Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

Just as everyone was busy, a voice rang out from the doorway.

"Everyone has worked hard."

The project they were researching was a key one, and various leaders would often come to see it, so they were used to it. The leaders watched the leaders, and they busied themselves with their own work. With so much work on hand, they didn't have time to deal with the countless leaders.

At this moment, Xu Guohua was holding a laptop, testing the radar's digital computer. As the leader of the entire project, he wiped his sweat while looking up at the doorway.

Then, he was stunned.

Clang!

He put down the equipment in his hand, wanting to stand up, but he ignored the equipment compartment's hatch. With a bang, he hit his head.

"Engineer Xu, be careful. Your clever brain can't be damaged," Qin Yang said as he quickly walked over.

"General Manager Qin, it's okay, I..." Xu Guohua said, rubbing his head as he walked towards Qin Yang.

Xu Guohua hitting his head was what drew everyone's attention. When they heard the name General Manager Qin, everyone became even more excited, putting down their work and gathering around.

"General Manager Qin!"

"General Manager Qin!"

Old Lin, who was walking behind, felt a mix of emotions. General Manager Qin was just so popular!

Old Lin had come more than once, but no one had ever welcomed him like this. He had to put on a humble face and ask the technicians: What does this do? What's the use of that?

The technicians would answer a few simple sentences and then go back to work, leaving Old Lin to wait.

He had never dreamed of such a scene of people gathering around.

"Everyone has worked hard. Continue working! After this target practice is over, the factory will give everyone a bonus of one thousand yuan!"

"Hooray!"

"General Manager Qin, we love you!"

This was the 1980s. Where else could you hear such a bold confession? But here, it was normal to shout out any intimate slogan. After all, most of the people working here were young and more open-minded.

Moreover, a bonus of one thousand yuan was a huge sum of money in this era!

Old Lin was very emotional. It was good to have money!

General Manager Qin had never mistreated these technical people. Giving each person one thousand yuan meant handing out hundreds of thousands of yuan. The air force didn't have that much expenditure.

"Everyone has worked hard. After the target practice is successful, we'll give you a collective honor medal!" Old Lin added from behind.

After saying that, he felt awkward again.

"General Manager Qin, our program debugging is going very smoothly," Xu Guohua said. "We are almost ready. As long as the pylon over there is set up, we can start the test."

"Have we reverse-compiled all the programs?"

What he was asking was the most crucial thing: electronic systems could be imitated, but what about the software?

The programs inside had to be deciphered so that they could be completely controlled!

"Of course," Xu Guohua said. "You equipped us with twenty IBM PC5150 computers. How could we let you down? All the programs have been disassembled and then rewritten in a forward direction. We can completely master the programs inside this radar."

The world's first personal computer.

Programming in this era was not object-oriented, nor was there the kind of block-building that fools children. It was completely machine-oriented, and every instruction was machine code. This made the running efficiency very high, but it also meant that such programs were very rigid.

By reverse-engineering the program's operation, you could obtain the original program code, and then study it to fully understand it.

Half of their team graduated from computer science and specialized in this project.

Qin Yang nodded. "That's good. The update speed of computers is very fast. After this project is over, I'll buy you a new batch."

"Really?"

"Great!"

"Long live General Manager Qin!"

It was fortunate that it was now. If it were a few years ago, that slogan of 'Long live' could have gotten Qin Yang into trouble.

Qin Yang smiled and looked at the wing behind him.

Attaching missiles to the wings of a Y-7 looked ridiculous, but it was also a helpless choice.

Originally, they planned to use the J-8 as a test platform, but the J-8's progress was too slow, so they could only use such a transport aircraft.

However, the transport aircraft also had its advantages. Its belly was large and could hold a lot of things.

The front of the nose was modified into a radar dome to install the radar antenna. The space behind the nose and below was used to install the various electronic equipment needed for the radar, just like the cargo box of a large bus. The hatch opened upwards, and this was the hatch that had just hit Xu Guohua's head.

The cabin could be used to install control equipment and various test equipment, as well as accommodate electronic engineers.

Now, the wings could also carry missiles.

"General Manager Qin, the pylon has been installed!" Brassie said excitedly. "The weapon interface has been laid out and is ready for testing at any time."

Close-range combat missiles require cooling gas cylinders and other equipment. Medium-range missiles only need a data cable for the weapon interface. The pylon carries the missile, and the weapon interface can also be released synchronously when the missile is launched.

This was like the USB interface of later generations. It could be plugged in normally, but when needed, it could be pulled down with a yank.

Everything was ready!

Old Lin was also excited. "It's better to do it today than tomorrow. How about now?"

Now?

Everyone present looked at Old Lin with surprised eyes. Old Lin felt it was inappropriate. "If it's a bit rushed, tomorrow is fine."

"We have no problem. The key is the target missile. Will the air force provide us with a target missile?"

"Of course," Old Lin said. "Let's send out a plane once and drop a parachute target."

"Is the air force so frugal?" Qin Yang glared at Old Lin. "When we modify the J-6 UAV in the future, we can send out one at will and shoot it down. Anyway, it doesn't cost much."

"What frugality? It's all for the J-11 project," Old Lin said. "Do you know how much money that project cost?"

Qin Yang shook his head. "I don't know. The navy is also poor. They used a YJ-8 target missile. The air force isn't poor, just stingy."

"Stingy is stingy. Are you going to test it or not?"

"Test! Let you have your fill first. We'll have to continue testing with normal target missiles later."

Shooting a parachute target requires the least amount of technology.

As the name suggests, a parachute target is a parachute target. A transport aircraft carries this parachute target and releases it at a certain altitude. During the process of the parachute target descending, air defense weapons aim and shoot at it. The speed is slow, and the only advantage is saving money.

A normal target is a missile or an aircraft that flies up and is shot down with a bang. This kind of target can simulate various real flight targets, which is incomparable to a parachute target, but it's expensive!

Old Lin looked at a leader from the flight test institute who was accompanying him. "See if there are any transport aircraft being tested today and have them help us drop a target."

Old Lin was unwilling to even pay for the plane's take-off and landing fuel!