Zhang Lan smiled secretly, this scene was decided after he and Xiao Chenxi and Alice, Jill and others had seriously discussed, the purpose was to give these self-proclaimed most advanced old beauties a shock, now it seems that the effect is very ideal, just look at the shocked and incredulous expressions on the faces of these American soldiers, you can know what kind of turbulent waves this scene has set off in their hearts

Intelligent robots with the ability to think logically on their own, how many scientists, artificial intelligence experts, and the military dream of this? However, after the efforts of huge human, material and financial resources, the research on artificial intelligence in various countries is still in its infancy, and there is still a considerable distance from the height that Alice Group has reached now.

Although these GIs don't really know what these things represent, they dare to take their own salaries, and the technologies in the hands of the Alice Group are at least 30 years ahead of the advanced technology level they know

The armed forces are the first places where all kinds of high-tech products appear, and this is especially true of the high-tech arms of the navy and the air force, and as the high-tech naval soldiers on the missile destroyers with the most advanced and high-tech content in the world, they have a considerable say in this regard.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the experts inside are working, so we won't go in and disturb them." Very satisfied with the expressions on the faces of these guys, Elaine, who appeared as a "tour guide", said to these guys whose eyes were about to pop out.

There was a sigh from the crowd.

Obviously, Elaine's move is quite unpopular, although these American soldiers were invited to hold a party, but if they had not received the corresponding order to spy on the secrets of the mysterious scientific research center of the Alice Group before this, I am afraid that no one would believe it.

Zhang Lan was smiling happily on the side.

I am sure that before coming, I am afraid that a considerable number of American soldiers have received certain "tasks", asking them to pay attention to all kinds of things they see and hear on this scientific research ship of the Alice Group, and in the crowd, I am afraid that at least 20 cameras designed to be button-shaped, cockade-shaped, and waist-headed are filming all this they see.

The U.S. Department of Defense knows the purpose of Alice Group's approach, and the Alice Group also knows that the U.S. Department of Defense knows; The U.S. Department of Defense pretended not to know, and the Alice Group pretended not to know; But the Alice Group knows, and everyone knows.

This kid enjoyed the riddle game.

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"Miss Elaine, I wonder if we can take a tour of your hangar? If so, can we take a tour of your plane? "During the afternoon tour, an American GI suddenly made a request that did not exist before.

"Huh? Visiting our hangar? Elaine glanced at the guy and turned her inquiring gaze to the top commander of the U.S. military present: Richard. Thomas.

"Miss Elaine, this is our ship's helicopter pilot, Tom. Let. Captain Sisko, it may be that all the planes on your ship have attracted us, Mr. Tom, and of course I am equally curious about your tiltrotors, if convenient...... "Richard. Thomas smiled and said to Elaine, clarifying what he meant: "I want to see your tiltrotor too."

That being said, as to whether this is the case or not, only the ghost knows, but if this matter had not been instructed by the people above beforehand, it would be too incredible that a little captain would dare to make his own request during such an important visit

Elaine frowned slightly, as if this matter had not been arranged in the first place, which made Elaine a little embarrassed.

Richard. Thomas's heart immediately lifted, and it would be embarrassing if Elaine rejected his offer.

Fortunately, Elaine, who was frowning, only thought about it for a moment, and after weighing it - at least it seemed like this - Elaine finally nodded reluctantly, "Speaking of which, this request is a little excessive, but considering the help you have helped us during this time, I can ask the relevant authorities about this matter." ”

Since there is no direct refusal, that is, which one of the people present is not a human spirit? Elaine's words were already equivalent to agreeing in disguise, and everyone's faces were happy for a while. ,

Although almost all of them are familiar with the SH-60B "Seahawk" antisubmarine helicopter equipped on their ships, they are also full of curiosity about this kind of high-performance all-transmission rotor that has officially entered service after the V-22 "Osprey" tilrotor of the United States, and is also known as the world's most advanced and complete series of tiltrotors. Many people are quietly discussing with their acquaintances about the scientific and technological content and specific performance of the AI-10 tiltrotor that the Alice Group has taken them in, and discussing which is more powerful, the AI-10 tiltrotor of the Alice Group or the V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor of the United States.

