I did one thing in my life: develop radar, and then I was responsible for applying the world's most advanced technology to the AWACS, turning the design into reality.
Wang Xiaomu
At a time when the West was suppressing China's development, many people threw themselves into scientific research, fighting all their lives to break the West's monopoly on China's science and technology, convinced that China would develop. Among these staunch patriots were Deng Jiaxian, Yu Min, Qian Sanqiang and, of course, today's protagonist, Wang Xiaomu, the father of China's early warning aircraft.
Early years
Wang Xiaomu was born in 1938 in Shanghai. It was a time of war and national turmoil, but Wang's father, a staff officer, was able to support his family, and although the country as a whole was in a bad shape, Wang seldom suffered from hunger in his childhood, and that all changed in 1950.
When Wang's father lost his boss, the family was left without a roof over their heads, and his father chose to rent a small courtyard in Beijing's Xicheng district, where Wang began to live.
In Beijing at that time, people in the streets loved Peking Opera, and Wang Xiaomu was also influenced by the culture of Peking Opera, and he wished to have a radio of his own, but his family was now desperate to keep food on the table, and the price of a radio was very expensive, and it was not something that Wang Xiaomu's family could afford to buy, so Wang Xiaomu had an idea to buy a bunch of parts in a small market with the money that he saved up and assembled a radio. He was able to assemble a radio.
Wang Xiaomu believes that his love of Peking Opera has brought him and the radio waves together. In the blink of an eye, Wang Xiaomu was 16 years old, and in 1956, when the college entrance exams were coming up, Wang Xiaomu had no big idea about his future, so he listened to his parents and went to the Beijing Institute of Technology, majoring in radio, which was also a major of his interest.
Wang Xiaomu at this time, can only be regarded as an ordinary student with medium grades, no one can see that this child will become the father of China's early-warning aircraft in the future, because of his love of Peking Opera, love to participate in Peking Opera clubs and performances, Wang Xiaomu's academic performance was also affected by his sophomore year of the physical examination only scored two, but fortunately, in the radio professional classes he did not relax, and in the graduation of his graduation design The company's website has been updated with the latest information about the company's products and services, and the company's website.
Wang Xiaomu's love affair with radar
In such a pleasant atmosphere, Wang Xiaomu eventually graduated and was assigned to the 14th Research Institute in Nanjing, which used to be the radar repair factory of the Kuomintang, but now has become the place where China's radar is booming, and Wang Xiaomu, after learning more about it, understood the situation of China at that time profoundly.
During his time at the university, he was obsessed with culture and art, but forgot how much China needed good radar technology. Here, the old experts told him that many researchers didn't even know what radar looked like, and that in order to get good radar technology, researchers often took the train to go to the Soviet border and used binoculars to see what Soviet radar looked like, and then came back to copy it. He felt a strange emotion, he felt a heavy burden on himself, but he was ready to carry this pressure, and the research of Chinese radar became a goal of Wang Xiaomu.
Radar this electronic equipment, in fact, as early as in World War I has been invented by the United Kingdom, used to find enemy aircraft, in the post-World War II is still not too much progress, keep in two-dimensional coordinates, can not give the specific height of the enemy aircraft, until after the Second World War appeared in the three-dimensional radar can be reported to the height of the enemy aircraft, the original Chinese in the Soviet Union's help, but also have the opportunity to develop a three-dimensional radar, but because of the The breakup of relations between China and the Soviet Union put an end to this cooperation.
But the Chinese people are not afraid of difficulties, even if the Soviet experts withdrew, the Chinese side also have to rely on their own strength to study the radar, in 1961, Wang Xiaomu in the instructions of his superiors, alone holding the Soviet side after the rupture of the Soviet Union, the Soviet side of the information left behind, began to study the three-dimensional coordinates of the radar.
Wang Xiaomu carefully read these materials, and found that these materials are far from enough to support a radar system, and then collect all kinds of information from foreign countries. Wang Xiaomu has been learning Russian, but most of the foreign materials use English, which means that Wang Xiaomu's work is one more thing, that is, to learn English, and you must master the English language before you can continue to study the radar.
