Supersonic stealth strategic bomber; did Sun Wukong get this technology?

Chapter 50: Supersonic Stealth Strategic Bomber; Did Sun Wukong Get This Tech?

Across the ocean.

In the employee dormitory of the LLNL Laboratory in Livermore, Bay Area.

Lu Ze didn't reply to the email from Great Xia and closed the light screen projection on his eyeball.

"About 35 billion RMB in subsidies for primary and secondary school students. How many students are there in Northwest Province in total?"

Lu Ze lay on his bed, staring at the white ceiling, his mind racing. "This should be enough. I believe the educational issues back home will be greatly alleviated."

"However, it's probably far from enough to solve the problem nationwide."

He didn't feel any heartache about donating this money to his hometown. Not to mention, this money would be a hot potato in his hands; the Wall Street squids would probably come knocking the day after he received it.

The key was that he himself was a child who came from the mountains. It was thanks to the help of his neighbors and hometown that he was able to attend an excellent university, which gave him the opportunity to get a national scholarship for overseas study and come to Duke University, a globally renowned Ivy League institution, to pursue his master's degree.

In Lu Ze's eyes, every child in the mountains across the country was a reflection of his past self.

Now that he had the ability to change all of this, there was no reason for him not to extend a helping hand. It was precisely because Lu Ze had experienced the feeling of being drenched by the rain that he wanted to try and shield others from it. This had nothing to do with profit; it was about redeeming his past self.

"To completely solve this educational problem, the road ahead is still long and arduous,"

Lu Ze sighed. "Northwest Province isn't the only impoverished area... and the problems to solve aren't just schools and subsidies."

He also understood that this problem couldn't be solved overnight. Solve one, and another would follow.

But in the mountainous regions, let alone good schools and teachers, many people there still ate unnutritious food like sweet potatoes every day.

If he could now ensure that students in Northwest Province could eat meat, eggs, and milk every day, then in the future, he could solve all the educational problems in Great Xia. Lu Ze believed that as long as he had this 'Black Technology Copy System' and kept working hard, that day would eventually come.

Now it was Northwest Province, and later it would be impoverished regions like Sichuan and Yunnan, and the problem would be solved there as well.

However, that day would likely signify the arrival of a nightmare for the entire Western world.

Lost in these thoughts.

Suddenly, Lu Ze remembered something Lucy had asked him to do after lunch that day.

"Lucy, that girl, is still so kind-hearted,"

He murmured a couple of times.

When they went to that French restaurant for lunch, Lu Ze was prepared to bleed a lot of money. But when they arrived, he found out it was more like a budget-friendly French restaurant. Of all the food they ate, only the foie gras was the most expensive; everything else was ordinary bread, roasted meat, and so on.

So, although Lucy seemed carefree on the surface, she had a good heart that was cold on the outside but warm on the inside.

However.

"This thing, where am I supposed to buy it for you?"

Lu Ze thought of her request and couldn't help but get a headache. "I shouldn't have shown her that Little Fairy thing."

Why did he have to show her that cartoon from Great Xia?

Well, now he had caused trouble!

After watching the entire series of Little Fairy, Lucy actually asked him to buy a Magic Wand, one that could make the sound of 'Balala, transform!'.

Where the hell was he supposed to buy such a thing?

Nowadays, Eagle Country didn't have anything like the Yiwu International Trade City, and there wasn't even Pinduoduo in China. Overseas shopping was extremely difficult.

"Maybe I should look for Quasanti; perhaps their Mysterious Shop has it?" Lu Ze thought to himself.

You might not trust the large supermarkets in Eagle Country, but the Quasanti Mysterious Shop is always worth your trust.

No cost, all profit, the stall owner provides 100% authentic goods, supports pre-orders, and even offers after-sales service for 'rescuing' items.

Although the supply is unstable, you can specify an item, and it will be delivered the next day.

While it wasn't as rampant as it would be more than a decade later, its early form was already appearing.

Meanwhile.

Outside the gate of the Great Xia Academy of Sciences, a middle-aged man in a private car rushed out.

After receiving a call from Zheng Lixing in the early morning, Duan Fei took the earliest flight and rushed to Yanjing. He had been pondering on the plane.

What was the meaning of the words Zheng Lixing had said? He couldn't figure it out.

He didn't have many doubts about the establishment of the H-20 project. This project should officially launch the stealth strategic bomber project by the end of the year at the latest.

After all, if things continued like this, there wouldn't be many English symbols left for the H-6.

And Great Xia urgently needed a long-range strategic delivery capability. They couldn't solve everything with ballistic missiles, could they? Once a ballistic missile is launched, there's no turning back, but a strategic bomber can fly over your head to provide deterrence and suppression, a strategic significance that cannot be replaced.

'But what does this have to do with the B-2 bomber?'

Thinking of this, he didn't even have time to take a sip of water or have breakfast. As soon as he got out of the car, he headed straight for the Dean's conference room.

