Genius is just the threshold for me!

"Mother."

Seeing that Xia Tianqiang was busy, Xia Ran picked up the remote control and turned down the TV volume. She glanced at the time on the wall, then turned and called out to He Ying.

"What's wrong?" He Ying turned her head curiously.

"I want to skip a grade this semester..." Xia Ran said, expressing her thoughts.

"this……"

He Ying was taken aback, then immediately sat up straight: "Aren't you doing quite well in your studies? Why do you suddenly want to skip a grade?"

"Because the current courses are boring."

Xia Ran said softly, "It feels like a bit of a waste of time."

"Ranran, classes aren't everything when it comes to school."

He Ying paused for a moment, then said softly and earnestly, "Besides studying, going to school also involves friends and classmates, which are all essential parts of our personal growth."

"Mom, I know, I have good friends now."

Xia Ran smiled and said, "Besides, Shishi's current campus is a complete secondary school, with both high school and junior high. As long as I'm a day student and don't live on campus, I'll still go to and from school every day..."

He Ying took Xia Ran's hand and placed it on her lap, looking at her daughter gently and asking, "Do you really feel like you're wasting your time trying to skip grades? Or is there something you're hiding from your mother?"

"Mother!"

Xia Ran called out, her voice helpless yet slightly coquettish: "I'm not hiding anything from you."

"That's good."

He Ying smiled and patted her daughter's hair: "No matter what's wrong, you can tell your mom and dad. If you're unhappy, don't keep it to yourself."

"Okay." Xia Ran nodded with a smile.

"Which grade do you want to skip to?"

Looking at her daughter, who smiles more than before and now even acts coquettishly, He Ying said, "The Education Bureau's regulations are quite strict now. Parental consent alone isn't enough; Cheng Fei might need to issue a coordination letter."

I'll try to talk to Lin Dong's mother tomorrow; she's in charge of this kind of thing in the logistics department.

"Third year of junior high school."

Xia Ran explained her plan: "I'll study on my own first, and after I pass the high school entrance exam next year, I'll see how high I can skip to..."

"You still have to jump in high school?"

He Ying said helplessly, "Do you want to go to university at sixteen?"

"We'll see when the time comes, maybe sooner or later."

Xia Ran held her mother's hand and said with a smile, "You go see Aunt Xia tomorrow, I'll go with you."

"it is good."

He Ying paused for a moment, then nodded in agreement.

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With Lin Dong's email sent out, the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) base, which had been quiet and stable for two months, started moving again in the days leading up to the start of the new semester.

The next day, although it was still Saturday.

But apart from Lin Weiliang, who works at Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group, most of the staff work in the Army Department.

The entire production and R&D department staff, engineers from the final assembly department, as well as the overall design department and R&D department, all started working overtime.

Around nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Dong got up, ate breakfast, and was preparing to organize the test plan for the rotating detonation engine.

At this moment, Lin Weiliang, who was working from home, stood up from his study and waved to Lin Dong: "Son, come here and take a look at this project."

"What project?"

Lin Dong walked over curiously: "Besides me, is anyone else arranging projects for you, Dad?"

Comrade Lin Weiliang's current status is, in fact, even more extraordinary than Wang Xingguo's.

After all, Wang Xingguo, as the 001, is tied to the entire Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC). As long as CAC has a mission, he can't escape it.

But besides the things his son arranged, Lin Weiliang also had projects he wanted to do himself, so normally no one would arrange anything else for him.

After all, the past few years have proven that Comrade Lin Weiliang is a genius comrade who is "free-spirited".

I used to work like a beast of burden, following the rules, but I achieved nothing.

But five years ago, he started to let loose and conduct his own research, and all sorts of results began to emerge...

"Don't portray your father as some kind of tyrant within the military-industrial complex."

Lin Weiliang said irritably, "I have people arranging projects for me at home, let alone outside."

"..."

Lin Dong wisely didn't respond to that, and instead walked over to glance at Lin Weiliang's computer screen: "300 km/h, service ceiling over 9000 meters, 32-hour loiter time, 500 kg payload, maximum takeoff weight 4.3 tons... Is this the Wing Loong 2 reconnaissance and strike UAV?"

"You even know about pterosaurs?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Weiliang looked up and glanced at Lin Dong with a puzzled expression.

"The Wing Loong-1 reconnaissance and strike UAV was initiated in 03 and rolled off the production line in 05. It has a speed of 180 kilometers per hour, a loiter time of 20 hours, a payload of 200 kilograms, and a service ceiling of 5300 meters due to its piston-engine propeller..."

Lin Dong calmly said, "This is the first project that has allowed you to join the core team in all the years you've been working, Dad."

Compared to Xu Ziming, who had been working for less than two years, he directly entered the core of the J-20 project team after passing the review.

