The world’s space craze has reached a new height.

It seemed as if all of a sudden, people were seeing the space craze that was once set off by the United States and the Soviet Union.

The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in the field of space set off a space boom on Earth and brought humanity into the space age. The United States and the Soviet Union created one space milestone after another.

Nowadays, people only remember the United States’ dominant position in the field of aerospace and its achievements in the field. In fact, in the history of human aerospace, the position of the Soviet Union cannot be ignored. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was the only country capable of engaging in an all-round space race with the United States.

In fact, under the leadership of the father of Soviet space flight, the Soviet Union’s aerospace technology has long been ahead of the United States and ranked first in the world. Soviet space technology can be called a myth of human space technology.

The name Baikonur is also an amazing name to any aerospace enthusiast.

Because Baikonur is one of the most important military space bases of the Soviet Union, it can also be called the holy land of Soviet aerospace technology. Many milestone historical events that can be recorded in history have taken place here.

Throughout the Cold War, Soviet space created 20 world firsts, including the first artificial earth satellite, the first artificial near-moon satellite, the first lunar synchronous orbit satellite, the first photo of the far side of the moon, the first manned earth satellite, the first Venus satellite, the first soft-landing lunar satellite, the first lunar orbit satellite, the first Venus atmospheric probe, the first satellite to approach the moon and return, the first Venus landing satellite, the first lunar robot sampling and return satellite, the first lunar rover, the first Mars landing satellite, the first space station in human history, the first extravehicular activity, the first woman to perform an extravehicular activity, and the first female astronaut.
It can be said that before the United States carried out manned moon landing, the Soviet space program was in the leading position.

Then the United States inexplicably succeeded in achieving a manned moon landing, and the Soviet space program inexplicably fell behind the United States.

Due to the limitations of observation technology at the time, there has been controversy since then as to whether the United States actually conducted a manned lunar landing.

However, it has always been under suspicion and questioning, and no one has produced strong evidence to refute it, so that to date, most countries in the world still acknowledge or acquiesce in the United States’ manned moon landing.

Over the past decade or so, the world’s space fever has continued to heat up, and now it has become extremely hot.

The BeiDou navigation system is installed on most mobile phones for navigation. It is also installed on cars for navigation while driving. Even the navigation system used on most ships is the BeiDou navigation system.

Meteorological satellites have also made weather forecasts more accurate than ever before. Now, we can basically achieve a 10-day weather forecast. If a tropical storm, typhoon, or hurricane appears, we can know about it immediately and analyze its path, so as to resist the disaster and reduce losses.

Communication satellites make it possible to communicate in most places on Earth.

Now, China conducts three or four manned space missions every year. We have a space station that belongs to China alone. We will also carry out manned lunar landings and establish a scientific research base on the moon.

The United States also wants to return to the moon and build a base on the moon.

Russia was also not to be outdone and announced that it would carry out a manned lunar landing and establish a base on the moon.

The Russians also have their own obsession with manned lunar landing.

After all, the Soviet Union inexplicably fell behind the United States in the field of aerospace at that time. It is impossible to say that they did not feel angry.

The Energia launch vehicle developed by the Soviet Union at that time was the most powerful launch vehicle so far, capable of sending spacecraft to the moon. However, sending a spacecraft to the moon is easy, but how to return is a problem.

The Russian Space Agency has been constantly searching through the Soviet Union’s space database. At that time, the Soviet Union had formulated the ‘H1-JI3M’ plan for manned lunar landing and also wanted to establish a permanent scientific research base on the moon.

The European Space Agency is also unwilling to lag behind in the aerospace field in this great era. It has also announced Europe’s manned lunar landing plan and plans to establish a permanent scientific research base on the moon.

However, many people can’t help but question the European Space Agency’s grand space ambitions.

Europe’s space-faring countries mainly include France, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom. Although other European countries also have a space industry of a certain scale, the gap compared with these four countries is very large.

In fact, so far, among the world’s major space-faring nations, Europe belongs to the second tier after the United States, Russia, and China.

Because the development of manned space flight not only requires huge investment but also involves a wide range of areas, Europe has adopted a cooperative approach with other countries from the very beginning.

