Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 140 [Project approved, codenamed "Shenlong" fighter]

The time has come in October.

The layout of the incarnation Peter Vitas has come to an end. The next few days will be for the incarnation to develop as planned in the North Magnesium Silicon Valley, following a classic Magnesium-style rise of technology giants similar to Apple being born in a garage and Facebook being born in a campus dormitory.

Xiao Yu asked his incarnation Peter Vitas to follow a similar entrepreneurial path and start a company first.

December 12, AVIC Linfei Company headquarters.

In the morning, Xiao Yu had just arrived at the company when he received good news. At this moment, Chen Zaiqing, CEO of AVIC Linfei, was reporting in Xiao Yu's office: "The superior has approved the project we applied for."

While talking, Chen Zaiqing also handed the approval documents he brought to Xiao Yu, who opened them and glanced at them, nodded and said, "Okay, now we can go ahead and do it."

Chen Zaiqing said: "I heard that both Chengfei and Shenfei are developing sixth-generation aircraft, and the progress is said to be quite encouraging."

Getting the approval document also means that some confidential information will be disclosed to AVIC Linfei. As the head of the company, Chen Zaiqing naturally knows some of the information. Of course, he must have passed the political review and complied with the confidentiality regulations to know it.

However, not everyone in the company knows about it, and a lot of confidential information is limited to the company's core personnel.

When Xiao Yu heard about the progress of the sixth-generation aircraft of Chengfei and Shenfei, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "We have started a military competition with ourselves. Our country has set a precedent. From now on, military fans will no longer discuss whether our fighter jets are better than those of other countries, but whether Chengfei or Shenfei has better aircraft. Of course, Linfei should also be considered."

This is not an exaggeration. Only the top three countries in the world are playing with fifth-generation aircraft. As for other countries, they have not even figured out how to play with fourth-generation aircraft. Even looking around the world, there are only a handful of industrial countries that can build aircraft.

When it comes to the sixth-generation aircraft, only Dongda is playing it seriously. Big Goose and A-Mei have also fallen behind, let alone the others.

A-mei is playing with the sixth-generation aircraft, but he is playing with the PPT sixth-generation aircraft. "New Folder" is the result of A-mei's sixth-generation aircraft in the past twenty years.

On the contrary, the sixth-generation aircraft from Dongda University are about to be put into flight, while that of Chengfei and Shenfei has only been happening in the last one or two years.

There is no one outside who can fight, so I can only learn from Zhou Botong and use my left hand to fight my right hand, and compete with myself.

In fact, as early as three or four years ago, the chief designer of the J-20 had already said that Dongda's fighter jets had moved from the "kingdom of necessity" to the "kingdom of freedom".

The so-called "kingdom of necessity" means that when fighter jets are first being built, you just follow what others do. In other words, the overall design, structure, and performance indicators of fighter jets are all formulated by foreigners, and you only need to make references and imitate them.

Entering the "kingdom of freedom" means that you will no longer follow others, because even if you want to, there is no target to follow. There is no one in front of you. You are already ahead of everyone. Whose trend can you follow when you want to develop the sixth-generation aircraft?
Therefore, you have to formulate the overall design, structure, and performance indicators by yourself. You are completely free in the research and development area, but others will have to follow suit in the future.

Titanium, carbon fiber, aircraft engines, flight control systems, sensors, 3D printing, machine tools, phased array radar, semiconductors, wind tunnel testing...almost every aspect can be easily mastered, and now room-temperature superconducting materials have also made breakthroughs.

Xiao Yu put the document down and said decisively: "Since the approval has been issued, let's officially start the project. We will try to send the sixth-generation aircraft into the sky before Chengfei and Shenfei."

After hearing this, Chen Zaiqing was stunned and said, "How is this possible? Normally, the development cycle of a new fighter jet is ten or even twenty years. This is when the old aircraft design bureau has strong support. We have no support at all and are taking a wild approach..."

Hearing this, Xiao Yu smiled calmly and said, "Nothing is impossible. Others haven't been able to develop room-temperature superconducting materials for more than a hundred years, but we have developed them. The wild way, in other words, is the new way. If we follow the rules, we will never catch up with the old aircraft design bureaus of Chengfei and Shenfei in our lifetime." ...

Half an hour later, Xiao Yu called together the company's design team.

"The approval has come down. Today is the day when our new all-electric fighter jet is officially launched. The project code is 'Shenlong'." Xiao Yu looked around at the more than 100 people on the scene, paused for a moment and continued: "All previous plans have been overturned and redesigned around the breakthrough of superconducting materials."

Jiang Heng was slightly surprised when he saw the materials on the conference screen: "Developing a sixth-generation aircraft?"

Xiao Yu nodded and smiled: "Yes, the general idea is very clear. It adopts a delta wing layout, without a vertical tail, and has to have super stealth performance, so the engine is on the back."

It adopts a triangular wing-body fusion design and eliminates the vertical tail. Without the tail and vertical tail, the largest radar reflection source of the entire aircraft is eliminated, greatly improving the stealth performance of the aircraft.

Xiao Yu went on to say: "The fuselage is made of ceramic-synthesized metal composite materials and nanostructured room-temperature superconducting composite materials, and has superconducting suspension vertical take-off and landing capabilities. We are striving to achieve the first flight in 2023."

The first flight will be next year?

When these words were spoken, everyone present was stunned.

Jiang Heng came to his senses and immediately concluded, "This is impossible. It is impossible to achieve the first flight in about a year from project establishment. No aircraft design bureau in the world can do it, not to mention that our AVIC Linfei has only been established for less than a year."

He came to almost the same conclusion as Chen Zaiqing. Everyone felt that the boss's words were a bit too fantastical. The key point was that the boss gave everyone such an outrageous KPI indicator, and I couldn't do it...

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "How do you know you can't do it without trying? It's true that our foundation is not as good as that of the old aircraft design bureau, but on the other hand, we don't have the burden of being an idol. We are more in line with the 'free kingdom' sequence that Chief Engineer Yang mentioned than any other company in the same industry. What is the 'free kingdom'? It means not being bound by the existing rules and regulations. In the field of research and development and design, we can give full play to brainstorming."

"So we are not afraid of the news that will be released, but we are afraid of the lack of news that will be released. Moreover, our fighter jets are unmanned aircraft, so we don't need pilots to test fly them, and we don't need to worry about casualties. So what are we afraid of? As long as we think it can fly, we will let it fly first."

Xiao Yu looked around at everyone and said, "The worst that can happen is a plane crash. It's nothing more than watching a few more fireworks shows. It's expensive to play like this, but don't worry about the money and funding. If 100 billion is not enough, then we can do 200 billion, 300 billion, or 500 billion. We have enough money."

Everyone present was stunned after hearing this. My goodness, the boss's move was simply too wild.

At this time, Xiao Yu told everyone a piece of news that shocked and excited everyone present: "I have good news for you. Another R&D team here has made a huge breakthrough in the field of batteries. Didn't Jiang Heng say that as long as the energy density of graphene material batteries is doubled, it can be on par with the energy storage of traditional fuels?"

Xiao Yu smiled slightly: "Now I can tell you that our latest breakthrough is not just doubled, but super doubled."

Jiang Heng was shocked when he heard this. "What? Super double? That's four times? Isn't this the theoretical limit of graphene battery energy storage capacity?"

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(End of this chapter)