"It seems that their hypersonic missiles will be delayed for at least ten years."

Qiao Yang took a newspaper and walked into Zhang Xingyang's office very happily and said.

Although it is already March, the temperature at the base in the northern plateau often reaches below zero.

Therefore, the heating in the base has not been interrupted, keeping the temperature in Zhang Xingyang's office at about 26 degrees.

Qiao Yang handed the newspaper to Zhang Xingyang, then took off his coat and hung it on the shelf behind the door.

Only then did he say excitedly: "They have planted it this time, and it is impossible to do it in the shell material alone in five or six years." ”

The shell of a hypersonic missile has high performance requirements because it has to withstand an extremely high-heat environment.

At present, the world can clearly meet the requirements and enter the practical stage, and the dragon country is the only one.

What is developed in other countries is not only able to be produced in small batches in the laboratory, but cannot be used in mass production.

It's just that you can't even get the materials that can meet the requirements of use.

"Everyone is responsible for reporting and exposing academic fraud."

Zhang Xingyang said after reading the newspaper full of fabricated reports.

The news in the report that Priss was a foreign spy could be seen by a discerning person at once that it was fake.

You can only deceive people who don't have many brains.

After all, if you think about it a little, you know that if Priss is really a spy, there is no need for him to commit academic fraud at all.

Directly dragging on the time is more effective than this.

capable of delaying the development of their hypersonic missiles even more.

"Recently, people have been saying that we are fifty years behind Eagle Sauce in all aspects."

Qiao Yang said disdainfully:

"But if you want me to look at it, at least in the field of hypersonic ballistic missiles, we are at least twenty years ahead of them!"

The saying that it is 50 years behind is actually a long time coming.

At first, it was barely a fact.

After all, when the People's Republic of China was first founded, the country was indeed almost poor.

However, after entering the new century, those who still hold such ideas are either stupid or bad.

In some areas, China is already in the lead.

In some areas, although there is still a gap, it is not as big as it has been in 50 years.

And in the field of hypersonic missiles, which Qiao Yang is most familiar with.

The country is indeed twenty years ahead of them at the moment!

After several years of development, several models of different types of hypersonic missiles have been completed.

Including, ground attack type, anti-ship attack type, and so on.

In terms of launch methods, there are missile models, silo types, and carrier-based types.

It can be said that in the three aspects of land, sea and air, except for the air force, which has not yet completed the research and development of air-launched models because of the greater difficulty, everything else is available.

"Twenty years may not be realistic, but they want to come up with a full-fledged hypersonic missile program.

As it stands, it will take at least a decade. ”

Zhang Xingyang's opinion is still slightly more impressive.

"Their scientific research strength should not be underestimated, and if they really do research and development at any cost, it may even be developed within ten years."

What Zhang Xingyang didn't say was that with Yingjiang's current situation, it is difficult to make up his mind to invest in hypersonic missiles that have never seen a return.

After all, they have not yet entered a state of war and cannot tolerate the entry of unlimited investment in a project that has not been fruitful.

Isn't it good to invest this money in Wall Street and play financial appreciation?

The woolly bears have been dead for more than ten years, and although they are a little surprised by the speed of the rise of the Dragon Kingdom, it has not yet reached the level that it will be as intolerable as it will be twenty years later.

"Ten years later, our hypersonic missiles will not know how far they have developed!"

Although Qiao Yang's tone of voice was very flat, no matter who he was, he could hear a strong sense of disdain and disdain:

"They can't catch up with us now, step by step, step by step, it is impossible to catch up with us again!"

If the competition is a country in the rising stage, it is possible to surpass it at a super-fast development speed.

But Eagle Sauce, who is obviously going downhill, can't surpass it at his peak now.

It will be even more impossible in the future.

Take, for example, the most important indicator of a hypersonic missile, speed.

Qiao Yang: The first-generation hypersonic ballistic missile developed by them has an average speed of about Mach 7.

And judging from the information published by Eagle Sauce, their air-launched hypersonic missile project is even slower.

The speed can only reach about Mach 6.

