Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#391 - Follow the rogue eagle's path and leave the rogue eagle with nowhere to go

If going to Dalian to cut the ribbon for the 45,000-ton die-forging hydraulic press and simultaneously providing new machine tool products only solves the hardware aspect.

Then, Ren Zhong's return to the Electronic Industry Laboratory in the capital to participate in the evaluation of two new electronic industry achievements provided two completely new integrated circuits for solving the submarine avionics problem: signal amplification and codec circuit designs, which may be widely used in signal acquisition and codec applications for sonar and radar.

These are almost the most cutting-edge electronic industry technology achievements in the current Bright Sword world. Although for the main world, these are nothing special; perhaps embedded chips costing a few dozen yuan can achieve the same, but remember this is in the 1950s, and the rogue eagle side hasn't even formed the concept of integrated circuits!

Thanks to Ren Zhong's tireless promotion of the development of the electronic industry, especially the development of transistors and transistor-based integrated circuits, there has been an explosive surge. The electronic industry at the Dawn Research Institute is flourishing everywhere.

In 1951, under the guidance of the information provided by Ren Zhong, the Electronic Laboratory of the Dawn Research Institute achieved integrated circuit technology that concentrated resistors, capacitors, diodes, and triodes in one material. It successfully implemented the first integrated trigger circuit in germanium crystals, completed industrial precision machining technology, and applied it to some immature electronic circuit experiments, realizing classic circuits such as bridge rectifier circuits, power filters, signal filters, differential and integral circuits, common-emitter amplifier circuits, and operational amplifier circuits. However, this was far from enough.

Germanium crystals are not the mainstream technology for development, so according to the trend of transistor development provided by Ren Zhong, the laboratory re-implemented these integrated circuits on silicon crystals. After more than two years of effort, it finally broke through the complete set of industrial processing technology on silicon crystals and began mass production of commonly used integrated circuit modules with independent functions.

According to the intellectual property agreement after the Cold War, this time, Ren Zhong had the Dawn Research Institute apply for patents for integrated circuits worldwide, and applied for patents for integrated circuits for televisions, integrated circuits for audio equipment, integrated circuits for video disc players, integrated circuits for video recorders, integrated circuits for computers (microcomputers), integrated circuits for electronic organs, integrated circuits for communication, integrated circuits for cameras, remote control integrated circuits, language integrated circuits, alarm integrated circuits, and various common dedicated integrated circuits.

Even if some circuits, such as integrated circuits for computers (microcomputers), do not yet have the precise processing level to process thousands of transistors on a single integrated circuit module, the principles have been clarified enough to apply for patents.

As a person from the main world, as early as the second year after liberation, Ren Zhong promoted the drafting and implementation of the Patent Law (PS: The East Asian patent protection regulations in the main world were actually very early, published in 1950, but as everyone knows, they were basically useless after being converted to public ownership, which is a bit of a pity). This created a good environment for technological innovation in East Asia. It was precisely because of this foundation, which was similar to Western patent law protection clauses, that the channels for mutual recognition and registration of patent laws with the West after the Cold War were completely unobstructed.

In this way, Ren Zhong has now taken away almost all of the source of the electronic industry, one of the most important sources of technology for the rogue eagle in the main world timeline. Starting from transistors, the core patents are registered by East Asia or the backbone members of the Hidden Dragon Project lurking out of East Asia.

By firmly controlling the core parts of transistor technology and integrated circuit technology, the rogue eagle and the West will inevitably have to bypass these patent coverings in order to develop the electronic industry in the future.

In this way, Ren Zhong has completed all the major paths taken by the rogue eagle and the West in the early stages of the electronic industry, leaving them with no choice but to follow!

This was the core demand Ren Zhong requested after the Cold War victory. At the time, it is estimated that no one in the country could see the power of this clause.

In fact, even now, no one at home or abroad can imagine that in the next few decades, the entire world's electronic industry will be shrouded in East Asia's technology patents!

And it's not just the electronic industry alone.