Elaine, who had just stepped aside to call and inquire, walked over with a smile on her face not long after, "Everyone, congratulations, for your request, our supervisor agreed after careful consideration, welcome you to visit one of the most confidential places on our ship, which is also the core of our ship, please come with me." ”

As a special lift for taking off and landing aircraft, the take-off and landing capacity of this elevator is indeed extremely powerful, more than 200 people, can easily stand on this elevator with an area of more than 350 square meters up and down such a take-off and landing capacity, probably except for aircraft carriers and super-large surface amphibious ships similar to the United States "Wasp-class" through-deck amphibious assault ships, there is no other ship with such a strong ability.

The hangar man had obviously received the order, and when the elevator that specially transported the plane to the deck was lowered to the position of the hangar, the huge deck of the elevator trembled slightly, and then stopped there steadily, and the floor of the elevator and the floor of the hangar were almost a millimeter apart.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the most important part of our ship: the hangar," Elaine explained to these guys with their mouths wide open, as if they had entered the Grand View Garden, "This hangar covers an area of 5,000 square meters, and in terms of the kind of AI-10 tiltrotor that your friends are riding in, it can park 60 planes, and 10 of them can be repaired and protected at the same time." However, based on the recognition of the world peace environment, there are 20 planes on this ship, of which 10 are multi-purpose transport types and 10 are escort types. ”

What kind of escort type, directly speaking, it is a model that is purely used for armed battles Richard. Thomas was a little upset with Elaine's clever evasion, though it was certain that if it had happened to him, he would have been at least 10 times more hypocritical than Elaine

There was another loud exclamation from the crowd

Although they belong to the same naval combat sequence, theoretically speaking, these US soldiers are escorting the US Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier battle group, but in reality, these US GIs rarely have the opportunity to step on the deck of the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, let alone enter the hangars of these super-large surface ships.

Therefore, looking at the huge hangar in front of them, everyone's first reaction was to let out a huge exclamation, as if they were surprised at how much it should cost and what kind of technical strength such a huge hangar and project should cost to build.

"Miss Elaine, can I come and see you on the plane?" The pilot of the SH-60B "Sea Hawk" anti-submarine helicopter, Tom Brown, who first made this request, made this request. Let. Captain Sisko stared at the AI-10 multi-purpose wide-body tiltrotor painted in ocean gray in front of him with bright eyes, and asked Elaine with an excited face.

"Of course," Elaine smiled and made a "please" gesture, and at the same time motioned to a pilot in a flight suit next to her, "This is one of the pilots on our ship, if you have any questions, you can ask him, for your questions, I believe that our pilot friend will know everything, and say everything." ”

It's no wonder that this is a sentence that Elaine added in her heart.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you are also interested in visiting, there are a few pilots here, you can divide into several groups and follow the corresponding pilots on the plane to visit." In that it seems to be called Tom. Let. The captain pilot of Sisko followed the pilot of the Alice Group ship to the AI-10 tiltrotor with an excited face, and looked at the American GIs with envy and jealousy on their faces, Elaine said to these guys very boldly. ,

As if they didn't expect Elaine to be so generous, these poor children were stunned at first, and then cheered, very excited about the decision of the Alice Group.

But at this time, the well-trained training of the U.S. military was displayed in front of Zhang Lan and Elaine: despite the excitement, these American GIs were all very well-behaved, and they did not rush to get together, but automatically divided into several teams according to the relationship between superiors and subordinates on weekdays, and under the leadership of the pilots of the Alice Group, they got on the plane in an orderly manner for a visit.

Sure enough, it is worthy of being the world's No. 1 army, all of this is really not in vain Looking at these orderly American soldiers, Zhang Lan sighed fiercely in his heart Although he is also sure that the army of any country that can rank in the top 20 in the world can do this, but it is one thing to be able to do it, and it is another thing to see the actual performance of these people in front of your eyes.

It is indeed not for nothing that the United States is able to command this army to fight in the east and west, and to fan the flames in all parts of the world

Richard. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas was obviously pleased with the actions of his soldiers, and proudly touched his iron chin, and then touched his red waxy nose, and looked at Elaine very smugly.

There is still a gap, Zhang Lan, who has really seen the military appearance of the domestic army, has to admit in his heart the gap between the domestic army and the US military: Although after several years of continuous army building, the military appearance of the domestic army has a huge, even high-quality, performance compared with that in the late 80s and early 90s, the gap between the quality of soldiers and the gap in the background of social development can still reflect the gap between the two.

