At the Country F Army Command Headquarters, the top officials of both the military and the political circles gathered here, but at the moment, it was eerily quiet.
Moritz, the military adviser sent by the Freemasonry from Europe, did not say a word, and the expression on his face did not reveal his inner turmoil at the moment. Aquino IV, the President of Country F, looked around, adjusted his somewhat tight collar, and whispered to the secretary next to him.
"Get me a glass of water, thank you."
The secretary nodded, turned around, and walked out the door.
At the other end of the command table, the new Field Marshal Stark stood there, silently watching the live broadcast of the military exercise that had ended. His fists on both sides of his thighs were clenched so tightly that his veins were bulging.
Celestial Trade did not keep the landing combat exercise a secret, but at the request of the United Nations, they generously disclosed it to the countries in Southeast Asia. In Stark's view, this was simply a blatant provocation … Even if we show you our cards, you still can't beat us!
Celestial Trade had already written this sentence on their faces!
"Arrogant …"
"What about urban warfare?" Moritz, the military adviser from Frankberg, turned his eyes to Marshal Stark and said in a meticulous voice, "Compared with the performance of drones in beach landing operations, I am more worried about the performance of drones in urban warfare."
The high mobility and flexibility of drones were simply tailor-made for urban terrain! Although he also did not know much about the Hummingbird drone, Moritz immediately saw that its real stage was not on the beach, but in the city!
"No." Aquino IV shook his head and answered the question, "They only disclosed the sensitive landing combat project. The combat videos of street combat, jungle combat, and mountain combat have not been released to the United Nations. I protested, but it was useless … "
Aquino IV said the last sentence helplessly.
Marshal Stark looked at Moritz, hoping to learn from the military adviser from Europe how to fight against Celestial Trade.
"The odds are low, but it's not impossible." After Moritz pondered for a moment, he put his knuckles on his chin and said, "Tactically, it's not easy to hit a drone with a rifle at mid-range, but shotguns, fragmentation grenades, and rifle grenades at mid-range can still pose a threat to this kind of close-range drone. Strategically, using signal jamming to interfere with the communication between drones and terminals, although it may hinder our own communication, it should effectively restrain Celestial Trade's drone tactics. "
"We must immediately make adjustments to the frontline deployment. MLL Island's counterattack plan will be temporarily postponed. We need more time!"
…
As far as the results were concerned, the results of the joint military exercise were quite outstanding.
After witnessing the powerful combat capabilities of the Celestial Trade Marine Corps, the Country F Army deployed in the southern part of Luzon Island was much more obedient.
However, the newly appointed President and Field Marshal of Country F obviously did not admit defeat, and the Freemasonry, which provided loans for Country F's military modernization, did not waver in the slightest. They continued to send tanks and modern equipment to Luzon as planned, adding more firewood to the already grim regional situation.
But to be honest, even if the 80,000 soldiers of Country F were all equipped with modern equipment, Jiang Chen was not worried that the Moro regime supported by Celestial Trade would lose. His trump cards were not only the Hummingbird drones and Aurora-20s. If Country F really dared to come, Celestial Trade would directly push them to City M!
The military exercise lasted for three days.
Three days later, Celestial Trade soldiers boarded the transport ship and set off from the port of the New Malaysia Special District.
Jiang Chen personally went to the New Malaysia Special District. After meeting with the Malaysian President, he drew a perfect end to the joint military exercise.
After returning to Coro Island, there was good news from the Aerospace Science and Technology Center. The orbital part of the space elevator had made a major technological breakthrough. Combined with the materials provided by Jiang Chen, the technicians of the institute had completed the design of the entire space elevator and verified it through the mathematical model established by the quantum computer.
After hearing the news, Jiang Chen just got off the plane and didn't even return home. He went directly to Future Building, found Kelvin in the institute, and ordered the technicians to bring up the engineering concept map.
The faint blue light particles were projected in the air, and the space elevator that reached the synchronous orbit was like an umbrella that opened outward. On one side was the transit station in the stratosphere and the narrow "cable" directly to the ground, and on the other side was the wheel-shaped space station, which served as the living and working space in the outer orbit and also served as the "counterweight" to control the center of gravity of the space elevator in the synchronous orbit.
The space elevator of Calm Needle.
"The graphene track's ability to withstand tension is much greater than its ability to withstand pressure. Compared to being pulled apart by its own gravity, the risk of the track being crushed by its own weight is greater. In order to prevent the space elevator from being crushed by its own weight, our engineers came up with an idea to hang 36,000 kilometers of cable from the synchronous orbit space station to the ground. At the other end of the cable, a wheel-shaped 'counterweight' is designed. The counterweight with the center of gravity behind the space station rotates at a constant speed on the same axis, exerting an outward pull on the 'cable' through centrifugal force to prevent our track from bearing the pressure of its own weight! "
"At the same time, the wheel-shaped counterweight itself will also become part of the space station, providing additional living and working space for the space station!"
Speaking of this, Calvin's face showed a trace of sincere pride.
If it was a year ago, before the breakthrough of graphene materials, proposing such a design concept would undoubtedly be ridiculed as a lunatic's dream. Just like in 1970, when the UA physicist Pearson proposed the concept of the space elevator, his peers and the media gave him unfriendly advice – "change your career to writing science fiction."
However, today, the design of the "counterweight" would become the construction standard of the future space elevator, and Kelvin would become one of the founders of the interstellar era of Earth's civilization because of this design!
He did have the capital to be proud.
Although the future space elevator also had a structure similar to the "counterweight", the information provided by Jiang Chen to the Aerospace Science and Technology Center did not mention the specific design plan. What he brought from the apocalypse was only the prerequisite technology needed to build the space elevator and the elevator base.
"What is the approximate cost of the project?"
When the cost was mentioned, Kelvin's expression was a bit awkward. The space elevator was good in every aspect, but the cost was a bit unaffordable. The "2050 Space Elevator Construction Plan" announced by the Nippon Obayashi Construction Company, which built the "Sky Tree" for Yoto, had an estimated cost of 9.5 billion, almost one-twelfth of his offer.
Of course, the former was just making up an excuse.
"From the orbit to the space station, the total cost of the project … is estimated to be 120 billion US Dollar."
"No problem, I'll find a way for the funds, and Future Heavy Industries will cooperate with you to adjust production capacity. Construction will start tomorrow. Can you do it? "
Jiang Chen's reaction was beyond Kelvin's expectations. Not to mention hesitation, when he approved the start of construction, the president didn't even blink. That wasn't twelve hundred US dollars, it was one hundred and twenty billion!
Kelvin was stunned and speechless for a while.
"Is there any other problem?" Seeing that his subordinate didn't speak, Jiang Chen asked in confusion.
Jiang Chen's question immediately brought Calvin back to reality. He stood up straight as if he had been injected with adrenaline. His face was full of excitement.
"No! There's no problem! I promise to complete the mission! "
Although he didn't know why he suddenly reacted so excitedly, seeing his subordinate so motivated, Jiang Chen was naturally very happy and immediately patted him on the shoulder.
"Then go!"
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