Proposing intellectual property protection in advance, if it were changed to the same historical timeline in the main world, opening up intellectual property protection so early would basically be suicide, because almost all the major intellectual property rights of modern industry are in the hands of the West.

We would have to pay an unbearable price at any point in industrial development, and it would be completely impossible to achieve industrialization so quickly.

But in this timeline, it's different.

Whether it is steel metallurgy, daily-use products, the electronic industry, or even the aviation industry, machine tool industry, and other industries, the Dawn Research Institute has accumulated a massive amount of new technologies and new products purchased from the main world.

Therefore, when the intellectual property protection treaty was opened, Ren Zhong organized the research institute to apply for patents for those technologies that were easily imitated or reverse-engineered in batches, including a large number of transistor technologies.

In this way, the Dawn Research Institute and its various research centers silently became the single institution with the most patents in the world!

Even the patent for penicillin was obtained after much effort.

Although there was a technology exchange with the rogue eagle in the early stage, and the patent charging rights in North America were transferred, the rights in other parts of the world were retained. In this way, even if the rogue eagle's pharmaceutical factory wants to produce and sell outside North America, they will have to pay patent fees to the biopharmaceutical research institute of the Dawn Research Institute.

Because they have already updated to the second generation of penicillin production technology, if they don't pay the fee, they will have to withdraw from the penicillin industry.

Now, after completing the early technical incubation of integrated circuits, Ren Zhong has finally grasped the source of the largest source of wealth in future technology.

The most core things of the IT industry, the most core intellectual property rights of IC technology, are now in this batch of patents that have been sorted out and applied for.

In fact, it's not just about commercial interests. In terms of reputation, these technologies are worthy of a Nobel Prize.

Therefore, after much deliberation and consideration, the research team listed Ren Zhong as a joint inventor of this technology, because the project team believes that the core technical ideas were all provided by Ren Zhong. It would be really unreasonable not to list Ren Zhong as a joint inventor.

No one has the face to claim the discovery of this technology.

Considering the need to establish some technical authority in the future, Ren Zhong, after careful consideration of all this, decided to recognize the invention in the electronic industry in order to seize the initiative in the world's IT industry in the future.

However, in terms of inventors in other industries, Ren Zhong resolutely refused to be named and instead assigned all of these to the main persons in charge and technical backbones of the projects. Although this may be somewhat unfair to him, who put forward most of the ideas.

But Ren Zhong doesn't need to create a god. Just the title of the world's number one in the IT industry is enough to be awe-inspiring.

Any more might not be a good thing but a disaster. The ancient wisdom of 'too much is as bad as too little' and 'the tree that stands tallest in the forest will be blown down by the wind' still exists now.

From the perspective of the future development of the entire science and technology, Ren Zhong also feels that dispersing it in this way is more conducive to establishing a series of industry technical authorities for East Asia. Of course, it will be of great benefit to the improvement of our global status. In this way, all aspects of my East Asia's rejuvenation will be fully demonstrated.

What's more, these project leaders and core backbones are also leaders and masters of their generation in this era. Except for particularly key figures who need to be kept secret, such as Professor Qian and Professor Wu, national treasure-level experts, Ren Zhong doesn't feel that they are taking away his glory by pushing out other non-sensitive, mainly civilian-oriented experts at this time.

Only when masters emerge in large numbers and technology explodes can it be worthy of being a sign that East Asia is re-entering its peak in the world.

Let more people in the world re-recognize how great the standing-up East Asia is!

The explosion of major inventions is also conducive to establishing a high-end brand image for us in the world market competition in the future. It can be said that the benefits are too numerous to count!

Therefore, this matter has been promoted by Ren Zhong since the signing of the new agreement after the war. In the past year or so, tens of thousands of important basic patents have been registered for the Dawn Research Institute and its various research centers, whether it is the electronic industry, or key industries such as machine tools, aviation, railways, machinery, metallurgy, and chemical industry. Ren Zhong has registered patents for many key new technologies, new materials, and new products developed from the 1960s to the 1980s in the main world.

