The desert is lonely, and the sky is full of wind and sand.

Rows of extra-long trailers, covered with thick army green camouflage cloth, are galloping on the deserted Gobi Desert.

At the front of the road was a military vehicle with a special license plate, on which sat a person who was in charge of rational coordination.

There's even a wheeled armored vehicle with a 12.7 caliber heavy machine gun on it.

Such a heavily armed convoy is naturally the transport team of the "Hongyan-1" recoverable rocket.

This transportation work was also carried out for the test launch of the "Hongyan-1" rocket.

In order to ensure the safety and confidentiality of the rocket's launch, this test launch was not at the Xichang launch base, which was commonly used before, but at the Dongfeng launch site in Jiuquan.

At the same time, the security level of the rocket has been increased by more than one and a half points compared with the previous rocket launch mission.

This is also what the veteran leaders of the aerospace system strongly demanded after they learned the specific performance parameters of the "Hongyan-1" rocket just developed by the Rocket Research Institute.

To be honest, at the beginning, Zhang Xingyang was still a little unimpressed.

After all, such a rocket does not have anything particularly worthy of secrecy in his eyes.

However, after the old leader said a word to him, he changed his opinion.

Split-guided mushroom-headed ballistic missiles!

At this time, the development of domestic sub-guided warheads was not particularly smooth.

It will take some time for the DF-5B, which can carry ten split-guided mushroom eggs, to be able to enter service.

The front-loading technology of split-guided warhead strikes is the technology of "one arrow with multiple stars".

Rockets capable of launching multiple satellites with one rocket can be used as ballistic missiles after replacing satellites with guided mushroom egg warheads.

This is also the reason why the veteran leaders, after knowing the details of the "Hongyan-1" rocket, will directly let the military take charge of the transportation and security of the rocket.

If the new rocket can really be successfully launched with one rocket and multiple satellites, and each satellite can successfully enter the predetermined orbit.

This means that the Rocket Research Institute has reached a practical level in the technology of releasing multiple satellites in different orbits.

If this technology is applied to the split-guided Mushroom Egg ballistic missile, it means that only one missile needs to be launched to release different Mushroom Egg warheads in different predetermined orbits.

In this way, a single missile can strike several or even dozens of targets with a span of hundreds of kilometers.

In the face of the murderous rocket transport convoy, no existence dares to come up and provoke.

Even wolves roaming in the Gobi no-man's land, when they encounter such a convoy, they can only flee with their tails between their legs.

"The rocket transport convoy has arrived at the hoisting center."

The encrypted radio communication information, after being translated, came to Zhang Xingyang.

Although the rocket had not yet been transported to the Dongfeng launch site, as the general person in charge of the entire "Hongyan No. 1" project, Zhang Xingyang came to the Dongfeng launch site early to coordinate various matters.

"Then let's go see our big baby!"

Zhang Xingyang smiled at the staff around him, and said cheerfully.

Because the rocket with a total length of 70 meters, if you want to transport it as a whole, it is too difficult, not only difficult to find such a long trailer.

Even if it can be put on a trailer, the weight of hundreds of tons is difficult for a trailer to bear, not to mention the various steering problems during transportation.

Therefore, the rocket is transported in sections, and the rocket is disassembled into three parts: the first-stage rocket, the second-stage rocket, and the fairing.

In this way, the problem of the ultra-long length of the rocket is avoided, and the problem of excessive self-weight of the rocket is also solved.

In the hoisting center, the lifting device is slowly pulling the first-stage rocket from the flat state.

People who see the "Hongyan 1" for the first time are often attracted by his rarely seen propulsion system.

Many workers in the hoisting center are quietly discussing this first-stage rocket, which has an uncommon propulsion system and more than a dozen rocket engine nozzles at the bottom.

"This thing looks so weird!"

"It looks like it's a lot of thrust."

"With so many engines, it looks like the error tolerance rate is so low."

The shape of "Hongyan No. 1" is actually quite peculiar in this era.

A propulsion system with 11 engines in parallel, four pop-up support legs at the bottom, and a steering rudder now folded on the first stage rocket.

Each of these made the workers in the hoisting center who were accustomed to seeing traditional three-stage liquid rockets feel amazed.

With the explosion bolt connecting the first and second stages of the rocket together, the upright posture of the "Hongyan No. 1" rocket began to appear in front of everyone's eyes.

Compared with the series of rockets such as Changsanyi, the figure of "Hongyan No. 1" is more slender and tall.

Chang Sanyi is about 57 meters tall.

"Hongyan No. 1" is nearly 15 meters taller than Chang Sanyi, but the diameter of the two is only about one meter apart.

Coupled with the near-perfect aerodynamic shape blown out by the supersonic wind tunnel.

It's hard not to feel his beauty!

"The hoisting work can be completed today, and the time for the rocket test launch will never be delayed!"

The person in charge of the hoisting center is a middle-aged man with a thin figure and a straight body.

is a man who has experienced all kinds of battles on the battlefield.

"I'm sorry for you, Director Zhao." Zhang Xingyang still respects him very much.

"Dean Zhang, I have to say, I have seen a lot of various types of rockets, but this one of yours is the most beautiful one I have ever seen!"

The slender and well-proportioned shape of "Hongyan No. 1" is no less than that of an old pervert who sees a stunning beauty for people who love rockets.

"Of course, we put a lot of effort into the exterior design."

The appearance that has undergone the baptism of supersonic wind tunnel is very attractive.

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In the early morning of the next day, the Eagle Sauce military spy satellite could not monitor the intermittent time of the Dongfeng launch site.

The Hongyan-1 was transferred to the launch tower to begin the final work before the rocket launch.

Engineers perform final inspections on the rocket, and fill the rocket's fuel tanks with hundreds of tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene.

The fuel pipeline under the launch frame has a very strong transport capacity, and the fuel filling work was completed in a very short time.

The various detection devices on the launch pad, together with the engineers who did the final inspection of the rocket, also completed the last problem check of the rocket before launch.

After confirming that there were no problems with the rocket, everyone evacuated the launch pad.

Now the rocket has done all the work on the ground and can start launching at any time.

It can be said that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!

(End of chapter)