At the beginning of the month, the Republic's authorities made a high-profile night broadcast and organized a group to participate in the wine discussion to promote the normalization of China-Europe military security exchanges.

Subsequently, Liduo arms companies led by AVIC Group, China National Heavy Industry Corporation and Northern Heavy Industry, as well as many old civil aircraft manufacturing enterprises, mainly composed of Shanghai Aircraft Company, Chengdu Aircraft Company and Shenyang Aircraft Company, and many civil aviation equipment manufacturing companies successively announced the exhibition list and the event arrangements during the exhibition.

Among the exhibited products, the most eye-catching thing is definitely not the first time I went to Europe. The main fighter jets of the Republican army such as Xiaozhou, nor the Fanbu strategic bomber that participated in overseas air shows for the first time. It is a rumor that has long been paid attention to by the outside world, and the two types of "aerospace fighters" developed by China National Heavy Industry Corporation and China National AVIC Group respectively.

Although both companies only gave a code name, namely, the Fiery One Thug and Lianhao 2, military enthusiasts who understand the Republic's arms development system can see that the two representatives are developing and are in the original competition stage, and the old and the successor models in the suffix are both established in the Li Yao Year. The Hao project has long been known and has not many secrets. Therefore, the four projects are definitely more advanced than the couple. In this way, there are only the aerospace fighter.

You should know that with the development rules of heavy fighter jets, if the couple is used to replace the younger ones, they will definitely have limited aerospace combat capabilities, such as a ceiling of more than four meters, able to carry air-launched anti-missile and anti-satellite missiles, and have limited target locking capabilities. Because both projects are used to replace late ones, several years later, there will definitely be huge leap in performance, so they must be air-space fighters, rather than fighters with only humming and limited sky combat capabilities.

In the words of the US news media, the Republican authorities and the arms industry participated in the Van Paul Air Show with a high profile. The main purpose was not to win over the EU, but to demonstrate to the United States and speed up the arms race.

Obviously, this sentence has come to the point.

As we all know, after the Fourth India-Pakistan War, with the advent of the first generation of electric equipment in the Republic, the arms race with the United States quietly began. After the Peninsula War broke out, the arms race between the Republic and the United States fell from behind the scenes. Although the Cold War relationship between the Republic and the United States was basically formed until the end of the Japanese war, the two sides had already competed in the crucial military technology field before that. According to a document decrypted by the US authorities at the beginning of the year, at the end of the seventh year, the US federal government formulated a strategic plan for the Republic, which put military technology first. Many of the main combat equipment purchased by the US military in large quantities have been related to this plan. The new address of this site has been changed to: Chat the 0-muscle samadhi, please read it!

The problem is that in this arms race, the United States has not been able to become the leader again.

Some people may think that "latest development advantage" is enough to make up for the shortcomings in the early stage. If the interest relationship between countries is not considered, late development advantage can indeed bring many benefits to many underdeveloped and underdeveloped countries. However, after considering the interest relationship between countries, late development is not an advantage. It is a disadvantage. From a historical perspective, there has never been a "late development. A country can surpass old empires without innovation. Back then, the Netherlands was able to surpass Spain by the bourgeois revolution, Britain was able to come from behind by the industrial revolution, the United States was able to surpass Britain by the driving revolution, and the Republic was able to surpass the United States at the beginning of the century, relying on the energy revolution represented by controlled fusion. It can be seen that after losing its leading position, the United States will definitely not be able to surpass the Republic without following.

In fact, since the old year of Li, the United States has not been able to surpass the Republic in several technical fields related to room temperature superconducting, and the gap with the Republic has grown wider. Take composite batteries as an example. The United States mastered the basic principles and production processes of composite batteries around the reunion year, only 7 years behind the Republic. By the time of coincidence, when the Republic had already mass-produced old-grade composite batteries in the military, and even when it was preparing for the industrial production of flexible-grade composite batteries, the United States' oral-grade composite batteries were put into production, and its old-grade composite batteries would not be put into production until previous years.

In other words, the gap has widened to thugs for 0 years.

The impact of technological backwardness on military power is most obvious.

As mentioned earlier, from theory to reality, aerospace fighter jets need to overcome many difficulties, and they are all technical problems. It is precisely because of this that since the age of strength, the Republic has made a lot of efforts in this direction, not only investing in national strength, but also using a large amount of civilian power.

It can be said that the contribution of civil forces even exceeds that of national forces.

The most representative one is the "Qionglou Project".

As a civil aerospace project, the "Qionglou Project" must have attracted the most attention in the first half of the century and had the greatest impact on human civilization. Although at the beginning, the Republican authorities, especially the Tianbing established by Gangwang, hoped to develop the project into a dual-use project for military and civilians, under Wang Yuanqing's insistence, the "Qionglou Project" eventually became a very thorough civil aerospace project. In order to support the project, Wang Yuanqing not only personally persuaded many wealthy businessmen, including Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen, to invest in the project, but also reached a different body clam with several companies in the project.

