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Space weapons? Of course, they've been around for a while.

Way back when, decades ago, the White Bear launched space weapons into Earth's orbit, satellites equipped with upgraded aircraft cannons.

However, the test firing results weren't ideal. The satellite only weighed two tons, and the space environment was vastly different from that within the atmosphere. So, even though the cannon hit a target a few kilometers away, the satellite itself was wrecked.

But that crazy era wasn't short of imaginative minds. Later, they developed the more powerful "Polar One," a massive contraption.

This thing was 4 meters in diameter, 37 meters long, and weighed a staggering 80 tons.

It could fly in a 280-kilometer space orbit, equipped with radar and optical targeting systems, a 1-megawatt carbon dioxide laser cannon, and a recoilless launch system for deploying nuclear space mines.

Such immense power, once sent into space, would have a huge impact on the international situation, potentially turning the Cold War into a hot one, with unforeseen consequences.

Fortunately, it crashed into the Pacific Ocean due to a malfunction.

And its enormous cost may have been one of the hidden factors in the White Bear's demise.

As the Ameri-cans, who were confronting the White Bear head-on in the struggle for world leadership at the time, naturally wouldn't lag behind in this area, but due to technical reasons, they didn't have many successful projects.

Even those that succeeded were restricted for various reasons and eventually abandoned.

But humanity has never given up on the idea of developing space weapons, especially the leading major powers.

There's no way around it; that's just the way the international situation is.

However, although space looks empty, the environment is extremely complex. Even breaking through Earth's atmosphere is quite difficult. So, space warfare currently remains only in the plans and science fiction movies of various countries.

But what couldn't be done decades ago isn't necessarily impossible now.

At the very least, several methods for attacking orbiting satellites from within the atmosphere have been upgraded several times, such as anti-satellite missiles, anti-satellite lasers, and anti-satellite satellites.

It's just that these things are too uncertain to use. Destroying one satellite can create thousands of pieces of debris. One wrong move, and it could easily clear out the entire satellite orbit, giving Earth a new artificial "clothing."

A project even more impressive than putting a lid on the Pacific Ocean.

But with the continuous development and changes in science, technology, and the international environment, the previous restrictions and concerns are slowly disappearing.

For example, the Ameri-cans now want to develop real space fighters.

As soon as he got the news, Tang Chao notified Zhao Li and then had him notify those higher up.

When it comes to weapons and war, there's no need to shoulder the responsibility alone. It's better to tell the authorities and let them make the decisions.

Based on a comprehensive analysis of the information provided by the six private space companies and a little bit of information obtained by the Tian Xia official, the Ameri-can space weapons program is mainly focused on modification in the early stages, with the official "X-37B" and the private space company "Dream Chaser" as the carrier platforms.

Their role is to enable the Ameri-cans to quickly possess their own space fighters. As for whether they are professional or not, or whether they will be useful, that's secondary. They must have them, and they must have them quickly.

While modifying them, they are designing and manufacturing real space fighters, which is the revived "X-33" project.

Decades ago, it was positioned as a cargo carrier. Now, that seems too stupid. For cargo, reusable rockets are enough. This kind of spacecraft, which is simple to maintain, reusable, and capable of single-stage-to-orbit, should be used as a space fighter.

As for the real "Venture Star" program, it is said that after research, it is not worth restarting, and they have a better plan.

Instead of thinking about rapid response and flexible launch for such a large thing, they are trying to find ways to keep it in Earth's orbit for a long time.

So, they want to maximize its payload and even assemble it in orbit, turning it into a super-heavy orbital bomber or a space carrier that can carry small space fighters.

Then reusable rockets are undoubtedly a good thing.

Currently, the largest reusable rocket being developed by the Ameri-cans is Space Cross's "Starship Launch System."

Because of this information, Tian Xia really can no longer follow the previous plan. Not even a slight adjustment will do; it must be completely changed.

Because the Ameri-cans are international rogues, shameless. If you are only economically and technologically strong, but don't have weapons to protect yourself, then they will definitely beat you half to death and then act as your "dad."

They have too many precedents. There are several in East Asia alone.

And the most famous is the Sakura Country, a famous fat pig whose economic and military strength were once seriously mismatched. The Ameri-cans directly "beat" them senseless and "killed" them to eat their meat, and they still haven't recovered.

So, after receiving Tang Chao's information, the Tian Xia officials held an emergency meeting.

Now they have an advantage over the Ameri-cans, which is that several major private space companies in the Ameri-cans are cooperating with Tang Chao for the sake of company development and becoming giants.

In fact, they knew that Tang Chao would contact the Tian Xia officials, so they said so much.

Of course, the information they know is also limited, only in the space field, so it is not enough for Tian Xia to completely defeat the Ameri-cans with this information.

To completely defeat the Ameri-cans, Tian Xia needs to continue to accumulate power. According to calculations, it will take at least ten or twenty years, right?

By then, the world may be completely different.

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As the beneficiary, Tian Xia will not expose them. After all, they are considered "allies" to a certain extent, and Tian Xia doesn't need to expose its "informants."

This is also the reason why the six private space companies are so unscrupulous. They are confident that they can take advantage of the space race to become super giants in a dozen years.

It has to be said that Western private companies all have a heart to break through the sky. Those super companies in cyberpunk that replace countries are the goals they want to become.

On the Tian Xia side, after an emergency internal meeting, they talked with Tang Chao again, and then convened a super-large aerospace conference, gathering all the aerospace companies in the country.

Because Tang Chao proposed a super large plan that requires the participation of the national aerospace forces, and even the national manufacturing forces.

A super-large space station!

A space spectacle visible to the naked eye on the ground!

During the meeting, Tang Chao took out the Pathfinder Company's Phase II space station plan and used it as the design and manufacturing plan for this project to explain.

He had considered docking with the Tiangong Space Station from the beginning, so the entire plan has no sense of incongruity. All that is needed is a new distribution and manufacturing plan.

"We will definitely not give up the manned moon landing plan. It will continue as planned. After all, the people of the country have been waiting for that day for a long time!"

"However, we have also calculated in detail that there will definitely be difficulties in carrying out the two plans at the same time, but it is not impossible to overcome them. If we want to continue to develop, we must constantly overcome difficulties!"

"We will talk about the difficulties later. Let me talk about our super space station plan first. After I finish talking about it, you will definitely forget the suffering I mentioned earlier."

"Because once it is built, we will enter a new era, an era that you, as big bosses of aerospace companies, will yearn for!"

"That is, the future!"

After speaking, the large screen behind Tang Chao displayed a huge space station structure diagram.

Section after section of space capsules, are its body.

Piece after piece of solar wings, are its wings.

It is the future!

It is the Heavenly Court Space Station!