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Chapter 517~518 The Birth of Cruise Missiles and the Development of Orbital Kinetic Energy Guns [10,000 Words Update]

Despite the continued enthusiasm of the world for the sea power theory of the giant ship cannon doctrine, believing that the main force of naval warfare is still the battleship with powerful guns and solid armor, there are still concerns about aircraft carriers. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 This has made the requirements of the navies of various countries for the air defense capability of the fleet continue to increase, and the Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruiser of the Imperial Chinese Navy, known as the Chinese Aegis, has become a warship that the navies of various countries are eager to obtain.

In order to obtain the Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruisers, the navies of various countries have successively applied to the Chinese Empire for the purchase of cruisers of this class since the end of the war. The navies of the major powers, including Britain and Germany, have successively thrown out attractive purchase prices, and the offer for the purchase of the Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruiser has soared from 15.2 million dragon dollars to 65.5 million dragon dollars, an increase of five times in ten years, which shows the desire of the navies of various countries for this powerful air defense heavy cruiser. However, the Imperial Chinese Navy has never approved or completely vetoed it, and it has painlessly hung the appetite of the navies of various countries.

For the Imperial Chinese Navy, the real strategic purpose of the Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruisers was to ensure that the fleet's air defense fire network was not broken by fighters and bombers, and to protect the main fleet from the threat from the air.

However, the Imperial Chinese Navy did not want the navies of the great powers to obtain a strong fleet air defense capability, because that would not be conducive to the Imperial Chinese Naval Air Force seizing air supremacy at sea, affecting the ability of the Imperial Navy's fighters and bombers to break through their fleet's air defense fire network, and reducing the deterrent capability of the Chinese Imperial Navy's aircraft carrier battle group against them.

As a result, the Imperial Chinese Navy had to mislead the direction of international naval development while maintaining the deterrence capability of its own aircraft carrier battle group, and this situation emerged.

In order to seize the dominance of the Imperial Navy, the CV faction strengthened cooperation with the Air Force and worked hard to transform fighters and bombers, which was manifested in its strong support for the research and development of cutting-edge aircraft such as the Jian-10B carrier-based fighter and the H-6 bomber, and increased their speed and firepower, in the hope of breaking through the fleet's air defense fire network and breaking the theory of sea power of giant ships and artillery.

On the one hand, it is manifested in the M24A3 Vulcan Phalanx air defense system, as well as the development of anti-aircraft fire control radar systems and altimetry and speed measurement radar systems, all in order to improve the defense capability of warships against incoming enemy aircraft. On the other hand, a large-scale modification and upgrade of the Typhoon-class heavy cruisers was carried out.

The original M16A2 Vulcan Phalanx system of the Typhoon-class heavy cruiser has been upgraded to the latest Vulcan Phalanx air defense system of the M24A3 type, and at the same time, the original three-dimensional air defense system has been improved on a large scale on the ship's island, avoiding blind spots at vertical heights, and freeing up corresponding space for the installation of the latest battlefield radar system and a more accurate air search radar to capture incoming air targets.

The modification of a large number of new electronic systems equipped with phosphor screen equipment has facilitated the commanders of the Typhoon-class heavy cruisers to uniformly dispatch the ship's anti-aircraft firepower resources, optimize the deployment of air defense areas, and greatly improve air defense capabilities.

But for the Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruisers, the increase in firepower is still a top priority.

In order to strengthen the firepower of the Chinese Aegis air defense cruisers, the Imperial Navy obtained the powerful Thor 15 rocket artillery technology from the Imperial Second Artillery Corps and moved it to the Typhoon-class heavy cruisers to supplement the firepower of the main artillery and anti-aircraft phalanx systems. ╔╗

The Raytheon-15 rocket artillery system was originally a vehicle-mounted long-range strike weapon of the Second Artillery Corps, and was derived from the earliest Raytheon-3 rocket launcher. After continuous improvement and upgrading, the equipment performance of the Raytheon 15 rocket artillery system has been greatly improved, the caliber of rocket artillery has been reduced from 200 mm to 160 mm, the firing range has been increased from the initial 50 km to 70 km, and each rocket launcher has increased from 4 rocket launchers to 16 tubes, each tube has two rounds of ammunition, and can project 32 rockets at a time, with fierce firepower.

