Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 237 The Inevitable Trend of Technological Development (Subscription Request)
After Mr. Qian asked about the function of integrated circuits, he decided to put his own research on hold and let Yang Ning develop the integrated circuit first.

Just by listening to Yang Ning's explanation, Mr. Qian and Director Nie were able to understand the important role of integrated circuits in the scientific and technological development of a country. Now they can't wait to see what the scene will be like after the integrated circuits are produced.

"In that case, you should hurry up and build the lithography machine. As for the fighter jet from Maple Leaf Country, I will continue to think of a solution." Director Nie looked at Yang Ning with admiration, and was obviously very satisfied with his previous explanation.

Although our current industrial technology cannot produce the fighter jets described by Yang Ning, we at least have a specific development direction.

I believe that with the efforts of our scientific researchers, we will be able to build the fighter jet described by Yang Ning sooner or later.

Director Nie only listened to Yang Ning's explanation, and considering the current speed of technological development in the world, he realized that Yang Ning's description of the future development trend of fighter jets was most likely correct.

If we plan the development of our aviation industry according to what Yang Ning just said, we will definitely be able to avoid many detours in the aviation field.

It can be said that what Yang Ning said before will determine the development direction of our Air Force in the next few decades.

Up to this moment, Yang Ning has grown into a leading figure in a certain scientific research field who can influence our strategic development.

"According to Comrade Yang Ning, our research investment in the Double II fighter may be wasted!" Mr. Qian also agreed with Yang Ning's prediction on the future development of fighter jets and said regretfully.

"How could it be a waste of money?" Yang Ning was really afraid that this conversation would directly lead to the failure of our Seventh Master's research.

He also planned to use the Seventh Master as a cover to allow Big Brother and Eagle Sauce's air force to continue traveling on the high-altitude and high-speed road for a while.

After all, with the endless emergence of our scientific research results, we are no longer the us in history who had an insignificant impact on the world's development.

Even though Big Brother and the Eagle Sauce still look down on us from the bottom of their hearts, they are now paying no less attention to our technological development than those traditional industrial powers in Europe.

If they find out that we are not continuing to develop high-altitude, high-speed fighter jets, they will inevitably find something from it.

What if they follow the path of our fighter jet development and get their air force on the right development path twenty years earlier? Then what if Big Brother's double-III fighters "Foxbat" and "Foxhound", double-II strategic bomber "White Swan", Eagle Sauce's "Blackbird" reconnaissance aircraft, and the "Valkyrie" strategic bomber that costs more than an aircraft carrier are not developed?
Without the emergence of these fighters, not only would the entire aviation industry suffer a loss, but the entire Cold War would be incomplete.

It's a bit of a pity that the emergence of the big brother "Foxbat" fighter made the United States and other countries directly despair. Under desperation, they really took the right path in the field of aviation and prevented them from consuming too much national strength in the field of high-altitude and high-speed fighters.

"Oh?" Director Nie and Mr. Qian were both very surprised when they heard Yang Ning's obstruction.

So Mr. Qian asked curiously: "Since the high-altitude highway is the wrong path, why should we continue to invest in it?"

Yang Ning certainly couldn't directly say that we continued to develop dual-war fighters in order to mislead the development of Big Brother and Eagle Sauce and consume more of their national strength, which was not conducive to unity, so he could only explain,

"Even if future fighters pursue high maneuverability, high stealth, high attitude perception and supersonic cruise, there are still requirements for altitude. The maximum altitude must be at least 20,000 meters, and the maximum speed must be around Mach 2, right? Otherwise, current missiles can threaten those fighters."

"With the current level of technology and development speed, it is impossible for us to develop an ideal future fighter in a short period of time."

"In this case, we need a dual-two fighter as a transition. This will not only allow our pilots to adapt to flying in a dual-two situation in advance, but also train more aviation talents for us and accumulate more experience for the development of future fighters."

Then Yang Ning smiled and said, "Anyway, we have already invested so much in the dual-class fighter project, it would be a shame to cut it off like this."

"Although the dual-war fighter we are currently developing does not meet the requirements for the development of future fighters."

"But after we manufacture it, it will not only reduce other countries' vigilance against us, but also allow us to verify the technology of future fighter jets on this fighter."

In Yang Ning's conception, after the Seventh Master, our Eighth Master can at least be comparable to the F15 of the Eagle Sauce in later generations. As for the Ninth Master, who was difficult to give birth in the original history, he can be comparable to the F16 of the Eagle Sauce.

If calculated in this way, our Type 11 is equivalent to our later J-10, and Type is equivalent to the J-.

Although some technologies may not meet the technical standards of J-10 and J-11, after some modifications in the future, they should not be much different.

In this way, before the Eagle Sauce F22 is developed, we will at least not lag behind the Eagle Sauce in the main combat aircraft.

As for what we should do after the Eagle Sauce develops the F22?
Yang Ning thought that was all at the end of the century. We have such a huge first-mover advantage. When our national strength develops in the future, our fifth-generation aircraft will not lag behind those of the United States, right?

Yang Ning believes that what has historically constrained our technological development is the issue of computing power.

In later generations, the prerequisite for every major technological explosion was the development of large computers with faster computing speeds.

For example, after the Galaxy series of large computers achieved a computing speed of over 10 billion times per second in the late s, our domestically-made aircraft engines were successfully developed and the J- was successfully launched into space in the early st century.

Similarly, after the launch of the "TaihuLight" mainframe computer, we have ushered in a new round of explosive growth in fields such as aerospace.

So Yang Ning feels that with his ability, even if our overall national strength is not as good as that of the United States and Big Brother, it is still possible to catch up with or even surpass them in some high-end technological fields.

What Yang Ning didn't know was that Director Nie had someone record his conversation with him today in detail, and this information was eventually sent to the higher-ups in the form of a conversation record.

