svetikya Chapter 152 The terrifying technological background of pioneer technology
Chapter 152 The terrifying technological background of pioneer technology
"The Ministry of National Defense has no objection. Since they can sell it, we have nothing to say.
As the Minister of Defense, he was only angry because of the huge amount of money. Since the president and the finance department did not speak, there was no need for him to be the villain, so he nodded and agreed.
At this time, everyone else here, after seeing that some people had already agreed, no one came out to be the evil person.
After all, anyone with a discerning eye can now see that today's pioneering technology is already at its peak.
It is like the next Stark Group, and the other party also provides the United States with a large number of high-tech arms and weapons because of its friendly attitude and arms cooperation with the US military and government. Not to mention that Howard Stark himself is the main inventor of the atomic bomb. principal.
Just talking about the current Tony Stark, the military has provided technical assistance more than once.
It is precisely because of this that Tony Stark still holds the title of military weapons consultant in the military.
And now Pioneer Technology pays no less attention to Stark Group than the former, and even to a certain extent, even more than the other party.
Moreover, everyone here is able to get to this position, and they are all human beings. If there is no direct conflict of interest with themselves and the forces on their side, no one will express their opposition.
At this time, after everyone agreed, the president on the side looked at the "big steward" of the United States like everyone else and motioned for him to express his position. After all, the other party is in charge of the country's money bag. Even in many cases, the president needs the other party’s nod to spend money.
"This year's fiscal budget can only support the country to purchase one ship at most. S.H.I.E.L.D. also has a fixed annual expenditure of 100 billion US dollars and tens of billions of dollars in special research and development funds waiting to be allocated. After all, you know, President."
"And I must remind you that our annual fiscal revenue is in deficit now. If we want to buy, we have to continue to borrow money from other countries."
After seeing the looks in the eyes of the President and all his compatriots, the Minister of Finance at this time said with a queasy look on his face.
"This is simple. Cut off SHIELD's tens of billions of R\u0026D funds. Don't they need a lot of money for research? Now that Pioneer Technology has developed it, if they have any objections, let them go directly to Pioneer Technology to buy it."
"Then issue national bonds and continue to borrow from the three countries of Britain, France and China... No, sell it to one person, um, borrow it first... let's sell it for 100 billion US dollars."
"Then South Korea and Japan should also collect garrison expenses, right?"
After hearing the words of the Minister of Finance, the President also became relaxed and then said calmly.
"Okay, if that's the case, then there shouldn't be any problem!"
"In South Korea, yes, the cost of military garrison last year was US$300 million!"
"In Japan, it is US$600 million."
After listening to the president's words, he nodded, and the Minister of Finance on the side also spoke immediately.
After all, the president's few words could be regarded as resolving most of his pressure.
It has to be said that since he took the position of Minister of Finance, he has learned what it means to be in charge.
All walks of life, all projects, any person, meeting him is all because of the two sons in his pocket. The key is that they have serious reasons, and the president is only responsible for signing. Regarding financial pressure, it is Not worried at all.
"Only a few hundred million dollars?! We use financial and material resources to protect them, but that's it? This year, the cost of garrisoning in these two places will be increased tenfold. Although the number of other garrisoning places is not so large, it will be increased by at least twice. Remember, our soldiers are the best in the world and they deserve the best."
After hearing the answer from the Minister of Finance, the president at this moment seemed to have heard something exaggerated, and then he spoke.
"But...this, Your Excellency, is this too high?"
After hearing that jaw-dropping language, the Minister of Finance was shocked speechless for a moment. After being stunned for a while, he spoke.
After all, according to the current situation, even the original garrison expenses are enough to support their troops in the local area for a whole year, and they can save a lot of expenses. If this is directly increased tenfold... I have to say, He wanted to go to work in these garrison places.
"Too high? You ask them to take a good look at how dangerous the world is now. Even such a serious biochemical leak has occurred in the United States. Ask him if they can guarantee that such a thing will not happen in the United States. In their land?”
"If they dare to guarantee it, I will immediately sign a presidential decree to withdraw the local troops without saying anything."
"Our soldiers risked their bodies and lives to defend their sovereignty and integrity, but what about them? They are reluctant to part with just a little military expenditure?"
"What's the military's opinion?"
Regarding the words of the Minister of Finance, the President immediately raised his voice dozens of times and then spoke directly.
"No objection. The military highly agrees with the president's words!"
After hearing the president's words, Army four-star general Winston Harrison also nodded and then spoke.