The political reform of the foreign thugs and tricks subsidy agreement has been launched to continue to provide financial projects with financial loss. The possibility is already very slim. After all, taxpayers have no reason to invest in private projects. In order to promote the construction progress of the project, Wang Yuanqing made a very important decision in the early days, that is, to allow China National Heavy Group and AVIC Group to annex several aerospace enterprises that undertake the "Qionglou Project" and form two groups that provide aerospace launch services. These two groups will compete for the aerospace launch business of the project. In this way, financial subsidies can be provided for the project through arms procurement and military technology development while ensuring competition.

I have to admit that Wang Yuanqing was too pessimistic at that time.

Since it is a private project, it is necessary to make profits. If the "Qionglou Project" wants to make profits, there are only two ways to go. One is to provide track space for some enterprises, and the other is to provide individuals with "sky travel services. At the beginning of the century, many people believed that the former was more promising. After all, with the advancement of technology, many experiments, and even some industrial production needed to be carried out in a vacuum and weightless environment. Orbital platforms were also needed. For precision instruments, only when weightlessness is lost can pure round balls be made and the accuracy requirements can be met. Because these are high-investment industrial projects, there must be many companies willing to rent space stations.

The problem is that after Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen became the husband of the project, the two made a very important decision, that is, the space station is mainly aimed at private people, not enterprises. In other words, the main identity of "Qionglou" is a tourism platform for private people to visit outer space.

It can be said that this is an Ance who is very bold and strategic.

You should know that at that time, almost everyone thought that Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen were too much money to use, and showed their strong financial resources in this huge project destined to burn several trillion yuan. Some American news media even believed that Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen both had a lot of ill-gotten gains, so the two hoped to take this opportunity to use this money. After all, both of them were old, and their children had careers and did not need to inherit family property.

At that time, there was another person who saw the future clearly, that was Wang Yuanqing.

It was after listening to Lin Muhua and Li Chengwen's vision of the future of the project that Wang Yuanqing decided to hand over the project to private individuals, rather than to the state. From the perspective of later development, with the work efficiency of state units and the way of promoting economic development, he would also undertake such a huge project, or completely distort the project and become a scientific research and aerospace platform similar to the International Space Station.

In fact, "Qionglou Project did burn almost all the hard-earned money of the richest businessman.

In the words Lin Yanbo mentioned in his memoirs, by the end of the era of Blade, that is, when the "Qionglou Project" was opening up to the public, he and Li Chengwen mortgaged almost all their assets, and Li Chengwen also asked his son to mortgage some of the assets. Only then did he raise enough funds and overcome the difficulties.

In fact, the main reason for the difficulty in developing the project was not the lack of a market, but the Great Depression.

You should know that during the entire Great Depression, even if the Republic's economy was the only one, not many people were willing to spend 10,000 yuan to live in space. At that time, Russia's asking price was flying ten thousand US dollars. During the promotion period, the "Qionglou Project" lowered the price to 10,000 yuan. Because the electricity price was greatly reduced and the rapid development of hydrogen and oxygen rocket engines, the "fare" of 20,000 yuan was not low, at least it would not lose. It was just a little less. According to a survey conducted at that time, the Republic has the ability to travel to space and will not have much impact on life and work, only about 10,000 yuan. Among these people, there are elderly people who are calcium-year-olds and teenagers who are under the age of old. Eliminate some cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and are not suitable for space.

The remaining people who traveled will not exceed 20,000 people. Of these 20,000 people, at most, only 10% of them can not work within two years and complete the preliminary training. In other words, it is possible that the number of people who go to space in the end will not exceed the number of people who go to space. According to the calculation of 40,000 yuan per person, it is only a market of 4 B of RMB. You should know that the start-up capital of the "Qionglou Project" is as high as 4 B of RMB, and the first batch of funds invested by Lin Yanbo and Li Chengwen was as high as 400 million yuan. Based on the situation at that time, while maintaining the ticket price unchanged, the project will send the Kokun into space every year to avoid losing money. According to the fact that each person stays in space for 7 days and the utilization rate of the capsule is calculated as skin, 34 space capsules are needed to be built for passengers, and the construction and launch costs of these cabins are high.

It can be said that during the Great Depression, no one could afford so much money.

Fortunately, technological progress has changed everything.

With the rapid promotion of controllable fusion nuclear power plants, the electricity price almost dropped to zero. The General Assembly of the Republic passed a decree, planning to spend the years to pay for the construction and maintenance costs of all power plants nationwide by commissioned construction before the New Year. It provides citizens with free electricity according to certain standards, that is, using taxes paid by citizens to buy electricity for citizens, and ultimately achieving "zero electricity prices." The cost of aerospace launch has also dropped rapidly, reaching a level that is affordable for the wealthier people.