Of course, considering the balance of global layout, some patents are also supported through other channels and distributed to the Hidden Dragon Project to ensure that there are also some patents in the Western world, so that it does not appear so completely hopeless, so that the West will not directly overturn the table and stop playing patent protection.

It was precisely because of this solid foundation in the electronics industry, by feeling the stones of the main world's rogue eagle, that most of the core integrated circuit modules used in the current generation of relatively primitive sonar and avionics systems already had mature designs and processing.

Relying on the existing integrated circuit technology of the Bright Sword world, it was already possible to design and produce a batch of decoding integrated circuits with relatively low computational complexity.

In this way, the Bright Sword world now achieved localized research and development and manufacturing for the vast majority of circuits in sonar and radar designs.

As long as Ren Zhong continued to import some specialized decoding chips from the main world to cooperate with the use of dedicated encoding and decoding chips that required high computing power.

Through the integration of technologies from the two worlds, Ren Zhong only needed to bring in some key chips or circuit boards from the main world, greatly reducing the quantity of electronic goods brought from the main world.

As for mass-produced electronic products such as televisions, radios, and stereos, it was even more impossible to rely on imports from the main world to support development, but rather to rely on the Bright Sword world's current integrated circuit technology to redesign a new generation of products based on existing conditions.

However, after getting involved in the research and development of submarine avionics and sonar, Ren Zhong discovered that having a foundation did not mean that it could be done easily.

A modern submarine's sonar equipment alone, judging from the main world's submarines, was not something that could be solved with just one set.

The sonar equipment installed on the "Virginia" class attack nuclear submarine included a bow main/passive sonar, a BQG=5A ternary sub-array conformal lightweight wide-aperture passive ranging sonar, a TB-16D coarse-line towed array sonar, a TB-29A passive fine-line towed array sonar, and a WLY-1 sound detector.

Only after equipping so much sonar equipment could it capture underwater and surface target activities from a long distance in the deep sea.

These many sub-systems were basically highly confidential.

In this regard, Ren Zhong could not get much useful information.

The closer it was to modern things, the harder it was to obtain.

Of course, this was the latest class of attack nuclear submarine of the rogue eagle in the main world, and the technological gap was too great compared to the 1950s, making it completely incomparable.

Dongda's first generation of large blackfish certainly could not be so complete.

If that were the case, I'm afraid it wouldn't be completed even in fifty years!

Therefore, in Ren Zhong's view, the bow main/passive sonar was a must-have, and it was best to have a set of towed array sonar, which could greatly increase the distance of detecting enemy targets.

Relying solely on the bow main/passive sonar was like being nearsighted, and you would probably have to get close to the target to sense it.

But with a towed array sonar, the detection distance could be increased several times.

The sonar technology was relatively good, and there were many companies in the private sector involved in sonar technology.

Ren Zhong spent money and asked people to sort out the information obtained from the main world, supporting the sonar team in quickly advancing towards the achievement of the goal.

Of course, the effect cannot be compared with the advanced radar in the main world now, and Ren Zhong did not expect it.

As long as it reaches the effect of the 1960s and 1970s, it will be satisfied.

Being one step ahead of the opponent is a fatal step.

The avionics is the troublesome part.

According to the avionics system configuration of the Virginia-class attack nuclear submarine, there is an AN/WLY-1 underwater warning/countermeasures system, an AN/BLQ-10 radar antenna, an AN/BSY-3 combat system, a GPS electronic mast, a high data exchange rate mast that can transmit target data required by ground weapons at high speed via satellite, a radio transceiver mast, and two AN/BVS-1 photoelectric search/attack periscope mast groups that can adjust tasks.

Frankly speaking, Ren Zhong couldn't understand these things, and it was enough to roughly understand what the functions were from the literal meaning.

Therefore, it is not feasible to be too forward-looking and touch the most advanced models of the rogue eagle.

It still has to be down-to-earth.

