Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 80 [New players are fierce when it comes to cutting materials]

To develop room-temperature superconducting materials, it is claimed that a huge amount of energy consumption is required to produce them, so the output is very low and the cost is too high. Due to insufficient production capacity and excessive high costs, it can only be used in the military field in the early stage, which is inevitable.

Then develop the first generation of all-electric fighter jets. Xiao Yu’s requirement for the first generation of all-electric fighter jets is to achieve at least four core capabilities.

The first is the vertical take-off and landing capability with high flexibility and maneuverability; the second is the new energy all-electric drive capability; the third is the Mach 5 hypersonic cruise capability; and the fourth is the unmanned driving capability of the fighter.

Pilots are not allowed to fly fighter jets directly in order to maximize the performance of the fighter jets.

Because humans are carbon-based life forms, their physical strength has a bearing limit, and this limit is weaker than the limit of the body. For example, when performing some high-speed maneuvers, the huge overload generated by the body of a fighter jet can easily withstand the overload value, but the human body cannot.

Otherwise, the pilot may go into shock or even die on the spot, and the force will have to be limited to the value that the pilot can bear.

There is no doubt that this greatly limits the performance of fighter jets, unless advanced biotechnology is available to strengthen the human body.

Xiao Yu already knew that the Blue Star world had very advanced biotechnology that could strengthen organic life forms at the genetic level, but this kind of black technology was not within his consideration in the short term.

Since life sciences are not Xiao Yu's forte, it is understandable that he has made world-renowned achievements in the fields of mechanics and materials science. After all, he is engaged in this field, so it is understandable that he has made great achievements.

But if he suddenly started doing life science and biological genetic research and achieved such astonishing results in a short period of time, it would be outrageous and excessive.

Since it is impossible to adapt the strength of mechanical equipment by strengthening the human body, Xiao Yu’s solution is to keep the pilot out of the fighter plane.

The problem lies with the people. If we remove the people, there will be no problem.

Of course, this doesn’t mean that there will be no pilots and that everything will be controlled by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is not omnipotent in many things.

Xiao Yu's solution is to let AI still play an auxiliary role, and the pilot is still the core, but only through a simulated cockpit on the ground combined with virtual reality technology to enhance real-time perception. The pilot wears a head-mounted display device in the full-scale simulated cockpit to control the unmanned fighter jets thousands of miles away with real-time perception of the status.

In this way, there is no need to consider the human body's tolerance, and the fighter's performance can still be maximized.

Another benefit of this solution is that it can greatly lower the threshold for pilots, which in turn can greatly increase the size of the Air Force.

In fact, what limits the size of the air force is not military spending or production capacity, but the scarcity of pilots qualified to fly fighter jets. Because the selection criteria are stringent, the country is now producing J20 fighter jets at a rapid pace, but there are not enough pilots.

For example, in traditional situations, if a pilot cannot withstand the required overload value, he may be demoted.

However, if the pilot does not need to fly the plane himself, but controls the plane in a simulation cabin on the ground, he can still be put into service and control a fighter jet even if he cannot withstand the prescribed overload value requirements.

In this way, the scale of the Air Force's fighter equipment can be greatly increased, and the execution of combat missions can achieve absolutely zero casualties, with the most being the loss of fighter jets.

Xiao Yu's current idea is to recruit people, form a team in the aviation field, set up a new company and personally build airplanes. In this field, he is a complete novice and a new player.

Compared with those large factories with profound background, it is just a small workshop.

But then again, small and novice workshops are very aggressive in cutting materials, while large factories don’t dare to be so extravagant.

Generally speaking, the more new technologies an aircraft uses, the greater the probability of problems or malfunctions. Moreover, large manufacturers have delivery tasks, so they tend to be conservative when designing new aircraft and dare not make drastic changes.

But Xiao Yu, who entered the field half-baked, does not have these burdens. Instead, he is not bound by any framework, and his hands and feet, or his thinking, are not restricted.

And with the answer of the Blue Star world version as a reference, Xiao Yu’s idea now is to just let go and do it boldly, without worrying about stepping into the trap, and put all the new technologies in to see how it goes. If there is any explosive news, put it down first. Who knows, there may be unexpected breakthroughs and gains?

Xiao Yu has a clear development idea for the first generation of all-electric fighter jets, and he also has a preliminary idea for the second generation, which is to achieve a significant increase in endurance based on the first generation, while having the ability to travel back and forth between space and the atmosphere.

