Chapter 596 It’s Better to Buy than to Make! (The Third Update!)

After White switched, the huge screen only had the video of the drone show that night, which was edited together by the editor from multiple angles.

In addition, the editor also very considerately adjusted the time of the performance project to make the whole performance process look more fluent, smoother, and more considerate.

A countdown bell was also added.

The bell rang three times in a row, and a picture appeared on the big screen.

[Welcome to the Zhucheng Air Show! ]

Then the picture disappeared and became a half-length portrait of Sayid and others.

As the saying goes, distance increases beauty. The picture taken from a distance is extremely clear. It looks like an enlarged person, but in mid-air, with a full smile on his face, looking at the city.

The following half-length portraits are also extremely clear and impressive.

Of course, these half-length portraits are not amazing. The point of amazement lies in the simulation games behind.

The sky is the screen, and countless drones are flashing with light spots, simulating tank battles, aircraft battles, and missile battles in the sky.

The picture at this moment is clearer and more handsome than the half-length portrait just now.

When the missile hit the opposite side and hit the stars, White pressed the pause button to let the picture stay at the moment of the stars.

He has a good technique to capture the moment.

The paused picture on the screen has different beauty from different angles.

After letting this picture stay for about 10 minutes, White switched the picture again, but this time it was a daytime picture.

In the not-so-clear sky, on the dark runway, a white plane was moving slowly. This plane did not have a regular cockpit, and the same white paint was also painted in front of the plane.

Two black dragon patterns were painted on the side wings of the nose.

Under the camera, the plane moved very slowly, so slowly that it was outrageous.

But when the plane entered the runway and the speed began to increase, it didn't take much effort for the plane to rush straight into the sky, and then became a small white dot that was out of reach in the sight.

At this time, the screen changed to a screen car. On the screen of this car, you can clearly see that the drone has locked the ground target.

When all the targets are locked, the screen switches again and becomes another white drone.

The wider body of the drone makes this drone look like a white swan.

After a short glide, the drone also climbed to a high altitude, hovered in the sky for a while, then lowered its altitude, fell to the crowd, and then dropped all the sugar in the bomb bay.

The drone took off three times and dropped sugar three times. After the third time, the drone climbed to a higher altitude and began to hover in the sky. White turned off the TV screen.

Putting down the remote control, he silently turned back and looked at the large group of people in front of him.

The people in front of him were all elites from the American Navy, Army and Air Force, and there were also directors from major weapons research institutes.

And the closest to him were several senior research consultants from the Electronics Research Institute.

Looking over these people, White found a large pile of documents from the pile in front of him, slapped them on the table, pressed his fingers on these documents, and asked with a gloomy face and gritted teeth:

"Everyone, can you tell me why the drone project has been established since the 1990s?"

"And last year, we also added corresponding funds to let you speed up the progress and develop the corresponding drones."

"But until now, you have not had a stable output, not even a test machine."

"And China, across the sea, directly took out drones, and took out two models at a time. Can you give me an explanation?"

"If you can't give me an explanation, perhaps everyone here will need to face an audit."

"By the way, these auditors are employees I borrowed from the IRS. They usually knock on computers, and when there is something wrong, they knock on people's heads. You have to think clearly."

The threat was self-evident, and the few people present looked at each other.

These people looked at each other, and in the end, they didn't say a word.

Seeing that these people were silent, White also lost his patience, slapped the documents in front of him, and shouted again:

"I'll give you one last chance. If you don't find a way to solve the current problem, then you can wait for the IRS to bring auditors!"

"They are not ordinary auditors. Behind them is the IRS."

"If the IRS knew that you used the tax revenue they collected with great effort in all kinds of messy places, what methods do you think they would use to audit you?"

"Oh, by the way, don't dream of using American laws. The law is useless now."

White's rampant words finally moved the people present. They raised their heads one by one and looked at White with astonishment.

Seeing the person they often saw say such cold words, they seemed very confused and very surprised.

Finally, the engineer closest to White opened his tightly pursed lips and whispered:

"Mr. Minister, it's not that we don't work hard, but the Chinese are really inhumane."

"We work 40 hours a week, and there are many process tasks. It's very troublesome. A small link will take dozens of hours."

"If you calculate it accurately, each small link will take about a week."

"But, according to my understanding, the Chinese research institute basically runs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."

"Relatively speaking, they have 16 more hours a day than us, so their efficiency is naturally three times ours."

"If we add the time when our small links are stuck, their efficiency is more than ten times ours."

"Since 1950, we have benefited from the leading basic science and naturally achieved those glories."

"But in recent years, China has caught up with basic science, and they have more time to study than us."

"So, this really can't be blamed on us!"

At this point, the engineer who spoke lost his face, and slowly lowered his head, sighing from time to time.

His contrived performance, caught White's eyes, and made the American Secretary of Defense couldn't help but admire him and couldn't help but want to applaud him.

But he applauded with his hands and the other person's face.

Tmd!

These damn guys, they all come up with such outstanding and cruel excuses.

I was talking about the funding, but this guy changed his mind and talked about the lack of time.

How can he be so talkative?

But if he is so talkative, why is he not on the talk show night in Washington?

How can he not blush or be nervous, take an irrelevant reason as the main reason, and then continue to talk about it at length, and still pretend to be a white flower?

This...

