In 2012, due to the conflict with the island of Toei, more people turned their attention to the ocean.

For a long time, the strength of various ships in China has been relatively weak.

In the past few years, I have also worked hard to catch up.

Just when Cao Yang was discussing some business development with people from various business divisions, Wu Feng of the Electric Technology Group was overjoyed and invited Cao Yang to participate in an event.

Since the location of the event was in the magic capital, considering that he also needed to go to the magic capital to inspect the business of various companies, Cao Yang agreed without worrying so much.

"Mr. Cao, this time you Nanshan Semiconductor can be regarded as having made a great contribution."

On the day of the event, Wu Feng personally came to the hotel where Cao Yang was staying, ready to set off with him.

Originally, he chose to cooperate with Nanshan Semiconductor, and he didn't have too many expectations, but he just tried it with the idea of treating a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

I didn't expect surprises to start so soon.

"Which of your radars has made a major breakthrough?"

The intersection between the Electric Technology Group and the Daystar Group is the radar.

So Cao Yang can generally guess what Wu Feng is going to do with himself this time.

"That's right, this time a certain type of missile destroyer has finally been finalized, and today is the official laying of the keel."

"The design drawings of this missile destroyer have been completed a long time ago, but the shipborne radar has not been finalized, so the shipyard does not dare to start construction easily."

"After our cooperation today, we use the gallium nitride power components produced by Nanshan Semiconductor to produce active phased array radars, which have achieved a significant reduction in the size of the radar and a significant increase in the detection power and detection range."

"All the technical indicators set before have been exceeded."

"Today, our shipborne active phased array radar is currently the world's largest array and the farthest detection range of shipborne phased array radar."

"It is estimated that construction will start this year, and it will be officially completed in the first half of 15 years, and in the next five years, there will be no rivals in the world."

"Even before 2025, there may not be a product comparable to this missile destroyer."

Wu Feng was very excited to introduce to Cao Yang the great hero of laying the keel of the new ship today.

"By the way, speaking of which, in addition to the fact that this radar has something to do with you, the latest deck steel and other materials used on this destroyer seem to have been developed by Nanshan Special Steel and Anshan Iron and Steel in cooperation."

"If you consider that some other bearings, gears and other parts are also purchased from Nanshan Auto Parts, you can be regarded as making a significant contribution to this warship."

Along the way, Wu Feng was very enthusiastic to introduce what he had learned to Cao Yang.

Their prototype has been moved to this shipyard for testing, and in the future, the shipyard will readjust some of the designs of the missile destroyer based on the performance of this prototype.

It can be said that although they are all products of the same model, the performance of ships built in different years is different.

"We have such a long coastline, and it is true that we need a strong fleet to protect the country's security."

"I'm also very happy to be able to contribute a little bit to this warship."

Cao Yang could probably guess what kind of product the missile destroyer with the keel laying this time was.

As a new generation of Huaxia's fist products, it is an important support to catch up with or even surpass the American Navy, and its design requirements are very high.

If it weren't for the fact that the radar was unexpectedly done ahead of schedule now, it is estimated that it would take another two years to wait for a new breakthrough on the part of the Electric Technology Group before it would be launched.

Don't look at it, it's just two or three years away, it's definitely very precious.

After all, the international environment in the future will be very different every year.

In two or three years, it is possible that the world will be different.

"The performance of your GaN power components is insane."

"We have now developed a shipborne version, and an airborne version will be launched next year."

"At that time, although the performance of our fighters will not be comparable to the F22 or F35, as long as the airborne radar and air-to-air missiles are good enough, it is not impossible to win air supremacy."

In the process of communicating with Wu Feng, Cao Yang came to Hudong Shipyard.

After some confirmation, Cao Yang followed Wu Feng to appear at the keel laying site.

Of course, it is inevitable to have a greeting with the relevant departments and shipyard people in the middle.

However, Cao Yang is more familiar with Wu Feng, so he has no intention of chatting with people from the shipyard and relevant departments.

Cao Yang is not the protagonist today, so he doesn't want to be close to others, and others don't come around.

After all, everyone is a person of status.

"Isn't it going to lay the keel? Why is it all on flat ground? ”

Seeing that the activities had begun, the moderator was there to speak with a speech.

