Warship of Great Power

Capital, space sector.

"Xiao Ling, you should have come back a long time ago. This has always been your home." Seeing Qin Tao and Zhao Ling coming together, Mr. Zhang immediately smiled and said: "It all means that Mr. Qin is at the helm of Mingzhou Group. Few people know that Mr. Qin has a good wife behind him."

Qin Tao cannot do without Zhao Ling. Without Zhao Ling, how could Qin Tao be where he is now? Without Qin Tao, Zhao Ling would definitely continue to engage in scientific research on the front line, and maybe she would be the chief designer of Eagle Strike 21.

"That's natural." Qin Tao said, "I am enjoying the scenery outside because there are people behind me."

"Mr. Qin, is there anything important when you come to our place this time?" Mr. Zhang knew that Qin Tao was very busy, so he had better stop talking and go straight to the topic.

"Mr. Zhang, I'm here for the Eagle Strike 21 project. Can our relevant departments develop a simplified version to earn foreign exchange through exports?"

Simple version?

Mr. Zhang became serious: "Mr. Qin, let's go to the conference room. I'll call the relevant personnel and we'll talk together."

Mr. Zhang is the chief designer of the Dongfeng-21. He has been active in front-line scientific research and participated in the development of the Dongfeng-21D, which is the anti-ship ballistic missile. However, it was later transformed into the YJ-21, which is not He's in charge.

Soon, everyone sat down in the conference room. The chief designer of YJ-21, Zhu Gong, who was only in his forties, turned on the computer and connected the projector.

"I really didn't expect that the chief designer of Eagle Strike 21 would be so young." Qin Tao sighed with emotion.

"Yes, Mr. Qin, all our departments are undergoing a major change to push young people into leadership positions. Although we old people have to continue to work, we must also leave room for them to develop." Mr. Zhang said.

Zhu Gong smiled: "Mr. Qin, no matter how young I am, I can't compare to you."

Qin Tao is not yet forty years old, several years younger than Zhu Gong, but he is already a world-famous group CEO, and his prestige is much greater than that of Zhu Gong.

"I'm just lucky. Zhu Gong, please introduce me."

Zhu Gong nodded and introduced: "Mr. Qin, our YJ-21 missile is designed according to the maximum size of the navy's universal vertical launcher. This missile has a diameter of 850 mm, a length of less than nine meters, and a range of one thousand kilometers. This The emergence of this missile has raised the navy's battle from two dimensions to three dimensions. We believe that within twenty years, this missile will be impossible to intercept and is the most powerful trump card of our navy."

Even though there were air attacks in previous naval battles, the height was only 20,000 meters at most, and because it was easy to be discovered at high altitudes, most of them flew at ultra-low altitudes over the sea. Therefore, traditional naval battles have always been limited to the two-dimensional sea surface. On the Internet, the most is 2.5 dimensions, and the emergence of anti-ship ballistic missiles has brought naval warfare from two dimensions into the three-dimensional era!

what does that mean? Of course, the amount of information has increased dramatically.

The novel "The Three-Body Problem" describes a beautiful four-dimensional world, completely unfolding a certain direction of the three-dimensional world and presenting it in front of the individual. If you look at the wall and the direction of the wall is the fourth dimension, everything inside the wall will Presented, people's brains are flooded with massive amounts of information.

The same is true from two-dimensional to three-dimensional. If we use specific data, the amount of information will increase by 10 orders of magnitude. If we compare it with the Internet, from 56K cat to 100M optical fiber, such rapid development is only a short difference. The gap is only three orders of magnitude. The gap of ten orders of magnitude means the rapid increase of information. All existing equipment cannot handle such a massive amount of information.

"Even our most powerful Godson cannot handle such a massive amount of information. At present, we dare to say that even our own Aegis system cannot intercept our own YJ-21."

"Isn't the U.S. Navy fucked up?" Qin Tao asked: "Isn't this kind of system unable to intercept?"

