What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 487 Genome Sequencing

After making several satellite phone calls, Tang Wen and Qian Lin'an finally reached an agreement:
Tang Wen offered to donate the 1000 mm 60-caliber gun barrel and its matching gun mount in exchange for the design of a specially made gun-launched rocket in China, which would guarantee the launch of a 100 kg payload into near-Earth orbit and would allow for three launches.

The load can be purchased domestically or made in-house.

As for writing a small program, that's absolutely out of the question. Although there are plans to conduct some transactions in China, anything involving sensitive areas is definitely not allowed—at least not now.

After the deal was completed, the Fantasy arrived at its destination.

All the crew members (in disguise) went into the lower crew cabin. The destroyer was positioned to avoid the busy shipping lanes, and four Zero reconnaissance ships took off from Gongzhen Reef to patrol the area and prevent fishing boats from entering.

The scheduled time was 18 p.m., but a downpour started at 15 p.m., which made the people on the bridge a little worried. The rain stopped for a short while, but it was still raining heavily at 17:40 p.m.

The strong sea winds caused the destroyer, weighing several thousand tons, to rock with the waves. At this point, the sea conditions were no longer suitable for low-altitude flight under the clouds.

The three pilots in the observation group all frowned. As top-notch pilots selected from among the best, they knew all too well what such sea conditions meant.

It's not impossible to fly for a while, but skimming the sea...

The rain not only affected the sea conditions, but the dark clouds also completely darkened the sky, reducing visibility to around 19 p.m. The once azure ocean had now turned blackish-gray.

To be honest, they didn't really believe the Empire and the Chicken's description of Hans the Superman. What was the difference between flying at a low altitude of 5 meters in this sea state and sailing directly in the water?
"Will it... come back?"

Old Zhang also became somewhat uncertain, but Tang Wen remained confident:
"Don't worry, the GPS is accurate. They've probably arrived by now and are observing us through the periscope."

As soon as he finished speaking, about 100 meters ahead of the Fantasy, the command tower of a U-boat surfaced.

The U-boat, weighing less than a thousand tons, surfaced and immediately began to rock irregularly with the waves. A small aircraft was still tied to the bow of the already short boat.
"Mosquitoes!"

Ignoring the rain, the observation group put on the raincoats they had prepared in advance and went straight to the deck. With binoculars, they could see the tiny mosquitoes that had been lagging behind but had repeatedly made great contributions not far away!

However, the entire submarine is now rocking violently with the waves. How can it take off in this sea condition?
However, they soon saw the control tower door open, and a figure emerged and nimbly climbed onto the plane. About half a minute later, they could see a faint light coming from the jet's tail engine, indicating that it had started.

As the submarine's attitude was lifted upwards by the waves, the grub seized the opportunity and launched itself out with lightning speed.

The three pilots naturally looked up and assumed that the other plane was going to climb to avoid the waves. However, to everyone's surprise, after ejecting to a height of more than ten meters, the Gnat immediately turned into a dive and flew across the undulating sea, skimming the crests of the waves in the heavy rain.

In the blink of an eye, the fighter jet flew away into the distance, accompanied by a loud bang.

"Super, supersonic?"

The observation group understood what this meant, of course. A short while later, the mosquito turned around again and remained less than 30 meters away from the Fantasy, still close to the sea surface, like a high-speed train trailing a cloud of water vapor hundreds of meters long.

……

That evening, on the return journey
"Actually, you guys are already very capable."

"HNA's progress is evident to all."

"Low-altitude penetration is not the right way. Air combat ultimately depends on technological confrontation. The era in which human strength determines victory or defeat is over."

Old Zhang craned his neck and earnestly tried to persuade the three people on the mast, hoping they wouldn't do anything rash.

The three pilots saw him and simply shouted:

"Sir, we're just here for a stroll."

"I know, come down first, it's too cold up there, don't catch a cold."

"Commander, why is there such a big difference between people?"

"Listen to me, we're not going to compete with them. Life comes first. We'll review things when we get back to shore." After finally managing to persuade the three dazed pilots to come down and get them back into the cabin, Old Zhang, rubbing his neck which was aching from looking up too much, saw Tang Wen coming towards him.

The latter had just made himself a bowl of instant noodles (not bringing any ship girls to accommodate the observation group), and seeing his appearance, couldn't help but ask:

What's wrong with your neck?

"I used too much force just now, it hurts too much."

"Then why don't you try Miaojie shoulder and neck massage... cough, how about instant noodles?"

"Count me in."

Qian Lin'an appeared behind the two.

……

The three of them finished their instant noodles in no time; it was already midnight. But Lao Zhang and Qian Lin'an were still wide awake. The scene from earlier that day had truly shaken their souls.

The pilots who participated in this trip were all quite old and had unparalleled flying experience, but after today, they all became taciturn, constantly spacing out and trying to simulate the flight posture of the mosquitoes, occasionally making a sudden maneuver.

In contrast, Qian Lin'an and Lao Zhang were more concerned with the technological approach. They did not believe that it could be accomplished purely by manpower, since what they were seeing today had completely exceeded the limits of early jet aircraft.

After pondering for a while, Qian Lin'an suddenly said:
"I knew it! Human development is possible. Even if the supernatural abilities are exaggerated, there must be something special about them. When we get back, let's write a joint letter together. Bureau 749 still needs to get things done."

I've analyzed it carefully. That pilot's reaction speed and hand-eye coordination far exceeded those of ordinary people, and the aircraft itself wasn't as simple as it seemed.

Old Zhang, standing to the side, looked grave and nodded in agreement.
"The Empire and the Alliance started their research thirty years ago, and their starting point is far ahead of ours. It is indeed necessary for us to catch up."

However, you need to distinguish between scammers and qigong practitioners; don't get involved in superstitious practices.

"I agree. Those so-called qigong practices are not real qigong at all; they are purely fraudulent."

The two immediately steered their conversation towards metaphysical research, causing Tang Wen, who was standing to the side, to facepalm.

Explanations are useless now; I just hope to invest fewer resources... or rather, invest in the future?

Taking advantage of a lull in their conversation, he interjected:
"Forget about special abilities, I think Hans must have achieved these things through special scientific training."

However, regardless of which aspect we use to persuade you to stay, I think the most important thing is to first understand the human body itself; we can't rely on luck or metaphysics.

To understand the human body itself?

Anatomy has been studied for so many years, and we already have a great understanding of the human body; it obviously doesn't refer to this.

Qian Lin'an immediately thought of something:
"Human genome sequencing?"

"Yes, even if I don't understand it now, I'll write it down first. It might come in handy in the future."

Qian Lin'an and Lao Zhang each thought for a moment:
"That makes sense."

"That's true. There are benefits to our participation in genome sequencing; the whole country won't oppose it..."

Tang Wen finally breathed a sigh of relief. Doing some DNA research was at least accumulating basic science knowledge, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.

However, Qian Lin'an then dropped an even bigger bombshell:

"I feel that the Gnat has an extremely advanced automatic terrain matching system. However, the nose of the Gnat is too small to fit any radar, so it is likely a vision-based solution. Computer vision recognition may be an important technology in it."

(End of this chapter)