The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 490: Better than the pressure at the front lines

Old Wei quickly received the news that we were testing a new long-range air-to-air missile, which made them very anxious.

Why is the United States able to dominate the world? Besides having a large number of military bases and aircraft carriers, it's because their aircraft are the most advanced in the world, maintaining the strongest air superiority.

Therefore, they are eager to know whether China's new air-to-air missiles can pose a threat to their air superiority.

Our country is aware that the United States is making underhanded moves to probe our strength, and we need to show our mettle and let the United States know what we are capable of.

So they conducted a test of a target drone in the South China Sea, the purpose of which was to show them that they had a new air-to-air missile, and that they should think twice before trying to cause trouble in the South China Sea.

The US had its satellites monitoring the entire process, and after the target drone was shot down, the US was utterly disheartened.

This is a disaster! China's new air-to-air missile has a range of 300 kilometers and can accurately hit its target, while their latest fighter jet, the F-22, is equipped with an active phased array radar with a search range of 200 kilometers.

In other words, they launched their missiles before they even detected our fighter jets, which poses a significant challenge to their air superiority.

That night, their Hexagon was brightly lit.

There aren't many countries in the world that they can consider adversaries, but we happen to be one of them, and now we have something that can threaten their air superiority. Naturally, the Americans are feeling uneasy.

There's this arrogant person who thinks they possess the world's most advanced stealth fighters, undetectable by China. If they can't even detect them, then their air-to-air missiles have no deterrent effect.

However, the intelligence department then told him something very disheartening: the Chinese nation may have already equipped itself with active phased array radar, and it may even be more advanced than theirs. According to existing intelligence, it still poses a great threat to stealth fighters.

"We could simply mobilize our carrier strike group to put pressure on them and force them to hand over the technology."

Everyone in the conference room looked on with puzzlement at the guy with the silver oak leaf on his shoulder.

The man at the head of the conference table slammed his hand on the table: "Which bastard let this brainless guy into this conference room? And which bastard made him wear that silver oak leaf?"

A man with a star on his shoulder standing next to the speaker sneered, "Colonel, what are you thinking? Do you even understand what kind of country we're facing?"

"In the end, it is a poor and backward country."

The one-star general laughed angrily: "This isn't the Middle East, nor is it Africa, where we can find any excuse to beat up those guys because we have the strength. We're facing the Chinese now. Even if we had a reason, we wouldn't dare to cause them trouble because they really have the strength to beat us. Although their weapons aren't advanced, didn't you see their military parade a few months ago? Didn't you have any fear of their new national treasure?"

After much discussion, the group finally came up with a solution.

Upgrade their existing equipment; the active phased array radar needs to be upgraded, as 200 kilometers is too close to effectively detect missile launch locations.

They need to quickly develop the latest air-to-air missiles, such as the AIM-120D, and their performance needs to be enhanced. According to Raytheon's report, this missile only has a range of 200 kilometers, so it also needs to be improved.

Unfortunately, their good intentions were dashed. In reality, their research capabilities had been declining since the F-16. Relying on past achievements, they managed to develop the F-22 and F-35 with great difficulty. However, these had significant flaws that they were unable to remedy. This was due not only to the decline in their education system but also to their prohibition of Chinese engineers from appearing in such classified laboratories.

This world is a place of ebb and flow; the United States is gradually declining, while we are proudly climbing to new heights.

Leaving aside the trouble the Americans are causing by upgrading their existing equipment, their intelligence agencies, after some digging and inquiries, have actually managed to uncover some useful information.

This news nearly drove the Pentagon crazy. They hadn't found out anything about the missiles, but they had found out about the CL20.

When they learned that the expensive and proud CL20 they were using had its cost reduced to ten cents by the Chinese, while their own cost was still around three or four dollars, a difference of about thirty times.

The thought that he used expensive high explosives while the Chinese used the same cheap ones meant that the cost savings would be astronomical.

"We need this technology, and we must acquire it at all costs."

The person who said this was not from the Hexagon, but from the head of the DuPont family; a cost of ten cents was enough to make him drool.

Unfortunately, this is not the 1980s. In the 1980s, our country produced Vitamin C through a two-step fermentation process. Because we did not know how to keep secrets or patents, the Gauls obtained all the technology simply by buying a chemistry magazine.

The CL20 two-step fermentation method is an absolute secret. Even later, when Liu Hua's team developed all-nitrogen anionic salts, the Americans still couldn't obtain the CL20 production technology.

Due to limitations in computer technology, Liu Hua's designed production line cannot yet be fully automated, but with a small number of workers, it can produce 30 to 50 pieces a day in a semi-automatic manner.

This speed and efficiency are already astonishing; it would take thousands a month and tens of thousands a year.

In other words, the Americans don't know yet. If they did, they'd be terrified.

After more than a hundred tests, with the approval of frontline commanders and soldiers, and confirmation from military experts, this missile has finally been approved for official deployment.

When the leaders of the General Logistics Department came to inspect Dijun Company, they saw this production line. At that time, the production line was still slowly adapting to production, with a daily output of only twenty or thirty pieces.

"You've converted missile production to semi-automatic mode?"

Liu Hua nodded: "That's right, what era are we living in? If it weren't for the fact that the current hardware conditions are not good enough, I would have to go to an automated production line."

"Tens of thousands a year." The leader said with a smile, "You've put a lot of pressure on our logistics department."

"The logistical pressure is too great, but it's still greater than the pressure on the front lines, right?"

The leader smiled and nodded without saying a word. Instead, he stood with his hands behind his back, watching the semi-finished missiles flowing on the semi-automatic production line. Liu Hua noticed that the corners of his eyes were slightly red, and there was even a hint of tears in them.

(End of this chapter)