The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 487: Saving Up a Big Move

As soon as the report was published, IT professionals in China began to gloat and mock those foreign IT practitioners online.

"They're still working overtime to modify the perpetual calendar. I envy people like you who get a lot of overtime pay. Our operating system's founder, Academician Liu, wrote the system so perfectly that I don't have this kind of trouble. I don't even have the opportunity to earn overtime pay."

"Hurry up and fix it, or your public systems, banking systems, and securities systems will suffer huge losses if they jump on the night of December 30th."

Foreign programmers are also complaining: "F**k, why couldn't those programmers have thought more comprehensively? Why did they have to save those two numbers? These people are working overtime every day, modifying tens of thousands of files. It's one thing to modify them, but they also have to endure the ridicule of Chinese programmers every day. My hair is about to fall out of my body."

Some domestic leaders, unaware of the situation, also heard about the Y2K bug and specifically inquired whether we would encounter a similar problem.

When he received an affirmative answer from his subordinate, the leader looked relieved: "Thanks to Academician Liu's foresight back then, we didn't encounter such a problem. Academician Liu is right. Those countries only have a few years of history, what experience could they have? Our five thousand years of historical and cultural experience will give us so much foundation."

Having bid farewell to the chaos, Liu Hua is about to embark on his grand plan: as mentioned earlier, he will be researching dual-pulse engines.

Our country later developed unique missiles, including those with dual-pulse engines. After the United States proposed this idea, we eventually realized it.

Starting with the Thunderbolt 15, our country's air-to-air missiles have been in a class of their own in the world.

Our air force has the J-10, but without the PL-15, wouldn't it be like a piece of the sky is missing?

Di Jun prepared an independent laboratory for Liu Hua, which had been there since the factory was built, but it was not used very often. Today, Liu Hua was going to put it to real use.

The students were curious to see their teacher busy in his own private laboratory all day.

"Hey, teacher, you're always so busy. What project have you been working on lately?"

"I don't know. Why don't you go ask? Your teacher has always thought highly of you."

"Doesn't your teacher think highly of you? Go ask her."

There was a lot of back and forth in the lab, but no one dared to ask. It wasn't that Liu Hua was too serious; it was just that he had never personally taken charge before. This time, no one knew what the project was, how important it was, or whether it needed to be kept secret.

Doing research alone is great, especially in an independent lab where you don't have to worry about anything else. Liu Hua only needs to skillfully write the experimental log.

After a month and a half, the dual-pulse engine was finally completed. In fact, it had been made half a month earlier. The remaining month was spent racking my brains to write records, so as not to give anyone a handle to use against me.

When Liu Hua unveiled the prototype of the dual-pulse engine from his laboratory, the students all gathered around to watch. Looking at this strange-looking thing, everyone was completely baffled.

"Teacher, what have you designed?"

"This is the legendary dual-pulse engine."

"So this is a dual-pulse engine."

The speaker was Li Yuhua's student, a graduate student at Beihang University. Because the laboratory provided by Beihang University was not as well-equipped as the one in Dijun Laboratory, they spent more than half of their time in Dijun Laboratory. "The Americans have been working on this for many years and still haven't figured it out, but you, Professor, figured it out in just a month and a half."

Liu Hua said casually, "What are these Americans? And who am I? Don't forget they used to say that the wisdom of Americans resides in the minds of Chinese people. Their NASA power laboratory was established by our Qian Xuesen. In scientific research, as long as we have sufficient funding, our efficiency can be many times that of theirs."

"Teacher, now that we've already developed a dual-pulse engine, why don't we just make an air-to-air missile?"

Liu Hua smiled and said, "That's a good idea. That's exactly what I was thinking."

Liu Hua, it is now known that the PL-15 uses a discrete rod structure directional explosive warhead filled with high-energy explosives. Speaking of high-energy explosives, Liu Hua thought of a unique all-nitrogen anionic salt that my country will have twenty years from now.

However, this invention is still far from being realized. Around 2000, the world's most advanced high explosive was China Lake 20, whose full name is hexanitrohexaazaisowulzane.

Dijun Company has recruited about two hundred chemistry students to research things like invisible coatings. It's considered preliminary research, but so far they haven't achieved any results.

Liu Hua selected fifty students from the two hundred students to form a task force specifically to tackle the manufacturing process of CL20 explosives.

At that time, it cost the Americans $3,500 to produce one kilogram of CL20 in the laboratory. Such an expensive price would make even Americans feel the pinch.

Under Liu Hua's guidance, these fifty students simplified a series of processes and produced extremely cheap CL20 explosives in less than two months.

Liu Hua still remembers a blogger saying in his previous life that my country had reduced the price of CL20 to one yuan per gram.

Now, Liu Hua is using an optimized process obtained from the Golden Finger, which allows for the mass production of CL20 at a cost as low as 75 cents per gram.

Ten missiles filled with CL20 explosive were produced, each with a warhead of 220 kilograms, equipped with a dual-pulse engine, and using a composite guidance system.

Liu Hua was an authority in the semiconductor field and had studied radar, so he used the most advanced methods possible for missile guidance.

Sun Guangming and Ma Shan were summoned to the Dijun factory by Liu Hua at the same time. When they saw ten missiles that they did not recognize in front of them, they were completely dumbfounded.

Ma Shan mechanically nudged Sun Guangming: "Old Sun, if I'm not mistaken, this missile is completely different from our existing missiles."

Sun Guangming nodded: "I know very well what kind of missiles of this size are currently in service with our army, none of them look like this."

Ma Shan turned to Liu Hua and said, "Academician Liu, you called us over here just for this missile."

Liu Hua nodded: "This is the culmination of my three months of training."

“No wonder.” Ma Shan nodded. “I was wondering why I hadn’t seen you attend any conferences at the end of the year. You even turned down several seminars. Turns out you were hiding away, preparing something big.”

Sun Guangming curiously touched the missile: "What kind of missile is this?"

(End of this chapter)