Qin Tairan and Kong Xiangcheng did not breathe a sigh of relief after digging out a number of nails installed by the CIA, because although these losses are not small for the CIA, they will never end up miserably after starting a first-level mission. This is destined to be a protracted battle, so Qin Tairan could see Matt still wandering in Rongcheng...

Qin and Kong opened their eyes wide open to guard Duke. The people in Duke, the vortex center, were just like nothing, doing their own things all day long. Anyway, he was not very interested in social activities. Now it was good to move in and live in the military base. There was no such interference. It was only a little troublesome when the meeting of the Academy of Sciences occurred. Qin Tairan and Kong sent open posts to Chengdu to set up defenses at all levels and protect them according to national leadership standards.

This way Duke's action arrangement and coordination seemed quite troublesome, which made Duke a little unhappy. However, Qin Tairan insisted on this, so Duke had to compromise. Fortunately, there were few opportunities to attend external meetings, so Duke let Qin Tairan arrange it. After all, this is for his own safety. Who would think that he would live long? Especially Duke is still so young that his life has just lived a wonderful life.

Three months have passed, and the wind tunnel test simulation program has been fully completed. Duke also helped Base No. 26 to complete the optimization and transformation of a new supercomputer system, increasing the computing speed of simulation applications by an order of magnitude. Now, through this simulation application, more than 90% of the pneumatic research of the actual model can be completed through computer simulation. For the military, this result exceeds their original idea.

In the future, the research progress of various aerospace products in the military will be greatly accelerated, not only will the cost be greatly reduced. You should know that the research and development of these things is originally very expensive, but if the cost can be reduced by a part of it, it will be a very large number.

Duke didn't care about the military's feelings. He copied this thing and established his own wind tunnel testing simulation application center in the d** R&D center. Whether it is drone or automobile research, there is a lot of aerodynamic research work to be done. Base No. 26 is a military research base after all, and Duke's team is not good for long-term use of the military research center to conduct his own research.

With this wind tunnel testing simulation center, Duke can start research on large drones. After capturing Global Hawk, Duke's interest in large drones increased greatly. After solving the nuclear fuel refining required by Bileme through seawater desalination engineering, he began to shift his focus to this aspect.

The first phase of the research is to study the aerodynamic shape design and flight control system design of large drones in the future. The offensive drone project is code-named "terminator". This is a grand plan for the long-term goal of using the US military x47b drone as an imaginary enemy and prototype. The technology is extremely difficult to achieve. The current technical accumulation level of d** is not enough to directly develop this high-performance unmanned fighter, so Duke is preparing to develop it in several steps.

The first phase was based on the captured Global Hawk, and developed an offensive version based on the comprehensive replication of the Global Hawk. Judging from the load capacity of the Global Hawk captured by Duke, it was enough to equip it with two large-power missiles or laser-guided missiles. Although the Global Hawk's flight speed is not high and it is vulnerable to head-on combat with someone's third-generation fighter jets, Duke did not want him to undertake air combat functions, but performed some special surgical tasks.

For example, using its excellent stealth effect and huge combat radius to bomb the opponent's fixed military facilities, etc. I think the military will be very interested in such a stealth killer.

In the second phase, the power plant has been further developed, especially after providing a new aircraft engine that can fly supersonically for large drones, Duke considered further designing a supersonic high-motor second-generation Terminator UAV, allowing it to have the same capabilities as the US military's x47b drone, and can take off and land on an aircraft carrier and become a real fighter!

From the current perspective, the feasibility of the first phase is very high. The most core and complex software part of the drone, the reliable ultra-long-range real-time transmission control system and autonomous intelligent system, Duke has accumulated a good accumulation through the J7 drone transformation project, which has surpassed the level of Global Hawk in this regard and can be used in actual combat.

Therefore, the first difficulty of the first generation of Terminators is in the reverse engineering of materials and the reverse engineering of aero engines. As long as Duches Heavy Industry can successfully develop the materials used by Global Hawk, relying on Duches Heavy Industry's current world-class processing technology level of CNC machine tools, it is not a problem to copy the appearance of Global Hawk and the aero engine.

The second difficulty is to solve how to modify weapon mounts on Global Hawk. Now the appearance design of Global Hawk does not consider weapon mounts. This is not its mission range. Duke's team may have a lot of effort in this regard to building an offensive Global Hawk.

The third difficulty is how to solve the escape after the Global Hawk launches an attack. With the Global Hawk's flight speed, once an attack is launched, facing an opponent with strong air defense capabilities such as the United States and Japan, the target will definitely be exposed. In this way, the Global Hawk with very slow speed will be difficult for him to escape the pursuit of the opponent's fighter jets.

The fourth difficulty is the production and maintenance cost. The cost of Global Hawk is too expensive. The manufacturing cost of its early version was as high as more than 30 million US dollars. The amortization of the later version and R&D expenses reached a sky-high price of more than 100 million US dollars. If the price of Duke's Terminator is so expensive, the military can't afford much. This price is enough to produce a fourth-generation fighter jet.

The high cost will greatly limit the use of the Terminator generation. When performing high-risk tasks, the combat chief will consider that this is a thing worth hundreds of millions of dollars and may not be returned forever, so he will be very cautious.

Fortunately, the expensive materials and airborne electronic equipment in the cost of "Global Hawk", Duke can significantly reduce the material cost through Duchess Heavy Industry's own production and sales, and on the other hand, it can greatly reduce the part of airborne electronic equipment. After all, electronic equipment related to reconnaissance is useless for combat.

Moreover, in terms of R&D expenses, it is obvious that this copycat version of D** will be reduced disproportionately compared to the US military, so R&D expense amortization should not be high. According to Duke's preliminary plan, the final price of Terminator Generation should not exceed US$15 million.

At this price, the military has a super long-range stealth strategic strike force of 4,060 aircraft, but the cost is less than one billion US dollars, which is much cheaper than a nuclear submarine. This cost-effectiveness is very attractive to the military. Especially the Chinese side, which has always lacked long-range strike force in the air.

Although it seems unrealistic to use this thing to deal with the US imperialists, it is more than enough to threaten most countries in Asia Pacific and Europe. You must know that not every country has the ability to deal with stealth aircraft. In extreme cases, the Terminator generation can even undertake strategic small nuclear strike missions that detour thousands of miles away.

As for large unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, Duke is not ready to invest more resources in innovative research. He only needs to copy the Global Hawk and further improve the software capabilities. Relying on the improved and more powerful autonomous intelligent system and target recognition system, the D** version of Global Hawk is enough to surpass the Global Hawk to become one of the best unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the world now.

In the internal research and development of d**, the plan of this copycat Global Hawk is called "umbra" (shadow). The hardware appearance will basically be copied. With only a small improvement, the optoelectronic equipment and aero engines will be handed over to the Ordnance to complete the manufacturing of a strategic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

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