A lot of times, good ideas just flash out of your head. Yang Mingzhi fantasized that he currently had air defense vehicles for the next generation, and that when enemy planes appeared, anti-aircraft missiles would be able to shoot them down as easily as mosquitoes. To achieve such high-efficiency results, one missile that can be actively guided is the other, and the other is the radar.

Even in the current air defense operations of the 63 Group Army, not to mention the firepower, it is very bad in terms of reaction speed. However, if the enemy plane dozens of kilometers away can be detected early, the troops will be able to prepare in advance! Even five minutes in advance, the results of the air defense operation were completely different.

Then build a radar!

However, this idea is only a fleeting moment, and Yang Mingzhi is also very clear about the principle of radar, and this kind of equipment can almost be described as adding an antenna to a microwave oven. The core component of the original radar was a magnetron, which manufactured high-frequency microwaves for air detection.

Microwave ovens became a rookie in home appliances after the war, and radar evolved from the big guys in the early days to the compact phased array.

Telegraphs and magnetrons emit electromagnetic waves, and they are fundamentally different from each other. Dozens of telegraph operators, who increased their transmitting power and constantly changed the frequency, could always touch the communication frequencies of the German army, and they had to prefabricate German planes in advance.

Besides, even if you know the structural principle of the radar very well, with the current manufacturing capacity of the arsenal alone, at most you can draw design drawings that cannot be manufactured. What's the point?

Being able to detect the enemy before it appears is crucial for the air defense of the partisan republic, and as for how to detect enemy aircraft without radar, perhaps that Rygushkov has a good idea.

Yang Mingzhi finished eating the cold potatoes and left the noisy restaurant angrily, which also surprised his guards.

Abram hurriedly chased after him: "Commander! Where are you going? ”

"Oh! If the deputy commander asked about me, he said that I went to the arsenal and went to Rygushkov. That's it! ”

What Yang Mingzhi did not know was that the Soviet radar equipment achieved results on the first day of the outbreak of the war!

In the early morning of June 22, 1941, a Soviet-developed radar device called the "Radio Plane Catcher" captured a large number of air targets 100 kilometers west of the Soviet-German border, which were the first bomber units of the Luftwaffe carrying out Barbarossa. As a result of this achievement, the radar's designer, Tikhomilov, became famous, and he was awarded the Order of Stalin.

The Soviet Union was able to manufacture such high-precision and sophisticated equipment, which was established in the Soviet Union and had a complete production chain, even if the war caused it to lose half of its elite area and half of its population!

In the guerrilla republics, the existing production capacity, which produces a little weapons and ammunition, such as thermobaric bombs and ultra-long-range rocket artillery, can be regarded as a miracle of the military industry. Other than that, there are few high-tech equipment.

On the other hand, Rygushkov was very worried about the incident with the enemy planes that had just occurred. What does enemy aircraft mean? It's an air raid!

He remembered the German air raids a few months earlier, and when the damn bombers appeared, he was silently praying that the enemy would not discover the location of the arsenal, and that even if the enemy did bomb, he would have survived the eight vital steam machines.

The steam machine tools of the arsenal played a huge role in the production of weapons. When the shell embryos are cast one by one, which one is not clamped to the triangular chuck in the end, and the car is perfectly cone-shaped! Especially in the ammunition room, the boring of the turning tool can be easily done!

It is these lathes that allow the arsenal to maintain a large volume of ammunition production.

It can be said that these old lathes are the lifeblood of his Riguskov!

He had just summoned his workshop cadres and a meeting on "protecting vital production equipment during air raids" had just ended. This is, after all, an internal meeting of the arsenal, and as for what problems were solved, nothing.

Therefore, when Yang Mingzhi came in a hurry without any entourage, he was flattered.

"Comrade Commander, you suddenly came to my office, isn't it, what's the big deal?!"

"Yes! There's something big! Yang Mingzhi gasped, quickly moved a chair, and was sitting in front of Rygushkov, who was hurriedly standing up behind his desk.

It just so happened that the commander himself had fallen, and Rigushkov's concerns about enemy aircraft were about to be fully stated, and the commander had already spoken out first.

Everyone's concerns coincided, and Yang Mingzhi also knocked on the table and emphasized: "The appearance of enemy planes is a sign of danger. They will definitely come back for air raids, and we must find ways to effectively contain the enemy's air raids! ”

In other words, the commander could not find any way, and Rygushkov sighed: "Alas! I thought you had a good decision, but it seems that you are also at a loss. ”

Yang Mingzhi shrugged: "Of course, when I saw the enemy plane that slipped away, I also thought of you." The arsenal is more important than the fertilizer plant, and if the supply of ammunition is difficult, our combat effectiveness will plummet.

The first thing I thought about was whether the arsenal would take some important measures in the future, such as making the ammunition depot more stable and the production workshop more hidden.

But I think for myself that these measures are too passive, and we must find a way to be the first to detect enemy planes and then use our anti-aircraft fire to shoot down enemy planes. ”

"So, you came here in a hurry?!"

"Yes!" Yang Mingzhi nodded and said: "Regarding how to be the first to detect enemy aircraft, I first thought of radar. However, we will never be able to build such equipment, so I would like to hear your opinion, how can we detect enemy aircraft early? After all, you became a soldier twenty years ago! ”

Gushkov didn't want to mention much about the past 20 years ago, when the blacksmith village was indeed supplying weapons to Soviet Russia, and as for the planes of the White Army and foreign intervention forces, he had only seen it a few times. At that time, the planes were too rudimentary, and the bombs dropped by the so-called bombers were similar in size to mortar shells, and they were ridiculously thrown down by the pilots, and the power was just that.

He recalled: "At that time, we just set up more posts, and when we heard the roar in the air, we immediately reported back to the village, so that all the workers stopped working. A sentinel who can do air defense work must be a guy with sensitive ears. And these sentinels also have some special tools. Remembering this, Rygushkov simply laughed.

"Hey! What are you laughing at? ”

"Oh, that's right!" Rigushkov raised his hands, put them in his ears and made a mischievous appearance: "It's like this, like a hare." You should know that the rabbit's large ears allow it to detect anomalies early, and our air defense sentries put on these big ears for themselves at that time, and I know the effect achieved. The slightest noise made by the enemy is amplified by the steel ears, and the sentinels can make a judgment! This was quite common twenty years ago. However, I heard that now that our country has manufactured such advanced equipment as radar, maybe you can think of a way, Commander, and I think with your drawings, I can build it. ”

"You?!" Yang Mingzhi is grinning now, he wants to laugh but can't laugh, obviously, this military worker only knows the term radar, and knows nothing about its manufacture and use.

Yang Mingzhi finally reluctantly explained: "Even if I can draw the design drawings, you can't finish it." Because, the only devices we have really can't. ”

Here, Yang Mingzhi completely abandoned radar, and Ryguskov's recollection represents a new type of air defense early warning mode - that is, before the birth of radar, the air defense early warning methods of various countries!