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Lu Zhanheng carried Tang Yue all the way to Laboratory No. 9, entered the room, and closed the door in one swift, decisive motion. The group of researchers following behind almost bumped their noses into the door.

"Hey, Lao Lu, you're not a good person. How could you lock Xiao Yueyue in the room? Let the child out right now."

"Yes, you surnamed Lu, you get out here right now! What are you doing? This is kidnapping! Don't you understand what kidnapping is?"

"Hey Lu, come out here. Let's compete fairly. Don't think you can do whatever you want just because you're a little better than us."

The door to Laboratory 9 was being banged on loudly by everyone, but the noise outside seemed to have nothing to do with Lu Zhanheng. He carefully placed Tang Yue on his somewhat messy large table.

Tang Yue sat on the table, unconsciously swinging her legs, and smiled helplessly as she looked at the excited researchers around her. Just now, when Lu Zhanheng went out, he told the people inside not to move, that he would go out and bring the person back.

It turns out the director is really amazing. Despite being surrounded and blocked by so many people, he was able to bring this talented little guy into their Lab 9 so easily. Isn't that so exciting?

She's an amazing person! She managed to secretly bring back Japanese warships. What are those? Those are Japanese warships! And that's not all, she brought back a lot of cutting-edge technology!

This applies not only to the military, but also to many other fields. Through this, China's technology will advance by ten years—no, more than ten years!

Lu Zhanheng eagerly pointed to the various new and old blueprints spread out on the table, and a tense research atmosphere suddenly filled the air. Lu Zhanheng then picked up another stack of blueprints from a corner and said urgently, "Little Yueyue, you're finally back!"

I saw those warships you brought back from Japan; they're absolute treasures! We've been studying them for a while now, but so many technical problems have stumped us.

Tang Yue glanced at the pile of blueprints in Lu Zhanheng's hand, nodded slightly, and gestured for him to continue. Lu Zhanheng picked up a blueprint, which depicted a sketch of a warship's propulsion system.

He frowned and said, "Take this power system for example. The current power systems of our country's warships are far behind the latest technology of Japan."

The gas turbines originally planned for our frigates could not be developed, so we have been using civilian diesel engines as a substitute, which has affected the performance and reliability of the ships to some extent.

However, Japan's power system technology is far more mature and advanced than ours. You see, they use gas turbine power plants, which are more suitable for warships. Their power systems are more stable and perform better than ours, providing more reliable power support for their ships.

Moreover, their warships have small propulsion systems, yet their output power is astonishingly high; however, we haven't fully grasped many of the underlying technological principles.

Tang Yue carefully examined the blueprints, recalling the structure of the propulsion system on Japanese warships. After a moment's thought, she said, "Uncle Lu, Japan is indeed far ahead of us in this area."

Their gas turbine power units are indeed far superior to ours. Furthermore, their engine materials undergo special treatment to withstand high temperatures and high pressures, enabling the engine to maintain stability while operating at high efficiency.

Lu Zhanheng's eyes lit up, and he quickly jotted down notes in his notebook, muttering to himself, "Right, right, and materials too. Materials are a problem too. Sigh, we're still lacking in technology and resources; we can't compete with them in many things."

Lu Zhanheng didn't care whether Tang Yue could offer any feasible suggestions; he wanted to finish explaining the problems he had summarized to Tang Yue first.

He pointed to another blueprint, which showed the warship's fire control system. "Look, Yueyue, there's also this fire control system. Our best 'Chuandu' class frigates were originally gun and torpedo frigates, and were later equipped with anti-ship missiles, but only two in number, so their combat effectiveness is limited."

The "Jiangnan" class frigates replaced their main shipboard guns with dismantled 100mm single-barrel shore guns, and their air defense weapons were mainly small-caliber anti-aircraft guns (Type 12).

Take a look at this Japanese ship, the "Chikugo". It is not equipped with anti-ship missiles, but only a MK33 76mm twin-barreled naval gun. However, this naval gun is controlled by the GFCS-1 gun director and the 1B gun-aiming radar, and has a rate of fire of 50 rounds per minute.

That's not all. For air defense, there are two Bofors 40mm single-barrel automatic cannons, controlled by the MK51 secondary gun director, with a slightly higher level of automation than our contemporary Chinese Type 61 37mm anti-aircraft gun.

Finally, Lu Zhanheng sighed, "Yueyue, if a real battle breaks out at sea, the pressure on our Chinese warships will be immense."

As Tang Yue listened to Lu Zhanheng's explanation, she mentally constructed a comparison between the warships of the two countries, while many strange ideas popped into her head. Actually, solving these problems wasn't difficult at all.

"Uncle Lu, are you trying to catch up with the technology of Japanese warships?"

Lu Zhanheng's eyes lit up when he heard Tang Yue's words. It seemed there was a chance. He nodded hurriedly, "Yueyue, if we could catch up with Japan's technology, what else would we need to say? We'd definitely be happy to!"

"Yueyue, with our current strength, are we sure we can manage?"

Tang Yue thought for a moment, then shook her head. "Huh? Is that not allowed?"

Lu Zhanheng's good mood vanished instantly, and even the others in the lab looked at Tang Yue with disappointment. Their mournful eyes seemed to say, "Even you can't do it?"

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