"Xingyang, you guys are doing a good job!"

After hearing that the missile's error was only three meters, the old chief patted Zhang Xingyang's shoulder half shocked and half relieved.

Even Zhang Xingyang, who already knew in advance that the missile's accuracy could reach the 10-meter level, was a little surprised by this result.

After all, being able to reach the 10-meter level means that the missile's error will be about 10 meters.

But the error was only three meters, which was still beyond everyone's expectations.

"This time it should be an accident, normally the error should be around ten meters."

Although the results were very good, Zhang Xingyang was not carried away by such good news, and still kept a cool head as a scientific researcher.

"Even if there is a cost of luck, it still does not detract from the success of your technical achievements."

The old chief did not hesitate to praise Zhang Xingyang's modest words.

"All of you are heroes!"

"Especially you."

Even if there is no deep contact with the missile development process, but according to the information received by the old chief.

The entire hypersonic missile, from project approval to research and development, almost all the processes are strongly promoted by Zhang Xingyang alone.

Many of the problems encountered here were also solved by Zhang Xingyang.

Not only is it limited to technology, but also engineering experiments, many of which are solved by Zhang Xingyang.

For example, the most important ramjet combined cycle engine, which can smoothly transition in multiple modes such as sub-combustion and scramble, is solved by Zhang Xingyang.

However, Zhang Xingyang himself does not have so many feelings.

Zhang Xingyang raised his head and looked at the clear blue sky, and said thoughtfully:

"I just did what any scientist should do."

Facing the modest Zhang Xingyang, although the old chief has become a little accustomed to the process of contacting him over the years.

But I still sighed.

"You're still too modest."

"With the hypersonic ballistic missile developed by your rocket research institute, we will be able to speak louder in the face of enemy threats in the future."

In this world, the first thing that is important in the exchanges between countries is the strength of the country, and in the direct confrontation, the most important thing is their own military strength.

Why in the past ten or twenty years, almost all of the domestic has played a harmless image of humans and animals in the world.

The main thing is that its own strength is not strong enough.

Only with sufficient force as a backing can we speak loudly in international exchanges.

Facing the old chief, who was already a little proud, Zhang Xingyang thought for a while and said:

"It's not enough."

"That's not enough."

The old chief was a little surprised, after all, in his opinion, the range of more than 7,000 kilometers, almost reaching the category of intercontinental ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles with a speed of more than Mach 7, placed in the world, is almost invincible.

"Why?"

"We also need anti-ship, submarine-launched, and so on."

Zhang Xingyang said to the old man in front of him with a little seriousness.

The DF-17 hypersonic ballistic missile tested this time is a ground-attack model, which is mainly used to strike the enemy's important ground targets.

However, it is well known that the main military threat facing the country comes from the sea.

In particular, the enemy's numerous aircraft carrier battle groups have always been a major problem for everyone.

This is also why Zhang Xingyang attaches so much importance to the anti-ship model, after all, this is a magic weapon that can give a fatal blow to the enemy's aircraft carrier battle group.

"Anti-ship?"

The old chief was a little surprised, after all, the anti-ship models of ballistic missiles were not very common in these years.

Generally speaking, ballistic missiles are still used to directly attack important ground targets of the opponent.

In particular, long-range ballistic missiles equipped with nuclear warheads are all used to attack land targets.

"Anti-aircraft carriers, to be precise."

Zhang Xingyang said the specific role of anti-ship missiles.

"As the core of the naval battle group, once the aircraft carrier completes the strike, then the opponent's battle group will lose more than half of its combat effectiveness."

The old chief didn't know this, but he was a little puzzled:

"Isn't it very easy for an anti-ship missile to break through the opposing anti-aircraft and anti-missile system?"

After all, the Eagle Sauce Navy Aegis system at this time is known as the most advanced air defense and anti-missile system in the world.

Although in all its previous battles, except for the mistake of shooting down a civilian airliner in 88, which killed 260 people, there was no actual actual result.

