How to hide a drop of water? That is to hide it in the heavy rain. If there is only one plane flying in the sky every day, then people on the ground will always pay attention to such a plane, but if there are ten or even twenty planes flying every day
If a plane flies overhead, no one will look up to see these things that they are accustomed to.
Therefore, when the larger, more capable, and even safer C-130 transport aircraft began to perform carrying tasks in the sky, no one realized that the Tang Empire had begun to use more advanced transport aircraft on a large scale.
However, it is regrettable that this aircraft is not actually a qualified "personnel" transport aircraft. It is basically a transport aircraft and is not modified and developed from the DC-3 passenger aircraft like the C-47.
Therefore, the Type 130 transport aircraft of the Tang Empire performed cargo missions most of the time. They only carried a large number of personnel when performing paratrooper airborne missions and special personnel transportation missions.
Xiong Gai was actually very nervous when he took the 130 transport aircraft for the first time. It was the first time he saw such a huge transport aircraft, and it was also the first time he saw a four-engine heavy transport aircraft with such a low fuselage and a high-wing layout.
Although the interior of this kind of aircraft looks a bit crude, and even the seats are temporarily arranged. But Xiong Gai is still very proud. After all, he may be the first foreigner to officially know about the 130 transport aircraft.
The bumpy ride was uncomfortable because this kind of transport aircraft was not specifically designed to carry people, but its powerful carrying capacity still shocked Xiong Gai.
The entire transparent transport cargo compartment has been simply modified and can accommodate nearly 100 passengers. This is a leap forward for the DC-3 passenger aircraft, which can only carry more than 20 people.
What surprised Xiong Gai even more was that he was not here to visit the 130 transport aircraft. The main purpose of his trip was to attend an important viewing ceremony.
Yes, he came to watch the ceremony. After living in Chang'an for more than two years, he finally got the opportunity to leave Chang'an, but this time he left briefly to go to Dragon Island.
It is not easy to look at the sea below through the portholes, because there are not many portholes in 130, and they are located at different heights.
Compared with the windows of the 47 transport aircraft, the window design of the 130 is more like a fool-proof one, as long as it is available.
He didn't know why he was invited to attend the ceremony this time. He just vaguely heard that the Tang Empire was preparing to cause a big event this time.
This is not a secret, because someone has already told him semi-publicly: the Tang Empire is preparing to launch a star into the sky!
After hearing this statement, Xiong Fei felt that the other party was amusing himself: at his age, he had never heard that stars could be launched into the sky.
So he didn't believe what the other party said at all - but as he heard more and more people discussing similar content, he began to feel uncomfortable.
Yes, he felt uncomfortable: all his common sense of life in the past began to collapse under the challenge of the Tang Empire. He seemed to understand why so many emperors of the empire hated the Tang Empire.
But soon he started to get excited again: He felt that this kind of Tang Empire was worthy of being followed by the Chu Kingdom and worthy of being admired!
Only when the Tang Empire becomes more powerful, will Chu State become more dignified when they kneel in front of the Tang Empire... This is a very logical idea, and it makes Xiong Fei extremely satisfied as soon as it appears.
Yes, we in Chu State have knelt down, but you...do you have a chance to kneel down?
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In the middle of Dragon Island, in a huge base, everyone is busy nervously. Because the aerospace department of the Datang Empire is inspecting the second launch rocket that is about to be launched. This rocket will carry the first launch of the Datang Empire.
Practical artificial satellites are sent into space.
The first experimental launch has been successful for several months: after all, there are fully mature design drawings, and everything is going smoothly.
A few months ago, an experimental satellite was launched by the Tang Empire and began to play music non-stop in the sky.
That satellite has no practical use and is just a test product to verify various parameters. This time, the Longdao launch base will launch another practical artificial satellite.
The purpose of this satellite is different. It is equipped with an ultra-high resolution camera and has a very precise position identification system.
This spy satellite can fly over Dahua, Qin, Yangmu Empire, the southern region of the Ice Empire... and then accurately locate almost all cities in these areas.
One such spy satellite can obtain more image data than an airplane taking off 200 times, not to mention that the range of an airplane cannot cover such a huge area.
There is no need for any nearby airports, no need to risk letting your plane enter the airspace of certain countries, and no need to take any responsibility even if it fails... This new spy investigation method is simply the most perfect.
