The launch of a ballistic missile, in fact, is very difficult to hide its traces.

Whether it is the reaction of the heat source during the whole process, or the huge cloud trail when flying in the atmosphere, it is difficult to hide it by technical means.

So, in less than half an hour after the DF-17 waverider hypersonic ballistic missile was tested.

Eagle Sauce's national defense command center received information on missile launches detected by military reconnaissance satellites.

"Gentlemen, our enemies on the shore look like they have upgraded their ballistic missile systems."

The top officer of this meeting was Wilson, who was one of the top military officials of Eagle Sauce.

At this time, his face was gloomy.

Obviously, the information just gotten is not good news for Eagle Sauce.

At this time, the intelligence officer on the side displayed the latest images detected by military reconnaissance satellites on the large screen in the conference room.

The above shows the cloud trail of the missile as it takes off.

Most of the participants have worked in the Army for many years and are not very unfamiliar with this phenomenon.

Combined with Wilson's rhetoric just now, it was clear that their opponents on the shore had developed something extraordinary.

Since the last time they discovered that the dragon country had developed a hypersonic anti-ship missile, they have increased their investment in missiles.

Although later agents have found out that they may have made a fuss before, the weapons developed by the Dragon Kingdom are not missiles.

But its high speed and high range still made the military top brass of Eagle Sauce feel a lot of threats.

As a result, although the research and development of hypersonic weapons has been reduced somewhat, it is still slowly being implemented.

And in order to counter the increasingly fast weapons of the Dragon Kingdom, Eagle Sauce has also begun to increase investment in anti-missile systems.

The army officers in the conference room did not speak, waiting for the intelligence officer to introduce the situation.

"Half an hour ago, the Dragon Kingdom completed an experiment on a ballistic missile."

After integrating the information obtained so far, the intelligence officer began to give you a detailed introduction.

"According to the results of satellite reconnaissance, the weapons tested by the Dragon Kingdom this time have a range of more than seven thousand kilometers."

"Already capable of directly threatening our numerous naval bases in the Pacific Ocean!"

The Pacific Ocean serves as an important geographical barrier for Eagle Sauce, and many islands in the ocean have naval bases that are used as anchorages and supply ports.

One of the more important areas here is the Hawaiian military base complex.

And the straight-line distance of this base from the Dragon Kingdom is 6,600 kilometers.

In other words, the ballistic missile of the Dragon Country's latest experiment is capable of directly threatening the most important base connecting the mainland of Eagle Sauce with the Pacific Ocean.

At this time, the naval officials, who had not been concerned at first, also began to get serious.

Originally, they thought that the main participants in today's meeting would be people from the Army.

I didn't expect that after listening to it for a few minutes, I would pull myself in.

"Of course, the range is not the most important thing, the most noteworthy thing is the flight speed of the missiles in their experiments."

At this time, the intelligence officer said something that surprised everyone present.

After all, in the eyes of many people present, the range of 7,000 kilometers is already the most noteworthy thing.

Because although there were many ballistic missiles with a long range in the Dragon Kingdom before, these missiles basically had a range of tens of thousands of kilometers.

The main thing is still to carry a nuclear warhead, but now the missiles they have launched with a range of 7,000 kilometers are obviously impossible to carry a nuclear warhead.

The most likely is the conventional warhead on board.

This is what they attach the most importance to.

"According to the results of our satellite reconnaissance, the entire strike process of their missiles did not take more than thirty minutes!"

"This means that their missiles have an average speed of more than Mach 7 in the whole process!"

As the intelligence officer said this, there was a tremor in his voice that he hadn't even noticed.

"And in the middle of their flight outside the atmosphere, according to the results of satellite tests, the speed exceeds Mach 15!"

"What!"

"It can't be!"

When the intelligence officer gave the test results of more than Mach 15, several people in the army in charge of missiles were incredulous.

