Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 361 [Let's Make a Stunning Debut]

If the J-36 fighter jet makes a public appearance at next year's military parade, it will surely give the Chinese people a huge surprise and shock the world.

This signifies that the world's first sixth-generation fighter jet has officially entered service and achieved combat capability. Such speed will undoubtedly exceed the expectations of all outsiders, and they will be even more shocked by this terrifying efficiency.

The J-20 fifth-generation fighter jet project of the major Eastern power was already efficient enough, but the deployment efficiency of the J-36 was even faster.

Chen Zaiqing looked at Xiao Yu and said, "The J-36 fighter jets will definitely be delivered as planned within May, with three aircraft delivered. The military is more concerned about whether the exoskeleton powered armor can be mass-produced by June next year, even if the cost is one or two times higher. These are Director Zhao's exact words."

While the cost of exoskeleton-armored power armor is not cheap, it is incredibly affordable compared to the exorbitant price of a single J-36 fighter jet, which can easily start at tens of billions of dollars.

The authorities are most concerned about whether this new army equipment can be displayed at the military parade; they won't be concerned about small accounts worth billions at this time.

After a moment, Xiao Yu smiled and said, "No problem. The production difficulty and engineering technology difficulty of the power armor are lower than those of the J-36 fighter jet, especially the production difficulty. The project is progressing very well, and there should be no problem in producing a batch in the short term."

Xiao Yu then asked, "How many does the military intend to ask for?"

Chen Zaiqing immediately replied: "Two marching teams, one purely mechanically powered team and one team with manned powered suits, totaling about 700 sets, but it would be best to deliver 800 sets."

China's military parade formations have the largest number of participants in the world. The formations of the marching formations are arranged in a 25×14+2 configuration, which means 25 people in front, 14 rows in depth, 2 leaders, and a total of 352 people in one formation.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu immediately and decisively made a decision: "You write a report and submit it. We have no problem with the exoskeleton power armor."

Based on the price of 350 million for pure mechanical power armor, the total price of 400 sets is about 14 billion. The price of 2280 million for wearable armed power armor, the total price of 400 sets is about 91.2 billion. Including the 5% profit margin stipulated by military regulations, the total is about 110 billion.

Chen Zaiqing nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go prepare the materials in a bit."

The technical issues with the power armor, a military product, are not really a problem. After all, it's technology from Earth, and the technology is already incredibly mature. Xiao Yu's downgrading of the technology and bringing it to Earth was more about going through the motions and getting his technical team to master it, rather than letting them innovate.

There's no point in innovating before we've fully absorbed the technology from the Blue Star world.

If it weren't for the need to go through the process and have a complete technology chain, Xiao Yu could have quickly started mass production and even lowered the price.

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Half an hour later, Xiao Yu left AVIC Linfei Company and went to Lingjing Technology next door.

The headquarters of both companies are located in the same industrial park, which is so close that you can just turn left after leaving the park.

Xiao Yu arrived at the humanoid robot research department under Lingjing Technology. The research department was a separate building with a high level of secrecy. Even company employees could not approach it without permission.

Even employees in many other departments within the company believe that this research department is the birthplace of the Flowing Star Language simulation robot.

That's true, but the project this department was actually working on was to build an exoskeleton-equipped powered armor for Lao Lu, while the Flowing Star Language simulation robot was actually a byproduct of that project.

Apart from the members involved in the power armor project team, no one knew about the project. The Starry Sky Simulation Robot actually became a cover for the power armor project.

"I just received news that the military wants to procure 400 sets of pure mechanical power armor and 400 sets of wearable power armor ahead of schedule, with delivery to be completed by June next year," Xiao Yu said to Lin Baiyu, who was in charge of the project. The two were chatting in a room in the research department.

Hearing this, Lin Baiyu was greatly surprised and immediately said, "This is beyond our plan. Why did the military suddenly make such a request?" Xiao Yu replied in a deep voice, "Indeed, it was not in the plan. This is a temporary plan. I have received reliable information that a grand military parade will be held next September. The higher-ups want the power armor to make its first public appearance at the parade and make a splash."

Upon hearing this, Lin Baiyu was also taken aback, as he was equally unaware that a military parade would be held next year.

Lin Baiyu suddenly said, "In the past, the country was very low-key, but in recent years it has given me the feeling that it is becoming more and more high-profile, as if it is no longer pretending and is laying its cards on the table, becoming more and more like a wolf warrior."

In the past, they certainly wouldn't have been in such a hurry to unveil new equipment.

Xiao Yu smiled calmly and replied, "It's all about timing and circumstances; the balance of power has shifted. Things are very different now. You can't just keep a low profile like you used to. You can't hide your brilliance anymore, and you can't hide your brilliance any longer. You've become an elephant now; you can't hide behind a tree anymore. People aren't stupid or blind."

Lin Baiyu nodded to himself, "That's true."

Finally, Xiao Yu returned to the main topic and said, "Put the matter of Flowing Star Language aside and leave it to your deputy. Your next task is to do everything you can to build 800 sets of power armor equipment for me. There can be no mistakes, and we need to complete the delivery mission by June next year."

Upon hearing the KPI target given by the big boss, Lin Baiyu couldn't help but smile wryly and say, "This is probably very difficult. It's not a technical problem, but a production capacity problem, or more precisely, a shortage of manpower."

Lin Baiyu added, "The plan came so suddenly that we didn't expand the project team in time. New members have to go through the background check process again unless we lower the confidentiality level of the project."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yu replied succinctly, "Isn't it dark under the lamp? Isn't there a Flowing Star Language simulation robot?"

Hmm? Hmm~~
Lin Baiyu paused for a moment before realizing what was happening, then slapped his forehead and laughed, saying, "Haha, we really are blind to what's right under our noses. If we don't have enough manpower, we can use the Flowing Star Language robots to make up for it."

This robot is perfectly capable of performing many jobs, and it doesn't require vetting, so there's no need to worry about spies infiltrating it.

After a moment, Lin Baiyu said, "Then there's no problem."

Xiao Yu continued, "Later, you can call President Zhou directly and ask him to set aside a portion of the current production capacity to prioritize the production of a batch of robots and send them over. The AI ​​intelligent agent will use another, more advanced version from our internal system."

"Understood." Lin Baiyu nodded and then smiled and said, "Next year's military parade will be interesting. There is no news about the power armor outside the parade. Its sudden appearance at the parade will definitely shock the audience."

In fact, whether in terms of combat power or role, the J-36 Shenlong fighter jet completely outclasses the exoskeleton powered armor. This is the Air Force's absolute suppression of the Army in terms of branch of service, unless it is a super black technology equipment like the N-800 nano-armor.

Nevertheless, exoskeleton power armor is really cool. Many people have been influenced by science fiction movies and games since childhood, and elements such as mechs and power armor are considered a kind of romance for men.

Xiao Yu specifically designed this set of individual combat gear to have a cool and stylish appearance. Most importantly, as a set of Lao Lu's individual combat gear, it doesn't have a high learning curve.

If deployed on a large scale, ordinary soldiers can be equipped with it and easily master it; the biggest obstacles are production capacity and cost.

In other words, this equipment will definitely attract a large number of young people to join the army.

Who could resist such a powerful and stylish set of individual soldier equipment? However, there is no shortage of recruits at Dongda University, unlike in South Korea where people turn pale at the mention of military service. At Dongda University, sometimes you even have to pull strings to join the army.

However, once this individual exoskeleton powered armor is deployed and put into service in the mainland, it is estimated that every army soldier will compete to join the powered armor combat unit, and the competition will definitely be extremely fierce.

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(End of this chapter)