Month. The authorities of the Republic of China have made a high-profile evening cloth and organized a drinking group to participate in the Van Paul Xiaonong to promote the normalization of military and security exchanges between China and the EU.

Subsequently, a number of arms enterprises led by AVIC, China Heavy Group and North Heavy Industry, as well as a number of old civil aircraft manufacturing enterprises and civil aviation equipment manufacturing enterprises mainly based on Shanghai Aircraft Corporation, Chengdu Aircraft Corporation and Shenyang Aircraft Company, successively announced the list of exhibitors and the arrangements for activities during the exhibition.

In the list of exhibited products, the most eye-catching thing is definitely not the main fighter of the republican ** team such as Xiaozhou who went to Europe for the first time, nor the Van Bark strategic bomber that participated in overseas air shows, but the two kinds of "aerospace fighters" that have long been rumored and have been concerned by the China Heavy Group and the AVIC Group.

Although in the list, both companies have only given a code name, that is, Blazing One Dozen and Lianhao 2, but military enthusiasts who understand the republican ** fire development system can see that the two representatives are developing and are in the original form of the competition stage. So in the four projects it must be more advanced fighters than the couple. In this way, there are only aerospace fighters.

You must know that with the law of heavy fighters, if they are used to replace the old ones, they will definitely have limited air-space combat capabilities, such as the ceiling exceeding four meters, being able to carry air-launched anti-missile and anti-satellite missiles, and having limited target locking capabilities. Because both of these projects are used to replace the late, several years late, there must be a huge leap in performance, so it must be an aerospace fighter, not a fighter that only hums the word limited combat capability.

In the words of the US news media, the main purpose of the high-profile participation of the authorities of the Republic and the entire arms industry in the Fein Paul air show is not to win over the European Union, but to demonstrate to the United States and to raise the arms race.

Obviously, this sentence is to the point.

It is known that after the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War, with the advent of the first generation of electric equipment in the republic. The arms race with the United States quietly began. After the outbreak of the Korean Peninsula War, the arms race between the Republic and the United States came to an end from behind the scenes. Although the Cold War relationship between the Republic and the United States was not largely formed until the end of the Japanese War, the two sides were already competing in the vital field of military technology until then. According to a document declassified by the US authorities at the beginning of the year, at the end of the seventh year, the US federal government drew up a strategic plan for the Republic, in which military technology was placed in an important position, and many of the main battle equipment purchased by the US military in large quantities since then are related to this plan. The new address of this site has been changed to: Talk about the fetal o muscle Jianshan, please read Kouda!

The problem is that in this arms race, the United States has not been able to become the frontrunner again.

Some people may think that the "rear advantage" is enough to make up for the lack of the early stage. If we do not consider the interests between countries, the latter advantage can indeed bring a lot of benefits to many countries that do not reach and do not reach the country, but after considering the interests between countries, the latter is not an advantage. It's a disadvantage. Historically, there has never been a "post." The state is able to leapfrog the old empire without innovating. back then. The Netherlands was able to surpass Spain by relying on the bourgeois revolution, Britain was able to catch up with the industrial revolution, the United States was able to surpass Britain by relying on the power revolution, and the republic was able to surpass the United States at the beginning of the century by relying on the energy revolution represented by controlled fusion. It can be seen from this that after losing its leading position, the United States will certainly not be able to cross the republic without following suit.

As a matter of fact, since the beginning of the year, the United States has not been able to pass the republic in several technical fields related to normal temperature conductivity, and the gap between the United States and the republic has become wider and wider. Taking composite batteries as an example, the United States has mastered the basic principles and production process of composite batteries in the regimental year, which is only 7 years behind the republic, and when it comes to the good year, when the republic has been mass-producing old-grade composite batteries for the army, and even preparing for the industrial production of power-level composite batteries, the mouth-level composite batteries of the United States have only been put into production, and its old-level composite batteries will not be put into production until the past years.

That is, the gap widened to the year of the beater.

The impact of technological backwardness on military power is most obvious.

As mentioned earlier, from theory to reality, air-space fighters need to overcome many difficulties, and they are all technical problems. It is precisely for this reason that since the era of power, the Republic has made a lot of efforts in this direction, not only investing state forces, but also mobilizing a large number of civilian forces.

It can be said that the contribution of the private sector even exceeds that of the state.

The most representative is the "Qionglou Project".

