Chapter 44: Who Was the Founder of Cavitation Weapons?

Director Song and Fan Heng waited until more than eight o'clock in the evening, and when the two of them were going to forget it today, Director Zhang hurriedly ran back.

"Why has it been so long, have you eaten?" Director Song noticed that Director Zhang's head was covered with beads of sweat, and thought that he would stay in the fax room and wait for news, and he must not have time to eat, so he asked.

Director Zhang ran out of breath, raised the fax he had just received in his hand, and was speechless with excitement, and only popped out a few words after a long time, "Director-feasible-"

Director Song read the fax draft of the results, and sure enough, under the preliminary argumentation of more than a dozen top experts in the domestic military, they came to the conclusion that the design of the Buran torpedo is beyond the characteristics of the times and completely subverts the traditional torpedo technology.

"Okay-good-" Director Song's heart was also very excited, and his hand holding the fax was a little trembling.

The implications of this are far-reaching, far greater than what can be seen so far.

Since the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Chinese Navy has immediately fallen from its No. 1 position in Asia to the bottom, and it has been weak and difficult to return from in the past 100 years, and the distance between it and the international powers is getting farther and farther away.

In the past, we could hypnotize ourselves behind closed doors, our Air Force was not good, our Navy was not good, but our Army was OK! However, at the beginning of this year, a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam suddenly made the high-level leaders discover that after ten years of turmoil, the last piece of self-reserved land of the Chinese [***] team is also in crisis!

It's not that our people can't do it, but it's that the equipment is too backward, the command system is too backward, the tactical thinking is too backward, and the gap with the United States and the Soviet Union is too backward.

Director Song, as the head of the military industry who directly leads the military industry, naturally knows very well how far-reaching the impact of the Buran torpedo will be if it can be realized.

China's naval ship formation, with its small tonnage and poor ability to coordinate between the sea and the air, is not even a little bit behind the integrated naval and air equipment of the US military or the Soviet army, and it is still less confrontation or counterattack in the face of other people's aircraft carrier formations.

Yes, some people say that we have nuclear submarines and a second strike capability, which is true, but are we just going to threaten nuclear deterrence? If in the mode of conventional warfare, can our Navy and Air Force compete with the United States and the Soviet Union?

The answer to this question is indeed somewhat poignant.

Missiles, we can't have more U.S. troops, ships, we can't have more U.S. troops, torpedoes, our speed is ten or even twenty knots slower than others, what do we use to fight others? In coastal operations, you can still rely on a land-based combat system, but what about offshore operations?

If the Buran torpedo can be successfully developed, all these problems can be solved.

In fact, it is not clear to everyone, including Fan Wuxi, that the Ukrainian Institute of Fluid Mechanics in the Soviet Union began to research and develop supercavitation technology in the early sixties, and naturally all this is highly secretive and not known to the outside world. The Soviet Union's cavitation weapons have been slow to develop, and so far they have only developed laboratory products that are much faster than ordinary torpedoes, but their effective range is less than eight kilometers, and there is still a long way to go before they can be combated.

After Director Song's excited mood calmed down a little, he held Fan Heng's hand and said, "Okay! You've got a good design! The key is the idea of cavitation weapons, as well as the formulation of its theory, which is of far-reaching significance to our coastal defense! ”

Director Zhang also stood there with emotion, as the competent coordination department of the military industrial enterprise, he knew very well that once this weapon was put into use, it would give the weak Chinese Navy how much confidence it would have, thinking that he had actually despised Fan Heng's design a little, Director Zhang felt very ashamed at this time, if he hadn't been able to calm down a little, he would have almost delayed the big event.

"The experts in Yanjing also put forward a request, hoping that the designers of the Burando torpedo can personally go to Yanjing and provide them with as much guidance as possible in theory and concrete implementation, which will speed up the progress of the work, Comrade Fan Heng, I think you don't need to know the Pingyuan Factory for the time being, wait until this matter is a little eyebrow-raising, how about it?" Director Song made specific requests to Fan Heng.

"Huh?!" Fan Heng obviously didn't expect such a sudden change.

Director Zhang said with a smile on the side, "Comrade Fan Heng, there are many benefits to going to Yanjing!" There are many experts and learning opportunities, which is very beneficial for improving your technical skills and understanding large-scale military-industrial cooperation systems! ”

"yes, yes!" Director Song also agreed, "For example, your design drawing, I think the problem is very big!" You actually just pull a piece of paper and draw, this confidentiality work is not done well, it is easy to cause leaks! However, it is hard to imagine that such an important design drawing would be drawn on a few sheets of paper in the guest book, haha-"

Fan Heng was a little stunned, the design drawings were demonstrated by experts, but he was a little hesitant, going to Yanjing, naturally there are many benefits, it is an opportunity for him to learn and improve, and it is also a gold-plated opportunity, and the future development is naturally limitless.

However, let yourself talk about theories and design ideas to experts, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right? You must know that it was not him Fan Heng himself who made this thing, but the baby third Fan Wuxi!

So Fan Heng said to Director Song and Director Zhang very seriously, "Actually, the design idea of this blizzard torpedo was not proposed by me first, and the designer was someone else, and this sketch was not from my hand." ”

"Huh?! If you're not the designer, who is that? "Director Song and Director Zhang didn't expect that there would be such variables.

It turned out that Fan Heng was a comrade with many years of experience in torpedo weapon technology, and it was very reasonable for this kind of thing to come from his hands, but he actually said that he was not the designer, and this question was very important!

"It's my son." Fan Heng replied with some embarrassment.