Chapter 580: A New Arm - Rocket Army
“...... The Chinese People's Liberation Army Rocket Force was established on December 31 in the year 2738 (1937), and the establishment of the Rocket Force is a major decision made by the state and the Central # Military Commission with a view to realizing national defense modernization, and is a strategic measure to build a modern military force system with Chinese characteristics, which is an important milestone in the modernization of the Chinese army recorded in the history of the people's army......"
The narrator's deep voice sounded in the loudspeakers around the square: "...... The Chinese People's Liberation Army Rocket Force undertakes the tasks of medium- and long-range precision strikes, strategic deterrence and strategic counterattack, and strategic checks and balances, and is the core force of China's strategic deterrence, the strategic support for China's status as a great power, and an important cornerstone for safeguarding national security and world peace. The main leaders of the unit are: General Xiao Yue, commander-in-chief, General Zhang Yu, general political commissar, Lieutenant General Chen Anping, deputy commander-in-chief and chief of staff, and Lieutenant General Shen Xiaolei, deputy commander-in-chief......"
"The rocket force is mainly equipped with the Dongfeng series and Julang series ballistic missiles and the Changjian series of cruise missiles developed by China, which are divided into medium-range and long-range missiles according to their range. The first phalanx is a medium-range ballistic missile of the Dongfeng-6 type, and the second phalanx is a cruise missile of the Changjian-3 type...... The final phalanx is the Dongfeng-11 strategic ballistic missile ......"
One phalanx after another, the vehicles are getting bigger and bigger, and the guys transported on it are getting bigger and bigger, and the final appearance of the Dongfeng 11 is even more shocking, and a missile will be disassembled and shipped by two heavy semi-trailers.
However, the commentator's explanation is too simple, except for introducing their names, nothing is said, and there are no parameters such as load, range, power, etc., which makes the audience and military fans very angry.
"Damn, what kind of explanation is this, saying it means not saying it!"
"We don't know anything but the names of these guys. Isn't that a deliberate trick?"
"Who has heard of Xiao Yue and Zhang Yu, who has heard of it? I have been a military fan for so many years, why haven't I heard of any of them......
The audience at the scene and in front of the TV was talking.
This is normal, because this branch of the military is so new that I have never heard of it before. In fact, not only these ordinary people, but even most of the officers and soldiers in the army do not know what this rocket force is.
There is no way, the Rocket Force is originally a highly secretive unit. Although it is a new branch of the military that has only been established for more than two years, its predecessor, the "Army Rocket Force" (the same kind of unit in the Datu Dynasty is called the Second Artillery, but Wen Desi feels that this name is too second, it is useless ^_^), has been established during the First World War, more than 20 years ago, but it has not been made public. That is to say, this unit has only officially appeared today, and it has been in a state of seclusion until now.
They unveiled a total of six land-based ballistic missiles, one submarine-launched ballistic missile and four cruise missiles, all of which are medium- and long-range missiles with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers. With the exception of the largest Dongfeng-11, the others were launched on mobile vehicles. Dongfeng 11 is a well-launched intercontinental missile, but also the Chinese Rocket Force has the longest range of missiles, its prototype is the original space-time Russian R-36M "Satan", after new materials weight reduction and optimization and improvement, the maximum range can reach 17000, and the payload has been increased to 12 tons. Of course, its range and payload can be adjusted, if the range is reduced to 8000 km, the payload can be increased to 24 tons.
As a matter of fact, before the formation of the rocket forces, the relevant departments of the army and the government were debating whether or not to use medium- and long-range ballistic missiles. Because at that time the bridge (mass projector) was already under construction, some people thought that once the bridge was built, then it would be possible to go to the orbital weapon station and play orbital bombing. Or use the bridge to launch physical bombs for bombing, and if you feel that the accuracy is not enough, you can also shoot missiles. Medium- and long-range ballistic missiles, which are dead and expensive, can be withdrawn from the stage of history.
Initially, he was also inclined to this opinion, and ballistic missiles are very expensive toys, especially intercontinental missiles, which are at least a hundred times more expensive than using overpass projection and orbital bombardment. However, after many deductions by the base's main control quantum computer, the results still showed that ballistic missiles cannot be completely abolished, and that strategic strikes are still a diversified way and that it is better to take a multi-pronged approach. Otherwise, once you encounter something wrong with the bridge or something wrong with the orbital weapon station, you will be blind. For example, the U.S. Air Force once thought that missiles were omnipotent, so it completely canceled the aerial guns on fighter planes, and the result was that the most advanced ghosts at that time were shot out by the backward MiGs during the Vietnam War.
