The negotiation of this test ended with "the military purchased 4 million US dollars of special military lithium-ion batteries from Alice Group to conduct this test, and during the experiment, Alice Group will provide corresponding assistance for the corresponding technical problems found in the experimental process".

Although the funds are not very sufficient, this is just an experiment after all, just to verify the advantages and practical feasibility of lithium-ion batteries to replace traditional lead-acid batteries.

Although $4 million can only be used to modify one set of battery packs, and cannot fill all two sets of battery compartments of R-class submarines, after calculation, the purchase of $4 million batteries for testing is enough, if the performance of lithium-ion batteries in the test process is indeed better than that of traditional lead-acid batteries, the military will place a large-scale order with Alice Group.

"These guys, typical dogs...... It's really bullying the soft and afraid of the hard! Take a dog beating stick and beat them hard to know the power of the stick, typical not to beat uncomfortable! After signing the contract, Zhang Lan held her wine glass and said to Xiao Chenxi a little depressed.

The two little guys hiding in the corner of the banquet hall were chattering here, and the few major generals present and the high-ranking officials of the Alice Group didn't know that their little master was cursing them in quite vicious language.

Xiao Chenxi nodded with a smile, didn't speak, but the smile in her eyes completely betrayed this girl, obviously this girl also agreed with Zhang Lan's statement, the person sent to negotiate with Alice Group this time, Zhang Lan thought that this guy was soapy, slippery, very flexible in dealing with people, and in this negotiation process, he did not make any idiotic mistakes.

Since one is willing to pay. The other is also interested in supporting national defense construction. Naturally, it was done very quickly. The real negotiation process lasted one. It's all finalized in a week, and today is the day the contract is signed. To celebrate the signing of the contract, the Navy came over with three rear admirals and a vice admiral, well, this vice admiral is Mr. Zhang Dingshu, commander of the North Sea Fleet.

For this experiment, Xiao Chenxi and Alice calculated that if lithium-ion batteries are used, the amount of electricity that can be stored in this group of lithium-ion batteries is equivalent to twice the total amount of electricity that can be stored in the previous two sets of staggered acid batteries.

That's a staggering number! That is to say, if the two sets of battery packs of the entire class submarine are all converted into ion battery packs, it can provide 4 times the power of the previous one, and all the submarines equipped with ion batteries can travel a distance of about one nautical mile in the state of diving at an underwater cruising speed, and the underwater self-sustaining force is about one day, this data. It's already quite close to the data of the plus submarine.

Of course, this figure is not a secret, after all, before the contract is signed, the military also needs to know the specific performance of the lithium-ion batteries that the Alice Group supplies to itself. After understanding the specific parameters of these batteries, they can easily calculate the detailed data. However, if the submarine is traveling at high speed underwater, the battery life will be drastically reduced, which is something that everyone knows, and this is still on the premise that the lithium-ion batteries provided to the military are not the kind that store the most power.

Zhang Lan: The specifications of the lithium-ion batteries they provided to the military are just! That is, these batteries are batteries with an output voltage of "per hour."

It's not that Zhang Lan is unwilling to give the military the best performance battery, but the cost of the 3-burner battery is too high, even if the Alice Group itself is not mass-produced, if the military plans to use this kind of battery, if they can afford the price, of course it is not a big problem, but think about it, it is so difficult for them to even come up with ten thousand dollars. It's too hard for them to try with a battery of this size.

The balance between cost and performance is the best, the so-called best price-performance ratio. In order to further reduce costs, Alice also enlarged the volume of these batteries accordingly. And whether it is connected in series or parallel, it is extremely convenient.

One word. Zhang Lan is almost certain that as long as those guys don't do anything in it, after the end of this test, Alice Group will usher in a large number of military lithium-ion battery orders from the military, and the military will carry out a comprehensive upgrade of its existing submarine batteries, and the military needs of these batteries alone are enough to keep themselves busy for a long time.

Of course, the most important part of the contract is that during the experiment, Alice Group will protect the secrets of this experiment.

