Modern warfare is an era of integrated warfare!

Even if naval warfare is fought in sea areas hundreds or thousands of kilometers away from the mainland, the weapons of war involved are no longer warships and ordinary carrier-based aircraft like the previous two wars.

Since the fifties, various types of missiles have been developed, and the result has been, except for a few old guys who are used for ground attacks.

Most of the new warships use missiles as their most powerful weapons.

Just like a century ago, everyone regarded the large-caliber naval guns on dreadnoughts as the strongest weapons.

"Your missiles are really good!"

After the completion of the anti-aircraft missile test, Han Zitao hammered Geng Bo with his fist and said.

"It's much better than the Eagle Sauce Standard 2 shipborne anti-aircraft missile data we got!"

The Standard 2 shipborne anti-aircraft missile, as a missile that has not been in service for a long time, is quite advanced among the shipborne anti-aircraft missiles in the world.

However, it will not be able to shoot down eight fighters in different directions and at different heights outside the 400-kilometer defense circle as it has just done in the experimental test!

It can even be said that the two can almost be regarded as two different things.

Geng Bo and the Haihongqi-9A they brought can already be said to be medium and long-range anti-aircraft missiles!

"Hahaha."

Geng Bo smiled and said:

"Our missile performance has not yet reached the strongest."

"But compared to them, it's pretty good."

"It can only be said that it is all set off by peers!"

The temperature in the experimental field is close to zero degrees today, but everyone who has just completed the experiment is warm in their hearts.

At this time, after inspecting the radar team led by Pan Weimin, the head of the navy went straight to the missile launch simulation platform.

"Chief!"

Han Zitao faced the leaders who came over and took the lead in saluting a military salute.

It can be regarded as reminding Geng Bo of the identity of the person in front of him.

"Hello chief." Geng Bo was not a soldier, so he did not salute the army, but he still said respectfully.

"You're the chief of missiles?"

The head of the navy looked Geng Bo up and down and said:

"You look young."

"Sure enough, it's a hero from ancient times!"

In fact, the chief engineer of Haihongqi-9A is Zhang Xingyang, but he is now busy with several large-scale projects, and he has no time to come over this time.

Geng Bo was a little embarrassed: "Chief, I'm not the chief teacher. ”

"Our dean is the chief teacher, and I am the assistant."

The head of the navy was also a little surprised, on such an important occasion, the chief division couldn't come?!

Could it be that something is wrong with the body?

Several different speculations quickly drifted through the chief's mind:

"Is there something going on with your dean?"

"Why didn't you come this time?"

Zhang Xingyang's itinerary is now also highly classified to prevent a possible assassination.

Geng Bo wasn't sure what he was doing right now.

However, before coming, Zhang Xingyang had specifically instructed him that if there was a big guy who asked, then tell the other party a string of numbers, 0311!

Of course, even such a series of almost confusing numbers can only tell the chief alone.

After looking at the people present, Geng Bo asked the chief of the navy to let the others go further:

"Chief, can you let them go farther?"

"You alone know about this."

At this time, the head of the navy also realized that he was a tall and thin young man, and his dean was definitely not a simple person.

After the missile technicians and naval officers around him walked away, Geng Bo whispered a simple sentence in the ear of the chief of the navy.

The people standing not far away could see that Geng Bo didn't know what he said.

After saying that, the chief's brows instantly furrowed.

"Don't tell anyone else about this string of numbers in the future!"

As one of the top echelons of the Navy, he naturally knew about this project.

After all, there are also hypersonic anti-ship missiles developed for the Navy, and there is even a wind tunnel designed to simulate conditions at sea.

Therefore, he also knows how confidential this project really is!

The experimental base where the wind tunnel group is located will not appear on any map, and even because of the special location, unless the enemy's spy satellite specializes in orbit change reconnaissance, it is actually invisible in everyone's eyes!

Even if it's just its name, only a certain level of people can know it.

"Okay, I got it."

Although Geng Bo didn't know why the other party suddenly became nervous, he was judging from Zhang Xingyang's reaction before he set off, and the chief's reaction after hearing this string of numbers.

