"not yet."

"Not yet? Aren't there any agents in your Strategic Intelligence Center monitoring it? Why haven't you confirmed yet? Are they picking up girls every day? Remove them, replace them, and send the elites over!"

"Okay, let's arrange this."

In the General Office of the General Office of the Free Federation, a group of people are urgently discussing the authenticity of the aircraft in practical technology videos.

The commander is now holding a press conference outside. After all, the new year is here, and many things need to be expressed in the commander. Now it is a question-making session for reporters.

These people in the General Office of the General Office must understand the problem roughly before the General Office comes. It is best to think of the response method and report it directly when the General Office comes.

"Actually, there are already a lot of analysis on the Internet now. If that's the case, then there is a 90% chance that the aircraft is true!"

"Indeed, if they can really put those technologies together, they can still build a spacecraft with superior performance."

"Even if some technologies are not economically good, technically they do have the potential to build a well-performance aerospace vehicle."

"Yes, we think so too. From various engineering perspectives, they already have this ability."

"We analyzed its aerodynamic shape. Although it may not be comprehensive due to time constraints, the situation should be similar. Assuming its power is strong, it can indeed fly freely inside and outside the atmosphere."

"We also have our own analysis here. It should not be a model made for strategic deception purposes. It should be true. It may be a technical verification machine..."

Professional analysis from multiple channels has given similar conclusions, that is, the aircraft is likely to be true, but the direct certification information obtained now is too little, so it cannot be 100% certain.

If that thing can really fly, it will not be good news for the Free Federation.

The Free Federation just said that it would build a commercial space station in Earth's orbit in order to actually show the power of the Free Federation to people all over the world.

At the beginning, the commercial cabin segments would be docked on the International Space Station. Now the international space stations can be directly photographed with a camera. After docking the commercial cabin segments, they will be expanded again and the shooting will be more clearly.

The bigger it is, the more shocking it is!

"So... let's assume it's a real airplane, what's the impact on us?"

The chief of staff of the General Office of the General Office of the General Office, Dendoko's chief of staff, asked.

As a government official, he didn't know how powerful the aerospace plane was, he only knew that it... was very powerful.

This question is well asked, and the aerospace consultant immediately gave the answer.

"In fact, aerospace planes can be regarded as normal but super-performance aircraft!"

"If we compare the familiar Federal Space Shuttle, it has a greater advantage."

"In terms of manufacturing, it does not use super high assembly buildings, and can be manufactured and maintained in existing factories and hangars. As long as there is a runway for the launch, there is no need to build a special launch system..."

It can be said that the space shuttle can freely travel between heaven and earth, and it can do everything that the space shuttle can do.

And what the space shuttle can't do, it can still do!

It can send large satellites into Earth's orbit, and it is its specialty to deploy multiple small satellites at once. It can also repair or recycle satellites operating in orbit, and can also transport or pick up astronauts and various materials to the space station.

Although the space shuttle has taken a big step forward compared to a one-time launch vehicle, there are still many shortcomings such as frequent failures, difficulty in repairing, and expensive costs.

Unlike space shuttles, the ground facilities are simple, easy to maintain and use, and low operating costs. They can take off and land horizontally on ordinary large airport runways, and have the flight frequency of ordinary routes.

The appearance of this type of aircraft is similar to that of a normal aircraft. It has more advantages as an aircraft and can be reused hundreds of times, truly achieving the advantages of high efficiency and low cost.

It does not require a space launch site with large scale and complex equipment, and only needs one airport. After completing a flight, it can take off again after a week or even less time of maintenance.

More reuses and simple operation models can greatly reduce its usage costs, reaching one-tenth of the conventional space launch cost in the short term, and even one-tenth of the long term.

This makes the space plane invincible in the upcoming space business competition!

Moreover, due to the rapid development of electronic technology, the size and weight of computers have been greatly reduced, so microsatellites have become increasingly mainstream.

According to statistics, 20 years ago, the number of satellites launched from 100 to 300 kg was reduced by 35%. In contrast, the number of satellites planned to be launched by 1 to 100 kg increased by 68%.

Ten years ago, satellites weighing 1 to 100 kilograms began to become mainstream, and some small satellites could also achieve the functions of previous large satellites.

At the same time, due to the rapid development of new technologies, the service life of in-orbit satellites has increased, and the number of launch vehicles required to be launched has decreased, so that the existing fixed launch systems are extremely unprofitable from a commercial perspective.

In other words, the near-Earth space aerospace system with aerospace planes as a means has great commercial potential in the future. If it can be developed, it may extinguish the status of a pure aviation system in 10 to 15 years!

At that time, people can travel the universe like flying. Even if they don’t go to space, it will be convenient and fast to visit friends on the other side of the ocean.

The aerospace planes fly very fast, which facilitates rapid passenger transport around the world. The flight time between any two cities on the earth cannot take 2 hours.

If these things cannot move the chief of staff too much, then the military use of the aerospace plane can shock the chief of staff.

As the saying goes, the flight speed of the sky plane is very fast, and the flight time between any two cities on the earth cannot take 2 hours, or even shorter.

For example, if you enter orbit directly and fly on orbit, you can circle the earth in 90 minutes!

This is a very fast passenger transport method.

If you can carry guests, you will naturally be able to carry other things and then arrive in a certain city in a very short time.

Therefore, in military terms, this kind of aerospace plane can be used as global hypersonic transportation, intercontinental bombing and strategic reconnaissance, as well as a space vehicle or space weapon. It is an attack and defense force "incomparable" by ordinary bombers, fighters and missiles.

