After saying that, Vera stood quietly in place and kept her hands in the pockets of her lab coat motionless, Marilyn Hewson looked at the girl in front of her, opened her mouth and swallowed the words back, and after a while, she still swallowed back the words.

"$7 billion? Vera, in just three years, you have burned $34.9 billion of the company, an average of more than $10 billion per year......"

In recent years, most of Lockheed Martin's R&D budget expenditure, to be exact, about 75% of the R&D budget has been eaten up by Vera Lopez's projects.

She is the chief scientist of the company supported by Marilyn, and it can be said that she has been given so much money to burn, and this female head has been under tremendous pressure on the company's board of directors.

Fortunately, Vera has made achievements, especially the recent CFR projects have made gratifying progress, and have risen to the largest strategic project of Loma, and the company's market value has skyrocketed by more than $50 billion because of the CFR projects led by Vera, and now the market value of Lockheed Martin has reached $156.2 billion.

Almost every time there is news of a breakout in the CFR, the company's market capitalization will rise sharply.

Now all the major shareholders of Loma have obediently shut up, even if they have doubts about some of Marilyn's decisions, they have no objection to her.

Who made the stock go crazy now...

"OK, I believe you." Marilyn Hewson smiled immediately, and as long as she hadn't failed in a major way, there was nothing she could not agree to.

But Marilyn did not give up her original plan in her heart, but put it on hold for a year, and it was no big deal to put it on hold, what if Vera could bring the biggest surprise?

It's not impossible to abandon the original plan.

It's just that she never dreamed that this "surprise" was not given to her by Vera, but from Tianqing Technology Group on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

……

With the passage of time, during the period of the presence of the North American Furious Brush, the major cooperative institutions of the "Sky Blade Project" have delivered their respective module accessories, and Tianqing Industry has quietly begun to enter the final assembly of the first prototype of the Sky Blade fighter.

This afternoon, Gu Cheng drove to Tianqing Industrial Zone.

"Mr. Gu, the prototype of the Heavenly Blade has been assembled for two days, and if it goes well, it is expected that the final assembly task will be completed in four and a half days." At this moment, in the assembly workshop of the Tianjian R&D Center, Liu Guangyuan and Gu Cheng are walking on the third floor corridor at the edge, and the assembly workshop is below.

In the empty workshop, the most striking thing is that the core skeleton structure of the Sky Blade fighter has already shown the prototype of the fighter.

"Yes, you have also worked hard, I didn't expect you to be able to complete such a demanding task on schedule or even a little earlier, it's not easy." Gu Cheng said with satisfaction.

"It should." Liu Guangyuan immediately smiled and said, as the head of the Tianjian Company, he has only recently breathed a sigh of relief, some time ago it can really be described as a hard work, and he finally completed the "Military Order" task.

If the Sky Blade fighter is measured according to the traditional fighter, it should not meet the standard of a heavy fighter, but if the combat effectiveness is calculated, the smaller the weapon and equipment, the higher the combat effectiveness.

Fighter pilots: 1 person

Height: 4.08 m

Length: 14.90 m

Wingspan: 10.56 metres

Empty weight of the fighter: 12970 kg

Power system: 2× [GD89.7S] light guide main engine, 7× [GD15.22S] vector auxiliary light guide engine

Maximum flight speed: Mach 37 (surpassing the second cosmic speed, surpassing the Apollo 10 spacecraft, making it the fastest manned vehicle ever manned)

Limit overload: -6.28/+18.84g

Take-off form: vertical take-off and landing

Combat radius: Covers the Earth-Moon system

There is no doubt that the first aerospace vehicle in the history of mankind is undoubtedly an epoch-making product, and it is a proper next-generation scientific and technological product in the present era, and its subversive power and influence are no less than that of mankind to open a new era of discovery.

The Age of Discovery!

Gu Cheng left here after staying in the assembly workshop for a while, and stayed in the company for half an hour before returning to his villa.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, in the large living room on the main floor of the riverside villa, Gu Cheng was lying on the sofa and staring at the big screen, the screen was playing the live broadcast of the North American CNN channel.

Today can be said to be a day of great restlessness in North America and even in Europe and the United States, and at this moment, no one can snatch the world's headlines from Eagle Sauce.

A lonely island appeared in the camera on TV, Gu Cheng was stunned and said: "Ma De is really the 'God Wisdom Staff', I think how big an island is, Nima has a maximum of 100 meters in the sky, and the nuclear crater is more than this big, and Ying-chan has also learned to title the party." ”

Gu Cheng was speechless, how bullish the report of North America's "Defense One" was at the beginning, claiming that this public test launch of space-based kinetic weapons would wipe out an island in the South Pacific.

At first glance, it sounds quite bluffing.

The screen cuts to Houston, where the final fifteen-minute countdown to the launch of space-based weapons has begun, during which a person in charge of the United Technology Corporation, which is responsible for the development of space-based weapons, is interviewed.

Gu Cheng sat quietly on the sofa watching TV alone, and as the countdown was approaching, at this moment, Qin Yuyan, who was wearing a burgundy sundress, came over elegantly and sat down lazily next to him.

As soon as she sat down, Gu Cheng turned his head and glanced at her, and said, "It's crooked." ”

Qin Yuyan smiled coquettishly and said, "I know it's crooked, and I know how to correct it, it won't be overcorrected, it's just right, and it's delicious." ”

With gusto?

Gu Cheng looked back at the live TV broadcast, and said lightly: "Don't make trouble, I'm watching the live broadcast of the Americans, this is big news." ”

Hearing this, Qin Yuyan glanced at the content on the TV screen, and immediately retracted her gaze boringly, seeing that Gu Cheng was indifferent, she got up and stepped forward to find the power cord and removed it directly, then turned around and said, "Don't look at it, look at me." ”

Gu Cheng looked at Qin Yuyan, who was standing in front of the pitch-black big screen, and suddenly said urgently: "What are you doing, at the critical moment, Lao Mei is about to launch a space-based weapon, quickly plug the wire back in for me." Think about it from another perspective, I'll give you a break at the critical moment, you're also very uncomfortable, aren't you? And I've never done that before, am I right? ”

And at this moment, Qin Yuyan was also indifferent, and after a while, she picked up a pair of scissors and cut the power cord plug of the TV screen, which was not enough, and returned to the bedroom silently with the plug.

Gu Cheng came to the TV screen and picked up the cut power cord, glanced at the screen, and estimated that Lao Mei had already launched the space-based kinetic energy weapon at this moment.

Playing ball, I can only watch tomorrow's replay.

Glancing in the direction of the bedroom, Gu Cheng shook the power cord and walked away angrily.

"The losers caused me to miss the live broadcast, this time it really me off, cut me off from watching the live broadcast at the critical moment, see how I cut you!!"

At the same time, in the orbit of the planet 1,000 kilometers away, a huge tungsten rod high-altitude orbiting satellite was launched.

……