Warship of Great Power

The drone does not require external control and can fly autonomously, but it also has other restrictions. For example, if the fuel is exhausted, it will have to fall. After capturing the drone, the first step is to disconnect it. The power is cut off and the oil is cut off.

After all this is done, the next step is to find a trailer and tow it to the hangar to avoid being discovered by the reconnaissance satellites flying overhead.

When the RQ-170 drone entered the hangar, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and finally got it!

It was half an hour before someone realized something was wrong.

"Our RQ170 drone that took off from the Imperial Cemetery suddenly lost contact!"

"what happened?"

"I don't know. It was still fine when it flew over the Isfahan base. It sent us data once, but then it disappeared."

"Did it get shot down? Impossible, that was our most advanced stealth drone!"

"Now, the advantages of stealth aircraft are no longer what they used to be. Various anti-stealth technologies will allow our aircraft to be discovered or even shot down."

Everyone was talking, and Tenet frowned: "The first thing to do now is to find where the plane is. If it really lands on the land of Parthia, we must find a way to destroy it."

We must not let it fall into the hands of the Parthians. It contains advanced American technology!

"How to destroy it?"

"Try every means to destroy it!" Bennett said: "If the Parthians obtain that drone, it means that the Orientals have also obtained the above technology! We cannot tolerate this situation!"

"Boss, I think we should think about how we should explain it if they really get it. As for destroying it, it is not necessary. If the plane was shot down, it would have crashed, leaving only Down the wreckage.”

"Yes, let's just say the plane lost control. How about we get in by ourselves?"

"These are not important, we need to determine where the plane is first."

They were not kept waiting for long. A few days later, Parthia took the initiative to make the news public.

"Not long ago, our brave fighters captured a US military reconnaissance drone near Isfahan. We once again seriously protest against this violation of our airspace!"

When he saw the news, Bennett didn't take it seriously.

"It seems that they were indeed shot down by them. They may have advanced anti-stealth radars on hand. Damn it, the spread of this technology is not good for us. We must solve this hidden danger... Hey, what happened to that aircraft? complete?"

Bennett looked at the TV, where a video of the captured unmanned reconnaissance drone appeared. From all angles, it was a complete drone without any trace of being hit.

"Yeah, how did they do it?"

"Isn't this the model they made?" At this time, everyone was in disbelief.

Complete drone, what does that say? Did this plane land on its own initiative?

"It's not a model, it should be our real aircraft. Look at its landing gear, that unique metallic texture, it's not fake."

"Could it be that our plane's program failed and it fell down on its own initiative?"

At this moment, the host's words came from the TV again.

"In order to capture this drone, we used the latest satellite navigation jammer. This jammer can not only interfere with the signals of GPS satellites, but also inject false data. This drone flew near our base After that, I thought I had returned to the take-off point, so I landed automatically according to the built-in procedure.”

Jamming GPS signal!

Everyone understands.

"Damn, they have no authority to interfere with our GPS satellites!"

"This is simply provoking us! We should attack them!"

Everyone was a little angry.

However, they can only be angry. They have no temper at all against the enemy of Parthia. After all, they have used all means, but Parthia has never given up.

"We made an announcement to the outside world that one of our drones mistakenly entered the Parthian airspace due to a program failure. We hope they will return the drone to us. It is our American property," Bennett said weakly.

He knew that this kind of drone could no longer be used for cross-border reconnaissance in the future. It didn’t work with the Global Hawk before, and now it doesn’t work with the RQ-170. What else can they do?

From now on we can only use reconnaissance satellites!

"The Parthian state is provoking us. They want to tell us that the GPS, which our army relies on most, will be interfered by them at any time!" Someone else cursed: "Damn it, we must solve this hidden danger! You said, we must How to do it?"

"I think we should install the Beidou navigation system on all equipment."

"What did you say? This is the stupidest plan I have ever heard!"

"This is for the best, after all, they can't interfere with the satellite navigation system they use!"

East, Huanglou.

"Only a shell of the RQ-170 is left there. The electronic equipment inside has been dismantled and sent back. Our relevant personnel are studying it." Wu Shengli looked at Qin Tao: "Taozi, you have made a great contribution."

"Dad, I didn't do anything. It was all done by the technicians." Qin Tao said: "However, this time it is enough for the Americans to drink a pot. Especially their satellite navigation system. I don't know if all of them are required." Update it.”

This time, we not only need to get the American reconnaissance plane, but also release false intelligence to the public.

