"Uncle Ning, the cylindrical component installed under the head of the f14 fighter we introduced should be an/alr-23 infrared detection system," Liang Yuan asked.

Ning Lei said "yes" on the phone.

"I have read an evaluation report from the US Navy ten years ago. The detection distance of the an/alr-23 infrared detection system for the afterburner aircraft is about 40 kilometers. However, due to the frequent false alarm problems, the US Navy has low evaluation of it. When the F14a fighter was produced in the later stage, it replaced the an/alr-23 infrared detection system with an/axx-1 tactical camera reconnaissance system."

"Uncle Ning should have used the an/axx—1 tactical camera reconnaissance thing, right?"

"I've used it." Ning Lei said.

"Xiaoyuan, are you planning to upgrade Grumman's an/alr-23 infrared detection system to an/axx-1 tactical camera reconnaissance system?"

The core of the an/axx-1 tactical camera reconnaissance system is a long-distance optical TV. In the clear weather, it can automatically search and long-distance identification of aerial targets within more than 90 kilometers of the machine, and then display it on a flat display in the F14 cockpit. Before the technology of the infrared tracking and search system matured, the US's current naval and air force aircraft have been using the an/axx-1 tactical camera reconnaissance system as an auxiliary means of sensing and recording battlefield situations in addition to airborne radar.

"Well, the use conditions of the an/axx-1 tactical camera reconnaissance system are very harsh. In terms of function, it overlaps with the awg-9 Doppler radar. The US Navy still regards the an/axx-1 tactical camera reconnaissance system as a battlefield image recorder or an auxiliary equipment for judging enemy aircraft models, so the chance of Grumman release this technology is still very high." Liang Yuan explained in detail.

"The an/asw-27c data link is okay, it has an immediate effect on the tactical efficiency of the elevator group. Xiaoyuan, don't want anything else, why is the purpose of focusing on the an/axx-1 tactical camera reconnaissance system?" Ning Lei asked curiously.

"Hehe, Uncle Ning, I have worked hard for more than half a year and I have to seek some benefits for myself and make some plans for my future job." Liang Yuan said uncontrollably.

"Xiaoyuan, do you want to produce optical TVs? Does Nanhu Science and Technology Park have this technology?" Ning Lei asked in surprise.

"Aunt Ning helped me get a lot of money from the Ministry of Railways, and just started all the projects that were stagnant in the Science and Technology Park in the first half of the year. Before the New Year, a scientist studying in the United States planned to return to work. When he worked at Bell Laboratory in the United States, his main scientific research direction was discrete devices in the semiconductor industry, and he developed things like photosensitive devices and infrared devices."

Jian Zhikang's work contract at Bell Labs expired at the end of June. Because Liang Yuan transferred funds to get F14 fighter jets, many projects in the Science and Technology Park were temporarily suspended, which caused great doubts for Jian Zhikang's return to China to work. With Su Liangyu's strong persuasion, Jian Zhikang refused the contract renewal request of Bell Labs in the name of planning to have a good rest, and agreed to Su Liangyu to observe a follow-up action of the Science and Technology Park.

The first thing Liang Yuan did after learning about his wealth was to notify Su Liangyu to start the wafer production line repair plan.

Liang Yuan, who had just become a nouveau riche, brags with Su Liangyu on the phone that this young master has just made a fortune. Don’t let go of any three-inch wafer production line that can be bought in China, even if the last production line has not been renovated. Spend tens of millions of dollars to be a training team.

After Su Liangyu confirmed that Liang Yuan could dial at least 80 million for wafer production line repair plan, he directly called Jian Zhikang. As another pillar of the semiconductor industry, many production equipment for discrete devices have great similarities with wafer production lines. Especially in the 1980s when integrated circuits just entered the rapid development of ionic etching machines, equipment such as ion etching machines can be fully generalized in discrete devices and integrated circuit manufacturing.

Therefore, personnel or enterprises that conduct discrete device research and development generally have good R&D and manufacturing capabilities of semiconductor production equipment. After Liang Yuan decided to start the wafer production line repair plan, Jian Zhikang had a place to use it.

