Chapter 176: Air Force National Museum

Allen took away several of Chen Xu's personal bodyguards, these soldiers' mission was to protect Chen Xu's safety, and they instinctively resisted following a foreigner to carry out a mission. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info But after learning that it was to reconnoiter the mastermind behind the downing of the transport plane, there was no opinion, not to mention that they were also victims, and the best protection was to directly cut off the black hand behind it, so they accepted the arrangement and followed Allen.

The investigation on Allen's side will only be carried out quietly, and Chen Xu has been in the hospital for two days, which can be regarded as a full sleep. It's very clean to hide in the hospital, and it has nothing to do with you how big things happen outside. The domestic government and military sent an investigation team to investigate the crash, and because there were no fatalities, there was no need to go online, just to take some photos of the crash site and hold a few meetings with the US government.

This time, except for a few seriously injured officials who needed to continue to be hospitalized, the rest were discharged from the hospital and followed Chen Xu to continue their original itinerary and go to the Pentagon for a technical exchange with the V22 Osprey.

The eldest brother's face looked very serious, and after the doctor disinfected it with alcohol, it was much better that night, and the swelling basically subsided the next day, he didn't want to be left in this hospital and couldn't do anything, so it was better to follow Chen Xu to negotiate. After all, the purpose of his trip to the United States is to have a good look at the world abroad, and it would be miserable to spend it completely in the hospital.

Originally, after the crash of the transport plane, the Pentagon thought that the technology exchange of the V22 Osprey would be in vain, but when Chen Xu was willing to continue the negotiations, there was a feeling of being lost and regained.

The urgency of the US imperialists to get the V22 Osprey technology is the same as Chen Xu's desire to get their bomber technology! It is precisely because both sides have their own needs that this negotiation will continue normally even if it is interrupted by such a big event, because the interests behind it have too much impact on their respective countries, and unless a world war breaks out, it will definitely continue.

The U.S. imperialists sent five helicopters to land on the tarmac of the hospital at the same time, and then let five people wearing the same clothes as Chen Xu get on different planes, and then the helicopters took off at the same time and scattered, no one knew which plane Chen Xu was in, let alone where Chen Xu's destination was.

The place where Chen Xu was going was at White Paterson Air Force Base in Ohio, and this place was told to the pilot by Chen Xu after getting on the helicopter, and even the United States did not know that Chen Xu would choose such a place for negotiations.

There is a famous place at this base, and that is the National Museum of the United States Air Force! Many crazy airplane works of the American imperialists in the sixties and seventies are placed in this museum, and Chen Xu's goal is to have an exhibit here.

Surprisingly, this air base is the station of the 445th Air Force Wing of the US Army, and the main model of this transport aircraft wing is the C5 Galaxy.

On the way, the helicopters in which the entourage group was traveling also caught up, and several helicopters flew through the sky in formation, and after arriving at White Peterson Air Force Base, they flew away on their own, and the officers at the base were already ready to greet them after being notified in advance.

A bald middle-aged Air Force officer, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, stepped forward and saluted: "Welcome Mr. Chen, I am William Dunn, the negotiation venue you want to request is already being prepared, and tomorrow the officials of the Ministry of Defense will come over, and the meeting can begin." ”

"Lieutenant Colonel William, it's a pleasure to meet you, I've admired the National Air Force Museum here for a long time, the negotiation is tomorrow, anyway, we have nothing to do today, please take us to see the museum!" Chen Xu rubbed his hands together and said excitedly.

"I'm very fortunate that the museum is closed today for a break, so I won't be disturbed when I visit." The museum inside the airbase is a very famous place, and William Dunn was proud of it, and he held out his hand to make a gesture of invitation, and said, "Please come with me, and I will take you to the museum." ”

The first thing you see when you enter the museum is not the planes, but the uniforms, armbands, and even some documents and parts of the aircraft of the US Air Force in various periods, which have strong historical and educational significance.

The eldest brother was very interested in visiting the museum, and followed William Dunn as he explained as he went. After reading the history and culture of the Air Force, the next step is the meat part, everyone came to a hall and saw a full park of all kinds of aircraft, and even some propeller biplanes from the First World War were hanging in the air.

"Is that a Black Widow reconnaissance plane?" At first glance, the eldest brother saw a black plane parked in the left corner of the hall, which was the famous high-altitude reconnaissance plane 'U-2' Black Widow, this guy often invaded China and countries with good relations with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and used eight airborne automatic cameras to conduct intelligence reconnaissance on the ground.