In addition, from the perspective of technical reserves, even if there is no problem with the bridge and the orbital weapon station, these things will not be used at all, but they will also provide technical reserves for future rocket and missile technology, and this kind of thing is always prepared. After much deliberation, it was finally decided to develop some medium- and long-range ballistic missiles, but the number was not so large.
Therefore, at present, the main weapons of the Chinese rocket forces are cruise missiles and medium-range ballistic missiles below 5,000 kilometers. As for long-range missiles and intercontinental missiles of more than 5000 km, they are only used as insurance and technical reserves, and the number is very small. Like the largest Dongfeng 11, Wendesi decided to keep its number at only about 15.
And there is another reason that is inconvenient to say, that is, Wen Desi has always "brought people into the ditch". As long as the leakage of the true or false performance data of these missiles, especially long-range ballistic missiles, is leaked, and when the time comes, a few more test launches will be carried out, and the actual operation will be shown to everyone, and those powers will definitely be willing to jump into this pit. And it's the kind that jumps out of the pit without hesitation, if you want to pull him, he will be in a hurry with you.
After these powers have spent a lot of money, manpower, and material resources to come up with usable missiles, it is better not to fight with China, and once the war begins, they will find that these huge investments have been wasted, and there is no use for them. Because China now has space-based anti-missile capabilities, coupled with various advanced anti-missile systems, it is almost impossible to hit China with strategic missiles, not to mention that they have not yet developed nuclear weapons.
For this kind of "bringing people to the ditch", Wen Desi has always been happy to do it.
China's rocket forces are mainly equipped with ground-to-ground missiles with a range of more than 1,000 kilometers, including not only mobile launchers and ground-launching units on land, but also strategic missile submarine units and strategic bomber units. They are mainly responsible for campaign and strategic strike missions, as well as anti-missile missions in important areas. As for the missiles of a shorter range of tactical nature, they were directly delegated to the army, navy, and air force.
"These guys are much better than our [Agni......"
"I just don't know how to guide and how ...... performance"
"It seems to be more advanced than our [Meteor] and [Pegasus], and China deserves to be the homeland of rockets......"
"God, Chinese actually made such a big rocket! That Dongfang 11 is at least 30 meters long and 3 meters thick, so how many explosives does it have to be loaded......"
A group of officers from the great powers exchanged heads on the viewing platform, and these people were all thundered by the big guys in China.
As mentioned earlier, due to China's opening of the plane, a large number of rocket weapons such as bazookas and rocket artillery were sold during World War I, and under the stimulus of various countries, the development of rocket technology was much faster than that of the original space-time. For these industrial powers, rockets and even missiles are not unimaginable alien technologies. Moreover, the naval holiday in this plane has also become a good opportunity, and the big hooligans who do not need to "make dumplings" will pay attention to the aerospace field, which has become a golden age of rapid development of aerospace technology.
The fastest of these is Germany, which has been developing its own military rockets and unmanned aerial vehicles (the prototype of cruise missiles) since 1925, and by the early thirties they made the first ballistic missile F-1, followed by the cruise missile V-1 in 1934, and now their F series and V series have developed relatively mature.
The second is the United States, which previously caused their "father of rockets" Goddard to be poached by China with a high salary because of their own contempt. Later, when I saw that everyone was playing this, the Yankees simply regretted beating their chests. Goddard has already settled in China, and if he stays well, it is naturally impossible to go back. However, the United States does not say that it cannot play without Goddard, after all, the theory of missiles has been around for a long time, and with the rockets of China and other countries as references, inertial guidance, television guidance, radio guidance, and other technologies are not unimaginable.
How to say that they are also the second largest industrial country on the earth after China, and they are not bad for money, once they start to exert their strength, they will quickly develop their large rockets and missiles. Moreover, the Yankees are in full bloom as soon as they engage in it, what MGM-1 "Matador", RIM-2 "Beagle", MIM-3 "Niki Aquix", and MGM-5 "Corporal...... What to ground-to-air, ballistic cruises a whole bunch came out. Of course, there is still a gap between the performance and the namesake of the original time and space, but except for China, it is not bad in the world.
