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The director and the General Staff’s Lieutenant General tried their best to comfort Xiao Qiang, fearing that this young genius who had suffered great setbacks since his debut would lose his fighting spirit from then on. But to be honest, I realized that the development plan of the Universal Aircraft Company may be just a paper talk, and the two of them were the ones who were most disappointed.

In 1983, the United States proposed a space-based laser weapon system based on the missile defense plan. The plan clearly proposed to deploy twenty-four superstar satellites in 1,300 kilometers of space. Each satellite will consist of a 30-megawatt chemical laser generator and a ten-meter reflector, and adopt a continuous illumination method. Within two to four seconds, it can destroy ballistic missiles within a range of 4,000 kilometers with the satellite as the center.

Although the Star Wars plan was proposed by Old President Reagan to use military competition to drag down the Soviet economy, in order to protect its own security, the United States is indeed moving in this direction and has not stopped for twenty years.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, all levels of laser satellite systems have been verified.

The "alpha" laser system required for satellites was developed from 1980s and conducted light emission tests in 1989s. By 1994, it had reached the level of megawatts required for actual combat. Since then, the reflector, which undertakes this development plan, has also expanded from four meters in 1989s to 11 meters in 1993.

By 1997, the United States conducted three million megawatt-level ground tests and integrated targeting systems, all meeting the expected design requirements.

A successful laser system can continuously launch two hundred to five hundred seconds, and each satellite can destroy an average of one hundred to two hundred ballistic missiles.

It can be said that the United States' satellite space-based laser system has actually been completed, and it is almost like launching into the sky.

When the research and development was really done, the Americans were not in a hurry. Because by the time their space-based laser system was developed and the Soviet Union had disintegrated, at this moment, there was no country that could directly threaten the existence of the United States.

The weight of each satellite is thirty-five tons, just launching a full set of satellite systems to the sky is a high cost.

Relatively speaking, the United States has promoted its anti-missile bases to the ground by promoting their Patriot missile system, which is more cost-effective.

Besides, the US economy has been on a downward trend over the years. He also felt a little difficult to send out his own pockets to launch dozens of laser satellites.

Therefore, on the one hand, the United States has strengthened the improvement of space-based laser systems and formulated an emergency space-based satellite launch plan. On the other hand, it only paid $1.27 billion to the development company to make a one-half-sized test satellite for actual space verification.

Of course, these actions of the United States cannot be hidden from the world's major powers such as China.

Although intelligence personnel from various countries cannot obtain specific technical details about the specific progress of the United States, they still know what the other party is doing and what level it has reached.

Britain, France, Germany and other countries were indifferent to this.

Although Europe has no longer needed the protection of the United States due to the collapse of the Soviet Union in recent years. At the same time, the frequent conflicts of interest between the two sides have gradually moved away from each other, Europe's main energy is also committed to the unification of the whole of Europe.

Europe has neither the ambition nor the ability to become the center of civilization in the world again.

Russia, because of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin and other countries that had formerly joined the republic, dreamed of getting along with the West in a friendly manner. In addition, the domestic economic situation continued to be chaotic, even if there was a slight dissatisfaction, they were powerless.

Only China is secretly anxious about this.

China's strategic nuclear weapons are less than one-tenth of that of the United States and Russia. They rely on deterrence and make the other side give up the idea of ​​fighting a big war or a full-scale war.

However, after repeated confirmation by the intelligence department, the United States already has space anti-missile capabilities, but it has not been deployed yet.

Then, once the United States does deploy a space laser system, China will have no deterrent force, and Americans will be more unscrupulous and do whatever they want.

Now, he dares to take the blame for the sake of oil and start a war against a sovereign country. So, who can guarantee that there will be no major friction or even conflict between China and the United States in the future due to interests?

What should I do when I reach that time? Will I just retreat?

What should I do if I retreat to the point where I have no choice?

