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Everyone knows that when ordering six aerospace planes, this is not what they want to send to the country, and it does not really need so many backups.

Since the space flight can be shuttled back and forth and reused, it is enough to have two or three aircraft.

As long as it is not a world war, buying more space planes is just a waste of money - especially now that every space plane is so expensive.

The meaning of the country is to use the past few years to focus on the research of alloy formulas. The orders for six aerospace planes are just to stabilize the South African engine company and allow them to continue to produce aerospace plane engines and provide qualified alloy materials.

As long as you have a qualified alloy formula, you can completely avoid relying on outsiders and take all the technology of aerospace planes into your own hands.

After that, you can no longer look at others' expressions, and whether you will buy alloy materials from that South African engine company, and you will also reconsider them based on cost factors.

Later on, we will try to reduce the manufacturing cost of airplanes-related components so that they can be produced in large quantities and cheaply to supply the needs of different departments in military, scientific research, commercial and civilian industries.

Before this, aerospace planes could only become part of the national strategic force and were strictly controlled.

It turns out that the selected astronauts all received the latest training. They also had to continue to receive training under relevant space weight loss conditions. At the same time, they also received training on aerospace plane simulation trainers in the mountainous areas of the southwest.

All the astronauts are selected from the elites of the tens of thousands of air force pilots in the army, and their driving skills are outstanding. The psychological quality, experience, and on-site reactions are all elites. Learning the driving skills of Kongtian airplane is just a piece of cake for them. Compared with the pain of Han Kun and the others receiving training, it is a world of difference.

When flying out of the atmosphere, the high G overload the human body is subjected to and the weightless reaction it faces after entering space are two gradually opposite extremes.

In order to adapt to these two extreme reactions, Han Kun and others underwent a lot of hard training.

For several pilots, this was an inhuman torture.

But for this group of specially selected astronauts, such training is nothing. The pilots themselves are one in a hundred, and the astronauts are even one out of thousands, and their endurance to various extreme conditions is beyond ordinary pilots.

In March 2007, the annual military exercise began again.

The exercise is as in previous years. It is divided into two parts: real-time military exercises and Pangu World Front-scale Confrontation Virtual Exercise.

What's slightly different this year is that the subject inspection of tens of thousands of pilots in the army is more stringent. Many inspection subjects are so difficult that they are almost impossible to complete. This tests the pilot's skills, it is simply an extreme test for all pilots.

Tens of thousands of pilots are numerous elites. Under such harsh inspection conditions, hundreds of pilots still stood out, either smoothly or lucky enough to pass the exercise of the Air Force Operations Command inspection.

They immediately underwent further psychological and physical tests and sent military investigators to conduct strict political reviews on their families.

Every time you pass the level, a group of pilots will be eliminated. In the later stage, there will be less than 30 pilots left.

What's even more strange is that when the pilots were tested, there were still many soldiers who were not pilots who were also undergoing various tests.

Some of these people are excellent ground flight machinery maintenance engineers, some are pure space researchers, some are tank gunners, some are airborne soldiers, and they also include special forces soldiers, etc., covering all ground military branches.

At this point, all pilots understood that this was not a regular exercise test, but an unusual selection. The military had to select an elite force from their group to carry out secret missions.

At the end of the exercise, the selection also reached a critical moment.

There are twelve pilots left, including mechanical maintenance engineers, airborne troops, special forces soldiers and other military personnel, and there are only more than 30 people left.

They were then taken to the airport by a military bus, and a large military transport plane was waiting for them.

Everyone got on the plane and took off immediately after they took a seat on the canvas suspender seats on both sides of the cabin.

Although the selected pilots sat in the cabin, there were no instruments in front of them, no compass in their hands, and even the portholes were deliberately closed, so they could not see the outside environment. However, their years of training allowed their space orientation to judge extremely excellently. After the transport plane took off, it was unable to confuse them. When the plane flew towards the predetermined target, they immediately determined the direction of the flight.

"Southwest! We are flying southwest. With the airport as the center, the flight angle is about forty-seven degrees." After boarding the plane, a pilot who was close to his eyes and pretending to sleep suddenly opened his eyes and said.

"The flight altitude is 3,200 meters and the speed is 800 kilometers." Another pilot also said.