The Federation proposed two "space planes" plans very early.

One is a hypersonic transport aircraft intended for trans-Pacific flight, called the "Oriental Express", which can cruise at an altitude of 30,000 meters at a speed of 5 to 6 times the speed of sound, and can fly from the Federal East Coast Airport to the capital of Izumo Kingdom in just two hours.

The other is a "transatmosphere aircraft", which can be used for orbital flight, or aerodynamic maneuvering in the suborbital, and then navigate at orbital speed when it is redirected to the orbit.

40 years ago, the Federation officially began to implement the long-term development plan of aerospace planes, with a total cost of 20 billion federal dollars, and the Federal Ministry of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration jointly conducted technical research.

In order to solve the problem of continuous hypersonic flight in the atmosphere, relevant research institutes and power laboratories have conducted research on hydrogen-fueled air turbo ramjets and supersonic combustion ramjets, and have made breakthroughs.

And the later timeline also gave very accurate results. They accelerated the development of key technologies such as fuselage design and power plants, and began to develop a test prototype and also conducted flight tests.

If successful, it is not only a fast-responsive, low-cost transport aircraft flying across the atmosphere, but also a reconnaissance aircraft equipped with computers and advanced detection equipment, and may also be an inexpensive, flexible and reusable space launch platform.

In future space wars, you can either participate in battle as an aviation force or participate in the ranks of the space force.

On the space battlefield, aerospace planes can also destroy enemy spacecraft, capture enemy satellites, and fight with enemy satellites. Their deterrence is comparable to nuclear weapons.

You can also launch more military satellites for your own troops and transport a large amount of military supplies and supplies to your own troops.

It can even help its own troops seize absolute advantages on the electromagnetic battlefield and seize the power of control, cut off the enemy's communication, destroy various enemy satellites, and make the enemy's satellites unable to work for the enemy.

It is a new concept space weapon that is more flexible, faster, more combat-ready and more functional than the space shuttle.

pity……

Because of technical problems, these are just ideas, and the test machine failed.

However, the Federation did not give up, so the second-generation space shuttle project was launched.

The civilian field is the Dream Chaser Space Shuttle, and the military field is the X-37B unmanned aerospace fighter. However, they all require rocket boosting for launch, so the preliminary preparation and launch process is still very complicated, not a real aerospace shuttle.

But unexpectedly, Fanxing would first create a real aerospace plane.

Although it is different from the traditional aerospace plane, the aerospace plane does not use the super engine as the breakthrough point, but uses the super fuel as the breakthrough point, but its function is actually not bad, so it can be considered an aerospace plane.

In fact, this is not the first time. There have been several cases where the Free Federation has put forward a very good idea, but some have not developed due to technical reasons, while others are purely strategic deceptions.

But after a while, I always get something that is similar to the purpose, and then I ask, "What's the thing I made?"

In this case, the more they imagined, they are now afraid!

"Where is the X-37B of the Aerospace Army?"

the chief of staff asked.

"I just returned to the ground a month ago and was under maintenance. After the next launch test is no problem, it should be officially equipped."

"There is no hurry to formal equipment, but you must let it take off as soon as possible and install a laser weapon."

The chief of staff instructed: "Especially before the test flight of that spacecraft."

"Although the launch procedure of X-37B is quite complicated, as long as you enter the orbit first, the result will be almost the same."

"Okay, I'll arrange the expedited process now."

"Um."

Everyone here understands the meaning of the chief of staff, and the X-37B also has this strength. As a drone, it can stay in orbit for a long time, and once stayed for more than two years.

It weighs about 5 tons, is 8.8 meters long, has a wingspan of about 4.6 meters and is 2.9 meters high, so its size is much smaller than that of a space shuttle, but is larger than that of an ordinary orbital satellite.

However, its fuselage is like a space shuttle, with a 3-meter-long space in the middle of the fuselage, which is considered a cargo holder and can carry about 2 tons of cargo.

The built-in cargo compartment can be equipped with small robotic arms, and can be deployed after reaching orbit, such as grabbing enemy satellites in orbit, destroying spacecraft, releasing small payloads, etc.

In order to meet the X-37B's on-orbit energy needs, folded solar panels are also carried in the cargo hold, which can provide uninterrupted power supply after being unfolded.

It is precisely because of its small space capacity that the current general view is that the main function of X-37B is to undertake reconnaissance, navigation, control, infrared detection and other functions that are relatively inclined to assistive.

Although the robotic arm can be used as a weapon, the attack distance is too close.

However, although its cargo hold is small, it is still OK to carry some missiles, because the length of the bullet cabin of the stealth fighter is slightly larger than this. In addition, it is no problem to install a laser launcher. It can carry out long-range precision strikes and has great combat potential.

So, although the X-37B is not an aerospace plane, as long as it is taken off, the function is the same. You can even get the lead by taking off one step first. You can also start if there is anything wrong.

Since the X-37B requires reconnaissance and attack on enemy spacecraft, it needs to constantly change orbits and have orbital maneuverability at different altitudes.

Moreover, the X-37B does need to be constantly changing tracks for defense, because there is too much garbage on the track, and if you are not careful, you may be hit by space debris and fail.

High mobility plus high aggression, which is why the chief of staff wants to let it take off as soon as possible

And now, it is not certain whether the aircraft in the video is an aerospace plane.

If you have the ability, you can fly!

Chapter 200 The Free Federation’s response

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