This star is going to the moon

Chapter 343 The Abstract Source of America's Future in the Next Few Years: The Release of the Live-Action "Mulan"

"what happened?"

During a break in filming "Meritorious Service", An Fangfei curiously asked Lu Yun for directions.

"What funny thing did you see this time that makes you look so tense?"

An Fangfei met Lu Yun when she first filmed "So Young 2: Never Gone" and has now become Lu Yun's fiancée. The two have known each other for more than five years.

When An Fangfei first collaborated on "To You", she only felt that Lu Yun was a bit special and that he was different from actors who came from film academies.

At first, Lu Yun's acting skills were not good, even worse than her own. However, Lu Yun had the unique learning skills of a science whiz, and soon Lu Yun's acting skills, which were not as good as hers, became... about the same.

Another thing is the pure and innocent quality that Lu Yun possesses, which is something that film school students often lack.

Therefore, the initial collaboration left a good impression on her.

When the promotional campaign for "To You" was launched the following year, Rowoon's heroic act of rescuing the damsel in distress greatly won her favor.

However, in just one year, she discovered that Lu Yun's growth rate was beyond imagination, and later it became more and more outrageous.

An Fangfei sometimes has strange dreams that she can't explain, but her relationship with Lu Yun is getting better and better, and she trusts Lu Yun more and more.

Even influenced by Lu Yun, she often learns new words and adapts to them quickly; "difficult to hold back" is one of them.

Of course, it was also because Lu Yun often showed a "tense" expression when dealing with certain things that An Fangfei was very familiar with that expression.

When Lu Yun heard An Fangfei ask this, he smiled and said, "It's nothing, I just saw the sixth-generation fighter jet that the Americans were talking about."

"This thing is just a 'strategic deception' by the Americans. They don't actually have a sixth-generation fighter jet. In fact, they're barely even proficient with their fifth-generation fighter jets anymore..."

Yes, this is it!

Lu Yun is very decisive in making judgments about these things that make him "uncomfortable".

In the beginning, it might not seem like much, but his judgments all came true afterward, and history proved him right.

At times like these, An Fangfei would admire Lu Yun greatly.

"Aren't the Americans supposed to have incredibly advanced military technology? How come this is?" An Fangfei asked curiously.

"Simply put, they got carried away."

Lu Yun explained, "Like many popular celebrities in the entertainment industry, they mistake their superficial fame for their real strength, and their fleeting moment for eternity, lacking any understanding of reality..."

As a reborn individual, Lu Yun discovers that the abstract things the Americans do in the next few years all have a source.

For example, around 25 years ago, China's two sixth-generation fighter jets were flying high, while the Americans were completely dumbfounded and could only work on abstract concepts afterwards.

First, they defined it, defining the B-21 bomber as the first sixth-generation fighter jet.

Then a battle ensued on the webpage, with one side trying to change the encyclopedia entry for B-21, and the other side trying to prevent the encyclopedia entry for B-21 from being changed.

Later, the U.S. president, who had regained power, released an extremely abstract PowerPoint presentation on sixth-generation fighter jets. He had previously said that "the best position for canards is on enemy aircraft," but the U.S. itself used canards in its sixth-generation fighter jets.

However, when the virtual images were later updated, the canards were missing, which clearly indicates that the US had not even started developing its own sixth-generation fighter jet, nor did it understand the definition of a sixth-generation fighter jet; they were confused about it themselves.

Then... another round of online encyclopedia battles ensued.

The US just released an abstract PowerPoint presentation of its sixth-generation fighter jet, but someone insisted on changing it to "already in service."

Lu Yun thought about the "ginkgo leaf" model he had seen when he took the wooden kite model to the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group's wind tunnel, and then looked at the information that the US had just announced that the NGAD project "full-scale demonstrator" had begun test flights...

He then realized that the abstract beginning was actually at this point in time.

At this time, all the bottom modules of the 003 aircraft carrier were put into the dry dock, and welding work will soon begin.

