Chapter 1391: Semi-automatic control
There was no shortage of sexual ideas in Führer Ciric's mind, and every one of his ideas was the best and easiest to turn into reality.
If you listen to the idea of Führer Ciric, you will feel your own shortcomings, and what Führer Cirek put forward can be solved by using existing technology, which is such a good idea, which is what I have dreamed of with great effort in my research, but I have never been able to find it.
Hearing Ciric say that he had a new idea, everyone present pricked up their ears, and as for Dr. Callemer, he directly took out a small notebook, intending to quickly write down the thoughts of the head of Ciric.
"The use of the operating stick, this is only the combat mode of our first-generation missiles, and the second-generation missiles must be able to be semi-automatic control, that is, the task of the shooter is to aim at the target, and then the missile will fly over according to the target specified by the shooter, and the adjustment of the missile's flight is completely automatic."
The goal that Ciric put forward is, of course, what all technicians want.
The same is true of later history, Germany completed the development of the Little Red Riding Hood anti-tank missile before the end of World War II, and after the war, out of fear of the Soviet Union's rolling armor, European countries began to devote themselves to the research of anti-tank missiles.
The British "Vigilance", the Swiss/West German "Cobra", the Swedish "Bantam", etc., among them, the SS10/11 studied by the French is the earliest and most influential.
It can be said that this first-generation missile was a success, allowing the infantry to take out the enemy's tanks from a long distance, but the United States abandoned the first-generation anti-tank missiles and only purchased a large number of French SS10/SS11 missiles as test samples.
In this way, many people in the democratic country were unhappy, and many parliamentarians at that time accused the army of "hastily" giving up a powerful weapon.
In the face of such doubts, the military's solution was to invite a few of the most cheerful "thorn-headed parliamentarians" to observe the SS11 launch on the spot.
This thing, it's just a joke!
It's not so much a missile as a large model airplane. The operator uses the joystick to control the aiming frame to lock on to the target, transmit data to the missile to control the trajectory, and finally hit the target. This is how later generations artificially controlled the drone to hit the target.
In these tens of seconds, the shooter must maintain a high degree of mental concentration, and if you are not careful, the missile will get out of control, because the altitude is very low, so it is easy to fall on the ground, and at the same time, the smoke and flame when the missile is launched will expose the shooter's target and will also affect the shooter's observation.
In actual flight, it goes up and down, left and right, it is doing irregular Brownian motion, and if you want to hit the target, it all depends on luck!
So the Americans simply ignored this and jumped over to engage in semi-initiative.
Under such technical conditions in World War II, the use of joystick control was in line with the characteristics of this era, which is why Shirek agreed to the entry into service with the first generation of missiles in the army.
But this can only be a foreshadowing, and the most suitable solution is to make a semi-automatic!
Semi-automatic means that in the process of launching, the shooter still has to aim at the target until the missile hits, while fully automatic, then don't worry about it after launching, shoot the missile, and the personnel can retreat.
Now that Ciric has come up with semi-automatic control, it would be best if it could be done, but is it possible?
In everyone's eyes, this is all whimsical, as long as the target is aim, the missile will be able to fly according to its own aim, everything is adjusted by the internal equipment itself?
Even Dr. Callemer only dared to think about it when he was dreaming.
But now, Ciric has proposed it, and everyone knows that since he has proposed it, there must be a more specific idea.
"You think, for a missile, if you want to hit the target, how do you adjust it?" Ciric asked.
Callemer, of course, had the most say, and he immediately said: "Of course, adjust the angle so that the missile is always on the right course." ”
The process of shooting is actually very simple, that is, to make the three points of the scope, the missile and the tank in a straight line, which is the same as the principle of aiming in a line with the notch, the front sight and the bull's-eye when shooting, that is, they coincide on the aiming line.
If the missile deviates from the aiming line, the shooter manipulates the handle on the controller to change the angle of the missile and return to the aiming line.
"That's right, it's about adjusting the angle." "We have added an infrared transmitter to the tail of the missile, and on our console, there is an additional receiving device to form an infrared goniometer, so that the angle at which the missile deviates from the aiming line can be automatically measured during the missile's flight," Shirek said. ”
With the development of German electronic technology, it has been possible to produce transistors in large quantities, and the performance is particularly stable, so that the new automatic control circuit can also be completed.
For designers, many times it is just a little bit of a dial, and Ciric's point dial is definitely just right.
In front of Kalemer's eyes, there seemed to be a flying missile, and there was a small infrared emitter at the tail of the missile, and in his receiving system, the angle of the missile's deviation from the aiming line could be clearly measured.
Then, using the circuit, this deviation angle is replaced with an operation command, which is transmitted to the missile in front, so that the missile can control the rudder surface to steer, and finally fly to the target!
In fact, it is equivalent to transforming the manual control lever into automatic control, so that there is no need to train the shooter's operation, as long as you can use it.
The complexity of the system has increased dramatically, but the complexity of the users has greatly decreased.
"Of course, this is just one of my assumptions, and there may be many difficulties encountered in it, and I hope that everyone will overcome the difficulties and realize this semi-automatic control missile as soon as possible." Ciric concluded.
"Yes, Führer Ciric, we will live up to your expectations." Calemer, who was not good at words, said so much that Dr. Langerweiler was curious.
"Führer Cirek, what you said about semi-automatic control, can the missile still have fully automatic control?" Dr. Langerweiler asked suddenly.
"Absolutely." "Compared with semi-automatic control, it is more difficult to fully automatic, which is also the direction we will focus on in the future," said Cherek. For example, in the case of airborne missiles, it is not appropriate for us to use a joystick, nor is it appropriate to use the current method, we have to use new means. ”
Dr. Callemer listened more attentively.