In other words, Xiao Yu wants to turn the second-generation all-electric fighter into an aerospace fighter capable of traveling to and from space.

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"Sir, dinner is ready. It's time to come up to eat." Butler Qin Yue called Xiao Yu at this time. After the villa basement was renovated, Xiao Yu did not allow anyone to enter without his permission, not even butler Qin Yue. "Got it." Xiao Yu replied and hung up the phone.

He spent most of the day in the underground warehouse today, and his biggest achievement was that the progress of room-temperature superconducting materials and all-electric fighter jets had been advanced to the "new folder" stage.

Although it is just a new folder, the overall policy and ideas have been determined and have a clear outline, and the rest is just a matter of implementing it step by step.

The first problem is how can the room-temperature superconducting material brought over from the Blue Planet be exposed to light? We must not let outsiders know that it was brought over from the Blue Planet, and we must create the illusion that it was made on Earth.

Xiao Yu has already thought of a plan on how to describe it to the outside world.

In addition, a reasonable logical explanation must be given to high efficiency. Xiao Yu also found a good solution, which is to use AI to assist scientific research to greatly improve efficiency. First, AI-assisted big data simulation screening is used to improve efficiency.

Then, the first thing to do next is to upgrade the AI agent with cutting-edge technology. Before developing room-temperature superconducting materials, the AI agent must be further iterated and upgraded to make AI more intelligent and advanced, which will make AI-assisted scientific research more credible.

Xiao Yu also plans to build an unmanned smart factory, which also requires the support of AI.

When it comes to trading high-tech from the Blue Star world, it is obviously best to have unmanned and intelligent production lines on Earth. Even if it is not 100% unmanned, the fewer people the better, especially in some key links.

If you don't let others know your production process, they won't know whether your products are really made by yourself or copied from Blue Star.

All of these require the use of AI technology, and in this area, Xiao Yu has already made arrangements and is just waiting for a while to iterate and upgrade the AI Xiaojing's intelligent body to version 2.0.

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Two days later, September 5th.

At around 10 am, Xiao Yu came to the company to hold a board meeting.

"What? Entering the aircraft manufacturing field?" When Qian Wenhu, the director representing the external investment organization, heard Xiao Yu's proposal, he thought for a moment that he might have heard it wrong. Except for Xiao Yu, all the seven directors present were confused, even Yun Shu was no exception.

Independent director Song Yuan couldn't help but say, "Chairman, aircraft manufacturing is an extremely complex high-end manufacturing industry. It's not something that can be done casually. We don't have any experience in this area. If we don't do it well, we may lose a lot of money..."

Everyone present couldn't help but nod their heads, implying that, brother, could you please not play so fancy, it's easy to fail if you play like this.

Xiao Yu looked around at everyone and said with a smile: "I knew you wouldn't agree."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone couldn't help but complain in their hearts, if you insist on doing this, it will be useless even if we all oppose it.

In fact, Xiao Yu had no intention of placing the two major businesses of room-temperature superconductivity and aircraft manufacturing under the name of Lingjing Technology, but to set up an independent company. However, this company needed funds, so Xiao Yu planned to let Lingjing Technology provide development funds to this company as an investor.

It is enough for Lingjing Technology to get 15% of the shares, while Xiao Yu owns 75% of the company's shares. The remaining 10% is reserved as an option pool to be shared by core members of the team who have made outstanding contributions.

What Xiao Yu wanted was for everyone to oppose it at the board meeting, so that he would have an excuse and could naturally separate this business.

By the time room-temperature superconducting materials and fighter jets are developed, several major external shareholders such as Ruilian Group will be speechless.

I originally planned to put it under the name of Lingjing Technology, but you all disapproved, worrying that this thing would be a money-losing product. I had no choice but to play with it by myself. When I produce results, you can't say that I'm cheating you.

If Qian Wenhu and other investors' representatives agree, it would be difficult for Xiao Yu to deal with the matter.

If they all have no objection, and Xiao Yu forcefully divests the business, it would seem that he is not a very honest person. If he fails, it would be fine. But if he succeeds, several external shareholders of Ruilian Group would definitely feel uncomfortable and would definitely think that Xiao Yu deliberately kicked them aside and ate all the food by himself.

But with this preparation, Xiao Yu has the absolute initiative and will not be in the wrong. Instead, the external shareholders of Ruilian Group will secretly slap their thighs and cry out that they have made a mistake, and will turn around and ask Xiao Yu to admit his mistakes.

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(End of this chapter)