Rabbit's shipbuilding and military personnel were overjoyed to be able to obtain ultra-detailed information on the 'Ford' class aircraft carrier. However, the domestic military industry was also dumbfounded when they saw the list of various aircraft carrier repair and maintenance supplies that Zhou Qingfeng requested.
This list, which is several hundred gigabytes in size, mixed with photos and videos, and printed out to several thousand pages, gives people another clear idea - as if there is really a Ford-class aircraft carrier in need of maintenance.
But what if there really is such an aircraft carrier and Wei Mao wants to come to Rabbit's house to find supplies and tools for repair and maintenance? The military industry in the United States has not declined to this extent, has it?
Although they had great doubts, Rabbit's military personnel still tried their best to prepare according to the list. It was just simple things that were easy to talk about, but some complex or cutting-edge things..., they soon discovered that they could not provide them because they did not have them.
There are just other problems.
"Several types of ultra-high-power IGBTs in the list are only available abroad, but the United States has embargoed them on us, and we can't make devices with the same performance now."
"There are several lubricants that are too special and our chemical industry level cannot reach them, so they are embargoed by foreign countries."
"The processing accuracy of some parts is too high, but our machine tools... forget it, we will find experienced technicians to make a few by hand."
The aircraft carrier maintenance supplies list contains a large number of damage pictures, and there are even videos taken that clearly show the damaged parts and specific conditions. These videos even have explanations, giving people a novel and immersive experience.
However, pure information often lacks actual experience. Coupled with the maintenance needs reflected from actual problems, it made the military shipbuilding personnel of the Rabbit family suddenly realize many details in the design of the 'Ford' class aircraft carrier.
It’s just that enlightenment is coming, and the military industry rabbits inevitably secretly speculate: This thing seems to be true. Is it true that a ‘Ford’ class aircraft carrier is damaged and needs to be repaired? This is too strange!
For what Zhou Qingfeng needs, the Rabbit family's military industry uses a nationwide mobilization posture to meet the needs. Some simple equipment and accessories are airlifted from various places to the Magic City in just one or two days, and some high-end goods that are in short supply are also shipped domestically.
Hurry up and organize research.
If you can't solve the problem, you will find a way to smuggle it from abroad. With the underworld network built by Zhou Qingfeng in Japan, it has become much easier to smuggle some embargoed devices and materials.
And if there are some things that cannot be obtained through smuggling, the country has no choice but to find ways to get parts that can be replaced in a short time. Anyway, Zhou Qingfeng does not expect his aircraft carrier to float on the water every day. He can just pull it out to fight and scare people.
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Every day, Zhou Qingfeng will get a project completion form, which will record which of the needed items have been obtained, which items are being transported, and which items are not yet figured out and are being figured out.
Seeing that the supplies he needed were getting more and more abundant, Zhou Qingfeng finally felt relieved. He must have found the right method. It would be more reliable to use the power of the country to complete this task, and it would be much better than messing around on his own.
However, due to Zhou Qingfeng's urgency, the national security had to step up its actions. As a result, some items smuggled from abroad failed to break through and were seized.
Since most smuggling channels pass through Japan, the Japanese Metropolitan Police, customs and various intelligence agencies are seizing more and more items, and things have undergone subtle changes.
At the beginning, Japanese customs seized some electronic components used in radars. The Japanese are still very strong in the R&D and production of certain sub-systems. The things they produce have always been pretty good, but their integration capabilities are too poor.
Then, the Japanese Metropolitan Police discovered a marine propulsion motor during an operation to clean up gangsters. This is a small but extremely powerful device. It is an important innovation in the all-electric propulsion of warships in the United States.
When did gangsters start playing with this kind of military high technology?
There were also intelligence officers from the Coast Guard playing 'fishing'. They fished and fished out several Korean-Japanese smugglers. These guys were smuggling chemical products. You must know that Rabbit's chemical industry has never been strong. Except for lubrication
In addition to oil, there are too many gaps in certain solvents, adhesives, and coatings.
Although Rabbit has been using Japan as a channel to smuggle various embargoed items, the continuous interceptions and seizures have made Japanese intelligence agencies increasingly vigilant. You must know that the United States has just been furious because of the hijacking of the F-22, and was forced to do
My son also has to take Japan seriously.
All the seized items and information were combined, and insiders analyzed a lot of things. When such a pile of clues and analysis materials were sent to the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Miyagawa, the head of the Intelligence Headquarters, felt puzzled——
What on earth is the rabbit doing on the west side of the sea?
The nature of some smuggled items is very obvious, such as a 30-megawatt high-power marine propulsion motor. This is an important piece of equipment for the most advanced all-electric propulsion of warships.
The power of the slave motor can reverse the tonnage of the warship. In fact, this high-power motor is used for the 'Ford' class aircraft carrier. Such expensive military products are not needed elsewhere.
It just so happened that at this time, Rabbit's country also suddenly announced that it wanted to build a large aircraft carrier. The combat effectiveness of a medium-sized aircraft carrier of 50,000 to 60,000 tons was not enough, and a larger one was needed. Based on other intelligence, this larger one is naturally...
According to the Japan-U.S. security agreement, Japan's intelligence must be shared with America. When Japan discovered such an important thing, the CIA dared to ignore it and immediately reported it to its newly appointed intelligence director, Boss Coats.
"Rabbit wants to build a large aircraft carrier of 100,000 tons?" Boss Coates' first reaction was that it was impossible.
Why is it impossible?
It’s only been in the past ten years that Rabbit has become rich. More than ten years ago, when someone predicted that Rabbit’s GDP would surpass Japan’s, a lot of people on the Internet ridiculed it as wishful thinking. Rabbit’s military industry explosion is also a recent event, which has happened several times before.
The U.S. military of more than ten hundred years is really incomparable.
In the course of decades of development, the U.S. Navy's aircraft carriers have gradually developed from small to large. During this period, the United States lost more than 12,000 carrier-based aircraft and more than 8,000 pilots. It can be said that all experience has been lost.
It was bought with blood and tears.
The fact that Rabbit can build a 50,000-ton medium-sized aircraft carrier as soon as it comes out is already a huge development, but now it wants to build a 100,000-ton heavy-duty aircraft carrier right away?
With doubts, Boss Coates asked his intelligence personnel to collect more information. As a result, a lot of information similar to Uncle Zhou's aircraft carrier repair was collected from various public reports. For example...
"my country's ship-use ultra-high voltage power transmission and distribution system has recently passed the verification of ministries and commissions, paving the way for the all-electric propulsion of the next generation of warships."
"my country's naval high-power nuclear reaction project is progressing smoothly, and all testing of the prototype reactor will be completed within two years."
"Our country has determined that the next generation aircraft carrier will use electromagnetic catapult, and its technical level will not be inferior to that of the Ford class."
There are endless related news, all of which are from various domestic scientific research units in Rabbit that are quickly verifying the aircraft carrier information provided by Zhou Qingfeng. Because the information is too detailed, it not only saves money but also time. The verification work of dozens of major items and thousands of small items seems to be
Very smooth.
The result is that the hawk is confused, the chicken is stunned, the bear is confused, John Bull and the Gallic chicken are stunned, and the whole world feels that an arms race is beginning.