Lin Weiliang, who came from a small town and only knew calculus in college, was among the first batch of campus recruits to join the company, but his career was rather unremarkable.

After joining Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC), I worked on peripheral R&D for more than four years. The first project I entered the core of the project team was the Wing Loong UAV project, which was CAC's focus on export trade and was considered a peripheral project.

"You little brat..."

A hint of relief flashed in Lin Weiliang's eyes, but he still said irritably, "What are you doing, looking through your father's resume? You have nothing better to do."

"Who looked at your resume?" Lin Dong gestured with his chin.

He had seen Lin Weiliang's resume, but this matter was not something he had actually seen; rather, it was something Comrade Lin Weiliang told him after his retirement in his previous life.

Although it was just a small, peripheral project, Comrade Lin Weiliang remembered it for the rest of his life.

Even decades later, after retirement, he can clearly recount all the performance parameters and the difficulties encountered during the research and development process.

"To reach a service ceiling of 9000 meters, the piston engine of the Wing Loong-1 needs to be replaced with a turboprop engine."

Without much thought, Lin Dong quickly offered a solution: "You don't need to contact any partners for the engine. I'll spend two hours drawing one for you later and hang it on Uncle Jiao's head. As for the rest of the fuselage and structure, you can handle that."

Turbojet, turbofan, turboprop, turboshaft – these are common types of jet engines.

Turbojet is the foundation of everything. Turbofan is a turbojet with an outer casing to form an external bypass duct, and then an intake fan blade is added.

A turboprop is essentially a turbofan with its casing removed, leaving only the blades as propeller blades, using the entire sky as an outer bypass duct.

Turboshaft propellers are a variant of turboprops, but with the addition of an external speed-changing and direction-changing mechanism, which reverses the direction of power output. They are suitable for helicopters where the engine's jet direction and the power output shaft are not on the same straight line.

The advantage of turboprop engines is that they use the entire sky as an external bypass duct, resulting in maximum fuel economy.

The downside is that it's too noisy; once it takes off, you can hear the roar from dozens of kilometers away.

However, the Wing Loong series of reconnaissance and strike UAVs are mainly exported to bully small and medium-sized countries, so this is not a very obvious drawback.

"Can."

Lin Weiliang nodded and said seriously, "I'm thinking about how to implement the Wing Loong-2's system this time, and whether it should be coordinated with the swarm."

"Adding swarm collaboration capabilities will affect the value of swarm drones. Currently, a single swarm drone sells for 1000 million yuan, and my uncle's business is still very stable."

Lin Dong thought for a moment and offered a solution: "Dad, you should make several more versions. The basic version is the same reconnaissance and strike drone as the Wing Loong-1, with an export price of 4000 million."

The advanced version adds a computing power module and a swarm system. With a 32-hour loiter time, it can serve as an all-weather swarm node. One node can command 200 swarm drones, and it supports up to 20 nodes and 20 Wing Loong drones working together. Each drone sells for 4 million yuan.

The super version adds 360-degree image interception and can mobilize wingmen to help defend against man-portable rockets. It'll sell for 6 million...

"hiss--"

Lin Weiliang took a breath and said speechlessly, "20 nodes, 20 Wing Loong drones working together, one Wing Loong drone can command 200 swarm drones, plus one swarm drone can guide 8 infrared drones..."

This way, 32000 drones could be mobilized at once, enough to cause chaos all over the world. Your uncle would have to wear a helmet 24/7 when he goes out.

Today, Lin Weiliang understands the combat power and value of swarm drones.

When he first started researching this, he was troubled by the bee colony algorithm. The upper limit of a bee colony was 3000 bees, and even with the guide mode, it was only 2.4 bees, which was a bit low. To improve it, he would need to add large computing nodes.

However, after experiencing the exercise in Guangxi Province, they learned about the desert's frenzy of buying drones for aerial photography.

All he could say was that his son was truly a prodigy.

This swarm of bees is a killer swarm, a swarm that destroys nations.

"Then we'll use 5 or 10 Wing Loong aircraft in conjunction, but the price will remain the same or increase by another 100 or 200 million."

After thinking about it for a moment, Lin Dong felt that the coordinated attack of 32000 drones was indeed terrifying, and immediately suggested cutting performance.

Of course, the price cannot change.

After all, this thing is even more powerful than a fifth-generation fighter jet for countries outside the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, so we can't sell it cheaply.

If the results are truly amazing, the External Relations Department will help plant some in the desert.

"Alright, I understand."

Lin Weiliang nodded, his expression serious, and said, "I'll send you the dimensions and parameters. You take care of the turboprop engine for me, and I'll arrange for someone to design the rest."

"Send it to my email."

Lin Dong responded and was about to turn on his computer when the doorbell rang.

jingle--

The doorbell rang three times. Zhang Xiali called out through the intercom, "Who is it?" A somewhat familiar voice came from outside.