"Then let it be a part of the Shenlong Project and study it as a major project." Qin Tairan said decisively, he didn't think about how much money and resources Duke was going to invest in this, but since the future prospects of quantum computers are so important, they should naturally be included in the scope of state control now.

In the Shenlong plan, it has come up with heavyweight fighters like Ssangyong, as well as WS-13D/WS-10D, as well as Raytheon-10A and Raytheon-20A, which are important aviation core products. As long as Duke can continue to produce exciting results.

"Isn't it possible to do both?" Qin Tairan felt that this was a good plan for the best of both worlds.

"Brother Qin, this is quite a money-burning thing" Duke smiled bitterly after listening to Qin Tairan's words, he didn't think about including this thing in the Shenlong Project or the Hidden Dragon Project to study together, but judging from the theoretical knowledge and manufacturing framework given by Billem, the development cost of this thing is also quite expensive like that super beam energy electromagnetic wave emitter.

"If nothing else, the annual investment in some basic research in the early stage is at least 50 or 60 billion yuan," Duke continued, "In the later stage, it may require hundreds of billions of investment, and my own preliminary estimate is that the investment in five years will not be less than 300 billion yuan."

According to some of my current research experience, the new quantum computer framework for energy requirements is quite amazing, it is estimated that the final set of complete quantum computers with supercomputing power will require millions of kilowatts of nuclear power plants to drive, because quantum computers need to achieve computing through a large number of quantum splits and high-speed quantum patching, to maintain and manipulate these tiny things require great energy consumption, in addition to the operation of an extremely harsh operating environment. In addition, manufacturing and maintaining these things require a large number of special and expensive rare metals, as well as the research of some extremely complex processing processes, so the investment in research and development is expected to be very large. ”

Qin Tairan frowned when he heard this, Duke's budget is really a lion's mouth, if it is really invested according to this number, then the impact on the Shenlong plan or the Qianlong plan is too great, so big that the huge project of the Shenlong plan cannot be covered at all.

Although the state says that it has invested heavily in resources in the aviation industry, the AVIC industry has reached the top of 200 billion or 300 billion yuan in a year, which is quite amazing compared with the past. Even today, China's GDP has exceeded the 100 trillion mark, and military spending is close to 2 trillion yuan, but now after the blowout of the military industry, all aspects are suffering from "hunger and thirst" for military spending, and the cost price of a third-generation and a half-generation fighter is more than 200 million, and the annual production of more than 200 pieces of equipment will cost more than 40 billion, plus supporting weapons and personnel training, this piece alone will easily exceed 60 billion.

Being able to invest more than one-tenth of the expenditure on aviation industry research has reached the limit of national support, and with the stall that AVIC has rolled out, two or three hundred billion R & D expenses can not be supported, after all, AVIC is now engaged in this area of production and R & D personnel has exceeded one million, and the annual capitation fee is a big one, and many times it must rely on military foreign trade to make money subsidies to maintain, so that some research institutes that produce results are slower and have fewer foreign trade opportunities. The infrastructure investment of the large-scale computing center is also dependent on SAL installment credit.

"It turns out that researching this quantum computer costs so much money, and it costs a lot more money than researching engines and even new models, and even the Shenlong project can't support this huge R&D investment." Qin Tairan said with a bitter face, after listening to Duke's budget, he didn't dare to take care of it, no way, even if Chengfei was a best-selling foreign trader, on average, seventy or eighty planes a year in 5 years, and a total of more than 400 planes sold was ideal, so that the profit calculation would be more than 20 billion 30 billion yuan, if it was placed in the past 2000 or so, of course, it would be a huge income, but now it is like that, this money is subsidized to support the research of one or two main fighters.

It's not that the Thunder Dragon and J-10P are not cost-effective, but the market is so big, if it weren't for the fact that the Persians and Pakistanis are now thirsty for new fighters due to the strategic situation, they can't sell this number, after all, the current Chinese fighter market can only face the Asian, African and Latin American markets.

"Otherwise, Duke, our project is still in the Shenlong plan, but in the research and development of the cooperative development method, the current investment is linked to the future income," Qin Tairan can only take a step back, "After all, with the approval of national key projects, the project is much more convenient in terms of human resource scheduling and the supply of various material resources than purely by private companies." After Qin Tairan finished speaking, he couldn't help but have a little fever on his face, to put it bluntly, he had to find a way from Duke, the God of Wealth.

The most important thing is that Qin Tairan can't let Duke withdraw from the Shenlong Project, in the eyes of him and the military bosses, this is the decisive factor to ensure the rapid development of the Shenlong Project, and other aspects can make concessions.

"Well, it seems that this is the only way to go." Duke can only compromise, but for him, it is not a big problem to continue to serve as the chief scientist of the Shenlong project, the entire R&D structure has been integrated by him quite efficiently, and now the technical foundation is quite excellent, he only needs to be a banner and continue to gather the top group of aviation industry researchers in China.

