Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 291 >

“This is the next-generation fighter we are studying.”

The weapon currently deployed by the Russian Army is a piece of equipment that would be like a MIG-21 based on its original history. Actually, I’m not even sure about that.

Considering that the U.S. military has not yet been able to deploy a phantom frivolous thing and is at the level of flying a saber, it is no exaggeration to say that the performance of individual aircraft is far superior to us.

However, rest is a sin from the perspective of knowing the paradigm of air warfare in the future.

Do you know what the Red Queen effect is? There is a story told by the Red Queen in the story of Alice in Wonderland.

A strange world where you have to stop if you want to go back and go forward if you want to stand there.

This also applies to weapons.

there is no perfect You can approach it, but you can’t catch up with it.

Therefore, it is natural to start research in advance.

A fighter that will be developed in earnest in about 10 years, and therefore the design being made now is also based on technologies that are expected to be commercialized within 10 years.

That is, a kind of technical empirical paper plan…..? Well, it was a preemptive measure to compete and mass-produce good designs for a simple technology demonstration, so it was difficult to judge with just one thing.

“This new aircraft that we are researching mainly focuses on close combat, but it has excellent expandability and satisfies the fact that it is easy to mount electronic equipment and new weapons.”

This is the ROC I was given, and it was the design idea of the F-16 or MIG-29 in its original history.

Air-to-air missile universalism is still premature, but it is important to be able to perform BVR in the long term and to be able to install various new radars and electronic equipment.

Above all, if anything happens in the middle, you may have to spit this guy for quite a while, so it would be nice if the design idea was advanced.

But I was expecting a MIG-29 or an F-16, so why do I have a blueprint for the first single-engine fighter I’ve ever seen?

“This double delta wing wing structure is designed to compensate for the flight shortcomings of the Americans identified by Ohrana.”

Although structurally strong and advantageous for high-speed flight, it is disadvantageous at subsonic speeds and poor maneuverability.

“Americans tend to focus only on high-speed performance and ignore maneuverability, but in consideration of ground support, and even for aircraft stability, low-altitude flight performance and maneuverability should not be completely neglected, theoretically in 10 years. The key is that if an appropriate engine is developed according to the technology, stable supersonic cruise is possible.

That’s all I could understand so far. After that, all I heard was that it was planned to have a cruising distance of several thousand kilometers and a maximum speed of Mach 2.

After all, I should have sent the Air Force Chief of Staff rather than me. But come to think of it, he was already at the prototype air-to-air missile test site, damn it.

The Air Force is probably the biggest investment in the Russian Empire right now. The reason was simple.

In the army, there are few countries that can climb even if they develop it while maintaining a proper pace anyway. Of course, that doesn’t mean the Army isn’t researching new equipment.

The navy is difficult to use because of Russia’s territorial structure anyway. I don’t know if it subcontracts the navy to the members of the Joint Defense Treaty. So most of the research is being invested in nuclear submarines.

Therefore, the investment in essential military service and air force had to be the top priority while still unable to surely overwhelm the enemy. That is why we are doing this by bringing together technical staff from all the members of the Joint Defense Treaty.

Nuclear weapons are sufficient to enable mutually assured destruction. No more needed in the first place. If we had to ask further, would we need more nuclear warheads for the missile defense system? It is several times better to spend that budget on expanding social infrastructure rather than making something that doesn’t cost a penny or two.

“Domestic politics is also a problem…”

It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no way that ‘my’ power will be shaken at the moment, but it does not mean that there are no power games within the empire.

Within the Air Force, there were the Air and Air Defense Forces, and within the Air Force, the Fighters and Bombers.

Of course, there are so many different things that it cannot be expressed in a simplified way in this way, but even in this project alone, the pushing forces were different.

Therefore, I have no choice but to intervene myself, unless I want to see these national key projects get entangled in interests.

‘I did quite a bit of sweeping during the purge period.’

This land is vast, and the human habitation is similar. Like the habitual corruption within the bureaucracy, or a power game between factions. The three major connections in the world, such as blood ties, ties, and ties. whatever happened

‘If that was the kind of solution, wouldn’t that be possible only when artificial intelligence dominates the world?’

