Chapter 168: Duty-bound
Qin Zhenhua's words resounded throughout the conference hall, and many old military leaders began to ponder.
"First of all, we can't buy the most advanced. The blockade imposed on us by foreign countries will be there forever. Qin Zhenhua introduced: "In the field of military industry, this is a cold law, when we wanted to buy tank guns, the West was only willing to sell us 105 mm caliber tank guns, 120 mm don't even think about it, as for the fire control system, we can only get the simplest disturbance fire control system." In short, only the technologies that the West has fallen behind and obsolete will give us. β
Qin Zhenhua glanced at everyone: "Relying on others is unreliable, we can only rely on ourselves, and pin our military science and technology development on the introduction of foreign countries, which can only follow behind others." β
The civilian side may be different, however, in the field of military industry, by buying, you can only buy backward!
"If we want to develop a world-class tank, and if we want to achieve the same level as the West, then we can only rely on ourselves." Qin Zhenhua continued: "At the same time, on the other hand, it is a problem of security, if we purchase foreign chips, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no problems. For us, their chips, like a black box, leave us a certain interface, we know how to use it, but what is the internal composition, we are not clear, if we purchase these things in large quantities, during the war, if there is a sudden accident that paralyzes all our weapon systems, at that time, who can afford such a responsibility? β
Nowadays, weapons have begun to use a large number of electronic systems, and once there is a problem with the electronic system, the weapon system is likely to become a pile of scrap metal.
As soon as Qin Zhenhua said this, the leader above smiled: "This, it's a bit alarmist, right?" What could go wrong? If the weapon is in our hands, can it still be controlled by others? That's science fiction, right? β
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is not science fiction. Computer viruses, right in front of our eyes. Qin Zhenhua said.
Just a few years ago, two popular science fiction books in the United States told the story of computers, including the impact of the massive spread of computer viruses, and so on.
This leader casually mentioned science fiction, in his eyes, it seems that these are very distant, foreigners' things, just use them, this is called Shiyi's long skills to control it, what's the problem? Don't scare yourself.
"Von Neumann, the pioneer of computers, proposed a special self-replicating program, which is the ancestor of viruses. Later, more than a dozen years later, this kind of program appeared in Bell's core battle game. Of course, the real computer viruses appeared a few years ago. Qin Zhenhua introduced: "In 1983, the American Fred had already demonstrated this kind of program on the computer that could copy itself and destroy the system, and just last year, two young men from Lao Ba wrote the Pakistan virus, which has now spread to the world. β
If you still think that you are far away from yourself, you are very wrong, now the domestic computer is still a new thing, but the virus is just around the corner.
"To put it simply, the other party implants a special program inside the chip sold to us, and when the war comes, the program inside the chip starts, not to mention anything else, as long as we format our hard drive, as long as our system is destroyed, then our weapons will not be usable." Qin Zhenhua said seriously: "This is definitely not alarmist, it is very likely that someone is already doing this." We will never know it exists until the time of war. β
"Guys, think about what it will be like when our troops are massed, when our tanks are already rushing towards the enemy, and the tankers suddenly find that their fire control computers are broken!" Qin Zhenhua said: "It is too naΓ―ve to put the safety of our troops in the hands of foreigners, expecting them not to do anything in the chip?" Or will the West be merciful? If we have problems in the north, then we probably won't be in trouble, but what if we want to land across the sea? β
Is it okay to pin your own security on the benevolence of foreign countries, on the so-called distance?
The faces of all the military representatives present have changed.
Qin Zhenhua continued: "On the other hand, civilian chips are not suitable for military use, we can't buy special military chips, we can only buy civilian, civilian chips, when designing, will not take into account the need for strong electromagnetic interference, or even the attack of electromagnetic pulse bombs, so we may use it normally now, but when it comes to war, in the complex electromagnetic interference, our fire control system will still fail." Not to mention fighting in the event of a nuclear explosion. β
If the previous question is still alarmist, then now this one is real, and if you look at the wars in Israel in the past few years, it shows the characteristics of the new era, when the other side used electromagnetic interference to make the Syrian missile forces deaf and blind.
The requirements for civilian chips and military chips are different, civilian chips pay attention to cost performance and high performance, while military chips pay attention to electromagnetic pulse resistance and so on, so the two are essentially different.
When civilian chips have the computing power of up to GHZ, and the production process of how many nanometers is used, the computing power of military chips is only a few tenths or even one percent of it.
It's like now, when civilian chips are about to reach the level of 486, military chips, it's good to have an 8086.
"We are using civilian chips now, but it is just to solve the problem of whether there is one, although it can be used, but it cannot meet the needs of the future state of war, so my personal point of view is that even if it is to smash the pot and sell iron, the chip of the military fire control computer must be made!" Qin Zhenhua said: "Moreover, not only our tanks need, all kinds of armored vehicles, but also in the future, not only our army needs, the air force, the navy need various types of fire control computers, the needs are different, but the basic calculations and so on are the same, I suggest, we can unite the navy, the air force, we can jointly engage in this research, in short, the fire control computer chip, is the technology that must be in our own hands!" β
Qin Zhenhua's eyes were blazing, looking at everyone: "I hope that the leaders will consider, if the leaders do not support it, then even if our machine factory is self-funded, we must set up such a research and development institution, you are afraid of spending money, we are not afraid, we are a machine man, for the sake of national defense and security, it is our duty!" β