Great warships

Chapter 415 Development of Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles

Qin Tao doesn't understand aerospace, so he can't help much. At most, Qin Tao can provide some financial support and some cooperation on chips.

The chips used on satellites are also very difficult. After all, it is very difficult to guard against cosmic rays in outer space, etc., but the chips used by receiving terminals on the ground are very simple. They rely on advanced chip technology , It is completely possible to make cheaper and more durable chips.

After visiting the Beidou system, Qin Tao's mood is still very complicated.

"Technically speaking, our Beidou No. [-] is undoubtedly backward. It still needs the calculation of the ground receiving station. It takes a long time, and the receiver needs to transmit signals, which is easy to expose the target. However, this is a zero breakthrough after all. From scratch, this first step is the hardest." Qin Tao's mind still echoed Sun Lao's words.

Other satellite navigation systems are all global. By arranging more than [-] satellites in outer space, global networking is realized. No matter where you are, you can always receive more than three satellite signals overhead. By receiving satellite signals, you can Can determine their own position.

However, Beidou-[-] is based on dual-star positioning. There are only two satellites, so the specific location coordinates cannot be determined. It also needs to communicate with the satellite on the ground and then calculate it. In this way, if the receiving terminal on the ground needs to emit electromagnetic signals, it may be exposed.

However, this is only the first generation after all, and the problem of availability has been solved first. In the future, the second and third generations, like the United States, will not require terminals to transmit signals.

"Taozi, many of our jobs in the aerospace field are inseparable from your help." Wu Shengli said with emotion: "For example, the unit next door is studying the project of anti-ship missiles to hit aircraft carriers."

Qin Tao's eyes immediately brightened: "Dad, can we go and have a look?"

"Of course, I want to see it too."

Qin Tao felt excited. In the past, he had mentioned it many times, and he had helped get Lao Maozi's sample bomb back. However, he hadn't contacted the specific project.

This is the first time.

After entering, in the long workshop, the first thing you see is a launch vehicle.

The front of the car is the HY472 trailer head produced by the domestic Hanyang factory, with a 6*6 chassis and all-wheel drive.

It was a cylinder with a length of about ten meters and a diameter of 1.6 meters. On the side of this cylinder, there were various openings, just like the coal charging port of a boiler.

This thing looks ugly, even if it is not covered with a camouflage net, it will make people think it is dragging a boiler when it is driven out. In fact, this kind of car is currently the most advanced Dongfeng-21 ballistic missile launcher in China! (A lot of readers made complaints about the use of party fees before, but it was actually to avoid taboos. Now I feel that party fees are probably more dangerous, so I might as well use Dongfeng.)
In the past, there were Dongfeng-3 mobile missiles, but this kind of missile is liquid, and it needs to be refueled before launch, which takes a long time. Now, it has been replaced by a solid missile, which can be supported at any time. beat.

"The huge waves come ashore, and the east wind goes into the sea." Looking at this big guy, Qin Tao said with emotion.

Wu Shengli was a little curious: "Taozi, what do you mean by this? We can understand the first half of the sentence, but what about the second half? Our Dongfeng, is it going to board a warship?"

Qin Tao smiled.

There is a theoretical basis for the huge waves to go ashore. After all, the first domestic solid ballistic missile is the Julang-092 missile used on the 1 nuclear submarine. After all, it is too complicated to use liquid missiles on nuclear submarines. The solid missile came out, and when it was built, the superiors were very satisfied. This kind of missile can not only be used at sea, but can also be dragged around on land with a trailer.

So, this became a huge wave coming ashore.

However, there is no theoretical basis for Dongfeng to go to sea. From Dongfeng-1 to Dongfeng-5, they are all liquid missiles, and it is impossible to install them in warships. Pick up a ballistic missile to launch.

As for Dongfeng going to sea, we have to wait for a while. After the Dongfeng-31 missile on land comes out, it will be used by the navy, and it will be transformed into a Julang-2 missile.

Well, of course it hasn't started yet.

Facing Wu Shengli's question, Qin Tao could only smile: "If the huge waves can go ashore, the east wind can go to the sea. Dad, just wait and see."

"Old Wu, why are you free to come to our place?" At this time, Huang Lao came up to greet him, and when he saw clearly the people around Wu Shengli, he was pleasantly surprised: "Hey, isn't this President Qin?"

(It's not the same Huang Lao who was engaged in nuclear submarines before.)
"Old Huang, I'm very glad to meet you. I didn't expect that you are still fighting in the front line at such a great age." Qin Tao stretched out his hand.