Ren Zhong put the main body of the submarine on the Skate-class nuclear submarine, but the avionics on the submarine began to refer to the Sturgeon-class, after all, the current foundation can basically meet the requirements of the Sturgeon-class.

This attack nuclear submarine developed by the rogue eagle in the 1960s was equipped with the Raytheon Company's AN/BQQ-2 low-frequency main/passive search and attack integrated sonar as the main sonar.

The main body of the sonar was an AN/BQS-6 active sonar spherical array with a diameter of 4.6 meters installed in the bow, and a strip-shaped AN/BQR-7 passive sonar array arranged on both sides of the hull between the bow and the forward main ballast tank.

The Sturgeon-class attack nuclear submarine was equipped with a Sperry Corporation BPS-15 or a Raytheon Company BPS-14 surface search/navigation/fire control radar, I/J band; equipped with an MK117 torpedo fire control system, countermeasures include an Emerson Electric MK2 torpedo decoy launcher, a WLQ-4 radar warning device, search and attack periscopes, ultra-high frequency communication antennas, and 4 or more direction-finding antennas and electronic reconnaissance antennas, as well as communication whip antennas and floating antennas.

Sturgeon-class attack nuclear submarine command module

Relatively speaking, these technologies are relatively close to Ren Zhong's current capabilities.

After all, these technologies are old, and there are many related introductory articles and materials.

Many things are outdated, and more detailed information can be obtained through libraries or other channels.

As long as Ren Zhong is willing to add money!

If it's just a matter of spending some money, there's naturally not much of a problem in this regard.

Under the guise of researching the history of certain technological developments, Ren Zhong found that universities are really a good platform sometimes, and he really managed to find a lot of useful information in this regard after some twists and turns.

Such as these system maintenance manuals, user manuals, and theoretical introductory papers, these good things.

In this way, Ren Zhong gave the research team a guiding light on the general direction of technological development.

However, due to the limitations of the times, the Sturgeon-class attack nuclear submarines at this time did not have any computer applications.

After the transistor computer was developed in the Bright Sword world, Ren Zhong felt that he couldn't be so hasty in avionics, with mechanical instruments and meters everywhere.

The advantages of computer technology must be applied to the avionics of these submarines.

However, as for how to apply it, Ren Zhong could only learn from the rogue eagle again, as he himself knew nothing about it.

Now Dongda's technology in computer science in the Bright Sword world is far ahead of the world.

Without saying anything else, the transistor computer alone is at least one generation ahead of the rogue eagle, and the calculation speed is more than an order of magnitude faster.

Compared with the human brain in terms of calculation, it is even far superior to the human brain.

On a single combat platform like a submarine that requires a large amount of data calculation, Ren Zhong of course hopes to embed more computer functions to improve combat effectiveness.

In this way, in processing the data detected by sonar, even if the reaction speed of discovering the enemy is a little faster, it can gain an advantage in battle and can fire first!

Of course, this transistor computer is not even a star and a half as weak as the computer in the main world.

It's just that in this era, it's still enough.

Now it's not using transistor computers for games, as long as it meets the basic calculation of detection data, it's enough.

With the invention of LED manufacturing technology and the use of mass-produced LED display instruments, Ren Zhong redesigned a large number of mechanical instruments and meters in the cockpit instruments.

In this way, more space in the cockpit is reserved to assemble more new functions.

Fully utilize the transistor computer to the extreme and achieve a leap in information level.

With the large-scale use of CRT monitors, the display part of the avionics system is now too intuitive.

For the enemy to display the target on the screen, the relative distance and position of the target can already be seen intuitively on the screen.

For the commander, this greatly improves the ability to intuitively display the battlefield, which is equivalent to making a battlefield sand table for him in the submarine.

I have to say, even if Ren Zhong has no experience at all, he has gained experience by copying the layout of other people's command modules in the main world and then considering how to use the technology of the Bright Sword world to realize it.

Creating a quasi-modern command module in the 1950s is a great sense of accomplishment for Ren Zhong.