Just from the point of view of speed, their missiles are already quite behind compared to the domestic ones.

And the second-generation hypersonic missile that Qiao Yang is currently researching will have an average speed of Mach 12!

"How does the new hypersonic kinetic thermal model perform?"

After chatting for a while, Zhang Xingyang asked about the latest business.

When the velocity of the missile reaches more than Mach 15, the dynamics should be more considered for aerodynamic problems caused by thermal imbalance than for air flow disturbances at lower speeds.

The base has been busy solving this problem for a while.

"The performance of the latest model is still a little unsatisfactory."

Qiao Yang folded his hands and put his chin on it and said.

"In a simulated 15 times sonic environment with supercomputing, there will still be instability."

Among the bases, there is a supercomputer that is now considered advanced even in the world.

It can be said that this calculator is comparable to the analog computer that calculates nuclear explosions.

Because of the many calculation problems involved in missiles, this supercomputer works almost day and night.

The ideas that the base researchers have worked on day and night are first calculated through the code.

However, in recent times, everyone's simulation results have not been too ideal.

Although the speed has only just doubled compared to before, the difficulty has increased by an order of magnitude!

If the previous difficulty was 10, the current difficulty is at least 100, and occasionally even 1000!

"Is there a problem with the model, or is it a problem that the supercomputing power is not enough?"

Zhang Xingyang did not pursue the problem of unfavorable simulation, after all, this matter is too common, but asked where the key point of the problem is.

"The computing power of supercomputing is a little insufficient." Qiao Yang said a little embarrassed.

"You also know that in hypersonic situations, the time analysis of missiles is accurate to every microsecond!"

"In this way, the amount of instantaneous computation is too great for supercomputing."

"Although our supercomputing has reached 10 trillion calculations per second, it is still not enough!"

In fact, this problem has existed since the establishment of the base.

Computing power is almost never enough!

From tens of millions of calculations per second a few years ago, to 100,000 today, an increase of nearly 100 times.

But it still can't keep up with the growth of the amount of data.

"In the short term, there is still no good solution to this problem."

Zhang Xingyang was silent for a while and then said.

Although he had a myriad of techniques in his head, the reality did not allow him to use technology that was too advanced.

It's as if it's impossible for a person to hold a handful of sand in his hand and directly refine a chip.

There are too many aspects involved in solving the supercomputing problem.

Even if Zhang Xingyang has this mind and wants to solve this problem.

It's not something that can be solved in a year or two.

Even if he put down all the work he was doing and concentrate on this one thing, it would take at least a few years.

"Let's hide on the model and think of a way!"

Zhang Xingyang said with a little emotion:

"If it really doesn't work, I'll experiment a few more times."

"Isn't our newest wind tunnel finished?"

The latest hypersonic wind tunnels offer a significant improvement in performance compared to the previous ones.

It's not just the test time, it's up from 100 milliseconds, it's nearly 300 milliseconds.

Crucially, the wind tunnel test speed has been increased to an unprecedented Mach 20!

For a flying object in the atmosphere, this speed is simply appalling!

A speed of more than 6,000 meters per second is capable of disabling any anti-missile system.

However, every time such a wind tunnel is activated, it is also burning money!

A test time does not exceed half a second, and hundreds of thousands of yuan will be burned.

Even if you burn a banknote of the same weight with fire, it will take more than ten minutes.

This is more than burning money, it is simply throwing money directly into the sea.

However, such wind tunnel experiments are also effective.

One experiment can optimize the model at least a little.

"Is the base's appropriation coming down this year?" Qiao Yang said with some surprise.

Every year, the base has a special budget to ensure their living and scientific research needs.

In addition, there are special research funds for specific projects.

For example, Qiao Yang's research on the second-generation hypersonic missile that they are now conducting has allocated nearly 200 million yuan in the initial stage for technical demonstration.

"Sort of."

Zhang Xingyang thought for a while and said.

"The money actually came from the military."

"It's the money for the first batch of DF-17 hypersonic ballistic missiles."

