoever gets the most flashes and the brightest flashes is the most awesome.

However, there is a fatal problem with these flashes.

That means that when six 360° strobe lights work together, they must ensure that they do not flash at each other or harm each other, and must coordinate to flash at the enemy.

This problem is the core challenge in the research and design of electronic warfare aircraft: electromagnetic interference and electronic self-destruction.

"That's how it was solved. We collected data using a microwave anechoic chamber experiment, did some calculations, and it worked."

Lin Dong asked curiously, "Daddy, don't you read all the work emails every day?"

"..."

Wang Xingguo suddenly fell silent, opened his mouth, and finally sat back down, silently flipping through the documents.

"Xiao Dong, I checked before. The American Growler can carry 5 electronic pods, but that's the maximum load. Normally, in order to carry anti-radiation missiles, it can only carry 2-3..."

Xu Ziming added from the side, "So, if our J-16D is successfully developed, it will surpass the American Growler electronic warfare aircraft?"

"The Roarer? Five pods?"

Lin Dong paused for a moment upon hearing this, then nodded strangely: "You could say that if we don't consider the technological gap, our J-16D has six electronic pods, which surpasses the American Growler electronic warfare aircraft."