"Then let it become part of the Dragon Plan and research it as a major special project." Qin Tairan said decisively. He did not consider how much money and resources Duke was planning to invest in this, but since the future prospects of quantum computers are so important, it should naturally be included in the scope of national control.

In the Shenlong Project, the heavyweight fighter jets such as Aoshi Shuanglong, as well as important aviation core products such as WS-13D/WS-10D, as well as Thor-10A and Thor-20A, AVIC has used R&D resources that can be used in particularly major special research can now be calculated in hundreds of billions of yuan. Compared with the initial tightening, Qin Tairan, who is now in a high-powered position, really doesn't care much about investing 100 to 20 billion yuan in Duke's annual investment in Duke's project, as long as Duke can continuously produce exciting results.

"In this way, you can be both sides of the world." Qin Tairan felt that this was a good solution with the best of both worlds.

"Brother Qin, this is a very expensive thing." Duke smiled bitterly after hearing Qin Tairan's words. It was not that he had thought of including this thing in the Dragon Plan or the Hidden Dragon Plan together, but judging from the theoretical knowledge and manufacturing framework given by Bileme, the development cost of this thing is as expensive as that of the super beam energy electromagnetic wave emitter.

"Not to mention anything else, just some basic research investments in the early stage will be at least 500 billion yuan per year," Duke continued, "The investment in the later stage is more likely to be required by hundreds of billion yuan. I initially estimate that the investment in five years will not be less than 300 billion yuan.

According to some of my current research experiences, the new quantum computer framework has a very amazing energy demand. It is estimated that the final set of complete quantum computers with supercomputing capabilities will require millions of kilowatt nuclear power plants to be driven by, because quantum computers need to implement computing through a large amount of quantum splitting and high-speed quantum repair. Maintaining and manipulating these extremely tiny things requires a huge energy consumption. In addition, it also requires an extremely demanding operating environment in terms of operation. In addition, manufacturing and maintaining these things requires a large number of special and expensive rare metals, and studying some extremely complex processing technologies, so the R&D investment is expected to be very large."

Qin Tairan browned after hearing this. Duke's budget was really a big talk. If he really invested according to this number, the impact on the Dragon Plan or the Hidden Dragon Plan would be too great, so big that even the big project of the Dragon Plan could not be collected.

Although the country has made large-scale investment in the aviation industry, AVIC has reached 200 to 300 billion yuan in a year. Compared with the past, this figure is quite amazing. Even if the domestic GDP has exceeded 100 trillion mark and military expenditure is close to 2 trillion yuan, but now the military industry has suffered from "hunger" in all aspects after the explosion of military achievements. The cost price of a third-generation and a half-generation fighter jet is more than 200 million yuan, and more than 40 billion yuan is required for production of more than 200 equipment a year. With supporting weapons and personnel training, this part alone will easily exceed 60 billion.

Being able to invest more than one-tenth of the expenditure in the aviation industry has reached the limit of national support. With the current stalls of AVIC, the R&D costs of 200 to 300 billion yuan cannot be supported. After all, AVIC has more than one million people engaged in this area of ​​production and R&D personnel. Every year, the head fee is one yuan. In many cases, it must rely on military-industry foreign trade to make money subsidies to maintain it. So, some research institutes with slow results and fewer foreign trade opportunities and large-scale computing centers also rely on SAL company installment credit.

"It turns out that studying this quantum computer is so expensive. It costs more than studying engines, and even the new model. Even the Dragon Plan cannot support this huge R&D investment." Qin Tairan said with a bitter face. After listening to Duke's budget, he dared not take over the big deal. There is no way. Even if he is the best-selling foreign trade champion, on average, it is 70 or 80 aircraft a year in five years. It is ideal to sell more than 400 aircraft in total. In this way, the profit is more than 20 billion RMB. If it is placed in the past 2000 years, it will certainly be considered a huge income, but now it is like that. This little money will be worthwhile to support one or two main fighter jets.

It is not that the two foreign trade war aircraft, the J-10P, are not cost-effective, but that the market is so big. If it weren't for the Persians and Pakistanis who are eager for new fighters due to the strategic situation, they would not be able to sell this number. After all, the current market for Chinese fighter jets can only face the Asian, African and Latin America market.

"Otherwise, Duke, our project is still based on the Shenlong plan, but in R&D, the current investment is linked to future income," Qin Tairan could only make a step back. "After all, with the recognition of national key special projects, the project is much more convenient in human resources scheduling and the supply of various material resources than purely by private companies." After Qin Tairan finished speaking, he couldn't help but feel a little fever on his face. To put it bluntly, this has to be decided by Duke, the God of Wealth.

The most important thing is that Qin Tairan cannot let Duke withdraw from the Shenlong Plan. In the eyes of him and the military bosses, this is the decisive factor in ensuring the continued rapid development of the Shenlong Plan, and other aspects can be concessions.

"Okay, it seems that this is the only way." Duke had to compromise, but for him, it was not a big problem to continue to take charge of the chief scientist of the Shenlong Project. The entire R&D architecture has been integrated quite efficiently by him. Now the technical foundation is quite excellent. He only needs to be a banner and continue to gather the top group of aviation industry researchers in the country.