Although the extra constraints make people uncomfortable, but after so many years, Duke has adapted to this kind of life, and he doesn't think it's too much of a problem.

The two of them got down to business, Qin Tairan put his mind at ease, and began to humbly ask Duke about the next strategic goal of the Shenlong plan, with J-10D and J-11D, the two main third-generation and a half fighters, from the perspective of existing technology, the third-generation aircraft has basically come to an end, and there is not much potential to be tapped.

Of course, some people say that in terms of materials, the use of stealth coatings and composite materials widely used in fourth-generation aircraft on third-generation and half-generation fighters will also further improve the stealth effect of these third-generation and half-generation fighters, but in this way, the cost of third-generation and half-generation fighters will soar, and it is not far from the fourth-generation fighters.

Just like the U.S. military's F-15 fighter, the early cost was only 30 million US dollars, and later changed back and forth, ten years ago, the new model F-15K, F-15SG exported to South Korea and Singapore The full set of unit prices basically reached 100 million US dollars, and the special customized F-15SA for Saudi Arabia reached an unprecedented 135 million US dollars, which is basically the price of the fourth-generation fighter. While there are political factors involved, the use of more composite materials to update the full suite of avionics and improve the stealth performance of the airframe is also a major factor in the soaring price.

Therefore, the third-generation and a half-generation fighters basically have little room for improvement at the level of J-10D and J-11D. Duke's suggestion to focus on the next step of research on unmanned attack aircraft, stealth fighters and aero engines and radars, in Duke's view, now these aspects are far from reaching the limit, there is still a lot of room for improvement, from the current development trend, in the next 20 years, stealth fighters are the main force that determines air control, especially in the ocean that occupies more than 70% of the earth's surface, stealth fighters will be the absolute protagonist of the ocean over the ocean.

If the PLA wants to go global in an all-round way in the future and become a global military strike force, without the support of a land-based anti-stealth radar system network, it will obviously not be able to compete with the US military's fourth-generation fighters on the ocean by relying on third-and-a-half-generation fighters. If China wants to truly rise to become a global power, it is inevitable that one day it will meet the US military on the ocean, so although the Proud Ssangyong can resist the attack of the US military's fourth-generation fighters from afar under the land-based anti-stealth radar system network, there is no way to go out and win a head-to-head battle with the US military on an unfamiliar battlefield.

Although the unmanned attack aircraft can not compete with manned fighters, the most important reason is the lack of powerful enough computing power, so that the unmanned attack aircraft has the ability to compete with the intelligent judgment of the human brain, but after the quantum computer, maybe there will be essential changes.

Although the quantum computer from the development process of the Billem starry sky, it is basically impossible to be miniaturized enough to allow unmanned fighters to be installed and used, but it does not mean that unmanned fighters cannot be used, through the future reliable and faster wireless communication technology, unmanned fighters can completely transmit the computing requirements and parameters to the super quantum computer combat computing center on the ground in real time, and after the quantum computer instantly completes the artificial intelligence operation and returns the results to the drone, it makes various responses through the drone combat system. In principle, there are no obstacles at all.

Now the development of wireless communication technology has entered a new wireless new century after Duke invented S-WiNet, and it is possible to realize gigabit or even 10 gigabit wireless transmission on the basis of this technology in the future, not to mention that the traditional electronic computer technology itself is also developing, and the super minicomputer system installed on the UAV is also fully capable of some preprocessing, just handing over the core operation to the quantum computer operation center, and the amount of data that needs to be transmitted in the middle can be completely controlled within the allowable range of wireless transmission technology.

As for the aero engine and radar system, whether manned or unmanned, they are indispensable, and the gap between us and the US military is not small, and the achievements made now are only more than 10 years or even more than 20 years ago, and the space for development is even broader.

Qin Tairan was naturally very convinced of Duke's judgment, and soon, the new Shenlong plan began to be formulated according to Duke's concept. And Duke went all over the world to find his quantum computer research team, which is a very cutting-edge field for the world, and it is really not easy to find the right talent.

Some talents for quantum computer peripheral equipment are not enough, Duke can still find some from Europe, but for the sake of secrecy, the core part can no longer find foreigners, so Duke can choose very few talents on this, and there is still a big gap in almost all the people who study this piece of domestic research, Duke can only recruit some personnel in similar research fields to train one by one, with Duke's signboard, recruit a group of postdoctoral fellows who study quantum computers, an advanced project, after the recruitment notice is posted. Immediately attracted hundreds of PhDs who graduated from major universities to sign up, and Duke selected 10 potential ones to cultivate.

After more than 2 months of busyness, Duke finally built the framework of this research team, in order to facilitate the test and operation in the future, the research center set in the Lotus base to study the new large-scale lotus reactor, the Lotus base has been expanded several times to build a new 1.5 million test reactor, on the one hand, to develop a new ultra-high-power reactor, on the other hand, to provide a huge power supply for the future Duke super quantum computer.

Everything was going well in the early days, but soon, Duke found himself in a huge problem.