Liang Yuan promised to make the cumulative allocation for the discrete device laboratory by the end of next year, after Jian Zhikang agreed to return to China to work. It can be said that the Ministry of Railways allocated nearly half of the lease payments by Liang Yuan before he received it.

"I just signed an agreement with someone a few days ago. There is a person in charge of the discrete device laboratory in the Science and Technology Park. I thought I could not just develop but not produce. I just took a ride with this opportunity. The optical TV of the an/axx-1 tactical camera and reconnaissance system and the an/alr-23 infrared detection system that is already available are just the two cores of the photoelectric radar. No one in China has the heart to do this now. I think it would be a good thing to have a meal after research and development." Liang Yuan said with a smile.

Liang Yuan did not hide it from Ning Lei, and said his little thoughts.

"Xiaoyuan, are you sure that the Science and Technology Park can develop photoelectric radar? The Air Force did this thing in the 1970s, but later it failed. The products produced could not be installed on the plane at all. When ground testing was conducted, the false alarm rate of photoelectric radar was extremely high. The 505 Institute believes that photoelectric radars will not be able to become practical within 30 years." Ning Lei's voice was full of incredible.

The Republic developed the first generation of IT infrared tracking and search system called photoelectric radar as early as the 1970s. It was a project to detect high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft in the United States. Due to the limited industrial foundation of the Republic, the samples of the first generation of photoelectric radar were not put into use at all after they were produced. The 505 institutions in charge of research and development that year summarized all the problems that needed improvement and believed that it would take at least thirty years to make breakthroughs in relevant technical difficulties.

"Uncle Ning, did the 505 Institute really say that it would take 30 years?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.

After receiving Ning Lei's affirmative answer, Liang Yuan admired the R&D personnel of the 505 Research Institute very much. Basically, the judgment of the 505 Research Institute is not wrong, let alone the 1970s. Even in the 1980s, due to the development level of large-scale integrated circuits, the technology of it infrared tracking and search system did not mature.

France and Israel, which were the first to develop IT infrared tracking and search systems in the world, tried to produce prototypes in the early 1980s. In addition to the high false alarm rate, the prototype weighed nearly half a ton, and there was no possibility of airborne.

In fact, except for the Americans who were against the will of heaven, the process was advanced by five years. The IR tracking and search system was deployed on the F22 fighter jet, which was established in mid-1995, the remaining developed countries only broke through the various technical difficulties of the airborne IR tracking and search system after entering the new century.

The difficulty of the IT system is related to its need for high-level semiconductor industry support. The core of building the IT system is powerful data processing. The essence of data processing is to gradually separate the weak target signals detected by the IT system from pseudo signals similar to sun flashes or background signals such as clouds. Finally, the real target signals are extracted.

Therefore, the IT system must have a very powerful data processing core, which can instantly process weak targets and various pseudo-target signals detected under the background of infrared, light and strong field of view to form valuable and continuous aerial situation information reflected on the cockpit display system of the fighter pilot. This requires the data processing core to have the ability to process millions of polygons in an instant. This is the key and difficulty of the success of the IT system.

Judging from the development history of the electronics industry, until the mid-1990s, there were very few data processors that could meet the IT system. When the Sony Playstation game console, which was known as the top hardware function, was released at the end of 1994, the polygon processing barely reached more than 300,000 yuan per second, and it was still a long way to meet the demand of the IT system for millions per second.

"Uncle Ning. I have seen foreign technical documents that the bottleneck of the current IR tracking and search system lies in data processing. With the rapid development of large-scale integrated circuit technology, the performance of processors has been doubled. Sooner or later, it will break through this bottleneck, and the most troublesome high pseudo-warning rate problem will be solved."

"The only processor under development in China is C2 in the Science and Technology Park. I guess the Science and Technology Park cannot compete with foreign products in daily computer applications. For the future of the C2 processor, I can only find some work that others look down on. Something like photoelectric radar that has only been achieved in 30 years. No one will say anything if the Science and Technology Park gets it." Liang Yuan said with a smile.