This was not originally a problem, but the problem was that the party that would not have been a problem and should not have been the problem was the first to go wrong: less than one contract was signed. A week later, the Washington Metropolis on the other side of the ocean published a new headline that made many people in the US military, including the US military, sit very calmly: "The mysterious roaring navy vigorously strengthens its underwater combat capabilities, including the participation of the Alice Group!" 》。

The article describes an ongoing experiment by the Solomon Islands Navy to replace the lead-acid batteries of existing submarines with lightweight, energy-dense and virtually maintenance-free lithium-ion batteries, which will be provided by Alice Group, which is unique in the world in lithium-ion batteries.

It is reported that with the strong support of Alice Group in lithium-ion batteries, if everything goes well in this experiment, after switching to Alice Group's lithium-ion batteries. The underwater endurance and cruising range of conventionally powered submarines of all the Navy's will be greatly enhanced, at least twice as long as the current one.

If enough modifications are carried out, the endurance will be quite close to that of submarines that are now being vigorously developed, and at the same time, because the later cost of lithium-ion batteries is very low, and there is no need for complex cooling equipment. If the Navy's submarines use lithium-ion batteries, they will carry more weapons, listening equipment, and other combat weapons, and will become a huge threat to the Seventh Fleet of the US Pacific Fleet.

The Washington Post desperately tried to make its article more persuasive, declaring in it that the source of the experiment was accurate and that it came from a Chinese official and non-governmental gathering. An "unnamed Chinese Ministry of Defense official" who was present inadvertently revealed it while he was drunk, and the Chinese Defense Ministry official turned away as soon as he realized that he had said something he should not have said. ,

There is no doubt that this time it is our respected official personnel who inadvertently leaked a secret, and it is not the first time that such a thing has happened, and everyone has already gotten used to it.

By this time. Not to mention the domestic military, Zhang Lan and Alice, it is estimated that even fools know that this time the matter that should have been highly kept secret was leaked before it started because a drunk guy in the official couldn't keep his mouth after drinking.

The military was extremely embarrassed by this, for the first time, these big men felt that their faces were hot, they were still there and tried their best to beware of others coming, but they didn't expect that there was nothing wrong with the Alice Group, and it was themselves who had the first problem. In the eyes of the people who watched the Alice Group look at themselves. These military people always felt that their eyes were full of mockery: Look, it's these two hundred and five bastard things!

Although two days later, a guy in the Ministry of Defense resigned in an unusually low-key manner due to "physical health", but this did not prevent the news from becoming an international headline in the shortest possible time; Although in the face of interviews with journalists from various countries, the military personnel strenuously denied the existence of this incident. But this did not prevent those reporters with vast powers from exerting their magical powers to get the information they wanted, and even the "Jane's Defense Yearbook" was full and followed in, and for a time the international excitement was very lively.

Although countries around the world are paying attention to this matter, there are few countries that really plan to equip themselves with lithium-ion batteries, and the current submarines of the Americans are basically nuclear-powered, so they naturally do not need this thing. Lao Maozi doesn't need it, although they have not achieved the full nuclear powerization of submarines, but the proportion of nuclear submarines in the early navy is also the highest except for the US Navy, but this does not prevent these guys from chirping there Wow Wow: It's just that our family has great strength, but you also want to have great strength? That's absolutely not going to work, you have a lot of strength, how can Uncle Ben clean you up?

On the contrary, Taiwan is unusually low-key in the face of this news, and there is no way to do it if it is not low-key, just their four old submarines, which are older than the class submarines, also want to fight against the powerful submarine team? Since you can't fight it, then close the door and pretend not to hear.

In fact, it is not without internal reasons that the Americans are making such a fuss, and the fact that the Navy's nuclear submarines and large-scale surface warships were snatched by the Navy from the damned old Maozi made the Americans hate it so much. The Americans have already complained about the Russians on more than one occasion: "These stupid polar bears. How come they can't even look at their own arsenal? "The implication is that if you can't see these things, you can't watch them, but they can just flow to other countries, why do they flow to damn China?

I won't mention it. For the Russians, this incident is an eternal scar in their hearts, and even they themselves did not expect that their country would still be taken by others, but their own special national conditions at that time made the polar bear, which has always been proud and arrogant, have to knock out their teeth and swallow blood.