"The island country's plane crashed into the southeastern sea!"
"The pilot is declared missing and his chances of survival are slim."
"Eruption! More than one plane crashed, the Black Hawk helicopter crashed at sea!!"
Major incidents at sea quickly attracted the attention of international public opinion.
Especially that helicopter, which had senior officials on board.
According to people familiar with the matter, its original purpose was to monitor the sea trials of Dongfang’s latest destroyer.
But now, it fell into the sea.
Many media outlets swarmed around like flies that had smelled meat, scrambling to get the most shocking news. However, the response from the island country was beyond all of their expectations.
They released the latest information on the "accident" without any bias, and repeatedly emphasized that the cause of the accident is still under investigation.
This is very unreasonable. Even when the island country was in the most difficult situation, it had never shown such caution.
This has to make the media who are paying attention to this matter and have malicious intentions suspicious.
Immediately afterwards, the announcement of another unofficial news made them completely come to their senses:
On that day, the U.S. Air Force at Kadena Base entered a state of emergency. Fighters took off in large numbers and radars were turned on in large numbers, but they quickly returned to calm.
The situation is clear.
The two accidents in the island nation were indeed not pure accidents.
But they dare not admit it?
Not even the US dares to admit it?
what does that mean?
This means that, at least for now, the United States is not 100% sure of counterattacking such electronic warfare.
Otherwise, they would have jumped up and preached everywhere, clamoring to "maintain universal values"
As a result, public opinion quickly cooled down again before it started boiling.
Because they know that some things can be said and some things cannot be said
Chengdu.
Chen Nian listened to Li Xiang's report with satisfaction. This was the first time the latter made a formal report to Chen Nian after he was promoted to the team leader of the Intelligence Section. There is no doubt that he completed it impeccably.
As a player who was admitted to the Western Polytechnic University and is considered a genius in the field of public opinion and intelligence, his overall ability cannot be any worse.
This made Chen Nian very happy - inexplicably, he felt like an old father watching his son grow up.
However, Li Xiang could not guess what Chen Nian was thinking.
After summarizing the key information in an extremely professional manner, he concluded:
"To sum up, in order to respond to the subsequent development of public opinion in this electronic warfare incident, we will take corresponding actions from the above-mentioned official, private and other channels, so as to effectively control the public opinion agenda and reduce the risk of loss of control."
"In addition, judging from the other party's reaction this time, due to the improvement of our strength in many aspects in the past two years, the intelligence and public opinion environment we face have also changed."
"We will make a special report on this in the next report."
Hearing this, Chen Nian nodded slightly.
In fact, he was not required to manage either intelligence or public opinion matters.
However, the Intelligence Department is the core support department of the Spark Team after all, and they also consume a lot of funds.
As the actual controller of Xinghuo, Chen Nian must be aware of this if he wants to truly control Xinghuo.
Therefore, he will also routinely take a small amount of time to make decisions on these "daily" matters.
"Then let's talk about it at the next regular meeting. Once today's report is over, let's adjourn the meeting."
Everyone in the conference room dispersed. Li Xiang did not leave immediately. Instead, he walked up to Chen Nian and said with sincere admiration:
"Mr. Chen, you are really good at this skill."
"CHL-1106? You were able to make it in such a short time and still use it?"
Chen Nian shook his head and replied with a smile:
"It's not that mysterious. The hardware is already there. In fact, the transformation work is nothing more than two things: optimizing the algorithm and increasing the power."
"If this can't be done, School 14 will really be left without food."
"By the way, let's not talk about this for now. I also want to ask you, was that Black Hawk really not shot down by 055?"
Through Li Xiang's report, Chen Nian already understood the basic situation of the Black Hawk's crash.
According to the analysis of the intelligence department, the Black Hawk should have just entered the interference range of the Rainbow-9 during the close observation process. Unfortunately, the Rainbow-9 was circling at low altitude at the time, scanning the opponent's shore defense radar. The side lobe signal is very close to the Black Hawk.
