The technological competition starts with the integration of space-time memory

Chapter 144 [Dragon Turtle]

This brief and fierce conflict lasted less than half an hour.

Li Tang just watched for a while when the missile was first launched.

[Yuchang] He had seen the power of the anti-ship missile many times in the simulated environment system, and this was its maiden battle.

Judging from the footage taken by the Hunter carried by the Predator, both the anti-interference capability and the lethality of the warhead are basically consistent with the performance in the simulation test.

The fate of No. 751 was determined from the moment it chased the "Nanping" all night.

As for whether he will be discovered by the Eagle Sauce, he is now preparing for the aftermath.

Li Tang turned and went to the final assembly workshop of the aircraft factory.

The manned version of [Predator] No. 12 is currently undergoing intensive transformation.

However, Li Tang still left instructions to Zero:
"Order one, the Hunter carried by Predator 11, disguise the relevant signal of 751 and continue to sail south along the waters around the Lusong Trench.

At one o'clock in the morning, the signal disappeared.

At this time, Zero will cancel the two-way simulation in the Coast Guard's C4ISR system.

Let the Coast Guard Headquarters be confused, where did No. 751 go?

The [Hunter] returned directly to the 'Princess Anli' and was brought back by Lao Qi and his team.

Order two, [Predator] No. 11 returns to headquarters as soon as possible and is responsible for transporting some [Dragon Turtle] parts for post-disaster use to the 'Nanping'.

When I arrive on Predator No. 12, I will assemble and deploy it."

Yes, Li Tang is now urgently designing and modifying the Predator 12, and it will be the first manned flight, and Li Tang will be on board personally.

Not only will he go to the cargo ship in person, he will also bring the parts of the Dragon Turtle with him. For this purpose, he specially recalled Predator 11 in order to have sufficient air transport capacity.

Previously, Li Tang not only designed bionic machines that could fly, such as the [Aedes] and [Hidden Shadow], but also designed some bionic machines that could swim in the sea.

This bionic machine that can work in the sea is not as small as the [Aedes], but is larger than the [Baigong] robot.

It was originally intended to be used for land reclamation in the east, but now it is temporarily used in that sea area.

Li Tang planned to use this machine to clean up the sea area where the accident occurred, so that No. 751 would disappear more completely.

By then, after a night, the sun will rise in the east and the sunlight will shine on the Pacific Ocean again.

On the sea, any traces left by No. 751 will disappear without a trace.

Even the smallest floating objects will be carried away by the ocean currents to an unknown distance.

This bionic machine in the sea was officially named "Dragon Turtle" by Li Tang.

It is a bionic machine shaped like a turtle. It can swim in the sea, land on the seabed, walk on four legs, and perform various operations.

Because it needs to be able to withstand the enormous pressure of the deep sea, not only the entire material uses a crystalline titanium alloy.

Even the back is like a turtle, and has been deliberately thickened.

After testing the characteristics of [Snow Mud], Li Tang specially laid another layer of [Snow Mud] tiles with a thickness of 0.5 meters outside the shell of this bionic machine.

In order to be able to conduct tests in the simulation system, deep-sea environment data was obtained through Chang Guoqiang from a domestic research institute that specializes in deep-sea submersibles.

In this way, the full-environment simulation system can now increasingly simulate various geographical environments on the blue planet.

Li Tang has even been considering asking Chang Guoqiang to help get relevant environmental data about the space station and the moon from the space agency after he returns.

By then, this full-environment simulation system could be renamed the Earth-Moon Environment Simulation Test System.

After simulation tests, the [Dragon Turtle] is able to move freely at a depth of 8000 meters on the seabed, and it can fully work in most of the seabeds of the Blue Planet.

This time, Li Tang used the [Dragon Turtle] to conduct a field test to see what the world is like under the sea with an average depth of 3000 to 4000 meters.

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和平历2023年5月2日，凌晨1点30分。

There is no moon tonight and the night is deep.

The military area of ​​the Future Science and Technology Institute headquarters construction site.

Not far from the 100-meter-high building, in a brightly lit factory workshop over 100 meters high, a sci-fi-looking aircraft was parked.

Obviously, this is a Predator drone that has just completed final assembly.

Originally, this was one of the first twenty [Predators] that Li Tang manufactured for the military, but for tonight's mission, Li Tang intercepted it and used it for his own use.

This factory building was just completed yesterday by the first batch of [Yunding] robots and [Baigong] robots that rolled off the production line.

This is a giant factory building with a first floor 50 meters high and floors above the second floor 5 meters high. It has a total height of 150 meters, a length of 500 meters, and a width of 200 meters.

If there was no [Yun Ding], it would take five days to build it relying only on [Hundred Craftsmen] and using [Snow Mud].

However, after using [Yun Ding], the high efficiency of [Snow Mud] was fully utilized, and the main building could be completed in just one day.