The Imperial Navy introduced the Thor 15 vehicle-mounted rocket system to the Typhoon-class heavy cruiser, and due to the change in attack targets and tactical objectives, the naval version of the Thor rocket system was renamed the Sea Sparrow Air Defense Rocket System, which was specially used to launch Sea Sparrow rockets to deal with incoming targets in the air.

The Sea Sparrow air defense rocket system has removed the launch vehicle of the Raytheon-15 rocket system and used the warship as a fixed launch pad for the chassis. The combat target is not a fortress or mobile unit on the ground, but a high-speed aircraft from the air, so the Sea Sparrow air defense rocket system uses 57 mm caliber rocket launch tubes, 8x8 a total of 64 tubes in a square parallel arrangement, fixed with a 2.5-meter-long cuboid launch box, and launched in an oblique way.

The maximum sea level range of the Sea Sparrow rocket is 20.5 kilometers, the effective launch altitude is 6200 meters, and the maximum launch altitude is 8300 meters.

The Sea Sparrow air defense rocket uses armor-piercing-anti-personnel dual-purpose submunitions as the warhead, the number of bullets is 360, the static armor-piercing depth of the bullet is greater than or equal to 30 mm aluminum alloy armor, the effective killing radius of the bullet is greater than 8 meters, and the arson area of the bullet is more than 40 square meters.

The warheads of Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft rockets as a whole are divided into three types according to different combat uses. The first is a cloudburst warhead with a charge mass of 50 kg and a maximum peak overpressure of 0.13 MPa at 35 m and 0.03 MPa at 70 m. The second is the anti-explosive bomb warhead, with a warhead charge of 50 kg, 10,000 anti-personnel fragments (including steel balls), and an effective killing radius of 89 meters. The warhead of the anti-detonation incendiary bomb has 6,500 effective fires, 8,000 anti-personnel fragments (including steel balls), and an effective killing radius of 89 meters.

Originally, the Navy Armament Department also developed a radio proximity fuze, the principle of which is to use the radio communication device on the incoming enemy aircraft as a guide to guide the Sea Sparrow air defense rocket to automatically detonate in the strongest range close to the enemy plane's radio signal, but it is difficult to install this kind of fuse on the rocket warhead of only 57 mm caliber, at the same time, the power of the Sea Sparrow rocket is strong, but the accuracy is not high, as a large-area firepower covering weapon, the consideration is the surface strike capability, The cost of launching 64 rockets at once was already high (after all, rockets are not artillery shells), and the project was finally abandoned, taking into account such factors as economic costs and the support of logistics ammunition on board the ship.

On the whole, the Sea Sparrow rocket system is a powerful air defense weapon, when a large number of enemy aircraft attack, this large-area attack weapon system will give the enemy a lethal attack, especially the large bomber is difficult to avoid in time, once locked by this large-area lethal weapon, it is basically difficult to escape the doom. Even a highly maneuverable fighter does not dare to touch its edge when it encounters an attack with this weapon.

The Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruiser has a total of eight Sea Sparrow air defense phalanx systems installed on the ship, which are distributed on the left and right sides of the battleship, and are arranged in a symmetrical manner.