Zhu Gong smiled confidently: "Of course it's impossible. Our missile has a range of one thousand meters and an average speed of Mach 6. It only takes ten minutes to reach the target, leaving them with a very short warning time. Moreover, our warhead It's not an ordinary ballistic flight. It has to glide after entering the atmosphere and perform lateral maneuvers when necessary. This is much more difficult than intercepting ballistic missiles. What's more, we have a maximum speed of Mach 10."

Ordinary ballistic missiles fly a normal trajectory with no extra movements. It is not easy to intercept. It requires careful calculation to ensure successful interception.

What if the target changes direction in flight?

Even if the direction is changed slightly, all the original work will need to be overturned and the interceptor missiles launched will not be able to reach it. The amount of information will increase by ten orders of magnitude, which is no joke.

There is actually nothing scary about the maximum speed of Mach 10. After all, this is a ballistic missile. How fast can a stone fall from the sky? It's fast and can change direction, which is the scariest thing.

Since the Americans got the Aegis system, they have always felt that they are very good, so that there has been little development in these years. For them, they can intercept everything outside and use carrier-based aircraft to defend, but they encountered overhead Carrier-based aircraft simply cannot stop things falling from the aircraft.

Qin Tao nodded: "Then you are too conservative. Why are you leading in twenty years? I think we can be ahead in fifty years. In the past, we were always suppressed and beaten, but now we can finally let the Americans experience this kind of passivity. ”

Think about 1996, and then think about now, things are changing.

"President Qin wants to export this missile and hopes we can develop a simplified version." Mr. Zhang said.

"Mr. Qin, our missiles are strategic-level weapons and cannot be exported."

"Yes, Mr. Qin, Zhu Gong just introduced him, and we can't defend ourselves."

Everyone was immediately shocked, how could this thing be exported? The cat serves as the tiger's master, but he has never been taught how to climb trees.

"Then let's develop something we can defend against." Qin Tao said: "As long as it can still be an anti-ship ballistic missile, I don't care how much its performance is reduced."

"If it can be prevented, then our warhead cannot use a hypersonic gliding body and cannot drift." Zhu Gong thought about it: "Just after entering the atmosphere, we will find the target and perform simple maneuvers."

No one can prevent this from happening, because the trajectory is too special. It would be easy if we only do simple maneuvers, that is, after falling, we look for the target and then aim at it without any other false moves. Deal with some.

"The faster the speed, the harder it is to intercept. We can also reduce the speed of this missile to below Mach 10. We can reduce the missile body, which reduces the speed and reduces the range."

The larger the missile body, the more fuel it carries, the greater the shutdown speed, and the longer the range. Now in order to reduce the range and rate of fire of the missile, it is natural to reduce the fuel.

Among the various indicators of the missile, the shutdown speed is the most important indicator. Generally speaking, this speed will be greater than the landing speed of the missile.

The shutdown speed is the speed at which all the engines of the missile are burned out and the warhead and the projectile body are separated after the missile is launched. After hitting this speed, the missile does not fall directly, but continues to fly into the sky, or is shot upward. A high point and then a fall.

Ordinarily, when something falls from the sky, the speed should be getting faster and faster. This is the conversion of potential energy into kinetic energy. However, in the atmosphere, the warhead will also lose heat through friction, which means there is resistance in the air, so the speed will not increase much.

For the YJ-21, it generally means that the maximum speed when it falls is Mach 10. So when it shuts down in space, this speed must be greater than Mach 10.

One Mach is one times the speed of sound. This is no problem, but the problem is that the speed of sound changes. The speed of sound at sea level is about 340 meters per second. The higher the altitude, the smaller the speed of sound. In the field of ballistic missiles, many times Just calculate Mach 1 directly as 300 meters per second.

Qin Tao shook his head: "No, this projectile cannot be changed."

If the projectile body changes, the customer will have questions. Our hanging hair is big enough, why did you give me a small size?