We can't say that we have cracked their data link. When they change to a new password, we have to crack it again. Moreover, they are still developing a more advanced Link22 data link, which will be more difficult to crack. It is best to use this first.

If we don't tell them the reason, they will definitely guess, and they may think of the problem of the data link. We might as well tell them directly that we are using the loophole of satellite navigation!

The Americans were the first to make satellite navigation practical, and they are still using it in large quantities on the battlefield. Now they can't do without it. It's just right to let the Americans know how fragile this thing they rely on is!

In fact, there were jammers for GPS in the past, but they could only jam signals. Now, we can go a step further and directly use other signals to replace them, so that the terminal receives false signals and gets the wrong address.

If this technology develops, the US military will face terrible problems in the future: fighter jets will lose their accuracy when throwing bombs, and even fighter jets don't know how to fly!

Maybe, according to the instructions of GPS, they will fly over their own people and drop bombs!

After more than 20 years of exploration, the Americans launched the first official GPS working satellite on February 4, 1989. In June 1993, the 24th satellite was launched, officially realizing the global network.

After that, the world began to rely on this advanced satellite navigation system. No one thought about what the world would be like after the failure of this system. Apart from other things, just a timing service would affect the power grid, financial transactions, etc. In 2016, the United States retired a GPS satellite, resulting in an error of 13 microseconds in the entire satellite system. Just such a trivial error caused chaos for 12 hours around the world.

Now, everyone knows that GPS is unreliable. What's next? What will they do?

"In this way, we will have more users of Beidou." Qin Tao said: "After all, there is no jammer targeting our Beidou navigation, and one more navigation means more insurance."

This time, the UAV captured by the Americans was directly announced to the public. There are many benefits, such as making the Americans turn their attention to the satellite navigation system. The Americans dare not send drones to the Parthian Empire for reconnaissance. Moreover, it will also expand the user group of the Beidou navigation system.

Beidou navigation is the same as the civilian GPS signal. It seems that even if the user group is expanded, it will not get more benefits. In fact, this is only a one-sided view.

The Beidou navigation system is free, but this module costs money! If you want to use this navigation system, you have to build in a receiving module, and the manufacturer of this module will also make more money.

Who is the manufacturer? Of course, it is Mingzhou Group. In order to promote Beidou navigation, Qin Tao helped and contracted the production of these receivers.

Of course, making money is a small matter. It is more of a strategic consideration. Once these users choose Beidou, they will definitely hope that the Beidou system is more stable and will more firmly support their Beidou navigation. If Beidou navigation can squeeze out GPS and become the world's largest navigation system, it will be even better.

After all, there are only these two navigation systems in the world now.

The Russian system has been paralyzed and is not easy to use. As for the European Galileo system, the network is still a long way off. Since GPS is unreliable, Beidou can only be used!

"The Americans are updating their GPS satellites. Now that this situation has occurred, do they have to throw away the second-generation satellites and continue to develop advanced satellites?" Wu Shengli said.

Satellites have a lifespan. The Russian navigation satellite has a lifespan of only half a year, so their network has not been established. After all, they have to keep launching satellites and keep burning money.

In comparison, the life of the US GPS is much longer. The life of the first generation of satellites is ten years. Therefore, after the successful networking in 1993, a batch of satellites have been replaced in the past few years. With the development of technology, they have also been replaced with second-generation navigation satellites. The life of these navigation satellites has been increased to 12 years, but overall, there has not been much change.

"Yes, the second-generation navigation satellites must be thrown away and the third-generation satellites must be developed. Moreover, the third-generation satellites must solve the current interference problem." Qin Tao said: "However, this will be a huge expense. The Americans will be dragged to death by the same way as they dragged the Soviet Union to death."

Before Qin Tao was reborn, the Americans had already developed the third-generation GPS satellite. This satellite has many features, such as three times the accuracy and eight times the anti-interference ability. These are improvements on the original basis. There is nothing to say. The revolutionary progress is that this satellite uses a brand new L1C civilian signal, which allows it to interoperate with other satellite systems.

What does this mean?

If you want to get your own location information, you need three navigation satellites above your head. If you add the altitude, you will need four. In the past, this required the same model, for example, all GPS, or all Beidou, or all Galileo. But this new GPS navigation satellite can not only use its own, but also others.

For example, one GPS and three Beidou satellites can solve navigation problems. Or if you mix one GPS, two Beidou satellites, and one Galileo, all signals cannot be interfered with, right?

This solves the problem to the greatest extent possible.

