"THAAD will be implemented, may the situation change drastically?"
"The situation is not good. The three U.S. aircraft carrier formations may have arrived in the waters near the Eastern Pacific. What do they intend to do?"
"USD 4.6 billion! The largest arms sales order in the past decade, the targets may include F-16 and M1A2 tanks!"
"Statement: If THAAD is implemented, we will take all necessary means to ensure sovereignty and territorial integrity."
After the news that THAAD was about to be launched, public opinion abounded.
All kinds of credible or unreliable news are flying all over the sky, and there are even rumors that the Second Artillery Group has begun to deliver short- and medium-range ballistic missiles to the region.
Of course, the source of this news cannot be an official leak. It is obvious that this is a smoke bomb deliberately released by the opponent.
But what is difficult is that the Second Artillery Group is indeed conducting some railway dispatching, and these dispatches have inevitably fallen into a "semi-public" state.
As a result, public opinion became more and more tense, and the atmosphere of war gradually filled the air.
In such an atmosphere, everyone is looking forward to a final response.
But for the officials, what kind of attitude to show is also a difficult decision.
In the office, Li Xiang looked at Chen Nian opposite and said with a little helplessness:
"The beauty is really shameless. Using the same method once is not enough, she has to do it two or three times."
"But the key is, it still works every time."
"This trick will be used all over the world. Our own anti-missile system has also matured. When the time comes, we will also sell it to South America and Cuba. It will disgust them."
"Different."
Chen Nian shook his head and replied:
"The reason why they can threaten us with THAAD is because this system was originally prepared for the 'final battle' and a nuclear war."
"By being able to deploy THAAD around us, they can intercept strategic missiles in the early stages of launch, greatly reducing our nuclear strike and nuclear counterattack capabilities."
"Essentially, this is an 'insurance measure', and its purpose is to reduce the probability of nuclear war."
"The prerequisite for 'no nuclear war' is that they are confident that they can defeat anyone on the conventional battlefield."
"If we want to learn from them, we must first ask ourselves whether we have the strength."
Hearing this, Li Xiang sighed:
"Then it can't disgust them every time, right? Public opinion is really a mess now."
"You may not have much perception - even within the public opinion department, some comrades feel that timely concessions and moderately lowering public expectations can reduce the intensity of public opinion and better coordinate with our strategies."
"But in fact, the logic of public opinion is completely opposite."
"This is not about working to make money. If your boss tells you that your bonus will be gone next month, you just wait patiently."
"What's really happening is that if we give in, people will be even more agitated."
"Why do you say we can't beat him? Is it that we can't beat him or you can't beat him? If you can't beat him, then change people until you can beat him!"
"At that time, the pressure we face will only be greater."
"I know this too."
Chen Nian nodded heavily.
In fact, having personally experienced almost the same situation, he knew the dangers better than Li Xiang.
It is not just a matter of public opinion. In this era when the Internet is not yet developed enough, public sentiment actually lacks a "discharge reservoir" that is sufficient to bear its pressure.
Once it reaches its limit, what follows is a shift from virtuality to reality.
Whether it was the car smashing incident that year or the subsequent boycott by THAAD in South Korea, they were actually the epitome of this trend.
If the relationship between China and the United States had not yet reached the final stage, and if the country involved had not taken the initiative to make concessions, then it is very likely that under the intensifying pressure of public opinion, the official would have made a compromise decision.
There are always people who say that the lower classes of China have no voice, and there are always people who say that the so-called "assembly power" cannot be used at all. But in fact, looking at the history after the founding of the People's Republic of China, in fact, every similar incident has reached a certain scale. , it will inevitably attract attention.
This is completely different from the situation where Western-style democracy takes to the streets at every turn, but cannot shake the decision-making power controlled by capital at all.
It is precisely because of its rare occurrence and high impact that officials are so cautious about it.
