Dominate South Asia

Skunk Works, California, USA.

There used to be only a few tents, and next to it was a plastic factory that emitted a foul odor, so the employees here had to wear masks to work, and also earned the nickname of the Skunk Works. However, since the birth of this factory, it has skipped many steps in succession. Now, it has become the most powerful fighter manufacturer in the United States, and every aircraft designed here is a classic.

The U-2 reconnaissance aircraft that could fly to an altitude of more than 20,000 meters, followed by the SR-71 Blackbird that flew at a higher altitude and flew at three times the speed of sound for a long time, and then designed and manufactured the most advanced F-117 stealth attack aircraft in the United States. This factory can be said to have gathered the most outstanding technicians of Lockheed Corporation and is also the peak of the entire American aviation technology.

At this time, in the factory building, a peculiarly shaped aircraft was being assembled, and Ben Rich, the head of the Skunk Works, was staring at the aircraft in the workshop.

Diamond-shaped nose, butterfly-shaped wings, and large outward-inclined double vertical tails, this aircraft is the masterpiece of Lockheed. The first prototype of the US Advanced Tactical Fighter ATF project has begun to enter the final assembly!

For this project, Lockheed began to make precise plans since the 1980s, defeated its competitor Northrop, and became the general contractor of this project. Then, it took several years of design, and now, the prototype has finally started to be manufactured!

The birth of an aircraft requires multiple steps, design, manufacturing, assembly, and test flight. Finalization and production, and this new fourth-generation aircraft project needs to overcome more difficulties. Although the project has been going on for more than ten years, it is estimated that it will take about ten years to achieve all the design indicators and enter the low-speed production stage.

When this aircraft is finalized, it will be the only advanced fighter in the world that integrates stealth, supersonic cruise, and ultra-low detection capabilities! Even the Soviet Union does not have the same fighter to compete!

And now. This first one is only used for static testing, and the advanced F-119 engine has not yet been developed. It will have to wait until the second and third planes are tested before they can be assembled.

"The Ministry of Defense asked us to send a few experts to Pakistan to participate in the target shooting test of the joint attack munitions provided by Pakistan." Just as he was watching the workers assembling the fighter planes, another responsible engineer, Darol Olson, said next to him.

Joint attack munitions made in Pakistan? What technological capabilities does Pakistan have? Their country has only been industrialized for a few years? Ben Rich simply sneered at this. However, the Ministry of Defense was very urgent. There have been so many terrorist attacks in the country recently. The Ministry of Defense can't wait to fight in Iraq and bring Saddam to justice.

"Okay, Darol, you pick two people to go with you." Ben Rich said.

Go in person? Darol was stunned: "But I still have to participate in the development of the ATF program."

"It won't take a few days. Moreover, you can take people there to see what the Pakistanis are doing. If the project is valuable, our Skunk Works can also develop the same project and provide it to the Air Force." Ben Rich said.

In addition to being an engineer, he is also the head of the factory and has to consider the entire Lockheed Group. If the cost can really be reduced by half, then this kind of precision attack ammunition can be developed and provided to the military. The military must have a great demand!

"Okay." Darol is actually not interested in Pakistan's joint attack ammunition. But since the general manager has spoken, he can only do it.

"Our stealth coating. The development is not very smooth. In some cases, it may cause it to fall off. If it is sucked into the engine, it will cause a more dangerous mid-air parking." After talking about the arrangement of the Ministry of Defense, another engineer reported.

In order to achieve low detectability, in addition to the shape design of the aircraft, the stealth coating is also very important. Although the Skunk Works has developed the F-117 aircraft and has experience in developing stealth coatings, after all, the black coating can only make the aircraft invisible at night. In the daytime, such a black guy can be spotted visually.

The new fighter must be able to fly all-weather, and the stealth coating can no longer be black. It needs to be redeveloped. In this way, the project encountered many problems.

"Let's go and take a look." Ben Rich said, leaving the assembly workshop here together.

Sitting in a battery car, leaving from here, Ben Rich looked at the road in front, and two trucks were coming from the opposite road.

The factory has tens of thousands of employees, and the three meals a day for these employees is a big problem, so the factory must have a special canteen, and this truck transports the ingredients for the factory canteen.