To this end, the military is determined to use the method of three arrows to respond to the United States’ countermeasures: strengthen the penetration capability and strike intensity of ballistic missiles to form nuclear deterrence; vigorously develop anti-satellite means, anti-satellite missiles and ground laser weapons to accelerate the development process; and deploy our anti-missile laser satellite network.

The military has proposed an ambitious plan for the near-Earth space laser system: to form China's space anti-missile system with dozens of giant laser satellites as the center; next to the anti-missile satellite, two or three escort satellites are arranged, and lasers or kinetic weapons are used to protect the anti-missile satellites from being destroyed by the enemy.

The plan is very good, but it was rejected as soon as it was reported. The reason is very simple: no money!

The total amount of the US anti-missile satellite system is 97 billion US dollars. Although the cost of launching a ground rocket in China is half that of the United States, if you want to build a strict space satellite system, the total expenditure will be as high as 50 billion US dollars!

Five billion US dollars, you can take it out even if you grit your teeth.

But China cannot waste its main money on this. At the critical moment when China is moving from weak to strong, there is too much place to invest. It is not daring and cannot use a large amount of money in the research and development of space-based weapons that is obviously not important at this stage.

China's military leaders are very clear-headed and strategic countermeasures can be achieved by relying on more advanced and quieter ocean-going nuclear submarines. The space-based laser system is a costly and long system project, which is difficult to achieve overnight.

I think this is very clear to the United States.

The reason why it insists on establishing a space-based weapon system is likely not just to deal with ground ballistic missiles, but also to dominate space by seizing the commanding heights of space.

In a peaceful era without competition, the United States can spend decades to gradually become practical, cheap, mass-produce, and become more and more advanced.

When other countries begin to march into space, the United States can use its powerful high-tech large-scale production capacity to ensure that it faces rapid layout of space competition and seizes commanding heights. In terms of quantity and quality, it completely overwhelms the other party. As long as its local area is not attacked, the United States can compete in space with any other country in a calm manner, maintain its space hegemony, and form an overwhelming advantage.

Or, use the space weapons arms race to drag the opponent down!

China has not yet had the ability to compete with the United States in space for at least decades.

But when we have economic and technical strength to compete with the other party, the space weapon platform that is already densely populated in space!

The military also understands that this is reality. However, no matter how

You cannot default to the occurrence of this reality.

Because, the United States, which has a space-based weapon platform, will become extremely powerful. It is so powerful that it is terrifying!

By that time, if there is hostility between China and the United States, let alone land-based missile systems, even our ocean-based nuclear submarines will lose their deterrence. As long as the ballistic missile probes and breaks through the atmosphere, it will be intercepted by the US space-based satellite system.

As long as the rockets launching satellites fly together, they will be shot to explode in the air by the US space-based laser weapons.

Just as countries with air superiority since World War II have ensured victory in the war. In decades, countries with space superiority will have the entire world.

If the United States does not break the space monopoly of the United States, all countries on earth will tremble in front of the United States' bayonet in the future.

This is why in addition to the experts from the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, there is also a lieutenant general from the assembly industry. When Director Zhou reported to the upper class yesterday, the assembly industry leaders immediately held an emergency meeting.

The leaders of the assembly unanimously agreed that if the Global Aircraft Plan has the possibility of realization, the military will do its best to support this plan. As long as the space plane is developed successfully, China will immediately become an equal position with the United States in space utilization.

Moreover, the sooner the aerospace plane is developed, the greater the advantage of China.

If the space plane can be made within ten years, then this position will be reversed and China will become an unrivaled space powerhouse. In turn, it will make the United States breathless, but China can make a plan calmly.

However, the results disappointed them.

It seems that Huanyu Company does have plans to develop aerospace planes and is also making technical reserves and efforts in this regard. However, their plans are obviously too advanced and lack the possibility of realization.

Although Director Zhou and General General of the General Staff do not have a good understanding of some technologies, they only need to think a little bit and understand that Huanyu's plan is still in very early stages of research. In order to reduce the weight of the aerospace plane, they actually planned to use ten chips to process all the data, and this idea is completely out of reality.

