weapons expert

Domestic people are responsible for the details of domestic affairs. Call and communicate with his father Xu Haoran and ask him to send someone to negotiate with the Great Wall Company. Xu Ziling will basically have nothing to do.

On the fourth day after returning to Beijing, I talked with Zheng Wenzhong about the progress of the large aircraft project and the progress of their j-15 after the introduction of military factory technology. On the fifth day, the group left the capital and went to Jiangnan factory.

They came here not for the launching ceremony of the aircraft carrier ten days later, but for the acceptance of the unmanned submarine.

According to the plan, the unmanned submarine should have completed the launch and sailing tests last year, but due to a couple of incidents caused by the Americans in Markkula years ago, Xu Ziling did not have time to conduct the last test of the automatic operating system. So it has been dragging on until now.

Of course, Xu Ziling didn't have time, so it didn't necessarily mean that the submarine wouldn't be tested.

During this period of time, many members of the submarine project team did not even go back to the Chinese New Year, and adopted manual driving to test the submarine.

However, since the main significance of this submarine is unmanned driving, no matter how smooth the manual driving is, unmanned driving still needs to be tested.

Before returning to China, the submarine had been driven out to sea, and it was only two days before returning to Hong Kong. Xu Ziling naturally took this opportunity to fix the autopilot system and complete the last process before the unmanned submarine was officially launched into service.

Their Gulfstream 550 landed at the military airport of the South China Sea Fleet. Tang Jiannian sent Xu Ziling and his old acquaintances to pick them up: No. 051 Lao Gao.

"Old Gao, long time no see." After getting off the plane, Xu Ziling and the others saw Lao Gao and gave him a hug.

"Long time no see. The last few times you came here, I had missions outside, so I can't help it." Lao Gao was still the same, greeted Xu Ziling and the others, and then greeted Yang Ruolan, "Sisters and sisters are here too, come on." Your sister-in-law has been talking about you for a while, go to my house for dinner later in the evening."

"Hello Brother Gao!" Yang Ruolan greeted with a smile, but she didn't answer Lao Gao's suggestion to go to his house for dinner, but looked at Xu Ziling.

Xu Ziling saw her eyes, of course he knew what he meant, smiled and said to Gao Xianxian: "Old Gao, I'm afraid this is really not good. I have something to do with the people in the Jiangnan factory tonight. Let's go tomorrow night and talk to my sister-in-law."

"Okay... okay..., I didn't think carefully, so it's settled like this. I will ask your sister-in-law to get you some authentic seafood tomorrow." Knowing that Xu Ziling was not evasive, Lao Gao smiled heartily.

"No problem, you must go, you just have to prepare a good drink and food."

Lao Gao is no longer the captain of No. 051, but has transformed into the captain of the latest new type of ship in service, with the rank of colonel, but even so, he is not clear about some actions of the Jiangnan factory.

Xu Ziling came here suddenly, he was a little curious, came out of the airport, and asked them what they were doing this time.

If other people asked this question, Xu Ziling and the others might not be able to answer it, but Lao Gao is an old friend, and they didn't want to hide it from him. "This new submarine is going to be launched for sea trials, come and have a look."

"Launched?" He knew about the submarine, and he had heard it from Xu Ziling a long time ago, but after that, the Jiangnan Plant strictly restricted the news about it, so he never listened to it again. I have mentioned the new news in this regard, and now I suddenly heard that it is about to go into the water, I am really a little surprised.

In his opinion, it has only been a little over a year since the start of the project, which is unbelievably fast.

"This speed is really fast, if you can, take me to see it?" He was familiar with the relationship, and he didn't have any distinctions, so he immediately asked if he could take him with him.

"What's the problem?" Xu Ziling said with a smile, "Tomorrow morning will be the official sea trial, so you should come here early."

"okay."

The airport is the closest to the headquarters, so Xu Ziling and the others went to Tang Jiannian's place first,

Given their relationship with Tang Jiannian, there was no need to be polite. After chatting for a while, it was almost noon. Tang Jiannian asked them to have dinner at the headquarters, and Xu Ziling and the others did not refuse, and immediately agreed.

"How did your repair shop do it?" On the way to the cafeteria, Tang Jiannian asked about the situation at Markkula's side.

Xu Ziling understood that the repair factory he was talking about meant the bases they used to repair warships and aircraft carriers, "I heard it went well. Construction started on the fifth day of the lunar new year. There is a deep-water channel there, so we just need to build a dock. I guess it won't work." It will be finished in three months."

"Well, that's good. People have prepared it for you a long time ago. This month can pass. You can make good arrangements when the time comes."

If it weren't for the situation in the South China Sea and the embarrassing status of the country in the international arena, it wouldn't be of much use if the military factory wanted an aircraft carrier. It would be nice to have its own aircraft carrier formation, and we had negotiated with the country to help them train the navy, but When he went back during the Chinese New Year, the words of some old men in the capital dispelled his idea.

