88: Ultra-high-tech 3D printer, intelligent scanning field!

Soon after.

Fang Le, Yue Hanshan, Zhao Gang, and other high-ranking officials met with military experts at the underground air force base.

Fang Le pointed to the B Series Bombers in the hangar beside him and asked a military industrial expert.

"Chief Engineer Qian, how long will it take to reverse engineer the overall structure of these bombers and then manufacture them identically?"

The Anti-War Army and United States ceasefire agreement only stipulated the return of all bombers, but not the Mushroom Bombs carried on them.

The United States agreed because they calculated that even if the Anti-War Army possessed Mushroom Bombs, without bombers, they would lack long-range delivery capabilities.

However, if the Anti-War Army could manufacture bombers themselves before the next conflict and utilize those nuclear bombs, they could achieve nuclear deterrence against the United States, preventing them from contemplating anything beyond conventional warfare.

Chief Engineer Qian Liren was a senior engineer who had been materialized with the base's military industrial research institute, specializing in the development of various large-scale, high-precision, cutting-edge equipment.

Qian Liren replied, "That depends on the research method."

Fang Le was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

Qian Liren said, "If we follow the normal human reverse engineering approach, we would dismantle these bombers, clarify the function, name, size, manufacturing materials, and various other parameters of each part, as well as the manufacturing process and what mechanical equipment can be used to build them, and so on."

"Without foundational theoretical research and manufacturing capabilities in related fields, reverse engineering would be very time-consuming, or even fail. Especially for this kind of cutting-edge stealth bomber, fully understanding it would take at least half a year, even with our military industrial institute's technical strength, under an optimistic estimate."

Half a year?

Fang Le gasped.

"No, that's definitely too long—"

Half a year, and the day lilies would be cold.

Fang Le's system mission was to occupy the entire Australia within one year.

One month had passed since he accepted the mission. After half a year, he would have at most 5 months left to occupy all of Australia, which was too rushed.

Qian Liren said, "Then, we'll just have to use cheat mode."

Fang Le: "What do you mean?"

Qian Liren led everyone to a strange-looking giant frame.

This thing was as large as an indoor basketball court, extremely massive.

Qian Liren said, "Everyone, this surface looks like a basketball court, but it's actually a giant 3D printer."

Fang Le: "A giant 3D printer?"

Qian Liren said, "Yes, to accelerate research, our military industrial institute cannot entirely follow the external R&D process of first finalizing design drawings and then having factories produce samples for verification. This is especially true for complex, large-scale equipment, where repeated manufacturing and verification are quite troublesome."

"Therefore, we will use 3D printing technology."

"This 3D printing equipment at the base can print a range of items, from locks to combat vehicles, to combat aircraft, and even small warships."

"Furthermore, the printing materials are not limited to metal, plastic, ceramics, nylon, etc.; almost all current high-tech materials can be printed."

"In other words, it's almost universal printing."

Fang Le: "I understand… You mean you can use this football-field-sized area to quickly print an entire fighter jet."

"Wait, no—" Fang Le thought of the key point, "If you don't reverse engineer the bomber's structural diagram first, you won't be able to print it."

Qian Liren gave him an approving look.

"Indeed, Commander, you've hit upon the crucial point."

"Therefore, a prerequisite function of this large-scale 3D printing equipment is intelligent scanning… It's complicated to explain, so why don't we test something first?"

So Qian Liren had a military vehicle driven over and parked in the center of the "football field."

Then everyone left the area. Under Qian Liren's control, several robotic arms extended from above the large field, forming a square shape, repeatedly scanning the military vehicle from top to bottom, left to right.

It was like a hospital performing an MRI scan on a patient.

One minute passed.

The scan stopped, and the scanning equipment retracted.

At a large computer screen by the side of the field, everyone saw the scan results.

It was a very complete structural diagram of that military vehicle.

The details of this structural diagram were so precise that one could use a stereoscopic view to observe every internal detail of the structure.

Not only that, but one could also examine the specific material composition of every component, both inside and outside the military vehicle.

What alloy it was, its proportion, what engineering process could be used to manufacture it, and so on.

Qian Liren: "Hey, Old Huang, come over here for a moment."

Soon after, a bespectacled man in a white lab coat marked with "Army" arrived at the scene.

"Commander, this is Old Huang, who is responsible for the development of Army equipment at the military industrial research institute. You can ask him how much difference there is between this scanned military vehicle blueprint and the actual blueprint he obtained through physical reverse engineering."

Engineer Huang looked at the computer screen and nodded, stating, "One hundred percent accuracy."

At this, everyone was shocked.

In just one minute of scanning, the vehicle was completely reverse engineered.

This was too incredible, wasn't it?

Immediately, Fang Le was overjoyed.

"Chief Engineer Qian, since that's the case, please quickly use intelligent scanning to reverse engineer the overall structure and detailed design blueprints of those bombers. Even if we don't use 3D printing afterward, we can still produce the finished products quickly using conventional manufacturing methods."

Yue Hanshan, Zhao Gang, and others expressed the same sentiment, staring at Qian Liren like hungry wolves eyeing a piece of prime meat.

They couldn't help but be excited.

Because if they could reverse engineer bombers this time, they could reverse engineer anything next time.

Technological secrets would cease to exist for the Anti-War Army in this world!

Qian Liren: "We can try that, but Commander, Generals, stealth bombers involve many advanced materials, such as stealth coatings, rare metals like indium and rhenium, and rare earth elements, etc."

"We basically don't have these at our base."

"The mountain we are in probably won't yield much either."

"Furthermore, even if all the materials are acquired, some manufacturing processes, including alloy manufacturing, are not simply achievable by knowing the process flow; they require step-by-step exploration and technological accumulation."

Alright.

Leaving Qian Liren, Fang Le, Yue Hanshan, and the others now had a clearer idea.

Fang Le suddenly stopped and declared:

"We must manufacture the stealth bomber in the shortest possible time!"

Others: "Commander, how do we get those missing materials?"

Yes, how to get them?

Fang Le thought for a long time, then suddenly came up with an extremely bold idea.

As soon as they heard this idea, Yue Hanshan and the others immediately rejected it collectively:

"No, Commander, this idea is too risky—"