The Nemesis project came to an end quietly, and the United States destroyed most of the planes in the Soviets' military airfield at the cost of one death and one minor injury among the special operators. Not only did they shoot down one of their fighters with their own M1939 37mm anti-aircraft guns, but they also photographed most of the secret documents in the command post before swaggering away. As for the angry expressions of the Soviet authorities afterwards, it is none of their business.

Despite the turmoil in East Berlin, Belgium is still calm, and Albert hasn't been paying much attention to the situation in Berlin lately, as he has a more important task to deal with: his F4 Phantom fighter and the C130 Hercules transport plane.

The crown prince of Belgium suddenly visited CMI Defense, which flattered the general manager of the defense company, Merlin, and he hurriedly received Albert in accordance with the company's highest requirements for receiving foreign guests.

Merlin had to accompany Albert to visit the factory with trepidation, but Albert did not see any parts of the plane here, let alone the fuselage wings, not even the shadow of the engine.

"What's the matter, Manager Merlin, didn't you swear on the phone that there had been a breakthrough and progress in aircraft development, why didn't I seem to see anything?" Albert questioned Merlin in a cold tone.

Merlin wiped a cold sweat, it was a casual sentence he said, who knew that the crown prince actually took it seriously, Merlin had to pull out the person in charge of the technical department to help him block the gun, "That, wait a minute, Your Highness Albert, I will ask the personnel of the technical department to explain to you, and promise to give you a satisfactory answer." ”

Merlin thought to himself that the crown prince was just a fourteen-year-old guy anyway, and the personnel of the technical department flickered over. But what he didn't know was that the design drawings of the F4 ghost and the C130 transport plane were made by Albert himself.

Albert also shook his head helplessly, these days, incompetent bureaucratic management mediocrity is everywhere. If he hadn't only mastered the artillery part of the Talesta Heavy Weapons Arsenal in his hands, he would really want to deliver the plane to the Talesta Arsenal to design, thinking of this, Albert naturally thought of Braun's father of rockets, and he didn't seem to have paid attention to this person since he was thrown into the Talester Arsenal, although he said that he wanted money for money and money for funds, Albert didn't know what he was talking about.

Albert made up his mind to stop by Kalashnikov and Braun to see if they needed the help of his historical finger.

Soon General Manager Merlin brought over a middle-aged man in dirty blue overalls, judging by his raunchy dress, indifferent eyes and messy hairstyle, it was completely in line with Albert's image of a tech nerd. Albert's eyes lit up with this tech nerd, and he thought about digging him up if he really had a few hits.

"Your Highness Albert, this is our head of technology, Juventus. If you have any questions, you can ask him, and he has been in contact with machines for many years, so it is dirty, so His Highness Albert does not need to get too close to this man. ”

Merlin's sneering look made Albert frown unhappily, especially in the last sentence, Albert sarcastically said, "General Manager Merlin, there is no distinction between high and low work, and similarly, there is no soul. ”

This rather philosophical sentence made Merlin miss the point for a moment, but a glimmer of light flashed in the eyes of the man in front of him, and then dimmed. But the subtle change was captured by Albert's eyes.

"Say, what are the difficulties in the development of the aircraft, I'll see what can be done for you." Albert said with a pleasant face.

Juventus scratched his hair and replied honestly, "Large forgings and engines are the two major factors restricting the development of aircraft. Although we are developing airplanes, but there is no sufficient amount of hydraulic presses can not get the parameters required by His Royal Highness, I also reported this situation to the company before, and the company said to think of a way but it has been delayed until now. ”

Albert finally knew what the problem was, the problem of large forging presses and engines, even with the Belgian industrial base, could not be rectified, after all, this can be regarded as an important indicator of a country's industrial strength. Even at the beginning of the 21st century, only China, the United States, Russia, and France had similar equipment. Albert could start developing a large forging press at this time, but even if he could do it himself, he didn't know what it would be like in the year of the monkey.

As for whether the F4 Phantom uses an engine or a J79-GE-17A turbojet engine developed by General Electric in 1954. Of course, Albert can also take the design drawings and go to GE Group, which specializes in the development of aero engines and aviation parts. After all, no one can guarantee that there will be any very different results in the deviation of the process.

For the first time, Albert learned that the development of airplanes is not as simple as light weapons, the latter is a competition for creativity and design, and the former is for industrial strength.

"Your Highness Albert, what do you think will be done?" Seeing that the crown prince's face was cloudy, Juventus asked weakly. As for the general manager beside him, he was already panicked, and he was afraid that the crown prince would come and say, forget it, don't fix it, I will give up this plan, and don't want to get back the money you invested.

"I will find a way to solve the problem of large forging presses, and if there is really no way to solve this problem with the aircraft engine, I want to hand it over to GE in the United States to solve this problem." Albert really can't come up with a better solution at the moment, after all, this thing is an engine designed by GE itself, and it is much better to hand over the design drawings to them to deal with the resistance than to scratch around like this.

Moreover, these people are just workers who eat for themselves, and they are not those proletarian regimes that struggle for the ideal of emancipating all mankind, and it is simply a fool's dream to use coercive means to concentrate resources and forces on research and development.

"In fact, there is another way, that is, it is not necessary to use the standard engine in His Royal Highness's design drawings, but to buy the current Allison J33-A-3 engine, the excellent application of the American Meteor F80 fighter shows the superiority of this engine, and wait until we can develop that engine, and then modify the aircraft to adapt to the airframe." Juventus has a suggestion.

"This method will not work, and the whole of the aircraft will have to be redesigned at that time, do you think I look like a big man?" Albert rejected his suggestion, "and engines are the core lifeblood of aircraft technology, and if we don't have engines, Belgian-made fighters will become a joke." ”

Albert didn't want his F4 ghost to become the laughing stock of the glorious fighter that India's A-3 had developed over the past 30 years, so he stared at Juventus aggressively and asked, "Are you willing to make the design at hand a joke?" Are you willing to work hard and make a dowry for others, uh, that's not the right analogy, should you be busy? Are you willing to disgrace your homeland in front of all nations? Tell me out loud, would you like to? ”

Albert's radical method really worked for the technographers with low EQ and high IQ, and the other party shook his head and replied excitedly, "Absolutely not, Belgium's first self-developed fighter must have all the core technology in its own hands." Rest assured, Your Highness Albert, we will definitely overcome the technical difficulties! ”

Seeing the other party's confident look, Albert said a meaningful word in front of Manager Merlin, "You should have such confidence, and I am optimistic about you, if you are interested, you can consider coming to my company to have a look." ”

Manager Merlin on the side turned green after hearing this, isn't this a fair digging corner, but the other party is still the crown prince, and he doesn't dare to give an eviction order.

Juventus, who was still immersed in the joy of the sacred mission, said excitedly, "We must live up to our mission!" ”