However, Cao Yang found that the place where everyone was not next to the dock.

"Mr. Cao, now the more advanced shipyards are using the flat land section construction method to produce ships, so the construction speed will be much faster."

"In the beginning, several modules were built separately on land."

"Even strictly speaking, we don't have the whole keel of the ship, because each section is built separately, and only a certain section of the keel is laid."

Wu Feng is obviously much more familiar with the process of warship production than Cao Yang.

He has personally visited several major large shipyards in China.

He even needs to be present when the radar of important warships is installed and commissioned.

Unlike Cao Yang, until now, today is the first time to enter the shipyard area.

"According to your statement, wouldn't the production of these warships in the future be the same as dumplings?"

"After all, the early construction does not occupy the dock, and only in the later part of the follow-up will the dock be assembled."

Although Cao Yang has never been to the shipyard, he also knows that the shipyard is a relatively important resource for the shipyard.

Even a large shipyard cannot have an infinite number of docks.

A ship takes several years to produce, and if it occupies a dock from the beginning of construction, it means that the dock can produce a ship for several years.

However, according to Wu Feng's flat land sectional construction method, not only can different sections be built at the same time, but the early construction does not occupy the dock, and the utilization efficiency of the dock will more than double at once.

"Yes, warship construction is a very complex process, the general section construction method is the most mature construction method, just like Lego bricks, after laying the keel, go up to 'add bricks and tiles', but it occupies a valuable dock, the ship's dock cycle is very long, delaying the next ship assembly node."

"The segmented construction method divides the ship into several large modules, and the large modules are first built outside the dock or in other indoor workshops, and then quickly assembled.

"So your 'dumpling-like' evaluation is really very appropriate."

Wu Feng and Cao Yang were communicating on the side, until the ceremony was over, and the people from Hudong Shipyard finally couldn't wait to come over and communicate with Cao Yang.

"Mr. Cao, I heard that you are cooperating with Wenchong Shipyard to develop LNG carriers, and our Hudong Shipyard is currently the only company in China that can produce LNG carriers."

"If Nanshan Special Steel can really develop Yinwa Steel, we are very interested in cooperating with your company."

On an LNG ship, the purchase amount of Yinwa Steel alone went to more than 10 million US dollars.

And that's just the cost of materials.

To process Yin tile steel into a huge storage tank, the processing cost is also very huge.

And most of this money was earned by the French GTT.

This is certainly not the situation that Hudong Shipyard wants to see.

"Our Yinwa steel is estimated to be able to officially enter mass production next year, and there is no problem for Hudong to find a shipyard to buy as much as it wants."

"Even the automatic welding equipment of Yinwa Steel is also being studied."

"Once successfully developed, the processing efficiency of Yinwa steel can be increased by several times, the production cycle of the gas storage tank can be greatly shortened, and the overall ship construction speed can also be shortened by several months."

Cao Yang is naturally interested in cooperating with Hudong Shipyard.

After all, the amount of Yin tile steel consumed by the Wenchong shipyard must be very limited.

At that time, the production line will be shut down within a few days, which is completely uneconomical.

"Will it be developed next year?"

Zhao Linyuan looked at Cao Yang in surprise.

Although through the news on the Internet, he already knew that the progress of Nanshan Special Steel was very fast.

But he thought that this was all propaganda content on the Internet, and the actual situation was not so ideal.

Who knew that the actual situation was so much faster than he imagined.

"For many steel manufacturers, the processing difficulty of Yinwa steel is indeed relatively high, and the demand is relatively small, so it has caused a situation of GTT monopoly."

"We have set up some groups to study Yinwa steel before, so now if we want to formally research and produce, the efficiency will naturally be much higher."

Cao Yang doesn't care if Zhao Linyuan understands it or not, anyway, he just needs to give a reason.

When the finished product is taken out, the test report is taken out, which is more convincing than anything else.

"Mr. Cao's Nanshan Group can not only produce Yinwa steel, but also produce many important parts and components on board."

"Even some components or assemblies of large diesel engines or gas turbines, they can be produced."

"If Mr. Zhao is interested, he can go to their company to investigate."

Wu Feng was beside him to help Cao Yang say good things.

Anyway, it's all a gesture, and he definitely won't miss this opportunity to be a good person.