The other military personnel on the opposite side looked at them with dissatisfaction in their eyes: "Damn! Only you can see it! Damn, if we are not pilots, we don't have this ability? Who doesn't know this Il-76 transport aircraft and knows its normal flight speed, what's the point of being great? If you have the ability, just say, where is our final flight location?"

Before the pilots could speak, a colonel near the cabin door suddenly spoke: "The final flight is the Ya'an Military Sub-district of the Southwest Military Region. But this is not the end of our trip. The end should be more westward, and the specific location is ominous."

"Do you know?" As soon as he said this, the others suddenly became energetic and looked at him.

"I don't know, I guessed." The colonel stretched out his hand toward him, the major in the Marine uniform, "Zhuo Ying, colonel analyst at the Strategic Intelligence Office of the General Staff."

"Ke Jun, battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the Second Regiment of the Marine Brigade." The major stretched out his big hand, held tightly with him, and asked strangely, "How do you guess our final destination is the Ya'an Military Sub-district?"

Everyone in the cabin was watching them.

Cabin and

Several officers stood at the entrance of the corridor, watching them talking, and without doing anything, they also stared at Colonel Zhuoying with scrutiny.

Zhuo Ying glanced at the reactions of everyone, stared at the officers at the entrance of the aisle, and said lightly: "This is not difficult to analyze. First of all, among us, there were twelve pilots, and the rest of the personnel included bomber machine gunners, tank gunners, aircraft maintenance engineers and other professions. It was clear that this mission should be mainly pilots, and we are auxiliary personnel."

The pilots on the hanging chair opposite all smiled satisfied and nodded in agreement.

Although the others were not convinced, they still admitted that Zhuo Yingdi's analysis was very correct after looking at the number of people.

"Secondly, the staff also include civilians like scientific researchers and me, which means that this is a complex comprehensive project. Moreover, based on their respective functional divisions, I judge that I should appear as the brain of this comprehensive marshal, that is, I am likely to be the selected supreme commander!" Zhuo Ying said calmly, and without any hesitation, he put himself in the role of supreme commander.

The cabin suddenly became chaotic.

Although the pilots did not agree with his analysis, even Major Ke Jun around him sneered: "I am also a commander and have experience in commanding the troops. Why is the supreme commander you, not me? I think your best role should be as a staff officer, not a commander."

A pilot opposite immediately retorted: "Air combat. The pilot's on-air judgment is the key to the victory. One of you is a staff officer who is pointing fingers in the air conditioning room, and the other is a battalion commander of the Marine Corps who lands in the operation. You are used to command us, laymen, experts, experts, absurd, absurd! As for the military rank, I am also a colonel, why can't I serve as a commander? If it is a mixed group, I think you are at most the commander of the air crew, but I should be the supreme commander of this unit!"

The pilots all laughed and disagreed with the table eagle's big words.

The auxiliary personnel did not participate. They knew that they were destined to be supporting roles. Whoever was the commander was only responsible for obeying orders. However, they also believed that if it was air combat, they were more inclined to have pilots as military chiefs.

The officer at the intersection of the corridor also looked at Zhuo Ying with an interest expression.

Zhuo Ying's expression remained unchanged and said indifferently: "This is not simple. Just look at the space researcher and you will know that this mission must be an outer space mission. Do you still understand the aerospace plane that was circulated a few days ago? We must enter space to carry out missions! The outer space environment is very different from the flight missions in the atmosphere. There is no big advantage between you pilots and us. And this composite marshal has clearly shown that I am the supreme commander. Major Ke Jun may be the leader of the security team, and you may be the supreme commander of the crew pilot. Isn't this clear at a glance?"

His words caused a thousand waves. As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the local area started to shout excitedly. Even the few people with indifferent expressions just now showed an excited expression and started discussing with the people around him loudly.

Airplane pilots are now the most respected profession in China.

In early 2007, after several shuttle flight tests, the aerospace plane conducted another multi-orbit satellite deployment test. The aerospace plane successfully entered the low-Earth orbit of 800 kilometers, put two "scientific experimental satellites" into orbit with robotic arms, and after remote control adjustment, it successfully entered orbit and carried out work.

Subsequently, the aerospace plane entered a large elliptical orbit under the action of gravity.

When we reach the farthest point of the orbit and 24,000 kilometers away from the earth, three large "scientific experimental satellites" are placed into orbit. The ground station remotely controls the satellites to change space, enter the orbit from the far-earth orbit, and then change the orbit again, jumping into the geostationary orbit of 36,000 kilometers flying around the equator.

