Great Power Technology

Compared with Nandao's rapid response in public opinion, the U.S. side's reaction to this nuclear power engine test was much duller - after all, what they said was what their ancestors had done.

In the eyes of most Ugly people, China's nuclear-powered engines this time are just their leftover toys. Even if there is a great improvement, even if the thrust reaches 120 tons, so what?

Potential nuclear contamination is always a red line that cannot be crossed. If China insists on testing the Golden Crow, the international community is likely to regard it as an act of declaring nuclear war.

As for the declaration of war against all countries in the world, even if China now joins forces, or even if China and Mao Xiong join forces, it is impossible to escape unscathed.

Therefore, both the ordinary people and the official high-level officials are looking forward to the test run, and the public opinion department that has been active has not participated in it, because they know very well that in the face of RSA decryption technology, all of them are based on "suddenly" "Sex" will become a complete joke.

However, this does not mean that everyone’s views are the same. Among high-level people, there are still some people and organizations who have expressed concerns about this engine. The most typical one is the so-called "Wartime Strategic Command". profit organization.

At this time, Berkeley National Laboratory, headquarters of the Healy Organization.

Aldo was gathering in the conference room with the senior staff of the Book Title Organization. They had just finished discussing the latest progress of the AQT project, and what was going on at this time was an informal discussion about nuclear power engines.

"Judging from the data released by the other party, apart from the upgrades in the nuclear reactor core and engine three-rotor structure, this engine is actually not much different in essence from the HTRE-3 engine on our previous NB-36H. "

"Whether it is in terms of principles, technical details or material use, it can basically be said to be highly synchronized with us."

"If necessary, we can actually restart the ANP project. Based on our current technical strength, our finished products will not necessarily be worse than theirs."

The so-called ANP project is the "Aircraft Nuclear Energy Propulsion Project". This is an extremely crazy research launched by the U.S. in 1946, and the result of the project is the NB-36H aircraft.

This engine used a direct air intake design. The air inlet was directly connected to the nuclear reactor core. The air was directly heated in the reactor and then discharged from the nozzle of the turbofan engine. The entire engine was like a flying nuclear radiation bomb. The airspace over which sprinklers fly is filled with radiation-contaminated dust.

But it was such an achievement that the U.S. side conducted dozens of aerial trials at that time, and it was not until the 1960s that the project was finally terminated.

This project brought huge technological accumulation to Chou Country. Even if Lao Xiong later came up with a Tu-119 that could operate stably, it was still not enough in front of the NB-36H.

One is a turbofan engine and the other is a turboprop engine. The scalability prospects of the two are not even of the same order of magnitude.

After hearing the professional introduction, Aldo nodded slightly, and then asked:

"Sly, from your point of view, is it necessary for us to restart such an engine plan?"

The man named Sly thought carefully for a moment and replied:

"I think it's unnecessary, mainly for three reasons."

"The first point is the issue of nuclear radiation pollution that we have discussed before. This problem cannot be circumvented and is extremely difficult to solve. As long as it cannot be solved, it is absolutely impossible for the international community to allow such a plane to fly into the sky."

"The second point is that the current development of intercontinental missile technology has been extremely mature, and the additional deterrent power of ultra-long-range, long-endurance bombers has been greatly reduced. It is not worth paying such a cost."

"The third point is that the other party has already established the project before us and achieved results. If we follow them in symmetrical competition, we are likely to fall into a situation of continued lagging behind, which is extremely detrimental to us."

"Their Golden Crow engine is the aircraft carrier of the new air age. As long as it exists, the advantage will be overwhelming. Aldo, think about it, when we used aircraft carriers to dominate the sea, they did not immediately develop aircraft carriers symmetrically. Instead, we built missiles and submarines first, and this asymmetric strategy is exactly what we need now."

After hearing what he said, Aldo frowned, roughly put out the cigar in the ashtray in front of him, and then continued to ask:

"Of the three questions you mentioned, I think only the third point is credible."

"The issue of pollution is nothing more than a matter of public opinion. When they developed nuclear weapons despite our opposition, they were regarded as declaring war. But what happened in the end? Did we stop them? No, right?"

