"Lao Li, Lao Cao, Lao Yang, how do you feel after you have seen the various exercises of the new model equipment during this time?" In a small conference room somewhere on the outskirts of Beijing, Old Man Liu said to the three military bigwigs after watching a series of recent exercise footage clips.

Li Deyuan and Cao Zhiyuan are the vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission, and Yang Jianguo is the current head of the General Armament.

"It's amazing," Vice Chairman Li took the lead in sighing, "I personally think that after the existing equipment is upgraded in accordance with the standards of the Red Army for the exercise, we can no longer be discouraged. ”

"It's really remarkable, I feel that in the past year, the improvement in the army's equipment has been greater than the improvement in the past ten years," Vice Chairman Cao continued, "Don't worry too much about Lao Yang, I'm just talking about things, of course, without the solid foundation laid by the general assembly in the past, there will be no such rapid improvement today." It's just that I still have some opinions, and most of the achievements are in the field of conventional weapons, and I personally think that the improvement of the Second Artillery Corps should also be put on the agenda. ”

"Lao Cao, I know that you can't lose the piece at hand" Old Man Liu laughed and said, "It's just that the second artillery is too sensitive now, but you don't dare to move it at will" Speaking of this, Old Man Liu was also a little unwilling, but from the current point of view, there is indeed not much in the second artillery Duke can intervene.

The most likely thing to be involved in is the high-speed moving target prediction system, which may have a strong reference role in strategic anti-missile, but now that the R&D personnel of the Second Artillery Corps have obtained the system and are doing research, the progress of the project is relatively slow due to the lack of direct guidance from Duke. However, compared to the past, there were almost no goals and directions, but now it can be regarded as a big improvement.

What Duke provides will at least enable the military to obtain a new type of theater missile defense system after being transformed, which already has very high strategic value for a local war and is a key to winning a local war.

If the new tanks and airplanes are an indestructible blade, then the theater missile defense system is an incomparably strong shield for the army.

As for the NMD system, this thing is still a bit far from everyone, and judging from the current technological base, it is still unrealistic to realize it, and it is not the focus of everyone's attention at the present stage.

"But these are not the focus of today's discussion," Old Man Liu changed his words, "I don't know if you have noticed, the breakthrough we achieved this time can basically be regarded as the best example of civil-military cooperation, in addition to Duke, the invisible chief scientist in the architecture design and key problem solving, a large number of the implementations have been completed by our university research institutions and military uniform research and development personnel." ”

"Although we have always had a tradition of military-civilian cooperation in research and development, but in terms of mechanism, this cooperation method has great limitations, and under various constraints, some major topics have not been concentrated on the wisdom of the whole country to tackle key problems, which directly leads to our equipment research and development to be complacent, and many similar civilian products are even better than military products and technology."

"Therefore, I personally think that some changes should be made to this mechanism, so that there is a long-term mechanism to protect the rapid development of the past year."

Listening to Old Man Liu's words, the three military bigwigs all fell into deep thought. Just like most state-owned enterprises have a strong inertia, due to the lack of a competitive environment, most of the research institutions in the military are more than compliant with rules and regulations, lack vitality, and under a strict hierarchical system, the imagination of most R&D personnel is getting lower and lower, and they dare not make bold innovations.

Not to mention anything else, as far as telecommunications products are concerned, when the domestic telecommunications industry was at its infancy, the military's original R&D strength far surpassed that of the private sector, but with the competition in the market, the private sector has gradually grown up in the fierce competition; on the contrary, the state-owned telecommunications enterprises that rely on the military's R&D have been defeated one by one in the competition.

The fact that a group of guerrillas defeated the regular army by the same Chinese shows that it is not a human problem, but a mechanism problem.

"However, military products are a special product after all," Vice Chairman Li said with some concern, "If it is opened up to absorbing social forces to participate in development, will it cause some new problems?" ”

"There must be problems, but from the actual situation at home and abroad, even if there are some problems, they are also problems in development and will not be critical problems, after opening up to the speed of equipment improvement, the military industry of the United States is almost all private enterprises, but on the whole, their efficiency is good, the speed of innovation, and even the secrecy is much better than ours." Mr. Liu obviously has a fairly in-depth study of this issue.

"Just like our cooperation with Dushi Heavy Industries, we put forward more than 10 kinds of special-purpose material requirements and dozens of ultra-high-precision processing special CNC machine tools, from research and development to product production management, there are so many intermediate links, but there are no problems, it can be seen that as long as we pay attention to management, the problem in confidentiality is not too big."

"In addition, in terms of a new optical system, this product completed by a private enterprise not only has a longer service life than our original product, but also has a longer range and higher accuracy. If it weren't for the team of assistants led by Duke to search for suitable alternatives across the country, most of our comrades might not have thought that in some respects private enterprises have already made something more advanced than our existing products. Or even if they thought of it, they didn't dare to adopt it. ”

"I think the problem that Vice Chairman Liu said is very realistic, who chooses the things in the army, who will take the responsibility, everyone will think, at least from the existing product library to choose at least not a big mistake, if you choose outside products, what if there is a problem with the selection? At that time, I am afraid that it will not be clear, so that even if the performance of similar products in the existing system is inferior and the cost is higher, these are not problems for the selection of personnel, and the key is to avoid the responsibility.

This kind of thinking leads to the breakthrough speed of products in the system is far less than that of private products, although everyone usually says that it is based on reliability, in fact, it is a very nonsense thing, this does not mean that reliability is not important, the key is that under this excuse, many more suitable products have been sacrificed. Now, it's time to take advantage of this east wind to optimize this mechanism. ”

General Yang Jianguo, who is in charge of the final assembly, is of course well aware of this. But this matter is too important, although he can be regarded as a high-ranking authority, he still has no qualifications to initiate changes in this kind of matter. Today, Old Man Liu fired the first shot, and General Yang Jianguo might as well pour some more oil.