Chapter 1323: The Footsteps of the Times (1)
The people of Jiudaoguan didn't understand the little master of their own family, and suddenly pulled a group of irrelevant young people, and said that they wanted to develop a new project, and they also improved the existing self-aiming system. Is the self-aiming system so well improved? If it worked, they would have been on their own.
It's not that they don't believe in Xu Hewei, but they are clear about Xu Hewei's level and ability. But the more this happens, the less optimistic they are about what Xu is doing. The self-sighting system has been mature for nearly a thousand years, and it made great achievements in the last all-out war.
If this system can go further, it is definitely possible, both in terms of system settings and in the development of guided bullets. After all, they are indeed constantly improving, and they have never stopped for a thousand years.
Since the end of the last all-out war, the Central Military Commission has begun to realize the superiority of the self-sight system, and it has begun to increase the demand for the self-sight system in a targeted manner. In the last war, the weapons that the self-aiming system could carry were only individual weapons equipped with a large number of them, which were relatively large in number, but the coverage area was not wide enough.
In those days, self-aiming systems were a luxury, just like today's simple dimensional space doors, and it wasn't just a matter of cost and production capacity. Take the simple dimensional space gate as an example, it is already very difficult to equip the entire army, especially the manpower in the rear who is responsible for transmitting things to the dimensional space, which is basically equivalent to one-tenth of the total number of the entire army, and basically there are two people in a squad who are in charge.
Most of these manpower now come from the logistics part of the troops, plus some technicians, and the part that does not require technology will even be filled by recruited people. It can be seen that the discovery and perfection of a technology requires a long time of exploration and the continuous efforts of a large number of personnel.
The self-aiming system was the same when it first appeared, and its appearance was also not the result of Jiudaoguan's own research. The self-aiming system was born out of the guidance system of the missile and missile, and even the first research was only an automatic guided bullet, not the self-aiming system itself.
The person who developed the guided bullet was a technical soldier who did not want to go to the battlefield in war. This technician was born in the artillery unit and later transferred to the rocket army. As soon as he entered the service in the rocket soldiers, as a result of the outbreak of a full-scale war, the rocket soldiers were of course the first people to go to the battlefield, so he was transferred.
This thing is the same as Dong Xiaoguan, he is a purely technical talent, and his talents are not high, plus the concept of cultivation was not popularized in the army at that time, so he is also an ordinary person. When I joined the army, I received a period of training, and I guess I didn't even learn martial arts, and when I heard about going to the battlefield, I was so frightened that I cried in the dormitory for three days and three nights.
After that, he found a very good reason for himself, and reported that he had scientific research results that could change the entire war situation, but he was still in the process of research, and applied to stay in the rear. Of course, you can guess this kid's thoughts, after all, there are indeed not a few people who have such thoughts and behaviors as him.
Just like this war, there are more situations like this, this time everyone knows, the great world of cultivation is opened, the war of all races is about to break out, the war is no longer like the previous all-out war, and the mortality rate on the battlefield will be greatly increased. There are even many people who dare not go to the battlefield to think of all kinds of methods, such as trusting relationships, telling nonsense, and falsifying medical records.
Some of these people can be dealt with, such as those who go directly through the back door, find someone to make money, and pretend to be sick. However, for the reason that technical soldiers develop projects on their own, they have to give a certain grace period.
After all, the empire encouraged the development of science and technology and advocated the rejuvenation of the country through science and education. Such a reason, as long as it is in line with their status and level, can be given a certain time limit after investigation. Within a certain time limit, come up with the results you said, if there are really development prospects, then good, transfer you to the R&D team, or simply organize a separate research room for you, and you go to get it out for the benefit of the country and the people.
But after a certain time limit, you can't come up with acceptable results, so I'm sorry, although you won't accept the punishment, but you can go to the battlefield, and you will be on the front line.
In fact, he studied rocket technology at the military academy, and he was specifically responsible for radar and guidance. You must know that there were no satellites on the battlefield at that time, and without the support of satellite communications, missile technology would not have been so convenient at all.
As in this war, missiles and missiles are launched directly from the rear of the western region and fly all the way to the opposite side of the no-man's land. Unless the warhead is equipped with a sophisticated automatic calculation, analysis and guidance system, there will always be deviations in long-range attacks.
At that time, rockets needed to be carried by someone to carry a relay station to the target range to provide communication relay and play a guiding role, so that the missile could accurately land on the top of the enemy's head. This kid is in charge of radar, and that's what he does, going deep behind enemy lines and secretly signaling missiles and bombs.
is mainly on the battlefield, and eighty percent of them have the possibility of being killed by their own home guide bombs, so he can't be coaxed. There was nothing left to do, so I had to lie like this, saying that I had already achieved results. Actually, he has a fart result? After the deadline was given, he panicked.