Thinking of this, Chen Nian was silent for a moment, and then continued:
"In the final analysis, the purpose of the news released by the other party is to 'pressure' rather than to 'implement'."
"From what I know about Congress, there's no way they would approve a contract like this."
"So, the focus of our response is not after it is implemented, but while they continue to hype this concept."
"To put it bluntly, we still need one or two pieces of news with enough weight to stabilize the morale of the military."
"According to the timeline they announced, the first batch of arms sales equipment will be in place within three months, that is, before the end of June."
"That means that in these three months, we must come up with new equipment that is powerful enough to fight back against them."
"Can't the newly launched 055 work?"
Li Xiang asked subconsciously.
Chen Nian couldn't help but smile and asked:
"You yourself are engaged in public opinion work. Don't you have any idea whether this will work?"
"The people are blind. They don't know the difference between one 055 and two 055s. All they can see is 'new things'."
".But the problem is, we can't come up with anything new."
"None of the current projects can be completed in such a short period of time, and those that can be completed in a short period of time are not enough to form an effective suppression force."
"We can't make the 096 project public in advance, right? This is purely self-defeating martial arts."
"Who says it can't be done? No Detective-9."
Chen Nian had been prepared for this. This unmanned reconnaissance aircraft was not just to make up for tactical shortcomings.
In fact, what Chen Nian really wants to do is to make it a benchmark.
A benchmark for future six-generation machines.
It must integrate all the most advanced technologies and have super functionality that absolutely does not exist in this world.
Its existence is to tell the world clearly that I can make a reconnaissance aircraft to this extent, and soon, I can also make a fighter jet to this extent.
And you will have no power to resist in front of me.
Achieving this will not only be a major boost to Li Xiang's public opinion work, but will also greatly improve the deterrent against the United States.
Looking at Chen Nian's expression, Li Xiang couldn't help but feel curious.
he asked;
"So what exactly do you plan to do with Wujian-9?"
Chen Nian replied:
"It's very simple."
"I hope they can do things that satellites can't do."
"With several Wu-9s on duty in turn, an aircraft carrier battle group can be monitored uninterruptedly around the clock."
In fact, the most practical way to monitor the aircraft carrier battle group around the clock as Chen Nian said is to use radar imaging satellites.
After all, this thing does not need to consider stealth, endurance, speed and other aspects of reconnaissance aircraft. After being equipped with a high-power radar imaging system, even clouds are no longer a problem.
But unfortunately, at this point in time in 2008, my country's aerospace technology was still a long way from explosive development. The number of satellites in the sky could not be achieved by just intermittent tracking, let alone continuous monitoring.
Chen Nian had seen a piece of data before.
If divided according to the timeline, from 2001 to 2010, China had almost no way to use satellites to monitor aircraft carriers.
From 2010 to 2015, China was able to conduct intermittent tracking of aircraft carriers, and the range accuracy could be within 500 kilometers.
From 2015 to 2018, after three years of development, the tracking accuracy can reach 200 kilometers.
All-weather tracking will not be realized until after 2020, when Beidou’s official network is completed.
Obviously, Chen Nian couldn't wait that long.
Therefore, what he planned to use was a simple and crude method.
Directly use high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft to conduct uninterrupted tracking. From the moment the aircraft carrier is discovered, it will always hang over its head.
To achieve this, two issues become critical.
High speed and high battery life.
The high speed is to ensure that the defense change can be completed in time within the scheduled time, while the high endurance is to ensure the continuity of tracking.
Can one aircraft do both?
It's actually very difficult.
After all, the high endurance of the Rainbow-9 drone is actually exchanged for high-speed performance. It can fly at supersonic speeds, but it is still far from Chen Nian's so-called "high-speed" requirements.
There is only one engine that can truly meet the standard:
Turbine-based combined power cycle engine, also known as the legendary TBCC engine.