As a civil aerospace project, the "Qionglou Project" is certainly the project that attracted the most attention in the first half of the century and had the greatest impact on human civilization. Although at the beginning, the authorities of the Republic, especially the Tianbing who had just been established, hoped to develop the project into a dual-use project, but at the insistence of Wang Yuanqing, "the Qionglou project. It turned out to be a very thorough civil space project. In order to support the project, Wang Yuanqing not only personally came forward to persuade many wealthy businessmen, including Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen, to invest in the project, but also reached an agreement with several enterprises of the project. That is, let the Zhongzhong Group and the AVIC Group annex several aerospace enterprises that undertook the "Qionglou Project" and form two groups that provide space launch services. The two groups then competed for the project's space launch business. In this way, the project could be financially subsidized through arms procurement and military technology development, while ensuring competition.

I have to admit that Wang Yuanqing was too pessimistic at that time.

Since it is a private project, it can be made for the purpose of making a profit, and if the "Qionglou Project" wants to make a profit, there are only two ways to go, one is to provide orbital space for some enterprises, and the other is to provide "sailing" travel services for individuals. At the beginning of the century, many people thought that the former was more promising, after all, with the advancement of technology, many experiments and even some industrial production needed to be carried out in a vacuum and weightless environment. That's why you need an orbital platform. Taking precision instruments as an example, only in the case of weightlessness can a pure round ball be manufactured, and the accuracy requirements can be achieved. Because these are high-investment industrial projects, there are certainly a lot of companies willing to rent the space station.

The problem is that after Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen became the husbands and bosses of the project, the two made a very big decision that the space station was primarily for private individuals, not for businesses. In other words, the main identity of "Qionglou" is a tourist platform for private people to visit outer space.

Suffice it to say, this is a very bold one. Ance is also very strategic.

You must know that at that time, almost everyone thought that Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen had too much money to use, showing their strong financial strength in this huge project that was destined to burn trillions of yuan. Some U.S. news outlets even believe that Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen both have large amounts of ill-gotten gains, so the two hope to take this opportunity to use the money, after all, both are old, their children have careers, and they do not need to inherit the family property.

At that time, there was another person who saw the future clearly, and that was Wang Yuanqing.

It was after listening to Lin Muhua and Li Chengwen's vision for the future of the project that Wang Yuanqing decided to hand over the project to private individuals rather than the state. Judging from the later exhibitions, with the efficiency of the national unit and the way of promoting the economic exhibition, it is not possible to undertake such a huge project, or make the project completely sour, and become a scientific research space platform similar to the International Space Station.

In fact, "the Qionglou project." It did burn almost all the hard-earned money of the richest businessman.

In the words mentioned by Lin Yanbo in his memoirs, by the end of the Blade era, that is, when the "Qionglou Project" was being opened to the public, he and Li Chengwen mortgaged almost all the assets, and Li Chengwen also had his son mortgage some of the assets. I got enough money together and got through it.

In fact, the main reason for the project's difficulties was not the lack of a market, but the Great Depression.

You know, during the entire Great Depression, even if the economy of the republic was thriving, not many people were willing to spend 10,000 yuan to live in space. During the promotion period, the price of the "Qionglou Project" was reduced to 10,000 yuan. Because the price of electricity has been greatly reduced, coupled with the rapid development of hydrogen and oxygen rocket engines, the "ticket price" of 2 million yuan is not low, at least it will not be a loss. It's just a little less. According to a survey done at the time, the whole catty. The republic, which has the ability to travel to space and will not have much impact on life and work, is only about 10,000 people. Among these people, there are also elderly people who are calcium-old and teenagers who are less than the old age, and there are no more than 20,000 people left, except for some people with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases who are not suitable for space travel. Among these 20,000 people, at most, only 10% of them can complete the preliminary training without working for 2 years. In other words, it is possible that the people who will not go to space will not pass the blade. According to the calculation of 40,000 yuan per person, there is only a market of 4B yuan. You must know that the start-up capital of the "Qionglou Project" is as high as Fei Yi Yuan, and the funds invested by Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen are as high as 400 million yuan. Based on the situation at the time, while maintaining the same fare, the project would have to send the mouth concave people into space every year so that it would not lose money. According to the calculation that each person stays in space for 7 days and the utilization rate of the space capsule is calculated, it is necessary to build 3 or 4 space capsules for passengers, and the construction and firing costs of these cabins are high trillions of yuan.

It can be said that during the Great Depression, no one could have come up with that much money.

Thankfully, technological advancements have changed everything.

With the rapid spread of controlled fusion nuclear power plants, the price of electricity has dropped to almost zero in a year. The General Assembly of the Republic passed a decree that the State would pay for the construction and maintenance of all power stations in the country by commissioning construction before the New Year. According to a certain standard, citizens are provided with free electricity, that is, the taxes paid by citizens are used to buy electricity for citizens, and finally "zero electricity prices" are realized. The cost of space launch has also dropped rapidly, to a level that is affordable to the wealthier people.

What's more, during the Great Depression, currency depreciation also reduced the cost of space launches in disguise.