Stand up on the spot and question whether there is a problem with the intelligence officer's data.

In their impressions, although the mid-flight of the missile, it was able to reach extremely high speeds.

Generally speaking, the fastest speed can reach Mach 10-12, but the speed of Mach 15 is still very frightening.

This means that the outer temperature of the missile will be so high that even the shell of a high-strength alloy will melt and deform.

Even alloy steels doped with tungsten with a very high melting point will undergo a certain amount of deformation.

"I'm sorry, everybody."

Although the intelligence officer was able to understand their confusion, he still gave specific data.

"There's nothing wrong with the satellite data."

"Their missile, in four minutes, completed the mid-flight flight."

"And flew a distance of thirteen hundred kilometers."

"So the speed of Mach fifteen, in fact, is our conservative estimate."

"Based on his speed, it is even possible that the maximum speed of the missile will reach Mach 16."

Myerson, who has been in charge of ballistic missiles for a long time, discovered an unreasonable place in the intelligence officer's data at this time.

"You're saying that the missile's mid-course flight lasted less than a fifth of the time?"

"It doesn't make sense!"

The intelligence officer didn't think about this aspect before, but after Myerson reminded him, he realized that the flight trajectory of the Dragon Country ballistic missile was indeed not very reasonable.

"Normally, the middle section of a ballistic missile is at least fifty percent, how can it be so short!"

Myerson was a little puzzled, he knew that the intelligence officer's data should be fine.

Therefore, the only thing in question is the missile that could be of the Dragon Country.

They used a method that no one had ever tried, and the middle section of the missile was shortened by about one-third of its original size.

"We haven't gotten an answer to that yet."

"After all, we also just learned that they had completed the test work on the missile."

The intelligence officer was a little helpless, it had only been half an hour since the Dragon Country's missiles had completed their flights, and they had been able to have so much data.

"And in that case, isn't their terminal flight too long?"

Myerson then went on to ask a question.

The end of a ballistic missile is generally short, because the amount of fuel available at this stage is too small to sustain the warhead's ultra-long flight.

And the missiles of the Dragon Kingdom clearly violate such common sense.

The end flew a distance of more than four and a half thousand kilometers, which seemed to them simply impossible.

"Gentlemen, I am not looking for you today to hear you explain the advanced nature of the missile technology of the Dragon Country."

Seeing that there was a trend towards a technical seminar, Wilson knocked on the table with a gloomy face and interrupted them.

"I just want to know if our anti-missile systems can intercept them in the face of such missile strikes from theirs."

"We have invested so much money, can the missile defense system we build give full play to its value?!"

Although the Star Wars plan proposed at the time of competing with the furry bear, it was nothing more than a large-scale strategic deception.

However, it is undeniable that Eagle Sauce has invested a huge amount of money in the missile defense system in the past one or two decades.

A systematic missile defence system has been established to deal with a possible ballistic missile attack.

Although whether this system can be successfully defended, the enemy's ICBMs are still a mystery.

However, this does not prevent Wilson from coming out with the missile defense system at this time.

Myerson was particularly embarrassed at this time, and most of the eyes of everyone present were focused on him.

After all, the missile defense system is the job that Myerson is responsible for.

There was no way, Myerson could only bite the bullet and say:

"At present, our missile defense system is still somewhat powerless against high-speed targets."

In fact, for ballistic missiles with a mid-range speed of more than Mach 10, the probability of interception by their missile defense system is not high.

In the tests that have just been completed, the probability of interception is less than 30 percent.

After all, the supercomputing performance in these years has not been as developed as in later generations, and the prediction of missile trajectories is not particularly accurate.

This is also an important reason why the probability of missile interception is not very high today.

In fact, at this time, everyone's missile defense system can only be regarded as a large toy, and the probability of interception is not very high.

The interception efficiency of ballistic missiles is not very high, basically not exceeding 30 percent.

