"J-22? When am I a fool? This is clearly the F-22! ”

"Even if the airframe is similar, it has exactly the same binary vector vent, exactly the same air intake, and exactly the same butterfly wing!"

"Isn't that just copying? I absolutely do not believe that there will be such coincidences in the world! ”

"Don't talk nonsense with me! If you say it's a coincidence, come to me and say it to my pistol! ”

"Don't you know what level of skill the Chinese people are? Can they build the F-22? Can they make vector vents? Where did they get the material? ”

"Don't say anything about ten and eight! That's not the same thing at all! ”

"Now I want you to tell me what the hell is going on with this plane!"

At Kadena Air Base, Leon was almost hysterical at the phone in his hand, and on the other end of the phone was Conant, who had returned home.

At this moment, he was in the office of the May Meeting, listening to Leon's angry voice, while helplessly looking at several "veteran" experts in front of him, and tried to speak several times, but he didn't find a chance to interject.

So, he had no choice but to face Leon's anger with silence, and it wasn't until the other party finished venting that he sighed and said:

"Leon, I understand your feelings."

"Actually, we have the same doubts as you now, and believe me, they will never be less than yours."

"We really don't know how their J-22 was built, but no matter how you think about it, there are only two possibilities."

"Either we have a major leak-—— and it's possible that the leak is structural, leaking everything about the F-22's performance documentation, process documentation, and design documentation."

"Or, it's really just a coincidence, after all, although this thing is bizarre, it's not impossible to ......"

"What is a coincidence?! You tell me what a coincidence is?! ”

Hearing this, Leon on the opposite side exploded again.

No way, he was so angry.

He had long told Conant that opponents were not that simple, but they never listened!

They always think that the other side is just a "weak country" that has just begun to develop, and they always think that the other side will never have the strength to surpass themselves, but now?

Even the most advanced planes were copied by them!

And they don't even know how they did it!

I don't know how the technology was leaked, or how they made it.

You must know that if you want to build an aircraft, it is not enough to have drawings and parameter documents, there are a variety of technical difficulties to overcome in the process, and if you can build it, it means that they have formed a complete production system.

Even if the scale is small, after the most difficult step from scratch, it is only a matter of time.

And what is even more terrifying is that this system will also form a fission effect, which will be transmitted to the civilian field step by step, driving the development of countless industries and technologies......

Even if he was a military attaché, he knew the importance and scarcity of various technologies such as precision component processing, material processing, electronics, hydraulics, and so on needed to make such a fighter.

If you take it out and downgrade it to the civilian field, it will bring earth-shaking changes to the entire market.

When that time comes, what advantages does your side have?!

You must know that the reason why your country can live so well is that most of it is given by the privilege of technology monopoly!

Now that the monopoly has been broken, can the privilege still exist?

Privileges don't exist, can life still be good?

The situation is so critical, these old men actually say that it may be a coincidence?!

Do you really have no brains?

Leon secretly clenched his fists.

There must be something wrong internally.

Moreover, to be able to cause such a large-scale leak, the entire team that designed the F-22 project should already be rotten......

Loma? Boeing? Still is...... Military?

No, there is little chance of problems with the military, because they are only on the demand side, and most of the technical information is in the hands of Loma.

That being the case, the next move is self-evident.

Thinking of this, Leon reluctantly restrained his emotions, suppressed his anger and said:

"Conant, no matter how many differences we had before, no matter what, our goals are the same."

"Now, the so-called first flight of the J-22 means that both of us have failed, and the only thing we can do is to try to recover our losses."

"Think about it rationally, it is simply impossible for the Chinese people to achieve such a big technological breakthrough in such a short period of time, this must be a leak, we must find a way to plug this loophole!"

After listening to Leon's words, the people in the office of the May Society were silent for a long time.

Yes, it seems to them that the situation of the leak that Leon spoke of is almost impossible.

The reason is simple, there can be no leak of any kind in this world that allows a country to break through the technology to the level of a fourth-generation aircraft in just a few months.

There is only one explanation:

They have been working hard for a long time, but they just happened to break through.

No one is to blame for this.

But, on the other hand, the pressure on both sides is the same, both at the May meeting and on the front line of the Lyon representatives.

Obviously, the only way to get rid of this pressure is to "plug the loopholes".

As for whether this vulnerability exists or not

Unimportant.

No one will care.

All they need is a scapegoat

A few days later, a shocking piece of news came out:

Lockheed Martin has faced the worst scrutiny ever, with the vast majority of personnel facing federal judicial inquiries and a large number of order cancellations.

This was followed by a plunge in stock prices, a stagnation in business, and a break in the trading chain.

The capital group, which had been planning for a long time, heard the wind and submitted subscription applications to the official one after another.

Among the many capitals, a fund registered in the Cayman Islands and owned by a well-known wealthy businessman in Guinea also mixed in and managed to get a 0.4% stake.

At the same time, as the safety of the F-22 project was seriously questioned, Boeing, which cooperated with Loma to carry out the project, was also implicated, and after the stock price plummeted, another seemingly absurd news was exposed:

Boeing is suspected of also having safety issues, and has temporarily grounded several aircraft until NASA completes inspections.

Similarly, the purchase and lease of dozens of aircraft has been suspended, adding to the situation of Boeing, which is already strapped for money because of the F-22 program.

But at this time, a group of pick-up men with clean backgrounds and good people appeared in the market again.

Under the multi-party screening, another amount of money from the Philippines entered the U.S. stock market.

At this time, the regulator has invested a lot of energy and resources in internal scrutiny, and has instead relaxed the scrutiny of foreign funds.

They didn't find anything abnormal, but they didn't know that from this moment on, the original unwarranted "leak" was slowly becoming a reality.

Maybe many years later, they will suddenly find out that this bureau has had clues since a long time ago.

At that time, the cunning rabbit had just rejected the AL-31FN and was planning to acquire the full set of technology for Boeing's CMF-56-3 engine.

It was at that time that one white glove company after another was born

(End of chapter)