Space weapons or something, naturally, have existed for a long time.

In the earliest days, decades ago, White Bear launched space weapons into Earth orbit, satellites equipped with upgraded aircraft guns.

It's just that the test launch effect is not ideal, because the weight of the satellite is only two tons, and the space environment is complex, which is completely different from the environment in the atmosphere, so even if the aircraft artillery hits a target a few kilometers away, it will be scrapped.

However, there was no shortage of brain masters in that crazy era, and later they developed an even more powerful "Polar One", which was a big guy.

It is 4 meters in diameter, 37 meters in length, and has a staggering 80 tons in mass.

It can fly in a 280-kilometer orbit in space, has radar and optical targeting systems, carries a 1-megawatt carbon dioxide laser cannon, and a recoilless launch system for deploying nuclear space mines.

Such a powerful force, once sent into space, will have a tremendous impact on the international situation, and if it is not done well, it will turn the cold war into a hot war, causing unpredictable consequences.

Fortunately, it crashed into the Pacific Ocean due to a malfunction.

And it costs a lot, I don't know if it has become one of the dark lines of the death of the white bear.

As a company that was just facing the White Bear at the time, Merrican naturally did not lag behind in this regard, but due to technical reasons, there were not many successful projects.

Even if it succeeded, it was limited for various reasons, and finally gave up.

However, mankind has never given up the idea of developing space weapons, especially the most advanced powers.

It can't be helped, that's the way the situation is between human nations.

It's just that although space looks empty, in fact, the environment is extremely complex, and even just breaking through the earth's atmosphere is quite difficult, so space wars or something are currently only in the plans and science fiction films of various countries.

But it couldn't be done decades ago, and it doesn't have to be now.

At the very least, several methods of attacking orbiting satellites in the atmosphere have been upgraded for several generations, such as anti-satellite missiles, anti-satellite lasers, anti-satellite satellites, and so on.

It's just that these things are too uncertain to use, destroying a satellite can produce thousands of debris, and if you are not careful, it is easy to clear the entire satellite orbit with one key, so that the earth has an extra artificial new clothes.

It's better than the project to stamp the Pacific Ocean.

However, with the continuous development and change of science and technology and the international environment, those previous restrictions and scruples are slowly disappearing.

Now, for example, Merrican wants to develop a real space fighter.

As soon as he got the news, Tang Chao notified Zhao Li and asked him to notify him more up.

When it comes to weapons and war, there is no need to carry it yourself, tell the authorities, and let them make a decision is the right choice.

Based on a comprehensive analysis of the information provided by the six major private aerospace companies and the official Tianxia government, a little bit of news was obtained that Merriken's space weapons were mainly modified in the early stage, and the carrying platform was the official "X-37B" and the private aerospace company "Dream Chaser".

Their role is to allow Merrican to quickly have its own space fighters, as for whether it is professional or not, whether it can be used or not is not to say first, it must be had, and it must be fast.

At the same time as transforming them, the design and manufacture of real space fighters, the resurrected "X-33" project.

A few decades ago, it was positioned to transport cargo, but now it seems simply stupid, as long as there are recyclable rockets for cargo, and this kind of easy-to-maintain, reusable, single-stage orbital spacecraft should be used as a space fighter.

As for the real "Adventure Star" program, it is said that after research, it is not worth restarting, and they have a better plan.

For something so big, I don't want to react quickly and launch flexibly, but find a way to keep it in the earth's orbit for a long time.

So try to increase its payload, and even assemble it in orbit, so that it can be a super heavy orbital bomber, or a space carrier, the kind that can carry small space fighters.

Then a reusable rocket is undoubtedly a good thing.

At present, the largest reusable rocket under development by Meriken is the "Starship Launch System" of the space fork.

Because of these news, Tianxia's side really can't go according to the previous plan, and there is no fine-tuning, and it must be overhauled.

Because of Merrican, it's an international hooligan, stinky and shameless, if you're just economically and technologically strong, but don't have the weapons to protect yourself, then it's going to beat you half to death, and then be your father.

It has too many criminal records, and there are several in East Asia alone.

And the most famous is the Sakura Country, the famous fat pig that once had a serious mismatch between economic and military strength, which directly made Merriken "fight" unable to find the north, "killed" and ate meat, and has not recovered until now.

Therefore, after getting Tang Chao's information, Tianxia officials held an emergency meeting.

Now they have an advantage over Merrican, that is, several major private aerospace companies of Merrican have cooperated with Tang Chao in order to develop the company and become giants.

Even, they knew that Tang Chao would have official contact with Tianxia, so they said so much.

Of course, the information they can know is also limited, and it is also in the space domain, so it is not enough for Tianxia to completely defeat Merrican with this information.

If you want to completely defeat Merrican, Tianxia still needs to continue to accumulate strength, according to calculations, at least ten or decades later, right?

At that point, the world may not be what it is.

And as a beneficiary, Tianxia will not debunk them, after all, they are also considered "allies" to a certain extent, and Tianxia has no need to expose his "informant".

This is also the reason why the six major private space companies are so unscrupulous, and they are confident that they will ride the fast train of the space race and become a supergiant in a dozen years.

It has to be said that private companies in the West have a heart to break through the sky, and those super companies that replace the country in cyberpunk are the goals they want to become.

On Tianxia's side, after holding an emergency meeting internally, he chatted with Tang Chao again, and then convened the country's aerospace companies to hold a super large aerospace conference.

Because Tang Chao proposed a super big plan, it needs the country's aerospace forces, and even the country's manufacturing forces to participate.

A massive space station!

A space spectacle visible to the naked eye on the ground!

During the meeting, Tang Chao took out the second phase of the space station plan of the Navigator Company and explained the design and manufacturing plan of the plan.

At the beginning, he considered docking with the Tiangong space station, so the whole plan had no sense of disobedience at all, and what was needed was just a new distribution and manufacturing plan.

"We will definitely not give up the manned moon landing program, and it will still proceed according to the plan, after all, the people in China have been waiting for that day for a long time!"

"However, we have also calculated in detail, there will definitely be difficulties in carrying out the two programs at the same time, but it is not impossible to overcome, if we want to continue to develop, we must continue to overcome difficulties!"

"Difficult things, let's talk about it a little later, I'll talk about our super space station plan first, and when I'm done talking about it, you will definitely forget the suffering I said before."

"Because once it is completed, we will enter a new era, an era that you as big bosses of aerospace companies will yearn for!"

"That is, the future!"

After speaking, the big screen behind Tang Chao showed a huge space station structure diagram.

The space capsule, section by section, is its body.

The sun wings are its wings.

It's the future!

It's the Heavenly Court Space Station! (Recommended reading: Reading Files 2013)