Chapter 169: Torpedoes are real high-tech weapons
If the US imperialists want to use the Chinese family as their strategic pawns, they must provide the best weapons and equipment so that China has the confidence to confront the Soviet Union. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, the US imperialists did exactly that, sending the belongings they could to China without hesitation.
The most obvious example of the Soviet Union's strategic tilt towards the Far East is to accelerate the occupation of Afghanistan and no longer engage in a policy of softness. If we want to end the war as soon as possible by strong means and concentrate our energies on China's side, the second is to arm the Vietnamese monkey army and create trouble in the rear of the southwest of China.
"Look what model of torpedo it is!" Chen Xu looked at the boat for a long time and finally found the torpedo tube, opened the waterproof cover and saw that it was actually loaded with live ammunition.
The torpedo tube is particularly long, almost five meters to the eye, because it is too large to fit close to the side of the ship, and under the tube is a hydraulic lifting device that can lift the torpedo tube in a matter of seconds and carry out the launch mission.
"Such a long torpedo tube must be a heavy torpedo inside! The US imperialists are really powerful, and they are willing to send such a good torpedo. Chen Xu's tongue licked along his lips, in fact, he didn't need to look at it to know what type of torpedo this was, but anyone with a little military common sense knew that there were only two torpedoes in service with the US imperialists in the seventies, and there was only one heavy torpedo, the Mk48.
In addition, there are torpedo tubes on the USS Saratoga, and if you look at the length of the tubes, you can see that it must be a light torpedo MK46.
China also acquired a considerable number of Soviet-based torpedoes on captured Alpha-class attack nuclear submarines, with heavy torpedoes in the bow and light torpedoes in the stern. At the same time, China also acquired the technology of submarine-launched torpedoes on submarines, and now China can be regarded as having the main torpedoes in service with the United States and the Soviet Union.
The torpedo is the most cutting-edge weapon in the Navy! Its technical complexity is not known how many times more complex than the Tomahawk.
There are many countries in the world that can build missiles, and even the North Stick and Ah San can make it out, although they are all Brownian motion bombs, but at least they can be shot!
However, there are very few countries that can build torpedoes, and the technology of modern torpedoes is extremely complex, and it is possible to build them only when their industrial strength and scientific research strength reach a certain level.
The difficulty of the torpedo is that the density of the water is 700 times greater than that of the air, and the resistance is high, and the torpedo has to travel dozens of kilometers at high speed in the water, and always maintain a straight line, which is not covered. Maintaining a straight line is rarely done by the state.
The second is that the navigation of the torpedo after launch must be very quiet, if the noise of the torpedo tube is loud, then the position of the submarine behind it will be exposed, and whoever exposes the position first in the submarine battle will die, the submarine is not bulletproof, and it will basically hang up after a mine or torpedo.
Finally, there is the fuel for torpedoes, as a weapon for high-speed underwater navigation, it needs fuel and oxygen to move forward, and how to mix fuel is also difficult.
For example, the US imperialists' MK46 torpedoes use binary Otto fuel, and the advantage of this hybrid fuel is that it is safe, has a long shelf life, and can be used for more than ten years on board. During World War II, Japan's oxygen torpedoes were famous, but they were easy to leak during transportation, and they were very prone to fire and explosion, and this thing was very dangerous whether it was placed in a submarine or in the cabin, and sometimes it didn't blow up the enemy but blew itself up.
Fortunately, in the 70s, because the honeymoon period of the United States imperialists gave the Chinese company Otto torpedo technical information, so the Chinese family also had this kind of safe torpedo technology, and on this basis, developed more advanced torpedoes.
In the study of torpedoes, the Soviet old Maozi has always been rude, as long as it can be used! 'Kerosene' and 'hydrogen peroxide' were used directly as torpedo fuel. Hydrogen peroxide was chosen as torpedo fuel because it burns to produce high heat and oxygen, and the volume instantly increases by nearly 5,000 times, propelling the torpedo at high speed underwater.
However, one of the biggest drawbacks of hydrogen peroxide is that it is extremely unstable and can explode at the slightest collision or temperature change. For example, in 2000, the Kursk strategic missile submarine of Da Mao's family suddenly exploded and sank, and Pu the Great spent more than 100 million US dollars to salvage it, confirming that a hydrogen peroxide torpedo exploded on it, and then detonated seven other torpedoes in the torpedo compartment at the same time, causing the tragic accident in which 118 submarine officers and men were buried at the bottom of the sea.
There is no doubt that the Alpha-class nuclear submarine of the Soviet Navy that Chen Xu stole with great effort was also loaded with a torpedo fueled by hydrogen peroxide, which was very dangerous.
