Chapter 369: New Gadgets
"What should I do?" Jiang Xinwei pondered for a while, and said to himself, "I don't want our company to be too involved in the research and development of military products now, but I can't help but do something, if there is any scientific research task that is light and can quickly produce a little results, it would be good, just like this artillery automation command instrument......"
Although Jiang Xinwei understated the artillery automation command instrument, which made Lu Xianghe, who was originally excited, a little embarrassed in his heart, and said in his heart: How can the artillery automation command instrument be so light as you say? Its role is so great, how can it explain its function with a little bit of results? But he still said: "Mr. Jiang, I am afraid that this kind of project will be difficult to find for a while. Or, as you said before, if we really can't do it, we can optimize the circuit of the missile control unit?"
Jiang Xinwei was about to agree, first promising the military to do something before talking about the future, but when his eyes swept to the newspaper delivered today on the table, and saw the report written at the bottom of the first page about the Iraqi government's protest against the establishment of a no-fly zone by Western countries in Iraq, an idea suddenly came to his mind, and said: "Or, let's design a smart cannonball for them, right?"
Lu Xianghe looked at Jiang Xinwei in surprise and asked, "Let's help them design smart shells?...... Mr. Jiang, we are an enterprise that produces electronic products, and our strength is the research and development and manufacturing of electronic products. ”
Jiang Xinwei smiled: "I want to use our strengths." Hehe, do you think that when I say that designing smart shells is to design the warhead, body and explosives inside of the shell?"
Lu Xianghe was stunned for a moment, and blurted out, "Isn't it......?" Are you talking about how do we make the shell smart? Let it have a certain mind...... , Mr. Jiang, I'm sorry, I made you confused. ”
Jiang Xinwei smiled and said, "You should be confused." I'm talking about smart bombs, and you certainly don't know what I mean. In fact, I am also pulling a tiger skin to make a big banner, the so-called smart cannonball is a kind of electronically controlled zhì explosive fuse shell, under certain conditions, the explosion fuse will start the explosion program to make the shell explode. ”
Lu Xianghe although not a specialist in the study of artillery shells. But after all, he stayed in the military factory, and after listening to Jiang Xinwei's words, he said strangely: "Mr. Jiang, there seems to be this kind of shell, for example, set the height of the shell in the shell to explode at what height it falls, so as to ensure that the shell can be suspended and start in the air to produce a greater killing effect." Another example is the explosion of a shell as far as it has traveled, so that it can kill and injure enemies hiding behind trenches or protective walls. Do we still need to design this?"
Jiang Xinxu nodded seriously and said, "Yes." You're talking about this kind of shell, which is what I just said about smart shells. It's just that our smart program is more than what is currently used to make a simple judgment on a parameter. ”
Lu Xianghe looked at Jiang Xinwei, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "How smart is it? Does the military really need this kind of shell?"
Jiang Xinwei picked up the newspaper, handed it to Lu Xianghe, and said: "I don't know if my country's military needs it, but I think Iraq should need it." ”
Lu Xianghe was even more puzzled. He took the newspaper and looked at the place where Jiang Xinwei's eyes were indicated, and said: "Iraq needs it? Now Iraq is a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats it." They have not yet officially acknowledged that their invasion of Kuwait was a mistake and have not corrected their last declaration that Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Now that the Western countries are imposing sanctions on them, our country is also in favor of it, and we can't transport these smart shells over, right? China will certainly not do anything that violates the UN resolution, and it is impossible to offend the Western countries because of this. ”
Jiang Xinwei glanced at Lu Xianghe. A little frustrated, he said, "That's too." I really want Iraq to beat down a few Yankee cruise missiles or something, so that the Yankees will suffer some dark losses. Those guys are arrogant, thinking that Lao Tzu is the best in the world, and they are not happy to look at it. ”
Speaking of this, Jiang Xinwei smiled like a child. said: "Lu Gong, I'm sorry, I'm too childish. ”
Lu Xianghe's eyes widened and asked: "What? You said that this kind of intelligent artillery shell can hit cruise missiles? Cruise missiles are so fast, fly at such a low altitude, and strike at a distance of thousands of kilometers, even radars are difficult to catch, how can artillery shells explode them?"
Jiang Xinwei said: "Wait for the rabbit." ”
Lu Xianghe was even more shocked and asked: "How can you wait for the rabbit? Arrange artillery in an important position and wait for the US cruise missiles to hit you? How many artillery pieces and shells do you have to arrange, and does Iraq have the ability to do this?"
Jiang Xinxu said: "As long as you know what important targets the Yankees will hit, don't you?"
