After receiving Pei Chengyi's phone call, Liu Xiaobin did two things: one was to adjust the military... the work-related network, and the other was to contact the spies lurking in the UK...

Although in the eyes of many people, the Cold War between superpowers not only poses a huge threat to human society, but also consumes a large amount of material wealth and has had a serious negative impact on the development of human civilization, some people still believe that the Cold War between superpowers has irreplaceable value in promoting the development and progress of human civilization. Taking the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union as an example, in the past half century, almost all major technological innovations that promote social development and change people's lifestyles are related to military confrontation, such as electronic computers, the Internet, aerospace, composite materials, genetic engineering, etc. China and the United States.

The Cold War is no exception. According to the view that has been generally recognized by the international academic community, without the Sino-US Cold War, the power revolution would not have affected every corner of the world in just the old year, fundamentally changing people's production and lifestyles, and creating huge social wealth that exceeds the entire Li century in just the short period of Li Year. Not to mention, if there was no confrontation between the Republic and the United States, composite batteries would definitely not have been rapidly popularized and promoted, but would have been monopolized by the Republic, bringing huge wealth to only one country, rather than changing the destiny of the entire human race and allowing human civilization to enter a new realm.

Mu Yong doubted that the confrontation between superpowers is the strongest driving force for technological development.

Space is no exception. Without the confrontation between superpowers, it is impossible for the central government of the Republic or the federal government to invest hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars in building space stations, establishing colonies on the moon and landing on Mars. Similarly, it is impossible to invest huge amounts of money in the military aerospace field.

To a certain extent, the progress of military reconnaissance satellites is a microcosm of military aerospace.

Since the former Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, human space activities have been closely related to the military. It can even be said that Tian Nian's history of human spaceflight is Tian Nian's history of military struggle. The so-called "Standing high and looking far." Aerospace is undoubtedly the commanding heights of military struggle. Ironically, as the first country to step out of the atmosphere, the former Soviet Union fell on the road to fighting for the "command heights" and was confused by the fictitious "Star Wars. Ji Ge not only lost his direction, but also exhausted his last little effort.

Because of the religion of the former Soviet Union, the Republic had to be much more rational when competing for the "command heights".

As early as the old age of the century, with the active promotion of the Republic, the United States and Russia, dozens of countries signed the Treaty on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Although this international treaty is not perfect, it is even called the "hegemonic treaty of superpowers." For example, it only stipulates that military aerospace activities with the purpose of strategic offensives are not allowed, rather than prohibiting all military aerospace activities. This leaves a backdoor for the development of national defense systems between the Republic and the United States, but from the perspective of the entire human civilization, the international treaty has very positive significance, at least ensuring that in the next few decades, several capable major powers did not deploy offensive strategic weapons in outer space, laying the foundation for promoting the comprehensive destruction of nuclear weapons and decorating the real peaceful use of outer space.

Of course, an international treaty that is not much binding is not the main issue of limiting military space.

Both the Republic and the United States have publicly admitted that there is only one factor that limits space activities: the cost.

Although with the full popularization and promotion of controllable fusion nuclear power plants, the price of electricity has dropped to near zero. Even without considering the help of new technologies to aerospace, the production cost of aerospace propellants has been greatly reduced, and it is precisely because of the rapid decrease of electricity prices. Hydrogen and oxygen engines have developed rapidly. However, aerospace is aerospace after all, and the cost is definitely higher than that of aviation. When aviation has not been fully popularized, it is obviously unrealistic to turn aerospace into a universal activity for humans. There is no possibility in the short term.

There is no doubt that military aerospace is facing the same problem.

When building a national strategic defense system, the Republic established the Heavenly Soldiers, and later formed the Heavenly Soldiers on the basis of the Heavenly Soldiers, which was on par with the Army, Navy and Air Forces. After the third military reform began, the Heavenly Soldiers proposed a long-term development plan involving the future year, which clearly mentioned that whether the space launch cost can be reduced will be the key to whether the Heavenly Soldiers can play a winning role in future wars.