Although there are some more constraints that make people uncomfortable, Duke has adapted to this kind of life over the years and doesn't feel that there is too much problem.

The two of them agreed to a serious matter. Qin Tairan felt relieved and began to humbly ask Duke for advice on the next strategic goal of the Shenlong Plan. With the two main third-generation and a half-war fighters, J-10D and J-11D, from the current technology, the third-generation aircraft has basically reached its end and there is no more potential to tap.

Of course, some people say that in terms of materials, using stealth coatings and composite materials widely used on fourth-generation aircraft on third-generation and a half-generation fighter will further improve the stealth effect of these third-generation and a half-generation fighter jets. However, in this way, the cost of third-generation and a half-generation fighter jets will soar sharply, not far from the fourth-generation fighter jets.

Just like the US F-15 fighter jet, the early construction cost was only US$30 million. Later, after the change, the full unit price of the new model F-15K exported to South Korea and Singapore ten years ago was basically US$100 million, and the specially customized F-15SA for Saudi Arabia reached an unprecedented US$135 million. This is basically the price of the fourth-generation fighter jet. Although there are political factors that are ruthlessly slaughtering the enemy, updating the full set of avionics equipment and improving the stealth performance of the fuselage is also a major factor in the soaring price.

Therefore, the third-generation and a half-generation fighter jets basically have little room for improvement at the level of J-10D and J-11D. Duke's suggestion will focus on research on unmanned attack aircraft, stealth fighter jets, aero engines and radars. In Duke's view, these aspects are far from reaching the limit and there is still a lot of room for improvement. Judging from the current development trend, in the next 20 years, stealth fighter jets will be the main force in determining air control, especially on the ocean that occupies more than 70% of the surface of the earth. Stealth fighter jets will be the absolute protagonists over the ocean.

If the PLA wants to go global in the future and become a global military strike force, without the support of the land-based anti-stealth radar system network, relying on the third- and a half-generation fighter jets will obviously not be able to compete with the fourth-generation fighter jets on the ocean. If China truly rises to become a global power, it will inevitably meet the US military on the ocean one day. Therefore, although Aoshi Shuanglong can fight against the attacks from the fourth-generation fighter jets from afar under the land-based anti-stealth radar system network, it is impossible to go out and fight head-on with the US military on a strange battlefield to win.

As the research focus of the real fifth-generation fighter, UAV will be a powerful tool to defend the country in the longer term. Although UAVs cannot compete with manned fighter jets now, the most important reason is that they lack sufficient computing power, allowing UAVs to have intelligent judgment capabilities that compete with the human brain, but with a quantum computer, there may be essential changes.

Although quantum computers are basically unlikely to be miniaturized to allow unmanned fighters to be installed and used in the Starry Sky, it does not mean that unmanned fighters cannot be used. Through reliable and faster wireless communication technology in the future, unmanned fighters can transmit computing requirements and various parameters to the super quantum computer combat computing center on the ground in real time. After the quantum computer instantly completes artificial intelligence operations and returns the results to the drone, it can respond through the drone combat system in various ways. In principle, there are no obstacles at all.

The development of wireless communication technology has entered a new wireless new century after Duke invented S-WiNet. In the future, it is possible to realize gigabit or even 10,000 Gigabit wireless transmission based on this technology. Moreover, traditional electronic computer technology itself is also developing. The super small machine system installed on drones can also perform some preprocessing, but the core computing is handed over to the quantum computer combat center, and the amount of data to be transmitted in the middle can be completely controlled within the allowable range of wireless transmission technology.

As for aircraft engines and radar systems, it is essential whether it is manned or unmanned. We have a big gap with the US military. The achievements we have made now are only from them more than ten or even twenty years ago, and the development space is even more broad.

Qin Tairan was naturally very convinced of Duke's judgment. Soon, the new Dragon Plan began to be formulated according to Duke's idea. Duke went around the world to find his quantum computer research team. This thing is a very cutting-edge field for the world, and it is really not easy to find the right talents.

It's okay to find some talents with supporting equipment around quantum computers. Duke can find some from Europe, but in order to keep it confidential, the core part cannot be found in foreigners. Therefore, Duke has very few talents to choose from, and almost all the people who study in China have a big gap. Duke can only recruit some relevant similar research personnel to train Duke's signature, and recruit a group of postdoctoral recruitment notices for researching quantum computers. After postdoctoral recruitment notices were posted, it immediately attracted hundreds of doctoral graduates from major prestigious universities to register, allowing Duke to select 10 potential students from them to train.

After more than two months of busy work, Duke finally built the framework of this research team. In order to facilitate testing and operation in the future, the research center has set up a lotus base. In order to study the new large lotus reactor, the lotus base has been expanded several times to build a brand new 1.5 million test reactor. On the one hand, it develops a new super-power reactor, and on the other hand, it provides a huge power supply for Duke's super quantum computers in the future.

Everything went smoothly in the early stage, but soon Duke discovered that he encountered a huge problem.
Chapter completed!