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Chapter 236: The An-225 is a kid in front of it!

With the landing of the Sky Cube, the entire air force base was in an uproar.

Ground crew, pilots, and leaders at all levels ran to the hangar to observe.

Especially after using mechanical arms to prop itself up and make a crawling movement similar to a spider robot, the originally heated atmosphere of the scene was directly frozen, as if time-stopping magic had been cast!

"It can actually crawl?"

"Is this still an aircraft?"

"In flight mode, the mechanical arms are hidden inside the cabin?"

"This is just like Transformers!"

The onlookers discussed animatedly.

After all, in the past two years, the country has begun to lay out and venture into the future low-altitude flight economy. Many large drone manufacturers, including some car manufacturers, have begun to set foot in this field.

The electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, known as 'flying cars,' has been played with by eVTOL manufacturers such as Geely's Wofei Changkong and XPeng Huitian.

The idea of stuffing a four-rotor drone into a car, flying a car that runs on the ground into the air, has long gone from science fiction to reality.

However, most of the land-based aircraft carrier flying cars created by XPeng Huitian rely on the wheeled structure of the car to operate.

On the market, there has never been an aircraft that can 'grow legs' and run around like the cube in front of them.

One is wheeled movement, and the other is bionic foot movement.

The difference in technical difficulty between the two is obvious to even a layman.

What's more, this cube aircraft comes with an electric jet engine.

After landing, once the engine is turned off, the noise of the entire aircraft is as quiet as a new energy vehicle running on the road.

The technological content here is not just three or four stories high in front of these traditional aircraft practitioners, but a proper black technology!

Of course, when Chen Jue first made an emergency landing at this air force base, he was a little uneasy.

After all, this was the first time he had encountered such a confidential unit.

However, looking at the crowd of onlookers displayed in the panoramic camera and the desire, expectation, and curiosity on their faces, Chen Jue grinned, feeling that he had completely shown off this time.

"Calm down, I'm still a Steve with a cheat, there's nothing to panic about," Chen Jue thought to himself.

As a hidden hatch opened on the side of the Sky Cube, a group of people walked out of the cabin.

At this time, several base leaders in uniforms came over to salute and talked with Chen Jue and others.

"Comrade, is this aircraft independently developed by your company? Can you give us a detailed introduction?" Senior Colonel Wu Chunfeng's eyes were rolling, and he glanced into the cabin from time to time.

Because just after this mysterious aircraft opened the hatch, he discovered through the cabin passage that the internal space of this thing seemed to be very large.

It is not smaller than traditional medium and large transport aircraft.

If the flight parameters and the performance data of the aircraft are sufficient, he even wants to 'convert' this private aircraft for military use.

Because the Chinese military has always regarded the ability to project medium and long distances as an important part of making up for historical debts.

Even though the 'Yun-20,' represented by Kunpeng, has been put into use in large quantities in recent years, the maximum load of the Yun-20 is only 66 tons, and carrying a maximum of 100 soldiers at a time has always been a weak point for the military.

After all, the old Americans have the 'C-5 Galaxy transport aircraft' with a load of 131 tons, which can pull 200 people at a time.

Including the Great Goose, it also inherited the An-124 and An-225 left by the Soviet Union, which are even more leaders in the field of large transport aircraft, even more heaven-defying than the old American Galaxy transport aircraft.

Therefore, when Wu Dachao and others saw the internal space of this Sky Cube, they could realize the strategic importance of this thing without thinking too much!

When Chen Jue saw these military leaders looking around one by one, with a 'thirsty for talents' expression, he immediately realized that a big business was coming.

So he led everyone into the cabin of the Sky Cube for a tour.

"Leaders, the Sky Cube is a multi-functional vector manned aircraft jointly developed by our Cube Group and Juneyao Airlines. The aircraft is purely electric-powered and equipped with 21 'Cube Pioneer' electric injection engines and 10 tons of Cube graphene lithium batteries."

"The maximum take-off load of a single aircraft is 200 tons, and the maximum cruising speed is Mach 2.2. The maximum range is currently estimated to be around 9,320 kilometers because only simulated flights have been carried out in the workshop," Chen Jue said truthfully, holding the parameters obtained during the test flight.

Just after reporting these key parameters.

All the base leaders who entered the cabin stiffened, as if they had seen a ghost!

"What did you say?"

"Effective load of 200 tons? How is that possible!"

"A manned aircraft that can cruise at supersonic speeds?"

"Pure electric drive! This aircraft is actually purely electric-powered?!"

"Graphene lithium battery? Is it a solid-state battery? Isn't this thing still in the laboratory stage? It's actually been mass-produced?"

The base leaders collectively exploded.

Because the performance parameters of this aircraft are too scary!

Including the leading Wu Dachao, his eyes kept looking at the simple but unusually ordinary cabin.

Because in his visual observation, the inside of this cube aircraft, just the cabin alone, is as high as 3 stories.

If you don't put any seats or equipment inside, it can hold at least 3 or 400 people.

If it can really reach the effective load of 200 tons mentioned by the chairman of this Cube Group, then the load capacity of this mysterious aircraft will be far ahead in the world and dominate the market.

After all, the last An-225 super-large transport aircraft in the world, which claimed to be able to carry 250 tons and was developed by the Antonov Design Bureau during the Soviet era, was completely destroyed on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield two years ago.

Even if the Great Russia itself wants to archaeologically replicate it, it cannot replicate it with its current industrial capabilities.

"Uh... 200 tons is still a conservative estimate."

"If you don't consider energy consumption and range, it's actually no problem to put a few more tons of batteries in and pull three or four hundred tons," Chen Jue said a little weakly, scratching his head.

As soon as these flirty words came out, these base leaders who had entered the cabin could no longer sit still!

Wu Dachao asked: "This... can the Sky Cube still fly now?"

Chen Jue nodded: "Yes, the battery still has 90% power."

"Then what are you waiting for! Immediately conduct a low-altitude manned test flight!"

The leading Wu Dachao looked excited and shouted for a signal soldier to run out of the cabin and issue orders to several teams of ground crew and soldiers lined up outside.

His meaning is very simple.

Leave the high-tech stuff to professional researchers to figure out.

They, the old rough guys at the base, don't care about so many details.

Whether it has a load of several hundred tons or not, they can immediately measure it on the spot by stuffing people and things in.

So, in just a few minutes, the originally empty Sky Cube cabin was filled with more than 200 flat-headed lads with live ammunition.

Listening to the urging of the base leaders in their ears, Chen Jue pressed the start button of the Sky Cube with a confused look.

As the 4 electric injection engines at the bottom started, the Sky Cube, which was originally parked in the hangar, rose again.

It hovered in the air more than 3 meters above the ground in an extremely stable posture.

This scene not only made Wu Dachao and others excited and tearful, but also caused a team of base air force observers outside to erupt in enthusiastic cheers: "Wuhu ~ Take off!"