Project 0311, a super wind tunnel group specially built in China for hypersonic weapons.

Capable of testing super support for weapons above ten times the speed of sound.

It's been more than two years since it started.

During this time, the construction personnel worked day and night, and finally completed the basic construction of the wind tunnel group one month ahead of schedule.

As for the core shock wave wind tunnel device, the installation and commissioning work was also completed three months later.

"Colonel Chu, thank you for your hard work."

Looking at the wind tunnel base, which was almost completely different from before, Zhang Xingyang sighed.

In less than three years, several wind tunnels and supporting infrastructure were built on top of this wasteland.

and a thermal power station with a power generation level of 1,000 megawatts.

It is conceivable that the 11, 13, 15 Engineering Bureau, which was in charge of the construction work, must have paid a huge price.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible to complete the construction in such a short time.

"It's not hard, it's what we should do."

Although he said this, only he knew the pain in the construction process.

In the beginning, the construction of the camp did not provide even the most basic water security.

Before the well was drilled, everyone had to go to a single lake hundreds of kilometers away to get water.

However, the water is very alkaline and gives off a bitter taste.

Chu Xuan thought about it now, and he felt that his tongue was numb.

"Thermal power plants, when will they start operating normally?"

This time when he came to the wind tunnel base, Zhang Xingyang had something to do, not to do something homely.

The main task was to be responsible for the first test run of the wind tunnel complex.

Check out the most critical of these, the shock wave wind tunnel.

Let's see if it can reach 15 times the speed of sound in design theory.

The prerequisite is that there are no problems with the power supply of thermal power plants.

Otherwise, without sufficient power, there is simply no way for the wind tunnel to operate.

"At present, it is still running at low power, and it is mainly necessary to do some preliminary testing work."

Chu Xuan, who has been dealing with the wind tunnel base for several years, is also the first to talk about the progress of these projects now.

"But it's been a trial run for a few weeks, and I basically don't see any problems."

"Tomorrow it will be running at full power."

With Chu Xuan's guarantee, Zhang Xingyang was a little relieved at this time.

After all, thermal power plants, as an extremely important power supply in the base, are related to the normal operation of the shock wave wind tunnel.

High-quality anthracite, formed by millions of years of geological activity beneath the plateau, burns in the boilers of thermal power stations.

The chemical energy it has accumulated is released, which is then converted into heat energy, which heats the water in the pipes to form a huge amount of steam, which pushes the turbine to do work and generate electricity.

The history of human energy use is a history of non-stop hot water.

From ancient times, wood was used to boil hot water, to coal to boil hot water in modern times, to nuclear fission to heat hot water in the present, and to fusion energy to boil hot water in the future.

Boil hot water, eternal God!

"YF-21 Shock Wave Wind Tunnel, the first trial operation has officially begun!"

The specially customized transformer allows the wind tunnel to receive a huge amount of energy in an instant.

A shock wave was instantly generated in the wind tunnel, simulating the effect of more than ten times the speed of sound.

This trial operation did not have any scientific research tasks.

Just to check whether the wind tunnel is working properly.

However, just such a test run, which lasted less than a minute, required tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours of electricity.

The time to actually produce more than ten times the speed of sound even needs to be calculated in milliseconds!

"How did it turn out?"

After the trial operation was completed, Zhang Xingyang couldn't help but check the data of the wind tunnel operation.

Ten times the speed of sound has a running time of 125 milliseconds!

Such speed and time, at this point in time, can be regarded as the world's first!

Ten times the speed of sound, in this world, according to Zhang Xingyang's memory, only the Dragon Kingdom has come up with it.

It took decades for other countries to overcome the technical difficulties of the blast blast wind tunnel!

"Maximum speed experiment, start now!"

After completing the first test run, Zhang Xingyang immediately began the experiment of maximum speed.

See what kind of speed it can reach.

At the beginning of the design, its theoretical limit was fifteen times the speed of sound, but according to Zhang Xingyang's current on-site effect.

The maximum speed may be exceeded by a part.

In the laboratory, the roar of the shock wave wind tunnel could not be heard.

Although the entire running time was only a few tens of seconds, many of the experimenters present felt that a century had passed.