It’s just that this detection method is not cheap, and it is not that convenient to use now: the film carried by today’s reconnaissance satellites still has to be transmitted back to the ground, and real-time monitoring cannot be achieved.
In fact, this is already a kind of progress. As everyone knows, after the success of this spy satellite, the technical department of the Datang Empire will launch a comprehensive space development plan.
With the development of technology, reconnaissance satellites will only become more and more advanced, and various subsequent satellites will emerge in endlessly. Remote sensing detection, weather forecasting, terrain mapping, image shooting, signal transmission, positioning and navigation...
When these satellites start wandering around the planet, there will no longer be any secrets in this world!
Compared with those spy satellites that were immature and had a single function at the beginning, the spy satellites of the Tang Empire were very advanced from the beginning.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It is equipped with two cameras that complement each other. It can identify targets the size of buildings and locate all cities it passes. The feedback data can greatly improve the missile's accuracy.
Attack accuracy.
The tall steel launcher has been prepared, and the rocket that has been built from the huge factory building on the side is slowly pushed out.
It will be fixed on the launch pad, then filled with launch fuel, ready to be launched to an orbit more than 200 kilometers above the ground.
When Xiong Gai was sitting on the viewing platform in the distance, he had an unreal feeling: all the generals and dignitaries of the Tang Empire were sitting around him, and it seemed that he was the only one who came here to watch the ceremony.
A "foreigner".
However, in order to shoot a documentary, there are really a lot of cameras and cameras. Everyone is very excited, after all, most of this kind of shooting can be achieved in one shot.
Just looking at the bullet-like but extremely huge rocket from a distance made Xiong Fei unable to restrain his excitement.
He didn't know why the Tang Empire would create such a huge cannonball. In his subconscious, this cannonball was not a star-shooting projectile, but a super cannonball that could hit hundreds of kilometers away!
In fact, his intuition was not wrong, because if the rocket is replaced with a warhead, it will be a missile - but the real missile is now lying in the missile silo of the Tang Empire. What is placed here now is indeed a missile.
A rocket that launches an artificial satellite.
Xiong Fei was very curious, but he really didn’t know anyone he could ask questions he was curious about. He could only maintain a relatively fixed sitting posture as much as possible so that others would not think of anything bad when they saw him.
matter.
After all, he is just a proton, to put it bluntly, a hostage. His safety here depends entirely on his own performance.
More and more people walked into the viewing platform, and stood up and applauded from time to time - some officials on Long Island, as well as officials coming from afar, all need to be respected.
Soon, a waiter sent news that soon His Majesty the Emperor and the two Royal Concubines would enter the venue.
This news suddenly made everyone present nervous. Not only Xiong Fei, but also many officials were undoubtedly enthusiastic about His Majesty the Emperor.
As the majestic music played, everyone stood up and started applauding. Generals in military uniforms stood at attention and saluted, and the scene became heated.
Vaguely, Xiong Fei saw a familiar figure appearing in the first row in front of him. There was a woman sitting on either side of him. No need to think about it, that was the most powerful man in the world, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
His Majesty.
Tang Mo turned around and pressed his palms to the ministers and guests behind him, then turned around and sat in his seat.
Everyone sat back in their seats, and Xiong Fei also carefully sat down with the last group of people to sit down, and once again set his sights on the huge cannonball that was at least twenty meters long.
After waiting for about another full hour, there was finally a sound from the rocket. The steel bracket that fixed the rocket body gradually opened, and flames spurted out from the bottom of the rocket, rolling up the white sky along the guide trough.
fog.
Immediately afterwards, a loud noise swept through, and everyone present was completely stunned by this spectacular scene. With the slight tremor of the earth, the rocket soared into the sky, slowly rising towards the sky. Its speed was very fast.
Being slow seems to be overcoming the rules and laws of this world.
In the smoke and dust that filled the sky, the huge tail flame of the rocket lengthened little by little and went away little by little. Unknowingly, everyone suddenly discovered in shock that the huge "cannonball" was almost disappearing from them.
in front of my eyes.
"Report!" After the rocket completely disappeared from everyone's eyes, about twenty minutes had passed. A staff member in a white coat walked directly in front of Tang Mo, raised his chin and reported loudly:
"Your Majesty! The first stage of the rocket launch was successful!"
"Pah! Pah!" Tang Mo stood up slowly and was the first to applaud.
Then, behind him, everyone stood up and clapped their hands: a new era is coming!
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