Chapter 1554 The Dream of Infinite Energy (Third update, please subscribe)
The plane certainly didn't disappear.
When the strange-looking plane in the sky adjusted its course, the plane's radar signal appeared again.
"What's going on?"
On this day, engineers at the airport were attracted by this strange phenomenon.
As the flight attitude of the aircraft in the air is adjusted, the radar signal of the aircraft is sometimes strong and sometimes disappears, sometimes becomes larger and sometimes becomes smaller.
Faced with such a result, everyone was stunned. After all, this was far beyond their knowledge.
So what seemed to be just a research test flight suddenly changed its flavor at this time, from the flight performance of the aircraft itself to why the aircraft disappeared from the radar?
"If it can be invisible to radar, then we have a real stealth aircraft."
Walter Horton said to Remar Horton excitedly:
"He will completely disappear into the sky and disappear into the night."
As an aerospace engineer, Walter certainly knew the meaning of "stealth". Although this kind of disappearance was just a disappearance on the radar screen, its significance was extraordinary.
It will even revolutionize air combat and change the course of war.
"Yes, it will disappear from the radar screen. It will disappear from the radar screen without a trace."
Remar Horton agreed and said:
“Isn’t the Defense Development Agency currently studying absorbing materials that can absorb radar signals?
Our aircraft...it does not use absorbing materials. Why can it be invisible? ”
Walter Horton listened to his brother's question, he waited for a moment, and then said:
"It doesn't really disappear from the radar. Sometimes it still appears due to changes in flight attitude. I think it may have something to do with its aerodynamic layout."
"We should conduct research on this."
Remar Horton said:
"We need to find out what's going on first."
The next time will become relatively simple, and you don’t even need to go up in the sky.
The aircraft was taken directly to the company's RCS test site for radar reflection characteristics testing. The final results show that the frontal radar reflection area of this experimental aircraft is only 40% of that of the F2 fighter, and its wingspan is nearly twice that of the F2 fighter. Therefore, this aircraft is the first aircraft in the world to achieve radar stealth. To a certain extent, this is the world's first aircraft to achieve stealth through aerodynamic layout.
"You can literally disappear in the air."
Remar Horton was a little surprised and said that he had never expected the aircraft they designed. Can reduce the radar reflection cross section of the aircraft.
In the next few days, they continued to conduct radar tests. Just like the previous test flights, sometimes the aircraft would indeed disappear from the radar due to changes in angle.
After several days of experiments, everyone agreed that the aircraft's stealth performance was the inherent advantage of the flying-wing layout.
Their research results were soon reported to the Defense Development Agency.
"Stealth aircraft?"
As the director of the Defense Development Bureau, Li Songjie's eyes were filled with surprise when he read the report.
Although he is the director of the Defense Development Agency, Li Shengjie is not a soldier or politician. He is a scientist who graduated from Tsinghua University in his early years and later went to the United States to study. During the war, he participated in weapons research by American companies.
Later, he entered the company and became a researcher of the company. After the Defense Development Agency was established, he became the first person in charge of this agency.
"Are you sure? Can he really become invisible in the air?"
The reason why Li Songjie was so surprised was that the Defense Development Agency had been working on how to make aircraft invisible.
To be precise, it makes the aircraft disappear from the radar screen, thus achieving the effect of stealth. To this end, they have specially developed various absorbing materials and have made some progress to a certain extent. Of course, those absorbing materials are fragile and can even be described as delicate.
Almost no use value.
Because of this, when Ufimochev's paper titled "Edge Wave Behavior in Physical Diffraction Theory" appeared, aviation experts from the Defense Development Agency finally saw another possibility.
His paper pointed out that the intensity of the object's reflection of radar electromagnetic waves has nothing to do with the size of the object, but is proportional to the edge layout.
Ufimochev explained how to calculate the radar reflectivity of aircraft surfaces and edges. His theory showed that even a very large aircraft can still be designed to be "stealth".
After obtaining this theoretical basis, the Defense Development Agency, which had obtained a treasure, cooperated with Nanyang Aviation Industries and launched corresponding research.
And with the arrival of Ufimochev himself, his research results are destined to be carried forward.
At this moment, another plane that could become invisible in the air appeared in front of them alive. Faced with such a surprise, everyone was naturally extremely shocked.
"Yes, at least to a certain extent, at some point he can disappear on the radar."