Soon, the experimental data appeared on the computer in the lab.

Zhang Xingyang watched intently, the data on the big ass computer, while constantly calculating in his heart.

"The highest test in the shock wave wind tunnel has been reached, sixteen times the speed of sound!"

In the laboratory, cheers rang out one after another.

Everyone has put in a lot of time and effort for the Shock Wave Wind Tunnel, whether it's time or energy, or something else.

After all, everyone is a high-quality talent, and if you go to work in some big cities at this time, it is not a problem to earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.

However, everyone nests in this place where birds don't, isn't it just to see the development of domestic hypersonic wind tunnels.

Now that wish has come true!

The after-effects of this incident far exceed those of other seemingly lofty technologies.

With such a hypersonic wind tunnel, the land-based, space-based, and ship-based hypersonic missiles for subsequent national defense undertakings can be regarded as having fallen.

The foundation of national defense and security can be regarded as a solid foundation one after another.

All that remains is to build our missile industry with peace of mind!

A week later, when the TV station broadcast the news, it mentioned a little that China's wind tunnel business has reached a higher level.

Most people, faced with such a short news brief, do not notice the news.

Even people in the professional field don't think much about it when they see such news.

After all, there is so little information that has been revealed.

This is also a deliberate propaganda effort, revealing a little bit of information, mixed in with a huge amount of information, to paralyze the enemy's perception.

Only a long time later, when our hypersonic speed flourishes, will the enemies realize how much gold we once had in such an inconspicuous piece of news!

"Brother Xingyang, have you heard the latest news released by Eagle Sauce?"

After reading a magazine, Qiao Yang asked Zhang Xingyang, who was sitting opposite him, with a curious expression.

The two of them were on the train back to the institute from the plateau.

In the entire train box, there were just the two of them.

Of course, outside the box, there are also secret staff belonging to the state security to ensure Zhang Xingyang's personal safety.

It's just that it basically doesn't appear in the sight of the two people.

"Which message are you talking about?"

Recently, there has been a lot of news released by Eagle Sauce, and for a while, Zhang Xingyang didn't know which one the other party was talking about.

"About the Staff of God."

"Oh, that's it!"

At this time, Qiao Yang turned the magazine in his hand and showed it to Zhang Xingyang.

Above is an article about Eagle Sauce's plan to study the Staff of God, such a space strike system.

The Staff of God is one of the bolder ideas of this era.

They plan to deploy two satellites in low orbit in space, one of which carries a metal rod called the "Scepter of God."

These metal rods are made from high-density metals such as tungsten and titanium, and can weigh several tons.

Because it is a space-based weapon, it can hit any area above the earth in a very short time.

And because it does not rely on any chemical explosives or nuclear charges, it does not have any pollution, and it is considered a "clean nuclear bomb" in this era.

Of course, this is all an exaggeration by the media, and the actual combat effectiveness of the Scepter of God is not even comparable to that of a giant ground-penetrating bomb.

Whether it is power or penetrating ability, it is far inferior.

"It's just a gimmick with bells and whistles."

After Zhang Xingyang glanced at it, he didn't take it to heart.

After all, in later generations, there have been special experiments that have verified that such weapons are useless.

And purely relying on kinetic energy, the trajectory is too easy to predict.

Several countries in the world that have the ability to develop this thing basically have several ways to intercept it.

"Qiao Yang, if you do a mechanical simulation yourself, you can understand that the power of this thing is actually not as powerful as a salvo of our rocket artillery!"

As an expert in mechanics, Zhang Xingyang can understand all these things.

It's just that at first glance, when he saw such a weapon concept, Qiao Yang still felt a little novel.

After all, in these days, there are actually very few concepts about space-based weapons.

However, the train was bored, so Qiao Yang immediately used the data he had at hand to make a simple calculation model.

Zhang Xingyang is also watching the question about the configuration of hypersonic missiles.

Hypersonic missiles, in general, have three technical routes.

Before talking about the technical route, it is necessary to talk about the issue of missile trajectory.

Ballistic missiles generally have four types of ballistics at this time.

The first is the most common and oldest ordinary ballistic, which is actually a parabola.