After the Typhoon-class heavy cruiser was equipped with a battlefield radar system, a Sea Sparrow air defense rocket system, and an upgrade of the Vulcan Phalanx system, the overall air defense capability was greatly enhanced, the air defense fire identification circle was raised to 20 kilometers away, and the effective air defense fire preparation distance also reached 6~8 kilometers, which made a great contribution to the air defense of the Imperial Navy fleet. ╔╗

During the 28 years of Guanghua, the Chinese Imperial Navy carried out large-scale upgrades and modifications of 42 Chinese Aegis air defense heavy cruisers in service. "The upgraded Typhoon-class heavy cruisers will continue to defend the prestige of the Aegis of China, effectively defend against attacks by advanced aircraft, including the J-10 fighter and the H6N1 bomber, and ensure the safety of the main force of the fleet," the Navy Commission said in its report to Congress. ”

In order to corroborate their statement, the Navy Committee organized a large-scale air defense exercise, in which the Vulcan Phalanx system and the Sea Sparrow air defense rocket system, under the command of the central fire control radar system, successfully intercepted three exercise target planes flying in formation at high speed. Although there is still a certain gap between the target aircraft and the real Jian-10 fighter, after the theoretical calculation of the director's department in the follow-up exercise, it is believed that even if the Jian-10 fighter can break through the anti-aircraft fire identification circle of the Chinese Aegis air defense cruiser, when it reaches the capital ship, it will still face the powerful anti-aircraft fire on the capital ship, and the survival rate will not exceed 2%.

In this way, the BB party of the Imperial Navy cheered again, and they once again defended the theory of victory of the giant ship cannon doctrine through practical actions, and maintained their dominant position in the navy.

Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, who learned of this result, couldn't help but smile bitterly, he really underestimated the fighting spirit of the BB party, and did not expect that through their efforts, the Sea Sparrow rocket system was actually put on the battleship, so that the anti-aircraft firepower of the Aegis air defense cruiser was greatly improved.

Although Wang Chenhao felt helpless about this result, he was pleased with the high morale of the Imperial Navy, although the Imperial Navy did not have strong external military pressure, but there was a fierce competition between the BB Party and the CV Party within the Imperial Navy, and the promotion of the officers and men of Maimang with these needles was very beneficial to the development of the Imperial Navy.

Of course, from the perspective of the global strategy of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the upgraded Aegis air defense heavy cruiser will be more valued by the navies of the world's major powers, and will strengthen their determination to go on the theoretical road of giant ships and artillery, which is in line with the overall strategic deployment of the Imperial Chinese Navy to mislead the navies of the great powers in the future development direction.

Interestingly, the Imperial Chinese Navy first installed the Sea Sparrow air defense rocket system on the Aegis air defense cruiser, but the capital ship did not have this modification plan for a long time. Therefore, until the outbreak of World War II, the capital ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy were not equipped with Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft rocket systems, and only the Typhoon-class heavy cruisers dominated this regard.

The Second Artillery Corps handed over the technology of the Thor 15 rocket system to the Imperial Navy, but it was not because they were generous. As one of the four major arms of the empire, the Second Artillery Corps, although within the empire, is still below the three armies of the navy, land and air force, as the lowest branch of the army. However, because of the special care of His Majesty the Emperor, the Second Artillery Corps was awarded to the Heavenly Army in the 27th year of Guanghua, becoming the fourth official branch of the army after the three armies of the navy, land and air force.

The reason why the Second Artillery Corps was awarded the Space Army as an official branch of the military is mainly because after the unremitting efforts of the Second Artillery Corps over the years, Rosenberg, von Kármán, and others have successively made significant progress in rocket power and rocket guidance. In particular, von Kármán, as the world's most authoritative expert in jet propulsion, liquid-fueled rockets, aerodynamics and applied mathematics, has made great progress in the jet propulsion laboratory presided over by him with the great funding of Beiyang Science and Technology Heavy Industry. After the invention of the Thor 3 rocket system, Rosenberg has successively developed various Thor rocket systems, until the Thor 15 rocket system, which has received strong support from Carmen, and many of the results of the jet propulsion laboratory have been applied to it, which is one of the main reasons why the range of the Thor 15 rocket artillery system has reached 70 kilometers.

