Back in 1978, I was admitted to Northwestern Polytechnical University.

Chapter 434 All that's left is stubbornness!
Captain's room.

All the equipment was packed into boxes, and the mission was successfully completed!
Everyone was very relaxed.

"Professor Liu, are we going to take off from the aircraft carrier by catapult later?"

"Yeah, let's experience the push-back feeling too, and then we can brag about it to them when we get back..."

Everyone was excited, chatting and laughing.

Boom boom boom!
"Please come in! Mr. Ben Richie, you've come at the right time. Please talk to Mr. Bollinger and ask him to send a transport plane over as soon as possible to take us back..." Professor Liu said with a smile.

"Professor Liu, would you... be interested in visiting the United States? Lockheed Corporation would love to welcome talents like you and your students."

"No, let's talk about it another time," Professor Liu said. "We only came out this time because we were invited by you. Liangzi is a good friend of yours, so we had to make the trip. Now that things are over, we have to go back."

Ben Richie's face showed a complex expression.

There's no need to probe any further. These people definitely won't want to work in the United States. Their hearts are only set on the East and Northwestern Polytechnical University!

If we continue now, it will only provoke their resentment, and we definitely won't be able to retain this person. As for the equipment...

"Friends, the captain just said that due to the high-intensity use, the steam catapult is due for maintenance and repair, which may take about three days. If you want to go back now, you can only take a helicopter... The helicopter has a limited carrying capacity, so it can only take your personnel, and your equipment will have to stay behind for the time being."

Ben Ritchie knew that the bugging was still going on, and that both the captain and the commander were listening to his words.

First, use the catapult as a decoy to fool the other side. These people on the other side will definitely not want to waste three more days. When the time comes, the people will leave, but the machinery and equipment will remain. The Americans can then take advantage of these few days to quickly study the secrets of the Eastern equipment!

"Really? Steam catapults are unreliable after all. Ski-jump decks would be better."

"Exactly, if this happens during a war, wouldn't we just be left to passively take hits?"

Everyone started complaining.

Ben Richie's face was full of guilt: "Yes, it's really inconvenient for you..."

“Then let’s take the helicopter back first.” Professor Liu looked at the students behind him: “Classmates, let’s put in a little more effort and finish packing up the equipment.”

Wait, what are these people doing?
Ben Ritchie certainly couldn't stop them, after all, they still had a lot of opportunities to utilize the East!

The students then began unpacking the boxes, unscrewing the screws on the computer cases, and then...

The circuit board inside has been pulled out!

They didn't remove all of them; they only removed one piece from each machine. But without a doubt, it was the most crucial piece. Just look at the heatsink attached to it, and you'll know that the processor is definitely underneath! Removing this computer motherboard directly reduces the machine's value by half!

The Americans were also wide-eyed in front of the monitor.

"How could they...how could they do this!"

“The circuit boards inside this machine are all designed as removable plug-in boards,” Joseph Oko said. “This design is indeed good, but it should be part of the post-processing. We should be able to restore it. The key is the high-frequency parts at the front end, which are what we are most interested in. So, even though they took the motherboard, it still can’t stop us from studying these machines.”

Hearing him say that, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Is three days enough?

"That's... tough, if it's not enough..."

"If that's not enough, we'll say that the C-2 transport plane that was carrying this equipment crashed into the sea during flight! We'll just pay them a sum of money, leave the equipment behind, and study it ourselves!"

Thomas Müller's resounding words gave everyone confidence. Yes, that's it!

A few minutes later, Professor Liu and his students boarded the plane, each carrying a bag containing a motherboard. The reason for removing this component was to prevent the Americans from discovering that they had fabricated the technology. As for the technology...

There's nothing more top-secret technology left on the remaining circuit boards!

Before they came, they had made this preparation. Qin Liang had imagined all sorts of possible methods the Americans might use, and now, everything was going according to plan!
The Black Hawk helicopter took off and flew to a nearby island nation. The group would then transfer to a commercial airliner from the island nation to return to Northwestern Polytechnical University. After all, helicopters are too slow and have too short a range to fly all the way to Northwestern Polytechnical University.

As soon as the helicopter left, Joseph Oko rushed into the captain's cabin, turned on the first machine, disassembled the delicate circuit board inside, and began to study it carefully. The integrated circuits on it had no markings, which caused him a lot of trouble.

The eastern sky slowly brightened.

Sakhalin Island became lively as countless well-informed reporters from all over came to investigate. Wearing thick military overcoats provided by the Russians, they rode in snowmobiles provided by the Russians and endured a bumpy ride of more than an hour before finally arriving at the crash site.

"Dear journalists, what you see now is the U.S. Air Force's most advanced stealth fighter jet that we shot down last night! The most distinctive feature of this aircraft is its stealth capability. As you can see, the shape of this aircraft is completely different from traditional ones; it is an assembly composed of multiple surfaces..."

