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Chapter 342 is so powerful that it makes people despair!
The Shark's flight test is planned to take about three hours.

Most of them are completed at an altitude of 5 meters, and the high-speed cruising at high altitude alone takes an hour and a half.

The high-altitude test process is invisible to the naked eye on the ground.

So everyone in the square went inside the base and only went outside to look after the spacecraft returned.

There are a lot of people in the monitoring room.

The monitoring room, which is also the command center, can clearly know the location, altitude and status of the spacecraft through radar signals and timely data reported by the spacecraft.

Liu Zhiwen had already arrived at the command center.

There were also many people in the square outside the command center. The only ones who could enter were senior teachers. They all stood in the back, trying to remain quiet so as not to disturb the normal work of the command center.

Zhang Shuo is here too.

He stood together with Teacher Zhu, Teacher Deng and others, and also spoke in a low voice.

"There should be no problem with today's test. Engineer Liu is still very good. Of course, the most important thing is the technology itself."

Teacher Deng glanced at Zhang Shuo and continued, "Once the test flight is over and there are no major problems, we can arrange for military testing."

"I have confidence in Engineer Liu, and it can indeed be arranged."

Teacher Zhu smiled and nodded, saying, "I can't wait just thinking about it."

"After my skills become stable, I'll find an opportunity to fly it and give it a try."

Teacher Deng laughed, "I'm not worried about the spaceship, I'm worried about you. By the time the spaceship is fine, something will happen to you."

"I know my own body." Teacher Zhu said as he tapped his chest to show that he was in good health.

The military tests that Teacher Deng mentioned are to have the spacecraft carry bombs and perform various tasks, and also to undergo pressure tests.

These tests include long-term high-altitude cruising, air-launched missiles of various types, high-speed movement and turning, etc.

Spacecraft are not manufactured for display, but to serve and perform missions. Only through pressure testing can we understand the specific capabilities of the spacecraft.

They said with anticipation, "The Shark spacecraft will become the first generation of gravity spacecraft to be put into service."

"After it officially enters service, we can say that we have entered a new era!"

This sentence touched the hearts of many people.

Everyone is looking forward to the Shark's official service. The development of gravity aircraft is very fast, but in fact, it has been several years since the research of gravity technology and the advent of gravity spacecraft.

The gravity spacecraft that was originally imagined relies on gravity technology to allow the aircraft to escape the earth's gravity, thereby achieving ultra-high-speed flight and making the aircraft more flexible.

The current Shark has far exceeded expectations. It relies entirely on gravity as its power, making the large spacecraft flexible. It can also cruise at ultra-high altitudes, and its bomb-carrying capacity far exceeds that of conventional aircraft.

Such an aircraft can be said to be a comprehensive combat fortress.

"After the spacecraft is officially put into service, it can be used for high-risk missions, such as reconnaissance and patrol over aircraft carrier formations, or for flying deterrence over target areas."

"It has strong combat capability and great strategic significance!"

After Teacher Deng finished speaking with longing, Teacher Zhu immediately added, "At that time, we can claim to protect freedom of navigation."

The people around laughed immediately, and at the same time, they were even more looking forward to the Shark's service.

The Shark has strong combat capability and great strategic significance. If dozens of them can be put into service, the domestic military can be said to be the leader, and by then there will be no comparison with the other side of the ocean.

In front of the Shark spacecraft, no matter how many other aircraft there are, they are meaningless, including those high-end fighter jets.

For military aircraft, flight altitude is of great significance, especially when it is far beyond the conventional altitude. Other performance characteristics can even be completely ignored because sufficient altitude represents safety and also represents an overwhelming performance advantage.

Looking back a hundred years ago, the advantage of the Air Force was really too great.

Those countries with backward scientific and technological development have no air superiority in the war. They can be said to have no ability to fight back when facing fighter jets, and ground targets are completely sitting ducks.

It's the same now.

The Shark spacecraft can cruise at an altitude of 5 meters. Even the highest-performance fighter jets carrying air-to-air missiles cannot reach an altitude of 5 meters.

Ground weapons are even less threatening.

For those very high-end missiles, accuracy is a big problem when attacking targets at an altitude of 5 meters. Even with the tracking function, it is difficult to perform well at this altitude.

In addition, the Shark spacecraft has a very strong bomb-carrying capability. With the advantage of altitude, it can rely on high-end radar to easily lock onto and destroy threatening incoming targets.

To put it bluntly, as long as the spacecraft is at an altitude of 5 meters, it will be safe no matter where it flies.

With more spacecraft in service, the country's air force will instantly become the best in the world and will have no rivals at all.

While waiting for the spacecraft to be tested, several teachers talked about other work, including pilot training, military improvements to the spacecraft, and the large space platform (fortress) plan mentioned earlier.

The latter is just a plan for now.

Such a huge project requires a huge amount of funds. It can be said that it requires the power of the whole country to carry out. It requires a large number of manpower and many high-end technologies, and all departments must participate in the collaboration.

It is simply impossible to carry out such a super plan quietly.