"If the Science and Technology Park can develop supercomputers and can't sell them with the worry C2 processor, you can just talk nonsense with Uncle Ning. Uncle Ning could believe you a year ago, now..." Ning Lei said with a laugh.

"Uncle Ning, what I told the truth." Liang Yuan complained loudly.

Liang Yuan, who is well aware of historical trends, knows that the breakthrough in the IT infrared tracking and search system is within these ten years. The reason why Liang Yuan got on the photoelectric radar was to penetrate into the military industry, and the other was to consider the limited competitiveness of discrete device laboratories.

For example, optoelectronic devices, infrared devices are no longer than industrial control microcontrollers, and the process is a little behind. It doesn’t matter if the chip is larger than the energy consumption higher. These things are all high-precision things, and the performance is obvious on paper. You can tell by comparing the values ​​of resolution, life, etc.. Process technology lags behind in the private product market and is absolutely not competitive with similar products from foreign products.

Apart from civilian use, there is only one way left for military industry. If you don’t play performance, you can also play quality and stability. For example, the American F22 fighter also uses 486,586-level processors. Military-level semiconductor components do not require high performance and process technology, but have very high requirements for quality, which just meets the current situation in the Science and Technology Park. It is better to break through the quality level than to eat dust behind Intel.

More importantly, in Liang Yuan's opinion, it is entirely possible that the IT system will be launched in advance. If a single chip is not good, you can use a blade server. The blade server is small in size and light in weight. After the C2 processor in the Science and Technology Park has developed for three to four generations, the main frequency should be close to 30mhz. At that time, 8-32 chips will be connected to form a small computing cluster, which should be able to meet the polygon processing capabilities of the IT system of millions/second. Of course, using the IR tracking and search system for server data processing, the aircraft is still a bit overweight, but it should be installed on a ship without any pressure.

With photoelectric radar combined with infrared guide interceptor missiles and multi-barrel rapid-fire guns, it is perfect for ships to have a short-range missile interception system. With the further development of technology, it is not impossible to become a medium-range interception system. Is there any business in this world that is more profitable than selling arms?

Although Liang Yuan's little abacus was awesome, Liang Yuan, who was a computer enthusiast in his previous life, did not know that the blade server would not be invented in the new century.

"Xiaoyuan, these two things you want are much lower than some people's requirements." Ning Lei said with some feelings.

"It's not over yet, the last one." Liang Yuan said with a smile.

"Uncle Ning, Grumman Company should have a bus transformation plan in the project of renovating the J-8 fighter jet for us, right?" Liang Yuan asked.

Ning Lei thought Liang Yuan had seen information about the US government's bidding plan for the 82 project in the United States, and he readily confirmed this detail.

"Sometimes ago, the Science and Technology Park submitted a report to me, which was about railways. Uncle Ning also knew that after the 25s double-decker bus was offline, the subsequent modification plan was put on the agenda. Due to different expertise, the Northeast Locomotive Factory is mainly responsible for the research and development of wheelsets, bogies and other body hardware. For example, the electric serra door that 286 admires is more developed by the Science and Technology Park." Liang Yuan first brought up a super-large tiger skin.

"After the successful development of electric sled doors, the Science and Technology Park plans to change the electric sled doors currently controlled by single cars into a unified centralized control type. In the future, the door control system of the entire train will be integrated on the new traction locomotive, and the train driver will control the sled door switches of the entire train."

"If this can be done successfully, the new passenger train led by the new locomotive will approach the fully automatic direction of the Shinkansen in Japan. However, now the Science and Technology Park is facing trouble when developing a system bus for full-train control of trains. The Science and Technology Park has no accumulation on it, and no relevant scientific research institutions in China have done this."

"It just so happens that Grumman's bus for the J-8 fighter jet is very wide and can be used for train control. I can take a ride in total. The relevant fees can be paid by the Science and Technology Park. Uncle Ning see if this requirement can be integrated into this negotiation." Liang Yuan said with a smile.

Note 1: Russia calls this thing a photoelectric detection device, and I call this a photoelectric radar.
Chapter completed!