Raising his hands and rubbing his face vigorously, White picked up the pen and asked the engineer who had just spoken: "Sir, I don't know your name yet."

"Warren Clary Attell!"

"Good name!" After praising, White wrote down the name, and then deliberately said loudly: "Senior researcher Warren Clary Attell claimed that it was because of lack of time that the research results could not be produced."

"Therefore, it is recommended to adjust the research time of all defense-affiliated research institutes to be on duty 24 hours a day."

After finishing this sentence calmly, he looked at the people in front of him again and asked:

"My dear gentlemen, now, I need you to solve a problem."

" The problem is that China has more advanced drones than ours. "

"Technological leadership has always been synonymous with America. I need you to show me drones before the end of this year, that is, before January 2005, and show them to the world."

"If you can't, I'll take the blame and you'll die."

"If you can, everyone will be happy, understand?"

"Everyone here is an elite, so I don't need to talk too much. Let's think of a solution."

"If you can't think of a solution today, just sit here and wait until you come up with a solution before leaving."

After saying the purpose, White picked up the pen in front of him and kept playing with it in his seat, regardless of what the people in front of him were saying.

At first, the people in the conference room were just whispering, but after finding that White, who was sitting in the main seat, didn't care about the whispering, they simply let go of their courage and started a heated discussion.

"How did they solve the signal transmission relay problem?"

"No, shouldn't the biggest problem be how they solved the delay in image transmission? This drone can easily climb to an altitude of six or seven kilometers. According to the data on the scene, the drone's endurance has reached more than 40 hours, and the flight distance is very long. At such a long distance, if the image transmission is one second slower, it means that the first opportunity is gone!"

"I don't know, don't ask me!"

"I saw the news they released that Pakistan has ordered it. Do you think we should sell it from Pakistan?"

As this person asked, the conference room became quiet in an instant.

At this moment, the entire conference room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Everyone opened their mouths and looked at the person who was speaking with surprise.

How to say it?

His idea is very practical, but if this matter gets out, it will make America lose face.

Just when the others were silent, a researcher in the corner screamed:

"Hey! You are a genius. We have a good relationship with Pakistan, and China does not attach too many conditions when selling equipment, so we can really buy the drones they ordered from China from Pakistan."

"This is very feasible! We can quickly disassemble a drone, then imitate the parts, and finally make our own fixed-wing drone."

"If Pakistan gets the drone before the New Year, we can also get it before the New Year."

"The overall reverse engineering will take about 3 to 6 months, and the related manufacturing work will also be prepared within these 3 to 6 months."

"Then the moment we complete the reverse engineering, we can input the relevant drawings into the production line and start production."

"Around the middle of next year, we will be able to..."

The man became more and more excited, but just as he was about to say that sentence, the person next to him coughed softly and interrupted him.

At the same time, he emphasized: "Mr. Minister is talking about this year."

However, in front of the person who just spoke loudly, this is not a difficult problem.

He smiled slightly and said in a pretentious manner: "We only need to change the paint and then control public opinion. We can even tamper with history and make people all over the world think that it was China's drone that copied our drone."

"By then, we will be invincible!"

At this point, a look of pride appeared on his face.

And White, who was sitting in the main seat, nodded calmly after seeing his expression and said in the gentlest words possible:

"Since you already have a plan in mind, then follow your plan."

"By the way, I don't have any extra funds here. You can find a way to get the funds yourself."

After leaving these two words, White stood up, grabbed the notebook and walked out of the meeting room expressionlessly.

Returning to his office, he threw away the notebook and pen, and sat on the chair with a face full of anger.

His fingers tapped lightly on the keyboard, and the computer screen lit up, and he entered the password.

The lock screen popped up, and the news content on the browser popped up immediately afterwards.

[Shocked, China has taken a different approach to seize the drone market. ]

[Shocked, large fixed-wing drones appeared at the Pearl City Air Show, attracting military attachés from many countries to visit. ]

[Shocked, two large fixed-wing drones with two uses were dedicated to the Pearl City Air Show. They are not models, but real machines! ]

He dragged the mouse to slowly scroll down the news. After a while, he found that there was nothing new, so White switched to Twitter to see the latest photos uploaded on Twitter.

The more he looked, the more he thought this white drone was beautiful.

After searching for a long time, he finally found a photo that looked very good.

The overall color of the photo was dark, but the drone that flew across the sky, the drone that was delivering candy boxes, was so dazzling and bright.

Like a savior.

Set this photo as the screen saver, White closed his eyes and was about to rest, when the phone on the table rang.

It was a call from the commander of the Pacific Theater, Dena.

After answering the call, a loud and powerful voice came from the receiver:

"Mr. White, we just got the top-secret intelligence from the Chinese manufacturer. There are 4 types of drones in total."

"They are reconnaissance and strike drones, transport aircraft, bombers, and transport-bomber integrated aircraft."

"The reconnaissance and strike drone is 30 million US dollars each, the transport aircraft is 20 million US dollars, the bomber is 25 million US dollars, and the transport-bomber integrated aircraft is 30 million US dollars."

"In addition, they have additional command vehicles and an integrated combat command center."

"And the cost of the integrated combat command center is only 500 million US dollars."

Prices came out one after another on the phone, and each price hit White's heart accurately.

He couldn't help but put his hand on his heart and whispered to the phone:

"So, it's more cost-effective for us to buy this thing directly than to make it ourselves?"