The national defense of the motherland cannot be strong without the silent dedication of a group of scientific research workers.

In the 40s, Mr. Huang studied in the UK for postgraduate study and saw the V-2 missile with his own eyes. At that time, he made a wish: he must make his own missile!
After returning to China, Mr. Huang devoted himself to the research and development of domestic missiles. In 1960, China's first missile "Dongfeng No. [-]" was successfully tested, realizing a breakthrough in China's missiles from scratch.

In 1964, the "Dongfeng No. [-]" came out, and China made great strides in the missile field.However, these are all liquid missiles, which seriously lack survivability in the face of an enemy's preemptive strike, and do not have the capability of a second nuclear strike.

Therefore, in 70, Huang Lao accepted the task and became the chief designer of the first-generation submarine-launched missile "Julang No. 12". Twelve years later, the "Julang-[-]" missile was successfully tested in the Bohai Sea, and China became the fifth country in the world capable of launching nuclear missiles underwater, and it also became one of the few countries in the world capable of a second nuclear strike .

This is of course just the beginning.

After the success of Julang No. 21, the country began to engage in the Julang landing project. After the Julang landing became Dongfeng 31, it began to develop the more advanced Dongfeng [-].
The old man in front of him has contributed a lot.

At this time, Mr. Huang held Qin Tao's hand tightly: "Mr. Qin, I have wanted to meet you for a long time. On behalf of our scientific research team, thank you for your outstanding contribution to us!"

Qin Tao felt a little embarrassed: "The things I made are all smooth, and they don't deserve such praise."

"No, Mr. Qin, apart from those missiles, you have something more valuable to us. Have you forgotten that you were assassinated in the capital? Afterwards, you followed the clues and caught the traitor who leaked our latest scientific research secrets! Thinking about it now, we are still sweating. The project we are currently developing has been sold by traitors! Fortunately, we caught it early and our scientific research results have not yet come out, otherwise..."

What Huang Lao said, of course, was about Guo Qianjun. This person is the deputy chief designer of the ballistic missile attacking the aircraft carrier. It is really infuriating that he will be bought by the other side. Although this guy has been sentenced to death, it is still not enough to vent his anger. .

"Fortunately, the scientific research results haven't come out yet?" Qin Tao was a little puzzled.

"Yes, Mr. Qin, this project was promoted by you alone, so the relevant department has also passed a decision, and you are the one who can access the secrets of this project." Huang Lao said: "At present, we are studying this project. However, there are too many technical difficulties in it, and we estimate that it will take four or five years to completely break through."

Four or five years? It was useless in 96!
Qin Tao frowned.

This kind of ballistic missile attack aircraft carrier technology is of course very complicated, otherwise, the motherland will not become the only country in the world with this capability, even if Qin Tao got back a lot of things from old men, the problem is Lao Maozi was not fully finalized for service at that time, and was still a semi-finished product.

"Come on, let's go in and talk. Now, I have already retreated to the second line. At present, Zhang Gong is in charge."

Huang Lao is over 70 years old. Although he is still in good spirits, he is old after all. Therefore, Zhang Zhongfu, who is more energetic, is in charge of the chief designer of anti-ship ballistic missiles.

The Dongfeng-21 used in this weapon system is just a vehicle, and the most important thing is the warhead. If it wants to hit a moving target, the warhead must have the ability to change orbit precisely and move at any time.

"The last time Mr. Qin got us Lao Maozi's R-33 warhead, we were deeply inspired. We are using a similar double-cone structure. However, there are still many problems. For example, how to make the warhead accurate. Lock the target." In the laboratory, everyone saw the double cone warhead and listened to Mr. Zhang's introduction.

"As far as I know, our No. 14 Institute has already overcome the difficulty of flat-panel slot radar. Can we use this kind of radar?"

Qin Tao is a layman in this area, and he can only provide some tentative suggestions.

The radars of fighter jets and the radars of ballistic missile warheads are certainly not of the same kind. However, they both observe sea targets, and they still observe hundreds of kilometers away in outer space, so it should be possible to use them universally.

The diameter of the Julang-1 missile is 1.4 meters. This kind of radar with a diameter of more than 700 millimeters can also be installed.

"Our missiles dive down and see the clutter on the sea surface, so the radar needs to have the ability to eliminate clutter, which requires the pulse Doppler mode." Zhang Gong said: "However, because our missiles The speed of the dive is very fast, and the speed of the surface ship is very slow, so there is a high possibility that the pulse Doppler radar may filter out the target as clutter."

Qin Tao was taken aback when he heard this, is there such an accident?