But it still does not prevent everyone from working hard to use their imagination and imagine its combat effectiveness to the extreme.

"It's not as difficult as you think."

Zhang Xingyang first gave a conclusion that ordinary people may not be able to accept, and then explained:

"Today's Aegis system mainly relies on standard series of anti-aircraft missiles to intercept flying objects such as aircraft and missiles."

"However, the speed of the standard series of missiles is generally slow, and most of them can only reach the speed of Mach 2."

"Compared with our hypersonic missiles, it is almost like a turtle crawling, and it is difficult to complete the interception work."

"And the standard anti-aircraft missile still adopts the method of explosion interception, and the interception effect of hypersonic missiles is very poor."

The best way to deal with hypersonic missiles is to use kinetic destruction to ensure that the warhead of the missile can be completely destroyed.

Otherwise, it may happen that the missile's engine is destroyed, but it can still continue to hit the target under the action of inertia.

And because the warhead is not completely destroyed, there will still be a serious explosion.

Eagle Sauce's army once encountered such a situation in a war, although the anti-aircraft missile destroyed the engine of the opposing ballistic missile, but did not completely destroy the warhead, and still caused heavy casualties to itself.

"As for the close defense artillery system, it may not be bad to hit a dozen slow drones, and it is basically impossible to intercept hypersonic missiles."

"So our hypersonic missile, if we want to break through the opponent's anti-missile system, it's a very simple thing."

"In a word, it's not to be feared."

When Zhang Xingyang said this, his body exuded an unimaginable arrogance.

It seems that Eagle Sauce, which is incomparably powerful in the eyes of others, is nothing more than dry bones in the mound in his eyes.

can't blame Zhang Xingyang for having such an attitude, after all, in the era in which he lived, Yingchan had already split because of his own problems.

It has become a relatively backward country.

So in his eyes, Eagle Sauce has indeed died violently.

"The most difficult, on the contrary, is the problem of guidance."

"The electromagnetic environment above the surface of the sea, because the frontal impact of the waves is more complex than above the ground."

"And the carrier battle group is different from a fixed ground target, and it will move throughout the strike process."

"This puts forward higher requirements for the missile's end-of-line guidance."

Although hypersonic missiles can reach a maximum speed of fifteen times the speed of sound, in order to accurately hit the target at the end, they still need to reduce their speed, at most about Mach 8.

And hypersonic ballistic missiles, from launch to hitting the target, almost take more than twenty minutes.

This time is enough for the aircraft carrier battle group to run twenty kilometers.

The speed of the missile's end is very fast, which also brings another problem, that is, the time left for the missile guidance system is also very short.

This places a higher level of demand for the guidance system of anti-ship missiles than for the ground attack model.

"But this problem will not be a problem after the launch of our new generation of guided satellites."

Zhang Xingyang smiled after finishing speaking.

"Especially after combining with our communication satellites, the positioning accuracy can reach the meter level, and the coverage area is much larger than the current coverage of the whole country."

After listening to Zhang Xingyang's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the anti-ship hypersonic missile, the old chief thought thoughtfully:

"Do you think there will be a similar hypersonic missile project over there?"

At this time, although the research and development of hypersonic weapons has begun within Eagle Sauce, it is still in the stage of technical demonstration.

They don't have a consensus on the performance parameters that need to be met for weapons.

So now the outside world doesn't know much about the hypersonic weapon project of Eagle Sauce.

This is also the reason why the old chief only speculated that Eagle Sauce might have such a project.

"There may be, but they still have great difficulties in developing similar weapons."

After all, in Zhang Xingyang's memory, Eagle Sauce was not able to complete the development of hypersonic weapons even after more than 20 years.

Now even if they have a butterfly effect caused by their own appearance, they have given rise to research and development projects for hypersonic weapons.

There will also be no particularly big threat, because they have technical shortcomings in many aspects of hypersonic missiles.

"And most importantly, they don't have a hypersonic wind tunnel."

In order to develop hypersonic weapons, domestic investment in hypersonic wind tunnels alone has reached more than 10 billion.

