Chapter 1375: The Man Who Conquered Ocean!
Jiang Chen had said long ago that Future Group stood on the shoulders of giants.
Lilith, as the most powerful artificial intelligence, helped a lot in designing the AI for electronic pilots. It was fair to say that 60% of the credit belonged to her, and the remaining 40% was the work of all the scientists at Future Military’s Artificial Intelligence Technology Laboratory.
The future of the military industry was AI, and so was the focus of Future Military.
Not only electronic pilots, but also projects like more flexible battlefield robots were on the list of Future Military’s development. In Future Military’s laboratory, some AI soldiers could already skillfully use weapons, vehicles, and different terrains to fight, but the expensive cost and poor price-performance ratio made it impossible to move them from the lab enviornment to the frontline battlefield.
But Jiang Chen was very certain about one point.
In the not-too-distant future, the war of flesh and blood would eventually be replaced by the bursts of electric sparks.
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The fourth day of the defense exhibition was still held at the temporary airport.
From S400 to HQ-15 air defense missiles, thick and long air defense missiles were lined up on both sides of the runway. Compradors from different countries commented on the missile launch vehicles and exchanged questions about weapon performance and price with military sales personnel.
As expected by Jiang Chen, the defense exhibition had developed into a wrestling match between military industrial enterprises from Russia and military industrial enterprises from Hua, and the battlefield of competition even extended from arms itself to supporting facilities.
Since the celebration banquet was held in advance, from today on, Future Military decided to minimize its presence. Therefore, Future Group President Jiang Chen was not at the scene, instead, Future Military CEO Ling Tao replaced him.
Originally Jiang Chen planned to take the time to head to Coconut Island and dump the accumulated materials to the apocalypse, but he did not expect a rare visitor to come to the door.
“Why, based on your unexpected expression, you don’t seem to welcome this old man?” Outside the door, Ye Qinghua looked at Jiang Chen with a smile.
Not much had changed since the last time they met more than a year ago. The old man still looked healthy without the slightest sign of aging.
“Not at all!” Jiang Chen laughed, and gestured to his room, “Please come in.”
What surprised Jiang Chen was that Ye Qinghua, who had not contacted him for a long time, actually came to visit him in person this time.
When Ayesha saw a guest, she prepared a cup of tea for the two, and then turned around and went to the second floor.
By coincidence, Natasha, who had just finished washing up, walked downstairs while yawning. She was slightly taken aback when she saw Elder Ye, and then said hello respectfully. When she passed by Jiang Chen, she leaned over and kissed Jiang Chen on the cheek like a wife who was about to go to work. At the same time, she quickly said in a voice that only Jiang Chen could hear, “Why is he here?”
After Natasha got up, Jiang Chen responded with a helpless look that only she could see -“I don’t know.”
Today was a workday and Natasha had to be at the embassy. As for Xia Shiyu, who was never late, she had already gone to the office early in the morning. After the door closed, only Jiang Chen and Elder Ye were in the living room.
Elder Ye blew on the tea leaves floating on the hot tea, smiled, and said.
“Mr. Jiang’s mansion is quite lively.”
“Haha, not at all,” Jiang Chen said with a humble smile.
“I heard that today is the highlight of the exhibition, did you not go and take a look?”
“Our air defense system is not for sale and I don’t have much interest in the air defense system of other companies. Therefore, I just let Ling Tao go for me.” Jiang Chen smiled back.
“I think it’s not that you don’t want to sell it, it’s just that you can’t find a place to downgrade it,” Ye Qinghua scolded while laughing.
“You are right to understand it that way,” Jiang Chen touched his nose, and continued to spill out nonsense, “but I prefer to call it, for the time being, there is no military air defense system suitable for overseas markets.”
What Elder Ye said was indeed one reason, the laser anti-missile system itself was very cutting-edge technology, and Future Military had not mastered the technology for too long, therefore, there was no place to downgrade the technology. If they decided to sell the laser anti-missile system intact, it would weaken the strategic deterrence of Celestial Trade.
“Sure enough! Let’s talk about your… it’s fine if you downgrade the technology of drone or kinetic skeleton, I can’t say much. But you downgraded the rifle too. This is not good business practice is it?” Ye Qinghua lectured Jiang Chen with deep remorse in his tone. The way he sounded made it feel like he was the one who lost out on the deal, even though he was just a retired diplomat.
On the first day of the defense exhibition, Hua purchased a large quantity of S1 kinetic skeletons from Future Military, as well as Scythe drones and the supporting S1 rifles. If it weren’t for the fact that the S1 rifle could be connected to the kinetic skeleton by wire, the auxiliary aiming function of the digital helmet could assist aiming, and the performance was good, no one would buy a downgraded rifle.
“We just distinguish the military sales version from the internal version,” Jiang Chen tried to defend himself, “Just like your Type-95 and Type-97. Isn’t one for internal use and one for external use?”
“I dare to swear on my conscience and say that the difference between the Type-95 and the Type-97 is only the caliber of ammunition, and there is not much difference in performance. Do you dare to swear on your conscience and say that the performance of the S1 and the Ripper is the same?” Ye Qinghua stared at Jiang Chen.
“You didn’t just come here to complain about this, right?” Jiang Chen said helplessly.
“Don’t mind you, I’m just talking nonsense,” Elder Ye smiled and waved his hand, “By the way, let’s talk about business, are you interested in a deal?”
“What deal? You’re not here to sell missiles right?” Jiang Chen picked up the teacup and joked.
“Let me ask first, did you salvage the wreckage of the Urangano?”
He sipped his tea quietly, and after he put the cup down, he gave him a side-eye.
“What do you want to do?”
For some reason, the amiable smile resembled more and more like the squinting eye of an old cunning fox.
“If you ‘can’t find it’, you might as well sell it to us. Anyway, you don’t need those things, right?” After Ye Qinghua’s nonsense, the old fox finally revealed the true purpose of his visit.
Countries were now researching the sixth-generation fighter, and Hua was certainly no exception. It was hard to say how close they were to the true sixth-generation fighter, but if they could get a frame of reference, it would undoubtedly boost the development.
“Just this,” Jiang Chen sighed and waved his hand. “Just for the wrecked plane, you came here, the Russians also came, and even the Germans came… How about this, I’ll have someone scan the drawing of the Uragano and send the drawing to your embassy? I won’t charge you. You can buy another 10,000 kinetic skeletons, and I will give the drawing as a gift for free, what do you think?”
“You can…can scan out the drawings?” Ye Qinghua said blankly.
“Why not?” Jiang Chen smiled and put one leg on his other knee, then leaned back on the sofa, “I can even 3D print a new one if I want.”
Ye Qinghua was silent.
After a long silence, he suddenly asked.
“I don’t understand. While it won’t be too easy, it shouldn’t be too difficult for you to develop a sixth-generation fighter, but why are you not interested in it at all?”
“For someone who has already conquered the ocean, you can ask him why he doesn’t research the canoe.” Jiang Chen replied with a smile, “Then I will ask you in turn, why must I research the sixth-generation fighter?”