"Don't talk about them. We haven't even been able to solve the nuclear issue in the northern peninsula. The reality is that as long as they want to fly, no one can stop them."

"Second question, intercontinental nuclear missiles are the ultimate deterrent, and long-range bombers are the secondary deterrent. We cannot threaten others to drop nuclear bombs on their homes at every turn, but our B2s do often fly over their airspace - —The Golden Crow plays this role, and it is an enhanced version."

"Only the third point, I think, is reality."

"We are already lagging behind. We cannot catch up, but must find ways to overtake in corners - just like what we are doing now in the quantum field."

After a pause, he continued to ask:

"So, do you have an asymmetric strategy for it?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the conference room fell into silence.

In fact, when the Nantianmen project was initially announced, the Chou State did formulate a series of symmetrical and asymmetric competition plans for this project. Among them, the one actually approved was the Austrian Olympic Games known as the "Chou State Version of Nantianmen". Project Limpis, but unfortunately there has been a shortage of funds, and this project has only had a name from beginning to end.

Theoretical research has almost come to a standstill after the collapse of the "Navigator" project, not a single application development has been done, and publicity has been almost nonexistent. Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible to want this group of people to temporarily propose an asymmetric competition strategy. It can be said to be a fantasy.

"We can discuss the project after the meeting. In fact, space-based laser weapons are a good way to restrain us. However, the other party took action before us."

"If you say so, Starlink is a better way, isn't it being beaten to the brink of death? We should now abandon the conventional ideas in our minds and think about how to make breakthrough and groundbreaking plan."

Aldo interrupted the other party's speech without politeness. He was really tired of hearing the argument that "the other party already has the advantage."

Don’t you know this yet? Do we still need to be reminded repeatedly by others?

What a joke.

Seeing Aldo's disdainful expression, Sly gritted his teeth and said:

"If we want to use this idea, then we might as well work backwards from a distance. Regardless of the feasibility of technology, funding, resources, and other factors, we can directly discuss how to prevent the opponent's aircraft from entering the airspace. "

"You can bring up any idea - even if it's science fiction."

After hearing this, Aldo finally nodded with satisfaction.

This is the attitude that scientists in this country should have. After all, they are now in the national laboratory that has mastered the most cutting-edge results on the planet. If they still stick to the technology that has been realized, what is the point? Woolen cloth?

Ever since, in the following time, a wild discussion slowly became heated.

In this discussion, one after another technological and even science fiction directions were proposed, including force field shields, antigravity engines, antimatter minefields, space weapons, helium flash weapons, reverse radiation conversion effects, etc.

Even with the most advanced technological vision of this laboratory, most of these technologies are not achievable in the short term.

However, from these unachievable technologies, they did extract corresponding degradation solutions.

For example, the Barsad ramjet engine corresponds to the anti-gravity engine, the standing high-altitude dense radar network corresponds to the anti-matter minefield, and the high-energy particle flow weapon corresponds to the helium flash weapon.

These weapons generally still have huge technical difficulties, but at least they all conform to the underlying scientific logic of mankind at this stage.

In other words, if they are developed at all costs, it is very likely that they will be realized at some point in the future.

Aldo is very satisfied with the result. What he wants is not an immediately executable result, but a relatively credible direction.

As for issues that others were generally worried about, such as "would it be too science fiction" and "would it be feasible?", he had not considered it at all.

Isn’t the B2 bomber, which appeared decades ago, not science fiction?

However, in the context of that fierce confrontation, my country still achieved such a breakthrough.

To him, the current situation is just another history repeating itself.

This is a huge challenge and a huge opportunity. As long as we grasp this opportunity, our country will once again return to the top of the world after going through a difficult period.

However, what our side needs to do now is to hold off the other side as much as possible.

Thinking of this, he said:

"Everyone, you have just come up with many genius ideas. Look, I have recorded these ideas one by one."

"One day in the future, we will implement them one by one."

"But now we still need some time."

"So, we have to do something that seems stupid but will work."

"For example, we need to find ways to support the South Island in some aspects so that they can delay it longer."

Before he could finish his words, a participant with the same military rank as him raised his hand and interrupted:

"But we have agreed not to get involved in this matter, if we regret it"

Aldo smiled and replied:

"I didn't say we should do it ourselves."