"Actually, the main reason is that our missile is in the top-attack mode. When it falls from the top of the target, the lateral velocity between the target and our warhead is very small." Seeing that Qin Tao was puzzled, Zhang Gong continued to introduce.

In the confrontation of fighter planes, it doesn't matter if it is discovered by the opponent, or even locked on. As long as you turn sideways and turn to the direction perpendicular to the enemy, it will be filtered out as clutter and cause unlocking.

The current situation is similar to this one.

"So, how about using synthetic aperture mode?" Qin Tao asked.

He doesn't know much, but the synthetic aperture mode is also familiar to everyone. It uses radar signals to scan, and finally forms a graphic, which turns the one-dimensional distance imaging into a two-dimensional plane imaging.

When the missile dives down, what it sees is not a point, but a picture, and then retrieve the target from this picture, isn't that all right?
"That's right, Mr. Qin, what we are currently planning to use is this synthetic aperture mode. However, we also face many technical problems. Whether it is the development of equipment or the processing of post-processing data, there are a lot of problems. .”

The only mature one in China is the Flying Leopard fighter-bomber. When the radar used was used for the first synthetic aperture experiment, it was already in the late 90s, and this technology has not been thoroughly researched yet.

Moreover, for the Flying Leopard fighter-bomber, it only needs to display the image.However, if it is placed on the current anti-ship ballistic missile, it will not work, because there is no one in the warhead, and the electronic equipment inside needs to identify the graphics and analyze the characteristics of various warships. Simply put, it also needs image recognition and processing. technology!
This difficulty is even greater. Without advanced processors and advanced algorithms, it is simply impossible to complete this task.

"Old Maozi is more straightforward. Using nuclear bombs will solve the problem." Qin Tao couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

The old man doesn't have this problem, because the old man has always been inaccurate enough to be powerful enough to directly launch a nuclear bomb, even if it is a few kilometers away from the target, it can destroy the target.

But my own side can't do it. It's very difficult for my own side to ensure accurate hits.

"At present, our Mingzhou Group has invested in Godson, which specializes in the development of processors." Qin Tao said: "Our first product will be a 486-level processor. I hope I can help you."

486-level chips?
Zhang Gong's eyes suddenly brightened: "Then, can it be used in a space environment?"

Qin Tao shook his head: "I don't know about that. However, it should be no problem to take good shielding measures and use it for a short time. You can design an algorithm based on this chip. At that time, when our warhead dives, we can see Go to the picture on the sea, and then lock the target. Even the tanker and the aircraft carrier can be separated, and there is absolutely no mistake."

Mr. Zhang nodded: "That's right, we are now studying related algorithms."

When he was talking about this, Qin Tao suddenly thought of something: "Now, the breakthrough of these technologies takes time, but we also have tricks. For example, if it is equipped with anti-radiation warheads, will it be easier?"

When talking about anti-aircraft missiles, Qin Tao mentioned special anti-radiation missiles, and now they can be used on anti-ship ballistic missiles. After all, this thing does not need to filter any ground clutter, and does not need to consider a large number of invalid reflection signals. Just aiming at the electromagnetic emission source is enough.

Zhang Gong nodded: "If it is an anti-radiation seeker, then we can make it, but we are going to fight an aircraft carrier. If we use an anti-radiation seeker, it may easily hit an Aegis warship. "

Although there are all kinds of electronic equipment on the aircraft carrier, the electromagnetic waves radiated by these electronic equipment are not very strong. The strongest is Aegis. The four-sided phased array radar, in the eyes of the anti-radiation seeker, is most attractive.

"Since it is easy to make, let's make this device first." Qin Tao said.

"why?"

Now even Wu Shengli was curious.

"If you can't hit the aircraft carrier, you can also hit the Aegis shield. After we make it, let's do a test, at least we can verify that our warhead's trajectory control is okay." Qin Tao said: "We need to eat one bite at a time, and one bite at a time to live." Do it a little bit, so we can get it out within a year, and in 96, we can test it once."

Wu Shengli frowned. This is not the first time Qin Tao mentioned this time limit. What Qin Tao said about the domestic advanced anti-ship missiles was also to be tested in 95 and equipped on missile boats in 96. Now, This kind of anti-ship missile missile is also said to be tested. Is there any purpose for this?

Reminiscent of Qin Tao being the Prophet Emperor several times, this kind of statement is even more disturbing.

"Taozi, will something big happen in 96?"

Qin Tao was startled: "Of course not, this number is very smooth, there is no other meaning. By the way, I have a new idea."

