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Chapter 388 Signal Interference! (First Update!)

Tan Chuan's voice was powerful and clear, completely drowning out Gao Hai's voice. It was a long time after the voice faded that Gao Hai stiffly turned around, his eyes wide open, staring intently at Tan Chuan who had spoken.

Stared at by Gao Hai and several other leaders, Tan Chuan first checked himself to make sure he had nothing on him before rolling his eyes and asking, "What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen us old bastards swear oaths before?"

"Never seen it before!" Gao Hai shook his head earnestly. After shaking his head, he quickly went around to Tan Chuan's side, bent down, and said to Tan Chuan:

"It's mainly unnecessary. We'd be better off taking responsibility for this kind of thing."

As he spoke, he raised his head and puffed out his chest, as if preparing to pat his chest with his hand.

However, just before he patted his chest, Tan Chuan calmly rolled his eyes at him: "Who do you think you are?"

After asking the question, Tan Chuan looked Gao Hai up and down, then shook his head in disdain: "You're not even as tall as a scallion from Shandong Province!"

"Pity!"

With just two sentences, all of Gao Hai's words were stuck in his throat, and all the things he was about to say vanished into thin air. Only one sentence remained in his mind: "Not even as tall as the scallions from Shandong Province!"
It's not as tall as a scallion!

That's not how you insult someone!

Seeing that Gao Hai was hurt by his words, Tan Chuan turned around and looked at the people in charge again:

“What I just said wasn’t a joke, and the news from a few days ago wasn’t unfounded. Now, go and prepare the materials, hand over the personnel, and then set off with Representative Gao Hai.”

After speaking with the several responsible persons, Tan Chuan turned back to look at Gao Hai:
"Don't even think about it. The tallest recorded scallion in Shandong Province is two meters. Neither of us is as tall as a scallion!"

"Go with them to complete the handover."

After kicking the people out of his office, Tan Chuan turned and walked to the wall on his left, where a progress chart was hanging.

The table was huge, taking up the entire wall.

The horizontal axis represents time.

The vertical section contains the names of each process step.

In this crisscrossing table, there are red and black fonts. Black indicates completed progress, while red indicates delayed progress.

Red and black are interspersed, each in half.

After staring at the schedule for a long time, Tan Chuan picked up the red marker next to him and drew a big red cross on the huge table.

After drawing a red cross, he tossed the marker onto the table, picked up the binoculars, and turned to walk towards the window.

Across from his window, about four or five hundred meters from the seaside pier, stood a huge, rusty ship.

Looking through the binoculars, you can see people moving around on it, and everyone looks very anxious.

After watching for a few minutes, Tan Chuan put down his binoculars, picked up the safety helmet hanging nearby, put on a reflective vest, walked out of the office, and gathered a few people from the next office. Together with them, they walked towards the large ship in the distance.

Once on the ship, the person who had been walking behind Tan Chuan walked around him, stood in front of him, and introduced the blueprints:
"The main structure of other areas has been adjusted, including the engine room adjustment you instructed a couple of days ago. Workers are now doing the detailed structural work."

"The biggest problem right now is the ship's upper deck and hangar."

"If we use our initial idea, these two things combined would be at least 1.5 tons, or at least 2 tons if we're not being conservative."

"Once we have the data, we can determine whether further modifications are needed. If no modifications are needed, we can adjust the internal structure, complete all the necessary work, and wait for the relevant materials to arrive."

An aircraft carrier without a deck cover looks like a lot of houses without roofs, and the hangar area is empty, missing a large chunk.

Below is the original skeletal structure of the ship.

The Soviet Union was a mess in light industry, but in heavy industry, they still maintained the rigor characteristic of the Slavs.

After staring at that large empty space for a long time, Tan Chuan sighed helplessly:

"Hurry up with them..."

As he casually uttered a few words, he remembered the group of researchers on site who were being packed up and prepared to be sent to Xiaomi Heavy Industry.

Thinking of this, he sighed helplessly: "Let's go back!"

The work of exchanging documents is tedious, but it requires meticulous attention. Gao Hai stands in front of a forest of filing cabinets, and as the clerk in front of him hands over a document, he makes a note of it.

