At the beginning, the senior management of the Chinese army only believed that satellite failure was a technical failure, and organized a maintenance and inspection work arrangement at that time.

But as the situation continued to deteriorate, everyone realized that something was wrong...

Such a large-scale satellite failure is not explained by a "failure". After eliminating some technical loophole factors, the military began to tensely respond to the development of the situation.

To put it bluntly, the Chinese Federation, which still maintains a peaceful atmosphere on the surface, has actually entered the stage of general mobilization of all matters in secret.

The holidays for front-line soldiers and officers were all cancelled, and the Xiaoshan Air Force Base in Hangzhou was even on guard against combat. The pilots were ready to go and were ready to board the plane for combat at any time.

Three aircraft carrier formations gathered in the waters of Taiwan and Japan in the name of acting. Fighters of the Naval Air Force Flying around and constantly performing reconnaissance missions.

It even scared the United States of America on the eastern coast of the Pacific to death. It thought the Chinese were coming, so it quickly pieced together the Pacific fleet, including thirty aircraft carriers, and entered an emergency situation.

The eyes of the whole world were attracted by the two super powers of China and the United States, and no one was looking forward to their fight. Especially the European powers, who had just fallen from the throne, they wished that others would be as miserable as them.

No one knows that the reason why China is so nervous and out of voluntarily is entirely because of the threat from outer space. This is also related to the technical level of various countries. At least except China, no country has the ability to send satellites to orbits of tens of thousands of meters at present.

Of course, the United States is developing rocket launch technology. However, there may not be much results within ten years.

Hangzhou, Xiaoshan Air Force Base.

The conversation between Li Chengbi and Lian Yuntao continues. They are now all affiliated with the Space Strategic Crisis Team established by the Ministry of National Defense, and are both from ace pilots. This gives the two a lot of common topics.

"You also know that each satellite has its own dedicated password. By setting these passwords, we can make the receivers of those satellites refuse to receive signals that may cause failure. Of course, we cannot take care of all satellites one by one. The satellites of the Ministry of Defense are the ones that we need to pay attention to."

"You might ask, what should you do with the remaining satellites?" Lian Yuntao sighed and continued. "Frankly, the situation is simply terrible now. Many commercial communications satellites and imaging satellites are broken one after another. We have lost more than one digital signal processor, and so far, many intelligence satellites have been damaged one after another. So we have suffered heavy losses."

"Sir, are there any new progress now? I was a little confused by what you said..."

"Xu Jiangwen is organizing some experts to conduct simulation operations at the headquarters, and they must have made some progress. Those guys believe that the situation we are now happening is because we are suffering from bullshit 'attacks'. Those geniuses have ruled out technical possibilities and are working hard to narrow the area where the attack sources may appear. We have also sent people to the area to search carefully, and even dispatched an Air Force Skywalker I-type reconnaissance aircraft to patrol over that area."

"Also, there is a 'Global Eagle' long-range drone that is on standby 24 hours a day nearby. But until now, we have not found anything."

The car stopped in front of a huge building, and Lian Yuntao reached out and opened the car door. There were some people outside. Lian Yuntao's accompanying assistant was squeezing in the small shadow formed by the tall building, waiting anxiously for their arrival.

Li Chengbi introduced his guests to everyone. Then he opened a small door in the aisle. On his right hand, a huge concrete apron appeared. Several trucks were parked side by side inside, and there were a row of very high sliding doors on the outside. These sliding doors were usually closed and only opened occasionally.

Lian Yuntao lowered his head to avoid touching the door beam above his head, and then raised his foot to cross a threshold of about six inches. As he walked, the air force general suddenly stopped and stared at the top.

"Oh my god, that's the legendary mothership?" He stared above, a giant spacecraft that had never been seen before was glowing with a slight silver light: an arc-shaped nose was hanging from the landing gear, and the conical wings stretched gracefully behind the fuselage, becoming more slender as they reached the back. The wing tips of the wings were spreading backwards, like a pair of delicate wings.

When you see the entire plane, you can even imagine how it looks like when it soars in the air. When the engine installed under the fuselage is started, the plane can discharge a large amount of air with the turbojet engine at the tail and slowly take off.

"Yes, sir. When it carries a spacecraft, we usually call this system 'Black Star', but its official number is xov. What you see now is the Air Flame 3 carrier rocket, which can also be called a mother aircraft."