How prominent is the cost issue?

Not to mention military aerospace, for the more open civil aerospace.

In the year, shortly after the Peninsula War, the Republic proposed to build a large space station "Qionglou" Jifa. Initially, it planned to build a scientific research space station similar to the "International Space Station". As more and more institutions participated, Jigo became bigger and bigger.

After several adjustments, the "Qionglou" Ji Ge thug received high support from Wang Yuanqing, who had just become the head of the Republic, and several points were determined, that is, the plan was an open civil aerospace project based on market operations. Although at the beginning, almost everyone thought that Wang Yuanqing was either crazy, but wanted to make some "political achievements". According to the planned plan, a permanent space station of 10,000 tons will be built, and an open design will be adopted, that is, a larger space station can be built on this basis in the future. Such a huge plan has even the Republican government.

It is impossible to bear it. Which private enterprise has such strong strength? But as the plan gradually unfolds, no one doubts Wang Yuanqing's far-sighted vision anymore. Because this is not a simple spacecraft, but is used to revitalize the "aerospace industry," which drives hundreds of related industries to promote the huge economic benefits. Under the stimulation and driving of the project, the aerospace technology and space activities of the Republic have developed rapidly. It can even be said that all non-military aerospace activities carried out by the Republic after four, such as establishing a permanent base on the moon, are related to the "Qionglou" strategy.

The first sealed cabin of the "Qionglou" was successfully entered into the regulations, and by the end of the field, "Qionglou" was officially operated to the outside world. Because it is a civilian space station, in addition to scientific experiments and scientific observations, the main purpose of "Qionglou" is to receive monuments from all over the world, and provide those who are too much money to spend, ranging from 3 kilograms to 3 kilograms and months of outer space life experience. There are many ways to make money, such as providing a rich person with a space wedding, cultivating test-tube babies in weightless environments, etc.

It is these fully open business activities that have made the "Qionglou" from a dream to a reality. Even so, the "Qionglou" project is still the largest loss-making deal in the world. According to the operating report of the previous year released by Lidaichu, the net income has been incurred by B. In the case of net income, the total loss of nearly 200 B. In the past 8 years, everyone knows that as long as they persist, as the overall productivity of human society increases, the "Qionglou Project will make money sooner or later, and will make a lot of money. However, burning the "Qionglou Group" in just a few years also made several major shareholders of the "Qionglou Group, namely the richest capitalists in the Republic, feel deeply hurt. If it were not linked to "Operation Running the Moon, the "Qionglou" space station would become a transit station for the Moon. And mining precious resources such as rare metals on the moon will be the key to the continued development of mankind. If the development prospects are extremely bright, I am afraid that the "Qionglou Group" would have declared bankruptcy long ago.

As civilian aerospace is like this, military aerospace can be imagined.

It can be said that whether it is the wealthy United States or the rising republic, it attaches great importance to the "cost issue" in the development of military aerospace.

In the increasingly fierce confrontation, it is definitely unrealistic to reduce the scale.

The United States is taking advantage of the national strategic defense system to build a national missile defense system. The Republic and the United States began to integrate military aerospace systems almost at the same time, and established a more complete military aerospace system based on the original reconnaissance, navigation, communication, defense and other systems. Although there are differences in specific methods, the Republic and the United States have the same purpose of integrating military aerospace systems, that is, make full use of resources and increase the efficiency and cost ratio of military aerospace systems.

"Military reconnaissance satellite network. Shear is an integral part of the "information system" under the new generation of military aerospace systems of the Republic. It consists of hundreds of reconnaissance satellites of several types. It not only provides assistance to the military intelligence departments, but also "the national strategic defense system thugs are controlled by the Military Intelligence Bureau.

Mu Yong doubted, "Military reconnaissance satellite network, making the Military Intelligence Bureau more wings.