After all, the president's words will ultimately be in the hands of the military, so he has no objection to this.
In this way, the issue of military spending was settled by the president in a few words.
"Very well, Mr. Minister of Finance. Next, please speak to Pioneer Technology on behalf of us and General Ross. We will purchase two space carriers at the price they require."
"As for the cost, Your Excellency Winston Harrison, I plan to divide the money into two parts. One part will come from your army's military expenditure this year, and the other part will be subsidized by the government. Does the military have any objections?"
Later, President Ellis also spoke very friendly to Winston Harrison, the Minister of Finance and the representative of the military present.
After all, in this matter, the aerospace carrier they invested in purchasing was mainly used for the military's armed construction. The military took almost all the benefits, so it should be funded by the military. Even Ellis felt that he only asked the other party to contribute half of it. The military expenditures are already very good.
"No problem, as it should be, Mr. President Ellis."
After hearing the president's words, Winston Harrison said while suppressing the pain on his face.
After all, even if it is half, it is still 200 billion U.S. dollars. Their annual military expenditure is only 300 billion U.S. dollars. This is a direct cut on their main artery. You must know that their annual military expenditure is not bloated at all. of.
More than 60%, or more than 180 billion US dollars, will be spent on the maintenance of fixed equipment of the navy, army and air force, such as B-2 stealth bombers, F-22 and F-35 fighters, as well as the Navy's aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, all of which require huge expenditures.
Even the cost of a single B-2 bomber is as high as 2.4 billion U.S. dollars, and the cost of the F-22 is also high, at 150 million U.S. dollars each.
Not to mention that the Navy's nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers also require a lot of money to keep operating and maintaining.
And the remaining personnel salaries also account for the bulk. Last year alone, they spent almost $66 billion on overseas combat missions and emergency operations.
As for what is left, it is only a mere 50 to 60 billion U.S. dollars, and any department will lose all of it.
Not to mention that they have various research institutions within the military. It can be said that they cannot do a good job in maintaining weapons this year.
"But Your Excellency, if this is the case, I think some of our military's combat readiness supplies this year will be too bloated. It is better to sell some as aid supplies."
After finishing speaking, Winston Harrison took the initiative to speak.
After all, if they just sit and wait to be slashed without any action, not to mention that he will not let him go, even if he goes back, the Navy Commander and the Air Force Commander will find trouble for him.
"Well, yes, Afghanistan, the Middle East, and India, haven't they always wanted to buy it? It's still the old rule, dismantle what should be dismantled, and sell some of the unnecessary ones to them at high prices as friendly aid from international powers."
"Then tell our 'allies' that it's time to make some noise. The world is a bit too quiet now!"
After hearing Harrison's words, President Ellis nodded in agreement, and then spoke again. When he said the last sentence, he looked at Harrison in front of him without any hesitation. Said coldly.
After all, for them now, the country's income is definitely tight, let alone purchasing such a large amount of weapons from Pioneer Technology. Where can they recover the losses in this area?
Of course, it is through the method they are best at. Only when things start to happen in the world can their weapons and other materials be used to support them.
"OK……"
After a friendly half-day discussion, the entire United States formulated a strategic plan for this year and the next few years.
At this moment, in this small room, it fully demonstrated what it means: the fewer the number of people, the bigger the matter.
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At this moment, S.H.I.E.L.D., which had been secretly stabbed, Nick Fury also gathered all his confidants and scientists together.
It was impossible not to gather together. If this continued, he estimated that pioneer technology would have gone out of the universe and carried out interstellar colonization, and they had not even developed a sea-air dual-purpose space carrier on the ground.
"Everyone has seen it. Is there anything you want to say now?"
"The video was shot with high-definition footage by our personnel at the scene, and there are also images of the aerospace carrier appearing out of thin air that were accidentally captured by the public at the beginning."
At this moment, Nick Fury used his dark face to turn a darker color, and then spoke.
"This is impossible. Even if we gather the world's top manpower, material resources and even supercomputer clusters to perform the deduction, it will take at least ten years to complete."
"Every component and structure of the space carrier, even the placement of a steel plate, must be determined through a lot of calculations and deductions."
"Unless they had started this spacecraft as a research project more than ten years ago, it would have been impossible to do it."
At this time, as a technician who had always been responsible for the research and development of space carriers within the SHIELD Trident Base, when he saw several space carriers hundreds of meters long appearing out of thin air in the screen, , and even made an incredible sound.
"There is another possibility..."
"That is the overall technological level of Pioneer Technology. It is ten to twenty years ahead of us, or even more."