Under the continuous interference of the high-power antenna, the entire helicopter's electronic equipment collapsed instantly. The crew members, who had never encountered such a situation, immediately panicked. After making several mistakes in a row, they finally crashed in the sea.
All 10 crew members were killed. Originally, the island country's ships had a chance to rescue, but 055 was conducting sea trials nearby, and they did not dare to approach easily.
After the interference was over and 055's consent was obtained, those people in the sea had already cooled down.
Chen Nian felt that this incident was too much of a coincidence, so from the beginning, he had always suspected that 055 was somehow related to it.
Hearing Chen Nian's question, Li Xiang shook his head and answered seriously:
"It really has nothing to do with 055. According to intelligence, 055 was not conducting any special training at that time - it was just doing a maritime fire drill."
"You can't tell me that 055 shot down the Black Hawk with a fire extinguisher, right?"
"However, there are speculations that the helicopter was shot down by the United States. We don't think it is credible. It should be a simple accident."
"Why not believable?"
Chen Nian asked subconsciously.
"Shouldn't you be very clear? Under that kind of intensity of electromagnetic interference, the United States simply does not have the ability to break away from the interference and launch an attack in a short period of time."
Li Xiang replied matter-of-factly.
".This is indeed the case in the short term, but electronic warfare is a spiral development process. We have only temporarily gained an advantage, but we have not fundamentally solved the problem."
"So, we still can't take it lightly."
"I don't know what the reaction will be from the US side. By the way, if this matter can be handled coldly, try to handle it coldly. It is best not to attract the attention of the other party's Congress. This will give us more room for maneuver."
"Understood, it's already being done."
Li Xiang nodded and continued:
"Judging from the current situation, Kadena Air Base's response is also very subtle, and the local commander's thoughts seem to be consistent with ours."
"Furthermore, he seems to be more resistant to escalating the situation than we are - maybe the previous electronic interference was just a way for him to brush up on his seniority."
"This can also explain why they did not take action themselves, but wanted to pass the blame to the island country."
"We will investigate further. If this speculation can be confirmed, our Liaoning and Yongjiang ships will no longer be tied to the Pacific Ocean."
Of course, although all parties have adopted a cold-handling strategy on this matter, this does not affect the melon-eaters from sparing no effort to get to the bottom of the matter and discuss it heatedly.
On the country's largest military network forum, discussions about this incident have overshadowed the most popular recent posts on the outfitting progress of the Liaoning ship. The first page of the entire forum is almost entirely devoted to discussions about this incident.
The most popular post was a message that had just been scraped off the Internet.
"The latest news is that among the 11 missing people in the island country, there is a military general with a military rank equal to that of a fungus. Now this is a serious matter!"
"Are you keeping it safe? The land general has fallen, but the island country hasn't jumped up yet? Why is there still no movement now?"
"The calm before the storm. Really, the impact this time is not small. No one knows what direction it will develop in the future."
"So what exactly is going on? Is it really our action?"
"I don't know. Even if someone knows it, I don't dare to say it. It's classified - but if I'm just speculating, some people guess that it has something to do with the recent electronic countermeasures."
"It's a legend anyway. During this period, several large-scale electromagnetic interferences occurred in the southern part of the east. The other party came for 055 and 001."
"This accident in the island country seems to be related to electromagnetic interference - basically it can be said to be a counterattack."
As soon as this comment came out, everyone immediately exploded.
"Damn it, the poster, Shabu, you have already told me that it is classified, and you are still talking about it here?"
"You are the one who is Shabu, right? Is there anything you can't say about this? Brother, don't the United States and the island country know that they are being interfered with? The poster is not sending out technical information."
". Makes sense. But the question is, how do we do it? Are we at this level of electronic warfare?"
"No one really dares to say this, but if you look at the progress of radar technology disclosed in the past two years, if you think about it for a moment, you will know that our electronic warfare technology will not be bad."
"After all, the two should be said to have the same origin."
