Western Desert of Basra, Iraq.

Several vehicles with characteristic desert camouflage paint are parked in front of a sand dune, and next to the vehicles, people are busy from time to time.

Among these people were Iraqis in robes and turbans, Europeans in jackets and very casual clothes, and Orientals who were very plain but neat.

One of them took off the tarpaulin from a car, revealing the big guy inside, cylindrical, with four wings in the middle and tail, and an extra solid rocket booster in the tail, which was a C801 anti-ship missile assembled on the Iraqi production line.

In a group of Chinese, there is a person with gray hair, who is the leader of the technicians sent by China, Liang Lao.

Liang Lao was a little excited today, because this missile was produced from the production line in Iraq!

After the production line was completely established, the Iraqi factory began an orderly production process, the first batch of five pieces were semi-finished products provided by China, and then, China provided raw materials, which were processed by various equipment on the production line, and after the installation of various basic industries aided by China, aluminum workshops, copper workshops, etc., Iraq could produce most of the raw materials by itself.

Today, test launches of two missiles are to be carried out.

The first one, which is the C801 missile with complete Chinese origin, because it is the first test launch, it is not arranged to be launched on the plane, in order to test various technical indicators, the launcher is used to launch land-based, so a solid engine is added to the back.

At this time, there was no very convenient launch box, and the way of the launch rack was used.

The target was an abandoned target ship on Lake Hamar.

At this time, on another car, a radar antenna was slowly raised.

The Iraqi workers began an intense process of work.

"The radar finds the target. Direction 1-3-5, distance 38.

"Data Injection Missiles."

"The flight path is being calculated."

"Done, ready for launch."

"Launch!"

With this sound, I saw a flame appear behind the huge missile on the launch stand, and the missile began to fly away from the launch stand.

A minute later, the missile climbed to a height of 100 meters, the booster disengaged, the main engine ignited, and the missile began to fly level.

Before flying into Lake Hamar, the missile lowers its altitude, penetrates at an ultra-low altitude, and finally, suddenly pulls up, and the radar on the missile turns on and locks on to the target.

Then, the missile accelerated again and, with maximum kinetic energy, carried the remaining fuel and a high-explosive warhead, and crashed into the target ship.

Suddenly, with a huge explosion, the target ship burst into flames.

"It worked! It worked! When the news came back, everyone cheered.

No matter who it was, they all hugged each other excitedly, and they had been fighting for a long time for this day.

Even Joseph, who was also infected, looked at the pale-haired Liang Lao and said, "Your country's missiles are indeed good!" ”

"It's all the result of all of us working together." Mr. Liang replied that they were all in English.

"I hope that our next missile test launch will also be very successful." Joseph said.

The second missile is a cruise missile with a reconfigured seeker and specially designed for ground attack!

After receiving the much-needed spare parts from Europe, the team led by Joseph, after successive breakthroughs, mainly overcoming the problems of the terrain matching system of the customary guidance system, together with Chinese specialists, carried out a match with the C801 missile, and today, it was the first test launch.

For various reasons, in this guidance system, a large number of accessories in the mature civilian market are used, so that although the reliability of the surname is slightly reduced, it is also a last resort, because, those military chips, the export audit of developed countries is very strict, and the civilian ones are not restricted.

The terrain matching system, in fact, is to calculate and compare, through the missile radar to scan the surrounding height, for example, the east is 100 meters, the west is 200 meters, then, in the digital map, these data are stored, during the flight, due to the cumulative error of the inertial navigation system, it is necessary to correct the course through this comparison, so that a lot of calculations are required.

At the suggestion of His Excellency Qusay, the team led by Joseph boldly adopted the 80286 chip just launched by Intel, which is a 16-bit structure with 134,000 transistors inside, a clock frequency of 20MHz, and addressable 16MB memory. 80286 is compatible with all the features of 8086 and is programmed in assembly language. (It's not comparable to today's CPUs, but at the time, it was definitely the boss of microprocessors).

Due to the adoption of "advanced" CPUs, the computing efficiency has been greatly improved, so the surname of this missile has made great progress.

Now, it's time to experiment with this missile!

Unlike the anti-ship missile launched just now, this launch does not require radar.

The technicians led by Joseph constantly injected data into the missile through the data interface with the missile, and all of it was stored in the on-board computer.

