Chapter 30

What a good head, captain, this doesn't even count as a warm-up.

The pilot of No. 3 aircraft took up the conversation,

"We just showed up like that and scared them off. I thought we could play a game of cat and mouse with them, but the mouse turned out to be too timid."

"How else do you want to play? Really shoot them down?" the No. 4 aircraft pilot joked.

This engagement, for them, was less a tense standoff and more a one-sided, all-dimensional technological crushing display.

From silently approaching, to precisely locking on, to rendering the enemy radar completely blind throughout, the whole process was textbook-perfect.

The opponent, too weak.

When the four 'Shenglong' aircraft landed gracefully one after another at the base, General Zhang Xianzhong had already brought a group of officers waiting on the tarmac.

The canopies opened, and the four pilots leapt nimbly from their jets. They removed their helmets, revealing young, confident faces.

"Reporting, Commander! The Divine Dragon Squadron has completed the mission, all went well!" Squadron Leader Li Hongtao stepped forward, saluted, his voice loud.

Zhang Xianzhong returned the salute, stepped forward a few paces, said nothing, just firmly patted each of the four pilots on the shoulder; his eyes brimmed with approval and excitement, almost overflowing.

"You've worked hard! You did a splendid job this time, no disgrace to the nation."

After saying a few sentences, he then turned to Li Hongtao: "What's the specific situation?"

"Reporting, Commander, the Y-35's radar never detected us the whole time. We completed the encirclement and lock-on at a distance of less than a hundred meters from them."

From their final flight attitude, we judge the enemy pilots' psychological defenses have collapsed; it was a panicked flight.

Li Hongtao's report was brief and to the point, yet every word carried great weight.

The surrounding officers, hearing it, all felt their hearts surge, their faces flushed.

Undetected the entire way!

What this means, everyone present understood perfectly.

In future air combat, the 'Shenglong' can act like a ghostly assassin, appearing at any moment beside the enemy's throat, and the enemy may die without ever knowing where the attack came from.

"Hahaha, good! What a panicked flight!" Zhang Xianzhong finally couldn't help bursting into loud laughter, filled with unprecedented exhilaration.

He turned to his chief of staff beside him and said: "Upload everything that happened today into the database for our future reference."

Yes!

That staff officer immediately replied.

At this moment, a pilot couldn't help adding a sentence:

"Reporting, Commander, I think they're more like headless flies. If we hadn't spoken up, they might still be buzzing around cluelessly, thinking they own this sky."

This somewhat playful report drew another round of hearty laughter from everyone.

Zhang Xianzhong pointed at that pilot and laughed:

"Well said! Our sky has never been, is not now, and will never be anyone's backyard!"

He paused, collected his smile, his gaze swept over the four 'Shenglong' jets that had just completed the mission, then thought of the hundred more like them, and a surge of indescribable heroism rose from his heart.

Not long ago, facing Yingjiang Guo's air superiority, they could only defend passively, each interception accompanied by great risk and pressure.

The pilots had to defend the nation's dignity with flesh and blood and outdated equipment.

That feeling of frustration and helplessness is etched into the heart of every air force member.

But from today onward, everything is different.

……

Yanhuang Guo, a military Command Center.

On the huge electronic sand table, that recent silent engagement was played over and over.

The four blue arrows representing the 'Shenglong' weaved and surrounded like ghosts.

While the red arrows representing the Y-35, at the last moment, drew four panicked escape trajectories.

The data analysis report had been placed before each senior official.

According to the data analysis, our 'Shenglong' aircraft in this operation maintained a radar cross-section consistently below 0.005 square meters, successfully evading detection by the Y-35's onboard radar and rear warning system.

Its carried quantum radar, without emitting any detectable signal itself, precisely captured and locked onto the Y-35. This proves we have achieved a generational lead in radar technology.

Pilot feedback: the aircraft's maneuverability, control response speed, and avionics intelligence level all far exceeded expectations.

The evaluation: 'as if an extension of the arm, man and machine as one.'

The meeting room was silent as a tomb, only the calm voice of the data analyst reporting.

Lao Luo listened quietly, his fingers tapping rhythmically on the tabletop.

His face showed little expression, but his deep eyes flashed with a light never seen before.

This was not just a successful interception operation; it was a strategic proclamation.

It proclaimed that Yanhuang Guo, in the forefront of military technology, had shifted from pursuer to leader.

The first island chain, the second island chain—these terms that once shackled them like fetters are now becoming fragile before the flight paths of the 'Shenglong'.

"Today is a day worth commemorating."

Lao Luo spoke slowly.

"From today on, we must guard our oceans and airspace with our own strength. The days when they habitually flaunted their might at our doorstep are gone forever."

Zhang Xianzhong was also in the meeting room; he took up the thread, his voice still tinged with lingering excitement.

"The envoy is right! This was just a small warning to them. One hundred 'Shenglong' aircraft have completed the first-stage testing, and the pilots are basically in place."

We can at any time form ten fully manned elite flight regiments! As long as you give the order, not to mention the air defense identification zone, even if their carrier strike group dares to act wildly again, we dare to make sure they never return.

These words brimmed with the iron blood and magnanimity of a soldier, yet no one present thought it was bragging.

Because they now had this confidence.

After the meeting ended, Lao Luo kept a few people behind.

"This incident will surely cause an uproar in Yingjiang Guo; they will spare no expense to investigate the source of our technological breakthrough,"

Superiors demand that we raise the protection of Comrade Qin Hao to the highest level.

I agree.

One of them nodded, saying, "He is now our nation's top secret; there must be no mishap."

On Comrade Hai Tang's side, we must increase security forces; all contact with Comrade Qin Hao must be conducted within the strictest controllable range.

Zhang Xianzhong nodded solemnly: "Understood."

Meanwhile, Luo Lao's gaze grew deep and far-reaching.

However, this matter will surely not stay hidden. Yingjiang Guo are not fools; they will quickly realize that such a leapfrog breakthrough,

cannot be the result of normal development. We must also prepare to deal with their irrational behavior.

He paused for a moment, and the corner of his mouth suddenly curled into a meaningful arc.

Of course, the more confused and frantic they become, the more advantageous it is for us. Let them guess, investigate, and waste countless resources in the wrong direction.

Furthermore, we need to publicize this matter: on one hand, to let the whole nation know this good news and strengthen cohesion,

on the other hand, to deter the remaining hostile forces, making them see clearly that our Yanhuang nation is not to be provoked and is not afraid of technological blockades.

This proposal gained the agreement of everyone present.

Meanwhile, Qin Hao was lying on his sofa at home, leisurely scrolling through short videos.

He had no idea that, just several thousand li away over the sea, a heart-stopping confrontation had just taken place.