Among the Nantianmen plan, the most difficult thing to complete is of course the large-scale aerospace strategic aircraft platform.
After all, it is more than 200 meters long and 600 meters wide, which is equivalent to the huge size of four aircraft carriers. Even if it has an anti-gravity generator, it will not be a problem to fly. To build such a huge thing is still a challenge for human industrial manufacturing. A severe test of abilities, materials science and structural science.
Building an aircraft carrier is already a huge test of a country's overall industrial strength.
Just like the joke circulating on the Internet, it requires "the State Planning Commission, the Military Industry Commission and nine ministries of defense industry, 600 related majors, and 8,000 supporting manufacturers." This is not a job that can be completed by just one shipyard. It is a powerful country with strong national strength.
And it is almost impossible to build an aerospace aircraft platform that is several times larger than an aircraft carrier.
This is not only a technical issue, but also an issue of industrial production capacity.
Don't mention anything else. For many small countries, even if they just sell the iron they can't produce hundreds of thousands of tons of qualified high-performance steel.
Not to mention that the materials used in some places are much rarer and more expensive than high-performance steel. Some small countries may have sold the entire country, and these materials may not be valuable.
However, all countries currently in existence were involved in the construction this time, so there was no problem with the materials.
Especially Chen Xin's previous efforts in Europe, the mining and smelting of various mineral resources, and the synthesis of high-performance materials, are not too big a problem.
Those mining sub-bases across Europe provide sufficient raw materials for the construction of aircraft platforms.
But there are only materials, and these materials need to be processed into parts.
You must know that the aircraft carrier platform is more than 200 meters long and 600 meters wide. In order to ensure sufficient structural strength, many parts are also surprisingly large in size.
For example, some components of the main support structure of the aircraft platform are even more than one hundred meters long!
Such a huge component has never been made in human history, because nothing requires the use of such large parts.
Even if components hundreds of meters long were needed in the past, they would be manufactured by splicing multiple parts rather than manufacturing such a huge part as a whole.
If it weren't for 3D printing technology, I would probably still have to figure out how to manufacture such a large part.
And even with 3D printing technology, to manufacture such a large component, the printing equipment still needs to be redesigned, and existing printing equipment is difficult to complete its manufacturing work.
What's more, even if it is manufactured, how to ensure that the structural strength of such a huge part meets the requirements is a huge headache for the project team.
And all of this requires Chen Xin, the general person in charge, to coordinate and coordinate, which will further test his ability.
If it weren't for the artificial intelligence Xiyao assisting him and helping him handle a large number of trivial matters, I'm afraid he would really die of exhaustion.
Fortunately, the state is also aware of the difficulties of this project and has deployed a large number of experienced administrative and technical personnel.
These people may not be able to help much with the improvement of the theoretical basis, but for the actual construction of the aircraft platform, the role these people can play is great.
Experienced administrative personnel can coordinate cooperation and communication between various departments, making collaboration between departments smoother, and can also solve "small problems" that arise during mass production and manufacturing.
The technicians can better complete the production and manufacturing work. Some problems that may not be realized or discovered on the drawings can be discovered and solved by the on-site technicians during the production and manufacturing process.
But even with these conditions, it is still not easy to build a large-scale aerospace strategic aircraft platform.
In order to avoid waste and verify the technology, Chen Xin decided to build a scaled-down small aircraft platform for technical verification. At the same time, he could also accumulate experience for the actual design and construction of a large aerospace strategic aircraft platform.
This plan quickly received recognition and support from all parties, and everyone also felt that it would be more reliable to do a technical verification first than to start building a big thing directly.
After all, those large parts that are more than 100 meters long are really difficult to make, and there is indeed no relevant experience.
If we can build a smaller one first to verify whether the structural design is reasonable, or find out the possibility of changing large parts into small parts, it will be very beneficial to the construction of the entire aerospace aircraft platform.
Therefore, after each project team had almost perfected the basic theory, a small aircraft platform was built that was reduced by nearly ten times.
This aircraft carrier platform is not a scaled-down version of the large aircraft carrier platform planned to be built. Although it is similar in structure, its drawings have been carefully designed.
And this aircraft platform also has the same performance indicators as the large aircraft platform, and can also launch drones for combat.
It's just that the drones mounted on this small aircraft platform are not aerospace aircraft that have basically entered the design finalization stage, but some specially designed small drones.
This small aircraft carrier platform is only more than 20 meters long and 60 meters wide. It looks like a passenger plane with extremely long wings.
The main part of the fuselage is the crew cabin and control center that accommodates personnel, as well as a drone maintenance workshop specially prepared for the aircraft platform. On both sides of the fuselage, there are two drone launch tubes.
This is a new technology specially developed for the aerospace aircraft platform. It can quickly launch drones at high altitudes, recover and maintain them. It is an important basis for the combat concept of the aircraft platform to take shape.
As for the huge wings whose wingspan has completely exceeded the design of ordinary aircraft, this is one of the key points of this technical verification.
Because of the requirements for the use of large aerospace strategic aircraft carrier platforms, such a large wingspan design is in line with its positioning, but this large wingspan design is also a torture to the wing structure and materials.
After all, we all know that longer things are more likely to break, and the same goes for wings.
It is not an easy task to make it long enough, strong enough, and able to meet the needs of aircraft flight.
Fortunately, the entire Nantianmen Project has gathered the world's top scientists and research teams, and a wing with a wingspan of more than 60 meters will not be a problem for them.
As for the energy and power of this small aircraft platform, it is relatively simple.
A small nuclear reactor is installed on this aircraft platform, and together with it there are anti-gravity generators and shield devices, which provide it with abundant energy and a more convenient way to ascend to high altitudes. and adequate safety protection.
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