Skunk Works, California, USA.

Once just a few tents, next to the foul-smelling plastic factory, the employees here had to wear masks to work, and also earned the nickname of the Skunk Works, but since the birth of this factory, it has jumped many steps in a row, and now it has become the most powerful fighter manufacturer in the United States, and every aircraft designed here is a classic.

The U-2 reconnaissance plane, which was once able to fly to an altitude of more than 20,000 meters, was followed by the SR-71 Blackbird, which flew at a higher altitude and flew at three times the speed of sound for a long time, and then designed and built the most advanced F-117 stealth attack aircraft in the United States. This factory, which can be said to have brought together the most outstanding technicians of Lockheed, is also the peak of the entire American aviation technology.

At this time, in the factory building, a strangely shaped plane is being assembled, and the head of the Skunk Works, Ben Ritchie, is fascinated by the plane in the workshop.

With a diamond-shaped nose, butterfly-shaped wings, and a large camber of the twin vertical tails, this aircraft is the masterpiece of Lockheed, the first prototype of the American Advanced Tactical Fighter ATF project program, and has begun to enter the final final assembly!

For this project, Lockheed began to plan meticulously in the eighties, beating out rival Northrop to become the general contractor for this project plan, and then, after several years of design, and now, finally starting to build a prototype!

The birth of an aircraft requires multiple steps, design, manufacturing, assembly, and test flight. Although the project has been going on for more than ten years, it is expected that it will take about ten years to reach all the design indicators. Enter the low-speed production stage.

After this aircraft is finalized, it will be proud of the world and become the only advanced fighter that integrates stealth, supersonic cruise and ultra-low detection capabilities! Even the USSR did not have the same fighters to compete with!

And now, this first one is only used for static testing, and the advanced F-119 engine has not yet been developed, and it will wait until the test flight of the second and third aircraft. to be able to assemble.

"The Ministry of Defense has asked us to send a few experts to Pakistan to participate in the target test of the joint attack munitions provided by Pakistan." As he watched the workers assemble the warplane, next to him, another engineer in charge, Darol Olsen, said.

Pakistani-made joint strike munitions? What scientific and technological capabilities does Pakistan have? The industrialization of their country is only a few years? Ben Ritchie simply scoffed at this, but. The Ministry of Defense is in a hurry, and there have been so many terrorist attacks in the country recently. The Ministry of Defense is eager to immediately go to Iraq and bring Saddam Hussein to justice.

"Okay, Darol, you send two men with you." Ben Ritchie said.

Go yourself? Dharol was stunned: "But I still have to participate in the development of the ATF program." ”

"It won't take a few days, and. You can also take people with you, you can also see what the Pakistanis are doing, and if the project is valuable, we at Skunk Works can also develop the same project and provide it to the Air Force. Ben Ritchie said.

In addition to being an engineer. He is also the person in charge of the factory, and he has to consider the entire Lockheed Group, if the cost can really be reduced by half, then this kind of precision attack ammunition can be developed and provided to the military, and the military must be in great demand!

"Okay." Darrol was not actually interested in Pakistan's joint attack munitions, but since the chief in charge had spoken, he could only do so.

"Our stealth coating, which has not been developed very well, can cause detachment in some cases, and if it is sucked into the engine, it can lead to more dangerous air stops." After saying this Ministry of Defense arrangement, another engineer reported.

If you want low detectability, in addition to the shape design of the fuselage, the stealth coating is also quite important, although the Skunk Factory has developed the F-117 aircraft, with the experience of developing the stealth coating, but after all, the black coating can only make the aircraft stealthy at night, and during the day, you can find such a black guy visually.

And the new fighter, however, must be able to fly around the clock, the stealth coating can no longer be black, and it needs to be redeveloped, and in this way, the project encountered a lot of problems.

"Let's go, let's take a look." Ben Ritchie said, and together they left the final assembly shop.

Sitting in the battery car, leaving from this side, Ben Ritchie's eyes looked at the road, and in front of him, two trucks were driving from the opposite road.

The factory has tens of thousands of employees, and the three meals a day for these employees is a big problem, so the factory must have a special canteen, and this truck transports the ingredients of the factory's canteen.