By the time of Yo Yo, the fart fare is still shown. However, in comparison, the Republic's knowledge of "the output value has increased to more than 10,000 yuan, and the standard for measuring affluence has been raised to 40,000 yuan in annual income, not to mention entrepreneurs." The annual income of some talented workers, the so-called gold-collar people, is even more based on persuasion, so the number of people who can accept the ticket price of Blade Ten Thousand has increased from 20,000 to Ru Wan, an increase of a hundred times. If it is still calculated according to the previous standard, then the total market volume has increased from 4B to Qin Gong 100 million.

It is so, at the end of the ugly years, "Qionglou project." It is officially open to the public.

The problem is that at that time, the Great Depression had just ended, and the society had not yet recovered, and even if the people's incomes increased, they were still trying to make up for the losses of previous years, so they were really willing to spend money on space, and they spent tens of thousands of dollars on space, and there were only 10,000 people.

Of course, no one can doubt the ability of society to progress.

By the beginning of the year, the per capita GDP of the republic has exceeded Baizhen Daxiao, and it is expected to grow at an annual rate, and it is expected that in the future, white-collar workers will be able to use their savings for several years to experience space life under the condition of sound social security.

What's more, as the market size expands, ticket prices will definitely come down.

In this way, the "seven-day tour of space" at that time will be similar to the "seven-day tour of Europe" at the beginning of the century.

In fact, in Liwannian, the "Qionglou Project" has achieved breakeven. According to the financial report of the good year, the gross profit of the project has broken through the habit of beating.

All in all, the civilian space market has expanded, and military technology has certainly benefited greatly.

Not to mention anything else, in order to reduce the cost of civil aerospace, the "Qionglou Project" has invested a huge amount of scientific research funds in the magnetic induction propulsion system. You know, if the magnetic induction propulsion system is successful. And with the ability to replace the launch vehicle using hydrogen and oxygen engines, then the cost of civilian space launch will be reduced by a large margin, reaching a level comparable to the cost of aviation flight at the beginning of the introduction. And so it goes. It's not hard to go to space. There is no doubt that the magnetic induction propulsion system is a key subsystem of the aerospace fighter. In a sense, whether the propulsion system can be launched directly determines whether the aerospace fighter can go to the battlefield.

and "Qionglou Project." There are also many cutting-edge technologies including materials, biology, and medicine.

It is a great pity that in such an important area. The pace of the United States has slowed down again.

It's not that the American authorities don't know the perpenitentiality of astronautics. It's about lagging too far behind in related technologies.

Among other things, the United States promoted controlled fusion nuclear power plants about a year later than the Republic. And the time of full popularization is more than the old year after the republic. In this way, the United States will not be able to compete with the Republic in terms of the cost of space launches, and it will be impossible for the Republic to engage in a space project that is destined to cost several trillion yuan like the Republic, because if the United States does so, the cost will be at least twice that of the Republic, not to mention that American enterprises cannot afford it, even if they concentrate the national strength of the United States. It may not be able to support such a huge project.

Based on the situation at that time, if the United States really followed suit and engaged in a similar plan, then the "Qionglou Project" was very likely to become the Republic's "Star Wars Strategy" plan, that is, to land on Mars and establish a scientific research station on Mars.

Although it seems more distant, and more "advanced." "But sending a few people to Mars is not at all a level of difficulty than building a giant space station in low-Earth orbit that can hold thousands of people.

In fact, later the Republic also introduced the "Hirohan Jizai Hitter", that is, to establish a colony on the moon. It is to make a call on the "Mars" of the United States to force the United States to increase its investment in spaceflight.

It can be said that the last time the United States got out of the Great Depression was related to the brutal competition between the two sides in the field of space.

According to some later declassified information, before the year of Liphantom, the investment of the authorities of the Republic in the field of aerospace was about 10 trillion yuan, while the investment of the United States in this field was about 7 trillion dollars. Although the republic's investment is slightly more at the Yo annual exchange rate, the combined national strength of the two countries, especially the economic situation during the Great Depression, must have been more stressed than the republic, and it is equivalent to 2 to 3 times that of the republic.

According to Wang Yuanqing's secretary Jiao Piaoshan, Wang Yuanqing later recalled that Wang Yuanqing had the idea of using the economy to defeat the United States.

Of course, this is just an idea. The United States used economic means to kill the former Soviet Union, and naturally it will not be defeated by the economic blow of the republic.

The problem is that this kind of all-out competition is definitely not something that anyone can stop if they want to.

Although relaxed! The war in the Middle East has caused both the Republic and the US authorities to suffer, and it has also had a deterrent effect on the intensifying Sino-US Cold War. But years passed, the Republic and the United States were relieved, and the people largely forgot about the effects of the war.

The authorities of the republic made a high-profile move at this time. It is tantamount to a letter of challenge to the United States.