This is inappropriate.

"Then we use low-quality propellant?"

Propellant technology has always been developing. The more advanced the technology, the higher the energy. This propellant technology determines how far a missile of the same size can travel.

Now, the East already has advanced propellants. As long as they are replaced with outdated propellants, the range will naturally be reduced.

However, the production line has to be reopened. With the new one, the old one will naturally be eliminated. If the production line is reopened, it will cost a lot of money.

"You guys, can't you think differently?" Qin Tao said: "Let me tell you a story. There used to be two bathhouses very close to each other and competing with each other."

Everyone has been to the bathhouse. Even though it is now popular to take a bath at home, everyone in the government compound has seen the bathhouse.

"There are some old men who like to soak in the bathhouses without going out. One of the bathhouses was dissatisfied, so they deliberately made the water cold so that the old men couldn't take a bath and left naturally. After they went out, they cursed and never came back. Over time, the reputation of this bathhouse became bad. But the other bathhouse did the opposite and made the water very hot. The old men couldn't stay any longer and had to leave. However, they were very fond of this bathhouse. I’m very satisfied, I went out to promote it, and the business of the bathhouse is getting better and better.”

Everyone understands this story, but how is this story connected to the present?

"Mr. Qin, what should we do?"

"We can't reduce the performance of the propellant, but we can increase the weight of the warhead!"

In order to be able to hit the enemy's capital with ballistic missiles, Shadamu decided to develop the Hussein missile. In addition to increasing the fuel, he also reduced the weight of the warhead from one ton to 500 kilograms, thus increasing the range.

Now, if we want to reduce the range, then we need to increase the weight of the warhead.

Ballistic missiles rely on kinetic energy to hit an aircraft carrier. The warhead does not require any explosives. As long as it hits the target, it can destroy the target. At a speed of Mach 10, even a small stone can destroy the strongest tank armor. !

The weight of the warhead of the YJ-21 missile is a mystery. Many third-rate materials will say one ton, and even two tons. According to the volume estimate, the weight of the YJ-21 is only about 4.5 tons. This How could a missile carry a warhead weighing two tons? Not even one ton.

Let’s look at anti-ship missiles again. Among subsonic anti-ship missiles, the YJ-62 is the big one, with a warhead of only 300 kilograms. The YJ-18, which is a combination of Asia and Super, does not even have a warhead of 200 kilograms.

Therefore, for an anti-ship missile that flies ballistically and hits the deck of an aircraft carrier at a speed of Mach 10, it is enough for the warhead to have a hundred kilograms. (I’m afraid no one knows the exact amount that the Hero of East China guessed. However, the 800 kilograms to 1,000 kilograms said online, the Hero of East China thinks it is impossible.)

"Let's double the weight of the warhead. In this way, the strike effect will be just right. If it hits a US aircraft carrier, it will not only penetrate it, but it will probably be broken in half." Qin Tao said: "Let's just use this The simulation animation of anti-ship ballistic missiles is made for customers to see, and coupled with analysis, this will definitely make customers overjoyed. As for the range of the missile, it can be reduced from 1,000 kilometers to 600 kilometers. When we announced the range to the outside world, It’s still 290 kilometers, an error of 310 kilometers.”

Six hundred kilometers is exactly the defense limit of the US Navy's aircraft carrier formation, and it is enough for the maximum range of missiles to reach this level.

Zhu Gong nodded: "Okay, then we will improve the quality of the warhead and ensure customer satisfaction. However, Mr. Qin, it is not easy for customers to use this kind of missile. After all, it requires the support of the entire system."

Can you kill the target just by purchasing anti-ship ballistic missiles? Of course this is not the case. The use of anti-ship ballistic missiles requires the cooperation of the system. The enemy's aircraft carrier formation needs to be discovered at long distances at sea. It needs precise positioning and the transmission of various data. Although Goudahu has early warning aircraft, it is not enough. It must It depends on satellites!