After thinking about the e-government program, ‘Ogas’ for a moment, I shook my head. It’s too early for technology right now, and it won’t be until the 1990s that even the foundation will be firmly established.

‘If it’s the 90’s…’

I’m also close to looking 100 years old, although of course I’m pretty old. Still, if I’m 100 years old, I’ll probably be quite old.

In fact, I don’t think I’ll ever live to 100.

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The expansionists in the United States were almost wiped out.

But the rise of isolationists has not diminished US involvement abroad.

Of course, in the US, this is not ‘overseas’.

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＜Anonymous high-ranking State Department official: The United States is the head of the household responsible for everyone in the new continent, and the countries in the new continent that they want should be accepted by the Federation>

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My nose breaks when I stick my head out abroad for nothing, but isn’t the ‘new continent’ in a big category overseas?

It is absolutely, absolutely not, devouring Canada and Mexico at the end of World War II, cooking the Caribbean countries through a ‘democratic’ process, and wreaking havoc on South American countries.

As a result of mandated rule, Canada made the decision to abandon vain loyalty to the defeated country’s royal family and join the federation in pursuit of liberal democracy. They had no choice but to protect the canal, and the Caribbean countries united around the United States to break the domestic and international isolation, and they hoped to be incorporated into the United States in the long term through this exchange.

South American countries did not join the United States, but as soon as the US military government ended, national chaos only increased. Tackling here, HOXY…… Are you a redneck?

The New Deal was clearly a precedent for the government’s intervention in the market, but in fact, the New Deal was not a policy that favored workers’ convenience.

The New Deal was close to first aid and ventilator attachment for companies performed during the Great Depression, and workers were only able to work if the company survived, and there was no need to care about welfare or minimum wage for workers in the first place. On the contrary, in some ways the Russian Empire could have been better than the United States.

Even the provision of jobs that were helpful to the workers was driven only from a thoroughly rational point of view, that they must work and earn money in order to secure purchasing power and only then to survive.

In other words, it could be said that Americans still did not deviate from the ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fortunately, the Russian Empire is also in favor of the American ideology of free trade, ‘if you pay only taxes and fill out detailed documents on what to buy, how much, and when’, as long as you are in favor of the American ideology of free trade.

Even though they are in a relationship that checks each other right now, don’t they buy and sell weapons to each other?

In the meantime, there were several episodes, such as a large-scale lawsuit that Springfield Jo Byeong-chang infringed FN’s patent right. Anyway, checking Russia and being hostile to Russia are different stories.

Armament reinforcement was something to be done just in case.

In short, the United States did not regard Russia as a competitor to face off against, even if it was grievous.

This was also true of Russia. To be precise, it was an opponent he did not want to face head-on ‘preferably’.

Therefore, according to their gentleman’s agreement, they were preferentially devouring the world they had divided.

And, of course, there were those who were very dear to it.

***

England, London.

The bell rang, signaling the end of the coronation, and cheers erupted.

“Long live the United Kingdom of Great Britain and France!”

“Long live His Majesty George VI!”

The combination of two countries, water and oil, that seemed to never be able to mix.

There are several cases where water and oil can be miscible.

Water and oil can be made into a mixture by adding a surfactant such as soap or using ultrasonic waves to break the surface tension and mix the two.

And the threat that made the surface tension of the water of England and the oil of France to be broken existed both in the East and beyond the Atlantic Ocean.

“In these difficult times, I have come to accept this heavy burden. Those who still live in this country are living on the rationing system and are clearly isolated internationally. The so-called two great empires are forcing us all to choose. Give in, or resist, and the most painful test awaits us. Years of struggle and suffering await us. If you ask us what our goal is, we do not give in. In other words, victory. At any cost, no matter how oppressed we may be, no matter how rough the road may be, we will not weaken or fail. We need more than courage, we need more than patience.”

What can he say to those who have lost everything and lost their families?

But the citizens of both countries shouted.

I’d rather fight than give in.

Rather than surrender to America, to surrender to Russia, I would stand and die.

‘Is that so?’

No, it might just be that way. perhaps.

‘France not great is not France!’

‘The sun will never set on the British Empire!’

The people of the two countries shouted that, and resolved to fight a war that should only be hoped for without gunfire.

‘May this not return to regret.’

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May no one else be compelled to make sacrifices in the name of the motherland.