Chapter 352: Ballistic Missiles (10)
Zhao Zhongyao looked at it for a while, and then carefully touched the warhead with his finger again. He felt only slightly hot, far from the point where he was going to melt!
"Zhongyao, how is it, is this alloy slug qualified? Yan Mingcheng looked at it, and the alloy warhead on the test device did not change at all, and he felt that this one should be qualified.
"That's right, this one will do, and we will use such tungsten carbide alloy to make ballistic missile warheads in the future. Zhao Zhongyao saw that the alloy warhead he developed was tested just now, and there was no problem at all, and he was sincerely happy that his efforts were not in vain, and he finally found something that can withstand high temperatures.
"Then we can develop ballistic missiles. As soon as Yan Mingcheng heard Zhao Zhongyao say that the alloy warhead experiment in front of him was successful, he thought that a ballistic missile could be developed.
"Yes! The most important component of this ballistic missile is this alloy warhead, and now that we have successfully developed it, the next step is to start developing a ballistic missile. ”
Zhao Zhongyao felt that the time was ripe now. As long as the warhead of a ballistic missile is developed, it will be much easier to develop a missile as a whole.
"Okay, then, what I'm going to do next. Yan Mingcheng thought: Although the following work is easy, someone still needs to do it! The internal structure of the missile is very complicated. It's not just one warhead that is all over the place.
"Lao Yan, you should first produce a shell for a test missile! We must also develop a small test missile first, and we cannot develop a finished product all at once, otherwise it will be too much of a waste of money. ”
Zhao Zhongyao knew that the ballistic missile he designed was a medium-range missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers!
The size of such a missile is also very demanding. Because the warhead must be loaded with a large amount of ammunition, so that the power of the missile is strong enough!
Although Zhao Zhongyao can use an engine like the atomic engine to make the size of the missile smaller than that of an ordinary engine engine. However, considering the power of ballistic missiles, it is necessary to design the size of the missile itself to be larger.
Zhao Zhongyao decided. The size of the ballistic missile he developed and this type of ballistic missile was designed to be ten meters high and one meter in diameter.
When such a huge missile is launched, the power is quite great. As long as the target is hit, it can cause serious damage and lethality within a radius of one kilometer.
But this is just Zhao Zhongyao's overall idea. Now what he has to do is to design a small test missile first.
Like Jonis, he also had to produce a small test missile before the ballistic missile was officially developed.
It's just that the test bomb that Joannis just developed failed and burned and exploded when attacking the target.
And Joannis has not yet found the real cause of the missile's explosion! He just thinks that it is because of the warhead!
Of course, the missile warhead he developed was really not very good. It also played a certain role in the launch failure of this test bomb, but this warhead was not the root cause of the failure of the small test missile developed by Joannis.
It's just that for this reason, Joannis is not very clear now. It's just that the reason for this defeat was attributed to the deformation of the warhead at high temperatures.
And Jonis's student Wesley also felt that there was a problem with the missile's warhead, so he worked with Joannis to develop a new missile warhead.
"Teacher, what kind of warheads should we study next!" Wesley looked at his teacher helplessly.
"You can't use a tungsten warhead, and you can't use a titanium warhead. In my opinion, you can only fuse these two metals together. Make an alloy slug and see if it's okay. ”
There's nothing Joannis can do either, he's experimented with a variety of elemental metals before. Now it seems that we can only experiment with some alloy metals to see how it goes.
"Yes, teacher, if you can't use elemental metal. In my opinion, adding some titanium to tungsten metal should enhance the strength of tungsten metal, so that the high-temperature resistance characteristics of ballistic missile warheads can be improved. ”
Wesley listened to his teacher. He felt that it made sense, and agreed with the teacher's words, to knead the two metals of tungsten and titanium together!
In fact. For Jonnis and Wesley, they were going to develop a completely new weapon. Everything is strange. Everything can only be based on conjecture and experimentation.
And Zhao Zhongyao is obviously much more advanced than the two of them at this point.
Because Zhao Zhongyao was a reborn person, and he was an outstanding physicist during his lifetime, although he did not personally do such a thing as developing ballistic missiles.
I have never eaten pork, and I have never seen a pig go! Zhao Zhongyao was an old military fan who loved military industry before his death.
He also learned a little about ballistic missiles. Therefore, if we develop this kind of missile again, we will naturally be able to avoid many detours.
For Jonis, it's completely different, everything is new. He had never developed a weapon like a missile before.
Joannis was originally an engine expert, and when he was in college, he studied aircraft power, mainly designing and developing engines on airplanes.
It was only later that he was hired by some military companies in the United States and became an engineer for an arms company. That's how he began to develop all kinds of weapons!
For advanced weapons such as missiles, in the world before Zhao Zhongyao's death, there were no advanced weapons, they could only be regarded as conventional weapons!
Only the ballistic missiles in the missiles are considered sophisticated weapons, especially the giant missiles among the missiles, that is, long-range intercontinental missiles, which are symbols of a country's military strength.
In particular, long-range intercontinental missiles carrying nuclear warheads and a country's atomic and hydrogen bombs are called a three-in-one military strategy of a country's nuclear forces.
Only some large countries that have already mastered nuclear bomb technology have the ability to develop a superweapon -- an intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile.
Many small countries simply do not have such weapons. Because they simply do not have the strength to develop nuclear weapons, it is naturally impossible for them to develop any super-missiles -- intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles.
Zhao Zhongyao knows that in this world, there is no such thing as an intercontinental missile. Not to mention ICBMs with nuclear warheads, and even less so none.