At that time, it must be done openly, and it will require discussions from all aspects in the early stages, holding many important meetings, and the approval of the highest teacher before it can be finalized.

……

After three hours and ten minutes of flight, the Shark spacecraft successfully landed in the square.

At that moment, everyone in the square clapped loudly, many people were very excited, and some even couldn't help cheering.

Liu Chengwen watched the spacecraft land and the pilot Teng Jianjun walk out of the cockpit. He also breathed a sigh of relief. His face was no longer nervous, but instead showed a joyful smile. "Congratulations!"

"The test flight was successful, right? It felt very smooth. Congratulations, Engineer Liu!"

"You have accomplished a remarkable research!"

"You will go down in history with a heavy note!"

Many people congratulated Liu Chengwen.

They were also very excited. Even those who were not involved in the project could not help but feel very excited when they saw the Shark being tested smoothly and thought about the fact that the country would have such a high-end aircraft in the future.

After the test, there is a summary meeting.

Zhang Shuo did not participate in the follow-up work. He left the base with several teachers and returned directly to Sudong.

As soon as he returned to the Soviet Union, he heard many people talking about the Shark test, because there was already a lot of news in the public opinion.

Domestic and foreign media have reported extensively on this.

Just open any news app on your phone and you can immediately see videos and reports related to the Shark test.

The scene of the Shark flying in the air was captured by many people. Some of the shots were very clear, obviously taken with professional photography tools. Even the details of the Shark's appearance can be seen clearly, such as the swinging wings.

This situation was not unexpected. Even before the test flight began, we were mentally prepared and had figured out how to deal with it.

For example, the Air Force released test-related information as soon as possible, stating that it was testing a new aircraft, but no further specific information was available.

The only thing that can be confirmed in the publicly released information is the code name of the spacecraft:
Shark.

Many people are more interested in the specific information of the Shark, especially the power system problem of the Shark, which has attracted great attention at home and abroad.

The shape of the Shark can be clearly seen in the video footage, but no nozzles or propellers were found on its appearance.

An aircraft must interact with the air to take off or accelerate.

Whether it is an aircraft engine, a propeller, or any other cutting-edge power technology, the fundamental principle is to rely on pushing the air to make the aircraft move.

If it does not rely on pushing air, it will need to burn chemicals violently and eject them at high speed like a rocket in order for the flying device to generate enough power.

The latter also requires a nozzle, and a very obvious nozzle.

The Shark has no propellers and no nozzles. Its power is not from aircraft engines, nor from burning chemicals for spraying. So what exactly is it powered by?

Even professional scholars cannot give an answer.

The Shark looks like it is closed. Where does its power come from?
There was a lot of discussion in the public opinion, "How did this big guy fly?"

"Don't you mean relying on gravity?"

"Of course it's not just gravity. From the video, we can see that he is accelerating laterally. How did he accelerate laterally?"

"It doesn't look like it was made by humans, and there's a video shot from a very close distance, but it doesn't seem to have any sound, the spacecraft seems to be flying in silence..."

"It looks very weird, is it alien technology?"

"..."

Many people are discussing the power problem of the Shark.

The same is true across the ocean.

In a conference room in the Pentagon, several top officials were discussing the Shark spacecraft. An official in military uniform pointed at the picture on the screen and said seriously, "This is the clearest picture we have collected."

"The aircraft being tested is called Shark. It is between 22 and 24 meters long. The cockpit is at the front. It has no wings and is a gravity-driven aircraft."

"Its previous generation was called Tengyun, which used gravity technology combined with propeller drive and had very poor power."

"The power of this aircraft has obviously been upgraded, and its acceleration is very high. The data measured in the video is 18 meters per second."

"But there are no propellers or nozzles, and there is no source of power at all."

"It would be impossible to achieve this with just gravity technology. Of course, we know they have more than one times the gravity technology, which is not enough to give the aircraft this kind of acceleration performance."

"We need to discuss the power issue..."

The officials in the conference room all frowned.

None of them spoke; some were staring at the screen, while others were looking down in deep thought.

They felt that the Shark was like an alien spaceship. What they couldn't understand was not just the power problem, but the performance of the spaceship was also extremely amazing.

For example, according to the analysis of situation information, the weight of the spacecraft is more than 80 tons and the lateral acceleration exceeds 18m/s, which means that the spacecraft has a super power device that can provide more than 1440 tons of thrust.

This data is incredible.

The thrust that existing high-end aircraft engines can provide is only 20 to 30 tons, and a thrust of more than 1000 tons is simply unimaginable.

The spacecraft is indeed very flexible and can achieve an acceleration of 18m/s in the air.

This acceleration is already very fast. It takes less than 20 seconds to reach the speed of sound, and the acceleration of the F35 in the air is only a little more than one G (10m/s).

Another piece of data is even more terrifying. They detected that the Shark's test flight altitude was around 5 meters.

This height is unreachable.

In addition, as a gravity aircraft, its bomb-carrying capacity must be extremely terrifying. The bomb-carrying capacity of a gravity aircraft may exceed that of ten fighter jets.

How to deal with such a flying machine? It is so powerful that it makes people despair!
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