The five satellites weigh eleven tons in total, which was something that could not be done before using rockets.

Moreover, when the aerospace plane returned to the atmosphere, it also brought a scrapped Dongfanghong-2 satellite back to the ground in the near-Earth orbit.

This flight shocked the whole world again.

Satellite technology and space recovery satellite technology are deployed at one time. These were previously independently mastered by the United States, but now China has mastered them. Moreover, unlike the United States launches space shuttles, it is necessary to launch rockets under good weather conditions. China uses space shuttles to send up more than ten large satellites, dozens or hundreds of small satellites into space at any time.

In terms of cost, the space shuttle only consumes liquid hydrogen mixed fuel, and there is no need to abandon the fuel compartment. It is only one tenth or even one tenth of the space shuttle!

This is a big step forward compared to American technology!

The news was so exciting that when the TV screen of the sky plane returning to the ground came back, the whole country was jubilant and there were crowds of joy everywhere.

Who doesn’t want to be a glorious member of the space flight crew in the army?

At this time, they heard that they might have been selected to serve as members of the space plane and perform special tasks. For a moment, the entire cabin was full of incredible inquiries.

Zhuo Ying looked at the officer at the aisle without blinking, with a smile on his lips: "I wonder if this lieutenant colonel can give us an accurate answer?"

The lieutenant colonel grinned: "There is no need to make random guesses. When you arrive at the destination, you will know. OK. The journey is long. You should save some energy and don't think about it here. Let's take a break."

After saying that, he entered the aisle and never came out again.

As soon as his figure disappeared into the aisle, a huge cheer came from the cabin. He stopped, thought for a while, shook his head, and continued to move forward.

The transport plane landed at a small airport in the evening.

All the selected people were asked to get off the plane and before they could even check the surrounding environment.

The soldiers with the world logo on the group uniforms politely invited several sealed vehicles.

Colonel Zhuo Ying, Major Ke Jun, and the Air Force Colonel were all invited to a bus alone. The space researcher was also on the bus with them.

Zhuo Ying had just had time to glance at the airport, and the soldiers were polite but firmly invited the bus.

In the bus, all the floor curtains were pulled up.

"There are mountains everywhere here, and it seems to be a military airport in the southwest." The Air Force colonel said softly.

He had already admitted Zhuo Ying's analysis, but refused to admit defeat, saying that this was a military airport in the southwest, and not that it was the Ya'an Military Sub-district.

Zhuo Ying nodded slightly, followed the soldiers' arrangements and sat down in the middle seat of the vehicle.

The soldiers asked them to sit in the middle, but they themselves scattered and sat by the windows on both sides. They were all wearing digital individual equipment, and they looked new, which seemed a little different from ordinary military equipment. Another strange thing made them feel that the weapons held by these soldiers were all those they had never seen before.

The thick gun body does not look heavy, but is very clumsy.

There was a large backpack at the waist of the soldier. A wire was dragged out on the ground of the gun grip and inserted it on the backpack. It looked very strange. Could it be a gun driven by power?

The soldiers seemed to have been assigned to their positions long ago, and they soon took their place.

They pulled out a wire from under the seat, inserted it into their backpack, and then leaned the huge barrel against the seat in front. Everyone was expressionless and didn't even look at Zhuo Ying and the others.

Zhuo Ying and others looked at each other, asked nothing, and sat in the seat in the middle of the aisle.

Only the technical officer, who had a very strange expression since he saw these soldiers at the first sight. His face was bloodshot, and his eyes were staring at the huge guns in the soldiers' hands. He wanted to say something, but he bit his lower lip tightly and did not speak.

He obviously adhered to the principle of confidentiality and did not ask, so he did not speak. But looking at his flashing nose, he endured it very hard.

Zhuo Ying leaned into his ear and asked in a low voice: "Do you know these security team members of Universal Corporation?"

"Do you know too?" The technician was staring at the digital individual equipment and guns of the soldiers beside him. Suddenly, Zhuo Ying's voice came from behind him, which scared him so much that he shivered all over. Then he calmed down and slapped his forehead, "By the way, you are from the General Staff, of course you know them."

Although their voices are small, the people here have very good ears and can be heard by everyone in front and behind.
To be continued...