Then he had an idea, took down the guidance system on the missile and missile, streamlined and reduced it as much as possible, cut out the cumbersome things, and made a simplified version as much as possible. With this thing, he was full of confidence and handed it in within the time limit, saying that it was an epoch-making research achievement.
But in fact, where is his epoch-making research result?
What he can think of as a little deflated three, so many bigwigs in the empire can't think of? "Bullets can turn on their own", this is something that has appeared in many film and television works, and of course some people in the empire can think of transferring the guidance system to the bullet to achieve the purpose of letting the bullet track itself.
But no matter how simplified, the guidance system is still a guidance system after all, and it is simply impossible to produce a bullet as small as it does not affect the power of the bullet. Because the guidance system is so large that it is impossible to meet the standard.
The reason given by this kid is that his level is limited, and he can't make something more streamlined, and if he hands over the technology to the empire's scientific research team, if he participates in it, he will definitely be able to go further and make cheap bullets. The two scientists in charge of the review at that time almost drowned him with a mouthful of spit.
But it was at this time that an auxiliary component handed in by this person caught the attention of the two bigwigs. It's a clever thing, just like when a college student writes a paper, there is really nothing to write, so I have to pull some things that seem to be related, but in fact are not all the same, to make up the number of words and pages.
This thing is a guiding element. After all, he is a radar and guide, and the technical level in this area is higher, so he made a small thing that can send signals from the gun bearer and guide the bullet to fly, which is used as a supplementary project.
Actually, if you think about it, isn't this just a snake to add to it? Even if you can guide the bullet, the bullet is not captured by the naked eye at all after it is discharged, and even if you can see the trajectory, basically hundreds of meters will pass in an instant, so what if you can send a control signal? The signal can catch up with the bullet, can you react yourself? Besides, the bullet can be guided by itself, so why should someone control it?
At first, the two majors also smiled, thinking that this person was too naïve, but it was a small function in this device that began to attract the attention of experts. This is a directional function, similar to the laser marking function of the missile projectile.
Perhaps this soldier who is greedy for life and afraid of death also knows that his supplementary device is useless, so he added this function, which is better than nothing. In fact, this function cannot be achieved at all, because laser guidance needs to hit the laser on the enemy's body, if your own marksmanship cannot keep up with the enemy, you will not be able to mark, and you will not be able to play the role of guidance, and laser guidance cannot be reduced to the bullet at all.
But such a thing, which aroused the interest of specialists, opened a completely new direction for them. Later, the soldier was finally sent to the battlefield, and unfortunately, the first battle was over, which can be regarded as a tragedy similar to a bad joke in the scientific research community.
However, the direction he guided by mistake happened to guide the development of the self-aiming system. The two experts in charge of the review at that time went back and discussed with their teachers, and found that they had fallen into misunderstandings before. They have always wanted bullets to have the automatic ability to guide and miss, but they ignore the difference between bullets and guided bullets.
Under what circumstances does the guidance function of a missile come about? Because of the great power and long range of the missile projectile, the coverage of the explosion often exceeds the controllable range of a single soldier, and in the place where the human eye cannot see, if you want to accurately hit the enemy, you must be able to find the enemy's function on your own, and guidance came into being.
It can be said that the guidance function is the core of the missile and the missile. The reason why guidance is guidance is also because it is mounted on a missile with these characteristics. If the guidance function is put on the bullet, if it can be realized, it is very perfect, but in fact it does not have much effect.
First of all, the bullet does not have the function of self-detonation, the size is too small, and what is needed is the penetrating wound and cavity effect, not the power of self-detonation. In such a situation, even if the bullet can be guided, if it is slightly blocked by something, the guidance will lose its effect, after all, under such a bump, the bullet itself is also abolished.
Secondly, the guidance function required by the bullet does not completely need to be able to identify the target and find the enemy by itself, it only needs to be simple and able to correct the trajectory. Why? Because the time from the discharge of the bullet to the moment of hitting is extreme, the distance between friend and foe will not be so long, especially on a frontal battlefield.
This also determines that the flight time of the bullet is very short, and the guidance function does not play such a large role. Think about it, generally speaking, when the bullet misses, it generally deviates a little, or it is biased to the edge. Another is when the fire network is organized, there is no fixed target at all, and it is simply shot and covered.
In either case, an auto-finding that is too accurate will interfere with the shooting effect, or even do more harm than good. So why not improve from the designer's point of view and abandon the bullet itself? After all, bullets work within sight, and the most important thing is the soldier's marksmanship.
