Updated: 2012-08-29

"Old Li, Lao Cao, Lao Yang, you have all seen the introduction of various exercises for new models and equipment this time. How do you feel?" In a small conference room in a small conference room outside the outskirts of Beijing, Mr. Liu said to three military bosses after watching a series of recent exercise screen editing videos.

Li Deyuan and Cao Zhiyuan are the vice chairman of the Military Commission, while Yang Jianguo is the current chief of the assembly. It can be said that the main bosses in charge of military equipment were present today.

"It's amazing," Vice Chairman Li sighed first, "I personally think that after the existing equipment is upgraded according to the Red Army standards for the exercise, we can no longer be cowardly. Old Liu, you still have the eyesight and have chosen wizards like Duke from millions of people. The increase in combat power through software is so large, which is something I have never thought of."

"It's amazing. I feel that in the past year, the improvement in military equipment has been even greater than that in the past ten years," Vice Chairman Cao continued, "Don't be too careful, Lao Yang, I'm just talking about the matter. Of course, there is no solid foundation laid by the past assembly, and there will be no improvement so quickly today. But I still have some opinions. Most of the improvements in the current field of conventional weapons, and I personally think that the improvements in the second artillery field should also be put on the agenda."

"Old Cao, I knew you couldn't let go of the one you were at hand," Mr. Liu laughed, "It's just that the second artillery is too sensitive now, so I dare not move at will." When he said this, Mr. Liu was also a little unwilling to accept it. But from now on, there is indeed not much Duke who can get into the second artillery.

The most likely thing to do is the high-speed motion target prediction system, which may have a strong reference in strategic anti-missiles. However, the R&D personnel of the Second Artillery have obtained that system and are doing research. Due to the lack of direct guidance from Duke, the project progress is relatively slow. However, compared with the past, there are almost no goals and directions, it has now been considered a great progress.

After transformation, the things Duke provides can at least allow the military to obtain a new type of war zone missile defense system. For local warfare, this already has very high strategic value and is a key to winning local wars.

If new tanks and aircraft are casting an invincible sharp blade, then the theater missile defense system is to erect an extremely strong shield for the army.

As for the national missile defense system, this thing is still a bit far from everyone. Judging from the current technical foundation, it is still not realistic to implement it, and it is not the focus of everyone's attention at this stage.

"But these are not the focus of what we are going to discuss today," Mr. Liu changed his tone. "I don't know if you have noticed that the breakthrough we achieved this time is basically the best example of military-civilian cooperation. In addition to Duke, the invisible chief scientist, conducting architectural design and solving key problems in the furnishings, a large number of implementations have been completed by our university research institutions and R&D personnel in the military equipment."

"Although we have always had a tradition of military-civilian cooperation research and development, from a mechanism perspective, this cooperation method has great limitations. Under various restrictions, some major issues do not concentrate the wisdom of the whole country to tackle the problem. This directly leads to our equipment research and development being self-consistent, and many similar civilian products are even better than military products."

"So, I personally believe that this mechanism should be made in order to ensure that this rapid progress in the past year has a long-term mechanism."

After hearing Mr. Liu's words, the three military bosses fell into deep thought. Just like most state-owned enterprises have strong laziness, the military research institutions lack a competitive environment, mostly follow the rules and lack vitality, and have strict hierarchy. Most of the R&D personnel's imagination is getting lower and dare not make bold innovations.

Not to mention anything else, just in terms of communication products, when the domestic communications industry started, the military's R&D strength was far greater than that of the private sector, but with market competition, the private sector gradually grew in fierce competition. On the contrary, state-owned communication companies relying on military research and development were defeated one by one in the competition.

It was also Chinese, but a group of guerrillas defeated the regular army, which shows that it was not a problem with the human race, but a problem with the mechanism.

"But military products are a special product after all." After thinking for a while, Vice Chairman Li said with some concern, "If it is open to absorbing social forces for participation in development, will it cause some new problems?"

"The problem must exist, but from the actual situation at home and abroad, even some problems are still developing problems and not critical problems. After opening up, it is very helpful for the speed of equipment improvement. The military industry in the United States is almost all private enterprises, but overall, their efficiency, speed of innovation, and even confidentiality are much better than us." Mr. Liu obviously has a very in-depth study on this issue.

"Just like our cooperation with Dushi Heavy Industry this time, we have proposed more than ten special purpose material requirements and dozens of ultra-high precision processing special CNC machine tools. From R&D to product production management, there are so many intermediate links, but there are no problems. It can be seen that as long as we pay attention to management, the problem in confidentiality is not too big."

"In addition, in terms of a new optical system, this product completed by private enterprises not only lasts longer than our original products, but also has a longer function distance and higher accuracy. If it weren't for the assistant team led by Duke to look for suitable alternatives across the country, most of our comrades might not have thought that some aspects of private enterprises have made something more advanced than our existing products. Or even if they think about it, they wouldn't dare to boldly adopt it."

"I think the problem mentioned by Vice Chairman Liu is very realistic. Whoever chooses the military stuff will be responsible for it. Everyone will think that at least it will not be a big mistake to choose from the existing product library. If you choose external products, what if there is a problem with the selection? I'm afraid it will not be clear at that time. In this way, even if similar products in the existing system are inferior in performance and higher in cost, these are not problems for the selectors. The key is to avoid the responsibility.

This idea leads to the breakthrough speed of products within the system far less than that of private products. Although people usually call it based on reliability, it is actually very nonsense. This does not mean that reliability is not important. The key is that under this excuse, many more suitable products have been sacrificed. Now, it is time to take advantage of this wind to optimize this mechanism."

Of course, General Yang Jianguo, who was responsible for the assembly, knew this very well. However, this matter was too serious. Although he was considered to be of high authority, he still had no qualifications to initiate changes in such matters. Today, Mr. Liu fired the first shot, so General Yang Jianguo might as well pour some oil on it.
Chapter completed!