You ask why it took [Hundred Workers] only four days to complete the previous 100-meter-high building.

That's because the huge building is the factory building of Yunding's production line. It is designed with two floors, the first floor is 100 meters high and the second floor is 5 meters high.

In other words, it is basically hollow, and the actual workload is not that large.

The reason why it took four days to complete was because Li Tang temporarily added an office floor at one end of the giant building.

At that time, Li Tang was already preparing to set up camp at the headquarters base.

Of course, that kind of clean and dust-free factory still needs time to complete the internal decoration project, which can basically be completed within a week.

In order to save time, Li Tang usually completes part of the work and uses the rest.

Because battery energy storage facilities are used for power supply, this kind of modular construction and modular completion application can be facilitated.

This is the case with this aircraft manufacturing plant. Currently, only the final assembly workshop is available, and the parts factory upstairs still needs to install dust-free equipment.

In order to test the final assembly line, Li Tang transported finished parts from the industrial park and assembled two Predators yesterday.

That's why Li Tang happened to use it to deal with No. 751.

At this moment, in the final assembly workshop, the manned version of the [Predator] that Li Tang urgently designed has been completed.

Tonight, the Predator 12 will fly directly to the "Nanping" in the Western Pacific.

At this moment, Li Tang was the only real human being in the entire workshop.

In front of him stood two "people", wearing the blue uniforms of Red Star Security and a full set of [Tianwu] exoskeletons, holding 191 assault rifles in their hands.

The exaggerated part is that one of the two "people" is carrying a cylindrical object and the other is carrying a six-barreled miniature machine gun.

The latter looks very similar to the firepower man in "The Wandering Earth". Apparently, Zero has brought science fiction into reality again.

Li Tang hired these two Seiko robots to act as bodyguards. They will fly with him on the Predator drone to the Nanping freighter.

At this time, the [Predator] No. 11, which had just made a contribution, had returned and used the magazine as a cargo hold, filling it with parts of the [Dragon Turtle].

Li Tang's eyelids twitched as he watched, and he decided again in his mind that he would start developing the global delivery system as soon as he returned this time, and he could not be so unprofessional again.

Fortunately, when the Predator was originally designed, the overall body was still quite large in order to accommodate the magazine capacity and be able to carry more electronic warfare equipment.

The length is 10.5 meters. Excluding the electromagnetic weapons and radar on the nose, the back is at least 7 meters long.

The height is 3.2 meters. After deducting the height of the motor compartment, battery compartment and stealth equipment compartment in the bottom compartment, the height of the entire cabin is still nearly 2 meters.

To put it bluntly, the overall cabin size is nearly the size of two Wuling Zhiguang.

After some modifications, all electronic warfare equipment was removed, and no weapons such as missiles and bombs were carried.

The aircraft has been modified with pressurization, oxygenation and constant temperature devices to ensure that the cabin maintains a constant temperature and pressure even at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters.

Excluding the space for the necessary life-support equipment for these passengers, the five rows of seats in the "tank" off-road vehicle are fully capable of being accommodated.

A ten-seater version of the [Predator] has just been released.

Although it is not as comfortable as a Gulfstream business jet, it can be considered an unmanned private jet.

The key is that this aircraft can take off and land vertically, is stealth, and has its own electromagnetic cannon self-defense weapon, making it an absolute must-have for home travel.

No matter how Li Tang looked at it, he felt quite satisfied. Perhaps this model could be sold to certain people overseas as an escape... No, it should be a business jet?

In order to ensure a smooth flight, Zero also took some well-known private aircraft flight control programs as references and transformed a new flight control program.

To replace the original program used for unmanned combat flights.

Otherwise, if the Predator made a sharp dive while flying, the people in the cabin would be in big trouble.

Although the entire modification was completed in just half a night, Li Tang still firmly believed that anything produced by Zero would be a high-quality product.

All the tests that should be included in the simulation system were still run through Zero.

Li Tang, along with two Seiko bodyguards, entered the cabin through the door at the rear of the cabin.

The cabin door then retracted and closed.

After completing a series of self-check procedures, Predator No. 12 flew lightly and rose steadily to a height of five meters above the ground.

Then it slowly accelerated and flew out of the door of the final assembly workshop smoothly.

The movement was light and steady, completely different from the time when Predator No. 1 flew out of the hangar in a flash and then climbed a hundred meters in two seconds.

Not far behind it, Predator No. 11 also flew out obediently.

At this time, Li Tang, who was sitting in the cabin of the Predator, was a little excited.

Speaking of which, it is quite novel to sit on an airplane that I designed and built myself.

Because the cabin of the Predator is fully enclosed, so that the people inside will not feel suffocated.

Li Tang installed embedded display screens in several parts of the cabin, which can display the outside scene in real time, giving people the feeling of a porthole.

It takes about an hour to fly from the headquarters base to the designated sea area.

(End of this chapter)