Domestic opposition was not beyond expectation; even the temptation of an improvement in integrated performance by more than three times did nothing to help the situation.
After all, even those crazy nuclear-powered cruise missile plans during the Cold War era were ultimately not tested widely due to various reasons. Under such a premise, launching nuclear-powered vehicles was bound to face unanimous condemnation from around the world.
Therefore, even the flight permit for the XN90 was being waited out to see the final test results of NPAE.
"Let's start with the plan. As long as NPAE begins testing, everything will start looking up... By the way, have you thought of a code name for it?"
Whether it's NPAE or XN90, these were only the initial model names used internally in the project. The real name would not be decided until the early stages of finalization, and it seemed that time had almost come.
