Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 309: Diesel locomotives for computer technology?
It wasn't just General Smith who was active, at the Alco Locomotive Company (ALCO) in Pittsburgh.

Chairman Williams put down the newspaper in his hand, looked at his public relations director, former Pacific Fleet Colonel Freddy, who had just come in, and asked, "Joan, have you found out who else General Warren has scheduled an appointment with?"

"Yes, Tom. I heard that General Warren visited Mr. Sok in Miami. He is a core member of the Foreign Approval Committee and has great influence. In addition, General Warren also met with Mills, a senior director of the Commercial Affairs Bureau. Mills is General Warren's subordinate. I think General Warren is close to completing the approval at the Commercial Affairs Bureau."

Freddy said, "But General Warren probably hasn't achieved much on the Foreign Approval Committee side. As we all know, Mr. Sauk doesn't like the color red."

"Help me make an appointment with Mr. Sok. We need some allies. GM's people are quite powerful now. With the participation of General Warren, their power to promote this matter will be even stronger. We need allies."

"You're right, Tom. I'll get an appointment with Mr. Sock."

"Things are starting to look a little bit clearer. According to the information Mr. Chen has sent back, if we open up the export of transistor computers, then it is very likely that we will pass the export review of Rogue Eagle. General Shi said that a heavyweight company in their country originally wanted to obtain the transfer of our transistor computer technology."

The latest transistor computer developed by Longguo, although it has nothing to do with ordinary people, is completely different from the computers in the main world and does not have any functions that can provide entertainment for everyone.

But now they have begun to be used in large quantities, in radar warning, in automated control factories, and in scientific research and transport aircraft. The development of cathode ray display technology has now made it possible to produce 12-inch CRT screens to connect transistor computers, realizing the integration of computing and display.

In this way, the automated control of large equipment in steel smelting is now where transistor computers come into play.

In terms of radar, radar based on transistor computer calculations has already come out. Compared with previous calculation methods, current computers have improved the computing performance of radar by orders of magnitude and can respond faster to the processing of received radar transmission waves.

As for military research, the use of transistor computers goes without saying. Now they are in urgent need of everything from rocket and missile research to aviation computing and shipbuilding computing.

Although Ren Zhong established an extremely confidential, state-of-the-art computer room in the original border area, it was only code-named Laboratory No. 5, and is now known to the outside world as the Fifth District without being named.

Anyone who enters this laboratory is required to maintain the highest confidentiality. Not a single piece of information has been revealed to the outside world. This is the biggest secret that Ren Zhong has left in this world. Even Staff Officer Ye and his team don't know the extent of its confidentiality!

Only core members of the core top-secret groups that study wind tunnel calculations, telegraph cracking, and peace bomb calculations can enter.

Professor Wu and his colleagues made much faster progress on the Peace Bomb than their counterparts in the Manhattan Project. Part of the reason was that Ren Zhong provided enough information, and part of the reason was because of the calculation problems. They had no experience of the hardships of using primitive hand-cranked calculators.

I directly learned the MATLAB mathematical programming provided by Ren Zhong, borrowed the complete mathematical library, and solved almost all computational problems.

Therefore, Ren Zhong was somewhat concerned about transistor computers, but not too concerned. In his eyes, being one generation ahead of the West was not a big deal, but he was also very clear that the order of magnitude increase in computer performance was difficult to control for the promotion of the great powers.

So even though he could sell them at a high price, Ren Zhong had no plans to push these transistor computers to the major powers right away.

He will wait until the domestic computer industry applications are relatively mature and have the ability to withstand risks before launching sales. After all, there is a shortage of supply in the country right now.

In addition, the performance of this transistor computer is almost an order of magnitude ahead of the Rogue Hawk vacuum tube computer. If it is exported, its military use is self-evident, so at this time and space, it is Ren Zhong's turn to unilaterally control exports.

"Transistor technology and computer technology are not for sale. We will never consider transferring them." After listening to the transaction information returned by General Shi, Ren Zhong rejected the possibility of transferring transistor computer technology. Are you kidding? This guy depends on him for a living. How could he transfer the core technology? There is no way.

"However, we can consider exporting transistor computers."

Ren Zhong blocked the export of this sensitive product for almost a year. In fact, he had always been a little hesitant in his heart, so he had not opened up overseas sales channels since it came out.

Because he was worried that after this thing was released, it would have a huge impact, and it might even greatly promote the computer development in countries like Rogue Eagle.

After all, when it comes to military use, the Rogue Eagle will definitely find ways to copy it. It is a tacit understanding in this field. Whoever has the ability to copy it after just one look, that's your ability.

Anyway, most military products are used by their own countries. Under such circumstances, it would be difficult to trace the source and pursue patents.

There are many military scenarios that require the use of transistor computers. For example, in terminal products such as fighter jets and tanks, as well as in military research, this computing tool has many uses.

Selling it out is equivalent to quickly strengthening the weaponry of the Rogue Eagle. So when it was first produced, Ren Zhong completely blocked it and did not sell any of it.

But now, according to Ren Zhong's understanding, they have completed the production of several key components of the transistor, and it will probably not be long before they assemble their first transistor computer.

Because someone once stole several transistor computers used for industrial control in our factory!
Some of these precious computers were not found later and their whereabouts are unknown. Needless to say, they must have been secretly taken away by someone with ulterior motives, and then sold as smuggled goods, allowing Rogue Eagle to obtain some transistor computer samples in advance, master some performance indicators of some Dragon Country transistor computers, and even decompose some internal transistors for reverse research.

With so many things released, it is almost impossible to keep it completely secret.

Now the progress of Rogue Eagle has far surpassed that of Ren Zhong in that time and space. The rapid progress of the first transistor computer under development is obviously also inspired by these parallel imports.

For the Rogue Eagles, which gather the most elites in the world, there is no way to completely stop them from dissecting these samples for reverse engineering, producing copies, and then using them in the military.

Therefore, technological blockade is actually a very difficult thing in the long run, and the previous blockade has only increased their acquisition costs.

When they are about to succeed, it seems to be a good option to dump a batch of products to occupy the market and cut off their ability to recover R&D funds through marketization.

After all, today's transistor computers have a wide range of uses, but the total market is only a few thousand units, and there are only a few large steel mills and chemical plants.
What remains are colleges and research departments, so if they take advantage of this window of time to dump the products, they might interrupt the business plan for the development of the Rogue Eagle transistor computer.

Ren Zhong weighed the pros and cons and was somewhat hesitant.

Should we exchange it or not?

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