In the 70s, the Soviet Union, through its International Cosmonaut Program, sent astronauts from allied countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland, East Germany and even France to the Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 space stations. During the operation of the Mir space station, the European Space Agency also cooperated with Russia through the European Mir program to send two German astronauts to the Mir, and accumulated experience for the later stay of European astronauts during the operation of the International Space Station.

It is true that Europe has some advanced space technology, but so far Europe has not carried out manned space flight, which means that Europe has not yet truly mastered manned space technology.

Even the manned space flight technology has not been mastered yet, let alone the space station. As for manned lunar landing and establishing a base on the moon, it is still a very far-off goal.

As for other countries, they are even more powerless.

Japan, which was once ambitious, has seen its economy decline and its GDP drop to $2 trillion. There has been no further talk of manned lunar landings in Japan.

In recent years, as the United States has continued to increase its blood loss from Japan and the competitiveness of Japanese industries in the world has declined, the Japanese economy has continued to decline.

Japan’s shipbuilding industry has become almost negligible. Over the past thirty years, one Japanese shipyard after another has gone bankrupt, and now only a small number of them remain.

Japan’s automobile industry was once the pride of Japan. There are so many Japanese automobile brands that one cannot count them on one hand. They once conquered the world and earned a lot of foreign exchange for Japan. However, as the international competitiveness of Japanese automobiles continues to decline, Japan’s automobile industry is also inevitably declining.

There is also Japan’s electronics industry. Japan’s electronics industry was once the pride of Japan, and Japanese electronic products were popular all over the world. But now, Japan has no competitiveness in electronic products such as desktop computers, laptops, smart phones, etc.

Many people can’t imagine that to this day, the Japanese are still using this ancient product, the pager.

Not only pagers, but also floppy disks, fax machines, personal seals, etc. are still in use by Japanese people today.

Japan’s most competitive areas today are actually anime and romantic action movies.

Romantic action movies are now constantly facing challenges and impacts from Korean romantic action movies. Korean romantic action movies have also developed rapidly in recent years, and the scale of the industry has reached half of that of Japan.

Koreans like plastic surgery. Artificial beauties and handsome men, combined with romantic action movies, unleash terrifying power.

While everyone is focusing on the aerospace craze, Panshan Group is constantly carrying out large-scale personnel transfers. This large-scale personnel transfer is from top to bottom.

The first people to be transferred were Chen Weimin and others. In July, Chen Weimin and others officially left Panshan Group and went to Nanyang for support.

People were constantly being transferred away and others were being promoted. Over the years, Panshan Group had a huge talent pool, and such a large-scale personnel transfer had almost no impact on Panshan Group.

Younger and younger people are moving into more important positions, making Panshan Group younger and more energetic.

Some of the problems that existed before have now disappeared silently.

Those who supported Nanyang often went there with their families.

This is also due to the development of China Airlines, which has greatly increased China’s air transport capacity. Now China’s annual civil aviation passenger transport volume is increasing year by year, and the annual passenger transport volume is more than 6 million, and the growth rate is still increasing.

With more and more airports and more and more civil airliners, flying has become more and more common and has become one of the options for people to travel.

For short and medium distance travel, people are still used to taking the high-speed rail. But for long distance travel, people prefer to take a plane because it saves a lot of time.

If you are going to Southeast Asia, if you are in the Indochina Peninsula, you can choose to take the high-speed rail, but if you are going to Lan Fang, Luzon, etc., you have to take a plane.

In August, Liu Tao went to Beibu Gulf for inspection.

The Beibu Gulf is a window for exchanges between China and Southeast Asia, and is also a demonstration zone for construction. The entire Beibu Gulf is larger than the Bohai Sea, and the average water depth of the Beibu Gulf is 42 meters, with a maximum depth of 100 meters. It is the most convenient seaport in southwest China. The cities around the Beibu Gulf are developing very rapidly, and port cities stand in the Beibu Gulf. Every year, a large number of ships arrive at these port cities, and ships loaded with goods are shipped to various places.

The most important industries of Panshan Group here are the Beibu Gulf Shipyard, the Beibu Gulf Petrochemical Base, the oil and gas fields distributed in the Beibu Gulf, and the Beibu Gulf Nuclear Power Plant.

These are all important assets of Panshan Group.

