Volume VII Chapter 800 Firmament 11 Missile
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Time flies, and the lively 08 years have passed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Looking back on 08 years, the global financial economy is still a downturn year, and the international political environment has become somewhat turbulent due to economic factors.
For Somalia. '08 was a very important year, in which the Somali economy exceeded the $10 billion mark for the first time, and the per capita GDP reached $800. In this year, the Baidoa Aviation Industrial Park was established, bringing together a large number of high-tech industrial parks, and becoming the largest science and technology park in Northeast Africa.
In this year, two years after its establishment, the Somali National Defense Force carried out its first large-scale reorganization and rearmament program, and a number of officers and soldiers and units that did not meet the current national defense needs were dismantled, and the combat effectiveness of some key arms and units was greatly enhanced.
This year, Xingchen Group's sales exceeded the $1 billion mark for the first time, and the sales orders for Golden Eagle attack aircraft reached 150 aircraft......
In this year, the third OECD's first full-fledged standing force, the 'Third National Anti-Terrorism Force', was established, which aims to carry out transnational anti-terrorist tasks and special tasks within the organization, and its headquarters is located in Benghazi, an important port city in eastern Libya, and the commander is Gaddafi's sixth son, Khamis? Gaddafi as ......
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110 km northwest of the city of Baidoa is the city of Golol, Bakool Oblast. Golole is a strange and dangerous location on the border between the southwestern plains of Somalia and the north-central plateau, with only one road connecting the city to the east and west.
Here, since last year, ground has been broken for the construction of Somalia's first rocket (missile) launch site.
Today, Major General Li Mo, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Somali Defence Forces, accompanied by several important generals of the Somali military, visited here to observe a missile launch test.
On the steel launch stand erected in the center of the launch site, a sky-blue missile is firmly anchored to it.
A group of experts of different skin colors are putting the final touches on this missile.
Li Mo was accompanied by two East Asian faces, in addition to military generals and several experts from the missile research and development center, who were missile technology experts from China.
In July last year, Somalia and Huaxia secretly reached an agreement on technical cooperation and exchange; the Xingchen Group provided Huaxia with laser anti-missile technology, and Huaxia provided Somalia with multi-stage rocket technology, and the two countries organized optoelectronic technology experts to conduct in-depth research on laser anti-missile technology, and the results were shared by the two countries, but Huaxia's political axe was not allowed to sell weapons equipped with laser anti-missile technology to the outside world, while the Somali side was not subject to this restriction, but the sale of weapons related to this technology should conform to the interests of certain aspects of China.
To put it simply, Somalia can sell weapons with laser anti-missile technology, but not to those potential enemies of China.
With the support of Huaxia in missile technology and experts, the technological development of the Missile R&D Center of the Xingchen Group has absorbed Iran's missile technology and Huaxia's missile technology, and with the efforts of missile technology experts from Ukraine, the new medium-range ballistic missile Sky 11 will be launched and tested today.
The Firmament-11 missile is propelled by a two-stage rocket with a solid hydroxyl polybutadiene propellant, the formula of which comes from the Ukrainian missile specialist 'Paul Combination'. The 'Paul Combination' now includes not only the four missile experts from the Southern Machine Factory, but also a number of technical experts from the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.
Today, it is the launcher launch test of this new-generation solid-surface-to-surface missile with a larger body and a longer range, and if the launch is successful, the second missile launch vehicle launch test will be carried out after the completion of the research on the land mobile launch system.
At about 9 o'clock in the morning, after the relevant personnel recorded that the natural environmental indicators such as climate, temperature, and wind were normal, Master Baoer, the head of the missile launch test team, gave the order for ignition and launch.
With a huge burst of smoke, the sky-blue missile pierced the sky and flew straight into the sky, and soon disappeared from everyone's sight, but on the big screen of the ground monitoring center, the sky-blue missile still flew eastward at high speed, and soon flew out of the African continent and reached the sky over the western Indian Ocean.
At this time, everyone in the ground monitoring center held their breath and looked at the screen with wide eyes, because everyone knew that what was next was the focus of today's test, and it was also the foundation of the success of the Sky 11 missile.
The medium-range ballistic missile (MTBM) flew in a parabolic trajectory, and by the time it flew out of the African continent, the missile had already flown out of the atmosphere and continued to fly at an altitude of 700 kilometres.
Under the nervous gaze of everyone, the critical moment came after the first stage engine of the missile worked for 52 seconds.
"The first stage engine was successfully disengaged...... The second stage engine was successfully ignited......" Li Mo and the experts laughed as the voice came from the radio.
Altitude 200 km...... 300 km ...... 400 km...... Seven hundred km
Speed 7 km/s ...... 6 km/s ...... Reach the highest point of the ballistic.