In the end, several engineers who participated in the test explained in detail that some of the reasons why he disappeared from the radar were nothing more than angle and distance.
Listening to their introduction, Li Songjie said almost without hesitation:
"In this case, let's do further research. If we can create a truly stealthy aircraft, then it will definitely revolutionize air combat."
After thinking for a while, Li Songjie made another decision:
"The three current groups can conduct this research simultaneously, taking care to integrate their findings."
"Director, wouldn't the risk be too great?"
As his assistant, Du Changsheng is also a scientist,
"After all, the stealth project is just a very trivial project."
"That was the past. Now that we have seen the glimmer of hope, of course we must increase our efforts."
Along with his decision, the stealth aircraft project occupied a more important position among the projects of the Defense Development Agency. As a department specializing in black technology research, many of his studies are forward-looking.
After all, when he founded this organization, according to Li Yian's idea, he was a "SHIELD" to a certain extent. Therefore, it has been committed to exploring new concepts of national defense technology, sensing the potential future needs of the military, and engaging in forward-looking high-tech key technology research and development and "dangerous and dangerous" scientific research tasks.
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The research they are conducting now is just a slightly more realistic study among the many exploratory studies conducted by the Defense Development Agency.
After all, among the research projects of the Defense Development Agency, there are many studies that look a bit too science fiction at first glance.
Just like the Star Wars project, many of the concepts that look like science fiction were proposed by the Defense Development Agency.
No one has ever explored the question - where do these concepts come from?
It’s not that no one is exploring it, but it’s because it involves “national defense secrets.” It only takes these four words to stop everyone's curiosity.
Even Li Songjie, the director of the Defense Development Agency, has never explored the source of those technologies.
Just like now, facing the device in front of him, his eyes were equally full of curiosity.
"Can it really achieve controllable nuclear fusion?"
Facing his inquiry, Liang Zhenhua, a nuclear physics scientist, said:
"We'll find out today."
"Hope everything goes well."
Li Songjie looked at the huge ring-shaped device in front of him. Five years ago, he obtained a piece of information that used magnetic confinement to achieve controlled nuclear fusion.
That information is theoretical. At the center of the nuclear fusion system is a ring-shaped vacuum chamber with coils wrapped around the outside. When the device is powered on, a huge spiral magnetic field will be generated inside the device, heating the plasma in it to a very high temperature to achieve nuclear fusion.
Since then, the Defense Development Agency has collaborated with Nanyang University and a number of companies to begin research in this field.
The giant experimental device in front of them is the result of their five years of research.
It took 5 years to go from simple basic theory and model sketch to the current entity.
"If we succeed, then nuclear fusion will become people's ultimate energy source. It can provide humans with a steady stream of clean energy. It does not need to emit carbon dioxide to the outside world when it generates electricity. And it is not affected by seasonal temperature, climate, etc. ”
As a nuclear physicist, Liang Zhenhua, when he looked at the huge nuclear fusion device in front of him, his eyes were full of anticipation, and he was even so excited that his voice became trembling.
“Not only can it provide unlimited energy for humans, but it will also revolutionize our space navigation. With controllable nuclear fusion technology, we can fly from the earth to Mars or even distant outer space in just a few days. .”
When he said these words, his eyes were full of longing for the future. It seemed as if everything had already happened, and even the corners of his mouth were raised involuntarily. It seems that now, they have succeeded.
"Just thinking about it makes people feel a little excited, almost like science fiction."
Seeing his excited look, Li Songjie said with a smile.
"It's not as far ahead as you think. I just think that if this goal can be achieved, at least before we run out of coal, we will be able to obtain a clean and safe energy source."
This is where Li Songjie is different from others. Compared to many people, he is more realistic. His reality is that he can see the practical significance of these studies.
Controlled nuclear fusion may just be the icing on the cake for other countries. But for Sea, it is related to its future survival, because this is not a place with very developed resources, even if there are large open-pit anthracite coal mines in Borneo. With the improvement of production and life, the demand for electricity is also constantly increasing. This means more coal is needed.
It also means that sooner or later the coal here will be exhausted. By that time, how to solve the upcoming energy crisis?
Therefore, what Li Songjie saw was a real need, and this was the fundamental reason why he fully supported this project.
"It's also the purpose of all of us."
Subsequently, with the countdown of the test personnel, his experimental device called Tokamak nuclear fusion in another world began to operate...
(End of chapter)