And that's not even counting the other facilities that are connected to the wind tunnel, as well as coal from thermal power plants.

If all the investments are added up, for the DF-17 wave-riding hypersonic ballistic missile, at least 20 billion dollars were spent in China!

You know, this is 20 billion in the 00s!

At this time, the annual fiscal revenue was only more than 700 billion yuan, and 0.3 percent of it was spent just for this one weapon, which was a very terrifying figure.

If it weren't for the big head here, the funds for the construction of hypersonic wind tunnels would have been snatched from the mouth of the Western quantum fund during the financial turmoil.

The Rocket Research Institute wants to rely only on its own strength to complete the research and development of such a national heavy weapon.

I don't know when it will be.

Although the Rocket Research Institute can now earn billions a year, it also has thousands of employees to support, and it is impossible to invest all the funds in this area for several years.

"Even if they want to spend money on building a hypersonic wind tunnel, it's not that easy."

"The difficulty of the shock wave wind tunnel is still very large."

To produce a velocity capable of testing missiles around fifteen times the speed of sound, shock wave wind tunnels are pretty much the only option in this era.

The other way is either too difficult or too expensive.

"Even if you take 10,000 steps back, they have completed the research and development of hypersonic missiles."

"That's at least a few years away."

"This time is enough for us to build our own missile defense system."

Zhang Xingyang said indifferently.

The National Missile Defense System (NMD) is known as NMD for short.

"How do you think our national missile defense system should be built?"

The old chief asked with a little curiosity, he wanted to hear what Zhang Xingyang had to say.

"First of all, we need to clarify what the missile defense system is capable of defending against."

"Our national missile defense system is mainly to defend against hostile ballistic missiles."

"The second question is, at what stage of the missile will we carry out the anti-missile."

"Whether it's the initial stage of the missile's launch, or the middle of the extra-atmospheric flight, or the end of the re-entry process."

"From a technical point of view, the mid-course anti-missile is the best."

"If we are going to build a missile defense system, the main thing is to build a mid-course anti-missile system."

"Because during this flight, the trajectory of the missile is very stable, and it is relatively easy to be predicted by supercomputing."

"Finally, there is the missile defense."

"As I said just now, the way the missile explodes and destroys, the defensive effect is average."

"So if you want to achieve the effect of complete destruction, it is better to use kinetic destruction."

"Using high-strength alloys, relying on their own kinetic energy to hit, the incoming missiles will be completely destroyed."

Zhang Xingyang then painted a picture of the work of the NMD system to be established in the future to the veteran chief.

After the take-off of the enemy's ballistic missiles, the reconnaissance equipment on the space satellites first detected the take-off of their missiles.

The information was then transmitted to the information command center on duty 24 hours a day, which, after determining the enemy's attack.

An order was given for the anti-missile missile to be turned on and ready for launch.

At the same time, the command center transmits the data detected by the reconnaissance equipment to a supercomputer to calculate the trajectory of the incoming missile.

Because ordinary ballistic missiles do not adopt the unique domestic Qian Xuesen ballistic, 70 percent of the flight segment is outside the atmosphere, and during this period, the flight trajectory is stable, and the supercomputer can easily calculate the flight trajectory of the missile.

After analyzing the trajectory of the missile, the data is transmitted to the missile computer on board the anti-missile missile.

After receiving the data, the anti-missile missile was ignited and launched, and then lifted into the air.

Because the range of anti-missile missiles is often overflowing, the missiles are in the initial stage of liftoff.

It is necessary to perform a large angle spiral in the sky to consume excess fuel.

In the sky, a very strange image is drawn, which makes people very confused.

After the spiral was completed, the excess fuel was consumed.

The anti-missile missile begins to accelerate and will climb to height.

It rises to the same extra-atmospheric altitude as the incoming ballistic missile.

And under the guidance of the on-board computer, it collided directly with the incoming ballistic missile!

To achieve the purpose of destroying incoming ballistic missiles. (End of chapter)