Chapter 6: Military Industry: Industry First, Military Second!
When it comes to military research and development, most military enthusiasts in the future will immediately think of the J-20, the mighty Type 055 destroyer, the Kunpeng spreading its wings - the Y-20, the national treasure - the Dongfeng Express…
Does Chen Jin Chao not want to develop these advanced weapons?
No.
He desperately wants to pull out the ‘too advanced to display’ aerospace vehicles from the future ‘Nan Tian Men’ project, then go for a joyride on the west coast of the Big Beautiful, and hold it over Big Beautiful's head, asking if they dare to move?
Unfortunately, in reality, military research and development is not so simple.
Even with the system, a cheat code, Chen Jin Chao might not be able to accelerate the process.
The reason is simple.
Many people always think that the ‘military’ comes first in ‘military industry’. In reality, ‘industry’ is the core foundation, and ‘military’ is merely a label.
If a country does not have a strong industrial foundation, nor a globally leading industrial capability, even with advanced technology, they won't be able to replicate it.
Even if they somehow manage to do it, how can they guarantee that the manufacturing standards are the same?
Can they guarantee that the power, effects, and safety meet the standards?
Therefore, talking about so-called military industry without considering the country's industrial capability is simply absurd.
Just like the gantry crane technology that Chen Jin Chao previously obtained a patent for, without it, even if there were aircraft carriers, they wouldn't be able to install the island on them!
To illustrate the importance of national basic industrial capability for military industry with a contrasting example from the future.
Twenty years later, when a certain Eastern country becomes the only country in the world to possess a full-fledged industrial system.
Coincidentally, an aircraft carrier was launched, but aircraft carriers are easy to build, but the aircraft carrier arresting gear is a very difficult thing.
A small cable, key to the carrier's combat capability, must catch the landing aircraft.
This requires the arresting gear to be both durable and reliable. The entire arresting device involves mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and other high-tech technologies.
This problem has caused the R&D team at the time to rack their brains, and faced with the Big Beautiful's exorbitant trade conditions, they were even more frustrated.
But what was unexpected, this seemingly insurmountable problem was solved by a ‘comprehensive industrial assessment’ in an instant.
Similar examples include a company that specialized in developing carbon fiber fishing rods, which could directly transition to supply carbon fiber materials for fighter jets. A delivery company developed drones, which are the best template for making unmanned bomber planes…
Therefore, a nation's industrial capability is the foundation of military advancement.
Chen Jin Chao is living in the millennial era, where industrial capabilities are still weak, pursuing pure military R&D is simply not enough to serve the country.
Therefore, Chen Jin Chao's idea of an independent R&D team was born.
He hopes to use the revenue from military projects to drive the development of a military industrial cluster.
In addition,
Chen Jin Chao established the self-developed team also because of his weak system.
This system he carries with him after being reborn is called the Strongest Military Industry System.
But in reality, apart from the prestige value and the shopping mall display page, there's nothing else.
It's so basic that it's appalling.
However, it's easy to use.
The prestige value Chen Jin Chao gains after applying the military products he developed can be exchanged for various military technologies in the mall.
From guns to tanks, from fighter jets to submarines, from specific specialties to certain trump card technologies, various technologies are classified and categorized, available in abundance.
Other people's systems can instantly analyze and dismantle by touching them, or forcibly pull out factories, weapons, lathes, and raw materials from a virtual space.
But Chen Jin Chao's system can only obtain technology, he must have knowledge reserves and professional foundation to deduce and understand the technology before turning it into reality.
This makes it very weak.
Fortunately, its strong point is that it covers a wide range of systems, which is why Chen Jin Chao had the idea of establishing a self-developed team.
It's a real waste to confine such capabilities to single fields like sea, land, air, space, and information warfare.
Although Chen Jin Chao currently only has enough prestige value from the gantry crane, water cannons, and new high-temperature resistant materials to unlock the relevant technology for land forces.
But…no need to rush.
The Matthew effect tells us that the good get better, the bad get worse, the more get more, the less get less.
Chen Jin Chao believes that the technologies in the current system mall will snowball, growing larger and larger with him.
Isn't this snowball already rolling now?
Great powers need strategic determination, and military research and development also needs strategic determination.
Taking small, rapid steps is the true methodology for achieving military industrial rise and achieving an overall leap forward.
Of course,
The most important thing is the military development perspective brought back from the future, the understanding of the advantages of the latecomer, and Chen Jin Chao's aggressive nature, which has made him eager to have autonomous R&D rights to speed up the development of the military industry of the great power!
His heart is filled with passionate fantasies, if he was in the fields, he could even kick away the ox and plow several acres of land himself.
But coming back to reality,
Chen Jin Chao takes stock of all the assets of the self-developed team.
Members: None.
Project: None.
Direction: None.
Besides himself, a lone commander, and the eight-figure patent fees he has accumulated over the years, he has nothing.
Alright, he needs to be down-to-earth.
Work hard on research and development, harvest prestige value, and then exchange for more advanced technology...
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