Thank You, Radar Bro, for the Energy!

Although radar often failed to detect aircraft designed for stealth, unable to pick up their signals.

That was only under routine radar scanning, equivalent to a hurried glance.

Whether it was scanning angle, scanning frequency, or scanning power, none of them were pushed to the maximum. There was no targeted detection.

The target was also sneaking into the village, keeping its guns silent, hiding its signals as much as possible.

However.

If the radar ignored the losses and the impact on all kinds of surrounding signals.

Switched angles and frequencies several more times while increasing its scanning power.

Then, with the brute performance of ground-based radar, even if a B2 stealth bomber came in sneaking through the village without firing a shot or making a sound, desperately hiding its signals and body, it still could not escape ground-based radar detection.

Yet now.

Chen Yi's drone positioning signal was laid out clearly before them.

Its altitude, speed, direction, flight angle, and other parameters were all present.

The ground-based radars across the region were still like blind men.

No matter how they switched angles or frequencies, they could not find any trace of Chen Yi's drone.

One had to know, blind men feeling an elephant.

Could still tell whether they were touching a pillar, a fan, or a wall.

But now, they had been told that there was a drone at this location.

Yet these advanced radars, which claimed that not even a sparrow at an altitude of ten thousand meters could evade detection, had all become blind despite having their eyes open. They could not see so much as a single hair.

"Submit an application."

"Request authorization to increase power for detection!"

After carefully tracking and detecting for over half an hour without finding Chen Yi's drone, the person in charge of the management center considered it for a moment and decided to submit an application to increase radar power.

Increasing radar power was no small matter.

Other than emergencies involving special intelligence or suspicious signals, or during combat readiness and wartime, when power could be raised first and a report written afterward.

Under normal circumstances, increasing radar power had to go through a formal application process.

Not long after the application was submitted.

Approval came from above.

Looking at the approved application form, the person in charge picked up the phone.

He called the local Air Traffic Control Bureau and telecom operators.

He informed them that a special drill would begin in three minutes and told them to prepare contingency plans for signal interference.

"Activate the Level One contingency plan. Raise radar power to maximum and detect the target's trail!"

"Yes."

Three minutes passed in the blink of an eye.

With the order issued, the local ground-based radars powered up at full capacity one after another.

The electromagnetic waves emitted by the radars instantly increased by a hundredfold, even several hundredfold.

Following the positioning data, they violently yet methodically targeted Chen Yi's drone.

Bzzzz!

In Guangxi Province, Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province, and even the surrounding areas.

Other than wired signals, every wireless mobile signal and radio broadcast.

Was hit by interference at that moment, their signals suddenly becoming extremely poor.

Calls began to suffer instability, abnormalities, and even disconnections.

And aside from BeiDou positioning.

Other positioning systems such as GPS completely lost their signals at that moment.

"Report: Radar in Zone One detected no target signal within the positioning signal area!"

"Report: Radar in Zone Two detected no target signal within the positioning signal area!"

"Report: Radar in Zone Three detected no target signal within the positioning signal area!"

Several minutes passed.

After repeatedly switching frequencies and angles, raising power, and conducting several comprehensive detection sweeps.

The radar operators reported back one after another. None of them had found Chen Yi's drone.

This left the person in charge of the command center stunned.

"Could it be that the drone was never flying, and the positioning chip malfunctioned?"

An absurd thought surfaced in his mind.

But looking at the display, which showed it moving at supersonic speed.

Climbing at times, descending at others, and occasionally pulling off a turn.

The signal trail clearly showed that it was having a grand time.

No matter how he looked at it, this did not resemble a malfunctioning positioning chip.

After thinking for a moment.

The person in charge picked up the secure phone on his desk and dialed a number.

"0A01 applied for a drone test flight today."

"Where did it fly?"

The person on the other end froze for a moment, then his voice suddenly rose. "To the Moon, or Mars?"

"..."

The person in charge was speechless at that reaction as well. Shaking his head, he said, "No, it just took a stroll around home.