Although the performance of reconnaissance satellites cannot be improved unlimitedly. For example, in theory, the phase resolution can be improved unlimitedly, due to unpredictable natural factors such as atmospheric disturbances, the resolution of optical phase satellites reaches the maximum level of centimeters, and the resolution of radar phase satellites reaches the maximum level of decimeters. Continuing to increase the resolution is not only difficult, but also has little practical value. However, military reconnaissance satellites have an irreplaceable ground in the intelligence system, and their importance has long exceeded that of the aviation reconnaissance system, second only to intelligence personnel. It is precisely this that the Republic attaches great importance to the development of military reconnaissance satellites. When performance is difficult to continue to improve, it turns to build a "timely reconnaissance system". There is no doubt that this is a real "money-burning game".

Just like improving the performance of reconnaissance satellites, there is also a limit to improving the "timeliness of reconnaissance satellites.

As early as the beginning of the century, experts from the former National Security Agency and the competent units of the US military reconnaissance satellite asserted that two hours is the boundary of the reconnaissance satellite system efficiency and cost ratio. After this hurdle, the efficiency ratio will become smaller and smaller. The "two hours" mentioned here refers to the coverage period of the military reconnaissance satellite network, that is, the interval between two scans in the same area. In fact, experts who can calculate that those with some mathematical foundation do not play the piano randomly, otherwise, ten thousand years before the century, the United States and the Republic would not use "two hours" as the basic requirement of the military reconnaissance satellite system.

The military reconnaissance satellites of the Republic met the "two hours" standard.

The years have passed, and with hundreds of billions of yuan invested, the coverage period of the Republic's military reconnaissance satellite system has only been shortened to "Feng Minutes". Of course, the situation in the United States is not much better. To a certain extent, "Feng Minutes" can be regarded as real-time surveillance. However, in some special periods, such as when surveillance airports, because the prepared fighter jets only have a few minutes, or even a few seconds, they must maintain a surveillance state, and the coverage period of "4 minutes is obviously not up to the requirements. In the construction of military construction,

When reconnaissance satellite networks, the Military Intelligence Bureau has long considered special circumstances, so it has made special arrangements for the orbits of reconnaissance satellites, so that when necessary, it can maintain real-time monitoring of a special area by adjusting the orbits of certain reconnaissance satellites. However, such real-time monitoring will not last long. Depending on the latitude, the higher the latitude, the shorter the duration. If it is a target on the equator, there is no need to adjust it. Two; if it is a satellite with a geosynchronous orbit in the outside world, you can guess the real-time gate in real time.

Ascension Island is located at the 7th entrance of the north latitude," not far from the equator.

If the resolution is not high, satellites in geosynchronous orbits cannot meet the requirements that the geosynchronous orbits are about silometers away from the ground. The orbital height of ordinary reconnaissance satellites is generally around kilometers. That is to say, when the resolution of ordinary satellites reaches the centimeter level, the resolution of the geosynchronous orbit reconnaissance satellites is only meter level, and can only be used to monitor strategic goals at most, but cannot be used to monitor tactical targets. The Military Intelligence Bureau does not even need to adjust the satellite orbit to continuously monitor British military airports on Ascension Island.

Since Pei Chengyi has requests, Liu Xiaobin will certainly not be stingy with mobilizing a few satellites.

However, no matter how good the reconnaissance satellite system is, it cannot replace people.

Although according to the accepted statement of the intelligence community, the intelligence obtained through technical means has accounted for more than 80% of the total amount of intelligence, which is the old times the amount of intelligence obtained by skilled means. To put it simply, the intelligence obtained by spies is only one-tenth of intelligence obtained by reconnaissance satellites, but no intelligence agency has given up "traditional means". It can even be said that the ability of an intelligence agency is not to have many satellites, but how many spies it has. It is no exaggeration to say that nearly 80% of the effective intelligence obtained by the Military Intelligence Bureau were provided by spies. Before the rapid progress of reconnaissance technology, technical means including reconnaissance satellites in the mainland were only effective supplements to the time spy network.