Modern ordinary fighter jets often have hundreds of chips to help process complex data.

The processors on the space shuttle are thousands of dedicated processors. Ten chips can replace so many processors. What chips are so powerful?

As for the engine, it made the experts who specially invited them laugh.

The combination engine is very bold and geometrically variable, but it also has more demanding requirements for materials and processing technology. The time was rushed at the report and everyone had no time to make accurate judgments. However, according to the experts, using laptop calculations, all existing materials could not withstand such high pressure and ultra-high flame temperature.

The experts who came to attend the presentation gave a preface to Universal's plan: paper airplanes.

That is, this is a space plane that stays on paper.

Director Zhou and the General Staff’s Lieutenant General were very disappointed, very disappointed. But they could not put the disappointment on their faces, and they also tried hard to comfort Xiao Qiang, hoping that Huanyu Company would continue to research and not give up on this project.

There is always a layer of guarantee for the development of Universal Corporation. Although the expert group is not optimistic about Universal Corporation's design, at least one R&D unit is added to engage in the development of aerospace planes. In addition to the national aerospace plane project team, there is another hope. Who said that more than ten years later, with the advancement of basic research and new materials, Universal Corporation cannot come up with a practical aerospace plane?

Not to mention anything else, at least in terms of design ideas, these experts should affirm the idea of ​​Universal Company, which is very innovative.

Besides, the country does not have to pay a penny for the research and development of Universal Company. If it fails, the country will not bear any losses.

On the contrary, if the plan is successful and the country can still enjoy the benefits, why not do such a good thing?

Both of them knew this very well, but they tacitly said nothing, just comforting Xiao Qiang, hoping that he would cheer up. They tried their best to tell him not to be intimidated by difficulties.

At the dining table, Director Zhou and the Lieutenant General were the ones who talked the most.

Director Zhou and the others persuaded each other for a long time, and then they all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Xiao Qiang gradually recovering from normalcy.

So they stopped talking about this topic, but talked about various interesting stories, with the purpose of making Xiao Qiang happy.

The three of them talked and had lunch until after three o'clock in the afternoon. When they said goodbye, Director Zhou repeatedly invited Xiao Qiang to visit the air and air and air-sea joint simulation exercises to be held next week, and threatened that if they didn't go, they would not give him face, etc.

Of course, Xiao Qiang knew that they did this to prevent themselves from being depressed and thus gave up the space flight plan.

He also made a very reluctant look and agreed to Director Zhou's invitation.

Looking at the two people's cars driving out of the door of Huanyu Company, Xiao Qiang lowered his head and smiled, then returned to his expression as deep as water. He slowly walked into Huanyu Building.

The security team members on the upper and lower floors of the conference room were all withdrawn, and a guard post was set up at the entrance and exit of the floor where the conference room was located. Before Xiao Qiang could enter the conference room, he heard the discussion inside.

The expert group who came to listen to the report left, and the researchers of Huanyu Company who had just said nothing were immediately active. They were having a lively discussion on the overall development plan for the spacecraft according to their respective departments.

Xiao Qiang pushed the door and saw that Wang Gong was discussing seriously with members of the fuselage design team at the drawings.

When they saw the boss come in, they stopped talking.

Wang Gong asked anxiously: "Mr. Xiao, Director Zhou and others are gone? What do they mean? Did you say that our design is unrealistic, so we won't continue to develop it?"

Xiao Qiang looked for a chair with a straight face, sat down with expressionless face, and said lightly: "What do you think?"

The researchers in the room looked at his expression and felt something was wrong, and their hearts sank. A researcher said carefully: "Mr. Xiao, why don't we really plan to dismount? We are all ready, but we are just not going to test it out?"

Many people pursed their lips and their expressions were very serious.

The researchers in the room all came from the African base. They participated in the implementation of the utopian plan since they entered the base. Over the past decade, all their efforts have been devoted to this.

If the plan is really rejected, what is the point of their previous research?

