Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 216 Dongfeng Express (Subscription Request)
After getting the complete set of missile design drawings, Yang Ning did not dare to waste time. He stayed with Mr. Qian's missile research project team at the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at USTC for three full days to complete the design data of the entire missile.

"Mr. Qian, you are amazing. There is not a single mistake in the data on the entire design drawing."

After working hard for three days from dawn to dusk, with the cooperation of the entire missile research group, Yang Ning finally processed the data for the missile design.

Looking at the design drawing without a single mistake, Yang Ning admired it sincerely.

"Haha, this is all thanks to the entire research team. Otherwise, even if I had three heads and six arms, I could only screw a few screws."

"Besides, didn't you help with the design drawings of each component before? Are you praising me or yourself?"

After hearing what Yang Ning said, Mr. Qian smiled modestly at first, then looked at Yang Ning and teased.

Before Yang Ning could say anything polite, Mr. Qian shook Yang Ning's hand with emotion and said gratefully, "But I really have to thank you this time. Without your full cooperation during this period, some of my ideas would not be realized on this drawing."

When Yang Ning saw Mr. Qian's sincere face, he finally understood at this moment how a diligent scientist felt when he finally realized his idea in reality.

"Congratulations!" Yang Ning also congratulated sincerely at this time.

After the drawing was completed, someone immediately sent it up.

"Has this blueprint been checked by Comrade Yang Ning?"

After Director Nie received the drawings, he asked the staff from the Security Bureau who delivered the drawings again for the sake of caution.

After all, this is a ballistic missile. According to the design instructions on the blueprint, once this missile is successful, its range will reach 1700 kilometers and its payload will reach 1.3 tons.

A payload of 1.3 tons, isn't this just a little more than Miss Qiu's design weight?

"Yes, all the data on these design drawings have been processed by Comrade Yang Ning."

The staff of the Bureau of Secrets also suppressed his inner excitement and reported loudly.

"Good, good! That's great!" After receiving the affirmative response, Director Nie excitedly shouted "good" three times in a row.

The Eagle Sauce has threatened us with nuclear weapons many times before, and now the whole country is filled with anger.

The missile's range of 1700 kilometers is not as good as the 2400-kilometer range of the "Cupid" medium-range missile that the Eagle Sauce tested three years ago.

However, compared with the US$100 million cost and 8-kilometer error of Cupid's missile, with the concerted efforts of various research institutes, the estimated cost of our missile after mass production is only 60 yuan per missile, and the maximum error of no more than one kilometer is far better than Cupid's.

Besides, the range of 1700 kilometers is enough to cover all of the Eagle Sauce’s military bases in the first island chain. If the Eagle Sauce wants to make a nuclear threat to us at that time, it will have to consider the consequences.

After confirming that there were no problems with the missile's design drawings, a missile production coordination team was specially set up to complete the missile's production as quickly as possible.

As the designer of the missile, Mr. Qian also became the deputy leader of this group, and Director Nie was the leader himself.

Some precision parts were handed over to a Southwest Research Institute that had installed the latest data processing center. With the order, all relevant units and factories across the country started to operate quickly. With the concerted efforts of all units, the missile design drawings were produced in early February, and by the end of February, the proportional missile model was built.

On this day, on the outskirts of the city, in a laboratory named 501, many leaders and heads of scientific research units had gathered.

With the command "ignition", the JP4 shock wave wind tunnel, which was previously developed for emergency use of blowing missile models, immediately emitted a roar.

The roar lasted only less than a second, but in just less than a second, the missile model had already simulated my flying posture at high speed.

Various observation instruments also collected a large amount of data in this short period of time.

Seeing that the missile model did not get damaged or fly unstably during this short period of time, the audience burst into warm applause.

Even some researchers involved in the missile couldn't help but shed tears of excitement.

The missile model did not suffer body damage or unstable flight attitude at hypersonic speed, which means that there is no problem with their design.

The leader who came to visit looked at the excited crowd, applauded and nodded with satisfaction, and asked Mr. Guo who had been accompanying him all the time: "Does the success of this experiment mean that our missile is fine?"

"We can't be sure yet." Mr. Qian patiently explained after hearing what his leader said: "This is just a design model of the missile, and it was only blown up once, so the data collected is not very complete."

“To get the final result, we have to blow up the model several more times, and then blow up the full-size models of the missile components several times before we can get the final result.”

"But since this experiment was successful, it also shows that there is no major problem with our design. Next, we just need to make some minor adjustments based on the data we got."

"Yes!" After listening to Mr. Qian's explanation, the leader nodded in agreement: "It's good to be cautious, but seeing the missile model fly smoothly, I believe the day when we can produce our own missiles will not be far away!"

Considering security and confidentiality reasons, the leader had a cordial conversation with the scientific researchers present and then left.

Before our missiles are actually developed, no one can guarantee whether the enemies hiding in the dark will cause sabotage.

The 501 wind tunnel laboratory, which was specially built for missile research, is naturally the focus of those people's attention.

Although Big Brother no longer pays attention to this place after we completed the technical exchange of this wind tunnel with him, don't forget that there is a principal on the opposite side.

After repeated wind tunnel tests, the experimental objects have changed from the initial proportional models to full-size parts, and the collected data have become more and more complete.

After these data were calculated and processed by Yang Ning, Mr. Qian and the missile research team he led also made fine adjustments to the design drawings based on these data.

Finally, after all indicators reached the best data of the existing technological level, our first independently developed missile was successfully manufactured.

It is the same and different from history. The only thing is that this missile is still named Dongfeng-1, which overwhelms the West Wind.

The difference is that the Dongfeng 1 at this time is no longer the Dongfeng 1 in history.

(End of this chapter)