The Russian narrator, who was in charge of the commentary, actually made it up on the spot, but that didn't affect his performance. Soon, the footage from the scene was broadcast all over the world.

Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, United States.

The long flight left Fister exhausted. The first thing he did when he got off the plane was to take off the bulging diaper from his pants and use the toilet. Then, he just wanted to get a good night's sleep.

However… he was destined to have no time to sleep. The base commander, the head of Unit 4450, and several CIA intelligence officers… were already waiting for him at the bathroom door!

“Fister, can you tell me what happened back then?”

Hearing this impatient question, Fister, sitting on the toilet, felt only a sense of helplessness.

This is very impolite of you guys, but he also knew that he couldn't go to sleep until he explained it clearly. Since the people outside weren't afraid of the smell, he quickly explained it himself.

"The thing is like this..."

"What? So, Greg was shot down because the flares the enemy pulled out just happened to hit his plane?"

"Is such that."

Stealth aircraft are multifaceted, including radar stealth, infrared stealth, and visual stealth. Because the F-117 only operates at night, its coating is black, making it difficult to spot visually in the night sky. However, this does not include the use of auxiliary lighting tools!
"Moreover, we lowered our altitude, thinking it would be safer, but to our surprise, the ground there was covered in white snow..."

If you have a black fighter jet flying against a white background, it will be very clear!

Everyone was speechless. They had considered many possibilities, such as the Russians possessing advanced equipment, like anti-stealth radar. After all, during the Cold War, all sorts of advanced technologies emerged endlessly. They never expected it to be this kind of method. It seems...

Greg really has bad luck.

The White House.

"Mr. Ronald, the investigation is complete." William Casey walked in, looking at the listless, yawning men, and said, "Our F-117 was hit by the flash of the flare..."

And so, countless people fell silent.

The F-117 was sent to destroy the wreckage of the passenger plane to prevent the Russians from obtaining evidence. However, the F-117's failure only complicated matters further, and all for such a ridiculous reason...

"Report!" Just then, a panicked voice came from outside.

"what happened?"

"Moscow, over there in Moscow, the wreckage of the spy plane that shot us down has been officially released..."

Wait, a spy plane? Isn't it an F-117?
Everyone's expression changed: "They publicly admitted to shooting down a South Korean civilian airliner?"

"Yes, they said that there was our military equipment on this civilian airliner, and that it was a spy plane!"

It's over, it's over!

Moscow.

"In the early morning of January 2, 1984, the Americans used a South Korean civilian airliner that had been converted into a spy plane to first invade our Kamchatka Peninsula, and then our Sakhalin Island. It was shot down by our brave homeland air defense forces over Sakhalin Island!"

South Korean airliner? The reporters below immediately realized something. "Is it South Korean Airways flight KAL007?"

This flight disappeared suddenly after taking off from the United States! This has become the most bizarre thing in the past few days. The phone lines at the South Korean airport are ringing off the hook, after all, many people's families are waiting for them!
South Korean airlines patiently explained that it was due to weather conditions, that they had returned to their origin, or that they had changed their landing location, but... when they found the corresponding airport and still couldn't find their family members, they became even more anxious. It was obvious that South Korean airlines had lied.

What is the truth?

The family members are still waiting!
Now, the Russians have announced that we shot down the South Korean airliner!

"I don't know about that, but the wreckage we recovered proves that it was a spy plane. It was equipped with advanced airborne radar on the nose and had terrain mapping capabilities, which could map our military base very clearly. In addition, we also found the black box, which contained recorded communications."

In the eyes of the Russians, that wasn't a civilian airliner, it was a spy plane. So what if the passengers were killed? Go find the CIA, they're the ones using civilian airliners for espionage!

"Now, let's play a clip."

The scene fell silent instantly, with only the voices of the South Koreans remaining.

"Captain, you and your wife were on the phone before takeoff, which almost revealed our operation!"

This single sentence reveals a lot of useful information!

Next, the reporters will definitely go to Captain Kim Byung-eun's wife to ask her questions. She will then reveal the contents of the phone call because she misses her husband and hates the mastermind behind it.

My husband said this flight is extremely dangerous and there's a chance we might not come back!

His wife would never lie, which means this will become an ironclad case!
A mix of truth and falsehood makes it more convincing.

Ronald, his face grim, asked the first question on the television screen: "Have you found his wife?"

"Looking for it."

"What I mean by 'searching' is that we must act immediately to find his wife, protect her, tell her what she should and shouldn't say, and if necessary, deploy our troops... or even, in extremely special circumstances, eliminate her."

After all, you can't say anything when someone's dead. You could say the Americans killed her to prevent the truth from being revealed, or you could say the Russians killed her to prevent their lies from being exposed... In short, getting rid of this woman and then refuting the Russians' accusations is enough...