The target was several tents erected in the interior of the desert, in which some miscellaneous items were placed, and nearby, several observation posts were set up.

The brains of the missiles are receiving information about the targets set for them, and they are also using the digital map to choose the appropriate route.

Because there are almost no buildings in the desert, there are not many terrain matches, and only a few particularly high sand dunes can be used as references, so no one is sure that they will be able to hit the target this time.

As the Messih Bureau continued to recruit talents, in this technical team, more and more engineers working in the electronic product enterprises of other large countries joined, they all got very good treatment, and worked very hard, and Joseph, although French, but he was good at uniting the people around him, they exerted their collective strength, and finally succeeded in developing this thing.

Today is the time for inspection!

Once the data is injected, the missile begins to ignite.

As just now, the missile broke away from the launcher and flew into the sky.

However, thanks to more advanced electronics, the altimeter is more accurate and can fly at lower altitudes, while the advanced CPU, which responds faster, can have plenty of time to complete various steering maneuvers.

After takeoff, the missile was only thirty meters high and kept flying forward.

The laser gyroscope inside the missile has already begun to work normally.

Laser gyroscope, is the use of ring lasers in the habitual space rotation of the positive and negative two beams of light with the rotation of the frequency difference effect, to sensitive object relative to the habitual space of the angular velocity or angle, to put it simply, that is, the gyroscope knows, when the missile turned, how many degrees, forward, turn, all the trajectory has been made, in this way, you can calculate where the missile flew.

The missile flies in the air at a speed of Mach 0.9, encounters a sand dune, pulls up the altitude, descends again, flies for dozens of seconds, compares it with the electronic map on board, corrects the course, and then flies.

Finally, it flew through the simulated city, picked the largest tent among them, and rushed over.

At one moment of the last explosion, something ejected from the body of the projectile, which recorded all the useful data on the flight of the missile.

"Report, the missile hit the target accurately." The person in charge of visual observation looked at the fire that the missile hit the tent in the middle and ignited, and excitedly replied.

Several other people had already aimed at the device that had just been shot down, and were about to take it back to the technicians for study.

At the same time, the real-time image was also transmitted back to the launch site, and immediately, there was a cheer.

In particular, the technicians who are in charge of electronic equipment were able to succeed this time because they put the most effort into it.

Joseph is very happy, this time, it is his first project that can be regarded as leading the team to develop independently, and it is even more meaningful than the last time he installed the C801 on the Mirage fighter!

"Congratulations, Mr. Joseph." Liang Lao said.

When he saw the picture transmitted back from the video, Liang Lao was also shocked, the data set at the beginning was to hit the tent in the middle, and now it is so accurate, and the error is no more than two meters!

What is this concept? In war, you can hit an enemy building up to two meters away without harming civilians in the building next to it! This kind of accuracy is frighteningly high.

Joseph knew that this was only because of the short flight distance, this test launch, the range was only thirty kilometers, at this distance, the inertial navigation system of the laser gyroscope, there will hardly be any big error, only at a distance of hundreds of kilometers, or even five or six hundred kilometers, this navigation system will have a large error, plus terrain matching, it will be very accurate.

In other words, the use of such a system on the C801 missile is somewhat overkill.

"Elder Liang, this experiment was successful, and it was also thanks to your C801 missile." As soon as Joseph finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong: "Thanks to the production line provided by you, the missiles produced in our factory, however, the range of such missiles is not enough. ”

Liang Lao also nodded: "Yes, the range of forty kilometers is a bit close." ”

"Then, let's increase the body of the missile and use a new engine to increase the range!" Joseph said.

"Yes, that's what Mr. Qusayi meant." Liang Lao said: "Today, in our country, there is a range extender version that uses a turbojet engine, and the range is expected to reach 120 kilometers. ”

The higher authorities have already agreed to the joint research and development, so for the chief engineer of Iraq, who will cooperate closely in the future, Liang Lao did not hide it.

Who knows, Joseph did not agree: "No, 120 kilometers is too little, this kind of turbojet engine developed by your country must be more fuel-intensive, it is better to introduce a small turbojet engine from Europe, and then increase the missile body, at least 300 kilometers of range, enough for us to use." ”

Three hundred km? Liang Lao looked at the person in front of him, his appetite was really big!

(To be continued)