There are some things that cannot be said, and this old man is really true, won't you know when the time comes?

Now, Qin Tao can only cover up the past, and he really has an idea.

"Mr. Qin, please tell me." Huang Lao said.

Qin Tao is very far-sighted, and Mr. Huang is very curious about what he wants to propose.

"Fly our Qian Xuesen's ballistic hypersonic gliding vehicle." Qin Tao said: "In the future, even if the opponent deploys a ballistic missile defense system, it will definitely not be able to defend against our weapon."

Qian Xuesen ballistic!
The trajectory named after the father of aerospace in the motherland is of course quite tall!

As early as World War II, German scientists designed an aircraft called "Silver Bird" in order to meet Mustache's vision of "bombing the United States across the Atlantic".This kind of aircraft is launched by a rocket. After rushing out of the atmosphere, it will re-enter the atmosphere at a specific angle, and then glide in the atmosphere. The idea is very advanced, and it can be said to be the prototype of modern hypersonic aircraft.

Mr. Qian, who was still in the United States at the time, proposed after studying the technical materials seized from Germany that as long as there is sufficiently advanced thermal protection technology, the aircraft can continue to glide at a specific altitude at hypersonic speed.According to this theory, Qian Lao designed a hypersonic gliding flight trajectory, also known as "Qian Xuesen trajectory".

However, this work has always been in theoretical research, after all, the technology is too complicated and not yet available.

Ballistic missiles still follow an ordinary ballistic route, and the trajectory has been set before take-off.

However, this approach has now begun to fall behind.

Although the Cold War is over, the pursuit of absolute security by the superpowers on the other side of the ocean has not stopped. They have begun to develop a ballistic missile defense system, trying to intercept any missiles flying towards their country, so that the originally established strategic balance can be destroyed. break in.

If you want to imitate cats and draw tigers and engage in missile defense together, you will be dragged into the water. This kind of thing requires huge investment.

Therefore, you can do the opposite and study how to penetrate the defense. This hypersonic gliding vehicle is one of them.

"This kind of warhead can glide for hundreds of kilometers in the atmosphere, and can change its trajectory at any time. It can even maneuver laterally over [-] kilometers. In this way, no defensive weapon can intercept it. It will become our long sword relying on the sky in the future. It can not only attack the enemy's aircraft carrier formation, but also attack the enemy's land targets." Qin Tao said: "This kind of aircraft technology is something we must master, so I suggest starting now."

The Dongfeng-17 missile is directly exposed outside and looks very spectacular, but what about other missiles?It can be completely covered in a shell. The opponent originally thought it was an ordinary missile, but after flying past, it can glide and fly!
The so-called missile defense is quite difficult. After calculating various ballistic trajectories, and then carefully planning to meet in the air, after the interceptor missile is launched, the target suddenly turns around. When the time comes, let's see how they chase!
"As far as the current technology is concerned, it will be very difficult to have an engine. We can develop a version without an engine. It only needs to glide. In order to glide farther, I suggest using a waverider."

Now that he has said it, Qin Tao has completely let himself go.

There are two types of this kind of aircraft. The easier one is the double-cone hypersonic glide body. It has a relatively large volume and can easily arrange guidance equipment and warheads. The delivery efficiency is relatively high, and the design is relatively simple, but It has a low lift-to-drag ratio and poor glide ability.

The waverider has higher performance than it. This shape is more sci-fi and has excellent gliding performance, but it is a complex multi-surface structure, which has extremely high requirements for aerodynamics, fluid mechanics and aircraft thermal management.

Out of excitement, Qin Tao simply drew a sketch on the blueprint. The warhead of Dongfeng-17 was directly poked outside and received many inspections, so Qin Tao could easily draw it.

When this beautiful shape was drawn, the professionals who engage in missiles were shocked.

"It is said that Qin is always a genius and can always come up with all kinds of ideas. We didn't believe it at first, but now we are convinced. President Qin, do you want to set up a branch company for aerospace in Mingzhou Group?"

This seemed to be a joke at first, but after serious thinking, Qin Tao really nodded: "Yes, when the country is liberalized in the future, private capital can enter, and our Mingzhou Group will also set up a Dedicated sea launch companies to complement you."

"Then we will feel the pressure of competition in the future."

"It's been said that it's not a competition, but a supplement. Our directions are different. If we want to do it, we should do it. Recyclable, reusable small rockets. By the way, Lao Maozi's rocket technology is good. In the aerospace field, have you recovered it? Some old man's technology? The liquid oxygen kerosene engine is very good!"

(End of this chapter)