"Our shuttles don't even have nuclear-powered engines, but they already have two nuclear vehicles."

As soon as Carey arrived at JFT, he scolded his head and face, leaving Freeman confused.

"Two? Isn't it a Storm? ”

The Air Force Intelligence Office assistant who followed opened his phone, and it showed a photo taken outside the B-class base: an An-1250 taking off with an unengined H2.

"The Glory and Pioneer are both overhauled and maintained in Qiongzhou, and the Storm is in space, so what did this one that flew out of their base three hours ago do?

Although there are only a few incomplete photos for the time being, the difference between the H2N and H2M fuselages can be distinguished, and besides, the plane went not to Qiongzhou, but to Shengjing. ”

"Sheng Jing?"

Freeman still knows the main scientific research and production institutions in China, and knows that it is the territory of Shen Fei, the eldest son of the Republic, and that an H2N was obviously going to be remodeled for military purposes in the past.

There is no doubt that the Storm must be civilian, as can be seen from the installation of the Endeavor on its first flight, but this mysterious H2N may not be a word.

Carey: "Can you tell me why this H2N doesn't have an engine installed?" ”

Freeman: "It's easy to understand, if you want to install a lot of weapons, you'll have to make a big layout change to the internal plumbing and cooling system, let me see the photos...... Yes, it was shipped before it was finished, so the three A100 engines that came with it should also change.

So this space shuttle will never be for civilian purposes. ”

Carey: "So I'm now making new requirements for the NERVA A105 on behalf of the Air Force to have at least 10MW of power output. ”

“……”

Freeman glanced at the Air Force Intelligence Assistant behind Carey, who shook his head slightly.

Obviously, Major General Carey knew nothing about technology.

Even if he could get the engine to output 10 MW of electricity, the space shuttle would not be able to carry such a high-power laser, and the power of a laser of this volume would not be able to do this, and the heat dissipation problem would be extremely annoying.

If you guessed correctly, Raytheon's latest laser project is in the 300 kilowatt class? It's not even close!

Moreover, the use of lasers in space to intercept across hundreds of kilometers is completely different from intercepting drones thousands of meters away on the ground, and the requirements for lasers are also very different.

Fortunately, he is also familiar with the old routines of the American military industry, so he nodded directly and agreed, and when the time came, he just shirked it.

Besides, is Boeing's Endeavour refurbished finished? Surely not yet, right? It is unlikely that flights will return in July.

After sending Carey away, Freeman continued to wait for the Air Force and NACA's detection of the Storm, which would have helped in the development of the NERVA A105.

……

After the launch, the "Storm" disappeared from the media, and of course most of this was the result of deliberate domestic suppression.

There is even less information about the interior of the Storm, and the seven astronauts only sent out images inside the space station after entering the docking Advance, and the outside world did not even have a chance to see the pink tail flame of the Storm.

Now, the top of domestic public opinion is C832.

After the first flight of the C832, it soon ushered in a large wave of orders: 4 China Eastern Airlines, 4 China Southern Airlines, 6 Hainan Airlines, 3 Xiamen Airlines, and 2 more Air China, plus the order of two special planes to 21 orders, which is quite a large number.

In comparison, the C919 has only received 18 orders since its first flight, which is not bad, but obviously the momentum is not too good.

Moreover, C832 has an advantage over C919, as a nationally produced passenger aircraft, it can be used as a military aircraft without restrictions.

In the next five years, the military plans to equip six Air Police 1000 early warning aircraft and 12 Air Tank-10 air tankers, as well as a total of 20 high-tech No. 10 series electronic jamming aircraft and Air Submarine-10 series anti-submarine reconnaissance aircraft, that is, 18 C832 and 20 C822 transformation projects, which will be jointly completed with Xifei.

In fact, according to the Air Force's own estimates, about 150 to 200 logistics and special aircraft are needed in the domestic scale, and they must be improved from the C822 and C832.

As for the H2N, which was transported from the base after the first flight of the Storm, it was naturally the first aircraft of the 909 project, "Great Wall One". ”

Mukden, 611.

More than a dozen researchers from the base commanded the crane to lift the half-outfitted Great Wall No. 1 onto a special trailer, and then dragged it into the large-scale renovation workshop that Shen Fei had prepared earlier.

In addition to the engineers of the 611 Institute and Xinyuan, there are also people from the Third Academy of Aerospace, the Ninth Academy, the Modu Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, the Beijing Laser Research Institute and many other institutions.

Here, they will jointly carry out the follow-up renovation project of Great Wall 1, turning it into a hidden space killer.

The mission of Modu Optical Machine and Beijing Laser is to develop laser weapons that can exert the greatest lethality on the Great Wall No. 1 platform.

The weight that the Great Wall 1 can leave for the laser weapon and the heat dissipation system is 50 tons, and the maximum take-off mass is 132 tons, which is quite generous, but it is really a "gadget" for the magic capital optical machine.

In 1986, they developed the "Shenguang No. 1", the volume reached the size of several football fields, can output trillions of watts of power in 1 billion seconds, and then developed Shenguang No. 2 and No. 3, which was just put into use in 2014, can output a peak power of 6 billion kilowatts.

Of course, the volume and weight of these big guys can't be moved into space, and the maximum working time is hundreds of millions of a second, which is not the same type as the Qianjun Stick No. 1, which can output for one minute.

The goal of the "Shenguang" series is nuclear fusion laser ignition, and at least hundreds of light sources work at the same time, which only needs to work for a short time, and it is obviously not good to use it as a weapon.

However, since the emergence of "Shenguang-1", Huaguo's laser technology has entered the world's first, which has also led to the rapid development of lasers in other fields.

It is not clear how powerful the Great Wall No. 1 laser will be equipped with, which has a lot to do with the combat ideas and objects, and the prototype has not yet been built......

The laser technology of Project 909 is even more important than that of the space shuttle, and it is not surprising that it can be put into use within a year, and it is not surprising that it will drag on for two or three years.

Of course, what no one knew was that one of the base engineers sent to assist in the renovation work was from the laser laboratory, and his role at this time was only a mediocre ion power generation part engineer, who was listening inadvertently to the researchers of the two laser research institutes on the body of the Great Wall One.

“…… The attack window can only be opened above the cargo hold, which is fortunately wide enough, but the heat dissipation is still a bit troublesome. ”

"Then make a telescopic lens and bring out the heat dissipation part."

"No, no, the accuracy is too difficult to control, and you also need to consider the violent tremor in the atmosphere during take-off and landing, and the light source must be extremely stable...... To be honest, it would be a pity that installing a laser on the space shuttle had a great impact on accuracy and could only be used for attacks outside the atmosphere.

It is better to separate these modules...... Cough. ”

(End of chapter)