"Duke, tell me, what's going on with your space exploration center? What are the features? Hearing the amazing changes reported by Qin Tairan, Mr. Liu was very interested, and made a special trip to Yang Jianguo, the general assembly, to listen to Duke's idea together.

Duke knew that this level was not easy, so he put a lot of effort into making a very beautiful briefing, and even asked Kerry to generate a three-dimensional map of the future space exploration center, so that everyone could intuitively see what this center would become.

"To put it simply, this is a comprehensive device used to find and study cosmic stars and extraterrestrial intelligent life, which will use some special ultra-long-range communication technology that I have studied in the past few years, which is very powerful and can theoretically be transmitted to a planet hundreds of light-years away, if there is really a relatively advanced intelligent life in the galaxy, then after receiving the signal we sent, it may make some responses, of course, when it is the turn of this information to return to the earth, the farthest may not be transmitted back after thousands of years."

"Okay, Duke, we already know about the universe, I want to know, can this thing you said really be lethal soft kill to a vehicle within a thousand kilometers?" Obviously, Old Man Liu is not interested in those things that are explored in the universe. What he wants to know most now is the military potential contained within.

If Duke, a whimsical thing, really has the ability to carry out lethal soft damage to aircraft within a thousand kilometers, then it will be of great use, not only can it shoot down flying objects such as fighters without realizing it, but also can kill satellites in the higher sky.

"Because of the ultra-long-distance propagation, the electromagnetic waves that emit shè carry a lot of energy, and this super electromagnetic wave is like a sunspot storm, which has a strong destructive effect on most of the electronic components on the flying objects, whether they are airplanes or satellites. Therefore, in principle, the electronic components on the aircraft within 1,000 kilometers have a great probability of damage, and for the aircraft 1,000 kilometers away, there is also a certain probability of damage. Duke explained.

"However, because this device is extremely large, although it is designed to move at a certain angle, the speed of movement will be very slow, for a very fast moving aircraft such as fighters, it can only be damaged if it waits for the rabbit to collide with it, and the possibility of damage if you want to actively aim and track is zero."

A giant that is dozens of stories tall and tens of thousands of square meters in size, with Duke's existing capabilities, there is absolutely no way that it can move flexibly and move as freely as a high cannon. So in Duke's mind, although this thing has a strong lethal ability to electronic devices, it is still too far from a super electromagnetic weapon.

Because for the fighter in flight, because the flight trajectory will always change, the system basically has no way to calculate the appropriate angle half an hour in advance, so that the equipment can prepare in advance and wait for the fighter to collide, so there is almost nothing that can be done to actively destroy the fighter.

"We don't necessarily need to target fighters," Chief Yang Jianguo seemed to see through Duke's psychology, and said with a smile, "In fact, we are more interested in its anti-satellite capabilities, Duke, for the current war, the role of satellites is not inferior to that of fighters, but now there are many ways to deal with fighters, but there are not a few ways to deal with satellites." ”

"Maybe you know that we have missiles that can destroy satellites, but this kind of obvious attack is actually just a means of threat in war, like nuclear weapons, in fact, everyone does not dare to use them easily, because now there are several countries that have this capability, and when the war has not yet extended to space, we cannot be the first to open this Pandora's box, which will not only bear huge political costs, but also put our satellites in the sky in an unsafe situation that may be attacked at any time. So this means can only be used as a backup by the countries that now have this technology. ”

"But if we have a big killer weapon that comes and goes without a trace through electromagnetic weapons, it will be different, we can completely choose to paralyze the opponent's satellite communications and reconnaissance in the war, for this unaware means, the opponent has no evidence to find out that we are the one, and we can only suffer dumb losses."

Duke listened to the words of Chief Yang Jianguo, and only then did he know the real intention of the military, speaking of which this possibility is really not small, because for artificial earth satellites in low earth orbit, their operation has a certain law, and it is impossible to change and maneuver flexibly like a fighter, so that you can reconnoiter its operation law in advance, calculate the detailed information of its operation orbit according to these operation law parameters, and then wait for the rabbit to be more likely to be higher.

"Duke, tell me, can you scale this thing down a little bit and maintain the same electromagnetic intensity under the augmentation flexibility?" Old man Liu looked at Duke with burning eyes, although he is not very good at technology, but there is the support of think-tank experts behind him, before Duke came to the capital, he has figured out that the key to transforming Duke into an anti-satellite weapon is the directional beam energy, if it can still maintain or even enhance the directional emission intensity of electromagnetic waves at a smaller size, then it has a very high probability of transforming into a soft-killing electromagnetic weapon.