As soon as the previous researcher finished speaking, another voice rang out: "They said they would get off the horse and get off the horse! We paid for the research for ourselves! If it really doesn't work, we will go back to Africa. In any case, the utopian plan must continue, and the aerospace plane must be successful!"

"Not bad! That's it! We have done so much work, we must not give up halfway!"

A word caused a lot of waves, and the sound of sound suddenly rose in the conference room, and they all said that the planes could not stop even if they were not allowed to stop.

If you conduct experiments in the desert, you must also develop them successfully.

When they first participated in the utopian program, no one knew whether they could succeed.

But after more than ten years of technical accumulation, as the research conditions are getting better and better, one research has made breakthroughs one by one. The utopian plan is no longer just a fantasy, everyone is full of expectations, hoping that in their lifetime, they will see that the day the plan will be realized.

Let them give up this plan, just like killing them!

Xiao Qiang looked around the researchers present and said softly: "You don't have to stay here..."

With a bang, all the researchers in the conference room stood up, some of them were shocked and angry.

Xiao Qiang reached out to stop their passionate speeches, and the conference room fell into a dead silence. He slowly said: "The company has a secret manufacturing factory in the southwest mountainous area. It is the place where the military secretly manufactures some large precision components. The military sent troops to protect the safety of the manufacturing plant. Within dozens of kilometers, there are vast mountains. I will arrange it when you go there."

He did not tell the truth. Although the expert team rejected the feasibility of the spacecraft of Universal Corporation, the military did not prohibit Universal Corporation from continuing to invest in research. Instead, he hoped that they would increase their investment and achieve results as soon as possible.

Xiao Qiang didn't want to tell the researchers this.

The utopian plan also involves the future of their people. He has no habit of relying on hope and other people. Only by holding his destiny in his own hands can he feel at ease.

He doesn't want to see any accidents happening before the plan succeeds. Therefore, it is safest to isolate the researchers from the outside world.

After the plan is successful, the country will definitely benefit greatly.

But before that, he did not want the country to participate. The airplane plan must be completed independently by Universal Company!

Researchers, look at me. I look at you. Several people opened their mouths and stopped talking.

Xiao Qiang saw their expressions and said Wen Yan: "Don't worry, since I initiated the Utopia Plan, I will never give up. Even if I am the only one in the end, I will carry out the same. Do you have any questions?"

Mr. Wang said with a bitter face: "Mr. Xiao, I understand too. This plan is important, and I personally will never give up. The problem is, the engine we are going to make..." He sighed heavily when he said this.

Xiao Qiang changed his expression and said encouragemently: "Tell me, if you have any problems, leave them to me, I'll complete them for you!"

With his encouragement, Wang Gong stopped sighing and said bluntly: "Mr. Xiao, to be honest, I was still looking forward to the plan being approved by the military. Because the special materials required for the engine are very difficult to produce, it has been several months since we only obtained more than 400 grams of new materials, which is far from enough to make a test engine. In the past, I hoped that I could rely on the power of the country to jointly research and provide the required materials by the mainland special alloy factories, but now..."

He sighed again in embarrassment.

Mr. Wang is not stupid. If he can become the person in charge, he is not only skilled, but also has much more agile mind than those scientific researchers who are devoted to research. In fact, when Xiao Qiang told him not to disclose the details of materials and other details, he roughly guessed Xiao Qiang’s idea, and he did the same.

But he was powerless to do anything about the actual difficulties he faced, so he could only explain them honestly to Xiao Qiang.

Xiao Qiang nodded and whispered: "I have told you this question a long time ago. Leave it to me to handle it, you don't have to worry."

Even if new special materials are handed over to domestic special alloy companies for production, they will establish a set of special refining and processing furnace equipment for this purpose.

This investment is not a small amount.

Moreover, although the materials required for this test are better than some existing materials, as far as the African base is concerned, they will not be used for final use, and can only be considered a transitional product. According to the head of the materials department, Dr. Vasily, this new material can only be said to be barely usable. However, the combined engine produced with this material has a lifespan of no more than one hundred hours, which means that it will be scrapped after taking off or landing in ten times.

