Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#309 - Diesel locomotives for computer technology? That's wishful thinking

It wasn't just General Shi who was active; at the ALCO locomotive company in Pittsburgh.

Chairman Williams put down the newspaper in his hand, looked at Freddy, the head of public relations who had just entered, a former Pacific Fleet Colonel, and asked, "Joan, have you found out who else General Warren has met with?"

"Yes, Tom, I heard that General Warren visited Mr. Soak in Miami. This person is a core member of the Foreign Approval Committee and has a great influence. In addition, General Warren also met with Mills, a senior executive of the Bureau of Commercial Affairs. Mills is General Warren's subordinate. I think General Warren is close to completing the approval on the Bureau of Commercial Affairs' side."

Freddy said, "However, General Warren should not have achieved much on the Foreign Approval Committee's side. As we all know, Mr. Soak does not like red."

"Help me arrange a meeting with Mr. Soak. We need some allies. GM's people are putting in a lot of effort now. With General Warren's participation, their power to promote this matter will be even stronger. We need allies."

In terms of radar, radar based on transistor computer calculations has been introduced. Compared with the previous calculation methods, the current computer has increased the calculation performance of the radar by orders of magnitude, and can respond more quickly to the processing of received radar transmission waves.

As for the use of transistor computers in military research, it goes without saying that everything from rocket and missile research to aviation calculations and shipbuilding calculations are now in urgent need.

Although in the original border area, Ren Zhong established an extremely confidential super-era computer calculation room, only a code-named Laboratory No. 5, which is now called Area 5 instead of its name.

Anyone who enters this laboratory is subject to the highest confidentiality requirements. Now, not a single piece of information has been revealed to the outside world. This is the biggest secret Ren Zhong left in this world, and its confidentiality level is even unknown to Staff Officer Ye and the others!

Only core personnel in these core top-secret groups such as wind tunnel calculation, telegram cracking, and peace bomb calculation can enter.

Professor Wu and their progress on the peace bomb is far faster than their counterparts in the Manhattan Project. One reason is that Ren Zhong provided enough information, and the other reason is that they completely avoided the arduous experience of using primitive hand-cranked calculators in terms of calculation.

They directly learned the MATLAB mathematical programming provided by Ren Zhong, borrowed the complete mathematical library, and solved almost all the calculation problems.

Therefore, Ren Zhong both valued and did not particularly value transistor computers. In his eyes, leading the West by a generation seems to be nothing special, but he also knows very well that the order-of-magnitude increase in computer performance is difficult to control for the great powers.

Therefore, even if he could sell them at a high price, Ren Zhong did not have a plan to launch these transistor computers to the great powers in the first place.

He wants to wait until the domestic computer industry is relatively mature in its applications and has the ability to resist risks before starting to launch sales. After all, the domestic demand is still greater than the supply.

In addition, the performance of this transistor computer is now almost an order of magnitude ahead of the rogue eagle's vacuum tube computer. If it is exported, its use in military applications is self-evident. Therefore, in this time and space, it is Ren Zhong's turn to unilaterally control exports to the outside world.

"Transistor computer technology is not for sale, we will definitely not consider transferring it." After listening to the transaction information returned by General Shi, Ren Zhong flatly rejected the possibility of transferring transistor computer technology.

Just kidding, this is the tool he relies on to make a living, how could he transfer the core technology? There is not even a crack in the door.

"However, we can consider the export of transistor computers."

Ren Zhong has blocked the export of this sensitive product for almost a year. In fact, he has always been a little hesitant in his heart, so he has not opened up overseas sales channels since it was launched.

Because he is worried about the impact after this thing is released, and it may greatly promote the computer development of countries such as Rogue Eagle.

After all, in military applications, Rogue Eagle will definitely try to copy it by all means. In this field, everyone knows it well. If you have the ability to copy it at a glance, that is your ability.

Anyway, most military products are used by their own countries. Under this condition, it is not easy for you to trace the source and pursue patents.

Now there are many scenarios in the military that require the use of transistor computers, such as terminal products such as fighter jets and tanks, as well as military research. There are too many uses for this kind of calculation tool.

Selling it is equivalent to rapidly enhancing the strength of Rogue Eagle's weapons and equipment. Therefore, when it was first developed, Ren Zhong completely blocked it and did not sell a single one abroad.

But now, according to Ren Zhong's understanding, they have completed the production of several key individual components of transistors, and it is estimated that it will not be long before they assemble their first transistor computer.

Because someone in our factory once stole several transistor computers used for industrial control!

Some of these valuable computers were not found later and their whereabouts are unknown. Needless to say, they must have been secretly taken away by interested people and then exported through smuggled goods, allowing Rogue Eagle to also have some transistor computer samples in advance, mastering some performance indicators of the Dragon Kingdom's transistor computers, and even disassembling some internal transistors for reverse research.

When there are more things released, it is almost impossible to keep secrets completely.

The progress of Rogue Eagle, which has gathered the most elites in the world, is now far ahead of Ren Zhong's time and space. The development of the first transistor computer is so fast now, which is obviously inspired by these smuggled goods.

For Rogue Eagle, which has gathered the most elites in the world, it is impossible to completely prevent them from using these samples for reverse engineering, then copying and producing them, and then using them in the military.

Therefore, the blockade of technology is actually a very difficult thing in the long run. Ren Zhong's previous blockade only increased their cost of obtaining it.

When they are about to succeed, dumping a batch to occupy the market and cut off their market-based recovery of research and development funds seems to be a good choice.

After all, the use of transistor computers now is big, but the total market is only a thousand or so units. How many large steel plants and chemical plants are there?

The rest are universities and research departments. Therefore, if we dump them during this time window, we may interrupt the commercial development plan of Rogue Eagle's transistor computers.

Ren Zhong weighed the pros and cons and was a little hesitant.

Should we exchange it after all?

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