For the work of standardization of nuclear power technology of the Lotus reactor, after confirming the general intention with Hertz, Duke was only in name, and a large number of detailed work was handed over to Professor Zhu Yunqian's team to do, and Duke only did the final manuscript review, and then handed it over to a joint working group composed of nuclear scientists from China and Europe.

Taking this as an opportunity, the business delegations of China and the EU began a new round of negotiations to find a solution to the current two-lose trade war.

The Americans, who were originally reaping the benefits, could not help but be a little anxious when they saw that the Europeans had set aside them and started to negotiate cooperation with China in the field of nuclear technology on a separate basis, and even had to develop a technical standard for the third-generation nuclear power industry.

They sent experts to ask for this process, because once China and the EU set the standard, they will not have much influence to shake the standard, after all, Europe is the largest market in the world for nuclear power, and technically speaking, the so-called third-generation nuclear power technology that the United States currently has is not competitive with the Lotus reactor, and even if it does it alone, it will not help.

On the other hand, they also have a glimpse of the Lotus Pile technology, hoping to learn more about the Lotus Pile technology by participating in this process.

In this regard, Cai Siqiang and his opinion is that if the US side signs and acknowledges that it will uniformly adopt this new standard in China to build a third-generation nuclear power plant in the future, it will agree to their participation, otherwise there will be no talks.

This is a technical standard that will be introduced to the world in the future, and Duke is not afraid that the Americans will be able to poke out the technology in the process. The core technology of the Lotus reactor is packaged in a completely sealed core, which is a mystery that Dongfang nuclear power does not pass on, and only the corresponding specifications and reaction realization principles will be specified in the technical standards, but the production process will not be put into it.

It is something that Duke has been able to make by researching and using a lot of new materials and new processing techniques, and even the principles that the European side has long been taught by Duke, and now only a 100MW experimental reactor has been built, which shows that it is not easy for outsiders to realize.

After careful consideration, the Americans finally agreed to Cai Siqiang's conditions, and they are confident that they have the most powerful and advanced industrial base in the world, and as long as they master the basic knowledge of this technology, they can quickly build it, and in the case of this technology sharing, an open market is not necessarily a bad thing for American companies, although now they seem to have started a little late.

The Americans never dreamed that the Duke team would have come up with the Lotus Dui II generation one by one, and now it is a research and development project of the seawater desalination project, and the technical secrecy is very high, and even the partners of the Gulf countries only think that this is a special version of the seawater desalination project of the Lotus Dui technology.

There's a lot to say, but for Duke it's just a few high-definition video conferences and reviewing hundreds of pages of technical standards documents.

Duke's current focus is on the Terminator program, especially on the aero-engine research team, which was originally a little sluggish, and after changing the R&D management model, the work efficiency and quality of top experts from various units in the domestic aviation industry have been greatly improved.

The working and living environment that Duke has created for them is almost unimaginable to them before, here, there is no personnel entanglement, or why the promotion of job titles is calculated, and the way to evaluate a person here is very simple, that is, to directly look at the contribution of each scientist.

Scientists with a lot of contributions and abilities will soon be able to take on more important roles in the project, and the personal remuneration will be improved, regardless of your previous qualifications.

This simple and somewhat rough management, although some people are not comfortable leaving, but for those who really do things, they can now completely disconnect from other constraints and focus on their work, and with the excellent research facilities and environment provided by Duke, the progress of the aero engine project is slowly starting to exceed the expected plan.

On the National Day, we completed the design of the electronic structure model of a complete model of the imitation, and successfully passed the aerodynamic simulation test of the wind tunnel simulation developed by Duke.

With the intervention of Duke, with the full cooperation of Shenda Machine Tool, the decomposition and manufacturing process design of the various parts disassembled from the Global Hawk Aero Engine are progressing with each passing day, and for these parts sub-projects, their goal is to manufacture something almost exactly like the original.

Therefore, although at this time, there is no material that is really close to the performance of the original parts and components, but the use of relatively close alternative raw materials, production process design experts continue to study the CNC machine tool control program suitable for processing these parts, as well as the equipment and methods for quality inspection of the performance of parts.

Just after the Spring Festival in 2018, as the raw materials used in various parts of the Global Hawk aero engine began to be produced in small batches, the DSM R&D base has prepared a series of small production lines for the production of such aero engine parts. A prototype aero engine made of alternative materials was also proudly unveiled.

Although due to the material, this set of aero engines is more than the original Rolls-Roots of the Global Hawk. The performance of the Royce engine is a little worse, and the thrust is almost only about 80% of the original configuration, but this is a really working aero engine, which has been tested in the actual operation of the wind tunnel at base 26, and has proved that the performance is quite stable and reliable, and it can be used on the prototype.

On the other hand, handed over to Chengfei's imitation of the Global Hawk airframe, they completed the imitation of the entire airframe earlier than the aero engine, they have rich experience in this area, and the first prototype airframe materials will all be made of existing materials, so they are not affected by the research progress of Xincheng Special Steel's raw materials.

Although due to the difference in materials, the effect in stealth and other aspects is worse than the original Global Hawk, but there will be no problems in terms of mechanical properties, the performance in the wind tunnel test at Base 26 is very good, and the aerodynamic performance in the conventional flight state is almost the same as the original Global Hawk reassembled at Base 26, and now as long as the prototype is equipped with an aero engine, it can fly into the blue sky.

Therefore, with the overcoming of the aero engine, the biggest difficulty in the imitation of the Global Hawk, the first prototype of the Chinese version of the Global Hawk, the Shadow One, was soon born!

Prior to this, the new tank researched by Dong Feng has just passed the final assembly of the final type appraisal, named ZTZ-99S has become another new choice of the military's main battle tank, which is a new and improved version based on 99A3, the shape basically maintains the original appearance of 99A3, but after the use of a large number of new alloys, the weight has been reduced by almost 5 tons while maintaining the original protection ability, and the power has been increased to 1650 horsepower, and the mobility has been greatly increased.

The fire control system has been comprehensively updated, and the performance parameters have basically reached the M1A2SEP "Abrams" level of the US military's active service, and the firepower has maintained the original 99A3 powerful firepower, and with the unique theater joint operation and tactical system, the combat power has advanced by leaps and bounds, becoming the most powerful main battle tank in China.

It's just that a large number of new materials and new electronic equipment are used, and the price is much more expensive than the current 99A3, and the manufacturing cost is almost 5 million US dollars.

Coupled with the completion of the first batch of J-7 UAVs as scheduled and put into active service, it can be said that at the beginning of the new year in 2018, DSM frequently presented several very rare gifts to the military.