According to Dr. Vasily's research progress, he believes that it is entirely possible to come up with a new material that fully meets the requirements and ensures one thousand flight hours within three years.

Therefore, it is completely unprofitable to build a processing plant for a transitional material.

Scientific research itself is a process of repeatedly selecting and eliminating unsuitable technologies and products between various immature technologies. The materials, funds, manpower and material investments that need to be wasted will increase in geometric figures as the research project is complex.

In order to successfully study a research project, thousands of supporting facilities and factories were requested for investment and construction!

This is why many small countries, although they can achieve very good research results in some aspects, are far behind major R&D countries on the whole.

But the same problem can be solved successfully with the support of Xiao Qiang's superpowers.

A combined engine with a diameter of one meter and a length of more than two meters requires only three cubic meters of special materials at best.

Even if the entire nine-meter-long verification machine is made of special materials that cannot be purchased from the market, the various materials required are only tens of days for Xiao Qiang.

But if it is handed over to ordinary R&D units, dozens of new factories will have to be built for these tons of materials to solve countless technical problems.

What’s even more terrifying is that there are many factories here, just disposable products. When new technologies and new materials are developed, many factories will be closed and transferred to production, or they will lose their value completely.

The gap between this is not just about Taoism!

In this world, only Xiao Qiang can support a complete research system alone and accompany it throughout the world. It is not until the research is successful and the product is finalized that he needs to turn around and establish the final production supporting factory.

Compared with normal project research, it only needs to spend one tenth or even one percent of the investment to complete a huge research plan.

If all the equipment invested in the Utopia project, the efforts of researchers, etc. are converted into money, so far, Xiao Qiang's cumulative investment has reached hundreds of billions of dollars!

But his actual investment was only more than seven billion US dollars!

This is what anyone and which R&D group in the world can do?

Hearing that Xiao Qiang took over the materials and took over the materials problem, Mr. Wang sat down although he was full of suspicion.

The researchers from the Aerospace Aircraft Equipment Group discussed for a while. The person in charge said tactfully: "Mr. Xiao, the internal instruments and equipment we need..."

"If you plan a order, I will hand it over to the company for manufacturing. Don't worry about the quality, it is definitely at the aerospace level, it will only be higher than it. It will not be lower than it." Xiao Qiang replied without hesitation.

Xiao Qiang is more confident in electronic components.

I dare not say that all components have the best quality, but Universal Company does its best to produce one of the best quality for each component. And as long as there is a super-quality component, it is equivalent to all components and can achieve the same quality. This is undoubtedly.

He tapped his fingers on the desktop a few times, and said with a smile: "By the way, I'll give you another reassurance. We originally planned to use photoelectric hybrid chips as data processors for airplanes. However, the optical brain laboratory has made very fast recently. I heard that they have made all the optical transistors and diode components. Recently, they are preparing to start circuit assembly. Perhaps, in a few years, you will be able to use full-light processing computers. At that time, billions of calculations and billions of chips will be easy to get."

The researchers in the conference room all took a breath, and some people even covered their chests with their hands, quickly took out the extremely effective heart-saving pill from their pockets and swallowed it into their mouths.

The supercomputers they are using now have made everyone excited. At this moment, I heard that billions of times are not a dream, which is too exciting for them!

Even more exaggeratedly, this is not a supercomputer group, but a chip! One chip can reach a computing speed of billions of times, which is simply terrible!

With such powerful chip support, what else can Universal Corporation not do?

Even the researchers in the headquarters that make Pangu’s world realistic every day may go crazy!

With such a powerful chip, the company's research progress is not like a rocket, and it has left all the research institutions on the earth without a trace?

It turns out that this is the advantage of technological leadership!

Lead one step at a time. Through advanced technology, more advanced technologies are developed. Advanced technologies have shortened the research process and gained time advantages again!

One trick, you can eat it all the time!

