Chapter 121: New Destroyer

Zhang Wen, who had finished participating in the Air Force exercise, finally returned to his long-missed Qingtianchang.

Before he could even get comfortable,

his phone rang.

Zhang Wen answered the phone in confusion.

He saw it was Director Yang calling.

He answered hurriedly.

"Director Yang, is there something you need me for?"

A hearty laugh came from the other side of the phone.

"The Navy is begging me for help."

"Huh?"

Zhang Wen was confused when he heard this.

What did this have to do with Zhang Wen?

"They think the destroyers currently in service in the military are simply too old."

"They want to develop a new era of destroyers."

"So they came begging me."

Director Yang laughed.

"Then what do you mean?"

Zhang Wen asked tentatively.

"I've thought about it, and I still think you're the best person to lead it."

"The plans submitted by others are always missing something."

"I believe that with your genius, you should be able to make a destroyer that makes people feel at ease."

"Hahaha, so the Navy came begging you."

"And then you pushed this job onto me, huh."

Zhang Wen laughed.

Subsequently, he said, "Fine, I'll take this job."

"However, I just came back from the exercise, and I haven't even had a chance to sit down yet."

Zhang Wen joked.

"Hahaha, you brat, come over quickly, Cui Zhuren is here too."

Director Yang handed the phone to Cui Zhuren.

"Zhang Wen, when are you coming over?"

Cui Zhuren said immediately.

"Coming right away, coming right away."

Facing Director Yang, who had brought out his teacher, Zhang Wen was powerless to resist.

He set off immediately.

After obtaining flight permission, Zhang Wen immediately took a Y-20 to Jingcheng.

The moment he got off the plane and out of the airport,

Zhang Wen saw someone there to pick him up.

He handed his luggage to them and got into a military vehicle.

Heading all the way to the Ministry of National Defense.

Then he was led all the way to a conference room.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Director Yang, Cui Zhuren, and people he had met once before.

Chief Engineer Qu and President Shi.

As soon as Cui Zhuren saw Zhang Wen, he stood up immediately, laughing and pulling him to his side.

"Hahaha! Old Cui, you're really afraid I'll snatch him away from you!"

President Shi, who was beside Cui Zhuren, joked.

"He's my student!"

Cui Zhuren said proudly.

"Hahaha, fine, he's your student."

President Shi said with a smile.

"Zhang Wen, are you interested in coming to my Ocean Ship University?"

"I guarantee that if you come, you'll at least be a department head."

President Shi promised, patting his chest.

"Go away!"

Cui Zhuren said immediately.

"We've already prepared an honorary presidency for him."

"If it weren't for the fact that he was too young, it wouldn't have been rejected by the higher-ups."

"How would it be your turn?"

Cui Zhuren said.

After speaking, he looked at Zhang Wen, his eyes full of pride.

"Don't worry, even though they rejected the honorary presidency,"

"the honorary professor and doctoral titles have been approved."

"See when you can come over to collect them."

Zhang Wen thanked him hurriedly.

Cui Zhuren patted him on the shoulder and said, "This brat, why are you being polite with me?"

Director Yang looked at the farce before him with a smile.

He knocked on the table and said, "Alright, alright."

"Stop arguing. If this brat were a little older,"

"I guarantee I'd give him an academician title."

"Would there be any need for you to argue here?"

"Now, let's talk about the development plan for the Navy's new destroyer."

The people below sat up straight and began to listen to Director Yang's requirements.

"The Navy's requirement is,"

"the whole ship should be around 8,000 tons."

"The sailing speed should not be lower than 30 knots, and the economic cruising speed should be at least 15 knots."

"Possess a full set of radar defense systems."

"Can be an information processing center."

"Can serve as the flagship of the fleet."

"Weapon requirement: at least be able to launch 30 missiles from the HQ, CJ, or YJ series."

"Possess a complete weapon system; close-in weapon systems and naval guns are best to have."

"And it also needs to have a stealth design similar to the missile boat you have."

"That should be all the requirements."

Director Yang finished speaking.

Everyone looked at Zhang Wen in unison.

And Zhang Wen was deep in thought.

Not because the indicators were too astonishing.

But because the indicators were simply too low.

According to this requirement, this destroyer couldn't even compare to an Aegis ship.

Except for being able to launch advanced missiles.

Zhang Wen couldn't look up to these technical indicators.

He had better ones.

The Type 055 destroyer from the original timeline.

And the most important technology was Academician Ma's medium-voltage DC integrated power system.

Now, the best in the world at playing with electricity was the Qingtian Group.

Selling nearly a million electric cars a year wasn't just for show.

Zhang Wen thought for a while and said, "This technical indicator won't do."

Director Yang frowned.

He sighed and said, "So there really is something you can't do."

"It's okay, I can let the Navy lower the technical requirements."

"No."

Zhang Wen interrupted Director Yang.

"I mean, this technical indicator won't do."

"Then what do you mean?"

President Shi asked.

"I mean, this technical indicator doesn't meet the technical requirements of the new era Navy at all."

"Even if it's built,"

"it would only be a transitional model."

"Too few weapons. In future wars, the most important weapon of a destroyer will inevitably be missiles."

"And the number of missile cells in this technical indicator is simply too small."

"And this indicator isn't realistic either."

"The electricity consumed by advanced radar, navigation, communication, and other things is simply too large."

"With this ship's power supply, it's impossible to supply it."

"Even if it were barely supplied,"

"it would lose future room for improvement."

"Because newer weapons will inevitably consume more electricity, but this technical indicator lacks electricity the most."

After Zhang Wen finished speaking, everyone present looked at him in shock.

Good heavens, it wasn't because the indicator was too difficult for Zhang Wen to do.

It was because Zhang Wen thought this indicator was too low.

"Everyone also knows."

"My Qingtianchang is the best at using electricity in the world."

"For every hundred electric cars, eighty are manufactured by us."

"Over so many years, iterating three times a year, we've iterated at least twenty times."

"But most of them were abandoned because of insufficient electricity."

"Therefore, I can responsibly say,"

"this technical indicator won't do."

After Zhang Wen finished speaking,

"Currently, Eagle Country's new generation of ships has already been launched."

"If we don't speed up our pursuit,"

"it's estimated that it will be very difficult to catch up to them."

Zhang Wen said.

Although he knew the outcome of the Zumwalt and those new Eagle Country weapons, using them to motivate people was quite good.

"Then what are your technical indicators?"

Cui Zhuren asked.

Zhang Wen walked to the blackboard in front.

Picked up a piece of chalk.

And wrote:

"Type 055 Destroyer." ===== CHAPTER 122 =====