Duke was not interested in Qin Tairan and Kong Xiangcheng's deal of selling "piglets" at all, in fact, Matt was caught by the Black Hawk team at the base, and Duke rarely took a look at this spy, for him, these are all meaningless things.

As long as you do things well and develop more powerful weapons, even if the Yankees know about it, it doesn't matter if part of the information of the Shadow Prototype is leaked out now, this thing will be finalized and produced sooner or later, and the Yankees will know sooner or later.

If we can use this thing to scare the Yankees and make them suspicious and not dare to act rashly in the past few years, and wait for a large number of new weapons to be installed in large quantities in a few years, then we will have the final say on the territory of Asia, whether it is the US military stationed in Japan, the US military stationed in South Korea, or the Pacific Fleet, if they dare to enter the 2,000-kilometer effective combat radius of the mainland, they will be ready to have a plan to come and go.

Although we are still unable to fully confront the United States, but relying on the mainland, we will no longer be afraid of any war, with a large number of J-7 modified destroyer A/B drones, now the so-called first island chain of the US military is no longer a problem, and when the new Duke UAV Terminator and a large number of J-20/J-31 installations, plus the successful integration of the two aircraft carrier battle groups, the so-called second island chain blockade of the US military will also become a joke.

Duke's strategic thinking naturally did not come up with it himself, this was instilled in him by Qin Tairan, Qin Tairan's original intention was to prompt Duke to devote himself to the research of UAVs, so that the Terminator series UAVs can effectively threaten the second island chain target with Guam as the core, then our strategic choice space will be greatly increased.

Faced with a situation in which both sides may lose, the Yankees will think twice before they want to make a move, and will no longer be as unscrupulous as they were in the past, when they had an overwhelming advantage, and drive the aircraft carrier group to China's doorstep all day long to walk around and provoke.

So now Duke is wholeheartedly focused on the research and development of the two series of UAVs of Shadow and Terminator, and now through a large number of real test data obtained from the test flight of Shadow 1, Duke can lead the R&D team to better improve the original electronic model, especially the UAV aerodynamic model design simulation program, with a large number of real data support, the original data obtained through the wind tunnel is still somewhat different from the real meteorological conditions after all, and now the actual data can be obtained for revision, and the simulation fit of the model is higher.

Under these conditions, Duke's R&D team can quickly improve the aerodynamic design of the Shadow 1 prototype, just as the U.S. military continues to improve the Global Hawk, and each new block batch of the Global Hawk has new changes in performance, which are reflected in more payload, faster speed, and more functions.

Being able to understand the aerodynamic design of the Global Hawk through the Shadow-1 prototype can be innovated and improved on this basis, indicating that Duke's research team has now moved from full imitation to innovation.

If the Global Hawk captured by Duke is purely from the perspective of strategic reconnaissance, it is already very good with the current performance, and it is basically the top weapon of strategic reconnaissance in service. But the performance of this Global Hawk is still very limited for the development of an offensive Terminator drone, just a copy of the original.

Duke needs a faster, heavier, and relatively smaller and stealth drone, but at the same time, it can't drop too much in terms of range, at least the range must be maintained at more than 10,000 kilometers, in order to effectively pose an effective threat to the various bases of the US military in the western Pacific region.

Of course, the first-generation Terminator did not require an air battle with the opponent's fighters, but quietly launched attacks on the enemy's arsenals, airfields, oil depots and other strategic points in a stealth approaching way.

Therefore, although the new Terminator is designed based on the Global Hawk, Duke needs to make a breakthrough in form and power in order for the Terminator to reflect its unique deterrent power.

It's just that the change in shape is not only related to the needs of aerodynamics, but also involves many composite needs such as radar stealth, although now Duke has a breakthrough work of Shadow, which has made the final assembly list DSM as the main research and development unit of the next generation of UAVs, and the relevant years of aviation research and confidential technical data continue to be sent to the DSM R&D center from various research institutes under AVIC.

Correspondingly, the electronic simulation modeling application and wind tunnel simulation application model developed by Duke are also listed as core technologies, and are now fully promoted to various research institutes of AVIC, and the capable institutes have built their own independent supercomputer systems to run the system, and those who are slightly weaker will learn the programming skills of this application, and after developing relevant models on the simulation development machine, they will come to the DSM R&D center or the No. 26 base computing center for actual verification.

The value of these two application simulation systems for the research and development process of the aviation industry is immeasurable, because not only the research and development of aircraft, missiles and other weapons and equipment have been accelerated, but also space rockets, especially major projects such as the moon landing project and the Mars exploration project, have also made great progress after applying these two sets of simulation application systems.

Compared with using the actual model for test verification, the electronic modeling method is obviously more efficient, after handing over most of the test and verification work to the supercomputer, and then the electronic model with good verification results is remanufactured into a real model for actual wind tunnel testing to verify the results of electronic simulation.

This new R&D method has saved nearly 80% of the R&D trial and error waste in the original work, and has greatly improved both schedule and cost.

In this case, Duke's Shadow II soon came out a few months later, using a new process and new materials to make the Shadow II, compared with the shrunken version of the Shadow One, there has been a huge improvement in performance, the new version of the aero engine due to the performance of new materials and processing technology completely exceeded the original level, after all, Duke captured the Global Hawk was a product a few years ago, and now after eating its aero engine design, the manufacturing process accuracy and the performance of the material have been improved to varying degrees, This led to a pleasantly surprised end result.

The new aerodynamic shape of the Shadow 2 has greatly improved its maneuverability, and the area of the new Shadow 2 designed by the Duke team is almost one-tenth smaller than the original, but the load capacity and range have hardly changed. This means that the new Shadow-2 radar is even more invisible.

After test flights and tests of the nation's air defense radars, during a confrontational test that flew over most of China, the Shadow was notified in advance that it was about to pass through the air defense zones of the major military districts, but almost all the air defense radars were not able to detect it when the Shadow-2 passed.

After this actual combat test, the final assembly was finalized with the Shadow 2, and the production of our own large strategic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft began.

It was only at this point that the Matt affair finally came to an end, in exchange for the two intelligence agents we had previously arrested, and a number of other diplomatic exchanges were made to make a deal with the CIA.