While explaining, Li Chengbi continued to walk forward with Lian Yuntao, allowing him to see the front half of the plane's fuselage - the abdomen of the plane is also much higher than the top of the person's head.

With the end of the war, Li Chengbi, who originally thought that he would be the most famous flight instructor in his next life, finally joined the Hualian Space Administration with the recommendation of his father Li Shaojie, and was responsible for the development of rockets and outer space aircraft.

When talking about these things, Li Chengbi was in a particularly good mood. "This little guy is about two hundred feet long. It was designed and built based on the supersonic bomber that has long occupied an important position since the late 1930s. This project has been put on hold since the crash, but the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has launched another spacecraft of this type for research."

"So, although all the materials for completing the third spacecraft have been prepared for this project, the materials have to be stored in the warehouse because the project has been put on hold."

"Is this the spaceship we saw in a museum? Right?" Lian Yuntao asked, stretching his neck and looking into the gap in the landing gear compartment, trying to figure out what the triangular wing inside was.

"Sir. In the National Air Force Museum at Nanjing Air Force Base, there is the only 'Climbing' spacecraft. But the xov is an upgraded and revised version of the 'Climbing' aircraft. It can carry more loads on the abdomen of the fuselage."

Li Chengbi pointed to a recessed place in the landing gear compartment of the fuselage, "Did you see these fairings? When we make the Xov fly faster, they can help us control the airflow."

"And on this," Li Chengbi continued to explain. He directed their attention to the first half of the fuselage. "On both sides of the spacecraft, there are a retractable candle wing, which can provide ascending power when flying at low speeds, and can also improve the performance of the large angle of attack when the spacecraft lands at a higher speed, which is conducive to the take-off and landing of the aircraft."

"It's incredible," Lian Yuntao sighed, "But why is this system starting to be developed again now? And it's still in a top-secret state?"

"I have only entered this field as a test pilot for spacecraft since the end of the war. Therefore, I have not worked here for a long time, so I may need to ask the staff here, Dr. Chai Zhiping, to answer your question just now," added Li Chengbi.

Then, he turned his head to a skinny guy wearing a white open-neck T-shirt and a little hunched back.

"Hello. General. In 1940, just after the explosion of the Qingyun Space Shuttle, our Air Force also had a lot of rocket problems."

Chai Zhiping looked almost in his eighties and spoke slowly: "During that time, nothing was launched into space in this country. This really made the big men very anxious. And at this time, the Ministry of Defense no longer issued any so-called "entering into space."

"But, to be honest, those guys are actually very annoyed. Once, when I was playing Go with an old friend at Wanhe Precision Instrument Manufacturing Company, oh. You also know that the company is now part of Liu's Airline. Also, I am one of the designers of the "Skunk Factory" project developed by the General Administration of Space. Oh, by the way, although you are also a soldier, you may not know anything about spaceships, space and space."

Lian Yuntao looked at Li Chengbi with a blushing face. It was obvious that he was not used to being so special "careful", especially by this older scientist. Li Chengbi saw the general's dissatisfied look, but just shook his head helplessly and silently said: Just do this first, I will explain it to you later.

Chai Zhiping's hand was inserted into the pocket on his pants, his body swaying back and forth, and his heels kept rubbing against the ground. His eyes were fixed on the floor, not paying attention to the general's expression at all, and he continued to say.

"Didn't I just say, am I playing Go? But in fact, I want to ask the guy about the reaction of other companies. That's the real purpose of playing chess, you understand? We have been talking about rockets, spacecraft, etc. I believe you also know that Wanhe Precision Instrument Manufacturing Company is the manufacturer of the space shuttle, so we have been talking about what they did after the accident, and what will they do next - after all, we haven't finished playing chess anymore, and we plan to find a club to sit and have some sake while talking."

"Think about it, a few old guys, eat something and drink wine, things will become very simple, right? You know what's next. We're starting to study the two-stage orbit spacecraft system again. The guys from the Air Force are quite optimistic about this system at first."

"Although they might be a little disappointed later, we finally completed the bird project. Later, we built three xovs. One of them crashed later, but the remaining two were driverless and the other was driverless. You know the rest, General."

"Yes." Lian Yuntao said, "But what convinced those Air Force guys that they would need this dark star system?"

"There are several reasons. First, those guys in blue uniforms want to find something to launch into space as soon as possible. It is best that only they can use and master this thing themselves. You know, they have been walking on a 'width' road under the leadership of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and some politicians. "

"Air China people told them, 'Spaceships can send your equipment into space smoothly. So there is no need for those damn consumable rockets anymore'. So the Air Force guys never buy these things again, but they still retain some liquid-fuel rockets such as Hercules and God of the Universe just in case."

