God-level Trader of Rebirth

"The thing is like this," Chen Weidong said unhurriedly: "This combined engine was jointly developed by us and them. Both parties have the patented technology of this engine."

"However, the core technology is in our hands. Without our participation, they cannot independently manufacture this engine, but..."

"But what?" Director Zhang's voice was urgent.

"But they also hold key alloy formulas."

There was a sense of regret in Chen Weidong's words, "As you know, engines rely on alloy formulas. Without a good alloy formula, even the best engine design is useless paper."

"Therefore, neither of our two companies can do without the other. Neither of us can independently manufacture an aerospace aircraft engine that meets the requirements."

Director Zhang's voice came over the phone, and you could feel that he breathed a huge sigh of relief.

"That's okay, as long as the core technology is in your hands, I won't be afraid!"

"So, has the other party revealed its intention to sell this engine to the world?"

A smile appeared on Chen Weidong's lips: "The other party only wants money and doesn't care who he sells to."

"Okay! How high is their annual alloy output?" Director Zhang asked excitedly.

"From our observations, we can probably make two engines, right?" Chen Weidong said hesitantly in an uncertain tone, "By the way, if used for aerospace aircraft, the lifespan of an engine is probably more than 800 hours. ”

"What's the quotation for each engine?" Director Zhang asked closely.

"We purchase the materials required for each engine from their company, and the cost is approximately US$300 million."

Over the phone, Director Zhang discussed with others for a long time and said to Chen Weidong: "We are ordering six aerospace planes from you, including this prototype!"

"As a down payment, we pay the price of one aircraft."

"Then, you deliver to us at a rate of two per year. In this way, the South African company should have no spare capacity to sell alloys to others, right?"

Chen Weidong pretended to be giving him advice and said, "Director Zhang, if we pay too much money at once, the other party is likely to expand production scale."

"How about we order six aircraft, manufacture three at the same time, and then ask the other party to deliver enough alloy materials. But as for the money, we don't pay it all at once. Instead, we give them as much as we receive and hang them up."

"This matter is up to you, we can't get involved."

Director Zhang laughed, and then said in a serious voice: "As for alloys, we will do our best. Don't worry about this. In the past few years, you have used the other company's alloy materials, but after a few years, we will We will provide you with qualified alloy materials.”

"This is a strategic project of the country. We must completely control it ourselves and cannot rely on foreigners at all!"

"understand!"

Chen Weidong replied in a firm tone.

"in addition."

Director Zhang's words were hesitant.

"Did you consider making any changes when this aerospace plane was first designed?"

"What changes?"

"For example, equipped with weapon systems! Electromagnetic pulse weapons, laser weapons, etc."

Everyone knows that the so-called ordering of six aerospace planes is just a way to hold back outsiders, and there is no real need for so many spares.

Since aerospace planes can shuttle back and forth and be used repeatedly, two or three of them are completely sufficient.

As long as there is no world war, buying more aerospace planes is just a waste of money.

Especially now that the price of each aerospace plane is so expensive.

What the country means is to use the past few years to focus on research on alloy formulas.

The order for six aerospace planes is just to stabilize that South African engine company and allow them to continue to produce aerospace plane engines and provide qualified alloy materials.

As long as you have a qualified alloy formula, you can completely stop relying on outsiders and control all aerospace aircraft technology in your own hands.

After that, you don’t have to look at other people’s faces anymore.

As for whether to purchase alloy materials from that South African engine company in the future, we will reconsider it based on cost factors.

Later, we will try to reduce the manufacturing costs of aerospace aircraft-related parts so that they can be produced in large quantities at low prices to meet the needs of different departments such as military, scientific research, commerce, and civilian use.

Prior to this, aerospace aircraft could only become part of the national strategic force and be strictly controlled.

The country's current group of astronauts will continue to receive relevant training under weightless conditions in space to prepare for the next manned moon landing.

At the same time, in the southwest mountainous area, Infinite Company's large-scale equipment manufacturing base received training with an aerospace aircraft simulation trainer.

