dug up a batch of nails planted by the CIA, Qin Tairan and Kong Xiangcheng did not breathe a sigh of relief, because for the CIA, although these losses are not small, but after starting a first-level mission, it will never end miserably, which is destined to be a protracted war, so Qin Tairan can see that Matt is still hanging around in Rongcheng.

Qin and Kong were a little trembling and opened their eyes to take care of this Duke, Duke, the person in the center of the whirlpool, was like no one else, doing his own thing all day long, anyway, he didn't have much interest in social activities, and it was good to move in and live in a military base, there was not so much interference, only when there was a meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Qin Tairan and Kong sent bright posts and secret outposts to Chengdu to fortify layer by layer, and protect them according to the national leadership standards.

In this way, Duke's action arrangement and coordination are quite troublesome, which makes Duke a little unhappy, but Qin Tairan insists on this, so that Duke can only compromise, fortunately, the opportunity to participate in this kind of meeting outside has become very rare, and Duke is at the mercy of Qin Tairan's arrangement, after all, this is for his own safety, who would think that he will live a long life, especially when Duke is still so young, and his life has just been lived a wonderful life.

Suddenly, another three months have passed, the wind tunnel test simulation program has been fully completed, Duke also helped the No. 26 base to complete the optimization and transformation of a new supercomputer system, the simulation application of the computing speed increased by an order of magnitude, and now through this simulation application, more than 90 percent of the actual model of aerodynamic research can be completed through computer simulation, for the military, this achievement is beyond their original vision.

In the future, the research progress of various aerospace products of the military will be greatly accelerated, not to mention, the cost will also be greatly reduced, you must know that the research and development of these things is very expensive, if the cost can be reduced to a part, it will also be a very large number.

Duke didn't care about the military's feelings, he copied this thing, and established his own wind tunnel test simulation application center in the DSM R&D center, whether it is a drone or an automobile research, there is a lot of aerodynamic research work to do, after all, the 26th base is the military's research base, and Duke's team is not good to use the military's research center for a long time to do their own research.

With this wind tunnel testing and simulation center, Duke was able to start research on large drones, and after capturing the Global Hawk, Duke's interest in large drones grew, and he began to shift his focus to this area after solving the nuclear fuel refining needed by Billem through the desalination project.

The first phase of research work is to study the aerodynamic shape design and flight control system design of large UAVs in the future, in which the attack UAV project is codenamed "TERMINATOR" (TERMINATOR), which is a long-term goal to the US military X-47B UAV as an imaginary enemy and prototype of the grand plan, the technical difficulty of its realization is extremely high, and now the technical accumulation level of DSM is not enough to directly develop this high-performance unmanned fighter, so Duke is ready to divide into several steps of research and development.

The first stage is based on the captured Global Hawk, and the offensive version is developed on the basis of a full copy of the Global Hawk, with the load of more than 2 tons of the Global Hawk captured by Duke, it is enough to equip it with 2 high-power missiles or laser-guided missiles, although the Global Hawk does not fly at a high speed, and is vulnerable to frontal combat with manned third-generation fighters, but Duke does not want him to assume the function of aerial combat, but to perform some special surgical tasks.

For example, using its excellent stealth effect and huge combat radius, it can carry out bombing of the opponent's fixed military facilities. I think the military will be very interested in such a stealth mass killer.

In the second stage, after the further development of the power plant, especially the new aero engine that can provide supersonic flight for large UAVs, Duke considered further designing the second-generation Terminator unmanned attack aircraft with supersonic speed and high maneuverability, so that it has the same capabilities as the US X-47B UAV, which can take off and land on the aircraft carrier and become a real fighter!

From the current point of view, the feasibility of the first stage is very high, the most core and complex software part of the UAV, the reliable ultra-long-range real-time transmission control system and autonomous intelligence system Duke has a good accumulation through the J-7 UAV transformation project, which has surpassed the level of the Global Hawk in this regard and can be fully used in real combat.

Therefore, the first difficulty of the first generation of Terminator is the reverse engineering of materials and the reverse engineering of aero engines, as long as Duch Heavy Industries can successfully develop the materials used in the Global Hawk, then relying on the world-class machining technology level of the current CNC machine tools of Duch Heavy Industries, it is not a problem to copy the shape of the Global Hawk and the aero engine.

And the second difficulty is to solve the problem of how to modify the weapon mount on the Global Hawk. The current design of the Global Hawk does not give much thought to weapon mounting, which is not the scope of its mission in the first place, and Duke's team is afraid that it will take a lot of effort to build an offensive Global Hawk in this regard.

The third difficulty is how to solve the escape after the Global Hawk attack. With the flight speed of the Global Hawk, once an attack is launched, the target will definitely be exposed in the face of an opponent with strong air defense capabilities such as the United States and Japan, and it will be difficult for such a slow Global Hawk to escape the pursuit of the opponent's fighters.

The fourth difficulty is the cost of production, manufacturing and maintenance, the cost of the Global Hawk is too expensive, the manufacturing cost of its early version is as high as more than 30 million US dollars, and the later version plus the amortization of research and development expenses has reached a sky-high price of more than 100 million US dollars.

The high cost will also greatly limit the use of the Terminator generation, and when performing high-risk missions, the combat commander will be very cautious once he considers that this is a billion-dollar thing that may never return.

Fortunately, the cost of the "Global Hawk" is expensive materials and airborne electronic equipment, and Duke, on the one hand, can greatly reduce the cost of materials through Duke's own production and sales, and on the other hand, it can greatly reduce the part of airborne electronic equipment, after all, the electronic equipment related to reconnaissance is useless for combat.

And in terms of R&D expenses, it is clear that this copycat version of the DSM will be disproportionately reduced compared to the U.S. military, so the amortization of R&D expenses should not be high, according to Duke's initial plan, the final price of the Terminator generation should not exceed $15 million.

At this price, the military has an ultra-long-range stealth strategic strike force of 40-60 units, but the cost is less than a billion dollars, which is much cheaper than a nuclear submarine, and this cost performance is very attractive for the military. In particular, the Chinese military, which has always lacked long-range strike forces in the air.

Although it seems unrealistic to use this thing against the US imperialist mainland, it is more than enough to threaten most countries in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, and you must know that not every country has the ability to deal with stealth aircraft. In extreme cases, the Terminator generation can even take on strategic small nuclear strike missions that take thousands of miles to detour.

As for the large unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, Duke is not ready to invest more resources in innovative research, he only needs to copy the Global Hawk to further improve the capabilities of the software, relying on the improved and more powerful autonomous intelligence system and target recognition system, the DSM version of the Global Hawk is enough to surpass the Global Hawk to become one of the best unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the world.

In DSM's internal research and development, this copycat version of the Global Hawk program is called "UMBRA" (Shadow), and the hardware shape will basically be copied completely, with only minor improvements, and the optoelectronic equipment and aero engine will be handed over to the military industry to complete, so that Duke can invest fewer resources to complete the manufacture of a strategic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

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