The modernization of the armed forces in China is indeed a heavy task and a long way to go

While in the midst of his cranky thoughts, Richard. Thomas's words suddenly reached Zhang Lan's ears, "Miss Elaine, I believe you must have seen the military appearance of the Chinese army with your own eyes, do you think that between the military appearance of our American army and the military appearance of the Chinese army, which is superior or inferior?" ”

"That's right, because of the special nature of my work, the current situation of the Chinese army, I do know a little bit," said to Richard Brown. Thomas's suspicious words, Elaine sneered in her heart, but instead of showing it, she nodded lightly, frowning slightly, and seemed to be thinking carefully about Richard. Thomas's question, "It's true that there's some gap between the two, and I'm never shy about that, but there's something that there's a big gap between the two."

"What gap?" Richard. Thomas asked Elaine triumphantly, looking at this guy's expression, it seemed that he had already been confident about the answer that Elaine was about to give.

"The spirit of hard work" Elaine hit the nail on the head when she pointed out where the real gap between the two armies is, "Although the US army is very advanced, and its weapons and combat methods are modern enough, the soldiers' spirit of hard work is obviously insufficient, and there is no spirit of indomitable and self-sacrifice, but I have seen this spirit in the Chinese army." ”

Elaine's answer was obviously out of Richard's way. Thomas's surprise, Elaine's answer was obviously not satisfactory to him, Ya frowned, and said that she disagreed with Elaine's point of view, "But modern warfare has long been no longer about hand-to-hand combat, we can launch accurate saturation strikes against the enemy hundreds or even thousands of kilometers away, and completely destroy the enemy's will to resist." Miss Elaine, with all due respect, I can't think of any use for such a desperate spirit in the conditions of modern warfare. ”

"I'm sorry, I don't agree with some of your opinions," Elaine shook her head, not quite agreeing with Richard. Thomas's view, "In my opinion, as long as there is a war going on, this spirit of indomitable and self-sacrifice is indispensable for any army, and at any time, no matter how advanced the development of weapons and equipment is, this spirit should become the spirit and pillar on which an army, a country and a nation depend." ”

"What's more, China is a mysterious country with the same advanced art of warfare and thousands of years of war wisdom, compared to the US military, although their equipment is not advanced, but in my opinion, the gap is not big enough for the US military to attack them, they don't even have the power to fight back." ,

"If Mr. Richard does not agree with my point of view, then I can give an inappropriate example: in the Korean War that year, the Battle of Shangganling was something that every US military commander had to learn, and from a certain point of view, the tactics implemented by the US military at that time were a super simplified version of the modern US military tactics: the same emphasis on air supremacy, the same emphasis on long-range strike capabilities, and the same emphasis on the degree of firepower coverage, the only difference is that the US military at that time did not have modern high-precision strike weapons, but in essence, Actually, there is no difference. The front-line commander of the campaign at that time thought that under such a fire strike, not even a single mouse would survive on Shangganling, but what was the result? I know that Mr. Richard, you are an excellent cadet who graduated from West Point, and I am sure you should be well aware of the outcome of this battle. So, I wonder if Mr. Richard still holds the view that you insist that 'under the conditions of modern high-tech warfare, the spirit of indomitable and self-sacrifice is useless'? ”

Richard. Thomas was dumbfounded by Elaine's rebuttal and didn't know what to do. After being stunned for a long time, he said to Elaine dryly, "The war conditions at that time were different from the modern war conditions, and I dare to guarantee that if this war was fought today, the Battle of Shangganling would definitely not be the original result, and the Korean War would not be the original result." ”

"I still don't agree with you," Elaine smiled and shook her head, once again to Richard. Thomas's words expressed a different opinion, "Since the tactics of the US military have changed, how can Mr. Richard be sure that the Chinese will not adjust their countermeasures under the new tactics of the US military?" What's more, history cannot be assumed, you say? ”

In the face of Elaine's words, Richard. Thomas was stunned again.

Richard. Thomas was stunned, but Zhang Lan was also smiling bitterly in his heart: Elaine's words are true, but after decades of peace, without those iron-blooded veterans who regarded death as their home and survived a hundred battles, if the current Chinese army fought with the US army, who is sure of the result? Anyway, Zhang Lan is not very confident in his heart, if he has to answer, it is to express cautious optimism.

At the right time, it is not a good idea to learn from the Americans to pull out their own armed forces for training, not only to demonstrate their own strength, but also to deter those who have bad intentions.