Britain, France, Germany and other countries are indifferent to this.

Although it has been more than ten years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and Europe no longer needs the protection of the United States, conflicts of interest still arise between the two sides from time to time, and the relationship between the two sides has gradually drifted apart.

The main focus of the European side is to devote itself to the reunification of Europe.

It is enough to see from the introduction of the euro.

As for re-establishing itself as the center of civilization in the world, Europe has neither the ambition nor the strength to do so.

Don't think that Mao and Russia are good at it, they still dream of being able to get along with the West in a friendly way, but the other side is not willing to accept it at all.

After all, the establishment of various alliances and organizations is to exclude you, and if you are still allowed to join, then what are we playing?

In addition, the internal economic situation in Maoist Russia continues to be chaotic, and it is in a state of exhaustion, and there is no power at all.

Only Huaxia is secretly anxious about this.

The number of China's strategic nuclear weapons is less than one-tenth that of the United States and Russia.

It depends on deterrence, so that the other side will give up the idea of fighting a big war and fighting an all-out war.

However, the intelligence department has repeatedly confirmed that the United States already has a space anti-missile capability, but it has not yet been deployed.

Then, once their space laser system is deployed, we will no longer have a bit of deterrence, and the people of the United States will only be more unscrupulous and do whatever they want.

Over the years, he has dared to defy the world's condemnation and wage war against a sovereign country for the sake of oil.

So, who can guarantee that in the future, we will not directly flip the table because of interests?

And when that happens, what to do?

Blindly withdrawing?

There is no way back, and in the end we have to find a way to solve this problem.

To this end, the military is determined to respond to the US countermeasures with a three-arrow approach:

1. Strengthen the penetration capability of ballistic missiles to form a nuclear deterrent.

2. Vigorously develop anti-satellite means and speed up the research and development process of ground-based laser weapons.

3. Deploy our network of anti-missile laser satellites.

The military has put forward an ambitious plan for the near-earth space laser system: to form a space anti-missile system with dozens of giant laser satellites as the center.

Then, next to the anti-missile satellite, three or four escort satellites are arranged, using laser or kinetic weapons to protect the anti-missile satellite from being destroyed by the enemy.

The plan was good and very feasible, but it was rejected as soon as it was reported.

The reason is simple: no money!

The total amount of the anti-missile satellite system of the United States is close to 100 billion US dollars, although the launch cost of our domestically produced rockets is even lower, half of that of the United States.

But if you want to build a functional space satellite system, the initial budget will be as high as $50 billion!

With so much money, you can get it even if you grit your teeth.

But we can't waste our main finances on this.

At the critical moment when China is turning from weak to strong, there are too many places that need to be invested, just take all kinds of infrastructure and highways, which cannot be delayed or saved money!

Therefore, we dare not and cannot spend a large amount of money on the research and development of space-based weapons, which are obviously not important at this stage.

The above is very sober-minded, and strategic countermeasures can be done with more advanced and silent ocean-going nuclear submarines.

The space-based laser weapon system is a costly and long-term systematic project.

It's hard to do it overnight.

This is also very clear to the United States.

The reason why he still insists on building a space-based weapon system is probably not only to deal with ground-based ballistic missiles, but also to seize the space opportunity and dominate space.

In peacetime without competition, the United States can gradually make space weapons practical, cheap, mass-produced, and more advanced in a few decades.

When other countries begin to march into space, the United States can use its powerful high-tech and large-scale production capacity to ensure that they can quickly deploy and seize the commanding heights in space competition.

In terms of quantity and quality, completely overwhelm each other.

Then, without hurrying, with any other country, they will conduct a space race to maintain their space hegemony and form an absolute superiority.

Or, as the Star Wars program did, use the space arms race to drag the other side into the mud.

At present, at least in the next decade or so, we will not have the ability to compete with the United States in space.

But when we have the economic strength and technological strength to compete with each other, it is estimated that space is already full of American space weapon platforms!

The military also understands that this is the reality.

However, no matter what, they can't acquiesce to this reality!

Because, with its space-based weapon platform, the United States will become extremely powerful, so powerful that it is terrifying!

At that time, not to mention our land-based missile systems, even our ocean-going nuclear submarines will be like toothless tigers, completely losing their deterrent power.

As long as a ballistic missile breaks through the atmosphere, it will be intercepted by other people's space-based satellite systems.

The rockets used to launch satellites, as long as they fly together, will be locked by space-based laser weapons and explode in the air.

It's like in World War II, when a country with air superiority ensured victory in the war.

In the coming decades, the country with the superiority in space will have the whole world.

If this monopoly is not broken, all countries in the world will be able to tremble in front of the bayonets of the United States.

