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Chapter 1490 Weapons of Destruction

Wulian Peak, which is more than 50 kilometers west of Syria, is between Zhaotong Shuifu, Suijiang, Yongshan and Yanjin County, the mountain is majestic and inaccessible, and it is the new military experimental base of the Anjia Army, which mainly undertakes rocket launch and related experimental work. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the morning of January 7, An Yi was at the meeting of Major General Ding Molan, deputy director of the Rocket Research and Development Center, and David Murray, a Jewish rocket expert. Accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel Kornberg, Major General Hu Zhijie, deputy director of the Ordnance Research Institute, and Colonel Zhu Yuning, an arms expert, they visited the newly developed long-range rocket attack system.

Tesla, a workaholic, after several unsatisfactory rocket launches, personally went to the extremely critical power plant laboratory and control system laboratory in the rocket system, and through many experimental accumulation, he studied the key rocket propulsion equipment such as the closed turbopump supply system, the pump pressure delivery system, the nitrogen booster system, and the electric squib control system.

Among them, the engine using the closed turbopump supply system is divided into two different models, the first one is named TSL-1 (Tesla I) engine, the main and auxiliary systems use the same kind of propellant, which can produce powerful enough to drive the rocket and the objects it carries to break free from the earth's gravity, and the thrust chamber adopts a sandwich brazing structure, and the main material is heat-resistant alloy steel; The second is the TSL-2 (Tesla II type) high-altitude engine, compared with the I type, the main change is the installation of FRP nozzle extension piggyback, so that the nozzle area ratio is greatly increased, the turbopump group is moved from the top of the combustion chamber to the side, so that the total length of the engine is shortened, the turbine exhaust gas is discharged from the nozzle, and a small frame is used to transmit the thrust to the bottom of the tank cone, and reliable high-altitude ignition measures are taken.

In a short period of time, more than 50 relevant departments conducted thousands of experiments, and finally obtained the optimal ratio of nitric acid and liquid nitrogen as oxidants, kerosene, alcohol, metamethylhydrazine, and liquid hydrogen as combustion agents.

The rocket launch carried out four days ago was surprisingly good, and through the radio signals fed back from space, it was confirmed that the rocket propulsion system had successfully discharged a small satellite with a solar cell power supply system, active passive temperature control, telemetry equipment, radar transmitter and antenna after two separations, and sent it into space 440 kilometers above the earth, and then entered an orbit around the earth, and everything was running normally.

A breakthrough in rocket research was made in such a short period of time, and a nearly 100-kilogram satellite was launched into the sky and put into orbit, which surprised and surprised An Yi.

After mobilizing research data, it was found that human beings have been systematically researching rockets for more than 60 years, and Tesla himself has more than 30 years of accumulation in researching rockets.

In the 80s of the last century, the Swedish engineer Laval invented the Laval nozzle, which perfected the design of rocket engines. At the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, the Russian rocket master Tsiolkovsky put forward the idea and design principle of creating a large liquid rocket, and the liquid rocket technology was in the ascendant. Twelve years ago, Goddard, a rocket expert and physicist in the United States, test-flew the first uncontrolled liquid rocket, which set off a wave of rocket fever, in which Germany, which was restricted by the "Versailles Treaty" and could not develop armaments, focused its attention on unrestricted rocket research, and a large number of geniuses emerged.

Among Tesla's many names, why is it still known as the 'father of rockets'? This is because as early as 1915, Tesla researched and designed a long-range rocket system, this epoch-making idea, was brought to war-torn Germany by his German assistants, trying to help his motherland win the war, but before the rocket was developed The war ended, this rocket system was secretly hidden, and it was not until the Nazi Party came to power that the research was resumed, which was later the famous V2 rocket system, but unfortunately this is Tesla's oldest idea, after more than ten years of research, Tesla's understanding of rockets has long been on a new level.

Eleven years ago, Tesla designed the "quasi-Saturn V" rocket system on the drawings, in which the "terminal gravity device" seems monotonous and simple in the overall large hardware part, but its system is the most complex and difficult gravitational system, and this system can withstand any lightning strikes, any external attack, because the system will automatically shield and adjust, this is the unique gravitational and electromagnetic device in Tesla's design, outsiders can not imitate it.

With so much technology and thousands of ingenious designs, if Tesla can't greatly improve its rocket technology with sufficient financial guarantees and the cooperation of various departments, then there is really a problem.