At this time, the missile defense system was actually mainly used to intercept cruise missiles with a speed below the speed of sound.

For hypersonic missiles with speeds of more than Mach five, there is basically nothing that can be done.

"That's your answer?"

Wilson reprimanded Myerson very unceremoniously.

"So much money every year, do you answer me like that?!"

"Or are you all a bunch of moths!"

"Spend all these funds on it!"

Wilson's anger is not without reason, and every year they allocate billions of dollars to the missile defense system.

But now in the face of a possible missile threat, it is not in a position to play its role.

Doesn't that mean that billions of dollars of money every year are all wasted?

Myerson didn't quibble much about himself, and even wiped the non-existent sweat on his forehead with some guilt.

Eagle Sauce is corrupt in military spending, in fact, it is an open secret within the military, whether it is a coffee cup for 1,000 dollars a piece, or a toilet bowl for tens of thousands of dollars.

It's all a real status quo, but now that Wilson said it on the spot, it obviously has a different meaning.

If you can't tell me any good news at this time, the best thing to do is to keep quiet.

In the midst of Wilson's anger, the intelligence officer received another piece of news.

"Generals, I think the reason for the ultra-long distance flight at the end of the Dragon Country missile has been found."

Hearing this crucial message, Wilson didn't bother to continue to reprimand Myerson.

Turning to the intelligence officer, he asked:

"What is the reason?"

The intelligence officer displayed the photos he had just obtained on a large screen in the conference room:

"Their terminal flight, obviously using some special way, to extend the flight distance."

The screen shows the DF-17 wave-riding hypersonic ballistic missile, with a wave-like cloud trail as it flies at the end.

"Do you see what they're doing?"

After looking at it for a while, Wilson, who didn't see any doorway, turned to Myerson on the side.

Myerson had just recovered and looked at the photos on the monitor with a look of disbelief on his face.

"Impossible!"

"It can't be!"

Then he muttered to himself.

"What exactly are they using to extend the missile's flight range?"

Sensing that Myerson had clearly seen something, Wilson asked impatiently.

It took several seconds for Myerson to recover from his shock, gather his thoughts, and say:

"Generally speaking, ballistic missiles use a parabolic trajectory, and the trajectory after launch is a parabola."

"But decades ago, Qian Xuesen, a well-known missile expert, once proposed a 'boost-glide trajectory'."

"This trajectory is characterized by a short flight time outside the atmosphere in the middle of the atmosphere."

"And judging from the pictures just now, the latest missiles of the Dragon Kingdom obviously use such a trajectory, so their mid-atmospheric flight time will be so short."

"However, judging from the latest pictures, they not only use Qian Xuesen's ballistics in the middle, but also have a lot of characteristics of Sanger's ballistics at the end."

"It is possible to move up and down in waves at the end of the atmosphere, relying on the pressure difference between the upper and lower levels of the atmosphere."

In the end, Myerson himself was in despair.

Such a ballistic, in his opinion, can already be said to be unable to intercept it.

Unless they can destroy the missile in its ascending stage.

Otherwise, as long as the missile enters the atmosphere, there is basically no possibility of interception.

"So it's really impossible to intercept?"

Wilson asked, incredulous.

"It's like when a nuclear bomb was first developed, there was no way to intercept it, and we didn't have any means of interception other than to develop the same weapon."

Myerson said bitterly.

"Nowadays, we are not able to intercept this missile by any technical means."

"Because of his trajectory, there is no way to predict it."

"No, we must join forces with our allies to develop ballistic missiles that can fight them!"

Wilson said viciously.

Because of the range of seven thousand kilometers, it was actually possible to bring both the allies of the eagle sauce, John Bull and Gallic chickens into the strike range.

So Wilson was very confident that only if they learned this information, it was impossible for them to sit still.

"The Western world, it's time to unite again!"

Since the disintegration of the woolly bear, can the Western world, which has become inseparable, be united because of this? (End of chapter)