Not to mention anything else, the Military Intelligence Bureau is two pounds, "The heads of the family are all from spies, not from analyzing Yan's background.

The situation of the Fourth is very similar. Even if the President arranges the Fourth Director, most of them are promoted from the position of deputy director of operations, and only a few are climbing up from the position of deputy director of intelligence.

It has to be said that as the most powerful intelligence agency in the world, Liu Xiaobin was too serious.

He received a call from Pei Chengyi in Beijing time. He arranged the task before dawn. When he was about to have lunch, the first piece of information was delivered to him.

It was a photo taken by a reconnaissance satellite, with as many as tens of thousands of photos, and the one given to Liu Xiaobin was only a few selected photos.

The analyst did his homework. Not only marked the main goals in the photos, but also explained the specific time and nuances of the photos. In fact, the analyst's approach is a bit redundant. When he was a spy, Liu Xiaobin's main job was to deal with technical issues for Li Cunxun. As a "quasi-intelligence analyst." Liu Xiaobin could see the nuances in these photos at a glance and judged the significance of these changes.

There is no doubt that the Royal Air Force Base on Ascension Island is in the highest combat readiness and is preparing for dispatching fighter jets.

Because there are not only Koujiahui's fighter jets on Ascension Island, but also many old tankers, several Royal Navy early warning aircraft and more than a dozen large anti-submarine patrol aircraft, it is impossible to determine whether the service personnel at the airport are preparing for the dispatch of fighters or other aircraft.

Affected by this, Liu Xiaobin decided to wait a little longer.

In the afternoon of the same day, about the verbal call, when Liu Xiaobin was preparing to hold a daily meeting, the second piece of information was delivered to him.

This time, it was not a photo taken by the reconnaissance satellite, but sent back by the intelligence personnel.

Pei Chengyi's judgment was indeed correct. The Royal Air Force was indeed preparing to bomb the Horse Island, and the target of the bombing was not the Armenian army on the island, but the speedboats that were unloading. The Royal Air Force not only prepared to launch the Junjiao fighter jets, but also the long-range patrol aircraft. It is not difficult to understand that the main problem of long-range raids is not to reach the destination. After arriving at the destination, it is to drop the ammunition carried on the target, rather than a waste of time. For this reason, it is necessary to guide the aircraft. Because the Royal Air Force did not deploy large early warning aircraft to the Wydwick Air Force Base in Ascension, it can only dispatch the Royal Navy's long-range patrol aircraft to provide assistance to the heavy fighter fleet.

After confirming that the bombing operation was about to begin, Liu Xiaobin postponed the regular meeting and spoke to Pei Chengyi in person.

At this time, it happened to be just around the morning of the Buenos Aires time, and the Malvinas Islands time passed by 6 o'clock, and the sun was about to rise from the east.

After receiving the alarm, Pei Chengyi did not dare to delay at all. He immediately contacted Hua Jianfeng.

Maybe the battle has begun, maybe there will be a day left.

While waiting for the news, Pei Chengyi concluded that the Royal Air Force would choose to bomb the fast fleet at dawn because the fleet could not unload the cargo at night. Every morning, the crew had just gotten up and was preparing for the daytime work. The police were the worst. In order to maximize the attack on the island-based troops, the British army on the island would definitely launch a counterattack during the bombing. For this reason, several hours before receiving the news, Pei Chengyi contacted Yang Shaoyong and asked him to find the commander of the island-based troops, demanding that the A-jun increase the police-based troops and let Run Ruilin's army prepare for combat at any time.

Although Pei Chengyi had reason to believe that the Royal Air Force did not react so quickly, he was still very uneasy.

Losing points of supplies and speedboats is a trivial matter. What is important is that the sudden bombing will inevitably hit the morale of the army, which was already a bit shaken, causing unexpected changes in the battle situation on the Horse Island.
Chapter completed!