Just when Tesla came up with one amazing rocket achievement, the long-range attack rocket system for military use also achieved fruitful results under the leadership of Ding Molan.

The long-range rocket attack system developed by the expert team led by Ding Molan completely follows Tesla's latest rocket design ideas, and the core part of the rocket engine uses a turbo pump, that is, the turbine part and the pump part, which are directly connected, and the turbine drives the pump to generate higher pressure and drive the rocket to fly forward.

This long-range strike rocket is made up of guidance components such as oil gyro attitude instrument, accelerometer, timer, fuel supply cut-off, etc., the launch site needs to be measured when launched, and then the distance between the target and the launch site is obtained, and the flight direction of the rocket is obtained, but because the rocket adopts vertical launch, and turns to the target direction at an altitude of 40,000 meters, it is necessary to measure the three-dimensional flight attitude of the rocket with a relatively complex gyro attitude instrument, and grasp the timely movement speed of the rocket by the accelerometer, so that the three-dimensional motion data of the rocket is obtained, It can control the rocket to turn in the direction of the target at the specified altitude.

Because before the rocket is launched, the ground first calculates the speed required for the rocket to fly to the target after completing the turn, but due to various reasons, it is impossible to quickly calculate the accurate required velocity and trajectory of the rocket after the turn, so the rocket engine needs to continue to work, and the rocket is pushed to the distance close to the target all the time, so that only the rocket shutdown position needs to be calculated, so the effect can be achieved with a mechanical timer.

At the specified time, if the rocket fuel has not been exhausted, the timer will control the fuel supply cut-off to terminate the work of the rocket engine, if the data of the timer and the accelerometer show that the rocket has flown above the target, and the rocket speed is still very large, then the rocket's gyroscopic system will control the rocket wing surface, let the rocket dive down, destroy the enemy, and vice versa, lock the wing surface, so that the rocket continues to fly according to inertia.

What Ding Molan wants to show An Yi today is a rocket attack system named "Hot Wheels" No. 2 (F-2 for short).

The rocket system can be loaded with a 1.5-ton high-energy explosive warhead and fired at a target 350 kilometers away, with a total length of about 16 meters, a diameter of about 2 meters, and a maximum flight altitude of 92 kilometers. The rocket is fueled by alcohol and liquid oxygen, and the two fuels are introduced into the combustion chamber in a certain proportion through the pipeline for ignition propulsion. The pipeline is specially set next to the combustion chamber wall to cool down and avoid overheating or even melting of the combustion chamber. At the tail end of the rocket, a metal plate called a gas rudder is placed, which is mainly used to change the air flow and induce the rocket to move in the right direction, and can also be used to change the rocket's forward course. When the rocket is ignited, the liquid fuel thruster will push the rocket to a certain height and speed, and after the fuel is burned, it will continue to shoot along the parabola by inertia.

Ding Molan stood in front of the rocket launcher, looking radiant, and did not show the coquettishness, laziness and thousands of styles when she was alone with An Yi last night:

"Thanks to the use of electromagnetic and gravitational devices developed by my stepfather, the error rate of our rocket is controlled within 100 meters, which will make the application of this new type of weapon of our rapid lethality. I heard that the German side is also working on attack rocket systems, and has developed three rockets, the A-1, A-2, and A-3, but their development progress is far behind our research center, which has my stepfather's research theory for many years, and the error is calculated in kilometers.

"With the F-2 as a long-range lethal weapon, we will be able to kill and injure the enemy in a large area through radar feedback at a great distance from the enemy, especially against fleets, ready-to-go units and tank armored clusters docked in ports."

An Yi never thought that he would simply let Tesla study how to use space energy, and by the way, improve the strength of Syria in scientific research, and lay a solid foundation for the research and breakthroughs in many natural disciplines, but with Tesla's breakthrough in rocket research, it led to the early emergence of missiles, a future weapon.

That's right, this kind of rocket attack system is exactly what later generations called ballistic missiles, although it still seems very primitive now, but as long as enough patience is given, medium-range ballistic missiles with a range of 1,000 kilometers and long-range ballistic missiles with a range of more than 3,000 kilometers can certainly be realized.

