The two order tasks made Dong Feng's life even more fulfilling. In the next work, Duke's work was not too much. Most avionics technologies were only transplanted from Winglong-class drones. The various transmission systems needed to be driven by j-7. The original digitalization level of j-7 was too low. Many things were operated manually by mechanical operations, so it was indeed difficult to improve this thing.

In addition, in response to the tactical requirements of the assembly, it turns out that many equipment on the J-7 can be removed, such as most of the equipment in the cockpit, as well as cannons used for air combat, etc. After unmanned automatic flight, these things are no longer available. After large amounts of removal, the J-7 drone can carry more fuel and fly further.

The original short-range air-to-air combat missiles are naturally useless. At that time, they will either be air-to-surface missiles that attack surface, or air-to-ship missiles that attack ships, or simply carry a certain number of high-explosion **, allowing the drone to directly act as a suicide attack mission.

The j-7 machinery expert group sent by Cheng Fei cooperated with Dong Feng's research team and began the R&D and transformation work day and night in accordance with the requirements of the assembly.

But these are not Duke's biggest achievements. Accompanied by Qin Tairan and Zhu Yunqian, Duke went to a confidential construction ceremony to attend. At the ceremony, Duke saw the greatest military use of his lotus pile. Compared with the previous 052d destroyers, in addition to installing a new theater joint tactical system, it also installed two sets of S-2 lotus pile nuclear power devices, which were promoted in the form of a double-axis and double-scull.

Compared with the large gas turbines originally used, the new S-2 nuclear power plant not only allows the improved 052d destroyer to obtain almost unlimited cruising mileage, but also saves extremely valuable hull area for the 052d destroyer. The new power plant occupies less than one-quarter of the hull space compared to the original gas turbine.

Although these two 052d hulls waiting to be installed with a new nuclear power device cannot be modified, the vacant hull space has not been wasted. The Navy can install more military devices and electronic systems in these vacant spaces.

Of course, in the next new 052 improved 052e, you may lose weight according to this situation and appropriately reduce the volume of the hull, so that the 052e has a better radar stealth effect.

But even with the current improvement, the improved 052d has improved a lot of combat power compared to the old 052d that was launched in previous years.

After the trial sailing of these two destroyers, the power performance of the s-2 nuclear power reactor was verified. This nuclear power device will be installed on the newly built aircraft carrier and nuclear-powered submarine. According to the plan, four s-2 nuclear power devices will be installed on the aircraft carrier, which will have 200,000 kilowatts of 4-axis propulsion drive capability, and one s-2 nuclear power device will be installed on the new nuclear submarine.

With this powerful power, the ships have almost unlimited endurance. In this sense, the power systems of these domestic main ships have been qualitatively improved, which is of course a very meaningful day for the Chinese Navy, which is heading towards blue water.

So at this inauguration ceremony, Duke also saw two bigwigs of the Military Commission, Vice Chairman Liu, who presided over the Military Commission, and General Manager Yang, who presided over the assembly.

This heavyweight military tycoon lineup puts the senior leaders of Jiangnan Shipyard, which manufactures 052d, in a state of high tension. Fortunately, the S-2 power reactor developed by Duke is very powerful. After Vice Chairman Liu ordered "", the nuclear power reactor of the No. 186 new missile destroyer named "Chengdu Ship" quickly entered a critical state, driving the huge hull to successfully sail out of the dock.

Next, it will complete its maiden voyage to cruise the Nansha and return to the South China Sea Fleet.

As the sister ship No. 186, No. 187, it is named "Zhongshan Ship" and will go to the Gulf of Aden to escort for more rigorous range training and verification tasks.

Seeing that his achievements were installed on the most advanced destroyer in China, Duke was full of pride, although he almost made no money in this regard. With huge R&D investment amortization, more than ten sets of S-2 nuclear power units were provided to the navy at cost. Fortunately, during the research and development, the above had noticed this problem and vacated the power systems of these warships to wait for Duke's research results.

Otherwise, the number of installations of such power plants will be smaller, and it will be even more difficult for the Navy to accept it in terms of cost.

"Duke, I heard that your Lotus Pile II has been almost developed. When will they be miniaturized and installed on our future new warship?" Mr. Liu asked at the welcome party after presiding over the ceremony.

"Mr. Liu, just spare me." Duke couldn't help complaining when he heard that Mr. Liu had another request. "In fact, the second generation of lotus piles is much more complicated than the first generation, because there is also a poor system in the middle, and the miniaturization transformation is very difficult and not very meaningful. Compared with the same generation of the Lotus pile, the uranium utilization rate has been greatly improved. However, in fact, the uranium utilization rate of the first generation is already very good. As a power drive device, it is enough to allow our warships to survive its entire life cycle."

"It's just that due to the different utilization rates of uranium, the first generation will produce spent fuel with more radiation, while the second generation can use new technologies to significantly reduce the generation of spent fuel. However, this is not unacceptable for warships. Our well-designed spent fuel collection device can safely recycle and store all spent fuel."

What Duke said is also a big truth. The biggest advantage of the second generation is the utilization rate of uranium. This feature is of course very useful in commercial operation, but using the power of large ships is not that meaningful. Instead of spending this effort, it is better to put this in other aspects.

Mr. Liu nodded after hearing Duke's explanation, "Then what are you busy with now? After completing the Jingwei-class and Winglong-class drones, what else do you plan to do in terms of drones?"

"Now we are mainly focusing on large reconnaissance aircraft in terms of drones. The next step is to copy strategic unmanned reconnaissance aircraft of the Global Hawk level. Now it is mainly photoelectric sensing systems, stealth materials and power systems. The colleagues of the military are working with our materials research colleagues. The first prototype of the year should be able to come out, although there may be some gap in performance."

"Okay! With this thing, we can greatly make up for the gap in satellite reconnaissance, which is of great significance. After the reconnaissance aircraft, I will eliminate you and you can release the research and development of unmanned fighter aircraft on the agenda. We are far behind in this regard, so we must catch up."

"Vice Chairman Liu, Duke and others are actually doing research on this aspect," said General Yang Jianguo on the side. "Some time ago, the assembly gave them a task to study how to transform the j-7 into an unmanned fighter, and find a new way for the rejuvenation of the j-7/j-6 fighter jets that we have retired and sealed in the future."

"Well, it's a good idea. This idea is very forward-looking. We have thousands of such fighter jets, and it's a pity that we directly scrapped them. Our family is not rich and we can't stand it so much. If it can be unmanned, it will be of great significance to improving our army's air combat power. We must make great efforts to catch it." Mr. Liu said when General Yang Jianguo said this.
Chapter completed!