The special operations brigade and the military chiefs found out that they had been pitted by 404, and that was after that.

Now 404, after redefining the path of reverse engineering the F-14, the fighter engineering team is fully operational.

For the big press, Xie Kai is also in his heart, after solving these problems in the base, he naturally has to go over to see if it is.

"Uncle Zheng, the 65,000-ton large press project, how does the base think about it?" Zheng Yucheng also went to Qin Fei with Xie Kai to see the big press project, and at the same time, there were some questions about the development of the 691 factory that needed to be communicated and discussed with there.

The Spring Festival is coming soon, and the entire 404 subordinate units are even busier.

On the way, Xie Kai asked Zheng Yucheng about the big press project.

Reverse engineering of the F-14 is important, and the funds available to the base are not as abundant as they used to be.

But now with a 45,000-ton press, the 65,000-ton project is not as urgent as before. Slowing down the progress and waiting for the supporting facilities to come up will help reduce costs and reduce the financial pressure on the base a lot. Zheng Yucheng said, "So the budget for the big press is no longer the same as before, and all the funds are allocated first." ”

Xie Kai nodded in understanding.

Now, in order to save costs, the flight cost of the F-14 fighter is passed on to the military.

"Isn't there still a fund on the Iraqi side?" Xie Kai asked.

"The money, you can't touch it. It is better to use it for domestic investment. If we don't speed up investment now, and when we can't sell our equipment, our future funding sources will be prone to problems. We don't want the capital chain to break and eventually let the 404 return to the original level where salaries have to be paid once every few months. "Zheng Yucheng is not without pressure.

As the top manager of the entire base, I have to take into account the prospects of the entire base.

Xie Kai wanted to ask him why he would gamble so much in the little devil's domestic market knowing that the risk was high.

He understands better that Zheng Yucheng and them are not for political achievements.

In the entire 404, no matter how great the achievements are, there is no chance of promotion because of the particularity of 404, which also eliminates the possibility of engaging in political performance projects.

If you want to go up, you shouldn't go into a unit like 404.

Zheng Yucheng and their bet is so big, also to give a better platform for the successors later.

For a long time, the issue of funding has been a problem that restricts the development of all current Chinese military-industrial units.

"By the way, the switch you are talking about, is this reliable?" Zheng Yucheng asked Xie Kai when the plane was about to arrive at Qin Fei.

In order to solve the problem of funding, as long as there are promising projects, now 404 is ready to intervene.

The current projects have too great a financial requirement.

More importantly, due to the particularity of 404, there are great preferential taxes for these projects, which is also the state's support for 404, so that they have more funds to invest in the field of scientific research.

In terms of the budget, it is absolutely impossible to tilt the funds towards the field of national defense, and this is the basic national policy.

"Absolutely. Every year, we buy foreign switches in this area, and you don't know how much it costs. There are chips in Factory 691, and our base is studying military communications, so it is possible. Once the domestic switch is made, the market is huge. Moreover, we can develop in the wireless communication market......" Xie Kai nodded affirmatively.

Communication equipment is a direction of the base's vigorous development, mainly used for individual communications in special operations.

The cost of such communications equipment is very high, and according to the current situation, even if it is developed, the special operations units and reconnaissance units of the army cannot afford to use it.

Xie Kai had almost forgotten about it.

In the past two days at the base, when he learned about the progress of the J-5 and J-6 UAV projects, and knew that the base had made great progress in the research of remote control communication, Xie Kai remembered the person who was still in the 691 factory, and he moved his mind.

"J-5 J-6 change UAV, do we give up? The technical difficulty is too great, especially the problem of remote control, which requires the establishment of a lot ......of signal base stations," Zheng Yucheng had nothing to say, "The cost of changing it is much higher than the effect it can have." ”

He doesn't know about communication technology.

Although the base has achieved great results, the requirements for communication technology in the transformation of old-fashioned fighter jets into UAVs and remote control are not something that can be done in a short time.

"If you have a geostationary communication satellite, it's much easier to control. It's just that in terms of digital signal processing, our technology is too backward. Xie Kai was also sighing, "We have not yet launched a communication satellite in China......

"We can't launch one, no!" Zheng Yucheng shook his head.

Xie Kai also didn't say that he wanted them 404 to launch their own communication satellites to support long-range communication.

"Isn't the space industry working on communication satellites? The key now is digital signal transmission and conversion. As long as the technology is mature, it is not a big deal for us to launch one ourselves. Uncle Zheng, you said, if we build a network in China, sell mobile satellite terminals, so that people can make calls at any time, how big will this market be......" Xie Kai thought about the original era, mobile networks all day long, people were staring at their mobile phones when they walked, not as boring as they are now.