An Yi was a little excited, walked to the launch stand, stroked the cold body of the F-2 rocket system, turned his head to look at Ding Molan, and said with great gratitude:

"Thank you, Mo Lan, I didn't expect you to surprise me so much. I only thought about this weapon in my dreams, but I never expected to be able to see it with my own eyes today. Its power lies not only in its tremendous lethality, but also in the scientific and technological content it represents and a trend in the research and development of advanced weapons in the future. Think about it, how much pressure will our adversaries be under when this weapon is constantly improved and installed on our warships, warplanes and helicopters? I suggest that this completely new weapon system, named missile, will be able to distinguish it from our rocket artillery and will always confuse those who do not understand the principle of this weapon. ”

"Missiles?"

Rocket expert David. Kornberg thought for a moment, and his face was full of agreement: "This name is good, our new type of weapon, originally relying on the guidance system to control the flight trajectory, can designate the target of the weapon, it completely relies on its own power plant propulsion, by the guidance system to guide, control its flight path, and guide the target, with the missile to name it is more appropriate!" ”

Ding Molan saw An Yi's admiring expression, remembered last night's lingering death, suddenly felt shy, blushed, and lowered her head for no reason.

Zhu Yuning, who returned to China at the same time as Ding Molan and Zhang Ruyi, was assigned to the Firearms Research Institute and participated in the research and development of automatic rifles. Later, the Firearms Research Institute was upgraded to the Ordnance Research Institute, and began to engage in the research and development of more new weapons, among which the research and development of large-caliber sniper rifles and bazookas, which also embodies Zhu Yuning's painstaking efforts.

Hearing An Yi talk about the future application of missiles, her eyes were opened, and she thought about it and suggested: "The flight time limit of anti-aircraft shells is 40 seconds, which is very effective against all current aircraft, but if it is against the fighter equipped with jet engines that we have just developed, the projectile must fly to the target in 30 seconds, and it is very reluctant to use anti-aircraft shells." To effectively destroy fighter jet-powered fighters, is it possible to try using missiles as weapons? Can our Ordnance Research Institute develop surface-to-air missiles based on the F-2 missile system? ”

An Yi was very happy to draw inferences from Zhu Yuning: "Not only surface-to-air missiles, but also air-to-surface missiles, air-to-air missiles, submarine-to-surface missiles, shore-to-ship missiles, and other missiles, which requires the rocket research department and the weapons research department to work together to continue our missile research." By the way, Yuning, what's the deal with the jet fighter you are talking about? ”

Zhu Yuning pursed his lips and smiled: "You have to ask Mo Lan about this, this is the latest research result of their rocket research and development center, and I am also cheeky to ask again and again to know some clues." ”

"Oh? Is that so? ”

An Yi looked at Ding Molan with interest.

Ding Molan nodded proudly and went through the research and development progress of the jet engine.

Because under the leadership of Tesla, Syria's rocket technology has made great strides, and the promotion of other related scientific and technological research is also extremely huge, and the first to benefit is the research of jet aircraft that has been integrated into the rocket research and development center.

Tesla's design of rocket engines quickly attracted experts in the study of jet engines and aircraft, who followed Tesla, worked as assistants and students for more than a month, finally understood the basic principles of Tesla's Type I and II engines, and immediately began to develop jet engines, and soon developed prototypes.

This jet engine uses a turbine-driven compressor, which gives it enough pressure to generate strong thrust at low speeds. It works in a "duty cycle", drawing air from the atmosphere, compressing and heating the air to get energy and momentum and expel it from the propulsion nozzle at speeds of up to 610 m/s, or about 2253 km/h. When the engine is ejected by a high-speed jet stream, the compressor and turbine are driven to continue to rotate at the same time, maintaining the "duty cycle". The mechanical layout of a turbine engine is relatively simple, as it consists of only two main rotating parts, the compressor and the turbine, and one or more combustion chambers.

With the development of the jet engine, the jet aircraft equipped with this engine also came into being. However, the aircraft with a new engine is still undergoing rigorous wind tunnel testing at the rocket research and development center, and there is still a long way to go before it is officially finalized and mass-produced.

Some people may say that it is too bizarre to develop a jet fighter so quickly. In fact, many years before that, the British Air Force instructor Frank . Whittle came up with the idea of a jet engine, patented it in 1930, and built the first turbojet engine in June 1935. At the same time, the German von . Auchen is also working on a turbojet engine, which he made its first successful operation in September last year, and is currently experimenting with using jet engines in airplanes.

Due to the lack of a master like Tesla, the research and development of Britain and Germany had many problems, and it was not possible to make many detours from the beginning through Tesla's conception and the careful calculation of electronic computers like Syria, which is the decisive role that a genius can play.