"This time, the construction of the new missile destroyer can be started ahead of schedule, thanks to the advance of the radar research and development progress, which Nanshan Semiconductor can be said to have contributed to."

"When the time comes, I will definitely go to the various companies of Nanshan Group to visit and learn."

Although Nanshan Group has been split, many people are still accustomed to replacing the five major groups with Nanshan Group.

Cao Yang didn't bother to explain more.

"Our Daystar Technology Group is also researching some products that can be used for military and civilian purposes, and the future cooperation space is really worth looking forward to."

Cao Yang will definitely not be modest at this time.

He has arranged for Daystar to work on various missiles and rockets and other products, and some of these things will definitely be used in the military industry in the end.

At that time, it is even possible that some missiles will be directly on the ship.

……

After participating in the keel laying ceremony of the warship, Cao Yang did not stay for dinner, but followed Zhang Jing to the magic capital factory of Nanshan Semiconductor.

A new production line for GaN power components has been put into operation, and production is already increasing rapidly.

Today, Wu Feng opened gallium nitride to the sky, which naturally made Cao Yang pay more attention to this new type of semiconductor components.

"Mr. Cao, judging from the current situation, gallium nitride has excellent electrical and optical properties."

"In addition to the very huge advantages in phased array radar, there are a wide range of application scenarios in light-emitting diodes, lasers, solar cells, etc."

"I think we can officially sell gallium nitride to the outside world, so that our production can be used as soon as possible."

"As long as the GaN production line continues to be invested, the cost of related power components can be rapidly reduced."

"It's going to have a very big impact on a range of products."

Zhang Jing is obviously very optimistic about gallium nitride, a new semiconductor material.

Now it has fully played its advantages on the radar.

Obviously, the size has become a lot smaller, but the performance of the radar has been greatly improved.

This is absolutely very important for ships and aircraft.

Otherwise, it looks like some old-fashioned phased array radar, which is huge and does not have the conditions to be installed on a warship.

"Military radars have just begun to use a large number of gallium nitride power components, and if we start selling them to the outside world, it is estimated that we will not get approval, right?"

All materials or parts supplied to the relevant military products need to be reported if they are to continue to be sold.

Gallium nitride is a material that has been synthesized since 1928.

However, large-scale high-performance power components have only begun mass production in Nanshan Semiconductor this year.

This speed is also a little faster than that of the United States.

"Even if we sell to the outside world, companies such as the United States will not use our products to produce military radars."

"On the contrary, if we don't sell to the outside world, then the United States will definitely eat up this part of the market."

"According to the information we learned from our investigation, the commercial production of gallium nitride power components in the United States is also being prepared."

"By next year at the latest, some GaN production lines will enter mass production."

"There's not much time left for us to seize the market."

As soon as Zhang Jing said this, Cao Yang's thoughts immediately changed.

The products produced by Nanshan Semiconductor are all civilian products, and there is naturally no problem in selling them to the outside world.

Whether GaN power components are used in radar, LED light-emitting tubes, or solar cells, it is the customer's own choice.

Nanshan Semiconductor only needs to sell its own power components.

It's like steel, which can be used to produce weapons such as swords, as well as all kinds of useful products.

How to use it, that is the customer's choice, the steel mill will not stop selling steel because the customer may use their own products to produce dangerous goods.

"Okay, then just hold a formal GaN power component recommendation meeting, and get a few special samples to show it, so that everyone knows the wonders of GaN power components."

Since you want to do it, let's make it bigger.

In this way, it can attract all kinds of potential customers to the greatest extent, and there is no need for Nanshan Semiconductor to sell it itself.

With the announcement of the invitation letter of Nanshan Semiconductor's recommendation meeting, it immediately caused a lot of shock in the industry.

Especially Northrop Grumman, they have also invested a lot of money in research on gallium nitride.

Seeing that they are about to come out, it turns out that Nanshan Semiconductor has already produced the products and wants to recommend them to customers.

The impact of this incident is absolutely huge.

"John, I think the five/corner/building needs to pay attention to the production of gallium nitride by Nanshan Semiconductor, we have studied it for decades, but it turns out that they produced it earlier than us."

"The impact is very bad."

Kevlar was in a very bad mood.

