The door of the courtyard house has been welded dead

"You still want to cooperate with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but whether the Chinese Academy of Sciences is willing to cooperate with your factory is another matter~!"

Even though the Red Star Factory has developed the Type 64 grille armor, the Type 65 bulletproof vest, and the Type 66 vehicle-mounted artillery is about to be finalized for production, it is still no match for the country's top scientific research institutes.

The Red Star Factory is far from qualified. This is not a problem of level, but the tasks undertaken by top scientific research institutes and military factories are essentially different.

Director Shao was not attacking Li Feng, but was just telling the truth. People simply looked down upon such low-level projects. Even though Li Feng attached so much importance to transistors, the general direction of the country could not be changed by him alone.

"How big is the possibility of nuclear conflict on future battlefields? To be honest with you, I have provided early warning of possible conflicts in local areas in the past few years~!"

"At that time, no one might have believed me, because I was just an ordinary driver who had retired from the Southwest Military Region!"

"But there was one person who believed it. Someone from the Beijing Station of the Investigation Department believed my judgment, simply because I came back from there. They dispatched personnel to collect intelligence on the opponent and reported the relevant information to their superiors in a timely manner before the battle. That time, the beating was very beautiful, and I was awarded the first-class merit for it~!"

Although he was only a colonel and a factory director, facing the big men from various departments, Li Feng was ready to bet everything on himself to advance the technological path of transistors and integrated circuits.

When facing ordinary people, he would avoid the specific origin of this first-class merit, but when facing them, Li Feng dared to confidently show his strategic judgment ability. If he didn't show his skills, they would think he was immature.

"Comrade Li Feng, are you showing off your qualifications? You must have seen all kinds of scenes to be in this conference room. I have a lot of military medals in my drawer!"

"I'm not showing off, I'm just stating the facts. I can make another judgment right now. When both sides have atomic weapons and have the ability to strike back with atomic weapons, then both sides will sober up when a conflict occurs. Nuclear conflict will not happen for at least the next 30 years. You can believe it or not~!"

"We are not an easy country. Our country is long and narrow, but we have a vast territory, which means a vast strategic depth. We already have an industrial base, and a population of 80 million, which accounts for 20% of the world's total population. We may face nuclear fraud, but we cannot face nuclear war. Therefore, we should continue to conduct in-depth research on electron tubes. Whether this is necessary, you leaders can consider it carefully~!"

Li Feng turned his teaching stick over and looked at Director Qiu with a puzzled expression. He wondered whether the strategic nuclear submarine had been put into operation. Once it was put into operation, even if only one was tested, the world situation would become more exciting.

"Are you so pessimistic about electron tube technology?"

Another chief stopped writing and looked at Li Feng with his head tilted. In the final analysis, he put all his strategic judgment abilities on the table. His direct purpose was to destroy the last bit of advantage of the electron tube technology because he was not optimistic about it.

"The electronic tube technology has the most serious drawbacks. It cannot be miniaturized. Commander, the internal redundancy of my truck is limited. I can install a cannon, shells, a crew compartment, an engine, and batteries. However, electronic tube equipment, such as computers used for calculations, can never be put into a vehicle-mounted artillery, and it is impossible to achieve third-generation intelligent control."

Li Feng spread his hands with a helpless expression. His purpose was indeed very simple, to demonstrate his strategic judgment ability and to advocate for transistors. Once transistors were generally adopted as the development route for weapons and equipment, the investment in electron tubes would be reduced accordingly.

"In fact, we can apply the formula. Not only vehicle-mounted artillery, but also tanks, fighter planes, and even warships will evolve from the first generation of mechanized control to the second generation of electrified control, and then to the third generation of intelligent control. These equipments have one thing in common: they must make use of limited space for overall layout. Can electron tubes do this? But the combination of transistors and circuit boards can do it~!"

At this point, some of the leaders were moved, while some began to frown. At first, they were all staring at the vehicle-mounted artillery and arguing here, but they did not expect that this development method was adaptable to other weapons and equipment, which woke them up.

At present, domestic weapons and equipment do have a subtle trend towards the second generation of electrification. It is not obvious yet, because some equipment is still imitated from the big brother. But if you have been to the Soviet Union, you will understand that they have already entered the second generation of electrification operations.

If, in the future, the third generation really enters the stage of intelligence as Li Feng said, doesn't it mean that there is a problem with Big Brother's technological route? If it continues to develop according to the electron tube trend, it will not be able to evolve into intelligence.