Of course, the Thor 15 rocket artillery system is only the conventional deployment weapon of the Second Artillery Corps of the Heavenly Army, under the mention of the Emperor Wang Chenhao, Rosenberg and Carmen have a research direction, with the addition of Tesla, Marconi and other radio guidance experts, as well as Chen Qiao and other UAV experts (aircraft used in simulated combat exercises) to join, the first long-range rocket system of the Chinese Empire was successfully developed, named V1 guided rocket, referred to as V1 missile. ╔╗

According to the requirements of the Chinese imperial side, the V-type missile should be based on a small and inexpensive development plan. The missile is planned to have a range of 300 kilometers and can carry an 800-kilogram warhead, capable of hitting a certain area of a particular city. The missile relied on high speed and ultra-low altitude to avoid intercepting aircraft and artillery fire. For the sake of secrecy, this plan was disguised as the Super Cannon Project, and it was announced that it would be used as the main gun of the future Super Battleship.

The V1 missile is powered by a pulse jet engine, which was newly developed by the Chinese Empire. This device was successfully developed by Carmen in 1926, and the relevant information was included in the S-class secrecy plan by the Chinese Emperor.

The impulse jet engine is like a small but prosperous "furnace", and the main factor in the decision of the Chinese emperor to use this engine for missile development research is that it is simple, practical and low-cost. The basic principle on which it generates power is that the air being inhaled is injected backwards after being burned in the combustion chamber. The air that is drawn into the engine is mixed with the fuel and ignited by the spark plug, and the flap of the air inlet of the mixture combustion intakes closes rapidly, and the combustion produces a large impulse thrust that rushes out of the exhaust port. After this, the flap of the air intake opens again to draw in air. The engine can complete 42 such cycles per second. However, the air flow from the engine during operation squeezed the normal air, causing a loud low tremolo, which was soon familiar to the inhabitants of the vicinity of Vladivostok in the Chinese Empire.

As the world's most authoritative aerodynamics expert, Carmen's impulse jet engine invented by him was still a relatively rudimentary engine, which was almost snuffed out when the Chinese emperor was reviewed. The reason for this is that it can only work at lower altitudes, it is difficult to repair and maintain, and the flaps of its air intakes are quickly penetrated by wear and tear. But for a single-use weapon such as a missile, this engine has great advantages: it is simple in structure, low in cost, and has a large thrust of up to 400 kilograms. In addition, it can use low-grade kerosene as fuel instead of using expensive jet fuel. However, liquid oxygen was necessary to break through the enemy's anti-aircraft fire network as a terminal speed-up, so the military finally approved the rocket engine scheme.

Based on the principle of rockets, the missile test absorbed most of the experience and technology of Rosenberg's Raytheon 15 rocket, but the missile needs to be equipped with a guidance device to locate the target, and it must maintain stability when flying, so that with the existing technology of the Chinese Empire, it can only use the wing of an aircraft to maintain its balance during cruise.

Chen Qiao has always been in charge of the UAV project used in the exercises of the Chinese Empire, and the target aircraft of the Chinese Imperial Naval Aviation in air defense operations is the UAV developed by Chen Qiao.

According to Chen Qiao's experience, the UAV is controlled by a radio remote control within the realization range of ground personnel, but the range of the V1 missile exceeds the control range of ground personnel, so it needs to replace the radio remote control. Therefore, the wing structure of the UAV is adopted, and then the flight stability is maintained through the gyroscope, the bearing controlled by the magnetic azimuth compass, and the flight altitude is controlled by the barometric altimeter, so as to create the most primitive guidance system to replace the radio remote control system and act as an automatic control system for the missile.

The flight of the V1 missile was carried out under the control of a barometric altimeter cruising along a predetermined trajectory at an altitude of 900 meters above the ground. After the missile has flown a predetermined distance (the distance set before launch), the sensor mounted on the front of the warhead quickly takes control of the missile and ends the cruise, allowing the missile to begin to advance towards the target. The so-called sensor is a clock controller plus a radio direction finder, and the attack is carried out when the time or the radio signal strength and frequency of the detected target reach the attack standard. Of course, this requires knowing in advance the location and radio frequency of the target, or installing a secret radio transmitting device at the target location to attract missiles.

