Chapter 1280 The Returnee's Notes 354

When the radar signal of the US reconnaissance aircraft disappeared from the air defense command's monitoring screen, the duty officer Mark was so startled that he dropped his coffee cup on the encrypted keyboard.

The officer on duty with him immediately picked up the phone and reported, "The Aries has lost contact, coordinates 36.2°N, 120.5°E."

After the report was submitted, the two men exchanged a glance, their minds racing with various speculations. About fifteen minutes later, their superior, security advisor Morrison, rushed into the situation room.

His tie was askew, and there was a breakfast fork stuck in his suit pocket; he had clearly rushed over without even having time to tidy up.

"What did the Chinese do?"

Morrison stared intently at the last image transmitted back on the big screen: a frigate in the Yellow Sea, its bow railgun gleaming with a cold, eerie blue light.

Just then, Morrison's phone rang. "It was their electromagnetic railgun that interfered with the reconnaissance plane's navigation system, causing it to lose control and crash into the sea."

"Crash into the sea?" Morrison ripped off his tie. "That reconnaissance plane had our latest electronic warfare module on board!"

How could it be disturbed to fall into the sea?

"That's no ordinary electromagnetic cannon..."

As he listened to the voice on the phone, Morrison's expression grew increasingly grim. "Call an emergency meeting."

During the meeting, an officer pulled up a blurry video, but everyone could still see that the projectile's trajectory exhibited periodic oscillations, a frequency that matched their jamming signal.

Not all the people sitting here are professionals, so the technical officer has to explain.

After the reconnaissance plane crashed, they detected unusual electromagnetic activity, which was inconsistent with the characteristics of conventional weapons.

The reconnaissance data also revealed periodic oscillations in the ballistic trajectory.

They then conducted reverse verification in the laboratory, ultimately reproducing the difference frequency effect and confirming that it can induce WS layer recombination and...

Furthermore, their intelligence personnel around Qingdao also sent back some intelligence information. After verification from multiple sources, it can be basically confirmed that the cause of the reconnaissance plane crash and the new technologies verified by the Chinese side were also confirmed.

The electronic jamming signals released by their reconnaissance aircraft were originally harmless.

"Tactical noise" is generally used to disrupt enemy communications and radar.

Now, China is using non-linear confrontation thinking to turn interference into tactical resources, achieving "using their spear to attack their shield."

Morrison's face darkened further; after all, the electronic modules on their reconnaissance aircraft were worth 230 million.

Now it has become a free resource for China, helping its adversaries to validate a new technology.

How can we prevent them from vomiting blood?

"Worse still," the officer zoomed in on the image, "the salt spray concentration near the point of impact dropped sharply, which means..."

Seeing the officer dawdling, Morrison urged, "What does that mean?"

"They are using electromagnetic fields to control corrosion."

The officer pulled up another report: "This is the latest discovery from the Sanya research station: a certain type of sulfur bacteria can devour chloride ions under an alternating electric field."

It was relayed back by their informant inside the Sanya research station.

Morrison looked at the person at the head of the table, whose fingers were tapping on the table. "So, the Chinese not only built an electromagnetic railgun capable of shooting down our reconnaissance planes, but also incidentally solved the problem of ship corrosion?"

"Yes."

They need to continue assessing the potential threat, and this reconnaissance plane crash also exposed vulnerabilities in their electronic warfare strategy.

At the end of the meeting, they decided to send out a drone for reconnaissance. As a newly developed drone, even at an altitude of 30,000 meters, its synthetic aperture radar could penetrate the clouds and transmit every detail of the live-fire test of the frigate where Xie Ning and her team were located back to the intelligence bureau.

Morrison stared at the live feed from the drone and asked, puzzled, "Are they going to use live ammunition to shoot at their own ship?"

The technical officer next to Morrison, Audrey, who had explained the situation to everyone at the previous emergency meeting, immediately pulled up a structural diagram. "They're testing the penetration effect of a new type of ammunition. Look here..."

Audrey pointed to the titanium alloy lining in the engine room and continued, "They probably wanted to verify the effect of corrosion on the armor."

The moment the first projectile left the barrel, the drone's radar screen was filled with a swirling, turbulent display of static.