"In early 1940, with the explosions one after another, the guys began to get out of the way. So we convinced some government leaders that we could provide them with a more reliable solution right away. Although this solution is a bit limited, it can help them put those things into space - that is, through the so-called 'dark star system'."

"Second, they like the flexibility of this system." The old designer continued, "Look. Through this system, we let the rockets take off at a very fast speed and send the Xov to any orbital surface. Through this method, we have achieved amazing success for the first time."

"Maybe you don't understand. The orbits of satellites, cycles and everything can be predicted - people on the ground can calculate the exact time the satellite flies, and some people may make up some bad ideas at this time."

"But thankfully, our system can prevent this: before xov enters the first level orbit, we can prevent problems before it happens, know? Those bad guys simply cannot detect xov flying in their direction."

"Our photoelectric instruments are very advanced. When entering the first stage orbit, they will slide into the Q cabin of the space shuttle. No one can imagine that our rocket passes by. How about it? This prank is good?" Chai Zhiping stopped and grabbed his chin. Then he glanced at Lian Yuntao, wanting to see if the general was still listening to his speech.

"The third is that we can get close to other non-government-made satellites, no matter where they are in the low orbit. The Air Force people thought this was simple. They didn't know that it was not easy to approach their satellites quietly without letting them know. Fortunately, we did it."

After Chai Zhiping finished speaking, everyone was still very quiet. They were all waiting for him to continue speaking. However, Chai Zhiping had finished speaking. He nodded to Lian Yuntao and turned to check xov.

"That's all?" Lian Yuntao was obviously a little unbelievable.

Li Chengbi shook his head and smiled helplessly: "Admiral, this is Dr. Chai's style. However, no one in this world knows this system better than him. So we found him. At that time, he had retired and lived in the countryside near Panyu. It was he who helped us restore this system."

"Xu Jiangwen said that no one has touched these things for more than five years, right?" Lian Yuntao asked, only he dared to call this first-class naval general so directly.

As the two generals spoke, they walked towards the other side of the hangar. Behind them were several followers, and there was also a naval assistant who specially carried boxes for Lian Yuntao. Chai Zhiping walked alone to the depression below Xov and carefully studied the spacecraft.

"Yes, it's been almost five years. I stopped taking over the project in 1941 because before that, we had some technical problems, so some cabinet idiots suggested that the head of state put money elsewhere - I won't say much about the specific details."

"So, this system has not developed in the direction expected first. And, if these spacecraft operate smoothly, it will take a lot of money. I came here last year, but I only flew four times in total, and the other pilots are almost the same."

Lian Yuntao's eyebrows frowned and asked in confusion: "But, since this system is useless, why do you need to start this project again now?"

"No, sir, this system is very useful, and it has very good performance, but it is not as good as the 'salesmen' who promote this project said. Everything about this system is top secret, and only a few supervisors make the decision. If they say, 'This thing is useless, throw it aside', then the people in the Nanjing cabinet will kill the dark star system and will never be included in the budget again."

"Sir, I don't understand your political affairs, but my thoughts on this situation are: our head of state is no longer very concerned about military affairs. He just wants to devote most of his energy and money to social projects. Maybe he wants to become the second Emperor Wen of Han or Emperor Jing of Han. I even doubt whether he knows the existence of the Xov project."

"But one of his colleagues knew this. The chief was best at reducing expenses from all possible places and investing the savings in the places where the head of state hoped. Moreover, it was indeed easy to cancel the project, unlike seeing bloody murders on the streets that would attract attention from all parties, and no citizens would notice the existence of the project."

Like all the older generation of scientists engaged in military research projects, Chai Zhiping was very dissatisfied with the government's policies, especially the reduction in military research budgets after the war.

They can no longer carry out the research plan they like! This is the most unbearable thing for these old scholars who have been immersed in technological research and development all their lives!

Listening to Chai Zhiping's long-lasting complaints, Lian Yuntao could only smile bitterly. He could not nod and did not dare to rebuke the scientist who was not malicious.

Hualian is a country that respects knowledge and scholars. From the heads of state to the people, they generally have a heartfelt awe of those who master knowledge. In ancient times, there was a wider range of objects for Confucian masters, including technical elites in various industries like Chai Zhiping. (To be continued...)

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