Keeping it secret or not, Xu Ziling didn't think it was very important.

Because in this era of spy satellites, if you want to keep a plane secret, unless it flies into the sky from the runway, or no matter how careful you are, it will always be photographed by those satellites.

Besides, he was also confident that even if this thing was placed in front of others, it would be impossible for the most powerful technicians to figure out the techniques in it just by looking at it.

In this world, the lion is absolutely the only one in existence, not a bad street.

After the "Shadow Dragon No. 1" stopped on the "Liaoning", Xu Ziling did not say anything about secrecy with Captain Zhang.

Many people have seen it, and these people are very familiar with the aircraft, and they know that it is a stealth drone, and they are very interested.

It's not impossible to let them see, after hearing Xu Ziling say this, Captain Zhang just emphasized that the news should not be leaked out of the hangar, and he didn't care that a large number of them gathered in the hangar, went back to his office, and re-contacted Xu Ziling.

I didn't ask some questions before, but I talked about it again, of course, I still talked about these questions.

What he is most concerned about in his heart is when the drone will be able to form combat effectiveness, so on this issue, he asked in detail.

Captain Zhang can agree to let the drone be tested on the aircraft carrier, that is a great favor, Xu Ziling has always been a good person to whoever is good to him.

So on the question raised by Captain Zhang, he knows everything.

After this day's testing, the "Shadow Dragon One" can basically be said to have been completed, and the next thing is only the weapons test.

At the beginning of the design, the "Shadow Dragon No. 1" was equipped with PL air-to-air missiles and air-to-ground missiles of the LJ system, but Xu Ziling's requirements were upgraded from this series of missiles and dedicated to the models on the UAV, and he didn't have time to get these for a while.

If you want to test these soon, there must be no matching missiles to carry them.

In this way, if you want to complete the test in this area, it depends on how long it will take to get the missile thing right.

Like in the past, when the "Thunder Dragon" was in the past, there was only one project, and afterwards Xu Ziling gave a plan, and it was no problem to temporarily modify the missile, but now the military factory has countless things, not to mention that he has no time to get this, even if he gets it, there is no extra manpower to do things.

With the lion here, he has already been carefully calculated, he has already known the results of the Dao, and the weapon test can only be regarded as a small matter for the things in his hands now, thinking that he is not in a hurry for this moment, so he did not specially assign people to come out to get these.

As for Captain Zhang's question, he could only answer that there are still some questions to be studied about the current UAV weapon configuration plan, and it will take some time.

Captain Zhang was a little disappointed by this answer, but he knew that Xu Ziling had made an order with them before, and there must have been a lot of things in the military factory in the past six months, and he could understand it in his heart when he was lost.

"This year's task is really heavy, the heavy transport aircraft production line is almost busy, the first one should be off the assembly line at the end of this month, and there is a new project in progress in the laboratory, it is estimated that it will not be long before you need your help."

Thinking that it would not be long before another aircraft might be tested on the aircraft carrier, Xu Ziling thought about it, and said hello to Captain Zhang in advance, and at the same time revealed a little news to him.

"Huh?"

When Captain Zhang heard this, he immediately became energetic.

Want his help? What can he do to help? Isn't it the same as what we just did, using aircraft carriers to provide a venue for aircraft take-off and landing speed measurements.

A new project, that is, a new aircraft, now a drone, it should be impossible to get another drone, then the most likely one is left?

Thinking in his heart, he thought of the rumors that a new fighter would appear as soon as Xu Ziling left the aircraft carrier a few months ago, and immediately realized that what he was talking about now was not the rumored plane?

After all, things can't be so coincidental, as soon as Xu Ziling left, there were rumors on the aircraft carrier, thinking that it seemed that Xu Ziling should have inadvertently mentioned this project among the people below.

He was also concerned about some of the relevant situations mentioned in the rumors, and when he heard Xu Ziling say this, he was of course very interested.

The thought in his heart turned, thinking that the rumors on the aircraft carrier were confirmed from the side some time ago, and he immediately asked:

"Is it a fighter? Can you tell me about it, of course, if you're embarrassed, forget it. ”

Listening to the captain's cautious voice, Xu Ziling smiled,

"What's so hard about that, these things are not kept secret to you. The new project is indeed a fighter, similar to the F-35, and the carrier-based model also has mature vertical take-off and landing technology, and the stealth ability may be slightly increased, but it cannot reach the speed of the UAV. ”

The prototype has not yet come out, and Xu Ziling can only say something rough, but even if it is only so little, it is enough for Captain Zhang to digest.

Sure enough, after listening to this, he didn't speak for a long time, and was silent for a while before he asked a very important question:

"And how much difference is it from the F-35?"

