When the smoke of gunfire in the South China Sea gradually rose, Duke ushered in a new round of busy work.

In the huge hangar of the 132 base, there stands a brand-new fighter, and if the US military sees this fighter, it will definitely be surprised.

"Duke, this thing is an F-22?" Dong Feng circled around the very familiar and unfamiliar fighter plane in front of him, and still asked in disbelief. "It's really exactly the same as seeing the F-22 on TV, but when I look at this thing now, I always feel that it's still as unreal as a dream, and it's incredible that the most advanced fighter plane of the American devil actually fell into our hands."

"This is the F-22 that is fake, but it is not original, and it cannot fly." Duke said with a smile, "This is the F-22 wreckage that our naval salvage team spent almost 2 weeks salvaging and splicing together, in addition to not being able to fly, the physical form is absolutely exactly the same as the F-22 in active service in the US military, and there is also an F-35 spliced out of the 601 Institute. ”

"I really didn't expect our air force to become so powerful now, it's really, even the F-22 has taken down so many planes." Dong Feng looked at this fighter with straight eyes, and sighed, "No, Duke, buddy's ambition is sublimated again, the next goal is to drive this kind of fighter to the sky, don't mention any Black Hawk to me in the future, compared to the F-22, those things are simply weak, when will we be able to build a flying one?" Can you build one a year? If it's a year, buddy has to hurry up and find a flight academy to study. ”

"A year? You dream," Duke replied with a wry smile, "do you think I'm a god, or do you think the F-22 is a cabbage?" It took more than 20 years for the Americans to make this guy with such a powerful aviation industry base, and if we copied it in a year, they would not have to vomit blood to death? But if I give it three years, maybe I can really copy it. ”

"Three years? Will it be too long" Dong Feng was a little disappointed, this time was too long for him, but Qi Haiyang, the deputy chief engineer of 611 next to him, listened with straight eyes, three years? Dr. Duke will not say anything, when the SU-27 had a full set of process technical documents and a complete production line, it took Shen Fei almost 6 years to reluctantly manufacture most of the components and assemble the J-11 successfully, and the key components of the engine have not been completed for more than ten years.

This is still a third-generation aircraft, and Dr. Duke actually said that the F-22 fighter can be copied in three years, which is a bit too big. However, Qi Haiyang turned his mind to think of the Shadow UAV, which is also one of the top equipment of the US military, and it seems that it was copied under the leadership of DSM in a blink of an eye, and now more than a dozen Shadows soaring in the sky have added a pair of clairvoyance to the PLA Air Force, which has played an extremely important role in this Diaoyutai air battle.

What's even more surprising is that DSM has also successfully developed an ultra-long-range stealth strategic bomber that can carry nuclear weapons on this basis, one by one Terminator I UAV, which is even more rare than copying the Shadow, although the 611 Institute has also contributed a lot in this research and development process, but Qi Haiyang knows that the core intelligent system of this UAV is almost entirely derived from DSM, especially the support of Dr. Duke's intelligent technology engine.

A Terminator I ultra-long-range unmanned bomber can carry 4 500-kilogram nuclear bombs or 3 700-kilogram nuclear bombs, each of which is powerful enough to destroy a city, and the explosion was dozens of times more than the Hiroshima atomic bomb that year.

The DSM R&D Center is a group of geniuses who cannot be regarded as common sense at all, and any miracle can be created.

Qi Haiyang shook his head, the psychology of doubts completely put behind him, as the technical leader of the 611 Institute of strategic cooperation with DSM, the more capable Dr. Duke, the more results of their cooperation, since the general assembly approved DSM to become a comprehensive military enterprise, Dushi Heavy Industries and partners once again increased their capital by 10 billion yuan to establish an aviation research and development center, specializing in the development of fighter jets and UAVs, Chengfei this near-water building is of course the primary strategic partner chosen by Duke.

"Mr. Dong, if the F-22 can really be built in three years, this is enough to shake the world's aviation industry, you must know that this is the main fighter of the US military now and even in the next ten years." Qi Haiyang said with a smile, "But I estimate that even if we can copy this fighter, the Air Force will not use it, at most they will let us build a few to use as a combat aircraft for the Blue Army."

On the one hand, after all, the cost of manufacturing this fighter is not low, according to some public material descriptions, the pure manufacturing cost of not counting the amortization of research and development costs is more than 200 million US dollars, and a large number of composite materials and special titanium alloys are used on it, it is too difficult for us to develop exactly the same.

On the other hand, this fighter is slightly inferior to the J-20B after our later remodeling, after all, this is a fighter studied in the last century, the new generation of F-22C of the US military has almost entered mass production, it is said that the US F-22C has made a new breakthrough in both engine and avionics, and compared with the old F-22A / B, the combat power of the new F-22C fighter will increase by at least 30 percent. ”

"Mr. Qi is right, we will not copy this fighter in large quantities to equip the troops. However, if it is just a simple imitation, we don't have much of a problem in terms of materials, we now have a lot of ready-made materials to use, and there is no need to make them exactly according to their materials. ”

"We just need to figure out the physicochemical properties of these materials and use alternative materials that match the properties of these materials." We now have a lot of special material products under Duche Heavy Industries, whether it is high-strength composite materials, titanium-based special alloys, and nickel-based ultra-superalloys. Finding materials that can be substituted is not difficult. ”

"For us, in fact, the more difficult thing is their aero engine and avionics facilities, but this time the little devil and the Yankees gave us a big gift, and from the wreckage of the fighter plane salvaged from the sea, several F119 and F135 engines that can be repaired were salvaged, which gave us an excellent basis for our research work.

In my opinion, within 3 years, after we thoroughly studied these two engines, not only did there not be much problem in copying them, but also played an important reference role for several main engines in our Shenlong plan. In this respect, the Americans are ahead of us, and some new technologies and ingenious designs involved in the F119 and F135 can greatly shorten the development process of new models of aircraft engines in our army. The gift of the Americans and the little devil is really timely, just in time for the critical period of our Shenlong plan, and with this big gift, it is entirely possible for us to complete the predetermined mission objectives ahead of schedule. Duke said confidently.