"And these projects have been developed secretly by them for a long time. Otherwise..."
A veteran professor on the other side also said with a look of disbelief and fear on his face at this moment.
"Otherwise, what about it?"
After seeing what the other party had not finished saying, Hawkeye at this moment also asked curiously.
"Otherwise, it can only mean that Pioneer Technology has real artificial intelligence as rumored by the outside world."
"Only true artificial intelligence can explain clearly why Pioneer Technology ushered in a technological explosion last year, including robots, anti-cancer drugs, smartphones, 4G signals, and even the current aerospace carrier. They’re all out.”
After hearing Hawkeye's question, the veteran professor on the side also added something.
It's just that there is hope in his eyes but also a hint of disbelief.
After all, according to current technology, artificial intelligence should only remain theoretical.
After all, Pioneer Technology has launched a 4G network at this time, and major companies are still iteratively updating it based on this. If Pioneer Technology had not launched it, they would probably still feel fast with a few megabytes of traffic per minute.
Even if the computing power of a computer is not much greater, such a computer can only calculate much faster than the human brain.
Therefore, people have not started to develop artificial intelligence at all. Now they are more focused on how to further improve the network.
"Could it be that there's something wrong with that thing..."
At this time, a more senior researcher on the side came to Nick Fury's side when he saw him, and then lowered his voice and spoke in an extremely cautious tone.
"Won't!"
After hearing what the researcher said, Nick Fury also shook his head. Although he had thought about it at first, the cooperation between them was not high, and they had also used each other to develop space carriers, but they could only The effect is that, it is precisely because of each other that their progress has been shortened to ten years, otherwise it would have been much longer.
And if Pioneer Technology has such a thing, unless it is stronger than him, otherwise... it is simply impossible.
"Now that we have the finished product, can you use the things in the video to speed up the progress? Everyone."
"Although I am not in the White House now, I believe that after seeing these videos, those people should have already questioned whether the budget given to us is reasonable. When we have such a huge injection of funds, research progress is still so slow, and The other company did it without any funding!"
"Although I'm not questioning you, what I want to say is that it really makes people think that our SHIELD is incompetent."
At this time, after seeing the shocked expressions of the on-site researchers who had been watching the scene in the video and not yet coming back to their senses, Nick Fury knocked on the table, and then spoke to everyone again. .
"It's useless. Our design styles and theirs are completely different. Even if there is something we can learn from, it will only speed up the process by a few months."
"And our biggest problems are still unresolved. One is the spiral device power system, and the other is the need to purchase a controllable nuclear fusion reactor as the energy source for the aerospace aircraft carrier, because the power of nuclear fusion is permanent and is more powerful than anti-gravity. The materials need to be better, so the anti-gravity materials we originally designed can be ignored.”
"But the heavy-duty aircraft carrier we designed is initially estimated to weigh about 10,000 tons, and the power system is four lift engines, which is about 11,000 tons. If such a large aircraft carrier is to be launched into the sky, the thrust of the four lift engines should be 3,000 tons. /Taiwan or so."
"The problem now is that we don't have the technology yet."
"The Pioneer Technology aircraft carrier in the video is equipped with seven solid-fuel reverse thrust engines to achieve the purpose of hovering in the atmosphere."
"If we don't solve the former problem, then we will have to change to the latter, and if the latter... I'm sorry, Director, it is estimated that the construction time will be doubled."
After hearing Nick Fury's words, the veteran researcher on the side spoke carefully after thinking carefully.
After all, when they first received this mission, they thought it was a fantasy. The technology that could send an aircraft carrier into the sky was comparable to building God's Noah's Ark.
"This means that if we want to refer to Pioneer Technology's aerospace aircraft carrier, we will have to change our original ten-year construction time to 20 years, and the tens of billions of investments every year will continue like now. It will take 20 years and nearly one trillion U.S. dollars of investment to complete. Is this my understanding correct? Gentlemen!"
After hearing his researcher tell him such a huge amount of time, Nick Fury's face turned so black that it could drip with ink, and then he spoke with an exaggerated expression.
"Yes! Director, so I suggest you just buy Pioneer Technology's aerospace aircraft carrier. After all, as an arms company, they will definitely sell it if they come up with it."
"Instead of researching it ourselves, it is better to buy one first and then put it into use, or to dismantle it ourselves and conduct reverse research, which is both a good thing."
Not caring about Nick Fury's exaggerated sarcasm, the researcher on the side also nodded and said in agreement.