To them, Li Feng's words were no less important than Ding Wei's "broad-minded" speech at the thesis defense at the Military Academy. It was just that the attitudes of both sides were not as strong as they were back then, which made them seem less unorthodox.

"You also know about computers?" "How could I not know, Chief? Technicians are highly praised. After all, human reaction speed is not as fast as machines. Whether it is a hand-cranked computer, a vacuum tube computer, or a transistor computer, the current stage of war still relies on people, but the next stage will rely on the generation gap of weapons. In the next stage, the enemy may not even see it, and our important port warehouses and other facilities may have been destroyed~!"

"This is much more deterrent than atomic weapons. It doesn't destroy the population, but the potential to resist war. It disarms you silently, and when the ground troops are deployed, they are already powerless. This is the change in warfare brought about by technological progress. Just like I said before, the towed artillery is still digging the hoe, and the shells fired by the vehicle-mounted artillery have already hit us~!"

"Our current vehicle-mounted artillery is facing an intelligent vehicle-mounted artillery. The walkie-talkie here is still receiving instructions, the shooting parameters have not been reported to the aimer, and the rudder has not been shaken. The other party presses 12345 and then presses a confirmation button, and the job is done~!"

"The same is true for fighter jets. Will they use machine guns in close combat in the future? That was during World War II. Missiles are launched beyond visual range to complete destruction. Can these computing capabilities be accomplished by humans alone? It cannot be accomplished. We need the help of cutting-edge technology to complete the destruction in seconds. The damage ratio of weapons and equipment can reach dozens to hundreds to one!"

After listening to Li Feng's speech, all the leaders present tried to simulate the war scene in their minds and couldn't help swallowing their saliva. When they looked at Li Feng again, their eyes were already very sharp. This boy was so terrifying, he would definitely...

"Comrades, I am one of you, I am patriotic, please don't look at me like that~!"

Li Feng was frightened by these gazes from the bottom of his heart and licked his lips. He was telling the truth. The difference between the second-generation aircraft and the third-generation aircraft cannot be made up by quantity.

"We already have the industrial foundation, but no matter how much or how good the foundation is, it is still the foundation. The foundation must always be used to develop. Electron tubes and transistors are the two main directions for the future. If we make the wrong choice, we can go back, but to pick it up again means we have to start all over again. This loss of time is the biggest loss for a country like us that has fallen behind and is trying to catch up!"

Director Shao couldn't help but fall into deep thought at this time. He didn't expect that Li Feng would make such a big deal today. It was originally just a meeting about whether vehicle-mounted artillery could be mass-produced.

But the content that extended from Li Feng's mouth was much more important than the vehicle-mounted artillery. It was because he understood the meaning of Li Feng's words that he felt this more.

Now, the foundation is indeed at a crossroads in its upward development, and the step it is about to take is very likely to be wrong.

This made him, the director of the National Defense Industry Office, feel a little scared. It turned out that it was not a simple choice between vacuum tubes and transistors. Once one was chosen, resources would be tilted towards it and the other might be abandoned.

Once you give up and realize that you have taken the wrong path, you may have to start all over again as Li Feng said.

"Comrades, in the end, we serve the troops and improve the combat effectiveness of officers and soldiers. The development of science and technology is also inseparable from the implementation of products. Whether it is electron tubes or transistors, whoever can complete the miniaturization first and can serve our troops' equipment, then our troops will use that one?"

"We can't invest all our resources in this technology just because the electron tube is less affected by the electromagnetic interference of nuclear war. If it can't be reduced to a normal size, I mean to fit it into trucks, tanks, and fighter planes, then it is doomed to be unable to bear the mission of the next stage of history~!"

"Then we have the simplest criterion: whichever one is smaller and which one can be mass-produced and deployed, then we can only use that one~!"

It looks like a multiple-choice question, but it is actually a required question. If the electron tube can be reduced in size, the Xiao Bayi radio station will not use transistors and circuit boards. It seems that Li Feng has not given the answer, but in fact he has already given the answer.

The chiefs and leaders only need to verify it themselves, and they will naturally get the only answer.

Their daily work revolves around improving the combat effectiveness of the troops. The future war scenes described by Li Feng seem to be right in front of them. No one is willing to take responsibility for the outdated equipment, even if it is just a possibility.

As long as the troops wake up first, they will naturally push the local area, and there will be an extra weight on the scale of the transistor. (End of this chapter)