"Last week, Eagle Sauce announced that they would conduct a new round of test launches of hypersonic missiles."

Qiao Yang sat on the sofa and said with a slight joking between his eyebrows:

"Brother Zhang, do you think they can succeed this time?"

Three years ago, after the first failed attempt of an air-launched hypersonic missile.

In the past few years, although there has been various news claiming that their hypersonic missiles are completed.

However, judging by the experiments that have not yielded results for a long time, I am afraid that the development of hypersonic missiles will not be so smooth sailing.

This missile test is also the second time since three years ago that the missile test launch work has been carried out in earnest.

It seems that their faith is still relatively sufficient.

Although Qiao Yang believes that even if their hypersonic missile is developed, it will not pose any threat to himself.

However, there are still some concerns in the end.

Zhang Xingyang understands the more the situation, and naturally understands better that the test launch of the hypersonic missile this time will most likely not be successful.

As a result, it was doomed as early as three years ago!

At that time, Zhang Xingyang saw that there were people in the material science of Eagle Sauce who were falsifying in the field of various high-performance alloys.

It's just that at that time, I didn't know what they were doing here.

Later, judging from the scientific research projects involved in that material, it is likely to be the material of hypersonic missiles.

This is also an important reason why Zhang Xingyang thinks that their hypersonic missile experiment will not have any good results.

"The probability of success is not too great."

Zhang Xingyang returned his thoughts to the current conversation and said.

"Why?"

"I think they're quite confident this time!" Qiao Yang asked with some puzzlement.

Although Qiao Yang has been responsible for completing the domestic hypersonic missile, he really doesn't know much about some secret things.

In his cognition, fraud in other fields can be understood, but in the field of weapons that involves national security.

It's kind of appalling.

"Faith is a good thing, but I'm afraid it's blind faith."

Zhang Xingyang said pointedly, then pulled out a dozen reports from the bottom of a locked drawer on his desk.

"You take a look at this first."

This is a detailed performance report for several materials.

However, there are two different versions of the performance report for each material.

After Qiao Yang briefly flipped through it, his eyes looked at Zhang Xingyang with some confusion.

Qiao Yang is a mechanics background, although he has been exposed to a lot of materials science content over the years because of his work.

But when it comes to these extremely professional contents, I still only feel that my eyes are black.

"What does that mean?"

After making sure that he couldn't understand it, Qiao Yang asked.

Zhang Xingyang stretched out his hand and pointed at several important features of the report.

"This part is a reproduction experiment that we did, and this part is their original material performance data."

Qiao Yang can see a lot this time.

But in this way, the original doubts in my heart are gone, but new doubts arise again.

"Why is there such a big difference in the data?"

"Is it a reproduction failure?"

Qiao Yang naturally had such an idea.

After all, out of the cult of authority, no one would first think that the literature in a journal was wrong.

"What if I told you that this is the result of reproduction?"

Zhang Xingyang stared at Qiao Yang's eyes tightly and said.

Qiao Yang was a little hairy all over his body, and goosebumps rose.

"That means it"

"Yes, their material properties are fake."

Zhang Xingyang sat down at this time.

"I knew about this three years ago."

"Then why didn't it explode?" Qiao Yang asked with some incomprehension.

"Because I want to see if I can catch a big fish."

Zhang Xingyang smiled and said:

"I didn't expect it to be a big fish!"

Qiao Yang has been engaged in missile-related work for a long time and has a good understanding of this issue.

Aerodynamics at hypersonic speeds are largely influenced by materials.

Because the heat accumulation under high-speed air friction is very serious.

If there are no good materials, then there are no good missiles.

"How dare they be so bold to falsify this core material?"

Qiao Yang was also taken aback.

At the same time, I was amazed at the courage of these people.

"You still have too little insight, as long as it is profitable, they will even be able to cheat on strategic nuclear submarines!"

Zhang Xingyang said with some disdain.

"So you're going to blow it out now?"

Qiao Yang asked with a mentality that it was not a big deal to see the excitement.

"Yes, isn't it just like they're going to conduct missile experiments?"

Zhang Xingyang smiled softly and said:

"Let their military also see whose problem it is that the missile is delayed and unsuccessful!"

Material fraud, once it is exposed.

The first to sit still is definitely the Congress and the military, which have invested huge sums of money.

When the time comes, there will definitely be violent earthquakes! ——

February 14, Valentine's Day.

On this day, Eagle was supposed to conduct experiments on air-launched hypersonic missiles.

Hypersonic missiles have been hung on the hardpoints of large bombers.

The crew is also ready to go.

Just wait for the order to be given and start the experiment.

But just half an hour before the start of the experiment.

Suddenly, an order came that puzzled everyone.

Experiments are suspended, missiles are taken off the shelves!

Everyone else is a little confused.

But in the command center, Prius's heart was beating wildly and he was nervous.

He had already guessed that his material might have been faked.

It's just that there is still a hint of luck.

I think maybe something else is wrong.

It may even be a weather problem, and it is not suitable to conduct experiments.

But when he saw the uniformed gendarmes walking towards him.

Priss understood.

It's definitely my own thing.

He can only extend his hands obediently.

Still, Priss was a little curious about how they found out.

After all, there had been nothing for a few years before.

Just as the missile was about to begin testing, the East Window incident suddenly occurred.

It always gives people the feeling that they have been planning for a long time.

So after being thrown into the iron prison, at the time of interrogation.

No matter what others ask.

Priss asks rhetorically, wondering who exactly has revealed his secret.

Until he met his former friend, Ryan.

"Prius, if it weren't for the fact that the editor-in-chief of materials science retracted many of our papers, I wouldn't have known that you had falsified so many journals."