You know, ICBMs and space rockets are almost a category of things. If a country does not have advanced rocket technology, it is impossible to develop any advanced intercontinental missiles.
In this parallel world where Zhao Zhongyao was reborn. Missiles are a new type of weapon that has just begun. In the whole world, only China and M have such advanced weapons. And other countries don't have it!
Of course, several developed countries in the West have now begun to develop their own missile weapons. After all, this is a general trend in the development of weapons in the world. Any country that has the ability to develop missiles will strive to develop this new weapon.
Although country M is the most developed country in the world, they have not developed atomic weapons!
After all, Einstein in this world was just a musician, a master of music who played the violin.
Since there is no "Theory of Relativity" and "Quantum Theory" in this world. So. The development of all kinds of technologies in this world is relatively slow.
This is also the case in the military industry, without the guidance of advanced basic science, the military industry is also struggling!
Compared to the space where Zhao Zhongyao was reborn with rapid technological levels, the science and technology of this parallel space are too backward. It is only equivalent to the level of the fifties and sixties in that parallel world.
Under the guidance of such a level of science and technology, it is very difficult to develop an advanced missile weapon!
Jonnis and Wesley, two of China's military elites, also made a lot of effort to develop an advanced ballistic missile.
But in the end, the first test bomb they developed failed to develop.
Joannis blamed the failure of the last test missile entirely on the poor warhead of the missile they developed, which was when the missile warhead was flying at high speed. High temperatures were generated, and then the missile was melted. In this way, the missile is also out of balance, and of course it rolls and explodes.
And now their master and apprentice want to develop an alloy slug!
To say that they are right in this line of thinking. Originally, we wanted to develop a material that can withstand high temperatures. You can only use alloy materials!
But the key to the problem is that you have to find the right material, not just any metal fused together, can become a high-temperature resistant material.
Tungsten titanium alloy. It's not that tungsten and titanium are just two metals fused together. It's a complex technique.
In particular, in order to improve the high temperature resistance of the alloy, the 'tungsten' and 'titanium' in tungsten titanium alloy are not pure 'tungsten' and 'titanium'. Rather, it's 'tungsten carbide' and 'titanium carbide'. An alloy of these two compounds.
Only the tungsten titanium alloy material produced in this way has the characteristics of high temperature resistance.
Previously, the tungsten carbide alloy material developed by Zhao Zhongyao is the alloy material of tungsten carbide and titanium carbide.
Therefore, the tungsten titanium alloy warhead developed by him has strong high temperature resistance. It has higher high temperature resistance than tungsten metal alone.
Zhao Zhongyao already knew about these materials and technologies before his death, and he didn't need to do any more experiments to directly develop such materials and then use them in his own missile development process.
And Jonnis and Wesley are different. Both of them had no idea about the material technology in this area. If you want to develop new materials that are resistant to high temperatures, you can only rely on imagination to test.
However, after all, the two of them are military elites, and they are also very familiar with the characteristics of many metals. Therefore, I immediately thought of using tungsten titanium alloy as a new material!
They think in the right direction, but when they do it, it's not so easy. The two of them simply fused 'tungsten' and 'titanium' together. Just like that, even if it is made of tungsten titanium alloy.
The result of their doing so is certainly not satisfactory.
Because they fuse two metals together casually in this way, they can't improve the high-temperature resistance of the metal at all. It can only improve the wear resistance of the metal.
Because simply fusing two metals together does not play a role in high temperature resistance. You must know that the real high-temperature resistant thing must not be metal. It's something that's not metallic.
This non-metallic thing is naturally carbon.
As we all know, when the average organic matter is burned, there is something black left. These things are naturally carbon.
From this point on, we know that carbon is very difficult to burn.
Therefore, in order to make the metal have the characteristics of high temperature resistance, the only way to add carbon to the metal is to add the element to it!
Zhao Zhongyao has known this knowledge for a long time.
But Jonnis and Wesley didn't know it. They just thought it was quite simple, thinking that if two high-temperature resistant metals were fused together, it would definitely be more resistant to high temperatures!
Isn't this ridiculous? If we fuse several metals together, does it mean that the high-temperature resistance of this alloy is equal to the sum of the melting points of several metals?
Obviously, this is unreasonable and ridiculous.
Jonnis and Wesley didn't have any knowledge of material, so they had to do these foolish things first.
In this way, Jonnis and Wesley fused tungsten and titanium together to develop a new alloy slug.
"Teacher, should we do another test!
Wesley saw that the tungsten titanium alloy warhead they developed had been produced from the workshop, so he thought about doing a high-temperature test first!
"No, this time it will definitely work, let's directly install this missile on the experimental missile! In this way, we can directly test what is going on with this alloy material warhead." Joannis is still very confident that he does not bother to do high-temperature tests on missile warheads at all.
"Alright, let's just load the warhead on the test missile!" Wesley was a little uneasy. But he was only Jonis's assistant and student. He had to do everything at Jonis's command.
The two of them then commanded some skilled workers to mount the alloy warhead they had developed on an experimental missile.
Once it was installed, Jonnis couldn't wait for another test shot.
"Teacher, our missile should be able to be tested successfully this time! We won't turn our heads in the sky again!" Wesley looked at the test missile that had been assembled in front of him, and he couldn't help but ask Jonis. Because the last time, he watched the test missile explode and disintegrate in the high altitude, this scene made him still have some lingering palpitations!
"Don't worry, Wesley, this time it's a success. Wasn't it because of the missile warhead last time! Haven't we already solved this problem!" )