The car in front is loaded with two cows in the back, and the half car in the back is a rooster jumping around!

Seeing this, Ben Ritchie was stunned for a moment and asked, "I remember, we used to use refrigerated trucks to transport meat, right?" ”

"Yes." The assistant sitting next to him, who was in charge of logistics, said: "Boss, you don't know, the meat transported by the refrigerated truck is not fresh,

In order to provide a good source of food for our factory employees, especially fresh, some time ago, our canteen here started importing live livestock in direct contact with a nearby farm. Compared to the frozen chicken and beef that are transported in refrigerated trucks, these livestock that are directly transported to the slaughter are of course fresher! Since the import of these live poultry, our factory canteen has become the most popular place for our employees. KFC outside or something, no one goes to patronize it anymore. ”

Especially the chicken thighs in KFC that were exposed some time ago, they were put in the refrigerator for three or four years, and they were still the same when they were taken out. Especially now, watching the vehicles pulling live poultry enter every day, the employees of the factory know that the food is fine.

Now is not the future of avian flu, mad cow disease outbreak, live poultry trade is not regulated by the US government, although such costs are higher, as a large company that is very responsible for the lives of employees, naturally does not care about these small money.

So that's it! Ben Ritchie looked at the living creatures pulled on the truck, and there was a strong smell wafting in the air, and then, the cow that he was observing, with a few flicks of his tail, squeezed out a large puddle of his ass, Ben Ritchie suddenly felt extremely disgusted, he retracted his head, and continued to think about the stealth coating, which is related to the focus of the development of the new fighter project, and must not be delayed! Especially now, the Soviet Union's Su-27 has begun to be marketed around, and the American F-15 cannot achieve obvious advantages, so the new fourth-generation fighter must be finalized and developed as soon as possible and equipped with troops in order to continue to form a generation gap with the Soviet Union!

Thinking of this, he suddenly heard the sound of "clucking", turned his head to look over, and saw that the door of the bar-type cargo box behind the truck behind him suddenly opened, and at this time, countless roosters, who were flapping their wings from inside, got a free attack, raised their heads to the sky and crowed, and at the same time ran and jumped on the lawn of the factory, and fanned their wings vigorously, but unfortunately it was too heavy to fly.

"Damn it!" Ben Ritchie was furious, what had become of this? The whole factory will soon be flying with chickens everywhere!

"Quick, call the security guards and catch all these chickens!" The assistant next to him was also stunned, and then gave an order.

Skunk Works, because it has been developing fighter jets for the US military, has a high degree of secrecy, and the sentry posts outside are all US soldiers standing guard! And after those damned Middle Easterners launched an attack on the US mainland, they strengthened the defenses here, and even self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft missiles were deployed here, for fear that the damned attackers would come and wreak havoc.

However, the inside of the factory is only patrolled by some of the factory's original security guards, who have been working in the factory for several years and are very reliable.

Hearing the order, the security guards rushed out, and everyone rushed up to catch these roosters with rubber sticks.

"Giggle." A rooster moved quickly on both legs, avoiding an oncoming security guard, and then got through the crotch of the second security guard, as if realizing the danger was coming, and the two wings flapped and actually flew!

The other rooster with a fiery red crest, as if more excited in this scene, rubbed his head on the ground, rubbed his sharp beak on the ground a few times, rushed towards the nearest security guard, and then, with his own sharp beak, pecked the thigh of the security guard in front.

The security guard's rubber stick danced, and only a few chicken feathers were knocked off, but he felt a pain in his thigh, and the rooster actually pecked his leg through his pants and pecked out blood!

"Ahh He couldn't help screaming, threw away the rubber stick, hugged his legs and was about to sit on the ground, followed, but saw more roosters running towards this side, suddenly, he endured the pain, ran back, in this man-chicken war, he became a loser!

A truck, at least a few hundred chickens, the driver in front of him found that the cage behind it suddenly opened, and when he quickly stopped the car, the rooster inside had already run more than half of it, and the rooster with the fastest legs and feet had run away without a trace. (To be continued.) )