"That's a thing, it's too much investment. Besides, even if a satellite is launched, it is impossible for ordinary people to use, so how much does it cost to make a minute of phone call?" Zheng Yucheng said with a smile, he thought it was impossible.

Xie Kai didn't debate with him, "Do you remember the direction of development that I proposed in the special operations brigade before? The satellites in the sky are going again, and the tanks on the ground are roaring...... Satellites provide real-time battlefield dynamics and communications, allowing commanders to communicate with every soldier with individual communications. All armament has terminals connected to satellites......"

"Then I know, the communication industry in the 863 plan, many projects are not developed for this plan?" Zheng Yucheng said, "However, satellite communications, according to the current domestic plan, even to establish a communication satellite network covering the whole country, is not an easy task." ”

Communication and reconnaissance satellites, the technical content is too high.

Not only communication technology, but also optical photography technology, data transmission and processing technology are very high.

So far, China is in its infancy.

The United States and the Soviet Union have established a complete satellite network covering the whole world.

"Compared with the United States and the Soviet Union, we are far behind in this regard. The state can't invest too much in research, and we can't afford to support it at all. Zheng Yucheng sighed.

He hadn't been exposed to these before, and he didn't understand the benefits that this advanced high-tech technology could bring, so it was impossible for Director Zheng to think about these things at all.

You know, you can't do anything, but you can't make trouble.

The arrogant Director Zheng has long been powerless by these projects, which require hundreds of billions of research funds at every turn.

Otherwise, he would not have gone to the domestic market of little devils to gamble and make money.

Finance, he also doesn't understand.

I don't understand a single fart.

"Work hard, let's catch up slowly. However, the communication of UAVs, this is indeed a big problem, as long as the communication problem is not solved, it will be difficult for our UAVs to enter the practical stage. The technical content of digital signals is too high, and the analog signals currently being studied can be used for civil communications. Xie Kai said calmly.

Analog signals, that was the very beginning of mobile communications.

In this regard, he did not propose, did not interfere, and did not even know that there was such research at the base.

Everything is for the UAV to achieve remote control, making the entire UAV more reliable and flexible in the field of control, the base has made a lot of experts from the domestic communication field to specialize in this area of research, and the results achieved have made Xie Kai even more surprised.

Whether it is a wired telephone, or a radio and television with wireless transmission, it is the use of analog signal transmission, domestic research in this area, compared with the international market does have a big gap, but not too big.

The key to this communication technology lies in a program-controlled switch.

And this has a hard requirement for chips.

After Xie Kai understood the bottleneck of UAV research, he suddenly remembered the development of domestic program-controlled switches.

This has to think of the person who remained in the 691 factory after his appearance changed the development prospects of the 691 factory.

As long as the program-controlled switch is solved, they can not only get great benefits in the field of communication in the civilian market, but also make great progress in the research of military communication at the base.

Otherwise, Zheng Yucheng would not have gone to Factory 691 with Xie Kai this time.

Only a 45,000-ton press was put into production, which will not make Director Zheng look forward to it so much.

Even if there is a 45,000-ton press, it is not possible to solve it in a short time if Yunshi wants to completely complete the commercialization.

The 65,000-ton press is more important.

"It's a good idea, but there are too many difficulties in between. Xie Kai, it's not me who poured cold water on you, I always feel that drones are not the future. If this really comes to an end, what will we still study manned fighters for? When the time comes, the war will depend entirely on financial resources and backward equipment? It doesn't matter, just the ants bite the elephant to death and desperately build drones. Zheng Yucheng couldn't understand the feeling of not using soldiers to fight.

Talent is the most fundamental.

At the beginning, the U.S. imperialists were armed to the teeth, but the volunteers only had millet plus rifles, and finally drove the U.S. imperialists back to the 38th parallel, so that they had to sign the armistice agreement.

"Uncle Zheng, with the development of science and technology, fighting a war is really just a matter of making money. Xie Kai couldn't explain.

After 9/11, when the United States attacked Afghanistan, drones were only used for reconnaissance missions at first, but in the end they were directly used in warfare, dropping bombs or something, although the price was not cheap, much cheaper than manned fighters.

It's really whoever has the most money who can really win the war.

Because of this, the war in Afghanistan cost the U.S. military more than $320 billion, and the war in Iraq cost the U.S. military more than $760 billion......

The further back you go, the more advanced the technology used in the war becomes.

At this time, what is needed is money, not manpower.