The military-industrial scientific research system of the academic master

Raymond was only a brigadier general, more than ten years younger than Lord, and certainly didn't know that the latter was thinking about retirement at the moment. He just shrugged and answered as usual:

"It's the same as before. In China, for confidentiality reasons, some technical personnel will enter a relatively closed state for such key projects... But this state itself is a signal. As long as you investigate from the outside, it is not difficult to analyze the nature of this project."

"Of course, there is no way to know the more specific part, but it happens that China has only developed a new medium- and short-range missile model in the past ten years, with a range of about 1,000 kilometers, to fill the range gap between DF-15 and DF-21, and also to improve the terminal penetration capability... Later, because the use characteristics were not obvious enough, it fell into a cooling state until it was recently reactivated."

As an officer of the Air Force Space Command, Lord's attention throughout his career has basically been focused on those models that have the ability, or at least the potential to reach the local area.

If it is specific to China, there are basically only two models, DF-5/5A and DF-31/31A, and at most a JL-1/DF-21.

As for this tactical model that can only reach the first island chain at most, it used to be left to the army or navy in the war zone to worry about.

As a result, it is now suddenly related to him.

"Fxxk..."

Lord shook his head helplessly and cursed secretly.

About ten years ago, they had a very strong source of intelligence in the field of Chinese missiles.

But because they did not pay attention to protection, they were eventually wasted on something that seemed meaningless in hindsight.

The current situation is very passive.

Of course, it is mainly because of his own passiveness.

Generally speaking, the United States' intelligence advantage over China is still quite obvious.

"Range 1,000 kilometers..."

Lord muttered softly, and then, as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned his eyes back to the computer screen.

In the data of the FALCON project, technicians once gave a rough correspondence between the range of booster rockets and the range of gliding waveriders.

Following his memory, he quickly found the part that interested him:

"A ballistic missile with a range of 1,000 kilometers, if equipped with a hypersonic maneuvering gliding mission payload, can probably achieve a final range of 1,800-2,500 kilometers..."

He closed his eyes and thought for a while:

"It can't reach Guam anyway, but Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are all within the range."

This number is of course extremely rough and not supported by enough data.

But it doesn't matter.

He doesn't understand technology, and the congressmen on Capitol Hill will understand it even less than him.

As long as he can find a sufficiently authoritative source of information as an endorsement, and then exaggerate some threats from China in a targeted manner.

The following things may not be difficult...

However, such a sudden change of topic made Raymond standing opposite him look confused:

"Wait, Admiral, we are not sure about the nature of the weapons that the other party is developing for the time being... We cannot rule out that it is an air-breathing model like the X51A."

The organizational sequence of the Chinese army is different from that of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Russia. Both tactical and strategic missiles are uniformly equipped in the Second Artillery Corps, and this cannot be used as evidence to distinguish the attributes of equipment.

For example, the other party has basically completed the development of land-based cruise missiles, but they are not equipped to the army, but a cruise missile brigade 1 has been added to the Second Artillery Corps.

"..."

For a while, Lord felt a little helpless.

Raymond is considered a confidant he cultivated, but even with this kind of relationship, it is not easy to openly say that he plans to retire.

Fortunately, there is still the layer of military interests that can be used to deal with it.

"Air-breathing hypersonic weapons require special power. Do you have any information to prove that China is developing a matching scramjet engine?"

Lord asked back.

"That... is not the case."

Raymond shook his head and then said:

"But their wind tunnel group in Huairou is very large, and it is entirely possible to carry out the research and development of waveriders and scramjet engines at the same time..."

"No is enough."

Lord interrupted his guess:

"Based on the current evidence, we have enough reason to speculate that China is developing an unpowered hypersonic glide vehicle, which obtains initial velocity through rocket boost and can strike targets at a distance of about 2,000 kilometers like a ballistic missile. With existing technology, there is almost no possibility of stable interception, so we need an equivalent model as a response..."

The "equivalence" he mentioned certainly does not refer to performance equivalence but deterrence capability equivalence.