It sounds very advanced, but this kind of advanced navigation satellite is naturally very expensive. In later generations, the Yankees only launched this project in 2016, and they brought in all their big guys, including Boeing and Lockheed Martin. and Northrop Grumman, each company received $6 million in funding to begin bidding.

After selecting a supplier, it cost 1.4 billion U.S. dollars to launch only the first two satellites. The entire project totaled tens of billions of U.S. dollars.

Back then, the second-generation navigation satellites were updated when they reached the end of their lifespan. But now, the second-generation navigation satellites have just been launched and have to be scrapped. This is a huge expense!

Now, the ball has been thrown to the Yankees, it depends on how they respond!

Wu Shengli shook his head: "No, I think they have another way, such as deciphering our Beidou navigation, and then doing the same thing."

Qin Tao reacted suddenly: "Yes! We need to investigate the R\u0026D personnel to see if anyone in the Beidou team was instigated to rebel, or left the team to go to the United States midway, especially a certain woman..."

United States, Pentagon.

"The attack on our navigation satellites goes too far!"

"Yes, navigation satellites are too important. They are related to the battles and even the safety of our navy, land and air forces. Therefore, we must find a way to solve this problem!"

Although the Americans have long been aware of this problem and have even practiced combat without the support of a satellite navigation system, it is just a drill after all. It would be too inconvenient if the satellite navigation system cannot be used in daily operations. .

"Very well, I think we still fought without navigation satellites back then. Now, can't we be inseparable from navigation satellites?"

After hearing this complaint, countless people present smiled bitterly.

That's right, navigation satellites were not needed back then, so when we flew there for bombing, we could only rely on inertial navigation and terrain matching. Although we could fly to the destination, the accuracy was at the hundred-meter level! After flying over, the pilot still needs to determine the target and launch an attack. Now what? A Jeddam bomb modified with a simple GPS kit can achieve meter-level accuracy.

Can this be compared?

With navigation satellites, it is much more convenient.

Besides, were there so many drones before? In the era of drones, if you want to know your location coordinates accurately, you have to rely on satellite navigation! No matter how accurate the inertial navigation system is, it will continue to increase the cumulative error as it flies. Similar to the Global Hawk, it can fly in the sky for thirty or forty hours. If you only use inertial missiles, you will definitely not be able to find the airport when you come back!

"We must develop a new generation of navigation satellites." Mel Birnbaum said: "Only a new generation of satellite navigation systems can allow us to avoid these problems. This matter cannot be delayed."

At that time, in order to develop the first generation of navigation satellites, the project departments of the Navy and the Air Force combined and established a special Satellite Navigation and Positioning Joint Planning Office, referred to as JPO, in which Mel Birnbaum worked. Now, the gray-haired He is about to retire, but as the top leader of the JPO, his words still carry a lot of weight.

"A new generation of satellites? We have just developed the second generation of navigation satellites. Now just because of this accident, we are going to develop the third generation? Birnbaum, do you know how much this will cost?" Youweite said. He said, as the head of the Audit Bureau, he has to give out money. Now, where is there so much money?

Research and development requires money, and updating satellites requires money. Where can such huge funds be found?

Youweite would never agree.

"What do you think if we develop a jammer specifically to interfere with Easterners' Beidou navigation satellites? Will this be a cost-saving solution?"

Brand new navigation satellites are expensive, but jammers are much simpler.

"We can interfere, but can we enter the Beidou system? Can we imitate false signals to deceive user terminals?" Mel Birnbaum's face was serious: "How much would it cost to reach this level? Money? Will it be cheaper than developing a new generation of navigation satellites? And if this happens, we will all go back to the past, what’s the point?”

Although I don’t know how the Parthian Kingdom did it, doing so requires very high technology and a large amount of money to research. What they lack most is funds, and even if they research it, it will only hurt both sides. , if they want to take advantage, they still have to research a new generation of navigation satellites!

"So, we still have to develop a new generation of navigation satellites. For our future and for our three armed forces, this is necessary!" Mel Birnbaum was the only one speaking in the audience: "We have already We are lagging behind the Easterners in many aspects, and we must not continue to lag behind in the field of satellite navigation!”

"Everyone, we may have other ways." At this moment, someone said: "What do you think if we can find the technicians who develop Beidou navigation satellites and instigate them to rebel?"

"How can this be?"

"Can those idiots in the CIA do it?"

Turano, who was called an idiot, stood up and said, "Of course we can do it, everyone, we have found a candidate!"

"Where?"

"In the United States!" Turano said, "This person participated in the development of the Beidou navigation system, and then applied for our Stanford University. She is currently studying here. As long as we encourage her, she will join us soon!"