To put it simply, this kind of engine is an engine with three working modes: turbine, subfuel ramjet, and scramjet ramjet. The reason why it exists is to meet the needs of aircraft flying in a wide speed range and wide airspace. It is incompatible with what Chen Nian planned. The functions of the Zhen-9 are extremely suitable.
According to reports that Chen Nian has read before, in 2020, Changan Aerospace Power Research Institute released a combined power engine. Judging from the time, they should have been in the research and development process for some time now.
At this time, the time is right for them to intervene.
However, it is said that the engine is an RBCC engine - that is, rocket-based.
There are fundamental differences between RBCC and TBCC. Whether it can meet Chen Nian's requirements depends on specific communication.
Thinking of this, Chen Nian immediately dialed Chen Guo's phone number and asked directly:
"Professor Chen, please help me check who is currently in charge of the RBCC project of Chang'an Aerospace Power Research Institute."
"RBCC? You mean rocket-based combined power engine?"
Chen Guo on the other end of the phone was a little confused. He had heard of this type of engine technology and knew that there were many research projects around the world.
But even as the general manager of Spark, he has not seen any information showing that there are specific projects in this area in China.
——
Of course, this is also related to Xinghuo’s previous work direction.
Spark's focus has always been on the military and civilian equipment fields. In fact, investment in the relatively special aerospace field has always been insufficient.
"Yes, rocket-based combined power cycle engine. You can call Chang'an Research Institute directly and ask. They should have internal records."
Hearing this, Chen Guo nodded subconsciously, and then couldn't help but ask:
"This is your information. Forget it, I won't ask. There's no risk of leaking it, right?"
He was already used to it when Chen Nian leaked some top-secret information that he didn't even know about from time to time. He also knew that it was impossible to ask for specific results, so he just wanted to confirm one thing, that is, this information was not provided to Chen Nian by anyone. of.
Compared with Chen Nian's mysterious source of information, it is obvious that the leakage of a certain project will be more harmful.
"no."
Chen Nian replied succinctly.
He was naturally well aware of Chen Guo's thoughts.
"That's good. By the way, what do you want from them? Are you going to build a rocket? Or a space shuttle?"
"No, it's still a Wuzhen-9 project. I plan to give it TBCC."
".The liquid rocket engine you mentioned is TBCC? Is it too difficult?"
After hearing Chen Guo's words, Chen Nian hesitated for a moment.
Compared with RBCC, TBCC is more technically difficult. It has extremely demanding requirements on the combustion chamber and precooler, and its requirements on process accuracy are even more exaggerated.
Just a rocket launcher component requires hundreds of different finishing processes.
But this does not mean that it is completely impossible to create TBCC.
The problem of materials has been solved a long time ago, not to mention the high-combustion ramjet engine technology. It was solved when the DF-17 was developed.
The biggest problem is nothing more than the precooler.
Chen Nian searched his mind for all the information he had learned about TBCC, and finally determined that although the technology of this type of engine is indeed not low, in general, it does not exceed the level of China's current technical foundation.
So he opened his mouth and replied:
"It sounds difficult, it won't be a big problem."
"I understand - wait a minute, you are talking about finding the RBCC team. Aren't TBCC and RBCC two different concepts?"
"There is nothing we can do about it. There is no one engaged in TBCC in China now. It would be good to find a team from RBCC. There are still many technical points of interoperability. There will be no problem in realizing transformation in the short term."
After a moment of pause, Chen Nian suddenly spoke again:
"By the way, please help me contact Institute 31, Institute of Aerospace Science and Industry 31, to find Hu Zengping."
"What does he do?"
"He is the person in charge of the Yunlong dual-mode engine project, and I want their precooler technical team."
"You're really welcome. I understand. I'll make arrangements."
After receiving Chen Guo's confirmation, Chen Nian breathed a sigh of relief.
With the support of the two project teams of RBCC and Yunlong, the progress of the TBCC project should not be too slow.
In line with Chengfei's overall design, it will not be a problem to produce the Wuzhen-9 within three months.
(End of chapter)