The second is the Qian Xuesen ballistic proposed by our Qian Lao, and the trajectory of the missile in this trajectory is difficult to predict.

The third is the Sanger ballistic, and the fourth is the boost-glide ballistic.

The first is the use of a double-cone configuration, which generally uses the Sanger trajectory for gliding.

The rocket is first boosted above the Kármán line at an altitude of 100 km, and then glides and maneuvers near the Kármán line.

It is also possible to use a boost-glide trajectory to take off and glide at an altitude of around 60 to 80 kilometers to attack a target.

The study of the bipyramidal configuration has been carried out for a long time, and the technical difficulty is relatively the lowest among the several.

The second is the wave-riding body configuration, which is also the only configuration developed by us, and China's Dongfeng-17 is the configuration used in this configuration (it has not yet been born at this point in time).

Missiles with waverider configurations can follow Qian Xuesen's trajectory.

And it has a fairly high lift-to-drag ratio, which means that it can greatly increase the range of missiles at the same level with its unique aerodynamic appearance.

Both in range and maneuverability, hypersonic missiles far surpass hypersonic missiles in the bipyramidal configuration.

The third type is the scramjet launch mechanism type, and Maozi's "Zircon" missile is such a configuration.

It's just that now domestic scramjet engines don't even have a little bit of technical reserves.

So it is not within the scope of Zhang Xingyang's consideration for the time being.

Just when Zhang Xingyang was considering the issue of the missile development route, Qiao Yang on the side had already calculated the actual strike effect of the God's Staff.

"That's the power?"

The result of the calculation made Qiao Yang a little surprised.

This is really not as powerful as the all-nitrogen explosives they had developed before.

A tungsten rod with a mass of 140 kilograms hit the ground from space at Mach 13.6, creating a crater with a depth of 3.2 meters and a radius of 4.7 meters.

Not to mention that the power is comparable to that of a nuclear weapon, even 140 kilograms of all-nitrogen explosives are inferior.

If it is an all-nitrogen explosive, the equivalent of 140 kilograms can cause a deep crater with a diameter of about 30 meters!

"That's pretty much it."

Zhang Xingyang glanced at Qiao Yang's calculation results and said:

"That's not how space weapons are used."

"Hang two missiles up, it's more reliable than this!"

In the future, space armament is also a very important part, but such non-powered kinetic weapons are also chicken ribs.

What really works is the traditional kinetic weapons, as well as the more primitive-looking, but more effective stone-throwing!

By capturing various meteorites near the earth, after completing the acceleration, hundreds or thousands of tons of meteorites are as powerful as Tsar's nuclear bombs!

A kinetic weapon like the Staff of God can only be regarded as an embroidery needle compared to various meteorites in space!

Of course, this way of fighting, after the construction of the asteroid defense system in the rear dragon country, also lost its war effect.

It can only be reduced to fireworks in the sky one after another.

"Brother Xingyang, are you planning to use the waverider configuration?"

At this time, Qiao Yang turned his head sideways and looked at the various technical materials in Zhang Xingyang's hand.

Found here, most of the technical information on the configuration of the waverider.

"Yes, the advantages of the waverider configuration are very beneficial to us."

"If nothing else, there is no small advantage in the selection of ballistics alone."

Zhang Xingyang said after flipping through the information in front of him.

After all, no matter what, Qian Lao was still able to reluctantly work at this time.

There is a question about Qian Xuesen's ballistics, and you must be able to get a lot of ideas from him.

"With the wave-riding body configuration, there is no way to rotate and maneuver at the end, right?"

Although Qiao Yang is not an expert in missiles or rockets, he has seen and heard about it for so many years.

It also taught him a lot about missiles.

"That's true, but the mid-range maneuverability of the waverider configuration is good, and it's worth it to have weaker guidance at the end."

The waverider configuration is capable of non-stop maneuvering in the middle of the glide as if it were a swim.

This can also be regarded as a unique means of anti-missile in the middle of the enemy!

Especially in the field of mid-course anti-missiles, in recent years, a lot of money and technical strength have been invested.

In the face of this trick we sacrificed, the wave-riding body configuration plus Qian Xuesen's ballistics, he couldn't catch it at all!

(End of chapter)