Previously, they only thought about changing the function of the bullet, ignoring the designers themselves. Of course, there are also people who develop devices to improve aiming accuracy, and various scopes have come into being. However, the two sides don't seem to have anything to do with each other at all, and those who study aiming focus on the scope, and those who study guidance tinker with bullets all day long, drilling the tip of the horns.
Now seeing this laser guidance device that appears by mistake, they can't help but think, if the two are combined to achieve a function similar to laser guidance, will they be able to achieve the corresponding effect? At least it's better than the bottleneck between the two sides right now, right?
So, the bullet researcher pulled over the group of people who were aiming at the research, and these people were all military scientists, so they naturally hit it off. The two companies have improved their existing achievements using various technologies, and when put together, they have formed the original prototype of the self-aiming system.
In the early days of the self-aiming system, the role of bullets was still very high, because the sensors and aiming systems at that time were not perfect. The scope on the gun body collects information about the target, uses various signals as guidance, drives the bullet to correct the trajectory, and strives for perfection, so the cost is still not low.
Later, in actual combat experiments, these scientists, who had not been on the battlefield much, discovered that the situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and the pursuit of perfection and every shot was simply a fool's dream. And all the soldiers who are qualified to hold guns on the battlefield have undergone a certain amount of training in marksmanship, and there is no need to be too eager for the accuracy of the system.
As a result, the level of science and technology on the bullet was again greatly reduced, and the rest of the trajectory was also maintained at a declination angle that deviated by 10 degrees within the corrected trajectory range, and any more would be useless. If this declination angle is added, with the effective firing range of the bullet and the safe distance of human tactics, the bullet will not be able to be corrected.
To put it simply, if a soldier has such a deflection angle, either he will be indiscriminately robbed, or his brain will be pumped, or he will not see the enemy at all, and the correction system will be useless at this time.
Under such circumstances, the cost price of self-guided bullets began to fall to a very acceptable range and began to be able to be produced on a large scale. The self-sighting system itself has taken over most of the correction functions, from a simple collection and signal transmitting device, to the main auxiliary part.
Since then, the design concept of the self-aiming system has been thoroughly perfected and has become an independent scientific research achievement. In the last war, the self-sighting system played a huge role, especially in the later stages of the war, when the technology became more and more perfect, and the alien race on the opposite side began to be confused.
In the beginning, a large war was basically only a quarter of the losses, but slowly, these losses increased to a third. Humans seem to be getting more and more able to kill? They also thought that the experience of war had made the Imperial army more brave and good at fighting.
However, the all-out war at that time was only to reduce the population and offset the Great Depression within the alien territory, so the rate of death in the later period accelerated, which also led to the end of the war much earlier. The sharpness of the self-aiming system can be seen, and it has since begun to be popularized in the Central Military Commission.
Over the years, the research and development of self-aiming systems has not stopped. As far as the Central Military Commission is concerned, the self-aiming system is one of the foundations of the military and the corps, and it must not be left behind. But this thing seems to have reached the upper limit, and unless there is a leap forward in the overall technology of mankind itself, there is no way to make significant progress.
Over the past few years, the Central Military Commission's research results have only been to improve the sensors and information collection of the self-aiming system. In fact, the parameters modified by Dong Xiaoguan are also concepts that have only recently emerged. The purpose of parameters is to better tune the system and the gun, so that the system can be adapted to more accessories, rather than the design habits of the designer.
Therefore, more research results in self-aiming systems are actually just different self-aiming systems designed and equipped with more weapons. From a large number of standard weapons, it has expanded to rarely used weapons, and then to pistols, and then to sniper guns and individual bazookas.
In fact, these so-called achievements are nothing more than the routine work content, modify the parameters, modify the installation mode, and fit with many types of warheads, which is basically equivalent to the work of industrial designers, and does not have too much scientific research content.
Imperial researchers also admitted very calmly that the research of self-aiming systems has fallen into a bottleneck, and everyone wants to go further, but no results have been obtained for the time being. So when Xu He set up this project team for them, many people laughed it off.
Those old experts who have studied self-aiming all their lives dare not say that they can break the bottleneck, even if you are all at the level of Xu Hewei, but this kind of thing can not be done well with a high level of scientific research. The bottleneck is the bottleneck, and the reason why it is a bottleneck is not only limited by the height of human thought, but also involves the heritage of human society and the overall level of science and technology, as well as the degree of human science's understanding of the world.
But Xu Hewei never told the results of Dong Xiaoguan's research from the beginning. He knows deep down that this is where the bottleneck lies. In the final analysis, it is still the western part of Zhejiang and the scientists who do not have enough knowledge of the world, or the change is not fast enough.
Dong Xiaoguan can modify the parameters, of course they can modify them, but why didn't they think of transforming the self-aiming system into a self-learning method? That's because they're ignoring a very important emerging technology.