Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 185 Mr. Guo’s Idea
"Aren't you going to the engagement party today?"

The next day, after Yang Ning got up, he saw Hu Yinghong preparing breakfast and asked in confusion.

"If you're not going, why should I go? I'm not very familiar with them, it would be so embarrassing if I went!" Hu Yinghong said, holding the bowl and looking at Yang Ning.

"That's true!"

After breakfast, Yang Ning and Mr. Guo took Mr. Qian’s car and went to USTC together.

Because Mr. Qian needs to travel to many places frequently, his superiors take his safety into consideration and specially provided him with a "Jinggangshan" as his private car.

Sitting in the car, Mr. Guo looked at the decoration inside the car and said to Mr. Qian with emotion: "I have heard about the reputation of this car in the United States before. Today, thanks to you, I finally got to experience it myself."

"Haha~" Mr. Qian just smiled when he heard this, then looked at Yang Ning and said to him: "Then you should also thank Yang Ning, this car was designed by him. I heard that even the machine tools used to produce this car were exchanged for the urea steel he developed."

"Oh, there is such a thing?" Mr. Guo looked at Yang Ning in surprise after hearing what Mr. Qian said.

He thought that Yang Ning was just a young man who had made his mark with his extraordinary computing ability and memory talent, but he didn't expect that he was also so talented in the field of mechanics.

"Hehe, Mr. Qian, you're too kind. Other comrades also have contributions here." Yang Ning smiled embarrassedly.

Through what happened last night, Yang Ning finally understood that there was indeed a huge gap between him and these true geniuses in cutting-edge fields. In this case, he should just be a tool in their research projects and do his job well.

At most, he could give them some suggestions based on the later information he knew.

For the rest, we can only wait for these two big guys to play freely.

When the three of them arrived at the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the students led by Mr. Qian and the technical experts transferred from other places were already making preparations.

For this assembly, some soldiers were specially transferred to help them.

Yang Ning looked at these soldiers, thinking that their superiors might want them to understand the basic principles of missiles in the process. They had already begun preparations for the future formation of the Second Artillery, and this group of soldiers would be the spark of the Second Artillery.

Seeing Mr. Qian and his two companions come in, the others became nervous. After all, this was the first time we assembled a missile. Even though we were just reassembling the parts that had been disassembled previously, at least we assembled it ourselves.

If this assembly is successful, then in the future as long as we can produce these parts, it means we can copy this missile ourselves.

"Yang Ning, you are most familiar with the missile parts. Can you take someone to check and verify these parts to see if there are any missing?"

After Mr. Qian arrived, he gathered everyone together and then spoke to Yang Ning.

"Yes!" Yang Ning responded after hearing Mr. Qian's words.

Yang Ning took a few people to count the parts, while Mr. Qian and Mr. Guo took others to do the preparations before assembly.

When disassembling the missile, Mr. Qian asked them to put the parts together according to the different parts of the missile.
Although ballistic missiles look impressive, they actually only have a few components: warhead, guidance system, engine and missile shell. Since Yang Ning has a clear memory of the data and drawings of these components, the inventory work is very fast.

After Yang Ning checked these parts one by one, he compared them with the parts drawings from the previous disassembly and found no omissions. Only then did Mr. Qian give the order to start the assembly.

After discussion, Mr. Qian decided to assemble the missile engine first. After all, this thing is the most important and most complex component of the entire missile. How far and how fast the missile can fly, and how accurate it can be, are all closely related to the performance of the engine.

Besides, most of the technical experts sent here are in the field of aviation engines. If the missile assembly this time was not of great significance, these valuable talents would not have been sent here.

But even so, we can't waste too much of other people's time, right?
As for other parts, they were sealed up by the soldiers sent from above to prevent them from being lost.

It was also the first time for Yang Ning to see the assembly process of a missile engine with his own eyes. During the assembly process, Yang Ning compared it with the engine that Feng Fei had used before, combined with the improvement ideas he had discussed with Mr. Qian about that engine, and constantly simulated it in his mind.

After all, if we want to make our own missiles reach a range of thousands of kilometers, it is obviously not enough to rely solely on this technologically outdated engine.

Moreover, Big Brother will not provide us with any technical information in this regard, so we can only rely on ourselves to explore.

Mr. Qian and Mr. Guo were also organizing the assembly work, and during the process they explained some of the design principles and concepts to the students and soldiers from time to time.

With the help of experts in the field of aviation engines, although some problems were encountered during the assembly process, they were quickly resolved.

"Well, do you two have any ideas?"

During lunch, Mr. Qian called Yang Ning and Mr. Guo together. While eating, Mr. Qian asked them.

Yang Ning and Mr. Guo knew that Mr. Qian was definitely not asking about his thoughts on this missile, but about his thoughts on the new missile they were about to develop.

Yang Ning shook his head. He had been busy simulating the engine before and had no time to think about this.

Mr. Guo thought for a while and said to Mr. Qian, "Don't you think there are some unreasonable aspects in the design of the R1 and R2 missiles?"

Mr. Qian thought for a while, looked at Mr. Guo and asked, "Are you saying that after the ballistic engine completes the propulsion, continuing to drag it will affect the missile's range?"

Perhaps in order to avoid hitting Yang Ning again, Mr. Qian's words this time were much simpler and easier to understand.

"That's right. Can we make the missile like a cannonball, and after the engine completes the propulsion of the missile body, directly let it detach from the combat part? This should increase the missile's range a lot, right?" Mr. Guo nodded and said.

After hearing what Mr. Guo said, Yang Ning's eyes lit up. He remembered that this was how ballistic missiles were handled in later generations, so he also looked at Mr. Qian with curiosity.

Mr. Qian looked at the two people's eyes, smiled and shook his head: "I have thought so before, but the current guidance technology is not good enough. After leaving the rear tail, the accuracy of the missile is impossible to see."

(End of this chapter)