The V1 missile does not have control surfaces on the wings, and the control of the missile relies on the rudder and elevator on the horizontal tail. For such a missile, which does not require maneuvering, such a configuration is both practical and inexpensive. When the navigation system determines that the missile has reached the target airspace, it adjusts and locks the rudder surface on the missile's horizontal tail, so that the missile "falls" to the target at a small angle. ╔╗ But this can sometimes cause a stall and the missile engine stops and falls. The sudden shutdown of the engine caused the missile to stop whirring, which caused even more panic, as it meant a huge explosion next to it a few seconds later.

The V1 missile has an electrically launched fuse in its warhead and a spare mechanically launched fuse. There is also a time-delay fuse to ensure self-destruction if the missile does not explode. This fuse system is actually very reliable, and during the test, there were no duds of the V1 missile after launch, ensuring the absolute ownership of this weapon by the Chinese Empire.

The V1 missile's fuel tank needs to be filled with 640 liters of fuel, the longest endurance reaches 22 minutes, and the maximum range is about 300 kilometers. The V1 missile is refueled, batteries, compressed air and liquid oxygen are filled before launch. Then use a special missile carrier to transport it to the degaussing area, complete the final check, adjust the missile's flight compass to be consistent with the predetermined target orientation in the installed navigation system, and finally be carried by the military missile launcher into the launch position.

The engine originally developed by the Chinese Empire for the Thor 15 rocket did not have enough thrust to launch a 2,000-kilogram missile. So, on the V1 missile, Carmen additionally designed an acceleration device that used it when launched. The acceleration device is a 48-meter-long ramp-like launch frame that uses a steam catapult system. There is a piston slot on the launch frame, and the dumbbell-shaped piston is inserted into the slot during the launch. The missile is placed on a trolley and placed in a piston slot, which is fitted with a safety pin so that the missile does not slide out. At the time of launch, a dumbbell-shaped piston propels the cart forward quickly and launches the missile.

The launch system on board includes a reaction chamber and two chemical tanks. The chemical tank contains hydrogen peroxide and potassium permanganate particle catalysts, respectively, and the reaction chamber is connected by tubes to the tail end of the piston tank at the bottom of the launch frame. During launch, the extracted hydrogen peroxide and potassium permanganate react in the reaction chamber to produce a large amount of hot steam, which exerts a large air pressure on the bottom of the piston. When a certain amount of pressure accumulates, it will push the piston to move quickly to send the missile projectile out.

With the ejection system, the V1 can reach speeds of up to 400 km / h when exiting the launcher. The piston is thrown onto the ground nearby during firing, and the launch rack must be cleaned by a crew wearing protective clothing after launch, as the residue sputtered during the launch is highly corrosive.

In June of the 28th year of Guanghua, the weather on the 16th was exceptionally clear and cloudless.

The Northern Xinjiang Maritime Safety Administration and the Aviation Administration declared a no-sail zone 300 nautical miles east of Vladivostok and a rectangular section 200 nautical miles north, prohibiting any unauthorized aircraft and ships from entering the area.

At 7:15 a.m., the Tyulikin military base in Vladivostok was put under full martial law. Not long after, 25 military vehicles of the 9th Strategic Rocket Battalion of the Second Artillery Corps of the Heavenly Army slowly entered the beach exercise area along the winding mountain road.

The strategic rocket battalion is preparing to launch the first "flying bomb" for testing - V1 cruise missile, which is a missile with strategic strike capability developed by the Chinese imperial side after integrating rockets, fuel engines, unmanned aerial vehicles, radio remote control and radar technologies, and plays a pivotal role in winning future wars for the Chinese imperial side, so it has been strongly supported by the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao and the Imperial General Staff.

At 9:17, the first V1 cruise missile was refueled, and the staff carefully checked all the systems in an orderly manner to ensure that they were correct.

