I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

In fact, not only C832, but C822 has also been spotted by the military.

The C822 platform can be taken over and transformed into an electronic warfare aircraft or an anti-submarine aircraft, which has more uses, is cheaper to maintain than a military aircraft, and can be used both military and civilian.

This is not a precedent. Aramco has long used transport aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, tankers, etc. based on Boeing 707 passenger aircraft, which have proved that in the field of auxiliary equipment, civilian aircraft are actually more suitable than military aircraft modifications.

Commercial Aviation does not yet know that although their official factory has not been built, the military has already placed an order for no less than 50 passenger aircraft.

As for whether it will be subject to international sanctions after being sold to the military? It sounds like you won’t be sanctioned if you don’t sell!

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Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

A Xinyuan-5A rocket was erected, with a space shuttle that resembled an H1 at the top.

Dou Ping stood in the distance, looking at the new "Dragon".

While the Snow Falcon project was advancing, Xinyuan worked with them to modify an H1 unmanned version and made major improvements to the structure.

After removing the life-support facilities, the empty weight was reduced to 9 tons, and the maximum take-off weight was 19 tons. The full name is a "multifunctional unmanned space large-scale flight test platform."

The new "Shenlong" adopts a modular design for weapons, with ample space for weapons and detection systems, and built-in folding solar panels, which greatly enhances the power generation power.

The engine was also roughened and turned into a "poison engine" with dinitrogen tetroxide as the oxidizer and undimethylhydrazine as the fuel.

Although the specific impulse is far inferior to engines such as liquid oxygen kerosene, liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and liquid oxygen methane, these two liquids are room temperature fuels and can be stored for a long time. Unmanned space shuttles must stay in space for at least several months. A very storage-stable fuel is required.

The current unmanned space shuttle code-named SL-1A is still a test machine. The interior is only filled with some reconnaissance equipment from the original Shenlong and a large number of batteries. It weighs only 13 tons. It is ready to be launched to test its performance.

This kind of confidential spacecraft cannot be launched in Qiongzhou. If you launch in Jiuquan, other countries will only know that you launched something, but they can’t take pictures to see what it looks like.

What the outside world knows about this launch mission is only a simple announcement:

"Our country has completed a reusable spacecraft launch test at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and achieved a complete success."

Only NACA and USAAF know that this thing's positioning is similar to that of X37B, but they don't say anything. The fewer people who know about these things, the better.

But at the desert base, the ground center started testing immediately after the SL-1A entered orbit, including lowering the orbit for reconnaissance, space excitement, simulated attacks on scrapped satellites, etc.

After only the first simple test, the base fell in love with the SL-1A.

A spacecraft that is big is good, and a spacecraft that is heavy is beautiful.

The H1 is heavier than the X37B, but it is very flexible in space and has an advantage that Ami does not have.

The Tiangong Space Station is now exclusive to China, and the SL-1A can be parked there for maintenance and transformation. Obviously, this is something that the ISS cannot do. None of the ISS member states can accept the use of the ISS for military purposes.

In the future, the SL-1A may also try to be equipped with a WCR-09 combined power engine to briefly enter the atmosphere to perform close reconnaissance or strike missions. The prospects of the new Shenlong project far exceed that of the old Shenlong.

This also gave Dou Ping more expectations for the "Snow Hu", which was still undergoing program demonstration. It was a Mach 10 aircraft, and the anti-aircraft missile could only fly about Mach 3.

Even the missiles that cannot catch up will be shown to the world again. Snow Hu can even abandon the stealth design, because unless it is a laser, no traditional means can cause damage to it.

Visible but unable to hit, this exclusive domain of Ami in the past will soon be controlled by China.

Moreover, by cooperating with Xinyuan's high-speed aircraft, China has also gained a lead over Aramco in another project.

That is Tengyun Project.

In other words, a variant of Tengyun Project.

The unit responsible for this project is the Third Academy of Aerospace Science, which is affiliated with the Aerospace Science and Industry. The projects it is responsible for are military-oriented.

The Tengyun Project was originally a combined aerospace aircraft, consisting of a carrier aircraft flying in the atmosphere and a small space shuttle on the back. The maximum speed of the aircraft in the atmosphere is Mach 5.

The carrier aircraft below takes the space shuttle to a high altitude, and then the space shuttle starts flying into orbit on its own.

However, after the emergence of WCR09, they studied the data obtained from the desert base and found that if the aircraft could be propelled to fly above Mach 10 and 50,000 meters, a little change might be possible.

Adding a small space shuttle that abandons the back of the aircraft and instead strengthens the carrier aircraft, such as installing 8 WCR09s to push the aerospace aircraft to 10 times the speed of sound and an altitude of about 55,000 meters, then you can change the approach.

For example, two rocket boosters are added to the abdomen of an aerospace aircraft to fit the fuselage in a streamlined shape with very little resistance.

When an aerospace plane of about 180 tons (two booster rockets weigh about 120 tons together) flies to an altitude of more than 50,000 meters, the rocket engine can be started. The two rockets can obtain a maximum thrust of about 200 tons and work for about 180 seconds. , aerospace aircraft weighing only 55 tons will be accelerated to the first cosmic speed and directly sent into low-Earth orbit.

If the rocket booster is non-disposable and can bring the aerospace plane into orbit, then it will be a complete single-stage orbit, which is quite powerful.

This kind of aerospace plane can send 10 tons of payload into space. After being converted into a passenger version, it can carry 50 people, which fully meets the requirements for single-stage orbit and round trip in the future.

With a launch mass of 180 tons on the ground, 15 tons of payload can be sent into space with a load factor as high as 8.3%, which is something that a launch vehicle cannot do anyway.

Even the two-stage orbit entry of the Tengyun Project will only reduce the quality of the carrier aircraft at most.

Moreover, a single-stage aerospace plane that enters orbit truly meets people's ultimate imagination of aerospace planes.

However, the Third Institute is still in the budding state of imagination for this plan, because such a space plane is too advanced, and if it is designed to dock with a space station in an orbit of 400 kilometers, the indicators are not enough.

Moreover, it is still in the theoretical stage, and there will definitely be a lot of trouble in the specific design.

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At the B-level base, engineers from the aviation and aerospace departments gathered together around a thick, oversized disk, waiting for transfer.

The thickness of this super large disk reaches 6 meters, and the maximum diameter is a terrifying 12.6 meters.

You may not have an idea just by talking about the diameter, but if you imagine that five semi-trailers can be placed side by side to accommodate the horizontal cabin, you can understand how large this part is.

This is the core part of the Advance Space Station. It is connected to the spoke cabin and the core node cabin in the center. It has 2 axially symmetrical and 6 circumferential docking ports.

The weight of this node cabin alone is as high as 20 tons, and the two axial cabin sections connected to it each have a mass of 100 tons. The three axial cabin sections connected together have a mass of 220 tons, which is enough to show the terrifying scale of the entire space station. .

The node module, which is the most difficult and withstands the most stress, was built first. Although it has a mass of only 20 tons, currently no rocket can send it into the sky, just because the diameter of 12.6 meters is too exaggerated. Only Xinyuan 3 has it. this ability.