All astronauts are elites carefully selected from tens of thousands of air force pilots in the entire military, and their driving skills are outstanding. His psychological quality, experience, and on-the-spot reactions are the best among the best.

Learning aerospace aircraft driving skills is just a piece of cake for them. Compared with the pain that Zhang Yan and the others experienced when they first received training, it is a huge difference.

The high g-load experienced by the human body when the aircraft leaves the atmosphere and the weightless reaction faced after entering space are two completely opposite extremes.

At that time, Zhang Yan and others received a lot of high-intensity training in order to adapt to these two extreme reactions.

For several pilots, this was inhuman torture.

But for this group of specially selected astronauts, such training is nothing at all.

Pilots themselves are one in a thousand, and astronauts are even more so. Their endurance in various extreme conditions is extraordinary for pilots.

October 2012.

The annual military exercise has begun again.

As in previous years, the exercise is divided into two parts: a real-force exercise and a large-scale confrontation between front forces in the virtual world.

What is slightly different this year is that the subject examinations for tens of thousands of pilots across the military are more stringent.

Many test subjects are so difficult that they are almost impossible to complete.

This is not a test of the pilot's skills. It is simply an extreme test for all pilots.

There are tens of thousands of pilots, so there are countless elites.

Under such harsh inspection conditions, hundreds of pilots still stood out and passed the inspection of the Air Force Combat Command smoothly or by luck.

They immediately underwent further psychological and physical tests, and military investigators were dispatched to conduct extremely strict political scrutiny of their families.

Every time a level is passed, a group of pilots will be eliminated.

By the later stage, there were less than thirty pilots left.

What's even more strange is that while the pilots are undergoing tests, there are many non-pilot soldiers who are also undergoing various tests.

Some of these people are excellent flight machinery maintenance engineers, some are pure space researchers, some are tank gunners, and some are airborne troops, rocket troops, etc.

It also includes special forces soldiers, even cooking soldiers, etc., covering all branches of the military.

Not a single one was left behind.

At this point, everyone understood that this was not a routine exercise test, but an unusual selection.

The military must select an elite force from all over the army to carry out secret missions.

December 2012.

After several shuttle flight tests of the aerospace aircraft, a multi-orbit satellite launch test was conducted.

The aerospace plane successfully entered the medium orbit 2,000 kilometers away from Blue Star. The two "reconnaissance satellites" were put into orbit with a robotic arm. After remote control adjustment, they were successfully put into orbit to start work.

Subsequently, the aerospace plane entered a large elliptical orbit under the influence of gravity.

When it reached the farthest point of the orbit, 24,000 kilometers away from Blue Star, three large "scientific experiment satellites" were put into orbit.

Personnel at the ground control center remotely controlled the satellite to perform a space orbit change, from a far-Earth orbit to a changed orbit, and then changed its orbit again, jumping into a 36,000-kilometer Blue Star geostationary orbit flying around the equator.

The total weight of the five satellites is 17 tons, which was something that was impossible to launch using rockets before.

Moreover, when the aerospace plane returned to the atmosphere, a Dongfanghong-3 satellite that had expired and was scrapped was recovered into the cabin and brought back to the ground in low Earth orbit.

This flight once again shocked the world.

The one-time large-scale launch of satellite technology and space recovery satellite technology, these technologies that the West used to independently master, are now also mastered by China.

Moreover, unlike the launch of the space shuttle by the United States, it must be carried out under good weather conditions.

The aerospace aircraft used by China can send up to dozens of large satellites and dozens or hundreds of small satellites into space at any time.

Secondly, the aerospace shuttle consumes only liquid hydrogen mixed fuel and does not need to abandon the fuel tank. The cost of a flight is only one-tenth or even a few tenths of that of the space shuttle!

This is a huge step forward compared to American technology!

This news was so exciting that when the TV footage came out of the aerospace plane returning to the ground, the whole country rejoiced and there were happy crowds everywhere.

Of course, the happiest people belong to Chinese shareholders and some financial institutions. (End of chapter)