A big country of aerospace with black technology

The launch of ballistic missiles is actually very difficult to hide their tracks.

Whether it is the heat source reaction during the whole process, or the huge cloud trails when flying in the atmosphere, it is difficult to hide through technical means.

Therefore, it took less than half an hour to complete the test of the Dongfeng-17 waverider hypersonic ballistic missile.

Yingjiang's national defense command center received information about missile launches detected by military reconnaissance satellites.

"Gentlemen, our enemies across the shore appear to have upgraded their ballistic missile systems."

The highest official at this meeting was Wilson, one of the top military officials in Eagle Sauce.

At this moment, he had a gloomy expression on his face.

Obviously, the information just obtained is not good news for Ying Jiang.

At this time, the intelligence officer on the side displayed the latest image detected by the military reconnaissance satellite on the large screen in the conference room.

Shown above is the cloud trail of the missile as it took off.

Most of the participants have worked in the Army for many years and are not very unfamiliar with this phenomenon.

Combined with Wilson's words just now, it is obvious that their opponents on the other side have developed something amazing.

Since the last time they discovered that Longguo had developed a hypersonic anti-ship missile, they have increased their investment in missiles.

Although the agents later discovered that they might have made an oolong before, the weapons developed by Longguo were not missiles.

However, its high speed and high range still made Eagle Sauce's military executives feel a lot of threats.

Therefore, although the research and development funds for hypersonic weapons have been reduced, they are still being implemented slowly.

And in order to counter the various weapons that are getting faster and faster in the Dragon Kingdom, Yingjiang has also begun to increase investment in anti-missile systems.

The army officers in the meeting room did not speak, waiting for the intelligence officer to introduce the situation.

"Half an hour ago, Longguo completed a ballistic missile experiment."

After the intelligence officer integrated the information obtained so far, he began to introduce it to everyone in detail.

"According to the results of satellite reconnaissance, the weapons tested by Dragon Kingdom this time have a range of more than 7,000 kilometers."

"It has been able to directly threaten our many naval bases in the Pacific!"

The Pacific Ocean is an important geographical barrier for Eagle Sauce. Many islands in the ocean have built naval bases, which are used as anchorages and supply ports.

The more important ones here are the military bases in Hawaii.

And the straight-line distance from this base to Long Kingdom is 6,600 kilometers.

In other words, the latest ballistic missile tested by Longguo can directly threaten the most important base connecting Yingjiang's mainland and the Pacific Ocean.

At this time, naval officials, who hadn't taken it seriously before, also started to get serious.

Originally, they thought that the main participants in today's meeting were people from the army.

I didn't expect that after listening to it for a few minutes, I would even include myself in it.

"Of course the range is not the most important thing. The most worthy of our attention is the flight speed of the missile in their experiment."

At this time, the intelligence officer said something that surprised everyone present.

After all, in the eyes of many present, the range of 7,000 kilometers is already the most noteworthy thing.

Because although Longguo had many ballistic missiles with a long range before, these missiles basically have a range of tens of thousands of kilometers.

The main thing is to carry nuclear warheads, but now the missiles they have launched with a range of 7,000 kilometers are obviously impossible to carry nuclear warheads.

The biggest possibility is the conventional warhead it carries.

This is what they value most.

"According to our satellite reconnaissance results, the entire attack process of their missiles did not exceed thirty minutes!"

"This means that the average speed of their missiles during the entire process exceeded Mach 7!"

When the intelligence officer said this, there was a tremor in his voice that he didn't even notice.

"And in the middle of their flight outside the atmosphere, according to the satellite test results, the speed exceeds Mach 15!"

"What!"

"This is impossible!"

When the intelligence officer reported the test results exceeding Mach 15, several people in the army responsible for the missiles couldn't believe it.

He stood up on the spot and questioned whether there was a problem with the intelligence officer's data.

In their impression, although the missile flies in the middle, it can reach extremely high speed.

Generally speaking, the speed of Mach 10-12 can be reached at the fastest time, but the speed of Mach 15 is still very scary.

Because this means that the temperature of the outer layer of the missile will reach extremely high, and even the shell of a high-strength alloy will melt and deform.

Even if it is alloy steel doped with tungsten with a very high melting point, it will be deformed to a certain extent.

"Sorry, everyone."

Although the intelligence officer could understand their confusion, he still gave specific data.

"There's nothing wrong with the satellite data."

"Their missiles, within four minutes, completed the mid-flight."

"And flew a distance of 1,300 kilometers."

"So the speed of Mach 15 is actually our conservative estimate."

"Based on his speed, the missile's fastest speed may even reach Mach 16."

Myerson, who has been in charge of ballistic missiles for a long time, discovered an unreasonable place in the intelligence officer's data at this time.

"You mean the missile's mid-flight lasted less than a fifth of its time?"

"This is not in line with common sense!"

The intelligence officers hadn't thought of this before, but after Myerson reminded them, they discovered that the flight trajectory of the Longguo ballistic missile was indeed unreasonable.

"Normally, the middle section of a ballistic missile has at least 50 percent. How could it be so short!"

Myerson was a little puzzled. He knew that the intelligence officer's data should be fine.

Therefore, the only problem is the missiles of the Longguo people.

They adopted a method that no one had tried before, and shortened the mid-section of the missile to about one-third of the original.

"We don't have an answer to that yet."

"After all, we just learned that they finished testing the missiles."

The intelligence officer was a little helpless, half an hour had passed since Longguo's missile completed its flight, and it was already extraordinary for them to be able to collect so much data.

"And so, isn't their terminal flight time too long?"

At this point Myerson followed up with a question.

The end of the ballistic missile is generally very short, because the amount of fuel that can be used at this stage is very small, and it cannot maintain the super long-distance flight of the warhead.