Wang Xiaomu while looking for information, and at the same time learning English, lapped up a year down, actually really learn English through, at least able to read these materials.
Everything was ready, just waiting to set sail, but once again, the unexpected came to Wang Xiaomu's body, because of the social situation, Wang Xiaomu was pulled to the computer section to sit on the bench. But Wang Xiaomu did not get depressed, but in the process of contact with the computer, he found a new pastime fun, he can play chess on the computer, listen to their favorite Beijing opera, soon after he mastered the computer, the computer in his hands is not only a tool for recreation, but also for his research after the three-dimensional radar technology combined with the computer to lay a foundation.
Wang Xiaomu once recalled that without that time, he might have had to spend more time on computers. In such a life, Wang Xiaomu's opportunity finally came, and then by the national transfer order, many technicians moved to the mountains of Guizhou, secretly formed the Ministry of Electronics Industry 38 Research Institute, and Wang Xiaomu took command, became the chief designer of the three-coordinate radar, stayed in the mountains for thirteen years.
Some people recalled that Wang Xiaomu always uphold the people-oriented attitude to work, he once said: "Talent is the first combatant, if people can not, the equipment is good and useless!"
Wang Xiaomu, the director of the 38th Institute, led the entire 38th Institute to become a first-class level of research institute in China, and he himself has become a legend.
Insisting on making his own AWACS
Finally, one of the biggest tasks in Wang Xiaomu's life came in response to a contract to develop an AWACS with a foreign country at the end of the last century. At that time, although China already had excellent domestic fighters, there was not much progress in the AWACS, which led to poor coordination of the Chinese Air Force. coordination capability was poor, the AWACS became an urgently needed aircraft type for the Chinese Air Force.
The technical difficulty of the AWACS lies in the integration of the radar with the aircraft. Wang Xiaomu, as a top researcher in radar in China, was the chief designer in this study, and thought that everything would go smoothly, but he didn't expect that the foreign side, because of the pressure, would eventually give up the contract, and many experts came up with the idea of "building is not as good as buying".
This made Wang Xiaomu hold his breath in his heart, he did not believe that without foreign help, China can not build their own early warning aircraft he directly to the superior that he is willing to lead the team to research and development of home-grown early warning aircraft, his idea got the support of the leaders, Wang Xiaomu immediately led the team to the west.
While already in his dotage, Wang Xiaomu has been revitalized in his work. Next door in Northwest China, the temperature changes severely, and you can experience spring, summer, autumn and winter in one day, the development of AWACS is particularly hard, and even life-threatening, but Wang Xiaomu does not care about it, and in the aircraft, he is doing a few hours, and the lights in his room often stay on all night, and under his leadership, the researchers are also steadily and steadily. In just one year, the prototype was built, and in the second year, test flights were immediately launched. In the end, in five years, China had its own AWACS, a Chinese speed that shocked the world.
While the speed is fast, but Wang Xiaomu marshaled the manufacture of the object is never what ordinary early warning aircraft, but loaded with the latest generation of phased-array radar early warning aircraft, compared to the United States is also much more advanced, certainly the world's first early warning aircraft! Greatly improved China's international status, since foreign countries can no longer look down on China, China also broke the monopoly of the West on related technology.
Wang Xiaomu, the father of China's early-warning aircraft, was at the parade in 2009, looking up at his own work as the Airborne Police 2000 flew through the sky, his face full of satisfied smiles.
Wang Xiaomu, who was obsessed with Peking Opera in his early years, devoted himself to radar in his youth, made a name for himself in his middle age, and was able to break through the Western monopoly in his later years, has only done one thing in his life, and that is to study radar and then put it on his planes. He is much more noble than those celebrities who are famous for their fame and reputation, and he has dedicated almost everything to the country, which is enough to be praised as "the father of Chinese early warning aircraft".