Energy Developer Cheolwoo Lee (5)
“Yes. Based on my research, it can create a very effective stealth function.”
The Minister of Defense had a face that was hard to believe.
“No… I heard that stealth technology is the best technology in the world. I heard that the technology should be shaped so that radio waves are not reflected as much as possible?”
“Yes. Originally, that would be the case. So far, no material that absorbs electromagnetic waves has been found.”
“…”
After a knock was heard, the door to the minister’s office opened.
“Did you call the minister?”
“You came just in time. Director Choi. Greetings, you know it from the news, right? Mr. Lee Cheol-woo.”
A man named Choi spotted me and bowed politely to greet me.
“Hello, this is Director Choi Yong-deuk, who is in charge of the Directorate of the Defense Science Research Institute. It is an honor to meet Professor Lee Cheol-woo.”
“hahahaha, hello. Please sit down.”
“thank you.”
He came and sat across from me.
“Chief Choi, listen. Professor Chul-Woo Lee has developed a new material that absorbs electromagnetic waves.”
As he sat down, the Minister of Defense said.
“… uh, yes?”
“Didn’t you just hear about it? What was the name of the new substance that absorbs electromagnetic waves…”
“Bung-eun. It is a synthetic material of Boung-woo, the core material of Soromin.”
“Uh… Did you say it’s a material that absorbs electromagnetic waves?”
“yes.”
“Absorbing electromagnetic waves means that stealth can be achieved only with plating, right?”
Being the head of the laboratory, he immediately understood what it meant to absorb electromagnetic waves.
“Yes. That’s right. It’s actually Bungeun’s electromagnetic wave absorption rate. As you can see, the 95% confidence interval is 80 to 90.”
I said as I handed over the information on Bungeun to the director.
The director read the material carefully.
“Oops, that’s ridiculous. I’ve never heard of a substance like this.”
“Am I going to lie? Come all the way here?”
“No, I’m not saying that Mr. Lee Cheol-woo is lying, I just can’t believe him that much… I’m sorry.”
“no.”
“So Director Choi, how great is this?”
The minister who was listening next to him said.
“It’s too great to be reduced to one word, great, no great. Originally, in order to create a stealth function, a fighter must be designed in a stealth shape. Of course, a little research has been done on it, but… It has to be done with the best technology.”
“Let’s explain it a little easier. Internal weapon window? What is that?”
“If you design a fighter jet only in stealth shape, it’s pretty easy… no, it’s not easy, but it’s possible anyway. The same goes for the newly planned KF-21.”
“Um, what about it?”
“But if you use the internal weapons bay, the story is different. Fighters don’t just fly around, they have to mount weapons.”
“That’s right. Then, if you put the weapon window inside, does it make it difficult to get a stealth shape?”
“no.”
“then?”
“We can even make an internal weapon window, and even make a stealth shape.”
“Then what’s the problem?”
“The problem lies in opening the door from the internal weapon window and launching the armed missile. To launch the missile, the window must be open, and when the window is opened, the airflow between the inside and outside is greatly different. This part needs to be designed well… …. It takes a lot of technology here.”
Certainly, because he was the director of the Defense Science Research Institute, he had a lot of knowledge.
“Hmm, so it’s difficult because of the airflow phenomenon.”
“Yes. That’s because you have to calculate the air flow at the speed of Mach… It’s definitely the best technology of this era.”
The research director was excited and talked about this and that.
“But you mean you can solve those problems at once?”
“Yes. If you use the technology called Bungeun developed by Mr. Lee Cheol-woo…. Missiles or whatever, it’s a problem that can be solved by just plating. Besides, you don’t have to make it in a stealth shape, so you can design it to receive less air resistance. .”
To implement the stealth function, it had to be made in stealth shape, but it was not necessary to make it in stealth shape as long as it was plated.
“Really? How does that happen?”
“Supersonic speed, more than Mach 2. No, I’m guessing Mach 3.”
“Then let’s take a look at this bog iron.”
I also gave the information on boron iron to the director of the research institute.
“No, is this true?”
“sure.”
I said with a smile.
“……. If the skeleton is made of boron iron, Mach 4. In addition, the maximum loading weight will increase by about 1.5 times or more.”
“1.5 times?”
“Yes. That much more weapons can be loaded.”
“Crazy, how much better performance is that?”
“I can guarantee you that even if you brought 100 American F-22 Raptors, you wouldn’t be able to shoot them down.”
Well, I guess not quite like that.
It’s just a simple prediction.
“Is it really?”
“Yes. To be more precise, it will be developed and the simulation will have to be run.”
“Huh, that’s crazy. Then if we develop it, the Air Force will not be far behind. The Army is already ranked first in the world.”
“That’s right. Just saying that the new fighter jets are being completed, we are a military powerhouse.”
“…… I understand. Warden, let’s go.”
“Yes, I understand. Call me if you need help.”
“okay.”
The research director left the minister’s office.
“Mr. Lee Cheol-woo.”
“yes.”
A room with just me and the minister. The minister called me in a quiet voice.
“How many people know about this?”
“Few people know Boong-cheol, and Boong-eun is one of the directors of Ohsung Electronics, Min.”
I have told some people around me that I have made a new material, but I do not know the exact performance yet.