Through the thick bulletproof glass, Ryan couldn't help but complain.

The counterfeiting of Prius materials has caused a great adverse impact.

The first is that it affects the future of others in the institute.

Academic fraud is unbearable in any scientific research institution in the world.

With such a background, it will be very difficult for them to develop in other scientific research units.

Of course, this is only for the long term.

The bigger impact is just around the corner at hand.

"The military believes that your fraud has seriously interfered with their hypersonic missile development."

Ryan looked at his friend with some reluctance:

"As a result, they have filed a lawsuit in federal court to demand that you compensate them for their losses."

"Even if there was no trial, it was possible to expect that this would be an astronomical amount!"

Ryan said a lot before Priss spoke slowly.

At this time, he was no longer in high spirits, and his whole person looked much older.

"How the hell did they find out?!"

"This matter should be able to be concealed for at least five years!"

That's Prius's biggest question.

Even in his cage, he thinks about it every day.

"Do you remember the Ryukuni Materials Research Institute that we were surprised at earlier?"

Instead, Ryan asks about an incident from a few years ago.

"Could it be them?"

Prius was a little surprised.

But in the blink of an eye, he understood a lot.

"It turned out to be them!"

Most of the articles back then were written for themselves.

As long as you can't help but continue to fake, the other party will be able to see it.

If they saw it then, why did they say it today?

Prius thought for a while, and then roughly came up with the idea that the other party should be trying to hinder their development of hypersonic missiles.

After this incident of fraud, both Congress and the military.

Hypersonic missiles will definitely be treated with more caution.

The speed of R&D will definitely drop again and again.

Within five years, there is basically no way to develop.

Price's face was a little decayed.

He was not yet 50 years old, and for a researcher, he was in his prime.

But now, he seems to be an old man in his seventies.

"It's all my fault."

"We lost in this game!"

Priss muttered to himself.

The hypersonic missiles of the Dragon Kingdom are already much more advanced than them.

Now because of his problems, it will be years to fall.

In the past few years, it has been enough for the Dragon Kingdom to upgrade its hypersonic missiles.

They have already lost a lot in this missile race for the future.

Ryan looked at his old friend, who was almost autistic, sighed helplessly, and left the prison.

The current situation at the institute is terrible, and he still has a lot of work to do.

The most important thing is the lawsuit that will be held next week.

Discuss whether Priss is a spy of Maozi or the Dragon Kingdom?!

This is also the dirty water that the military and Congress have spilled on Prius for years after discovering that he had falsified missile materials.

Ryan didn't have much hope for that.

After all, there seems to be something wrong with Prius's spirit.

Whether he can maintain his normal thinking in the lawsuit is a question.

Over the next few days, Ryan sought out several councillors he knew.

Hopefully, they will be able to support their opinions.

The falsification of Prius's materials is merely an academic matter.

There is no question of betrayal.

However, even these councillors who have a good relationship with Lane do not have much confidence in this.

The major domestic media have overwhelmingly publicized the matter of Prius.

Now everyone from the senators to the general public thinks that Priss is deliberately falsifying the material.

Moreover, public opinion consciously made the public think that Priss was a traitor.

Public opinion is raging, and there is nothing they can do to change it.

The influence of public opinion in the Federation is incomparably huge.

The executioner can be portrayed as a father who loves his daughter.

Mothers who love their children can also be portrayed as murderers of small animal abuse.

Described from different angles, there are different conclusions.

If the Prius case is just an academic fraud case, then it will not be enough to attract the attention of the public.

It's not even as good as the lace news of a second-tier star.

Therefore, if you want to attract enough eyeballs, the media will naturally write as exaggerated as you can.

directly fabricated a lot of news to confirm that Prise is a traitor!

And within the Federation, it has been dormant for decades.

It is to make the material of the Federation unable to develop!

"Isn't there a way to do it?"

Ryan, who was already a little anxious, looked down at the wood-patterned floor and whispered.

The other party didn't speak, just took another sip of the wine in the glass.

Ryan also knew what the other party meant.

As a member of parliament, he will not go against public opinion.

Monday, the scene of the lawsuit.

Dressed in black and white prison uniforms and heavily shackled on his hands and feet, Priss appeared at the scene of the lawsuit on time.

Ryan, who was sitting in the audience, watched his friend mumble something in his mouth.

Even when faced with the judge's question, he only looked at his feet and said nothing.

The lawsuit is basically just a one-sided accusation.

From Price's academic ethics, to the crimes he committed.

That's it, in the case that Priss doesn't answer anything.

He was convicted of 16 counts of treason and faces 120 years in prison.

Because there is no death penalty in the Federation, he will remain in prison until he dies.

Ryan looked at Priss who was taken down, and was inevitably a little sad.

He did not believe that there was a subjective idea of treason in Price's consciousness.

The main reason for the falsification of materials is that there is really not so much time for research and development work.

You can only take the evil path of falsification.

However, this road eventually swallowed up his friends for many years.

This was another strange thing that Ryan remembered.

In a short period of time after the first counterfeiting of Prius.

A research institute in Longguo has developed a material that improves a lot on the basis of Prius's fake performance data.

How exactly do they do it?

And their materials are not fake.

I did my own reproduction experiment at the time!

Performance error is less than one hundredth!

Ryan was curious about this unit like never before.

It just so happens that now that Priss has been arrested and imprisoned, the institute is at risk of closure.

Ryan didn't have much to do.

"So, do you want to go to the Dragon Country?"

Ryan walked out of the hall following the stream of people who were constantly insulting Prise.

Looking up at the sunny sky, Ryan finally made up his mind.

Decided to take a trip to the Dragon Country.

Maybe there's something different going on there.

(End of chapter)