The huge V1 cruise missile lies quietly on a slide-rail wheeled launcher that resembles a launch drone, waiting for the final ignition launch.

The V1 missile can be said to be a groundbreaking and original weapon, and the starting point of its design is to improve the accuracy of rockets and cheap weapons that can be used on a large scale. The missile is mainly an unmanned target aircraft that imitates the exercise test, with wings made of metal, flying to the target through a simple set of clocks and radio navigation systems, relying on a set of gyroscopes integrated with the missile to maintain flight stability, a magnetic compass to control the orientation of the missile, and a barometric altimeter to control its flight altitude.

Overall, the V1 missile has a spindle-shaped body, with rectangular straight wings on the main wing and tail in front. The maximum diameter of the body is 0.82 meters, the wingspan is 5.3 meters, and the length of the projectile is 7.9 meters. In appearance, the V1 missile is similar to the unmanned target aircraft used in the Chinese Empire's exercises, except that a cylindrical engine nacelle is installed on the upper part of the vertical tail, and the front end is connected to the fuselage. The nacelle is equipped with a ramjet engine, which can generate 400 kg of thrust to launch V1 missiles weighing up to 2,000 kg, with a speed of about 240 km/h at launch, a cruising speed of 860 km/h, and a maximum acceleration of Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) at the end, with a designed maximum effective range of 250 kilometers and a maximum coverage range of 300 kilometers.

At 9:40, everything was ready, and the commander, Colonel Chen Guangyao, who served as the commander of the V1 cruise missile, gave the order.

"Prepare before the incident, except for the sergeant in charge of ignition, everyone goes to the bunker and hides in the bunker!"

A few minutes later, when everyone was safe and hidden, Commander Chen Guangyao gave the order to the executive sergeant major to start the firing procedure.

"Launch the V1 cruise missile!"

"Yes! Launch the V1 cruise missile! Countdown to five seconds ready to go! ”

"5-4-3-2-1-launch!"

The ignition sergeant major flicked a switch, and a stream of compressed air sent the contents of the missile's fuel tank, containing liquid oxygen and kerosene, to the jet engine located above the missile's tail. Then the spark plug starts to power up and ignite.

With a "poof", a huge flame erupted, and the fuel burned violently in the cylinder. The V1 missile engine made a loud roar and spewed dazzling fire from the tail. Immediately afterward, the V1 missile was accelerated by the slide and whistled into the sky.

"The V1 missile was successfully launched!"

With a report from the sergeant major, hundreds of experts such as Rosenberg, Carmen, Tesla, Marconi, and Chen Qiao, who were hiding behind the impact wall, came out with applause one after another to celebrate the successful launch.

At this time, a Hellfire fighter and a Jian-10 fighter roared past in the air, following a long white smoke trail left behind by the V1 missile. A short time later, Chen's command received a report.

"Blue Sword report, V1 cruise missile captured, tracking is underway!"

Carmen took the intercom from Chen Guangyao's hand and said, "Please pay attention to the blue sword, please make sure to keep pace with the V1 cruise missile, and be sure to record the speed, distance, altitude and stability of the flight at each point of the missile's flight!" ”

"Blue Sword understands! Recording! ”

……

Everything was going on in a tense and orderly manner, and Carmen, Rosenberg and others were full of nervousness and expectation, hoping for the success of the experiment and worrying about danger.

About six minutes after launch, the missile reached a pre-set cruising altitude of 900 metres and headed for a marine radio pylon, located 250 kilometres away.

Sixteen minutes after launch, the V1 missile, controlled by guidance instruments on the warhead, ended its cruise flight, rapidly lost altitude, and its speed skyrocketed several times, and it was fired at high speed to the target area.

17 minutes and 52 seconds after launch, the V1 missile hit the sea, and its 848-kilogram high-explosive warhead was detonated.

"Blue Sword 2 reported that the V1 cruise missile failed to hit the target target and deviated from the target position by about 3 kilometers, and the report was completed."