More importantly, during the Great Depression, currency depreciation also reduced the cost of space launches in disguise.

By the year, the fart fare price is still shown. However, compared with the knowledge of the Republic, "the output value has been increased to more than 10,000 yuan, and the standard for measuring wealth has been increased to 40,000 yuan, not to mention entrepreneurs. Some outstanding workers, that is, the so-called gold-collar people, have an annual income of 10,000 yuan, so the number of people who can accept the fare price of 10,000 yuan has increased from 20,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan, an increase of 100 times. If calculated according to the previous standards, the total market volume will increase from 4 B to 100 billion yuan.

It is precisely so that in the late ugly era, the "Qionglou Project was officially opened to the public.

The problem is that the Great Depression had just ended and society had not yet recovered. Even though people's income increased, they were working hard to make up for the losses in previous years. Therefore, they were really willing to spend money to go to space, and those who spent tens of thousands of people to go to space were only tens of thousands of people.

Of course, no one can doubt the ability of social progress.

By the beginning of the year, the per capita national output value of the Republic had exceeded 100 million, and it was growing at a rate of annual disaster. It is expected that in the future, white-collar workers, who are in good social security, can also use their savings to experience space life for several years.

More importantly, as the market size expands, ticket prices will definitely drop.

In this way, the "seven-day space tour" will be similar to the "seven-day European tour" that led to the beginning of the century.

In fact, in the past ten years, the "Qionglou Project" achieved a break-even profit. According to Haonian's financial report, the gross profit of the project has exceeded the habit of thugs.

In short, the civil aerospace market has expanded, and military technology will definitely benefit a lot.

Not to mention, in order to reduce the cost of civil aerospace, the "Qionglou Project" has invested huge scientific research funds in the magnetic induction propulsion system. You must know that if the magnetic induction propulsion system is successful and has the ability to replace the launch vehicle using hydrogen and oxygen engines, the civil aerospace launch cost will be reduced by a large amount, reaching a level comparable to the cost of aviation flights at the beginning of the century. In this way, going to space is not a difficult task. There is no doubt that the magnetic induction propulsion system is the key subsystem of aerospace fighter. In a sense, whether the propulsion system can be developed directly determines whether the aerospace fighter can enter the battlefield.

Related to the "Qionglou Project, there are many cutting-edge technologies including materials, biology, and medicine.

Unfortunately, in such an important field, the United States' pace has been slower again.

It’s not that the US authorities do not know the importance of space. It’s that they are lagging too much behind in related technologies.

Not to mention, the United States promoted controllable fusion nuclear power plants about a year later than the Republic. The time for full popularity was more than the Republic. In this way, the United States could not compete with the Republic at all in terms of space launch costs, and it was impossible to carry out a space project that was destined to cost several trillion yuan like the Republic, because if the United States did this, it would cost at least twice the same as the Republic. Not to mention that American companies could not bear it, even if they concentrated the United States' national strength, it might not be able to support such a huge project.

Based on the situation at that time, if the United States really kept up and made a similar plan, then the "Qionglou Project" would likely become the Republic's "Star Wars Storyteller" to land on Mars and establish a scientific expedition station on Mars.

Although it looks farther and more "advanced." But sending a few people to Mars is not as difficult as building a giant space station in low-Earth orbit that can accommodate thousands of people.

In fact, the Republic later introduced the "Guanghan Strike" that is, to establish a colony on the moon. It was challenging the United States' "Mars" Strike, forcing the United States to increase its investment in aerospace.

It can be said that the last time the United States escaped from the Great Depression was related to the cruel competition between the two sides in the aerospace field.

According to some information decrypted later, before the Lihuan Year, the Republic's authorities' investment in the aerospace field was about tens of trillions of yuan, while the United States' investment in this field was about 7 trillion US dollars. Although the Republic's investment was slightly more based on the Yo-year exchange rate, judging from the comprehensive national strength of the two countries, especially the economic conditions during the Great Depression, the United States was definitely under pressure that exceeded the Republic, and it was 2 to 3 times that of the Republic.

According to Wang Yuanqing's secretary Jiao Piaoshan later recalled that Wang Yuanqing had the idea of ​​using the economy to defeat the United States.

Of course, this is just an idea. If the United States uses economic means to kill the former Soviet Union, it will naturally not be defeated by the economic blow of the Republic.

The problem is that this kind of comprehensive competition is definitely not something that anyone can stop just by wanting it.

Although it was relaxed, the Middle East War 2009 caused both the Republic and the US authorities to suffer, and also had a deterrent effect on the increasingly fierce Cold War between China and the United States. However, several years have passed, the Republic and the United States have recovered, and the people have basically forgotten the impact of the war.
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