At this point, everyone's interest was immediately diverted, and they began to intensely discuss the respective electronic warfare technologies of China and the United States.
For a moment, everyone even forgot that what they were discussing in the first place was "this matter may lead to serious consequences."
——
To put it bluntly, they are not really that worried.
Going back five years, let alone a Black Hawk crashing near one's own warship, even if the warships of both sides were too close, netizens would be worried about the risk of war.
Accompanying this "worry" is actually a helpless and sad "inferiority".
He was really frightened, so much so that whenever there was the slightest disturbance, he would subconsciously think about whether he could withstand it and whether he could withstand the opponent's military weapons that looked like Zentraedi technology.
I am afraid that I will not be able to defeat you, I am afraid that I will suffer a loss, I am afraid that my country will be destroyed and my species will be destroyed.
But now, the situation is completely different.
Although these people are still a little worried in their hearts, if you tell them, "We can't beat the old Americans and if such a big thing happens, please admit it and apologize immediately." I think they will collectively treat you as a fool.
After all, in their minds, maybe China may not be able to "beat the United States", but at least, there is no problem if they give it a try.
Sure enough, after discussing the technical issues at length, everyone's topic returned to the results.
And when someone asked "How will this incident end?", the following replies were basically more confident.
"How will it end? I guess the island nation will swallow it by itself. Otherwise, what else can we do? According to public information, the United States has also been affected by this operation, but they have not spoken out until now. They must have given up."
"The United States has given up, but the island country still dares to jump?"
"I think so. After all, they were the ones who provoked us in the first place, and now they have been slapped in the face by the counterattack. They have nothing to say. Is it possible that if electronic warfare cannot defeat them, then they will have to fight a hot war? The people of the island country are bad, but they are not stupid."
"That's not necessarily true. They can do anything in a hurry, especially since the situation in Laos and the United States has been so serious recently. They urgently need to create more trouble in the Pacific and trigger a new round of chaos."
"Perhaps, this incident was directed by them from beginning to end - even the plane crash in the island country may have been a decoy."
"What, you mean, the islanders still want to recreate 1931?"
"They can do it."
When the topic came to this point, everyone's mood became a little heavy.
Yes, that period of history more than 70 years ago is a memory that no one can forget.
Even if you have not experienced that era personally, just a few photos and a few paragraphs of text in textbooks are enough to make people feel the heart-wrenching shame.
Do you need a reason to frame someone up?
I want to attack you, do I still need to hear your rebuttal?
Strength is the only truth.
From bombed-out railways, to lost soldiers, and now, crashed helicopters.
Is it possible that they really want to do it again?
Come on then.
This time, no one will give in—
However, just as everyone's anger was gradually ignited, a newly released news made everyone instantly dumbfounded.
"The island country announced the results of the investigation: the cause of the helicopter crash was mechanical failure and no external force was involved."
After seeing this report, netizens who were originally excited could be said to be dumbfounded.
"What happened? The investigation was completed in less than a day and it was determined to be a mechanical failure? Is it reliable?"
"You're damn reliable. Whether they can catch the plane or not is a question - not to mention the plane, they haven't even fished out all the bodies yet."
"I can't complain about this excuse. Why don't I think of one for them: General Lu personally went into the water to investigate the deployment of the Chinese aircraft carrier, and is still performing the mission and has not returned. Doesn't this sound more reliable?"
"Really reliable, hands-on work, craftsman spirit!"
"Island people are stupid? It's a shame they can come up with such a statement."
Amidst the sarcasm, a comment was refreshed.
"There's nothing hard to understand about this. I've known for a long time that they would be so qualitative."
"Do you know what this means?"
"When you are weak, they will shamelessly blame the life and death of non-existent 'soldiers' on your head."
"When you become stronger, even if General Lu is really killed by you, they will still have to clarify it for you!"
"Everyone, do you understand? In international exchanges, the people who speak the best truth are not diplomats, but cannons and giant ships!"
(End of chapter)