This string of numbers definitely has a deep meaning, and it is not something that you can know.

After some admonition, the chief was full of curiosity about the Haihongqi-9A missile, which had changed the world to a different extent.

"By the way, how did you change the Haihongqi-9 missile to the way it is now?"

This is what makes him the most puzzling, whether it is the Navy Hongqi-9 or the Army's Hongqi-9 anti-aircraft missile, he has seen it.

No matter how you look at it, you can't do what you just showed on the experimental field.

Suffice it to say that with such a high interception rate and an anti-aircraft missile with a defensive circle of four hundred kilometers, it is almost able to replace the work of the once airfield guardian!

"The main thing is the progress of materials science!"

Geng Bo honestly introduced the new materials used on the Haihongqi-9A.

"First of all, the two most important materials, the explosives in the warhead and the propellant in the solid engine, we have completely different formulations."

At this time, the chief also thought of the previous 300-mm shipborne rocket launcher that also performed against the sky.

Both should be generic in this regard.

"The most important thing here is one thing."

Before saying its name, Geng Bo paused and asked the chief a question.

"Chief, do you know anything about explosives?"

"Why do you ask this all of a sudden?"

The chief replied a little confused, but when he was young, he was indeed from the army.

At this time, almost all of the top officials of the Navy were from the Army, after all, it was only 50 years since the Navy was officially established at this time.

Therefore, the old chief still has a lot of knowledge about explosives.

"Learn some basic concepts."

"That's fine."

Geng Bo breathed a sigh of relief, he shouldn't have to start from the beginning:

"Then you should know that whether it is TNT or black sorkin, the main reason why they can explode is nitrogen."

"So in the scientific community, there was a long time ago that it was asked, why don't we make an explosive made of total nitrogen?!"

"After tackling key problems for a while, our dean really created this thing that everyone originally thought belonged to the legendary level."

"And then, there's this thing you see now!"

Geng Bo said, pointing to the remaining missiles in the launch pit.

"How much more powerful is the explosive you're talking about than TNT?"

Although Geng Bo explained a lot, the other party had not yet established a very intuitive concept of power.

In the course of the experiment, I had seen the power of the missile, but I had not seen the actual missile at that time.

The old chief just thought that they had enlarged the charge in the warhead a lot.

Now that they learned about the brand new explosives they were using, they realized that they had a misunderstanding.

"That's about the number."

Geng Bo gestured a √ with his fingers.

"Eightfold?"

"That's pretty impressive!"

This figure made the old chief a little hard to believe, but it was still within the acceptable range.

"Not eight times."

Seeing that the other party had a misunderstanding, Geng Bo hurriedly corrected:

"Eighty times more!"

"What!"

The tone of the old chief's voice has changed, and this data is too rebellious.

What is the concept of eighty times?

This means that one-eightieth of the charge can achieve the same power as before.

"What you said is true?"

The old chief quickly adjusted his mentality and asked in disbelief.

"Really, we've actually weakened the power of explosives."

"Without the addition of passivators, it can be 85 times more powerful than TNT."

Geng Bo explained the changes to the all-nitrogen explosives.

"However, without the addition of passivating agents, the sensitivity of the explosives is so high that even a slight friction collision may cause an accident."

At this time, the old chief had basically digested the information about the total nitrogen explosives, and even he had thought of a lot of related things.

"No wonder your guidance and immunity to electromagnetic interference are so strong."

"You're able to add a lot more devices than anyone else."

The other party's guess was not wrong, because the space for the charge was greatly reduced, and the space that could be left for equipment such as radars was greatly increased.

This has led to a great improvement in other performance of the missile.

"That's right."

"In addition to the change in the explosive formula, the engine propellant has also been upgraded, and the range and speed that can be achieved under the same conditions are several times the original!"

Geng Bo explained why the Haihongqi-9A was able to reach a range of 400 kilometers and a speed of Mach 6.

"You're doing a great job."

"Thanks to you, our large destroyer is able to have such a strong weapon."

The old chief praised Geng Bo a few words, and the words changed:

"What do you think, according to the current design situation, what is the level of our 052C?"

