A nation's industrial development begins with junior engineers.

Chapter 750 The "Radar" Looking "Down"! 1

Jiang Xia and his group had just sat down in Professor Shunshou's office, and before they even had a chance to touch the tea canister, Xiong Huoyan's signature loud voice rang out from outside the research institute's office building: "Little Jiang! Your senior uncle has come to bring you some warmth!"

Jiang Xia poked his head out from the second floor and waved to his Uncle Xiong.

"Uncle-Master, you're really fast!"

"Hey! You're doing well wherever you go!" Factory Director Xiong looked up and saw him, laughing heartily. Led by Xiao Gu, he rushed upstairs in three quick steps.

The corner of his military green jacket was lifted by the wind, and the large aluminum lunchbox he was carrying clattered against the steps. Before he could finish speaking, he was already blocking the doorway.

Director Xiong was carrying a large aluminum lunchbox, followed by two middle-aged men wearing glasses, who had a refined demeanor but couldn't hide their travel-worn appearance. They must be the comrades from Institute 607.

Upon entering, Factory Director Xiong made no formalities. He slammed his lunchbox down on the table with a loud thud, startling Jiang Xia into raising an eyebrow.

Peeking inside, wow, the generous nature of the Northeasterners meant their lunchboxes were twice the size of ordinary people's, and my uncle's was an even larger version.

The original "Three Treasures of the Earth" dish, with its glistening chunks of meat, paired with shiny eggplant pieces, golden potato chunks, and vibrant green bell pepper slices, was simply mouthwatering. Jiang Xia discreetly weighed it on one finger—well, this lunchbox of vegetables weighs at least five pounds!

That's the unique straightforwardness of Northeasterners!

"You brat, now that you're on Factory 112's turf, why didn't you go find your senior apprentice first?" Factory Director Xiong muttered as he unscrewed the lid of his lunchbox.

As soon as the lid was lifted a crack, an incredibly rich aroma of meat burst out.

The rich aroma instantly captivated everyone. Xiao Gu, who was busy looking for a teacup to make tea, visibly paused, his throat involuntarily bobbed, his eyes darting towards the lunchbox, and the water in the thermos in his hand almost tipped over.

With a "glug" sound,

Xiao Gu was startled, his face instantly turning bright red, and he quickly lowered his head.

Jiang Xia looked at him, feeling both amused and a little sorry for him. She immediately waved her hand and said, "Xiao Gu, stop fussing! Go and call Teacher Shunshou, Foreman Guan, and Foreman Huang over! Uncle-Master brought a 'super hearty dish,' we have to have a feast today! Everyone, come together!"

Xiao Gu was so frightened that he waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, no, Engineer Jiang, this...this is too valuable...you eat, you eat..."

Jiang Xia deliberately put on a stern face and unleashed her "ultimate weapon": "What? You don't want Professor Guo's notes and abstract for 'The Latest Research on Boundary Layer Transition of Compressible Fluids' anymore? I have a handwritten version with annotations, you know?"

Upon hearing "Teacher Guo" and "handwritten annotations," Xiao Gu's eyes widened instantly. After a mere 0.1 seconds of hesitation, he immediately gave in: "Yes! I want it! Engineer Jiang, you wait here, I... I'll go get some 'side dishes' to add some flavor!"

After saying that, he darted out like a rabbit. A moment later, he returned with three or four young researchers whose eyes were shining. Xiao Gu himself was carrying a small enamel basin containing some dark, frozen, hard dried vegetable dumplings, and a small bowl of dark brown sauce.

"Jiang Gong...we...we don't have anything else. These are wild vegetables and tender shoots of prickly ash picked last autumn. We blanched them in boiling water and then froze them. They can be eaten with some soybean paste..." Xiao Gu introduced somewhat embarrassedly.

Jiang Xia was about to speak when she suddenly realized someone was missing: "Where's Teacher Shunshou? I haven't seen him."

"The director said he wasn't coming, he had important business to attend to..." Xiao Gu scratched his head, quite puzzled. "I just saw him carrying incense and candles towards the door, it seemed like he was going to the old locust tree behind the hill..."

"Oh! Okay, let's leave some for him!" Jiang Xia didn't ask any more questions. He reached out and poked at the frozen wild vegetables in the enamel basin, still wondering how to eat this icy lump.

Then I saw Xiao Guan carrying a kettle, adding some cold water to an enamel basin. After a while, the outer layer of ice melted, revealing the bright green inside, which looked quite fresh.

