Chapter 701: Trap?
This conference room is full of high-level figures of the country, they are not only concerned about the country's economic development, but also the country's military strength, in everyone's understanding, war is still a traditional form, that is, the competition of the army and hard-fought battles, tanks, artillery, logistics and transportation is the key to victory, for example, in the Korean War 30 years ago, the country finally relied on firm will and flexible tactics to achieve the final victory, if the country had good equipment at that time, the result would not only be in the 38th parallel.
And the Gulf War in a few years will completely subvert their perception of war, and there is no need to send people in at all, people can do it with airplanes, and all your actions will be hidden under the powerful technology.
The Gulf War also became the world's first modern war, and its emergence brought the entire world's military process to another level.
It can be said that the hallmark of modern warfare is the large-scale application of integrated control and counter-control systems on land, sea and air, especially the emergence of early warning aircraft and stealth aircraft, which are inextricably linked with large aircraft.
In a sense, as long as a large civil airliner is manufactured, it is possible to create fighter jets and early warning aircraft one step further.
Americans know that large aircraft is a key, but the Chinese do not know, this is the gap, now the Americans run out to prevent China from developing its own large aircraft, the purpose of which is self-evident, but the Americans are very unlucky, the top level in the decision-making meeting on this matter has one more Liu Lang, the result will be different.
Liu Lang didn't speak, just looked at the people around him discussing this matter.
The scientists were cautious, but their opinion was clear: they wanted the big aircraft project to be preserved.
But many officials disagree, arguing that McDonnell Douglas must bring in a production line for the aircraft, and then cooperate with China and the United States to set up a joint venture like China's Volkswagen, so that they can develop their own aircraft in the shortest possible time, and even Zhao Hongyang seems to think that this plan is correct, after all, China and Germany have a precedent, and it still seems to be very successful.
The experts did not dare to oppose it too much, and suggested that the two methods should be carried out together, while introducing the production line of McDonnell Douglas Company, and at the same time developing their own large aircraft, but this suggestion was not supported by others.
The reason is very simple, it takes too much money to develop the aircraft by itself, and the manpower and material resources spent over the years are astronomical, and the introduction of the McDonnell Douglas production line also costs money, and the next series of localization processes also cost a lot of manpower and material resources.
Liu Lang just looked at it, in fact, the results of this meeting have been determined, although the experts have some opinions, but they are not too insistent, they are going to cooperate with the project to provide technical support.
"Liu Lang, I remember that you studied engine systems at Stanford University, so you should know some about McDonnell Douglas's aircraft, how about this company's aircraft?"
Zhao Hongyang looked at Liu Lang with a smile, looking very happy, in their opinion, the country's reform and opening up has made many countries to invest in China, and even the United States has taken the initiative to come to the door to cooperate, obviously the other party values China's vast market in the future, as Liu Lang's tertiary industry said at the beginning, China's huge market is the capital for negotiation, this is not wrong at all.
"Grandpa Zhao, you're right, I majored in engine at Stanford University, and my tutor is called Claire, an academician of the American Academy of Science and Engineering, and one of the top engineering experts...... McDonnell Douglas is now the second largest aircraft manufacturer in the United States, in fact, it also has another identity, they are also the top five arms manufacturers in the United States, and two years ago they also developed the F-15 carrier-based combat force, which is the third generation of the United States main battle aircraft, and its performance is very superior!"
"Oh, and that like that?"
Liu Lang's news made everyone interested.
Looking at the curious appearance of the high-level people, Liu Lang sighed slightly, it seems that the state has done very little intelligence work for Lao Mei! The highest level of the country does not even have this kind of simple intelligence, what are those agents doing?
In fact, it is not to blame the country, the reason why the United States is very familiar with the military situation of other countries is because they have spy satellites in the sky that constantly monitor them, and there are also "blackbirds" flying at high speeds, and this kind of aircraft flies faster than missiles, and even if they are discovered, they cannot be shot, and the spy satellites of high-altitude reconnaissance are even more all-round reconnaissance, and even if your base is hidden underground, there must be traces of transportation, and people can see you.
China also has satellites, which have developed rapidly since the successful launch of Dongfanghong in 70 years, but these are mostly meteorological satellites and communication satellites, and of course some military satellites have also been launched, but there is still a big gap compared with the United States, and it can be said that the Americans are far ahead of other countries in terms of space satellites, after all, they have already landed on the moon in the 60s.
Satellite technology, especially spy satellites, allows Americans to freely view other people's military bases, and other countries can only look at other countries, and another reason is that the speed of news transmission in this era is too backward compared with the Internet era more than 20 years later, and that era is simply an era in which there is nothing to hide, otherwise it would not have been China's top leadership after the Gulf War to discover that the military power of the two countries is so huge.
Liu Lang's words attracted everyone's attention, so he continued.
"The number one arms manufacturer in the United States is actually Boeing, their technology is the most advanced in the world, I have heard my mentor Professor Clare say that they are developing a lot of incredible weapons, such as the fourth generation of combat power, this kind of fighter is also called stealth aircraft, radar can not detect them at all, can fly in other countries at will without fear of being detected.
The most amazing thing is a kind of early warning aircraft, this kind of aircraft can provide early missile warning for its own combat strength from a long distance, and at the same time can also interfere with the enemy's aircraft communications, under the intervention of the early warning aircraft, the enemy will become blind, but their own side has become clairvoyant and ears!"
Liu Lang's words just now made everyone very interested, but now their words began to make them solemn, because they had never heard of these planes at all.
"Professor Clare once said that there are many connections between large aircraft technology and military aircraft, such as engines and control systems, and if a country has its own production of passenger aircraft, they must have advanced fighters, which is a cause and effect, not an accidental thing.
Just now, when everyone was discussing whether our country should independently develop large aircraft, I was thinking about this question, and the Americans naturally knew this, maybe they did this to make us give up the big aircraft, just like they always wanted me to become an American citizen!"
Liu Lang's words, everyone was surprised, if it is really like Liu Lang said, then the Americans have not laid a trap for China?
However, Liu Lang ignored them and continued.