Carmen, Rosenberg, Tesla, Chen Qiao and others who heard the report were immediately disappointed, and only Marconi smiled and said: "Isn't 3 kilometers also within the error range?" If this missile falls in the city, it is clearly a valid hit! ”

"Cut!"

Marconi's words were met with a sigh from everyone, to which he just shrugged and smiled, with an expression of having done his best.

Chen Qiao said at this time: "I can't eat a fat man in one bite, can we continue to improve?" ”

The crowd had no choice, so they continued to test the remaining five V1 cruise missiles, and what they finally got was the average combat parameters of the V1 missiles for follow-up research.

Soon, the remaining five V1 cruise missiles were launched one after another, with a minimum error of 2.4 kilometers and a maximum error of 9 kilometers, indicating that the V1 missile still has great instability.

Although the V1 missile did not achieve the desired effect in the test, it marked a key step for the Chinese Empire to sell the missile, the future main combat weapon. Since then, the experts of the Chinese Empire have developed other series of missiles on the basis of the V1 missile, and there are reference standards and research directions.

Rosenberg, Carmen, and others later reported to the General Staff that the V1 missile test had failed, but soon Wang Chenhao learned the detailed process from the General Staff, so in order to boost their morale, Wang Chenhao then issued an order to congratulate and commend them for their phased victory of the V1 missile, and reiterated that he would increase investment in the development of the missile project, and ordered the relevant departments to fully cooperate.

Although Tesla was also involved in the V1 missile development program, he was strictly an ordinary participant in providing some radiolocation technology, and he had little interest in the missile program. His main concern is electricity and magnetism, such as high-voltage electricity transmission systems, radio energy transmission systems, synthetic lightning, electromagnetic pulse systems, etc. Among them, the high-voltage transmission system has been industrialized in the Chinese Empire, and two high-voltage transmission lines of 1 million kilovolts have been built, one is the transmission line from Vladivostok to Guangzhou through Tianjin, and the other is from Kashgar in Western Xinjiang to Shanghai through Chongqing, spanning the nine major industrial bases of the Chinese Empire. Because the ultra-high voltage transmission line can greatly save power consumption, the completion of these two high-voltage transmission lines saves the consumption of 25 trillion kilowatt-hours of electric energy for the Chinese Empire every year, greatly reduces the operating costs of power plants and private electricity costs, and contributes 10% of the GDP growth rate to the Chinese Empire every year for the Chinese Empire, which is in the process of electrification revolution.

Of course, Tesla also successfully developed a radio energy transmission system, he built a radio energy transmission test tower in Area 51, and in 1921 for the first time to the North Pole radio energy, the result of 1 million amperes of electrical energy did not "land" within the predetermined range of the Arctic Circle, but directly across the Arctic Circle to the northern part of Canada, and created an electromagnetic explosion over the Nahanni area, affecting more than 3,000 square kilometers around. Fortunately, it was no man's land and there were no huge casualties, but more than 50 members of the two Canadian expeditions were hit by a huge lightning chain and turned to ashes.

When Emperor Wang Chenhao of the Chinese Empire learned of this, he immediately terminated Tesla's test of the radio energy transmission system. However, Tesla advertised that he had the data and asked Wang Chenhao to allow him to continue the experiment. However, Wang Chenhao gave him a problem, saying: "If you can use the radio energy transmission system to light up the 60-watt light bulb on the moon, I will agree with you to continue the experiment." ”

Tesla agreed without thinking about it at the time, and made a bet with Wang Chenhao, but it wasn't until a few days later that Tesla came back and asked him to wirelessly transmit electrical energy to the moon, which was easy for him, but the question was where did the light bulb on the moon come from, and it was still sixty watts? Tesla immediately found out that he had been fooled, but had no choice but to temporarily terminate his radio energy transfer experiment program and wait for the Chinese Empire to one day send a 60-watt light bulb to the moon. (Far from the future)

Since the Tunguska explosion, Tesla's main focus has actually been on the electromagnetic pulse weapon system, and his desire for an alien electromagnetic pulse cannon has reached the point where he can forget to sleep and eat, and even two hours of sleep are not willing to waste, often staying up all night to the point of madness.