It applied for airspace below seventy thousand meters, from Penghai City all the way west.

It said something about chasing the sun and checking in at Mount Everest."

"Oh, good thing it didn't go to Mars."

The person on the other end let out a deep breath of relief. "Playing around at home is good.

As long as it doesn't interfere with Civil Aviation passenger flights, flying at home is better than flying to outer space no matter what.

Looks like that trip to Rongfei and the personal instruction from those Academicians and experts did have some effect after all."

The person in charge rubbed his forehead. "But there is a problem with this test flight. The radar cannot detect the drone's trail."

"Isn't that perfectly normal?

Black Hawk studied for over twenty days. It's perfectly normal for it to have learned stealth design.

Given the drone's compact size and its stealth design, it is perfectly normal for radar in conventional mode to fail to detect it."

Learning aircraft stealth design in just over twenty days was perfectly normal.

What kind of normal was that?

The person in charge was completely speechless. "Not conventional mode.

I just received authorization for full-power radar detection. We tracked the drone using the coordinates of its positioning signal, but still found nothing."

"Gasp!"

The person on the other end was instantly shaken. "Ground-based radar?"

"Ground-based radar."

"Doppler pulse, phased-array radar, every type of radar has been activated?"

"All of them."

"...What a freak!"

The person on the other end suddenly cursed. After a moment of silence, he asked, "Where is 0A01 now?"

"Let me see."

The person in charge looked at the screen beside him. "Its current signal location is among the canyon clusters of the Hengduan Mountains.

The signal has barely moved.

But its altitude keeps diving and climbing.

This... should be surfing.

Aerial drone surfing."

"Woooo! Ura!"

On the open balcony of the third floor in Penghai City.

Chen Yi wore a virtual helmet and let out an exhilarated cry.

Inside the virtual helmet was the drone's first-person view.

With infrared scanning enabled, it was repeatedly diving and climbing through the uninhabited canyon clusters of the Hengduan Mountains.

With every climb, the drone crossed over a canyon.

Then, after reaching several thousand meters in the air, it turned its nose.

Aiming at the next canyon, it launched into an almost vertical dive.

With every plunge.

The completely weightless sensation simulated by the virtual program, the rapidly enlarging mountains on both sides, the river at the bottom of the canyon, and the howling wind captured by the microphone.

Were all projected into Chen Yi's mind through brainwave virtualization in a crisp first-person perspective.

When it reached the canyon floor and pulled up, the creaking of the airframe under overload and the feeling that it might be torn apart at any moment made his adrenaline boil even more fiercely.

"How could roller coasters, drop towers, pendulum rides, racing drones, and all that compare to surfing through canyons like this?"

"Looks like virtual technology combined with drone flight is the true king."

"Manual controls, foot pedals, even AR Glasses—they're all the wrong path!"

After playing for over half an hour.

Chen Yi contentedly removed the virtual helmet.

He pulled the drone up and left the canyon clusters of the Hengduan Mountains.

Leaving the canyons and reaching an altitude of twenty thousand meters.

Chen Yi pulled up the drone's flight data and checked the test flight results from Guangxi Province all the way here.

Especially the drone's performance data under the extreme conditions of its canyon dives just now.

But the moment the flight data appeared.

Chen Yi took one look and immediately noticed an anomaly.

The solar-cell film on the underside, which could not receive direct sunlight and could only charge through diffuse reflection in the air, had experienced abnormal charging.

"Strange?

Why was there a period of time.

When the charging efficiency of the solar-cell film on the underside of the drone suddenly increased by more than fifty percent?"

Just as Chen Yi was puzzled.

The phone beside him chimed.

A news alert popped up about Guangxi, Yunnan, and Sichuan Provinces.

Where all mobile signals had experienced abnormalities because of an electronic warfare exercise.

The moment Chen Yi saw the news, he immediately understood.

"So that's it. Thank you, radar bro, for the energy!"

PS: I chatted with my editor today and asked whether I had any hope of making Sanjiang. I got one word in response: slim!

Woooo...

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