While taking notes, he also had to deal with the questions from the people handing over the work:
"Representative Gao, is Xiaomi Heavy Industry's technology really that strong?"

"By the way, I heard they put sugar in their stir-fries. Is that safe to eat?"

"I also heard they eat cockroaches!"

"It's not Suzhou that eats cockroaches, it's Guangdong province!"

"Wait a minute, I heard it was about eating rats?"

"It's Guangxi Province that eats rats!"

"Oh, I see!"

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In August, Yanjing, at the West Suburbs Aerospace Control Center, experienced a torrential rain that washed away the mud and dust from the air. Wei Jianguo, holding a cup of tea, leisurely walked into the satellite control room.

Looking at the people sitting at their desks, busy with their work, he was filled with joy.

These people were all specially recruited by the Air Force from various universities and research institutes.

Besides locals, there were also people involved in the development of the BeiDou satellite system.

Soldiers need training, and so do these people, but since its inception, the satellite control center has not been able to control enough satellites, and these satellites are all undertaking extremely important scientific research work, so they cannot be allowed to operate them at will.

However, this year, Xiaomi Heavy Industry and their satellite navigation system emerged, breaking this deadlock.

Now, everyone at the West Suburbs Aerospace Control Center, even the interns who have just joined the institute, can be allocated at least 4 hours of practical training time per week.

In actual hands-on practice, the number of emergency situations encountered is far greater than those described in books.

After experiencing it once, you'll know how to handle it next time.

Especially the recent incident involving the America satellite collision!

Although the satellite was not damaged that time, the West Suburbs Space Control Center has had an additional task since then: to monitor America's satellite movements at all times.

Given time, these young people in the command center will grow into the backbone of the future.

Thinking this, Wei Jianguo, carrying tea, casually walked up behind a young man, intending to inquire about his learning progress. Suddenly, the young man turned around and shouted at the person in charge beside him:

"The satellite system has been attacked by an unidentified signal! Data transmission from satellites 4, 7, 14, 18, and 23, which were just passing through Central Asia, has become abnormal!"

The sudden sound echoed in the command room, causing everyone in the room to pause and turn to look at the young man who had spoken.

Upon seeing Wei Jianguo, who had appeared out of nowhere, the person in charge quickly called out, "Chief!"

This shout drew the attention of the others to Wei Jianguo, who all turned to look at him, wanting to hear his thoughts. Wei Jianguo ignored their stares, released his teacup with his left hand, and then gently pressed down on his side: "Don't panic!"

"Now follow my orders!"

"Monitoring team, within 5 minutes, confirm whether there are any satellites with abnormal orbits around the satellite's orbit, and confirm their nationality."

"Activate the satellite emergency system to quickly locate the source of the interference."

"After confirming the source, activate the jamming system to interfere with the target signal."

"Communications team, contact Engineer Mao from Xiaomi Heavy Industry and tell him that someone is using signals to attack satellites!"

"At the same time, contact the General Armaments Department and ask them to coordinate the deployment of special forces, ready for emergency assault at any time!"

"Get the security department ready and allow them to access the armory!"

Once the order was issued, the several groups in the command center quickly divided up their tasks and began emergency response according to the instructions they had received.

The communications team received the order and made several phone calls in succession, transmitting the message that the satellite system was being interfered with.

Hearing those calls being made, Wei Jianguo breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked to the monitoring team's large screens, staring at them without saying a word.

Damn America, she never does anything good!
After a few minutes of signal processing, the monitoring team organized the data and handed it to the person in charge, who then turned and handed the data to Wei Jianguo.
"It's high-power ground signal interference."

"The area is very large. According to cross-calculation of multiple satellite signals, the signal interference covers a large area including the northern Arabian Peninsula, eastern Greece, southern Caucasus Mountains, and central Iran."

"I suggest that my colleagues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contact the embassies of countries in this area."

"Let's see if any country is conducting jamming weapon tests."

After figuring out that it was a large-scale signal interference, Wei Jianguo breathed a slight sigh of relief.

When a satellite encounters a signal attack, there are generally three scenarios: interference, deception, and hijacking.

