Chapter 430: The Arms Race

After the manufacturing process of rare earth nano batteries was thoroughly understood by Xinhuaguo, low-grade A-type batteries and related products were allowed to be exported in exchange for a large amount of hard currency and open up foreign markets.

Type B batteries cannot be exported separately and need to be accompanied by related products, and the highest-grade Type C is still prohibited from being exported.

The rare earth nano battery is considered by the media to be the greatest invention at the beginning of this century, and almost all products that require mobile energy have its figure, changing the world's energy consumption structure.

As a civilian manufacturer of A-type batteries, Tenglong Battery Company undoubtedly benefits the most, its business is to design and sell rare earth nano batteries for various purposes, and once the restrictions on exports are lifted, foreign orders are flying like snowflakes.

With sufficient preparation, we have launched batteries for mobile phones, laptops, CD players, camcorders and electric vehicles.

The battery manufacturers have always been the overlords of the battery market, and at this time they were overwhelmed by the impact of Tenglong's batteries, and the price fell again and again, and few people cared about it.

Under this trend, Xinhua's automakers have successively abandoned fuel engines to produce electric vehicles, and have begun to actively seek export markets.

Battery technology is also used in passenger aircraft and large ships.

Kyushu Aviation Manufacturing Co., Ltd.'s initial focus was on electric propeller transport aircraft, and more than 10 types were designed and produced, ranging from small propeller general-purpose aircraft to ultra-large military transport aircraft.

Compared with fuel aircraft, electric aircraft have a slightly slower flight speed, but a longer range, and at the same time have many advantages such as energy saving, environmental protection, high efficiency, and simple structure.

Electric propulsion systems are much safer than jet engines or even piston engines, and safety is greatly improved.

It is also much cheaper in terms of transportation costs, and electric conveyors are not much more expensive than rail and sea transportation. And the advantage of time goes without saying. This is enough to change the landscape of the entire world transportation industry. Make a revolution.

Because of the absorption of advanced technology provided by Galaxy Aviation Manufacturing Company, Kyushu Aviation's military transport aircraft beat similar products from two other aviation manufacturing enterprises and obtained a large number of military orders.

Among them, the largest K-15 military transport aircraft, the upper cabin can carry 150 fully armed soldiers, and the lower cargo hold can carry 220 tons of materials, which is a real air giant, ending the history of Xinhua's inability to manufacture large strategic transport aircraft.

Internationally, electric transport machines have also become a sought-after commodity. Thousands of orders have been received from various countries, and more than eighty percent of the aircraft components of Kyushu Aviation Manufacturing Company have been outsourced to other domestic enterprises, which has led to the development of related industries.

Kyushu Aviation Manufacturing then set its sights on electric airliners.

The largest passenger aircraft can carry 310 passengers, has a maximum speed of 820 km/h and a range of 16,000 km.

Compared with ordinary passenger aircraft, the electric passenger mechanism has reduced costs by 70% and operating expenses by 50%, except for a slightly slower flight speed, which is almost completely successful in all aspects, and the aviation industry is now very competitive. Various costs are the most important point.

When the electric airliner is born, the world's aviation industry will face a new reshuffle.

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November 25th. The second Tianjing-class aircraft carrier "Harbour" was launched.

The Tianjing-class is the first aircraft carrier designed and manufactured by Xinhua, with a standard displacement of 58,000 tons and a full load displacement of 70,000 tons.

This class of aircraft carriers has a great experimental nature, ranking second in the world after Lijian and becoming the second country in the world to be equipped with electromagnetic catapults.

For this purpose, only two Tianjing-class aircraft carriers are planned to be built.

The second batch of SAR-class aircraft carriers has been under construction for more than a year, with a displacement of more than 86,000 tons, which can be regarded as an enlarged version of the Tianjing-class aircraft carriers, with nuclear power, a total of four, built in two batches.

The next generation of aircraft carriers has also begun to be designed, and the displacement has reached an astonishing 110,000 tons.

The J-31 "Falcon Eagle" fighter has absorbed a large amount of advanced technology provided by Galaxy Aviation Manufacturing, and after improvement, it has greatly shortened the test flight time, and has begun to enter service, which will replace the J-15 and become the carrier-based aircraft of the "Harbour" aircraft carrier.