Duan Fei stood at the door, tidied his appearance, and knocked on the office door. "Dean Zhang."

A familiar voice came from inside. "Duan Fei is here? Come in."

Walking into the office, he indeed saw the two familiar faces from his memory.

This wasn't his first time at the Great Xia Academy of Sciences, so he was familiar with both of them. In fact, ever since he started his research career, he had grown up listening to the legends of Zheng Lixing and others.

"Please, sit down. You must have had a tiring journey. I only have some ordinary Pu'er tea here, I apologize for the lack of hospitality," Zhang Yuli said, picking up a cup of water and handing it over.

Duan Fei drank it in one gulp, a hint of confusion in his brow. "Dean Zhang, Elder Zheng, are you looking for me regarding the H-20 project this time?"

"That's right," Zheng Lixing nodded with a smile.

"But what do you mean by 'regarding the B-2 bomber'?" Duan Fei asked the most crucial question in his mind.

Besides both being stealth strategic bombers, what connection could they possibly have?

"We know you have some doubts."

Zhang Yuli smiled and picked up a small stack of blueprints. "Take a look at this first, and you'll understand."

"I'll understand if I look at it?" Duan Fei, full of confusion, took the stack of draft blueprints, which looked like dozens of pages at least.

[Technical Analysis of New High-Thrust Small-Bypass Turbofan Engine.]

[Detailed Parameters.]

[Maximum Thrust without Afterburner: 8.4 tons, Compressor: 9-stage axial, Fan: 3-stage axial, Diameter: 970mm, Pressure Ratio: 3.2.]

[Adopts a non-afterburner engine, using a swirl mixer to effectively stabilize and mix the airflow of the inner and outer bypass ducts. 90% of the air in the inner bypass duct is burned off before fuel is injected into the outer bypass duct, significantly improving efficiency and suppressing temperature. The high-pressure turbine casing fan segment uses cooling air for tip clearance control, greatly improving efficiency.]

[Stealth Material Analysis and Technical Characteristics: Uses Carbon Fiber Honeycomb Core Composite Material. The density of this structure increases from the outside in, with an average density of 0.032g/cm³. At the 6-18GHZ frequency band, the feedback is -20dB.]

[.]

"This technology? A small-bypass, high-thrust engine?"

Duan Fei first looked at the engine technology at the top, his eyes widening.

Then, expecting the detailed development steps for this engine technology, he found that the second page presented a new technology.

"Carbon Fiber Honeycomb Core Composite Material structure?" Duan Fei murmured the name, his shock intensifying.

He was not only awestruck by the terrifying performance described for these two technologies, but what made it even more unbelievable was...

'Are you kidding me? This is the technology used in the B-2 bomber!' Duan Fei's inner emotions could only be described as 'Holy crap!'

No wonder they told him before coming that this was related to the B-2 bomber; so that's how it was?

'How did it end up in the hands of the Great Xia Academy of Sciences?'

Although the draft design drawings were labeled as "New High-Thrust Small-Bypass Aero Engine" and "New Stealth Composite Material Technology," Duan Fei, who had been researching bombers for over a decade or two, immediately recognized it as the General F118-GE-100 engine used in the B-2 bomber. Moreover, that particular engine was the non-afterburner version, which matched perfectly.

After a long while, having finished reading the tens of pages of technical synopsis.

"Dean Zhang, Elder Zheng, from which 'research institute' in Great Xia did we obtain this bomber technology?" Duan Fei emphasized the words 'research institute.'

Which divine being managed to bring this thing over from Eagle Country? Sun Wukong wouldn't have this capability; you'd need the Buddha himself to make it happen.

"This technology, is it acceptable?"

Zheng Lixing squinted and smiled. "If we were to initiate the H-20 project now, how soon could you develop it?"

His meaning was clear: Don't ask where the technology came from, just tell us if it will significantly help the H-20 development!

"Based solely on these technical synopses, if all of them are verifiably feasible," Duan Fei pondered for a moment and gave a number, "Give me five years. In five years, we can develop Great Xia's own H-20."

"And its performance will absolutely not be inferior to Eagle Country's B-2 'Ghost' bomber!"

Five years was already the most ideal and extreme timeframe Duan Fei could imagine. The J-20 project had progressed quickly, unlike their H-20, which hadn't even been initiated yet. After all, even if you possessed the complete technology, it didn't mean you could build it directly. A multitude of basic processing, material precision, and other aspects needed to be overcome, and even production and installation required time. It wasn't that fast.

"No, the H-20 we plan to initiate is not just about matching the B-2 bomber."

Zhang Yuli gazed at Duan Fei and slowly said, "Our H-20 must be a supersonic stealth strategic bomber!"

Hearing this, Duan Fei instantly stood up.

A supersonic stealth strategic bomber?

Was that something that could be built now? This would be directly leading the world by an entire dimension!

(PS: I'll try to post the next chapter around 6 PM, offering a little side dish for your dinner, dear readers.)