Lu Xianghe originally wanted to refute it, but in the end he didn't say anything, he just smiled and said in his heart: Do you think you are the president of the United States, and if you want to know which targets the Yankees are attacking in Iraq, all you need to do is make a phone call and ask the military? Besides, even if you are the president of the United States, the targets of cruise missiles are not set until wartime, and when you know that the military has formulated the targets and then notified the Iraqi military to make preparations, Iraq does not have the ability to prepare this kind of artillery and smart shells in a short period of time, right?
What he doesn't know is that these are difficult problems for others, including the US president, but for Jiang Xinwei, it is very simple: as long as you carefully read the relevant news reports on the US war in Iraq on March 20, 2003, you will have Iraq bombing Baghdad, Basra, and Basra with cruise missiles. Not only do you know which major Iraqi targets the U.S. military bombed with cruise missiles and when, but you can also know whether the cruise missiles were launched from warships or planes in the Red Sea or the Mediterranean, that is, you know the approximate flight path of the cruise missiles.
On the one hand, the United States broadcast these news with a sense of imagery, on the one hand, because Iraq's armed forces were too weak, and because it mainly used military spending on tanks, airplanes, and other traditional weapons, and did not have enough means of anti-cruise missiles and other precision-guided bombs, so the impact of not broadcasting the news would have little impact on the US military; on the other hand, such a high-profile broadcast of news by the United States also boosted domestic morale, and at the same time deterred other countries and boosted the US military prestige.
In fact, the United States is doing this to deter Russia and China, to let people all over the world know that the United States has a strong military and to make everyone obedient.
Most of the young people who were about the same age as Jiang Xinwei in their previous lives were angry at the Yankees' unscrupulousness on the one hand, and on the other hand, they were also very interested in these military news, especially this new mode of warfare attracted them, and lamented the backwardness of their own country's army's weapons and combat readiness. As long as the TV station broadcasts the news, they will watch it quietly, and after watching it, everyone will talk freely, and in their leisure time, they will look up all kinds of information on the Internet about the US attack on Iraq.
At that time, not only military fans, but pseudo-military fans or young people with a little military hobby could sit together and talk about the Iraq war for a long time, and everyone seemed to be experts.
It is precisely because of this that Jiang Xinwei knows a lot about the actions of the US military, and if he is allowed to quietly tell a senior military official in Iraq about this news, and this senior military official fully trusts Jiang Xinxu's news and formulates a military plan for this, not to mention that he can defeat the US military (unless he is a god descending to earth), but it is still possible to let the United States cause more losses, let the US military rein in and rein in a bit, and it may even delay the time for the United States to occupy Iraq.
As we all know, cruise missiles are very difficult to shoot down because of their long flight range, low flight altitude, and fast flight speed, because it is difficult for radar to catch them, and the defenders have no time to react at all. By the time your eyes see (if your eyes are sharp), give you a few seconds to react at most, and you can't do anything but watch them stab at the target.
According to the experts' thinking, the best way to deal with this weapon may be to conduct all-round surveillance, using the radar on the aircraft and the ground radar to carry out long-range, medium-and near surveillance, using scouts to observe with the naked eye along the path that the cruise missile may pass and to report what they see at all times, laying down multiple antiaircraft gun arrays along the path that the cruise missile may pass, launching intelligent bombs when it detects that the cruise missile is passing by, and using the barrage of artillery shells to carry out intelligent interception.
As for using anti-missile missiles to hit cruise missiles, Jiang Xinwei did not consider it, because the Iraqi troops did not, and Jiang Xinwei himself could not design it.
As far as Jiang Xinwei is concerned, he knows the approximate time of the cruise missile's attack, the general direction of the cruise missile's launch, and the US military's bombing target.
What he lacks is only smart artillery shells, and what he lacks is the trust of senior Iraqi military officials at that time.
If there are these two conditions, he can really play, after all, the so-called smart shell is not as tall as people imagine, it is nothing more than installing a number jù processor and related sensors and a number jù receiving circuit in the shell: after the shell is fired from the muzzle, it will continue to receive the number of the command center and continue to calculate, as long as the processor finds that the incoming target appears within its own kill range after calculation, or receives the detonation signal from the command center, it will immediately activate the explosion fuse to detonate the shell, and shoot out the shrapnel in the warhead。
The focus and difficulty of smart shells is nothing more than how to quickly and accurately determine their own coordinates (x, y, z). As long as its own coordinates are determined, the processor can calculate the coordinates of the incoming target (cruise missile) sent by the command center and the coordinates of the artillery shell, and can quickly judge whether the target is within its own killing range, so as to decide whether to detonate.
(Thanks to Hehe Weilong, Ding Yiding's rewards, thanks to dancydl, Feilian messenger's monthly pass) (to be continued......)