If it weren't for the test launch of the F-2 missile, which quickly attracted his attention, it is estimated that he would have fallen into reverie for a long time and could not extricate himself.

Because the F-2 missile was still unstable and there was a possibility that it would explode due to a liquid fuel leak during launch, the scene was cleared, and An Yi, Ding Molan and others came to another hill one kilometer away from the launch site.

Ding Molan smiled and said to An Yi: "Brother Yi, our F-2 rocket is ignited and launched through a remote control device, and it is up to you to press the launch button." ”

An Yi's eyes lit up, and he took a thing like a TV remote control from Ding Molan's hand, listened to Ding Molan's careful explanation of the principle, and then lightly pressed the red button in it.

Hearing only a loud sound of "boom", An Yi handed the remote control to the guards behind him, immediately raised his glasses, and looked at the opposite mountain, only to see that as the chain at the top was released, the bottom of the rocket rushed up a wave of steaming air, and under the huge tail flame jet, the rocket slowly broke free from the launcher, flew towards the sky, and after flying vertically for eight and a half seconds, it slowly turned around at a height of thousands of meters and flew towards the western sky.

According to the information fed back by the radar monitor at the base, by forty-six seconds, the missile cut off the power supply, at one minute and eighteen seconds, the engine was turned off, and at three hundred and fifty-six seconds, the rocket fell from a high altitude. The tracking of the test instruments showed that the transmitter on the missile continued to operate for 12 minutes, and clearly indicated its impact zone on the Sichuan-Tibet Plateau, and the rocket finally fell into an inaccessible place called Goat Milk Liangzi on the coast of the Yi Sea 350 kilometers away from the launch base, and its maximum flight altitude reached 92 kilometers of the design altitude, and the range also reached the designed 350 kilometers, and the error from the target was 86 meters, which made An Yi very satisfied.

On the way back to Syria, Major General Hu Zhijie, deputy director of the Ordnance Research Institute, reported to An Yi on the research and development of the airship.

The reason why we will develop airships in today's development of aviation technology is that the current radar technology is not perfect, limited by the terrain, the maximum coverage area of radar waves is more than 100 kilometers, but if it is in the air, it is different, the higher the position of the radar, the larger the coverage area, under the guidance of this line of thinking, the airship abandoned by various countries after the last European war has re-entered the eyes of Syrian weapons experts.

An airship is a lighter-than-air aircraft, and its biggest difference from a balloon is that it has a device for propulsion and control of the state of flight. The airship consists of a large, streamlined hull, a pod located underneath the hull, a tail surface that acts as a stability control plane, and a propulsion unit. The airbag of the hull is filled with buoyancy gas that is less dense than air, which creates buoyancy and lifts the airship into the air. The pod is used for personnel to ride and load cargo, and the tail surface is used to control and maintain the stability of course and pitch.

The last European war was a period of rapid development of airships, with Britain and France using small soft airships for anti-submarine patrol missions, and Germany establishing a zeppelin fleet for military activities such as maritime patrols, long-range bombing, and airlifting. Due to their large size, low speed, inflexibility, and vulnerability, and due to the continuous improvement of aircraft performance, military airships are gradually replaced by aircraft. In 29 years, however, the Hindenburg, a large airship made in Germany, with a length of 245 meters, a diameter of more than 41 meters, and a total weight of 206 tons, flew back and forth between the United States and Germany 10 times, transporting more than 1,000 passengers. Britain and France also built their own large airships based on the Ziebling airship. However, because airships generally use hydrogen as a floating gas, it is flammable and explosive, which is very unsafe. Earlier this year, the Hindenburg exploded hydrogen gas due to an electrostatic spark during landing, killing 35 people. Britain and the United States also had a number of large airships, most of which were wrecked one after another, so airships were abandoned by various countries.

Moving the radar to the airship is Zhu Yuning's idea, but the unsafety of the airship has led to a lot of critical eyes when the project is established, and Zhu Yuning asked his close friend Ding Molan for help, Ding Molan carefully referred to the German airship design ideas, and immediately made targeted improvements, changing hydrogen to inert gas helium, so that there will be no combustion problems, and at the same time adopt a multi-airbag design, as long as 60% of the airbags do not leak, the airship can land safely.

