The military-industrial scientific research system of the academic master.

after one day.

On the morning of September 9th, Beijing time, the United States held its first official press conference regarding the attack two days ago, and for the first time ever, directly disclosed the internal investigation report of the intelligence department.

Compared to the previous life, it is about 12 hours earlier.

The results of the investigation naturally point directly to al-Qaeda and Awuhan, which provided shelter to its leader.

President Bush also made a very strong and meaningful speech earlier, saying that "our military is extremely powerful and ready to go" and "law enforcement agencies will do their utmost to bring the murderer to justice" and so on.

When this press conference was held, Chang Haonan was in his own office at the Aviation Power Group, flipping through a meeting document written in both Chinese and French.

Lin Zuoming brought it back from France.

The two were discussing the specific research and development plan of the "Falcon Z" business jet project.

The latter was waiting for Chang Haonan to finish reading the meeting memorandum, and was so bored that he turned on the TV in the corner of the office.

There happened to be voices reporting on the press conference coming from inside.

The content mentioned in the news was almost identical to what Fu Youquan revealed the day before.

Therefore, Chang Haonan didn't actually pay too much attention to this.

But for Lin Zuoming, who had just returned to China and was even worried for more than ten hours on the plane, it still felt quite fresh.

"Boss Chang, from the time this happened till now, at most..."

He raised his hand to check his watch before continuing:

"In just 40 hours, they were able to come up with such a detailed investigation report?"

"40 hours is not a short time."

Chang Haonan was also having a headache due to the densely packed characters on the meeting minutes, so he looked up and prepared to change the topic to a lighter one:

"Just think about it, if something like this happened suddenly, the whole country would be in a panic, and even the U.S. stock market and the U.S. dollar exchange rate would plummet."

"Whether it is for the purpose of appeasing public sentiment or boosting investment confidence, a statement must be made as quickly as possible."

"It is now the evening of the 13th local time. If we wait until tomorrow morning when the exchange opens, the losses will be even greater."

In Chang Haonan's impression, after such an unprecedented disaster, thanks to the relatively quick and resolute handling of the situation, the support rate of the Elephant Party even increased a lot.

This shows that at least from a domestic perspective, the small bush’s response strategy is still fine.

"But can such a big case really be investigated in less than two days?"

Lin Zuoming obviously still didn't quite believe it:

"Before I returned to China, I heard many people in France say that they suspected that this was directed and acted by the Americans. I didn't quite believe it at first, but this..."

"It doesn't feel like it's completely impossible..."

He was a complete outsider to the attack and had no special channels to obtain information.

The advantage is that you can make random guesses like the spectators without any psychological burden.

But Chang Haonan can't do that.

"On the one hand, when things have developed to this point, it doesn't really matter whether the evidence is true or false."

He shook his head and replied:

"The key is to find a person or force that everyone can agree on to take the blame in order to calm public anger."

"Besides, based on my personal judgment, these things should indeed be true."

After hearing Chang Haonan's decisive judgment, Lin Zuoming's thoughts obviously began to waver.

But not much.

"Why didn't they come earlier..."

The latter did not finish the question, but the meaning was actually very clear -

What were you doing earlier?

"How should I put it... The sources of intelligence information are too complicated. We receive a lot of contradictory and even self-contradictory information every moment. It is indeed too complicated to make accurate judgments in advance."

Chang Haonan picked up the memo again and said as he turned the pages:

"However, now that it has happened, it will be much easier to look back and find relevant evidence from a hindsight perspective."

"Take the topic I'm researching as an example. This is equivalent to a process of data dimensionality reduction. It directly reduces high-dimensional data to two dimensions. Computers cannot directly analyze it, but the patterns can be discovered by the naked eye and human brain..."

Lin Zuoming had an expression of being unable to hold back his emotions, thinking that it would be better if you didn't give this example, but he didn't want to offend Chang Haonan, so he was stuck for a moment, not knowing from which angle to continue the topic.

Fortunately, Chang Haonan has turned his attention back to the document in front of him:

"Mr. Lin."

After about ten minutes, Chang Haonan finally finished reading the last page and raised his head again:

"I have no objection to most of the content of the meeting, except..."