Compared with the MK46, the MK48 torpedo of the US imperialists is the real master. The U.S. imperialists spent $5 billion on the development of this heavy torpedo, and the $5 billion in the sixties was no problem in developing a third-generation fighter. After smashing a lot of money, the MK48 intelligent heavy thermodynamic torpedo was born, and its technical difficulty is unparalleled in this era, and this torpedo is the crystallization of the strong industrial strength and scientific and technological strength of the United States.
However, the MK48 torpedo is still the killer weapon of the US imperialist nuclear submarine, and even the Chinese can't get it for a while, so they can only invest a lot of money to try to catch up.
Da Maojia has developed a supercavitating torpedo with a speed of 200 knots, which has an extremely short range and is extremely noisy. It's a good idea to fire it on a submarine to save your life, but as long as you aim and shoot out, the opposing warship won't even have a chance to react.
For example, the aircraft carrier lurking on the bottom of the sea to attack the passing one, not to mention how cool it is, but this submarine will also launch an attack. After that, whether or not they can escape in the three-dimensional anti-submarine net of the US imperialist escort fleet depends on the blessing of Mazu Niangniang.
Supercavitating torpedoes look tempting, and the United States, Germany, and China, several countries with torpedo research and development capabilities, have all conducted technical demonstrations, but they have given up because they have no tactical value. However, after Russia came up with it, the Chinese family immediately paid for this torpedo technology, although it did not play a big role, but it was still very good for technology storage.
Stroking the MK48 torpedo installed on the Long Beach, Chen Xu had to sigh that the Yankees were indeed kind enough, not to mention the Tomahawk cruise missiles and Harpoon anti-ship missiles installed on the Long Beach, and even the MK48 heavy torpedoes were also installed.
"This torpedo is the weapon that really tests a country's R&D strength, especially for submarines, a safe and powerful torpedo is particularly important. This MK-48 torpedo seems to be developed and manufactured by Westinghouse, and it just so happens that we are discussing the nuclear power plant project, so we can contact it to see if we can get the design data of this fish" Chen Xu tossed around the torpedo tube for a long time, and finally found that the torpedo was installed in the torpedo tube, and he had no way to get it out, so he had to give up.
Chen Xu had more high-tech design drawings in his mind than the books in the library, but he didn't get the torpedo technology, mainly because the country also had Otto torpedo technology at that time, so he didn't bother to steal it.
The most critical thing in torpedo technology is self-guidance technology, which can accurately hit the target when shot, and if the Long Beach is loaded with the latest upgraded model of the American imperiado, the MK48-5 torpedo, which is the fifth generation of this torpedo, it can automatically identify hostile targets in front.
The core of guidance technology is 'integrated circuit technology', which is chip technology in the final analysis. The price of supercomputing technology, chip technology, and semiconductor equipment sold by Chen Xu to IBM is $53 billion, which seems unreasonable because the price is too expensive.
But in fact, if you look at it a little bit, you will know that this price is not expensive at all, but very cheap. IBM has contracted many military projects of the US imperialists, so their board of directors knows very well that if they get these technologies, the US imperialism will make a huge breakthrough in the military field, especially in the guidance performance of various weapons, which will be completely digitally intelligent, which can greatly improve the survival chances of the US military on the battlefield.
The most important thing is that ICBMs can be hit more accurately, which can significantly improve the deterrence capability of US imperialists' nuclear weapons.
After IBM gets these technologies, it will not only be able to monopolize the hardware equipment of the civilian IT industry, but also have a great future in the military.
Chen Xu offered this price, in fact, he was making a one-time deal, and the US imperialists also knew that if they did not buy this technology, Chen Xu was very likely to sell the technology to the Soviet Union, and the loss would be more than a little bit by that time.
However, Chen Xu will not be stupid enough to break the strategic balance between the United States and the Soviet Union, so in the future, he will find a way to sell some chips to the Soviet Union, of course, only for the finished product, not the technology!
Because only in this way can we ensure that every semiconductor circuit integrated chip used by the Soviet Union is made in the laboratory of Southern Heavy Industry, and when the Soviets put these chips on their strategic missiles, they will never know that tens of millions of electron tubes are integrated into these chips, and occasionally a few of them have backdoor programs!
Of course, the Soviet military industry will not be so stupid to use these chips directly, they will carefully check them, but they can't see the clues in the face of the generation difference in technology, and in the end they can't help but use these chips.
Even if it is not installed in the missile, as long as the Soviet Union uses even one of these chips on their military computers, Chen Xu can command the hacker troops to break into the Soviet military network, paralyze all their satellites and electronic equipment, and make all their nuclear submarines sink to the bottom of the sea and never float again!
Especially after the U.S. imperialists launched the Star Wars program, the Soviet Union will definitely need more integrated chips from Southern Heavy Industries, and when the time comes, it will only need to export a large number of them, which will make money and control the Soviet military network, which is the best of both worlds. (To be continued.) )