Altitude 700 km...... 500 km ...... 300 km.
Speed: 0 km/s...... 4 km/s ...... 7 kilometers per second.
By the time the missile re-entered the atmosphere, it was close to 20 times the speed of sound. At this time, because the speed of the missile is extremely fast, the speed after entering the atmosphere encounters a black barrier, that is, because of the high-speed compression and the action of the atmospheric sticky bottom, thousands of degrees of high temperature and plasma layer are formed around the missile body, which makes the missile's communication seriously ineffective or even interrupted.
For ICBMs, the black barrier zone may be a few minutes or ten minutes, while for a relatively short-range medium-range ballistic missile, the time may be a few seconds or more than a dozen seconds, and when the descent speed of the missile in the atmosphere is reduced to a certain point, the black barrier zone disappears.
More than 10 seconds later, a monitoring ship at a certain location in the Indian Ocean sent the news of the successful missile hitting the target area to the ground monitoring center, and the huge monitoring center burst into cheers.
Li Mo was very happy to shake hands with the experts and express his gratitude, saying that if it were not for the help of these experts and technicians from all over the world, it would not have been possible for the missile research and development center to achieve this achievement in a short period of time with its own strength.
In particular, the two-stage propulsion technology, with which the biggest obstacle to the research of intercontinental missiles has been solved.
After the Firmament-11 missile was launched at the Golole missile test site, many ground and air monitoring stations around the world simultaneously monitored the information of this missile, and the political axes and militaries of various countries paid close attention to it.
Because the range of this missile reached 2500-3000 km, which is far more than the 1800 km range of the Meteor 3 missile introduced by Somalia from Iran.
The original 600-kilogram warhead weight of the Meteor 3 missile is almost the same as equipping small tactical nuclear warheads, and once this missile with a range of 3,000 kilometers is really deployed, it will definitely be used as a carrier of strategic nuclear weapons, equipped with a nuclear warhead with a yield of hundreds of thousands of tons.
Li Mozheng had this idea, and the successful launch of the Firmament 11 missile was also because Somalia urgently needed a strategic weapon with a longer range and greater power.
With a heavy weight of 1.2 tons, it is completely possible to load the 500,000-ton nuclear warheads weighing 800 kilograms in Li Mo's hands.
If the deployment of the Firmament-1 and Firmament-2 missiles can only deter several neighboring countries and the surrounding waters, the range of the Firmament-11 missiles can satisfy the deterrence of Saudi Arabia and the surrounding areas of the Persian Gulf, and the US Fifth Fleet is completely within the strike range of such missiles.
Li Mo, who returned to the industrial park, still had an excited look on his face, an extra trump card and chips in his hand, his spine was a little straighter, and his tone of voice and attitude of rejection to others could also be more direct. This is the intuitive manifestation of strength or weakness.
"Boss, this time the Sky 11 missile, we have to equip a brigade, as long as there is a brigade, we are not afraid of anyone coming." The commander of the Strategic Missile Regiment, Viper, followed behind Li Mo and said excitedly.
"A brigade? You can really figure it out. Do you know how much this missile costs a piece? Li Mo rolled his eyes and asked.
The viper's eyes widened, and after thinking for a while, he said, "The Firmament 2 missile is only $790,000 each, and the Firmament 11 is at most a million dollars." ”
"A million? Just selling you a shell is about the same. We produce it ourselves, and this missile costs $1.7 million a piece. How much does a brigade cost? Li Mo said angrily.
The Sky 11 missile is good, but the price is too expensive, mainly because the industrial park has not yet understood many technical aspects of the missile, and some missile spare parts need to be imported, resulting in the cost will not come down. Li Mo remembered that the Huaxia Dongfeng 21 missile, which was similar to the Sky 11 missile, had a factory price of less than one million US dollars. This is the advantage of strong industrial technology.
"One brigade can't do it, that one regiment is about the same, right? Do you see how many enemies there are around us? How much strength the United States has around it, a regiment of missiles can only defend and have limited deterrence, and no matter how low it is, we will not have the ability to strike a nuclear counterattack, unless it is a preemptive strike. The Viper was also secretly shocked when he heard this number, the missile is not comparable to a weapon such as a tank, it is used once, and it is equivalent to 1.7 million US dollars spent after the launch. So he immediately lowered his proposal by one level, from a brigade to a regiment.
A regiment is equipped with almost 24 missiles, and if the enemy launches a nuclear strike on Somalia first, as long as the command is right, it will still be able to save some of the missiles that have survived, so that it has a nuclear counterattack capability.
"Don't think about it so much, for the time being, you can only equip 10 for testing and training, and you still use the Sky 2 missile for the time being." Li Mo did not relented at all because the poisonous snake lowered his requirements, and directly expressed his attitude.
(To be continued)