In the next work, Duke's work is not too much, most of the avionics technology is only transplanted from the Pterodactyl-class UAV, and it is a variety of transmission systems that need to be greatly moved to J-7, J-7's original digital level is too low, and many things rely on manual mechanical operation, and it is indeed difficult to improve this thing.

In addition, for the tactical requirements of the final assembly, it turns out that many of the equipment on the J-7 can be removed, such as most of the equipment in the cockpit, as well as cannons used in air combat, etc., after unmanned automatic flight, these things are all universal, and after a large number of removal, the J-7 UAV can carry more fuel and fly farther.

The original short-range air-to-air combat missiles are naturally useless, and they will either be air-to-ground missiles for ground attack or air-to-ship missiles for ship attack, or they will simply carry only a certain amount of high-explosive charges, allowing unmanned aircraft to directly serve as suicide attack missions.

The J-7 mechanical expert group sent by Cheng Fei, together with Dong Feng's research team, began the R&D and transformation work day and night in accordance with the requirements of the final assembly.

But these are not Duke's greatest achievements, accompanied by Qin Tairan and Zhu Yunqian, Duke went to attend a secret completion ceremony, at the ceremony site, Duke saw the greatest use of his lotus pile in the military, two new 052D destroyers, compared with the previous 052D destroyers, in addition to the installation of a new theater joint tactical system, is the installation of two sets of S-2 type lotus reactor nuclear power plant, in the way of twin shafts and double propellers.

Compared with the original large gas turbine, the new S-2 nuclear power plant not only allows the improved 052D destroyer to obtain almost unlimited cruising range, but also saves extremely valuable hull area for the 052D destroyer, and the new power plant occupies less than a quarter of the hull space compared with the original gas turbine.

Although the two 052D hulls waiting to be installed with new nuclear power units can no longer be modified, the vacated hull space has not been wasted, and the Navy can add more armaments and electronic systems to this vacated space.

Of course, in the next new 052 improved 052E, a certain amount of slimming may be carried out according to this situation, and the volume of the hull will be appropriately reduced, so that the 052E will have a better radar stealth effect.

But even if it is improved now, the improved 052D has improved a lot of combat power compared to the old 052D that was launched a few years ago.

After the sea trials of the two destroyers, the power performance of the S-2 nuclear power reactor will be verified, and then the nuclear power plant will be installed on the new aircraft carrier and nuclear-powered submarines, according to the plan, the aircraft carrier will install four sets of S-2 nuclear power units with 200,000 kilowatts of four-axis propulsion drive capacity, and the new nuclear submarine will be installed with one set of S-2 nuclear power units.

With this kind of strong power, the ship has an almost unlimited endurance, in this sense, the power system of these domestic main ships has been qualitatively improved, for the Chinese Navy is moving towards the blue water, of course, this is a very meaningful day.

So at this inauguration ceremony, Duke also saw the two bigwigs of the Military Commission, Vice Chairman Liu who presided over the Military Commission and General Yang of the General Assembly.

This heavyweight lineup of military bigwigs put the senior leaders of the Jiangnan Shipyard that manufactured the 052D in a state of high tension, but fortunately, the S-2 power reactor developed by Duke was very powerful, and when Vice Chairman Liu gave the order to set sail, the nuclear power reactor of the new missile destroyer No. 186, which was named the "Chengdu Ship", soon entered a critical state, driving the huge hull to successfully sail out of the dock.

Next, it will complete its maiden voyage to the Nansha and return to the South China Sea Fleet.

As the sister ship of the 186, the 187th is named the "Zhongshan Ship", which will escort ships in the Gulf of Aden to carry out more rigorous voyage training and verification missions.

Seeing his achievements being installed on the most advanced destroyers in China, Duke was full of pride, although in this regard, he almost didn't make much money under the huge R&D investment and amortization, more than a dozen sets of S-2 nuclear power units were almost provided to the Navy at cost price, fortunately, when they were in the research and development, the above had noticed this problem, and the power systems of these warships were vacated to wait for Duke's research results.

Otherwise, the number of such power units installed will be smaller, and then it will be more difficult for the Navy to accept in terms of cost.

"Duke, I heard that your Lotus Pile II has been almost developed, when will they be miniaturized and installed on our new warships in the future?" After Mr. Liu presided over the ceremony, he pulled Duke and asked at the welcome reception.

"Old man Liu, you can spare me" Duke couldn't help but complain when he heard that Old Man Liu had another request. "In fact, the second generation of the Lotus Pile is much more complicated than the first generation, because the particle system is also added in the middle, the miniaturization transformation is very difficult, and it is not of great significance, the second generation of the Lotus Pile is compared with the same generation in terms of uranium utilization rate has been greatly improved, but in fact, the uranium utilization rate of the first generation is already very good, as a power drive device is enough for our warship to survive its entire life cycle."

"It's just that, due to the different utilization rates of uranium, the first generation will produce more radioactive spent fuel, while the second generation can use new technologies to greatly reduce the production of spent fuel. However, this is not unacceptable for warships, and we have designed a well-designed spent fuel collection device that can safely recover and store all spent fuel. ”

Duke said that the biggest advantage of the second generation is the utilization rate of uranium, which is of course very useful in commercial operation, but with the power drive of large ships, it is not so significant.

Old Man Liu listened to Duke's explanation and nodded, "Then what are you busy with now?" After completing the Jingwei and Pterodactyl drones, what else do you plan to do with drones? ”

"Now we are in the UAV, the main focus on large reconnaissance aircraft, the next step is to prepare to imitate the Global Hawk level of strategic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, now mainly in the photoelectric sensing system, stealth materials and power system There is still a big gap, colleagues in the ordnance industry are working together with our colleagues in material research, the first prototype should be able to come out within the year, although there may be some gaps in performance."

"Good! With this thing, we can greatly make up for the gap in satellite reconnaissance, which is of great significance, after the reconnaissance aircraft, I hope you can put the research and development of unmanned fighters on the agenda, we are more backward in this regard, and we must catch up. ”

"Vice Chairman Liu, Duke they are actually already doing research in this area," Yang Jianguo, the chief executive on the side, interjected, "Some time ago, the general assembly gave them a task to study how to transform the J-7 into an unmanned fighter, and find a new way to rejuvenate a large number of our retired and mothballed J-7/J-6 fighters in the future." ”

"Well, yes, this idea is very good, very forward-looking, we have thousands of such fighters, it is a pity to scrap them directly, our family background is not thick, we can't afford to waste such a loser, if it can be unmanned, it is of great significance to improve the air combat strength of our army, and we must make great efforts to grasp it." Old man Liu heard what Chief Yang Jianguo said and instructed.