After firing the EMP cannon weapon for the first time, Tesla had the data on the weapon. Soon, through the dismantling of this weapon system, Tesla and hundreds of other electromagnetic and weapons experts basically copied the firing principle of the electromagnetic pulse cannon through reverse engineering, but many key components could not be made with the existing industrial capacity and technical reserves of the Chinese Empire.

However, after Tesla's continuous improvements, several smaller versions of the EMP weapon were born. They are the MK1A1 solenoid pulse kinetic energy cannon, the MK1A2 electromagnetic pulse orbital kinetic energy cannon, the MK1A3 ion electrothermal pulse cannon, and the MK1A4 multi-stage relay acceleration pulse cannon.

MK1A1, also known as AC coaxial coil gun, is composed of an acceleration coil and a projectile coil. Working according to the principle of interaction of the magnetic field between the energized coils, the acceleration coil is fixed in the barrel, and when it is passed through the alternating current, the resulting alternating magnetic field will generate an induced current in the projectile coil. The magnetic field of the induced current interacts with the magnetic field of the accelerating coil current to produce a magnetic field force that accelerates the projectile and launches it.

MK1A2 is also known as an electromagnetic orbital kinetic energy gun. It is the ampere force of the interaction between the orbital currents to launch the projectile. It consists of two parallel long straight guides, between which a smaller slider is placed as a projectile. When the two rails are connected to the power supply, a strong current flows in from one guide rail, and flows back from the other guide rail through the slider, a strong magnetic field is generated between the planes of the two guide rails, and the current slider will shoot out at a great speed under the action of ampere force, which is the firing principle of the orbital kinetic energy gun.

The principle of the MK1A3 electric cannon is completely different from the above two electromagnetic guns, and its structure also has various forms. A general barrel is used, and an electrode connected to the plasma burner is provided in the tube, and the burner is mounted at the end of the breech. When a high pressure is applied between the poles of a plasma burner, an electric arc is generated that causes the plasma-generating material (e.g., polyethylene) placed between the poles to evaporate. The evaporated material turns into a superheated high-pressure plasma, which accelerates the projectile to be launched.

MK1A4 is a multi-stage accelerated non-contact electromagnetic launch device, without a barrel, but requires that the projectile should have a certain initial velocity before entering the reconnected gun. Its structure and working principle is to use two rectangular coils to separate up and down, and there is a gap between them. The rectangular "shell", acting on a strong magnetic force in the magnetic field created by the two rectangular coils, accelerated through the gap in it.

These four plans were all proposed by Tesla, and only he has the ability to think. However, he also knows the truth that you can't chew too much, so he finally chose the MK1A2 electromagnetic orbital kinetic energy pulse gun as the key research object.

Of course, the so-called electromagnetic pulse cannon designed by Tesla is actually not big, and the energy can be said to be pitiful. The reason is that with the current technological capabilities and industrial manufacturing capabilities of the Chinese Empire, it is simply unable to provide the large-capacity batteries of 10,000 megajoules, electromagnetic pulse accelerators with tens of millions of revolutions per second, and instantaneous switching devices that can inject tens or even millions of amperes of powerful current into the energy chamber in a few milliseconds. Without these powerful equipment, it would be impossible to launch artillery shells that could hit thousands of kilometers or even the moon.

With less than a fat man to eat in one bite, Tesla finally ran into a problem that he couldn't solve. Therefore, he reduced the capacity of the battery, reduced the speed of the electromagnetic accelerator, reduced the mass of the projectile, shortened the length of the guide rail, etc., and developed a method that could accelerate a 10-gram projectile to an initial velocity of 1.5 kilometers per second with an electromagnetic railgun, and then slowly improved and improved on this basis.