"Yes."

William Casey knew this was important, so he immediately made arrangements and soon returned.

"So, is it resolved?"

"She had already been found by reporters beforehand..."

It's over, it's over!

South Korea, airport.

She received a call from her husband that day, but he hung up halfway through the conversation. She knew something was wrong, so she rushed to the airport to wait. But what she got was news that the flight had been rerouted. She then asked a friend she knew to inquire, but the flight had not been rerouted to the corresponding airport. She became even more anxious.

For the past few days, she has been at the airport, anxiously waiting with other family members. If she still doesn't get news of her husband, she will have no choice but to stage a sit-in at the Blue House.

Then... she was surrounded by a group of reporters.

"May I ask if your husband, Kim Byung-eun, the captain of South Korean Air Flight 007, spoke to you by phone before takeoff?"

The woman paused, then gritted her teeth: "Yes, he said that the flight was extremely dangerous and he might not come back, and then... the call was disconnected."

The reporters were in an uproar. There was definitely something fishy going on, just like the Russians had said! The Americans had converted a civilian airliner into a spy plane, had the captain fly it through a heavily guarded Russian military base, and then... it got shot down.

Blame it?

It's definitely not the Russians' fault, it's the US government's fault!

They learned of the press conference in Moscow and rushed over immediately. Within three minutes, they had finally obtained this explosive news. The next moment… they saw countless police officers rush in and take the woman away…

Justice must be served, and this matter must be spread throughout the world!
Spreading the word is the best way to protect Kim Byung-eun's wife!

Northwestern Polytechnical University.

"Professor Liu, thank you for your hard work."

"It wasn't hard work at all. This trip was like a vacation abroad, and I even broadened my horizons. It's a pity you wouldn't let us access their warship's internal network, otherwise we could have obtained more useful intelligence," Professor Liu said with a smile.

“We can’t overstep any boundaries, otherwise the Americans will have even more reason to detain you all,” Qin Liang said. “You are more important than anything else.”

"Yes, we know. We're back safely now. What's the next mission?"

"Next... we should start converting military equipment to civilian use."

"What do you mean?"

“Frequency hopping radios aren’t just for military use; they can also be used civilianly,” Qin Liang said. “The mobile communications market will continue to grow, and our technologies can shine in the civilian market.”

At that time, Motorola's mobile phone technology was just beginning, and the "Big Brother" phones sold for exorbitant prices, yet were sought after by countless people, after all, they were a symbol of power.

However, this 1G analog technology has many drawbacks, such as poor call quality, limited number of channels that can be accommodated at the same time, and poor security.

Therefore, Europe developed GSM, which shone brightly in the 2G era. It upgraded from analog technology to digital technology. At the same time, it sliced ​​electromagnetic waves according to time, which is TDMA, Time Division Multiple Access. This technology greatly improved the number of call channels and call quality, and also enabled the sending of text messages, etc.

However, this was still outdated. In the 3G era, there was CDMA, which is code division multiple access technology. This technology is closely related to military frequency hopping radios. Qualcomm took this technology route back then.

Qualcomm hasn't even been established yet, and frequency hopping radio technology is highly classified. If we transfer these technologies to the civilian sector, it will be an overwhelming force that the West absolutely cannot replicate within ten years!

By then, all the patents will be registered by us, and the West will have to pay to use them. Even if they want to get them for free, at least we won't have to pay patent fees.

Even in later generations, when we have 4G and 5G, and have a large number of patents, the underlying patents are still Qualcomm's CDMA, and we still have to pay them patent fees.

After listening to Qin Liang's explanation, Professor Liu nodded: "Yes, I understand. We'll start researching this technology during the winter break!"

Before we knew it, another semester had passed, and it was time for winter break again!
This winter vacation, I'm going to take my wife, my father, and my brother Daming back to my hometown for the Chinese New Year!

Qin Liang had already begun planning his vacation, while many people around the world were overwhelmed with worries because of the South Korean civilian airliner incident.

South Korean civil aviation authorities had no choice but to announce that Flight 007 had indeed crashed, and the insurance company, looking dejected, began to pay out compensation.

In the United States, Ronald maintained his aggressive attitude when faced with a barrage of questions.

“How could this be? This absolutely wasn’t us!” Ronald said. “Our Congressman Larry McDonald was on that flight too! How could we do such a thing! This is all a Soviet conspiracy!”

"What about Captain Kim Byung-eun's wife? What's going on with her?"

"That was also a Soviet conspiracy. They found this poor woman beforehand, just to frame us!"

"Where is the plane wreckage?"

"It was forged by the Russians!"

"Where's the F-117?"

"This involves military secrets and cannot be disclosed!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, the civil aviation authorities have released their analysis and concluded that this was just a routine incident of a civilian airliner going astray!"

(End of this chapter)