In fact, not only C832, C822 has also been targeted by the military.

The C822 platform can be used as an electronic warfare aircraft and an anti-submarine aircraft, which is more useful, and the maintenance cost is cheaper than that of military aircraft, and it can be used for both military and civilian purposes.

This is not a precedent, Aramco has long used transport aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, tankers, etc., based on Boeing 707 passenger aircraft, which proves that in the field of auxiliary equipment, civilian aircraft are actually more suitable than military aircraft.

And the commercial aviation did not know that although their official factory had not been built, the military had already placed an order for no less than 50 passenger planes in their hearts.

As for whether it will be subject to international sanctions after selling to the military? It's as if you won't be sanctioned if you don't sell it!

……

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

A Xinyuan-5A rocket is erected, and at the top of it is a space shuttle that resembles H1.

Dou Ping stood in the distance, looking at the new "Divine Dragon".

At the same time as the Snow Bird plan was advancing, Xinyuan and they changed an H1 unmanned version and made major improvements to the structure.

After removing the life-supporting facilities, the empty weight was reduced to 9 tons, and the maximum take-off weight was 19 tons. ”

The new "Shenlong" adopts a modular design of weapons, with plenty of space for weapons and detection systems, and built-in folding solar panels, which greatly increase the power generation.

The engine was also rough, and it became a "poison hair" with an oxidizing agent of nitrogen tetroxide and a dimethylhydrazine fuel.

Although the specific impulse is far inferior to the engines such as liquid oxygen kerosene, liquid oxygen liquid hydrogen, and liquid oxygen methane, these two liquids are normal temperature fuels that can be stored for a long time, and the unmanned space shuttle will stay in space for at least a few months, requiring very storage-resistant fuel.

Now this unmanned space shuttle, codenamed SL-1A, is still a test aircraft, and it is only hastily filled with some original Shenlong's reconnaissance equipment and a large number of batteries, and its weight is only 13 tons.

This kind of classified spacecraft can't be launched in Qiongzhou, and other countries only know that you launched something, and they can't take photos to see what it looks like.

The only thing known to the outside world about this launch mission is a simple announcement:

"China has completed a reusable spacecraft launch test at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, which has been a complete success."

Only NACA and USAAF know that this thing is positioned in a similar way to the X37B, but they don't speak either, and the fewer people who know about these things, the better.

However, at the desert base, the ground center began tests immediately after the SL-1A was put into orbit, including deterioration of orbital reconnaissance, space agitation, simulated attacks on scrapped satellites, and so on.

After only a simple test at the very beginning, the base fell in love with the SL-1A.

A large spacecraft is good, and heavy is beautiful.

The H1 is heavier than the X37B, but it's very flexible in space, and it has an advantage that Aramco doesn't have.

The Tiangong space station is now exclusive to China, and the SL-1A can be docked for maintenance and transformation, which is obviously not possible for the ISS, and the ISS member states cannot accept the ISS for military purposes.

In the future, the SL-1A may also try to be equipped with the WCR-09 combined power engine to briefly enter the atmosphere to carry out close reconnaissance or strike missions, and the prospects of the new Shenlong program are far greater than the old Shenlong.

This also made Dou Ping have more expectations for the "Snow Bird" that is still being demonstrated, which is a Mach 10 aircraft, and the anti-aircraft missile only flies about Mach 3.

Missiles can't keep up with the general to show the world again, and the Snowbird can even abandon the stealth design, because no traditional means can damage it unless it's a laser.

You can see it but you can't beat it, and this past Ami's exclusive will soon be in the hands of Huaguo.

And by cooperating with Xinyuan's high-speed aircraft, Huaguo has also achieved a lead over Aramco in another project.

That is the Tengyun project.

In other words, the variant of the cloud project.

The unit in charge of this project is the Third Academy of Aerospace, which is subordinate to the Aerospace Science and Industry, and the project in charge is biased towards the military.

The Tengyun Project was originally a combined aerospace aircraft, consisting of a carrier aircraft flying in the atmosphere and a small space shuttle on its back, with a maximum speed of Mach 5 in the atmosphere.

The carrier aircraft below climbed to a high altitude with the shuttle, and then the shuttle started itself and flew into orbit.

However, after the appearance of WCR09, they found through the data obtained from the desert base that if the propulsion vehicle can fly to Mach 10 and more than 50,000 meters, it may be possible to make a little change.

Add a small space shuttle that abandons the back of the aircraft and instead strengthen the carrier aircraft, such as installing 8 WCR09s, propelling the space plane to 10 times the speed of sound and an altitude of about 55,000 meters, then it can be done in a different way.

For example, two rocket boosters are added to the belly of the aerospace aircraft to maintain the streamlined fit of the fuselage with little resistance.

When the 180-ton aerospace aircraft (about 120 tons together with two booster rockets) flies to an altitude of more than 50,000 meters, the rocket engine can be started, and the two rockets can obtain a maximum thrust of about 200 tons, work for about 180 seconds, and accelerate the aerospace aircraft weighing only 55 tons to the first cosmic speed and send it directly into low-earth orbit.

If the rocket booster is non-abandonable and can enter orbit with the aerospace aircraft, then it is completely single-stage into orbit, which is quite powerful.

This aerospace aircraft can send 10 tons of payload into space, and after changing to a passenger version, it can carry 50 people, which fully meets the requirements of a single stage into orbit round trip in the future.

With a launch mass of 180 tons on the ground, 15 tons of payload into space with a load factor of up to 8.3%, which the launch vehicle could not do anyway.

Even if it is a two-stage orbit entry of the Tengyun project, it can only reduce the mass of the carrier aircraft at most.

Moreover, the single-stage orbital aerospace aircraft really meets people's extreme imagination of aerospace aircraft.

However, the three institutes are still in the embryonic state of imagination for this plan, because such an aerospace aircraft is too advanced, and if the design is to dock with the space station in a 400-kilometer orbit, then the indicators are still somewhat insufficient.

Moreover, it is still in the theoretical stage, and there will definitely be a lot of trouble when designing it.

……

At the B-class base, engineers from the Ministry of Aviation and the Ministry of Aerospace gathered around a thick, oversized disc, waiting to be transferred.

The thickness of this super-large disc reaches 6 meters, and the maximum diameter is a terrifying 12.6 meters.

The diameter alone may not be an idea, but if you imagine that five semi-trailers can fit a horizontal compartment side by side, you can understand what a large part it is.

This is the core part of the forward space station, which is connected to the spoke module and is in the center of the core node module, with 2 axially symmetrical and 6 circumferential interfaces.

The weight of this node module alone is as high as 20 tons, and the two axial modules connected to it have a mass of 100 tons each, and the three axial modules connected together have a mass of 220 tons, which is enough to see the horror of the scale of the entire space station.

The most difficult and endurable node module was the first to be built, although the mass is only 20 tons, but no rocket can send him into the sky at present, just because the diameter of 12.6 meters is too exaggerated, only Xinyuan-3 has this ability.

(End of chapter)