That's why, in addition to experts from the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, a general of the General Armament Department came today.

When Director Gu reported to the top yesterday, the leaders of the general assembly immediately put down all the work at hand and held an emergency meeting.

The leaders of the General Assembly unanimously agreed that if there is even the slightest possibility of realizing the Infinity Company's aerospace aircraft program, the military will go all out and mobilize the greatest efforts to fully support this program.

As long as the aerospace aircraft is successfully developed, we will immediately be on an equal footing with the United States in the use of space.

Moreover, the sooner the aerospace aircraft is successfully developed, the greater our advantage.

If the aerospace plane can be developed within ten years, then this status will be reversed, and we will become an unrivaled space powerhouse and lead the fifth industrial revolution!

Includes a lot of things that can be laid out calmly.

However, the results disappointed them.

Infinity does have a plan to develop an aerospace aircraft, and is also doing technical research and efforts in this area, but their plan is obviously too advanced and lacks the possibility of realization.

Although Director Gu and the general of the General Assembly Department did not know much about some technologies, they only needed to use their brains a little to understand that the plan of Infinity Company was still in a very early stage of research.

In order to reduce the weight of the aerospace aircraft and increase the carrying capacity, they actually planned to use only ten chips to process all the data.

This idea alone is completely divorced from reality.

Modern ordinary fighters, taking the J-10 as an example, also need 1,028 chips to assist in processing complex data.

The processors on the space shuttle are even more in the thousands.

Ten chips want to replace so many processors, what chip is so powerful?

Although it is admitted that Infinity's chip technology is one of the best in the world, Intel cannot do it.

As for the engine group, it made those specially invited experts laugh out loud.

The combined engine has a bold design and a very new geometry, but its requirements for materials and processing technology will also be more demanding.

Time was rushed at the report meeting, and everyone did not have time to make accurate judgments.

But according to the experts, using the results of laptop calculations, all the existing materials cannot withstand such high pressures and ultra-high flame temperatures.

The experts who came to participate in the report meeting gave Infinity a fixed word for the plan: paper airplanes.

Namely: this is an aerospace plane that stays on paper.

Some experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences even privately sarcastically said that Infinity Company deserves to start in finance, and whether it wants to take advantage of the current bull market to make a concept and put it in the stock market for speculation, this aerospace aircraft plan, used to deceive those ignorant stockholders, is still okay.

Director Gu and the generals of the General Assembly Department were very disappointed, very, very disappointed, but they couldn't put this disappointment on their faces, and they had to try to persuade Chen Weidong, hoping that Infinity Company could open a skylight for private science and technology, continue research, and not give up this project.

One more infinity company to research and development, there must always be an extra layer of protection!

Although the expert group is not optimistic about the design of Infinity, at least one more R&D unit will be engaged in the development of the aerospace aircraft, and there is one more hope in addition to the national aerospace aircraft project team.

Who would dare to say that more than ten years later, with the progress of basic research and the availability of new materials, Infinity will not be able to come up with a practical aerospace aircraft?

Not to mention anything else, at least in terms of design ideas, there are still many experts who say that the idea of Infinity is indeed very innovative.

Besides, the state does not need to contribute a penny for the research and development of infinity companies.

If it fails, the state does not have to bear any losses.

On the other hand, if the plan is successful, the country can still enjoy the benefits, so why not do such a good thing?

After all, with the capital of Infinity Company, if you really want to work a project, it must be much more generous than the appropriation of the Ministry of Finance.

Both of them were very aware of this, but no one said anything tacitly, just comforted Chen Weidong, hoping that he would cheer up and not be intimidated by difficulties.

At the dinner table, it was Director Gu and the general who talked the most.

Seeing Chen Weidong gradually return to normal, both of them breathed a sigh of relief.

After a few or two clicks, they stopped talking about this topic, but chatted about various interesting anecdotes, the purpose of which was to let Chen Weidong stop dwelling on this matter.

The three of them talked and chatted, drank a lot of wine, and ate until three or four o'clock in the afternoon.

Before saying goodbye, Director Gu repeatedly invited Chen Weidong to visit the ground-to-air and air-to-sea joint simulation exercises to be held next week.

He also threatened that if he didn't go, he would not give him face, etc.

Of course, Chen Weidong knew that they did this so that they would not be depressed, so as to give up the aerospace aircraft program.

He also made a very reluctant appearance and agreed to Director Gu's invitation.

Looking at the car of the two and slowly driving out of the gate of the infinity company, Chen Weidong lowered his head and smiled, returned to his usual expression, and slowly walked into the office center building.

(End of chapter)