That is, a weapon with an intercontinental range that can directly strike the other side's homeland.

Raymond is just young and of a relatively low rank, and he is not at the stage of thinking about revolving doors. There is nothing wrong with his brain.

When he heard his boss say this, he reacted instantly:

"Can it be considered our equipment?"

Although he has not thought about the competition between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, it is enough.

Anyway, Lord was just looking for a reason to convince the other party.

"That's right."

He resumed his relaxed posture at the beginning:

"Originally, this project should have been sentenced to death, but well ... but unfortunately, the X51A test is not completely successful, and the Huaxia people have accelerated their hege -speed weapon development at this critical time point, so we can You need to make two -handed preparation to ensure that you can open enough equipment performance gaps with the other party. "

He wanted to say goodbye, but after thinking about it, he felt that he was a senior general of the Air Force after all, and he was not suitable for being too gloating.

That's why it is temporarily changed.

Raymond naturally does not pierce these details.

In fact, his brain is running rapidly at this moment. Considering how to modify the report in his hands, in order to fit the goal of his superiors more.

Don't pay attention to these details at all.

There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!

But before he came up with one, two or three, Lord had issued a new instruction:

"Go to help me contact the head of Ben Winker, Lockheed Martin, saying that there is a situation related to the Falcon plan to discuss with him ..."

Nympho

As the leader of the high -speed supersonic field (on the bright side) today, the United States has a high degree of attention to Huaxia's movements.

In addition to the military and intelligence agencies, major aerospace -related enterprises have also analyzed the current situation through their own information channels.

Therefore, after Windek received a call from the Air Force Aerospace Command, he almost realized what the other party wanted to do.

In fact, although it has not received too much funds from Congress, the conceptual plan of the Falcon Plan has been borrowing the resources of other projects for improvement, in order to wait for this day.

In the early morning of the next day, he rushed to the Base of Peter Sen Air Force and saw General Lord Lord, full of spring breeze.

The latter explained the current situation in a short language as much as possible, and inquired straightforwardly:

"If I give you an emergency start -up funds, how long can you restart the development of the Falcon project at the fastest time?"

Due to the particularity of the Aerospace Command, there are a part of the secret expenditure of the secret accounts and the supervision of the Ministry of Finance every year, and only one special committee can ask this.

Although the amount is not much, it cannot support a complete project, but there is still no problem as a preliminary research and development.

However, Wendak, who had been prepared for a long time, shook his head directly:

"No need to prepare or start funds."

"Um?"

Lord's face was full of accidents.

"The three sub -schemes of the Falcon Plan, because HTV1 involves too complicated composite material manufacturing technology, it is basically not feasible at present, and HTV3 can be reused, has autonomous motivation, and does not meet your needs. HTV2 is exactly the rapid progress, at least the concept part is relatively complete.

Wendek replied sharply::

"It's better to say that we have been waiting for this day."

For a moment, Lord did not know whether it was gratifying or shocked:

"You ... have you prepared?"

"Oh……"

Windek made a short laughter:

"We previously knew that some members in the X51A project team lacked professional ethics, so they were not optimistic about the follow -up development of this model from the beginning."

This answer makes Lodon a bit unable to deal with it, so I have to transfer the topic:

"Do you need ballistic missiles or rockets as boosters. Do you have any considerations in this regard?"

"Nothing, but what's ..."

Windek said to look at a set of photos on the side of the wall.

It is several generations of core equipment that constitutes the US land -based nuclear forces, which are part of office decoration.

"Thanks to the Pentae Building, you ask you to retire all the LGM118 intercontinental ballistic missiles."

He has a faint irony in his tone:

"In order to save the trouble of disassembling, we have transformed the Mino Tao-4 solid carrier rocket on this basis. The overall performance is not much different from earlier, but it has increased one fourth level, so we cut some launch capacity. ... But there are still 908kg load and conversion range of about 11,000 kilometers, which fully meets the HTV2 aircraft's requirements for initial power ... "