But Longguo's missiles obviously violated such common sense.

At the end, they flew a distance of more than 4,500 kilometers, which seemed impossible to them.

"Gentlemen, I didn't come to you today to hear you explain the advanced nature of the Longguo people's missile technology."

Seeing that the scene was developing towards a technical seminar, Wilson knocked on the table with a gloomy face, interrupting them.

"I just want to know whether our anti-missile system can intercept their missile attack."

"We have invested so much money, can the missile defense system we built be able to play its value?!"

Although the Star Wars plan proposed when competing with Mao Bear was nothing but a large-scale strategic deception.

But it is undeniable that Eagle Sauce has invested a huge amount of money in missile defense systems in the past ten or twenty years.

A systematic missile defense system has been established to deal with possible ballistic missile attacks.

Although whether this system can successfully defend against the enemy's intercontinental ballistic missiles is still a mystery.

But this does not prevent Wilson from talking about the missile defense system at this time.

Myerson was in a particularly difficult situation at this time, and most of the eyes of the people present were focused on him.

After all, the missile defense system is what Myerson is responsible for.

There is no way, Myerson can only bite the bullet and say:

"At present, our missile defense system is still somewhat powerless against high-speed targets."

In fact, for ballistic missiles with a mid-course speed exceeding Mach 10, the probability of their missile defense system intercepting them is not high.

In the test just completed, the probability of interception was less than 30%.

After all, the performance of supercomputing in these years is not as developed as that of later generations, and the prediction of missile trajectory is not particularly accurate.

This is also an important reason why the probability of missile interception is not very high nowadays.

In fact, at this time, everyone's missile defense system can almost be regarded as a large toy, and the probability of interception is not very high.

The interception efficiency of ballistic missiles is not very high, basically not more than 30%.

The missile defense system at this time was actually mainly used to intercept cruise missiles whose speed was below the speed of sound.

For hypersonic missiles with speeds exceeding Mach 5, there is basically nothing they can do.

"Is this your answer?"

Wilson reprimanded Myerson very unceremoniously.

"There are so many funds every year, do you just answer me like this?!"

"Still, you are all a bunch of moths!"

"Give away all these funds!"

Wilson's anger is not without reason. They allocate at least billions of dollars to the missile defense system every year.

But now in the face of possible missile threats, it cannot play its role.

Doesn't that mean that billions of dollars of funds every year are all in vain?

Myerson didn't make much excuses to himself, and even wiped the sweat that didn't exist on his forehead with some guilt.

It is actually an open secret within the military that Eagle Sauce is corrupt in military spending, whether it is a coffee cup worth a thousand dollars or a toilet bowl worth tens of thousands of dollars.

They are all real status quo, but now that Wilson said it on the spot, it obviously has some different meanings.

If I can't say any good news at this time, the best way is to keep silent.

Just as Wilson was angry, the intelligence officer received another piece of news.

"Generals, I think we have found the reason why the end of the Longguo missile flies over such a long distance."

Hearing this crucial information, Wilson didn't bother to continue reprimanding Myerson.

He turned his head and asked the intelligence officer:

"what reason?"

The intelligence officer displayed the several photos he had just obtained on the large screen in the meeting room:

"Their terminal flights obviously adopted some special method to extend the flight distance."

The screen shows the wavy cloud trails of the Dongfeng-17 waverider hypersonic ballistic missile flying at the end.

"See what method they use?"

After watching for a while, Wilson, who didn't see any tricks, turned to Myerson who was aside.

Myerson had just recovered, and after carefully looking at the several photos on the display screen, an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.

"impossible!"

"This is impossible!"

Then he muttered to himself.

"What method did they use to extend the flight distance of the missile?"

Feeling that Myerson obviously saw something, Wilson asked impatiently.

After a few seconds, Myerson calmed down from the shock, sorted out his thoughts and said:

"Generally speaking, ballistic missiles use a parabolic trajectory, and the trajectory after launch is a parabola."

"But decades ago, the famous missile expert Qian Xuesen once proposed a 'boost-glide ballistic'."

"The characteristic of this trajectory is that the flight time outside the atmosphere in the middle stage is very short."

"And judging from the pictures just now, Longguo's latest missiles obviously adopt such a trajectory, so their flight time outside the mid-atmosphere is so short."

"However, judging from the latest pictures, they not only adopted Qian Xuesen's trajectory in the middle, but also possessed many characteristics of Sanger's trajectory at the end."

"It can be in the atmosphere at the end, relying on the pressure difference between the upper and lower atmosphere of the atmosphere, to proceed in waves up and down."

By the end of the day, Myerson was feeling hopeless.

In his opinion, such a trajectory, it can be said that there is no way to intercept it.

Unless they can destroy the missile during the ascent of the missile.

Otherwise, as long as the missile enters the atmosphere, there is basically no possibility of interception.

"So it's really impossible to intercept?"

Wilson asked in disbelief.

"It's like when the nuclear bomb was just developed, there was no way to intercept it, and we didn't have any means of interception other than developing the same weapon."

Myerson said bitterly.

"Nowadays, any of our technical means cannot intercept such missiles."

"Because of his trajectory, there is simply no way to predict it."

"No, we must join forces with our allies to develop ballistic missiles that can counter it!"

Wilson said viciously.

Because of the 7,000-kilometer range, it has actually been able to include Eagle Sauce's allies, John Bull and Gallic Chicken.

So Wilson is very confident, only they know this information, it is impossible to sit still.

"Western world, it's time to unite again!"

Since the disintegration of Mao Xiong, can the Western world, which has been seemingly at odds with each other, be united because of this? (end of this chapter)