The person who knows exactly is Director Min of Ohsung Electronics, who developed it together.
“Me and just Director Choi, Director Min and Mr. Lee Cheol-woo. Now that’s the four of us.”
“That’s it.”
“Lee Cheol-woo, I have a request for you.”
“Yes. Which one?”
“I want you to delay the announcement about Bungeun as much as possible.”
“Well, I will.”
Boron, a material that absorbs electromagnetic waves, could certainly become a strategic product.
And if rumors spread that they were using it to build a new fighter, other countries could take issue.
In particular, the United States. I didn’t know what would happen if their position was threatened.
Right now, they think they are below them, so they are not taking any action.
“thank you.”
“Ah, I have some conditions too.”
“Yes. Which one? Just tell me. I’ll do anything.”
“Two things. First, if the fighter is built, we want to sell it to Taiwan at a low price. Of course, after reinforcing our country’s military power.”
“To Taiwan?”
“yes.”
“… I’m curious about the circumstances, but I understand. I will take responsibility and take action so that it can be sold in Taiwan. However, if Taiwan refuses, there is nothing I can do.”
“Yes. Don’t worry about that. And secondly, give me permission related to the fighter engine.”
“Yes? The authority of the engine? What does that mean?”
“It means that I will participate in the development of a new fighter engine.”
“Uh…. We would be grateful if Mr. Lee Cheol-woo participated in the development. But why?”
“There is a reason. Then please.”
“Okay. I won’t ask any more.”
Fighter engines, generally aircraft engines, are jet engines. It is an engine that works by turning the motor and can be made with 5-stroke technology based on ITE-X technology.
However, the need for a propulsion engine has recently been realized.
Rocket propellants to launch NF network satellites and rocket propellants to enter nanosuits.
They are also what I have to make in the end.
A propellant and an engine are different, but if a propellant has to be developed anyway, wouldn’t it be applicable to a jet engine?
Is there no way to apply the new fuel?
I was thinking of thinking about it together.
* * *
After the detailed agreement with the Ministry of National Defense on the new fighter jet was over, I locked myself in the lab again.
‘High methane. I thought the efficiency would be good, but this much.’
In the meantime, a lot of research has been done on ‘high-methane’, a new fuel made by the catalytic reaction of methane and boron.
“It’s really amazing. High methane. At the same weight… It’s nearly twice as powerful as gasoline. If you make a new engine with this fuel…”
Dr. Kyungho Park of CCHF. he said admiringly.
“But there’s a problem. If you use high methane in a steel-framed engine, it won’t be able to withstand the force of the explosion.”
“Yes. That part is a little disappointing. It would be nice if it could be made with a stronger material…”
Of course, it wasn’t that there was no way.
If you use a boron-based reinforcement material instead of an iron-based reinforcement material, you can withstand the impact.
“You can make it out of boron iron.”
“But it’s still very precious.”
“It will become commonplace someday.”
There were no mass production facilities yet.
“hahahaha, I’m looking forward to the future. By the way, why did you call me? Isn’t the research on high methane over?”
High methane alone is a great achievement, but there was one more thing I was greedy for.
“I’m going to do research on processing methane hydrate and using it directly in engines.”
If you make an engine using boron iron, you can make an engine that uses high methane. And I was still thinking about what kind of engine to make using high methane.
It was clear that he was using high methane.
However, what I am a little more greedy for is methane hydrate. A resource that holds 200 times as much methane in the solid state in the same volume.
The plan was to process methane hydrate into methane, then process the processed methane into high methane and use it as fuel.
If that happens, the efficiency will be about 400 times higher than diesel based on the same volume.
400 times.
Aircraft carriers are needed because fighter jets cannot fly for long periods of time. So, they anchor an aircraft carrier nearby and dispatch fighters.
But if it could store 400 times more fuel than conventional fighters, there would be no need for aircraft carriers.
Just fly across the Pacific to America.
“Yes? You mean processing and using methane hydrate?”
“yes.”
“To do that, methane hydrate needs to be processed into methane, and methane needs to be further processed into high methane… I need two facilities at the same time. Wouldn’t that be huge?”
“The volume is also the volume, but the technology to process methane hydrate is also lacking.”
“That’s right. The more you process methane hydrate, the more you lose. It’s more profitable to just buy methane.”
“Yes. It is meaningless unless methane hydrate is processed and used directly from the engine.”
Only then will it show 400 times higher efficiency.
And if that level of performance is shown, the nanosuit will also be developed.
“Is that possible?”
“Probably not easy. Because you have to put two processing facilities into a small engine.”
“Oh, um…”
“Do you think it’s impossible?”
“No matter how much Mr. Lee Chul-woo is, it is physically impossible to mount two of them in the engine. Unless a new technology is developed, I think so.”
“That’s right. It’s impossible with the current technology. But you just said, right? If a new technology is developed, it will work.”
If you don’t have it, just make it.
“……? Yes? Creating a new processing technology?”
“Yes. That’s the correct answer.”
“No, that’s nonsense… it’s not something that comes out easily, it’s that doctors have to study for decades in the lab.”
“ha ha ha.”
I already had a few ideas flashing in my head.
“Ah, that’s right. He was a genius…”