"We will use whatever our customers have," Qin Tao said, "Of course, we can also promise that we can get intelligence support from our satellites when needed."

"Mr. Qin, I have an idea." At this moment, a female engineer in the conference room spoke.

"what idea?"

"Reducing the range can not only increase the weight of the warhead, but also optimize the trajectory. Our current trajectory is to fly directly out of the atmosphere. If we change the program and fly at an angle after launch, it will still be below the Kármán line when it reaches the highest point. In this case, if it flies within the atmosphere for the entire journey, it is not considered a ballistic missile. The range can be as long as it is without international restrictions. At the same time, due to the high resistance of flying in the atmosphere, the range is also reduced. "

Qin Tao talked about the plan to increase the weight of the warhead, which immediately inspired everyone. The female engineer thought of a better plan.

Ballistic missiles are mounted vertically, and even many long-range air defense missiles are mounted vertically. They quickly escape from the dense atmosphere, thereby reducing air resistance and obtaining a longer range.

Now it's the opposite, flying within the atmosphere the entire time!

Is this called optimized trajectory? Qin Tao thought of some software companies in later generations that designed software to run slowly on purpose. Customers found it difficult to use, so they had to spend money to continue optimizing it. The female engineer in front of me is very talented.

"Okay, let's follow this statement." Qin Tao said obediently: "Our missile is called a hypersonic anti-ship missile. Since it flies within the atmosphere the whole time, it is not called a ballistic missile to save some people's attention. .”

When the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was launched, the Americans played tricks. The old man's original demand was that all intermediate-range missiles must be destroyed, but the Americans insisted that cruise missiles did not count, so the Tomahawk was retained. The old man's own All ballistic missiles were destroyed.

Now, we can also use this as an argument. What we sell is a cruise missile, but this cruise missile flies a little high. As long as it does not leave the atmosphere, it is not a ballistic missile!

"If you don't change the weight of the warhead, you only need to modify the program. It can be done on a computer, which saves a lot of experimental processes and reduces the research and development costs." Zhu Gong continued to plan: "According to this plan, it is estimated that the research and development costs can be reduced Control it within 100 million.”

"Well, the R\u0026D cost of 100 million US dollars is quite a lot. When we announce it to the public, we will say 1 billion US dollars."

Zhu Gong was stunned, Mr. Qin, I said 100 million yuan, why did you understand it as US dollars?

"In this case, we will sell our missiles to him for 100 million US dollars each. It will take ten missiles to recover the research and development costs. The customer must sell at least thirty missiles." Qin Tao calculated.

Everyone is very excited. A three-billion-dollar business is coming just like this? You know, in the 1980s, big guys like Dongfeng 3 were sold for only 100 million US dollars. Now this thing is completely trivial.

"Mr. Qin, should we be safer?" Mr. Zhang, who had been silent until now, spoke up: "We have to prevent others from learning our skills, and also prevent ourselves from being attacked by such missiles."

Qin Tao nodded: "Yes, we still have to do this well before the navy will agree. What can you do?"

Qin Tao looked at the female engineer who just spoke.

"The best way is that although we sell this missile, we can keep it here and transport it to big business owners when they need it," the female engineer said.

This is indeed a good way to solve it once and for all, but it will chill the big dog owners! Qin Tao shook his head: "If you spend money to buy something and you can't put it in your own home, the customer will be dissatisfied."

"Then program the missile launcher. As long as the customer opens the package in an abnormal way, the gas generator and missile ignition system will be activated."

How to prevent others from stealing technology? The missile is sealed in the launch tube. As long as it is opened in an abnormal way, the missile will start the flight process, fly into the sky and explode, or it may fly horizontally and explode in a certain warehouse. You are responsible for the consequences!

"As for preventing it from being attacked, it is very simple. We only need to develop a corresponding jammer device for its warhead. We can even control it by directly using one of the shields to emit electromagnetic waves on our 055."