The biggest change in the J-31 fighter is that it is equipped with a new engine, which surpasses the F-35 fighter of Lijian in terms of maneuverability, bomb load, flight performance and stealth ability.

For the new generation of carrier-based aircraft, Xinhuaguo has several plans, and the J-31 is only one of the options.

Thanks to the comprehensive cooperation with Galaxy Aviation Manufacturing Company, a number of breakthroughs have been made in the development of fighter jets, and the J-31 has been quickly finalized, and its performance has also been improved, and it has finally been favored by the navy.

At the same time, the Black Dragon Army's flight anti-load suit was also introduced, and the maneuverability overload of the fighter was increased to 12G.

Interestingly, as soon as the J-31 entered service, there was news of its intention to export.

Xinhua has always been relatively cautious in arms exports, especially advanced weapons, and generally has to wait until it has more advanced equipment of the same kind before considering exporting.

There are not many countries that are interested in the J-31, and many countries in the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America have a large demand for advanced military aircraft.

Stimulated by the rapid development of Xinhua's armaments, coupled with the successive heavy losses suffered by the Black Dragon Army, Li Jianguo felt a sense of urgency and crisis, and in order to maintain its military lead, it immediately increased its military expenditure by a large amount, and next year's military budget will exceed an unprecedented $1 trillion in military spending.

This amount will account for nearly half of global military spending, four times that of Xinhua.

In order to make up for the loss of the aircraft carrier fleet, Lijianguo started to build four "Ford" class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers at one time.

Military projects that had previously been dismantled due to high budgets have been reintroduced, and the country has even come up with some hidden super technologies.

The Ministry of Defense has launched and accelerated the development of superweapons such as the X-43 hypersonic aircraft, the X-37B unmanned aerial vehicle, the X-51A aircraft, the "Peregrine Falcon" large supersonic unmanned combat aircraft, the arc long-range hypersonic missile, high-power land-based, sea-based, air-based and space-based laser cannons, spacecraft, space bombs, and space carriers.

The X-43 family of hypersonic aircraft, which can reach speeds of up to 11,500 kilometers per hour, can fly from the east coast to the west coast of Lijian in only half an hour.

The X-37B is an unmanned space aircraft with a wingspan of 4.6 meters, a total length of 8.8 meters, a height of 3 meters, and a missile and laser launcher.

Its top speed can reach more than 25 times the speed of sound, which cannot be captured by conventional military radar technology.

The X-37B could not take off horizontally, and its launch required the use of rockets, so it was classified as a mini-shuttle, not an aerospace aircraft.

The X51A hypersonic vehicle has an ultra-fast reaction speed, and it takes an hour for a subsonic cruise missile to hit a target 1,000 kilometers away, while the X-51A takes less than 10 minutes and can attack a target anywhere on the earth within 1 hour.

The aerospace carrier is a hypersonic air-space transport platform, with carrier-based aircraft, kinetic weapons, laser weapons, etc. as the main weapons, which can respond quickly and realize the integrated air-space rapid strike on a global scale.

An aerospace carrier is similar to an aircraft carrier, but its range of activity is not at sea, but in the sky, and it can replenish fighters with fuel and ammunition at any time.

The major powers such as Lijian, Rakshasa and Xinhua have developed and designed this kind of superweapon, and once the relevant technology is mature, the aerospace carrier will be fully replaced by the aircraft carrier after it is successfully developed.

The "space carrier" envisioned by the country is a transatmospheric space launch platform that can fly in orbit outside the atmosphere.

Due to the absence of air resistance, the flight speed will be as high as 25 times the speed of sound, and it will only take 90 minutes to circle the earth, and it can reach almost any corner above the earth in real time to enter the battle, so that the enemy has no time to react.

According to the new military strategy of the country, in the future, the country will drastically reduce its overseas troops and close its overseas bases, and the vacancies left by this will be filled by various long-range strategic weapons, and the future "aerospace carrier" is one of its important components.

In the face of this situation, countries are nervous and protesting; On the one hand, they have also increased military spending.

Since the end of the Cold War, a new round of the arms race has begun! (To be continued......)