Since the size of an aircraft carrier's hull can be roughly estimated to determine its size after completion, military enthusiasts decisively abandoned discussions about the US's sixth-generation fighter jet, which lacks any empirical data, and began discussing the Type 003 aircraft carrier.

The most basic assessment is that it definitely far exceeds the previous two ski-jump carriers, which are over 60,000 tons when fully loaded, but opinions vary on exactly how much larger. [I think it's at least 80,000 tons, possibly similar to the Kitty Hawk class.]

I think it's about the same. I estimate that Type 003 will be an 80,000-ton conventionally powered flatbed ship, equipped with steam catapults.

[That's right, that's exactly it. There's no point in using a ski-jump ramp for an 80,000-ton vessel.]

[What if it's a flat-panel jump like the Queen Elizabeth-class version with a "crying" sound?]

Forget about that piece of junk; the large aircraft carrier we're developing definitely won't be that piece of trash.

[I think your thinking is too conservative. How could our country build a new aircraft carrier that's comparable to the Kitty Hawk class? Those are carriers from the 1960s. If we're going to compare it to, it should be comparable to the latest Ford-class carrier from the US, or at the very least, the Nimitz-class.]

I also think that an aircraft carrier built with a hull of this size would easily reach 90,000 tons, definitely aiming for the Nimitz-class.

[I have a feeling it could be as high as 100,000 tons?]

[How could it be 100,000 tons? 100,000 tons would require nuclear power, which our country doesn't have, nor would we make do with nuclear-powered submarines like France, resulting in the slowest aircraft carrier ever built.]

I think the Type 003's tonnage is probably less than 100,000 tons, but it shouldn't use steam catapults; it should use electromagnetic catapults. I remember our country's electromagnetic technology is quite impressive.

[That's right, with the "Electromagnetic Manifestation True Lord" in charge, it's estimated that they'll skip steam catapults and go straight to electromagnetic catapults.]

Does this align with our country's "small steps, quick progress" strategy?

[I think we could ask the Director; he's a veteran of the Navy, maybe he can reveal something.]

[Haha, I already asked on Bilibili's backend, but the Director hasn't replied yet.]

[I remember the Director often replies to private messages, maybe he hasn't seen it yet, or maybe he really can't say...]

While Lu Yun focused on filming on set, time flew by in the outside world.

The live-action "Mulan" was released on September 11.

Because An Fangfei did not participate in this version of the film, Disney could not find a suitable actress in China, so they simply found a Chinese actress to play the lead role of Mulan.

And it's none other than the female lead in "Shang-Chi," named Awkwafina.

Because the makeup in the live-action "Mulan" was full of American imagination, it was ugly enough to begin with, and with Awkwafina's looks not being good either, the female lead Mulan was even uglier.

One netizen commented: "Now I understand why no one in the army discovered that Mulan was a woman."

Of course, the plot is also terrible, full of American fantasies.

However, the live-action "Mulan" was only criticized for a day before the controversy died down because the Muyuan spacecraft conducted its third manned flight.

This time, it was a professional astronaut who was assembling the facilities inside the spaceport.

With this, all three retired astronauts who joined Blue Star Aerospace have realized their dreams of flying into space.

At the same time, Bluestar Aerospace has finalized the roster for its fourth manned test flight, which will be a multi-person test mission.

The captain was Chen Quan, who had carried out the first manned flight mission, along with two outstanding commercial astronaut trainees.

These two trainees are Dong Chen and Simon.

Dong Chen achieved the best results among this batch of trainees.

Simon was among the top performers, but was handpicked by Lu Yun as the one with the best service awareness.

He was also the American spy suspected by the National Security comrades.

There were also three ordinary people hitchhiking: a senior executive from Blue Star Aerospace and an engineer from the Muyuan spacecraft.

The last one is Mr. Sun, who is 91 years old.

(End of this chapter)