Chang Haonan turned the document back to the front and pointed to the content on a certain page:

“In addition to co-developing the engine with Snecma, I hope to also be responsible for the development of the engine nacelle.”

Lin Zuoming took it and looked at it again and again, then nodded:

"I will raise this request with the other three partners at the next R&D meeting."

"but……"

He touched his chin and hesitated for a moment, but soon spoke again:

"Boss Chang, the engine nacelle should be part of the aircraft design... This time we are cooperating with the French, but the aviation industry is not involved... Or are you going to do it yourself..."

Because the company was originally divided according to business, Chang Haonan is the only one in the entire Aviation Power Group who has experience in overall aircraft design.

"It can't be considered as personally..."

Chang Haonan waved his hand:

"I have two good talents in my laboratory. I am going to find an opportunity to train them."

Hearing this, Lin Zuoming's eyes widened:

"This……"

What he wanted to say was, isn't it a bit too bold to let students directly handle such a major project?

However, the words were stuck in my throat, I couldn't ask them out loud -

Logically speaking, it is indeed a bit inappropriate to ask this kind of question to Chang Haonan, who participated in the 83 Project during his undergraduate thesis stage.

But from a rational point of view, Lin Zuoming felt that it was unlikely that a second Chang Haonan would appear.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lin."

Chang Haonan could naturally see what the other party was worried about:

"Although I won't be in charge of the design myself, after all, it's my student, so I will definitely keep a close eye on it..."

In fact, Wang Jie and Qin Haiyang, the new doctoral students he recruited this year, both majored in mechanical engineering.

However, in 2001, the focus of aerodynamic optimization was still on key areas such as the wing and fuselage, and there was no time to pay attention to details such as the engine pod.

Therefore, the focus of the pod design is to reduce weight and resistance as much as possible while ensuring that strength is met, and it would be best if some sound-absorbing and noise-reducing functions can also be achieved.

These are exactly related to the research directions of Wang Qin and others.

"Ugh……"

Seeing that Chang Haonan had clearly stated that he would cover the bottom, Lin Zuoming's worries were alleviated a lot, and he sighed quietly:

"The attitude of your sect towards students is truly enviable..."

"I heard that Academician Du also recommended you, Mr. Chang, to the 83 Project despite all objections."

"..."

Seeing the somewhat emo Lin Zuoming, Chang Haonan could only respond with a joke:

"Mr. Lin, I haven't decided on the number of students for next year yet. If you're interested, I don't mind recruiting an older doctoral student..."

Lin Zuoming didn't understand what was going on at first. He was stunned for about half a second before he realized that the "older doctoral student" the other party was referring to was himself:

"You kid still want to take advantage of me..."

"From now on, we can talk about our own things. I will continue to call you Mr. Lin, and you can call me teacher..."

"Go! Go! Go……"

For a moment, the office was filled with a happy atmosphere...

……

The plot of the next half month was almost exactly as Chang Haonan expected.

In other words, because the United States in this timeline is more eager to re-prove its military strength, actions in all aspects are even faster than in the previous life.

Three days after the attacker was officially identified and the ultimatum was issued, on September 9, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld officially announced that since Awhan refused to hand over the suspect who planned the attack, the US military would launch Operation Infinite Justice to combat terrorist forces and their protectors.

On September 9, in order to avoid sensitive religious terms, the code name of the operation was changed to "Operation Truth", but almost at the same time as the news was disclosed, it was finally confirmed as "Operation Enduring Freedom".

On the same day, the United States reached a secret agreement with China and the Collective Security Treaty Organization to use five specific airports in Central Asia and East Asia to transport personnel and logistical supplies that do not involve combat equipment for Operation Enduring Freedom.

In exchange, the former will make concessions in a number of areas including nuclear arms control, maritime rights development, and high-end technological cooperation.

Four days later, on September 4, the Security Council approved the authorization for Operation Enduring Freedom.

At the same time, the first batch of logistical materials began to be transferred from the United States and many European countries to the five previously arranged airports...

Finally, after a week of intensive preparation.

2001 10 Month 2 Day.

5 days earlier than the previous life.

With the first F15E dropping two GBU16 laser-guided bombs on a military camp outside Kabul, Operation Enduring Freedom finally officially kicked off.