Ding Molan helped people to the end, and specially designed a special propeller engine for the airship, each airship is equipped with two high-power engines, and when the radar is turned on, the speed can reach 150 kilometers per hour. With the radar off, it can reach speeds of up to 250 km/h. The radar antenna is usually stored in the warehouse, and after the airship takes off, it is deployed in the air, and this new type of airship can carry a load of 30 tons.

An Yi was surprised when he heard the experimental data, with such a huge carrying capacity, if the safety is guaranteed, wouldn't it be able to solve the transportation problem of bulk items? Thirty tons is equivalent to 30,000 kilograms, and if you transport passengers, you can transport at least 300 people at one time, far more than the current AN6 large passenger aircraft, and the future of application is extremely extensive, so it was immediately decided to go to the Turtle Mountain military airport in the northwest of Syria to watch the actual situation of the airship.

Three hours later, the convoy entered the heavily guarded Syrian military airfield.

Air Force Commander General Huang Yuyi, Director of the Political Department Major General Yan Bingzhong, and Radar Commander Major General Xu Moran personally greeted him, An Yi waved his hand to signal that he was not polite, and let everyone be busy. Kornberg, Hu Zhijie, Zhu Yuning and others came to the radar command center set up on Turtle Mountain.

Huang Yuyi immediately organized and arranged the fighter plane for a coordinated inspection.

In cooperation with the AWACS airship exercise, five A27 fighters and five Mosquito fighters have just passed the examination and started mass production.

The weapon system of the A27 fighter has been completely designed, the nose adopts a 23mm large-caliber cannon, and then equipped with two 12.7 caliber aviation machine guns, which is powerful, through a comprehensive comparison with the Falcon fighter, in a thousand meters to four thousand meters, the two sides are equal, but the firepower is fully superior, if it is more than four thousand meters, the superior performance of the A27 fighter is fully demonstrated, whether it is speed, climb, dive or grappling performance, are far better than the Falcon fighter.

Due to the focus on the strengthening of armor on key parts such as fuel tanks and wings, the maximum speed of the A27 fighter is reduced to 480 km/h at a low altitude of 1,000 meters, and the maximum speed is 605 km/h at an altitude of 8,000 meters, with a range of 1,950 km, and the comprehensive combat performance is superior.

Five Mosquito fighters, as an imaginary enemy, took off first, followed by airships and five A27 fighters. An Yi was in the radar command center, monitoring the entire air combat process.

The airship slowly left the ground and slowly turned on the radar antenna in the air at 500 meters, and with the information of "the radar antenna hatch is opened normally", "the radar antenna is deployed", "the deployment is complete", and "the radar is started", An Yi became excited.

Soon, the A27 fighter group, which had long-range radar support, obtained the flight altitude and course of the "enemy" aircraft, quickly intercepted the "enemy" aircraft, and a fierce air battle began, followed by speed and altitude tests of the airship, and so on.

After the exercise, An Yi held a temporary review meeting, and the air force officers and military experts on the scene put forward their opinions one after another.

An Yi is very happy, the scientific research of the Syrian government is not confined to some recognized things, and dares to question all authority, the research of the helicopter Vulcan cannon, and the same is true of the research of airships. However, through this on-site inspection, many problems were still found, such as after the radar was turned on, the antenna rotated to make the cabin vibrate violently, and even made the airship change course for a time, and the A27 fighter with radar support failed to give full play to the huge advantage of having radar command after stopping the enemy aircraft, and there were problems such as the airship would be seen from afar.

At the meeting, Ding Molan suggested that a fairing be installed on the airship, and at the same time the appearance of the antenna should be improved, camouflaged color and a balance wing should be installed.

Shen Fengdao was greatly moved when he heard this, and quietly told An Yi after the meeting that this kind of airship can be used for the detection of wireless communication signals and high-altitude reconnaissance, and now the situation in Annan is still unclear, many hostile forces are hidden, and cannot be discovered in time, although the intelligence agencies are equipped with radio detection instruments, they cannot monitor all areas, and some remote mountainous areas have become dead ends, but if there is this kind of airship cruising in the sky over Annan, then the situation of the entire Annan will be clear at a glance, and it can improve efficiency while reducing the work burden of the security department.

An Yi nodded, and immediately made a decision that in the future, not only Annan, but also Xiangxi, Qianxi, southern Sichuan and southern Yunnan will also be included in the scope of monitoring, and the collected radio waves should be deciphered by special personnel as soon as possible.