The British came up with the "Agni" ballistic missile, while the French developed the "Meteor" ballistic missile and the "Pegasus" cruise missile. Moreover, the French have a big brain, their [Meteor] and [Pegasus] are both TV and inertial mixed guidance, if conditions permit, they will use specially modified command aircraft as relay stations or remote control centers, and the hit rate is quite good in its kind.
Of course, the surface-to-surface missiles of these powers are relatively primitive, and they are quite touching in terms of range, speed, and hit rate. On top of that, they are largely devoid of immunity to interference, and in the event of radio interference by an adversary, they will have to rely on inertial guidance. In general, a distance of a few hundred meters from the target is normal, so it is impossible to deliver a precision strike against a prepared adversary, let alone a moving one. But it's much safer to do carpet bombing than to send planes.
Now seeing that the Chinese have actually made so many big guys, the representatives of the great powers are excited. They all said that they would increase their investment when they went back and continue to engage in bigger and thicker guys.
Moreover, with the official appearance of names such as "ballistic missile" and "cruise missile", this weapon finally has a special name. For example, the Germans called it "combat rocket" and "unmanned remote-controlled attack aircraft", the British called it "flying bomb", the French called it "bombing rocket" and "airplane rocket", and the Yankees called it "remote-controlled rocket weapon system" and "remote-controlled # aircraft weapon system".
Well, after many similar actions such as the "Invincible Airship Theory", "Tube Computer", "Tube Miniaturization", "Multi-turret Super Heavy Decisive Battle Tank (Land Cruiser)", "Super Deep Well Ice Battleship", "High-Power Piston Engine" and many other similar actions, Wendehei's operation of "bringing people into the ditch" was once again a great success. After China's 30 th anniversary military parade, the major powers rushed to be the first and jumped into the bottomless pit of "super-large long-range missiles" without hesitation.
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After the phalanx of the Rocket Force, there are all kinds of auxiliary and logistical vehicles such as radar vehicles, logistics support vehicles, field cooking vehicles, field hospital vehicles, armored repair vehicles, and so on.
Originally, a few years ago, Wen Desi also planned to build another multi-turret super-heavy decisive battle tank larger than the "Mammoth" to continue to fool people, but with the practice of the Spanish Civil War, the great powers have woken up and know that this is a pit, and they have not continued to invest in this area. After learning of their reaction, Mr. Wen had to give up with regret.
After all the ground phalanx has passed, there will be a formation of planes and airships of the Air Force, the Navy, and the Army Aviation, including several jet fighters such as the Warhawk and the Sea Hawk, which have made a big splash not long ago, and this has also aroused strong interest from various countries.
Moreover, in this military parade, jet bombers appeared for the first time, including medium-sized H-12 "Snow Goose" and H-13 "Gray Swan" twin bombers, as well as large eight-engine bombers -- H-11 "Dapeng" long-range strategic bombers. However, the most limelight was the H-14 "White Swan", when this elegantly shaped variable sweep wing was re-bombarded with four shots, the whole scene was a sensation!
"White Swan! Sure enough, it's a white swan, it's so beautiful!"
"This is probably our most beautiful plane!"
"Chinese's aviation technology is too advanced! We don't even have fighter jets, they even use jet bombers......
Eight "white swans" formed a herringbone formation, flying proudly over the square like a king in the sky patrolling the territory.
After them is the airship formation, although the airship is no longer in the first line of service, but this does not prevent them from continuing to develop in transportation, patrol and early warning, etc., and now China still maintains the world's largest and largest airship group. One of the most eye-catching is the Kunpeng-class strategic transport airship, which is shaped like a fat cartoon whale, a stupid and cute look, but with a load capacity of up to 600 tons, it is currently the largest aircraft in the world.
The parade ended when the last airship flew across the square to the cheers of the crowd.
Next is the mass parade phalanx, which consists of 200,000 people from all walks of life, more than 200 floats composed of 80 phalanxes and 6 marching cultural performances through the central area of the square in turn. In the evening, there is a customary fireworks display, and then a gala party is held on the square with the theme of "celebrating the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China".
For these non-governmental activities, those "international friends" with tasks are not so interested. Most of them stayed in their hotels that night to discuss the new equipment that appeared at today's military parade, and the telegram signals from various embassies and consulates soared that day, and some people flew home overnight with their materials.