"Theoretically, if you just emphasize simply increasing the power intensity of electromagnetic waves, it is possible to do it at a smaller size," Duke replied after thinking about it, quickly going through it in his mind, and convinced that he understood Billem's design, "but in this way, it is not easy for the electromagnetic waves emitted to carry meaningful signals." It is not very useful in the study of space exploration. ”

Hearing Duke's affirmative answer, Old Man Liu and Chief Yang Jianguo looked at each other and smiled, that's right, Duke is really a huge bargaining chip for the military, so they don't care about what space exploration, for the military, it is enough to disable the opponent's satellite, and at the same time be able to have a certain amount of astronomical research to hide people's eyes and ears, so that people cannot discover the mystery of this new weapon

"Duke," thinking of the possibility of gaining a head start in future space battles, Old Man Liu's mood suddenly became extremely happy, Duke's big trouble would actually evolve into obtaining a new strategic weapon, which made Old Man Liu feel quite surprised, but this kind of accident, Old Man Liu would rather have more.

"Since this is the case, we will fully support your space exploration center, and all aspects will cooperate with your activities, but I have two requirements, one is not to affect the progress of the Shenlong project, and the other is that I hope that after you complete the construction of this center, you can explore a new type of device with stronger power electromagnetic wave directional beam energy generation on a smaller scale."

Hearing these two requests of Mr. Liu, Duke had no other way but to agree, because he really had no way to object, fortunately, the approval issue that had been hanging in mid-air was finally settled now, and there would be no more waves, as for the things that Mr. Liu said, the first issue of Duke was naturally to solve Billem's urgent need first, and then Duke, this thing Duke still doesn't understand now, so he can only do it according to Billem's design, and then improve it after he has a certain amount of experience.

This is also in line with the steps of scientific development, and Duke is not afraid of being criticized, after all, this thing is too advanced for the earth, and ordinary scientists cannot question Duke's design at all.

Perhaps seeing that Duke agreed a little reluctantly, Chief Yang added with some seriousness, "Duke, you must take this matter to heart, as far as I am concerned, the electromagnetic weapon developed on this basis has extremely important strategic significance, not only will it be one of the keys to winning the space war in the future, but I think it may also play a great role in long-range interception of ballistic missile attacks."

Duke, compared with warplanes and warships, which require more gradual enhancement of capabilities, if we can gain a leading edge in this aspect, we will be able to compete with the powerful opponent of the US military in a shorter period of time through asymmetrical special operations mode. At present, our relations with the US military are very tense, and we still need a long time to accumulate conventional weapons before we can catch up, and in this case, this electromagnetic weapon may change our current strategic disadvantage.

It is no exaggeration to say that if we have the electromagnetic weapon capability you mentioned, now we will be able to greatly offset the superiority of the US military in conventional weapons by paralyzing its communication and reconnaissance capabilities, so this thing is not dispensable for us, but very critical, even comparable to the Shenlong plan, Duke, the security and future of the country, now the burden is on your shoulders. ”

"Old man, Chief Yang, don't worry, I will do my best." Duke didn't expect that he would do so many things with a casual move, so he had to agree hard. It seems that I will be living a very busy life again for a period of time in the future.

Thinking of the original student days, when everyone talked about their future ideals, they all longed for the life of sleeping until they woke up naturally, counting the money until they had cramps, and now for people like him and Cai Siqiang, counting the money and counting the cramps in the hands has long been realized, but it is still far from sleeping until you wake up naturally.

And as the ability increases, it seems that the greater the responsibility, the more you can't stop, and you can't even slow down.

However, for Duke, he is still in the most golden age of his life, and it doesn't matter if he is busy, through this trip to the capital, he and Mr. Liu have reached a new tacit understanding, and Cai Siqiang's things are much easier to do, and soon, Cai Siqiang selected an island in the southeast that is more than 20 kilometers close to the mainland at Duke's request.

There were originally two or three hundred fishermen living on this island, but because of the stable geological conditions here, it is a rare rock-type island, suitable for building a nuclear power plant, and there are good clearance conditions, there is no shipping route nearby, and the latitude is also suitable for the needs of the ultra-long-range communication device in Billem, plus there is a 3,000-ton wharf expanded from a natural deep water bay to facilitate transportation, so Cai Siqiang quickly determined after communicating with Duke, and cooperated with the local zhèng fǔ to complete the relocation and resettlement of fishermen.

With the strong support of the zhèng fǔ side, Qin Tairan quickly brought a large number of people to Dukla from the aerospace department, and with a large amount of money scattered, the construction of Duke's so-called space exploration center was greatly agitated. It's just that Duke didn't expect that this move would cause new trouble.