50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 505 The Second Sun

Some say Reagan and Roosevelt were very similar, and they were indeed.

Just like Roosevelt during World War II, if the Soviet Union launched an attack, Reagan would not be able to get involved in the early stages of the war.

If war breaks out in Europe, he will only provide economic and weapons aid, and will only intervene after the Russian bear's fighting capacity has been weakened.

The United States did the same thing during the two previous world wars.

First, it trades supplies between both sides, and then waits until both sides are nearly exhausted before launching its own attack, ultimately seizing the victory.

Reagan was a staunch conservative and hardliner, but he wasn't stupid. It wasn't that he didn't want to fight; it was that he simply didn't dare to fight.

He knew perfectly well that if a war broke out now, as long as they didn't use nuclear weapons to perish together, the United States would definitely lose.

It is precisely this environment that makes our role even more prominent.

Historically, it was this West-81 exercise that spurred Reagan, leading to our rapid acquisition of numerous advanced technologies and equipment in the military field in the following years.

Four LM2500 gas turbines and 24 Black Hawk helicopters were acquired during this period.

Of course, the price was definitely not attractive, and being ripped off was inevitable.

Even so, we must grit our teeth and endure it. Falling behind means being vulnerable to attack, catching up takes time, and the army needs patience.

In the deep mountains of the southwest, the wilderness of the northwest, the isolated islands of the southeast, and all over the country, like-minded comrades are fighting hard.

Sun Zhiwei kept stealing equipment and gold from his home, working hard to gradually accelerate his progress.

He wasn't good at research; he could only do his best to help his family, and all that was left was to wait.

On September 11th, the Russian exercise finally ended. The people of Moscow were elated, while Western countries were filled with apprehension, and the situation back home became clear.

They've already made their move, so we should give them a response.

What a coincidence! Our family started planning a live-fire exercise last year, and after more than half a year of preparation, we were about to start when the Russians beat us to it.

That's perfect, let's consider our drills a response to them.

So, just three days after the Russian exercise ended, our large-scale exercise in North China also began.

On the vast plains north of Changshan, hundreds of thousands of troops conducted a large-scale, realistic combat exercise.

Our family mobilized a total of more than 114,000 people, and used 1327 tanks and armored vehicles, 1541 artillery pieces, 475 aircraft, and 10606 vehicles.

The training included targeted operational tactics such as blocking tank group attacks, airborne and counter-airborne operations, fortified position defense, and reserve counter-attacks.

After the five-day exercise, a grand military parade was held, during which many new types of equipment, such as the J-11A, were displayed.

This can be described as a complete head-to-head confrontation. Although our exercise is not as large in terms of personnel and equipment as the West-81 exercise, it demonstrates the achievements of our military modernization.

In recent years, we have made significant progress in equipment, training, and combat capabilities, enhancing the sense of pride and security among the people of the whole country.

The emergence of many domestically developed new equipment has not only enhanced the combat effectiveness of the military, but also marked a major breakthrough in our military technology field. The last time our troops conducted an exercise was in 1955, and the last time we held a military parade was in 1959. For more than 20 years since then, our troops have not made a public appearance.

If you don't demonstrate your military strength, how can others take you seriously? They might even think you're easy to bully.

So, when it's time to flex your muscles, you should.

We need to make it clear to others that even if I can't beat you, I can still knock out a tooth, and even take you to meet God with me.

This is the art of subduing the enemy without fighting.

Sure enough, after the parade, Reagan, who was in Washington, was overjoyed upon hearing the news. He immediately increased his support for us, and the transfer and sale of many kinds of sensitive equipment were approved.

He had thought it through clearly. He knew he couldn't beat the Russians right now, so he could only let his underlings stand in front of him. As long as he didn't have to fight, he was willing to pay for everything else, including money and supplies.

From then on, China's development entered a fast track. Although the southwest was still experiencing ups and downs, the development and construction in other regions never stopped.

Sun Zhiwei only learned about the exercises and military parade from the United States after the National Day holiday, and he regretted missing the parade.

But when he heard that a lot of new equipment appeared during the military parade, he was very happy. This shows that our country is accelerating its research on new weapons, and he must have contributed to this.

However, these new types of equipment are ordinary equipment; the real strategic deterrents are the various heavy weapons.

For example, the Russians have a bomb that is a terrifying thing that can silence the whole world: the Tsar Bomba.

In the 1960s, as the nuclear arms race between East and West intensified, the Soviet Union, in an effort to deter the United States, decided to develop a super nuclear bomb that was "undefendable."

The team of designers Sakharov completed the design of the bomb in just 16 weeks and produced two bombs in less than a year. These were the later "Tsar Bomba".

The "Tsar Bomba" is known as the king of nuclear bombs. It weighs 27 tons, is 8 meters long and 2 meters in diameter, and its size is comparable to that of a small submarine.

It employs a three-stage fission design: primary fission: oil-235 initiates a chain reaction, generating high temperature and pressure; secondary fusion: lithium deuteride generates tritium at high temperature, triggering hydrogen nuclear fusion; tertiary uranium shell: under the energy of fusion, it participates in the reaction again, soaring the yield to 1 million tons.

This terrifying bomb was so heavy that, given that only the Tu-95 was available at the time, no aircraft could be found capable of carrying it to drop it.

Later, the Soviet Union had to remove the fuel tanks and weapons bays of the Tu-95 and add a thrust reverser parachute before it could barely be loaded onto the aircraft.

When this thing was built, it was discovered by the United States, who mocked them for only knowing how to build big idiots.

However, the leaders of the Soviet Union were aware of its power after consulting with scientists. On the eve of the actual explosion, they changed their minds and removed the outermost third-stage uranium shell to reduce its power.

Even with only two layers, this thing still has a yield of 5500 million tons, which is 3333 times the power of 'Little Boy'.

1961年10月30日上午11时32分，图-95V型轰炸机抵达新地岛上空，投下了一枚重达27吨的“沙皇炸弹”，在距离地面4000米的高空引爆。

At the moment of detonation, a huge fireball with a diameter of 4.6 kilometers rose up, followed by a mushroom cloud that was 64 kilometers high and 40 kilometers wide slowly taking shape.

Even 1000 kilometers away, you can see a second sun rising in the distance.

(End of this chapter)