Chapter 152: Pioneer Technology's Terrifying Technological Background

"The Ministry of Defense has no objection. Since they can sell it, we have nothing to say.

As the Minister of Defense, he was angry only 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. He nodded and agreed.

At this time, after seeing that some people had agreed, no one else present wanted to be the villain.

After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Pioneer Technology is now as prosperous as it is today.

It is like the next Stark Group, and the other party has provided a large number of high-tech arms and weapons to the United States because of its friendly attitude and arms cooperation with the US military and government. Not to mention that Howard Stark himself is the main person in charge of the atomic bomb.

Just talking about Tony Stark now, their military has provided technical assistance more than once.

It is precisely because In this way, Tony Stark still holds the title of military weapons consultant in the military.

Now, Avant-garde Technology is no less valued than Stark Group, and even more valued than the former to a certain extent.

And all those present who can get to this position are smart people. If there is no direct conflict of interest with themselves and their own forces, no one will express opposition.

At this time, after everyone agreed, the president on the side looked at the American "butler" like everyone else and signaled him to express his opinion. After all, the other party is in charge of the country's purse, and even the president often needs the other party to nod before he can spend money.

"This year's fiscal budget can only support the country to purchase one ship at most. SHIELD also has a fixed annual expenditure of 100 billion US dollars and these tens of billions of dollars of special research and development funds waiting for allocation. After all, Mr. President, you know."

"And I must remind you that our annual fiscal revenue is now in deficit. If we want to buy, we have to continue to borrow money from other countries. "

After seeing the eyes of the president and his compatriots, the Minister of the Treasury said with difficulty.

"This is simple. Cut the 10 billion research and development funds of SHIELD. Don't they need a lot of money for research? Now that Avangard has developed it, if they have any objections, let them go directly to Avangard to buy it."

"Then issue treasury bonds and continue to borrow from the three countries of Britain, France and China... No, sell, one person, um, first borrow... Sell 100 billion US dollars. "

"Then I remember that South Korea and Japan should also collect the stationing fees, right?"

After hearing the words of the Minister of the Treasury, the president also relaxed, and then said calmly.

"Okay, if that's the case, then there shouldn't be any problems!"

"In South Korea, yes, the stationing fee last year was 300 million US dollars! ”

“Japan is 600 million US dollars”

After listening to the president’s words, he nodded, and the Minister of Finance beside him also spoke up.

After all, the president’s few words can be regarded as solving most of his pressure.

It has to be said that since he took the position of Minister of Finance, he knows what it means to be the boss.

Everyone from all walks of life and all projects wants to see him for the two dollars in his pocket. The key is that they all have legitimate reasons, and the president is only responsible for signing. He doesn’t worry about the financial pressure at all.

“Only a few hundred million US dollars? ! We use financial and material resources to protect them, but it’s just this little? This year, the cost of garrisoning in these two places will be directly increased tenfold. Although the number of other garrison places is not so large, it will also be increased by at least two times. 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 spoke up.

“But...this, Mr. President, is this too high? "

After hearing the jaw-dropping words, the Minister of Finance was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a while. After a while, he spoke.

After all, according to the current situation, even the original garrison expenses are enough for their army to eat and drink for a whole year in the local area, and they can also save a lot of money. If this is directly increased tenfold... I have to say that he wants to work in these garrisons.

"Too high? Let them take a good look at how dangerous the world is now. Even in our United States, such a serious biological and chemical leakage incident has occurred. Ask them, can they guarantee that such a thing will not happen on their land? "

"If they dare to guarantee it, I will immediately sign a presidential order without saying a word to withdraw the local garrison. "

"Our soldiers are using their bodies and lives to defend their sovereignty and integrity, but what about them? They are reluctant to spend just a little bit of military expenses?"

"What is the military's opinion? "

In response to the Treasury Secretary's words, 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, Winston Harrison, a four-star general of the Army, nodded and spoke.

After all, the benefits of the president's words will ultimately fall into the hands of their military, so he has no opinion on these.

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 with a look of 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's left, it's 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 smaller the number of people, the bigger the matter.

…

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 already 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?"

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.

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 was just like that. It was precisely because of each other that their progress was 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 to complete. Is this my understanding correct? "

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 directly. 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 paying attention to Nick Fury's exaggerated ridicule, the researcher beside him nodded and agreed.