It was precisely with Xiao Qiang's superpower that Universal Company caught up with the world's top technical level step by step and stood out, and finally left them behind, and even if they were not able to catch up.

The researchers worked hard to digest this information, gathered into piles, and buzzed about what kind of promoting effects this new computer chip would bring to their research. Although everyone knows that within a few years, they will not see the emergence of finished products, but they are more confident in the future.

Xiao Qiang smiled and listened to their excited discussion, but did not participate.

He thought silently in his heart that next week, he would also watch the military's joint exercises. What kind of mood and expression should he use to face the "comfort" of Director Zhou and the others?

In the past few years, it has been a hurdle. If you overcome this hurdle, there will be a smooth road ahead without any obstacles.

But these years will be the most difficult years, especially after the successful development of the aerospace plane. What kind of reaction will they react at home, abroad, and the United States? Everything is still unknown...

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I found that as the protagonist's influence grew, the consequences of the events he participated in became more and more serious, and the world in the book became unrecognizable. In the past two days, I re-read the previous chapter and took a lot of notes. After all, I still confused myself.

After thinking about it, I can only remove other influences and briefly summarize them with the examples of China and the United States:

United States: 1. Due to China's rise, large-scale labor-intensive industries have almost lost their foothold. Moreover, because Universal transfers technology, domestic electronic manufacturers do not have to pay high patent fees. Under its competition, the proportion of the United States in the electronics industry is also decreasing. In high-end industries, facing tripartite blows from Universal, Europe and Japan, the market has shrunk sharply.

2 The shaken status of the US central bank has restricted its means of making money through the US dollar. However, the US financial market is still the favorite of all investors, so its influence is still the best in the world.

3. Cultural influence was impacted by Eurasian Film and was encircled and blocked worldwide. Although everyone still believes that the United States is the world's strongest country, its scope of influence should be only about half of the reality.

4. In arms sales, because of the digital equipment of Universal Company, the sales of individual equipment in the United States were greatly affected. In the two Gulf Wars, the United States' Patriot missiles did not play a strong role, so the sales of arms dealers will definitely encounter great resistance. The market share they lost should account for about two-thirds of the reality. In Iraq, the F16 was also ineffective in facing interference from the entire frequency band, so its market was hit by China's Fc-1 and its sales volume also dropped sharply.

5 The military strength is still the same as in reality, and it is the only one who is strong and not affected by the protagonist. However, the evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the US military by countries around the world should be about 20% lower than that in reality.

China: 1. Due to the influence of the protagonist and continuous technical support, the promotion of exports through influence should have reached a level similar to that of now in 2002.

2 Domestic electronic companies are fully supported by technical support, industrial upgrading, and are extremely competitive in mid- and low-end products. At the same time, due to the technical authorization of Universal Company, there is no need to pay patent fees to foreign countries, so they are more competitive in product prices and unit profits are higher than reality.

3 Foreign capital mainly invests in labor-intensive industries, and domestic private enterprises have emerged in large numbers from small-scale labor-intensive industries to knowledge-intensive industries. The proportion of non-state-owned economies (including the protagonist's companies) has reached more than 60%.

4 Because the protagonist company and income alliance use Chinese standards, the overall profit level is about 30% higher than in reality. The country has a large amount of income through taxation, and various national investments should be higher than that now.

5 Military strength should be equivalent to the present, but in terms of high-end and sophisticated weapons, there should be a big gap from the United States. The army's equipment has almost reached a level comparable to that of the US military, and its combat effectiveness is even higher than that of the US military. The air force and the navy are far apart, and basically they can only be used for local defense and cannot go abroad.

6. Technology level: Due to the rapid rise of China's competitive level, the impact of scientific and technological research in the early stages of reform has been minimized. Therefore, in basic research, China's dominant position should be further strengthened. In terms of high-tech, with the help of the Universal Supercomputer, the gap between the world is about five years. However, in terms of cutting-edge technology, China still has a large gap, about seven or eight years.
Chapter completed!