At present, although there is no objection to the demand for the construction of new destroyers, there is still a certain debate about the technical route.

"The perception on our side is mainly in terms of the launch crater."

At the beginning of the design, the research institute decided to use the method of runner launch, and there were many opinions.

Since a big guy asked this time, Geng Bo just said what they thought.

"The rotor launch method, although it is more economical in craters, can reduce the need for the size of the ship's platform."

"However, it takes more time this way."

"It is difficult to complete the launch of several anti-aircraft missiles at the same time."

What Geng Bo said was true, but the navy was also helpless.

The destroyer platform is so large, with a total displacement of only 6500 tons.

It looks big, but because in addition to air defense tasks, he also needs to take on anti-ship and anti-submarine tasks.

So at the beginning of the design, a total of space was left for eight vertical launch units.

"There is nothing to be done about this, the space of the 052C lead ship is relatively compact, so it can only be launched in this way."

The old chief was also a little helpless.

If the rotor launch method is not adopted, the reloading of missiles is simply too slow to keep up with the pace of war.

"What about the other than this?"

"What do you think we can do better?"

The old chief still attaches more importance to the opinions of professional and technical personnel, and looks forward to hearing something different.

"Chief, my next remarks may be rather peculiar."

Geng Bo first folded a nail for himself.

"If you have any objections, wait until I'm done."

The old chief was also a little curious about what novel remarks Geng Bo could say.

So he nodded and motioned for Geng Bo to continue.

"Actually, these ideas of mine mainly come from our Dean Zhang."

He believes that the two most important things in modern warfare are discovery and destruction.

Such rhetoric is not particularly new, especially after the Gulf War, and there are more similar studies.

"In future wars, the time between these two events will become shorter and shorter."

"Until the most extreme cases, you will destroy when you find it!"

"Most of our current warships need to rely on shore-based radar or ship-based radar to search for the enemy."

"Not only is there a problem with the small search range, but the time from the discovery of the target to the launch of the missile to destroy the target is too long."

"If you want to gain a first-hand advantage in war, you must shorten this process."

Although no one has ever said these things to the old chief before, the basic content is very easy to understand.

"In fact, if there is an aircraft carrier and an aircraft carrier formation can be formed, it will be greatly alleviated."

Geng Bo was also a little helpless at this time, and the construction of the aircraft carrier would take at least ten years.

Wanting to get a combat-ready aircraft carrier is almost a dream at this time.

Although not long ago, China bought an aircraft carrier from Ermao in the name of an entertainment company, which has almost an empty shell left.

But now we can't pass through a certain strait, and if you want to return home, it's still a long way off.

"In the absence of carrier-based aircraft carriers, we can only find ways from other aspects."

"For example, drones."

In this era, the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has not yet received everyone's attention, after all, it has not yet shown its terrifying war potential in the war.

"Through the development of carrier-based UAVs, reconnaissance and strike work will be carried out."

"Even to the extreme, we can build a light drone carrier that will be used to provide reconnaissance and part of the attack work for the fleet."

After Geng Bo finished speaking, he had a happy expression on his face.

After thinking for a while, the old chief asked:

"Now drones, can they take on such a job?"

It makes sense for the old chief to ask this, after all, large UAVs that can fight across thousands of kilometers have almost no perfect products at this time.

"Not yet, to be honest, there is almost no research on large drones at the moment."

"However, in terms of difficulty, this matter is definitely much simpler than the research and development of carrier-based aircraft."

"There's no way around it."

If there is a full-fledged aircraft carrier and a carrier-based aircraft with combat effectiveness, there is no need for UAVs as a technological point.

The construction of the navy is almost the longest among the major armies.

Even in this era of industrialization, the construction of naval warships no longer has to wait for a hundred years for an oak tree to grow.

But the development of personnel, and the response to various hydrological conditions, will take at least decades.

However, the future of the Navy is still bright, there will be a 10,000-ton drive, and there will also be aircraft carriers.

Sooner or later, we will go to the deep blue!

I can go, and so can I!!

(End of chapter)