In fact, he has also been successfully shot down by our army as many as five planes, and the photos arranged in a row are spectacular.

However, after the 80s, with the development of radar technology and anti-aircraft missiles, this kind of reconnaissance plane, which was extremely easy to shoot down, lost its usefulness, and this kind of reconnaissance plane, which made a name for itself during the Cold War, gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

However, later US imperialism had more advanced toys, using military satellites to take photos directly in space for military reconnaissance, and on the battlefield, drones could be used to conduct real-time tracking and reconnaissance of high-altitude ground targets.

However, unmanned reconnaissance aircraft are not perfect, and many have been taken down in the Middle East, and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft have many advantages, but their disadvantages cannot be ignored, as long as they invade the aircraft's data transmission system, they can easily be captured and turned into trophies.

In addition to the Black Widow, there is another more advanced high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance aircraft in the exhibition hall, namely the SR-71 Blackbird, as a latecomer, this aircraft has a more sci-fi shape, making use of a large number of advanced technologies at that time. In the Vietnam War, the Blackbird reconnaissance plane shined and became the main reconnaissance method of the US military, and the Vietnamese monkey never destroyed a single Blackbird.

Like the fate of the U-2 Black Widow, with the advancement of global air defense missile systems, the SR-71 Blackbird completely lost its usefulness, and most of it was mothballed and decommissioned, forgotten.

"I think the Blackbird is still in service! Do you have any exhibits in your museum? Chen Xu was deeply impressed by the Blackbird, the design of this aircraft is a genius, and it is simply a technical curse for China today, which is simply insurmountable.

"This is only an early prototype, and there is still a gap in performance between it and the finished model that entered service later." William Dunn politely introduced.

"Can I climb in and have a look?" Chen Xu stretched out his finger and pointed at the blackbird, and asked with great interest.

William Dunn hesitated for a moment, but when he thought that his boss had explained that no matter what the Chinese delegation wanted, it must be met as much as possible, and that the base could be completely open to these people and that there was no need to worry about secrecy, so he nodded and agreed: "Yes, but be careful that there are sharp points on the plane, if you are injured, it will be troublesome." ”

After saying that, William Dunn also thoughtfully brought a ladder from the side to make it easier for everyone to climb up and down. Chen Xu tossed and played in the cockpit for a while, didn't see a reason, the eldest brother liked to stay in the cabin for more than ten minutes before coming out, and finally climbed in to see several aircraft designers from the National Aircraft Design Institute, these experts were specially brought by Chen Xu to touch the situation, for these technicians to enter the cockpit can steal a lot of useful techniques, after all, it is an expert in this area to look at the shape of the basic internal design guess eight or nine is not far from ten.

"Leave them alone! Let's go see other planes......" Chen Xu wanted to help the aircraft designers get more time, so he asked William Dunn to take them to other planes.

"So what do they do? Don't you wait! William asked, pointing to a few aircraft designers who were whispering around the Blackbird.

"Don't worry about them, they'll naturally catch up after watching it, let's go see other interesting planes first." Chen Xu couldn't say anything, and he pulled William away.

Then the group went outside, this time not only large transport planes, but even rockets were placed in a few places, which was very interesting. Chen Xu didn't feel too much, but the older brothers behind him sighed more and more: "Look at people, such advanced planes have been retired, but we don't even have a start, and I don't know when He Yu can catch up with the generation difference of this technology." ”

Chen Xu walked in front with his hands behind his back, shook his head and said: "Don't envy how rich other people's families are, the United States has also relied on years of spending money to achieve today's achievements, and when we get rich, we can also continue to absorb Western technology, and then burn money for scientific research institutions, if we want to catch up, it will only take ten or twenty years to catch up." High-tech is to put it bluntly, it burns money, and as long as the money is in place, even the spaceship can toss it out for you. ”

"Aren't we running out of money!" The eldest brother picked the scars on his face and said regretfully.

"If we don't have money, we will earn it, in the past two years, we have put tens or tens of billions of dollars into the company, and when the company's large-scale projects are on the right track, it is natural that the money is rolling in, and we will not be afraid of running out of money when the time comes." Chen Xu is very confident in his own business, not to mention that he has absolute technical advantages in electronics, medical and other industries, just the end of the eighties international political and economic turmoil, he only needs to rely on financial weapons, can make a lot of money, especially the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy and the collapse of the Soviet Union is a feast of wealth, in the next ten years to make money is too easy, Chen Xu does not have to lie down to build a rich enterprise. (To be continued.) )