Beibu Gulf Shipyard is one of China’s shipbuilding industry centers, and its importance is no less than that of Yangcheng Shipyard. All kinds of ships can be built here, from small fishing boats to large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

When Liu Tao arrived at the Beibu Gulf Shipyard, a super luxury cruise ship was being launched. This luxury cruise ship is about 323 meters long, 13.35 tons, has 15 decks and more than 2000 rooms, and can accommodate up to 5000 passengers.

This kind of luxury cruise ship is used for sea travel.

As for luxury cruise ships traveling on the Yangtze River, their displacement is generally controlled at 1.2 tons or less, as this is almost the maximum permitted for passage through the Three Gorges waterway.

This super luxury cruise ship, also known as the pearl of the shipbuilding industry, costs 55 billion yuan each.

Liu Tao inspected the civilian ship areas, which are used to research and build civilian ships, mainly including container ships, LNG ships, cruise ships, etc.

Then he came to the military ship area.

The management in the civilian ship area is relatively loose, but in the military ship area, the management is much stricter. Soldiers can be seen standing guard everywhere, and unauthorized personnel are prohibited from approaching.

Even in relevant airspace, drones are strictly controlled to ensure confidentiality and safety.

These range from Type 022 missile boats to large -ton destroyers, tens of thousands of tons of comprehensive supply ships, tens of thousands of tons of amphibious assault ships, and even nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of over tons.

All ships equipped by the Chinese Navy and Coast Guard can be built here and are being built.

There are also warships that are undergoing maintenance and repair.

For example, at this moment, a Type 076 ship is being outfitted at an outfitting dock.

This is China’s first Type 076 amphibious assault ship. It has a full load displacement of more than tons, a double island superstructure and a fully longitudinal flight deck. It uses electromagnetic catapult and arresting technology, is nuclear-powered, and can carry fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, drones, amphibious equipment, etc. It is a new generation of amphibious assault ship for the Chinese Navy and a key equipment for promoting the transformation, construction and development of the Chinese Navy and enhancing its far sea combat capabilities.

Compared with the previous generation Type 075 amphibious assault ship, there is no doubt that the Type 076 amphibious assault ship is more advanced!

不仅仅可以搭载J-20、J-35固定翼战斗机，一次性最多可搭载20架；还可以搭载12架重型武装直升机、4架重型运输机，还可以搭载包括先进两栖突击车、80式主战坦克等，以及能够容纳1800名海军陆战队员及其装备。

The Type 076 amphibious assault ship alone can significantly enhance China’s ocean-going combat capability.

Of course, if we are talking about heavyweight, it must be the 055C -ton destroyer, equipped with laser cannons, electromagnetic guns, ground-attack missiles, and anti-ship missiles. This is also the most advanced destroyer in the world.

Just such a 055C -ton destroyer can carry an aircraft carrier formation and play a huge role in maritime operations.

This has been verified at sea.

The 055C -ton destroyer has strong air defense and attack capabilities, and its anti-submarine capabilities are also incredibly strong.

Because now the 055C -ton destroyer is equipped with marine bionic robots to strengthen anti-submarine warfare and maritime operations.

It would be very difficult for nuclear submarines and conventional submarines to launch an attack on the 055C -ton destroyer within their attack range.

Compared with the original 055C 055-ton destroyer, the improved C -ton destroyer has extremely powerful performance.

At this time, there is a 055C -ton destroyer at the Beibu Gulf Shipyard, which is being delivered to the North Sea Fleet.

As the South China Sea Fleet is basically able to meet the needs of defending the country, the Chinese Navy is constantly strengthening the strength of the North Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet.

After all, among the three major fleets of the Chinese Navy, the strongest is the South China Sea Fleet, while the North Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet are much inferior to the South China Sea Fleet.

Now as the demand for the North Sea Fleet and the East Sea Fleet increases, enhancing the strength of the North Sea Fleet and the East Sea Fleet has become an inevitable choice.

Liu Tao visited the 055C 055-ton destroyer. Compared with the 055A 055-ton destroyer and the B -ton destroyer, the C -ton destroyer is more sci-fi. It is not only equipped with laser cannons and electromagnetic cannons, but also with marine bionic robots and drones, which are all multipliers of the destroyer’s combat power. (End of this chapter)