The jamming is mainly aimed at the receiving end. By using a jamming transmitter with sufficient power, a high-gain directional antenna, a power amplifier, and a spectrum analyzer, it is possible to interfere with the signal in the target area and prevent the other party's receiving end from receiving information.

Deception primarily targets the receiving end, mainly by creating false signals to induce the receiving device to misjudge its current location, time, and the transmitted instructions.

The most common method is to attack the communication base station, causing it to issue an incorrect time to all communication devices.

The second method is to attack ships, causing them to obtain a false navigation position.

As for hijacking, it means directly taking over the satellite's communication links and control channels, controlling the satellite to send various malicious commands, and stealing satellite data.

These three methods, ranging from interference to deception to hijacking, are progressively more serious than the last.

In Wei Jianguo's mind, these three types of attacks were of opposite severity.

Satellite signal hijacking typically exploits vulnerabilities in satellite systems, such as obtaining satellite communication protocol code, cracking satellite data encryption, or replicating the authentication of legitimate ground stations.

These are generally data-level tasks, mostly done by hackers.

For example, last year there was an incident where hackers hijacked the data link of the American NOAA weather satellite, exploiting an unencrypted vulnerability in the satellite's data link.

However, signal interference and deception both require large-scale equipment, and in addition to large-scale equipment, a large amount of electricity is also needed.

An enemy capable of using this tactic is no ordinary person!

Electronic warfare information units occasionally conduct exercises, but they are notified in advance.

Such large-scale electronic station information interference could very likely lead to misjudgments by departments that lose information.

Now that it was clear the signal interference was in the Middle East, Wei Jianguo put aside his worries and began to read through the documents in his hand from beginning to end.

Beside him, the person in charge explained in a low voice: "Based on the cross-calculation of information received from several satellites, the other party should have deployed multiple high-power signal jamming devices."

"Then they interfered with our orbit."

"When our satellite arrived in this area, the signal exchange with the ground was interfered with, resulting in poor signal reception. We could only relay the signal through other satellites in orbit."

"Once we leave this area, the interference disappears and signal reception returns to normal."

Knowing that the source of the signal interference was in the Middle East, Wei Jianguo began to analyze which guy had nothing better to do.

But after analyzing it again and again, he still couldn't make up his mind.

This area is a chaotic battleground, a place where shallow waters teem with turtles and gangsters everywhere.

America is the most likely country to carry out signal jamming, followed by Russia. As for the remaining countries, they are the kind that have the desire and the courage, but not the means to do so.

After all, this region has an air route between Europe and Asia, which is extremely busy with a large number of aircraft.

With such large-scale signal interference, the first to suffer are the aircraft.

If it were just a single plane that crashed, the countries involved could pass the buck and pretend they didn't know what was going on.

But if a whole bunch of them fall, then they're all terrorists!
Moreover, such widespread signal interference requires time to prepare and a large amount of electricity for subsequent support.

Only Russia and America have the ability to allocate so much electricity in the Middle East.

Composing himself, Wei Jianguo issued new instructions to the communications team beside him:

"Contact the Civil Aviation Administration and ask them to inquire whether any aircraft that just passed through this area experienced navigation system interference."

"Contact the General Armament Department and tell the leaders that it's not domestic signal interference, but foreign signal interference. Ask them to coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to find out what's going on."

"Finally, contact Xiaomi Heavy Industry and tell their CEO about this. They might know what's going on."

The message was quickly sent from the West Suburbs Aerospace Control Center, traveling hundreds of kilometers to reach Suzhou and Lin Yi.

North of the Arabian Peninsula, east of the Greek Peninsula, south of the Caucasus Mountains, and west of central Iran.

Signal interference!

Looking at this scope, Lin Yi scoffed. Within this scope, there was only one country capable of doing something so abstract.

Türkiye!

Only this group of people can make even the most abstract people find abstract things abstract.

Taking a deep breath, he pulled out his phone with a murderous look on his face, found Costa's number, and dialed it without caring about the time.

The phone rang for a long time before Costa finally answered it.

As soon as the call connected, Lin Yi started cursing: "Are you guys crazy? Conducting such a large-scale signal interference test?"

"If you want to die, just jump into the sea!"

"OK?"

(End of this chapter)