He had the feeling that the peaches that had grown from the peach trees he had planted had been plucked.

Shouldn't gallium nitride power devices, this new technology semiconductor material, be the first to make a breakthrough on the American side, and then be copied by other countries?

Why is Huaxia actually ahead of the United States now?

"Is the impact of this GaN power component really that big?"

Although John also knows some technology, he is not a professional technician after all.

So seeing Kevlar so nervous, he still didn't understand it.

"Great! Very big! ”

"John, I'll give you an example."

Kevlar quickly reviewed the relevant information in his head.

"Eglin Air Force Base in Florida sits an 11-story radar that is the world's first large phased array radar, the AN/FPS-85."

"This radar is like a huge house, which consumes more than a thousand tons of steel and a lot of concrete."

"There are also three 500-ton chillers and two cooling towers as auxiliaries, so that they can exert their maximum power."

"But if the power components of this phased array radar are replaced with silicon nitride power components, then the volume only needs one-tenth of the original volume to achieve the same effect."

Hearing Kevlar say this, John immediately realized the seriousness of the problem.

The impact of gallium nitride components on radar is so great, which means that Huaxia's phased array radar technology will make earth-shaking changes.

And this change in radar technology will have an impact on all kinds of equipment on land, sea and air.

Some of the superior equipment originally built by the United States is likely to soon become unadvantageous.

No wonder Kevlar wanted to remind John to take the news seriously.

"In other words, if Huaxia uses gallium nitride power components as the T/R components of phased array radars, then the volume and weight of radars can be greatly reduced, which can directly make their shipborne and airborne radar technologies achieve significant changes?"

"It's not if, it's going to be like this!" Kevlar gave his reply very affirmatively, "And not only the volume and weight will change significantly, but the most important thing is that the performance will be greatly improved, and the failure rate will be greatly reduced, and the cost will plummet." ”

Hearing Kevlar say this, John's face changed dramatically.

Volume drops!

Weight drop!

Performance Boost!

The failure rate has decreased!

Costs have plummeted!

In this way, isn't it Huaxia's phased array radar technology that surpasses the various radars currently used by the United States?

You know, since the advent of radar in World War II, this electronic device has been the best tool for tracking all kinds of aircraft, missiles, and ships.

Whether it is the United States, the polar bear, or China, there are a large number of large radar bases.

The location of these bases is relatively fixed, because in order to achieve high-power, long-distance surveillance, the size of the radar must be very large.

However, the emergence of gallium nitride power components has greatly changed this situation.

In the future, Huaxia's phased array radar is likely to be pulled around directly by a truck.

The impact is definitely huge.

The most important thing is that after the upgrade of airborne radar and shipborne radar on the Chinese side, the technical advantages of fighters such as the American F22 and F35 have been greatly weakened.

Huaxia's radar technology was first followed the rhythm of polar bears.

However, after the polar bear's radar technology has developed to a certain extent, there is no way to get rid of the problem of the boss, and the performance is really not very good.

Of course, the radar of the roadbed can be built large enough, but it is not a big problem.

Carrier-based and airborne are different.

"According to the style of the Chinese people in the past, their things must have been used on a large scale internally before they were officially displayed."

"But I haven't received much information about the technological breakthrough of GaN power components in Huaxia before."

John is obviously angry about Nanshan Semiconductor's gallium nitride power component recommendation meeting.

When did the Chinese people do things so high-profile?

"John, you haven't heard much about the news of Nanshan Group-related companies over the years."

"This company is very different from many companies in China."

"Whether it is in chip production equipment, or in high-end carbon fiber, or in special steel, they have mastered a very advanced level of technology."

"Huaxia's semiconductor industry, under the influence of Nanshan Semiconductor, has begun to hit the international advanced level."

"Today, it is only a leading technology of gallium nitride power components, and in the future, Nanshan Semiconductor may become an international leader in more chips and semiconductor components."

"This is also the reason why companies such as Intel and Deyi have hoped that the Ministry of Commerce can impose stricter sanctions on companies such as Nanshan Semiconductor."

Kevlar felt that it was necessary to further promote the restrictions on Nanshan Group-related enterprises, otherwise he would have more uncomfortable things in the future.

John apparently agrees with this.

(End of chapter)

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