It has become that the state directly sends people to take over the aircraft carrier formation, and the command power is handed over to the military factory within five years. After five years, the aircraft carrier will be nationalized, and all the expenses for these five years will be borne by the country.

That is to say, the military factory produces aircraft carriers and warships, and the country provides people and money, and then allows the military factory to use them for free for five years.

To be honest, Xu Ziling doesn't like the most advanced aircraft carrier of the American people. He really wants to have their own aircraft carrier formation, but he is still willing to have their own aircraft carrier. He doesn't like American products, so when passed by several old men , and when he learned that the country had such an idea, he immediately agreed.

In his eyes, a pile of scrap metal can be exchanged for a fleet to serve him for free for five years, so it's no wonder he doesn't want to.

Five years later, according to the development of the military factory, they will have enough economic capacity to equip their own aircraft carriers. By that time, a [-]-ton aircraft carrier will be nothing.

"No problem, the dormitory has already been prepared, just go there."

"Well, I'll let you know when the time comes."

Talking all the way to the canteen, the cooking soldiers who were notified in advance filled their table with a table of good dishes within 5 minutes after they sat down.

Xu Ziling ate northern dishes in the capital, and now he was eating lighter southern dishes, so he was not too polite, so he grabbed his chopsticks and began to eat vigorously.

They didn't come here to reminisce about the old days. Of course, they wouldn't stay in the South China Sea Fleet for a long time. After eating Chinese food and taking a break, a few of them went to the Jiangnan factory.

Since the reorganization of the Jiangnan factory, under the management of Yang Ruolan's brother-in-law Zhao Zihua, everything has been in order. If the Jiangnan factory was not too important to the military factory, Xu Ziling really didn't want to put him here, because he was only asked to manage a shipyard. , It's a bit overkill.

He also discussed this issue with Yang Ruolan, but he couldn't find a suitable candidate to replace him for a while, so the matter was delayed.

Zhao Zihua knew that Xu Ziling and the others had gone to the South China Sea Fleet, but he didn't expect them to come over just after dinner. When the office door was opened and a group of people appeared in front of him, he was quite surprised.

"Oh, why are you here at this hour? It's so hot." He got up and greeted several people to quickly enter the room, and some called the secretary to pour them tea.

"I have nothing to do over there, so I came here." Yang Ruolan explained to Zhao Zihua, and handed him a few bottles of wine.

Having lived in the United States for many years, Zhao Zihua is more used to drinking red wine than white wine. Whether it is Xu Ziling or other juniors who come here, they will always bring him a bottle or two. The more times he gets used to it, he takes the wine from Yang Ruolan. After looking at it, I put it into the small bar next to it, and chattered to a few people, "I don't know what happened during this time, the temperature has suddenly risen, these days it's [-] degrees every day, it makes people feel sick I dare not go out."

It's only February, but the temperature is as high as [-] degrees, which is indeed a bit abnormal, but they are not meteorological experts, so this kind of topic is just casual talk. After a few words, the topic turned to the unmanned submarine.

"I said hurry up and test it. A few days ago, people from the East China Sea Fleet called to ask about it. They must have an idea to purchase." Zhao Zihua told everyone something they didn't know.

"Oh, there's something else going on?" Xu Ziling and the others really didn't know about this.

"I checked with Commander Tang. It's true that they are from the East China Sea Fleet." Zhao Zihua was afraid that they would not believe him, so he immediately explained.

"It's not that they are afraid that someone will impersonate them, but it's a little strange that they will contact here directly." Xu Ziling shook his head.

The Jiangnan factory is under the military factory. In his knowledge, even if the East China Sea Fleet has the idea of ​​purchasing unmanned submarines, it should contact the military factory instead of the Jiangnan factory.

So it's a little weird.

But this kind of thing doesn't have any effect. After thinking about it for a while, he couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think much about it.

"It's a good thing that the East China Sea Fleet has this idea. I'll perfect the control system later, and start the trial voyage tomorrow."

"Tomorrow? It's so urgent. I said hurry up, but there's no need to hurry..."

"If we finish it one day earlier, we can sell it to the outside world one day earlier."

"That's fine, I'll arrange it later."

After chatting about homework for a while, Xu Ziling asked Yang Ruolan and Yang Kaiming to go shopping together. He went to the dock by himself, and planned to use the afternoon and evening to fix the control system first.

Due to the limitations of computer hardware, unmanned submarines are still unable to drive autonomously. They can only be remotely controlled by humans, coupled with the assistance of a semi-intelligent system, to realize the navigation of submarines in the sea.

Originally, in Xu Ziling's idea, whether it is an unmanned aircraft or an unmanned submarine, it is best to have an independent intelligent system, just like a lion controlling a drone, which can achieve more precise control with humans.It's a pity that the intelligent system has high requirements on computer hardware due to its computing power, and submarines and aircraft are limited by space and other related factors, so it is impossible to load supercomputers on them, so his plan can only fail. Years later, when electronic technology is more developed, it will be possible to realize it.