"Jiang Gong, look, this is the bitter lettuce we picked up from the mountain last autumn, this is pigweed, and there's also plantain!"

"The soybean paste is also homemade. It's delicious, with a crunchy texture, a fresh taste, and a slightly bitter aftertaste!"

Uh... if Xiao Guan hadn't been swallowing hard while talking about the stir-fried potatoes, eggplant, and green peppers, Jiang Xia might have actually believed it.

However, Jiang Xia was unaware that this was actually a long-standing tradition at the Seventh Institute: foraging for wild vegetables and pickling them themselves, saving on food and providing extra vegetables—a testament to their resilience and self-reliance. If you could starve to death while living in the mountains of Northeast China, you'd only be too lazy…

Never mind, there's vegetables and meat. The group sat down, each taking a bite of the stir-fried potatoes, eggplant, and green peppers, and another a bite of frozen wild vegetables. Thus began this special meal that was neither breakfast nor lunch.

The initially slightly reserved atmosphere quickly warmed up under the influence of the aroma of meat.

Seeing that the atmosphere was good, Director Xiong pointed to Lao Chen and Lao Li at the right time: "Xia, these two are the backbone of Institute 607, Lao Chen and Lao Li. They have indeed encountered a hurdle and would like to ask you for advice."

Jiang Xia swallowed the potato chunk in his mouth, fully aware of the situation.

When Xiong Da opened his mouth, I knew the real show was about to begin.

Hmph, does that mean he's obligated to eat someone's food? Little Dumb Hair doesn't believe in that logic. He has no intention of giving in just because of a meal. If Institute 607 can't produce something real, even if his senior uncle is here, he'll still have to be serious about it.

"Oh? You guys are the ones in the institute researching the AN/APS-54 radar? You haven't made any moves lately? What are you up to now?" Jiang Xia subtly probed the other party.

Old Chen pushed up his glasses, his face slightly flushed, but his eyes were serious: "Jiang's criticism is correct... We are indeed ashamed. The technical barriers of original radar are too high... We have been working on it for more than half a year, and the progress is very slow..."

"So, you've been wasting your time?" Jiang Xia's tone was somewhat impolite.

"No, we've changed our route..."

"Oh...you want to change it to pulse Doppler?" Jiang Xia's face flashed with a hint of disdain. Yang Youning had told him that the 113 project team had listed all the special steels he had come up with and written them down in their merit book.

Are these two people in front of me thinking the same thing?

Jiang Xia looked up and winked at Old Wang.

"No, no, no... We, we changed the radar to 'look downwards'!"

"Looking down?" Jiang Xia abruptly stopped chewing, her chopsticks hovering in mid-air. The disdain in her eyes lessened, replaced by genuine curiosity. "Radar scans for targets in the air, why are you looking down?"

“That’s right,” Engineer Chen rubbed his hands together. “We have studied the characteristics of that radar in depth. Its wavelength and transmission power have unique advantages in some aspects. But at the same time, we are also keenly aware that it would be too difficult to fully understand and replicate it for airborne early warning in the short term. The bottlenecks in materials, processes and electronic technology are too great.”

"It just so happens that Wang Tie and his team came from the oil field a while ago and used the computing power of 'Big Yellow Clone' to analyze oil and gas data..."

"It's tough... really tough. You have no idea, they get so tanned and thin from searching for oil and gas fields that they're as dark as charcoal."

"So we thought, could we take a different approach and make some modifications to the radar's transmission and reception system to try to detect the mineral structure in the shallow underground layers? That's how we tried to 'go down' and look."

Jiang Xia became interested and leaned forward: "How exactly did you modify it? Radar waves have limited penetrating power, and underground soil and rocks can cause interference. How did you solve that?"

At the same time, he began searching his mind for relevant knowledge.

Such things did exist in later generations, but they were generally called resource satellites. However, others mainly identified them through spectra, which seems somewhat unrelated to radar waves…

Moreover, it has absolutely nothing to do with Xiao Dai Mao's main job...

Aside from recalling how the motherland once used resource satellite data to refute the military satellites of a certain major power, Jiang Xia knew very little about the specific technical details in this regard.

Jiang Xia wasn't discouraged even though he couldn't be Long Aotian.

He still has a powerful move he hasn't used yet!

That is……

This kid managed to get a chance to meet a legendary figure that most ordinary people can't even see...

When it comes to making a living, connections are an essential skill, and Xiao Dai Mao has maxed out his skills in that area.