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Compared with ordinary fighter jets, aerospace fighters have stricter performance requirements.

Not only can it fly and fight in the atmosphere, but it can also jump back and forth inside and outside the atmosphere.

Such a powerful machine is likely to become a mainstream weapon in the future.

"It looks...it really looks like a weapon that only appears in science fiction novels." Xu You sighed.

However, compared to science fiction, fantasy is greater than some concepts of technology.

Wu Jing's design drawing is obviously much more rigorous.

Every design detail follows various theories, and there is no flashy design.

However, judging from the design concept embodied by Wu Jing, it is not an easy task to make an aerospace fighter that meets these requirements.

"If you want to complete the various requirements of aerospace fighter design, you must meet these technologies. For example, according to the design concept of this aerospace fighter, we need to overcome multiple technologies such as materials, launch, and power."

The aerospace fighter that Wu Jing refers to is a series of aerospace fighters that Wu Jing tentatively named "Xuanque".

The entire fuselage uses a foldable main wing, the three wing surfaces are not in the same plane, and the length of the captain reaches 25 meters.

Its maximum take-off weight is about 60 tons, the maximum speed in the atmosphere reaches Mach 5, and the maximum speed outside the atmosphere exceeds Mach 20.

If such a design can really be realized, then relying on the "Xuanque" series of aerospace fighters is enough to ensure the safety of our lunar scientific research base.

Xu You did not design a complete aerospace fighter design like Wu Jing, but he already had a lot of ideas about the design of the aerospace fighter.

Many of Wu Jing's ideas in design coincide with Xu You's.

"Indeed, aerospace fighters are a completely new field, which is different from all previous technologies. Compared with normal spacecraft, aerospace fighters are more flexible and more operable. Compared with Airplanes and aerospace fighters are faster, which really expands the application field to space.”

The fastest speed of aerospace fighters even surpasses many of the world's most advanced missiles, but it needs to perform a longer mission cycle than missiles, and it needs to be reused and has a long service life.

Because there were too many issues to discuss, the two sorted the issues according to certain conditions and explored them one by one.

"First of all, there is the issue of the take-off of aerospace fighters. If it is only to perform missions in the atmosphere, it can take off through the airport normally. If it is to perform missions outside the atmosphere, I am afraid that a carrier rocket is required for launch."

This method of launching by rocket is a bit like a technology that once appeared-the space shuttle.

However, because of the high cost, the inability to be reused, and the difficulty for pilots to escape, the space shuttle has been eliminated by the times.

The current aerospace fighter is more like an improved and enhanced version of the space shuttle.

"With the carrying capacity of the current Zhengtu series, it is enough to allow aerospace fighters to reach a speed of Mach 20. However, it is not enough just to get aerospace fighters into the predetermined orbit. It also needs more space than ordinary spacecraft and satellites." Be flexible."

If it has been operating step by step in orbit, it does not qualify for the title of aerospace fighter.

"However, if it can operate freely in space, the power and energy required are completely different levels. Any existing power and energy are not enough to support such an operation."

In layman's terms, it is not impossible to make aerospace fighters have a speed of Mach 20. As long as you want aerospace fighters to fly freely in space at such a speed, it is not so easy to do.

"Actually, with the existing capabilities, such a requirement is not necessarily impossible to meet."

Hearing Xu You's words, Wu Jingliu frowned.

"Xu You, you mean to install a nuclear power device in an aerospace fighter? But considering the size of an aerospace fighter, even the smallest nuclear power device cannot be installed in the fuselage of an aerospace fighter. "

Whether it is a nuclear submarine or a nuclear aircraft carrier, the nuclear power plant used occupies a very large volume.

If an aerospace fighter wants to have an extremely fast flight speed, it needs a relatively small mass and volume, which makes it difficult to mount a nuclear power plant on the fuselage.

"Normal nuclear power devices are indeed not good, but after all, we have just made a breakthrough in the research of controllable nuclear fusion. Like Dongri No. 1, it is a miniaturized nuclear power device, which is very suitable for aerospace fighters. A small device."

When Dongri No. 1 was mentioned, Wu Jing's eyes suddenly lit up.

Although the original Dongri No. 1 controllable nuclear fusion device was not so outstanding in terms of power generation, it was unique in plasma confinement. It adopted a method of self-constraint inside the plasma, allowing the device to have a smaller volume.

Although such a magnetic confinement method cannot be applied to very large equipment, it can indeed provide strong power to some small and medium-sized equipment.

If it can be improved, it is not impossible to apply similar devices to aerospace fighters.

In addition to following Dongri No. 1's train of thought, Xu You had another idea.

That is, the study of the more controversial, cold fusion technology.

According to the technical requirements of cold nuclear fusion, the process of nuclear fusion can be completed without going through high temperature.

This nuclear fusion method is suitable for smaller equipment such as aerospace fighters.

However, the theory of cold nuclear fusion has not been proven until today, and is even considered by many people to be a technology that is impossible to realize.

Xu You did not have full confidence in whether this technology could really be achieved, so he did not discuss this direction with Wu Jing.

"Xu You, you are the overall person in charge of this project, and I am also one of the main people in charge. When you are ready, we can officially start the project."

"Okay, Mom, I see. I will focus more on this during this time, and I will contact you when I have any new ideas."

After sending Wu Jing away, Xu You sat on a chair and began to think about the next direction.

"Cold nuclear fusion... no matter how you think about it, it is not such an easy thing to accomplish."

According to the normal nuclear physics theory, a very high temperature is required for nuclear fusion to occur.

And cold nuclear fusion is like using a thin layer of ice to seal a vat of boiling water, which is an unreasonable thing.