After looking at Yang Ning's analysis of the future development trend of the aviation industry in the document, the leader smiled with satisfaction: "That little guy has completely grown up."

"It seems that we can no longer limit him to the data processing department. After more advanced computers are developed, we should give him more room to play."

So without Yang Ning knowing, the fate of the data processing institute quietly entered the countdown...

"What, moving again?"

When Yang Ning returned home and told his family about the move, both his parents and Hu Yinghong were very confused.

They lived well in the special building, and they couldn't understand why they had to move to the Aerospace Compound. Only Mr. Hu said thoughtfully after hearing that this was an arrangement from above: "It's good to move there. The Aerospace Compound is under the management of the military, and it's at least safer to live there."

"Besides, after moving there, Yang Ning and the others will be closer to us, and it will be much more convenient for them to come back in the future."

"Will the two monsters follow us in the future?"

The mother, Yang Liu, asked worriedly. Her eldest son was busy all day and was away from home. But she knew that he was doing important things and she didn't expect him to be filial to them in the future, so she paid special attention to the second son's affairs.

When she heard that Yang Ning was going to move to the Aviation Compound, she had a bad feeling.

When she was in the special building, she knew that with her second son's intelligence, he would never become a scientist in the future, so she was not worried that he would be influenced by the surrounding environment like his brother.

But it’s different over at the aviation compound. There are soldiers everywhere around. What if Erguai is influenced by the people around him and wants to join the army, who can the couple rely on in the future?
Is it possible to continue to have a third child?
But when I think about my current age, this method seems to be useless.

Yang Ning saw his mother's anxious expression and understood what she was worried about, so he smiled and said, "Second Monster can go to elementary school this year. How about we find a school for him nearby in September this year?"

In recent years, Yang Ning has figured it out. After all, Erguai is not a smart guy like him, and his personality is not suitable for hanging out with those kids with high IQ.

It’s okay in kindergarten, but as he gets older, Erguai will understand more. Yang Ning really doesn’t know what Erguai will become if he continues to go to school with those highly intelligent children.

Letting him return to ordinary life now may not be a bad choice.

"Let's do it this way." After hearing Yang Ning's words, Yang Liu also breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Yang Ning was thinking in his heart: "I just don't know if this butterfly of mine can change the situation in a few years?"

"If not, we should make some preparations in advance."

At first, Hu Yinghong was a little reluctant to leave, but after hearing that Mr. Qian and Mr. Guo’s family would also move there with her family, she happily imagined her life after moving to the aviation compound.

Because Yang Ning was busy with work and Hu Yinghong was not in good health, when it was time to move, Director Nie specially sent someone and a car to help Yang Ning and Mr. Qian move their things.

On his part, Yang Ning finally led the researchers from the Institute of Optics to design an integrated circuit production line before Hu Yinghong went into labor.

"According to the design, after the completion of this production line, it will be able to produce tens of millions of integrated circuits each year."

"Once the integrated circuits are produced, the new generation of computers we designed earlier can be put into production."

"The integrated circuits produced by this production line can achieve a precision of 500 microns, which means that one square centimeter of integrated circuit can inherit 400 complete computer circuits."

"And considering that our current 106 machine has 6000 transistor circuits, in the future we will only need 15 circuit boards of one square centimeter in size to produce a computer with the same computing speed as the 106 machine."

"And with the emergence of integrated circuit technology, computer storage capacity can be further improved. In this way, we can set up more complex programs on the computer. In this way, the computer in the future will not only be a computing machine, but also be able to assist our research."

Standing on the stage, Yang Ning was introducing the application prospects of integrated circuits to the leaders and experts of various units who had previously approved the lithography machine project.

"If so, with the emergence of integrated circuits, can our radars be smaller, consume less energy, and react faster without affecting power?" asked an expert in the radar field after listening to Yang Ning's explanation.

"That's true." Although we initially introduced backward technology from our big brother in the field of radar technology, after accumulating a certain foundation, we decided to embark on the path of independent research and development and the development of electronic technology.

We no longer just focus on Big Brother, but also use Big Brother's technology, combined with some Western theoretical knowledge and technology, to develop our own radar.

They had previously sent some information on this subject to the Data Processing Institute. Through that information, Yang Ning already knew that we had begun researching Doppler pulse radar.

This made Yang Ning feel very surprised. In the original history, the world's first Doppler pulse radar would not be developed until the 60s, but the Doppler effect had been proposed in the mid-19th century.

Without Yang Ning's inspiration, our scientists spontaneously began to innovatively study Doppler pulse radar by combining theories from the Western world.

This shows that the capabilities of scientists in our period are really not much worse than those in other countries.

As long as they are provided with a good scientific research environment and sufficient support, they will be able to be at the forefront of the world.

Not only that, Yang Ning also knew that Sanqi in Guangdong Province used the technology of the "Jinggangshan" car to develop cars of other models and performances.

Although the performance of those cars is not as good as that of "Jinggangshan", their appearance has filled the gap in our low- and mid-range car field.

The export of these cars not only creates a large amount of foreign exchange for us, but also greatly enhances our influence in the world.

The emergence of these situations shows that with the accumulation and development of technology, we have already possessed the ability to innovate independently in industry and science and technology.

It was precisely because of this that Yang Ning calmly accepted the news that the data processing institute would be cancelled soon.

After all, with the development of science and technology, the difficulty of scientific research will become increasingly greater. With Yang Ning's ability, it is impossible for him to take into account all research fields all the time. This is also an inevitable trend in the development of science and technology.

After the integrated circuit computer is developed, Yang Ning will focus his main energy on research in those important fields.

Yang Ning did not feel any loss about this, but instead felt a lot more relaxed.

(End of this chapter)