The rise of nanometers

Vicky, who is already in his fifties, is somewhat bulky and round-waisted. Although his hair is gray, it is neatly styled, giving people a feeling of high energy.

Huang Xiuyuan smiled and greeted the other party: "Dr. Vicky, are you still used to life?"

"Mr. Huang, I'm very good." Vicky replied with a smile.

Lu Xuedong joked: "Haha, Dr. Vicki has gained a lot of weight."

This is true. When Vicky first came to China, Huang Xiuyuan still had some impressions. He was wearing an old blue suit, his face was sallow and his muscles were thin, and his whole family was somewhat malnourished.

When Vicki was young, he worked at the research institute of Chi Lucia. He had only been in the institute for three years when he encountered the disintegration incident.

In the beginning, the institute was able to survive, but as time went by, Er Mao was deceived into lameness, abandoned his martial arts skills, and the economy became increasingly backward and difficult.

Talents like Vicki were not taken seriously, and many immigrated to Xizhou, the United States, or to Lucia and China.

During the financial crisis in 2008, the laser research institute was forced to shut down, and Veitch waited for more than a year, and finally received the news that the research institute was disbanded and he was fired.

Huang Xiuyuan communicated with Vicki several times and found that the other party was good enough to independently lead a small and medium-sized scientific research project.

In Huang Xiuyuan's view, a place like Ermao that has no respect for scientific researchers and history is basically hopeless. Unless a strong man comes from the sky, it will kill itself sooner or later.

"Doctor, I heard that your project has made progress?"

When Dr. Vicki mentioned the scientific research project, his expression became even more excited: "Yes, Mr. Huang, let's go inside and talk about it."

Came to a laboratory in the institute.

A laser with exposed wires is about the same size as a single-door refrigerator. The laser's emission holes are tilted into the air. There are 16 laser emission holes in total.

"Mr. Huang, Mr. Lu, this is a laser jammer that can attack unmanned aerial vehicles within a radius of 12 kilometers."

After Vicki finished speaking, he clicked on the test report on the computer, which also contained some actual test videos.

From the video, you can see that the high-speed flying drone fell out of control in less than ten seconds after being locked by the laser.

In addition to drones, unmanned multi-legged robots and mechas can easily lose control and stop once they are continuously illuminated by lasers for 30 seconds.

Dr. Veitch introduced to him: "I used two wavelengths of infrared light as the light frequency of the laser, which can interfere with and destroy the electronic components of drones and communication equipment, causing them to lose control and be damaged."

"The combat radius is twelve kilometers, which is not bad." Huang Xiuyuan knows the current development situation of lasers. The main purpose of the laser developed by Dr. Vicki's team is to destroy drones.

In the war mode of asymmetric warfare, drone swarm operations will become more and more common in the future, so we must find ways to deal with drones.

After all, drones are cheap to build, and in the case of large-scale swarm attacks, it is very uneconomical to intercept them with missiles; and using Phalanx interceptor cannons is easy to exploit.

Therefore, we must find a cheap and efficient way to counter UAVs, and laser interception is a general direction.

The laser developed by Dr. Veitch is a small vehicle-mounted laser that can be equipped on armored vehicles, tanks, large multi-legged mechas, and ships.

Don’t think that a refrigerator-sized laser is very big. In fact, it is already very small. After all, it integrates 16 sub-lasers.

This laser adopts China's strong point - solid laser technology.

The current types of lasers can be roughly divided into: gas lasers, liquid lasers, solid lasers, free electron lasers, etc.

The advantage of solid-state laser is that it has high photothermal efficiency, which can usually reach about 50 to 70%, and is easy to miniaturize; its disadvantage is that its power is not high and the distance is limited.

The laser cannons we often hear about usually do not use solid lasers, but mostly use carbon dioxide gas lasers. The advantages are high power and long range; the disadvantages are also obvious, that is, relatively low photothermal efficiency, bulky size, and serious waste heat.

However, China has invested a lot of energy in large-scale solid-state lasers and used its own advantages to develop large-scale and high-power solid-state lasers.

The large lasers in the United States are gas lasers based on carbon dioxide gas lasers.

The reason for this difference is mainly due to material issues. Solid-state lasers require rare earth elements, and China also monopolizes a very important laser crystal.

The United States, which has rare earth elements and does not have that kind of special crystal, naturally does not want to be controlled by others, so they chose the gas laser route.

At present, the weight of large-scale gas lasers is impressive, starting from forty to fifty tons, and their energy consumption is so staggering that even armored vehicles cannot carry such a behemoth.

After Huang Xiuyuan read this project, he pondered for a while and then gave instructions:

"Dr. Vicky, I think this project is almost mature. Leave the finishing work to some people and prepare to launch a large-scale solid-state laser project!"

"There is no problem with this." Dr. Veitch actually wants to enter the large-scale solid-state laser industry. Anyway, the laser jammer is almost completed.

However, Lu Xuedong hesitated: "Xiuyuan, large-scale solid lasers are very difficult, and the current materials are not good enough."

Huang Xiuyuan shook his head and explained: "Large solid lasers are the way to go. Gas lasers require gas raw materials and a large amount of electricity, and the upper limit is obvious after all."

"But the current material problem?" Lu Xuedong reminded.

Of course Huang Xiuyuan knew this, and he replied confidently: "Material issues are our company's strength. In my opinion, solid lasers are the only way to achieve a laser cannon of hundreds of kilometers or more."

Looking at the confident Huang Xiuyuan, Lu Xuedong finally agreed. After all, lasers were not the core business of the Suiren Department. Even if it failed, it would not matter.

Regarding the issue of new materials, Huang Xiuyuan is indeed confident, because there will be related solid laser materials in the future.

In addition to new materials, some supporting technologies also need to be improved to increase efficiency, power and cohesion.

He, Lu Xuedong, Dr. Wei Wei and others discussed for several hours at the Laser Research Institute and finally decided on a preliminary large-scale solid-state laser research project.

Then Lu Xuedong took him around a number of research institutes.

After Huang Xiuyuan read these scientific research projects, although the results were few, they were somewhat rewarding.

Sometimes scientific research investment is like this. If you invest money in a hundred projects, you will be thankful if only one tenth of the projects succeeds.

When it comes to investment in scientific research, Suiren is basically the company that is most willing to spend money and invests the most among all companies in the world.

These investments have brought a large amount of technology to the Suiren Department, accumulated a huge number of patents, and also trained a large number of scientific researchers.

After inspecting various scientific research projects, he used the stand-in robot to inspect the Bazhong Scientific Research Base, Dezhou Scientific Research Base, Long County Scientific Research Base, as well as the Central Gobi Scientific Research Base in Mobei and the Ellis Islands Scientific Research Base in the South Pacific.

After a round, the time has come to October 22nd.

Huang Xiuyuan began to calm down and complete the first draft of the plasma operation model, as well as prepare to develop new materials and new technologies for solid lasers.

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