As soon as he heard Captain Zhang ask, Xu Ziling immediately understood his potential meaning.

The cost of the F-35 is more than 100 million US dollars, and the Celestial Empire is not an advanced country like the United States, but it does not have so much financial resources to buy it in large quantities, and it is no problem to buy one or two, but for the air force of a large country, what kind of combat effectiveness can be formed if only three or two such aircraft are delivered?

Captain Zhang asked, undoubtedly because he was worried that the cost would be too expensive and the state would not purchase it.

"There's no need to worry about this, we did a little calculation at the beginning, and if we don't calculate the R&D expenses, an aircraft will be one-third to one-quarter of the F-35."

"Oh!"

Hearing this answer, Captain Zhang breathed a sigh of relief.

One-third is forty million US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 200 million Celestial Coins, and if it is a quarter, it is less than 200 million Celestial Coins, although this price is not cheap compared to fighters, but if it can be the same as the F-35XÌNG, then it is a great bargain, and the military department also has the ability to procure.

The two chatted about something over the airwaves, and soon it was noon, when communication was interrupted.

Because of the time, the test work on the side of the military factory was stopped when the plane arrived on the "Liaoning". Everyone saw that Xu Ziling had something to do, so they left him alone, and he had already left the control center.

After communicating with Captain Zhang, Xu Ziling also left.

Zhilu said that everyone should go to the cafeteria at this time, so he also ran over.

found a group of people in the restaurant, Xu Ziling saw Lin Jianbin coming from the 81st Division, and greeted him with a smile, because there were many people, and the two didn't talk much.

Because they had to get the drone back in the afternoon, everyone didn't stay long in the restaurant, quickly finished a light meal, and returned to the control center together.

In the afternoon test, Xu Ziling only planned to let the drone take off from the "Liaoning", and then test the reconnaissance equipment at sea again, and then return to the sea, which is not a heavy task.

Huang Lao, Li Lao, Yang Haisheng and others can't stay in the military factory all the time, but they all want to watch the drone return to the military factory, and as soon as everyone returns to the control center, Xu Ziling asked everyone to get ready to start working.

Re-connected with the "Liaoning", with their help, the drone rose from the hangar to the deck, and after all the preparations were completed, Xu Ziling controlled the plane to take off from the aircraft carrier smoothly.

After conducting a 30,000-meter-high reconnaissance test in the South China Sea, he controlled the drone and prepared to return.

adjusted the course, and when he didn't see the coastline on the return voyage, Xu Ziling's confidential phone rang.

He was very surprised how the phone rang, and wondered if it was Yang Kaiming or Li Cheng calling, after all, in the past six months, he asked Smith to track down the ambush of the sword team a few months ago, and he didn't get much useful information, so he asked the deputy next to him to take over the control and took out the phone from his body.

When the phone was taken out and looked at the screen, Xu Ziling was stunned, it was not Yang Kaiming and them calling at all, but Captain Zhang, who was still talking in the communication system just now.

Thinking that it should be something special not to say in the communication channel, he took the phone and walked towards the outside of the control center.

"Captain Zhang, do you have anything else?"

When he came to a place where there was no one outside, he answered the phone.

"Easy to talk to?"

Captain Zhang on the phone did not answer Xu Ziling's question, but asked in a very cautious tone.

It seems that things are not simple, Xu Ziling thought to himself, looked around, and replied:

"There's no one around."

"I just received the news that my civilian fishing boat was blocked by the island's ** ship in the waters of Diaoyu Island, and there may be a collision accident, and the relevant departments have sent fishery administration ships and fighters to go, but the island country also dispatched two F-15 fighters. Your drone hasn't returned yet? Interested in checking it out? ”

Hearing this news, Xu Ziling was angry and excited at the same time, the small island country is becoming more and more arrogant, Diaoyu Island has been the territory of our Celestial Empire since ancient times, and he actually dared to let warships block my country's fishing boats.

Excited that Captain Zhang said this, he must have consulted the relevant departments to let his drone pass, and he was thinking about whether the drone could hit any targets in the South China Sea.

"Is there a bottom line?"

He asked immediately.

Captain Zhang knew that his drone was now loaded with live ammunition in the cannon, and he must have his idea if he could let himself go, so Xu Ziling immediately asked what authority the drone had, if he just walked around there, he was really not interested, and if he had the authority to let himself use force, it would be fun.

"What's the bottom line? Except for the fishery administration boat and two J-10 fighters, our country did not send unmanned attack aircraft or anything like that. ”

Hearing Xu Ziling's question, Captain Zhang immediately answered him.

“……”

I love it! Hearing Captain Zhang's answer, Xu Ziling's first reaction was this.

"Okay, I know what to do."