The front car is loaded with two cows in the back, and the back half of the car is a lively rooster!

Seeing this, Ben Rich was stunned and asked, "I remember that we used to use refrigerated trucks to transport meat, right?"

"Yes." The assistant sitting next to him, who was in charge of logistics, said, "Boss, you don't know that the meat transported by refrigerated trucks is not fresh.

In order to provide our factory employees with a good source of food, especially fresh food, our canteen contacted a nearby farm and started importing live livestock some time ago. Compared with the frozen chicken and beef transported by refrigerated trucks, these live livestock that are directly transported and slaughtered are of course fresher! Since importing these live poultry, our factory canteen has become the most popular place for our employees. No one goes to KFC outside anymore. ”

Especially the chicken legs in KFC that were exposed some time ago. They were put in the refrigerator for three or four years, but they were still the same when they were taken out. Americans knew that there must be a lot of preservatives and additives in it. In comparison, the ones made in the factory canteen are the most reliable. Especially now, seeing the vehicles pulling live poultry entering every day, the factory employees know that the food is fine.

It is not the bird flu of later generations. When mad cow disease broke out, the live poultry trade was not regulated by the US government. Although the cost was higher, as a large company that was very responsible for the lives of its employees, it naturally didn't care about these small amounts of money.

So that's it! Benrich looked at the living creatures on the truck. A strong smell floated in the air. Then, the cow he was observing shook its tail a few times and squeezed out a large pool of poultry from its butt. , Ben Rich felt extremely disgusted. He retracted his head and continued to think about the stealth coating. This was related to the focus of the development of the new fighter project, and it must not be dragged down! Especially now, the Soviet Union's Su-27 has begun to be marketed everywhere, and the US F-15 cannot gain a clear advantage, so the new fourth-generation fighter must be finalized and developed as soon as possible and equipped to the troops, so that it can continue to form a generation gap with the Soviet Union!

Thinking of this, he suddenly heard a "cluck" sound, turned his head and looked over, only to see that the door of the canglan cargo box behind the truck behind him suddenly opened. At this time, countless roosters were flapping their wings and flying out from inside, getting free to attack, looking up and calling to the sky, while running and jumping on the lawn of the factory, and flapping their wings hard, but it was a pity that they were too heavy to fly.

"Damn it!" Ben Rich was immediately angry. What was going on? The whole factory will soon be full of chickens!

"Quick, call the security guards to come and catch all these chickens! "The assistant next to him was also stunned, and then he gave the order.

The Skunk Works has been developing fighter jets for the US military, so the confidentiality is very high. Those who are on guard outside are all American soldiers! After those damn Middle Easterners launched an attack on the US mainland, they strengthened the defense here, and even deployed self-propelled anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft missiles here, for fear that the damn attackers would come to cause damage.

However, it is typical that the factory is tight on the outside and loose on the inside. Inside the factory, only some of the factory's original security guards come to patrol. These people have been working in the factory for several years and are very reliable.

After hearing the order, the security guards rushed out urgently, each holding a rubber stick, and rushed up to catch these roosters.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck. "A rooster moved its legs quickly, avoiding a security guard who was coming towards it, and then went through the crotch of the second security guard. It seemed to realize the danger was coming, and it flapped its wings and flew up!

The other rooster with a fiery red crown seemed to become more excited in this scene. It rubbed its head against the ground, rubbed its sharp beak on the ground a few times, rushed towards the nearest security guard, and then pecked the thigh of the security guard in front with its sharp beak.

The security guard's rubber stick was dancing, only knocking off a few chicken feathers, but he felt a pain in his thigh. The rooster actually pecked his leg through his pants and pecked out blood!

"Ah. "He couldn't help but scream, threw away the rubber stick, hugged his legs and was about to sit on the ground, then he saw more roosters running towards him. He immediately endured the pain and ran back. In this battle between man and chicken, he became a loser!

A truck was carrying at least hundreds of chickens. When the driver in front found that the cage in the back was suddenly opened and hurriedly stopped the car, more than half of the roosters in it had already run away, and the rooster with the fastest legs had already run away without a trace. (To be continued ~^~)