"So fast?!"

Qiao Yang said with some surprise:

"Didn't it just deliver it to them two months ago?"

The first DF-17 was launched from a missile vehicle and was the first hypersonic weapon to be finalized three years ago.

However, it took a little time for the subsequent tests, and it was not until two years ago that all the test subjects were completed.

Officially entered the production process.

The pace of production is not very slow, and it will be possible to produce a missile launcher in almost two months.

In two years, exactly 12 missile vehicles were produced.

Two months ago, it was all delivered to the Rocket Army.

During the same period, 48 Dongfeng-17 hypersonic ballistic missiles were delivered.

It has also been all the capacity for more than two years.

That's almost two pieces a month.

The production speed is not very fast.

It's not that the monthly output of the factory can't be increased, but taking into account the speed of the rocket army's rearmament.

They don't have that much money to replace so many missiles at once.

If the factory produces too much at once, there is a risk that the capital chain will break.

"Because they have been looking forward to the DF-17 for a long time, this time it can be regarded as a wish."

Zhang Xingyang smiled and said.

In fact, the rocket forces are equipped with various types of missiles, which are not small.

However, such an advanced ballistic missile as the DF-17 is equipped for the first time since the beginning of the new century.

It can even be said that for the first time, the Rocket Forces possessed the world's first-class ballistic missiles.

It also allows them to play money very quickly!

After all, the follow-up costume change depends on them!

"In this way, we can blow the wind tunnel with impunity?!" Qiao Yang said overjoyed.

To say what people who do hypersonic aerodynamics, or aerodynamics research, want most.

Being able to do the wind tunnel without limits is definitely at the top of the list.

Because no matter how close the computer simulation is, there will always be a gap with the actual situation.

And this gap is almost non-existent in the wind tunnel.

However, the price of starting a wind tunnel is expensive, even if it is an ordinary wind tunnel, it will consume tens of thousands of electricity for one blow.

Not to mention a hypersonic shock wave wind tunnel at Mach 20, which costs nearly a million every time!

"The province, the province, the flower!"

Zhang Xingyang said: "As long as you can produce results, don't be afraid to spend money!" ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't spend the money, as long as you can make a missile with 15 times the speed of sound."

"Even if I go to the old leader to cry poor, it doesn't matter!"

As long as Qiao Yang can come up with preliminary results, Zhang Xingyang can take these to find someone.

Over the years, he has also met many bigwigs.

A little crying can make a lot of money.

Although this way seems a bit embarrassing, as long as you can have money, it doesn't matter.

In fact, Zhang Xingyang is currently responsible for a lot of funds, whether it is the Rocket Research Institute or Longteng Group, there is no shortage of money. They have billions of dollars lying on their bank accounts.

But the money basically can't be touched.

Because hypersonic missiles are different from other projects.

Basically, it is all paid by the Central Committee and the General Armament Department, and it has nothing to do with the Rocket Research Institute, except for some overlap in personnel.

"Then we'll be relieved!"

Qiao Yang stood up and gave Zhang Xingyang a military order:

"In three months, I'm sure I'll be able to get results!"

"If I don't get anything out by then, then I'll leave it to you!"

Zhang Xingyang almost watched Qiao Yang grow up.

Over the years, Qiao Yang has almost improved by leaps and bounds in mechanics.

has been able to solve most of the problems independently.

Therefore, Zhang Xingyang also recognized his military order, nodded his head and said:

"I don't need to dispose of you, I believe you will be able to make a remarkable result within three months!"

Qiao Yang confidently began the wind tunnel experiment.

The high-power thermal power station in the base has also begun to fully supply this electric tiger, which has reached its peak almost instantaneously.

Countless ancient plant fossil coals, after being fully burned, emitted a huge amount of electricity.

Hypersonic shock wave wind tunnel, activated again and again.

Within three months, Qiao Yang conducted nearly 1,000 experiments.

Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on wind tunnel experiments alone!

But all this is worth it, after getting enough data, a model that can adapt to the 15 times sonic flight environment is born!

(End of chapter)