A big country of aerospace with black technology

The lonely smoke in the desert, beside the wind and sand all over the sky.

Rows of extra-long trailers covered with thick military green camouflage cloth are galloping on the deserted Gobi Desert.

Opening the way at the front is a military vehicle with a special license plate, and there are personnel in charge of rational coordination sitting on it.

There is even a wheeled armored vehicle equipped with a 12.7 caliber heavy machine gun in the back.

Such a fully armed convoy is naturally the transportation team of the "Hongyan No. 1" recoverable rocket.

This transportation work is also carried out for the test launch of the "Hongyan-1" rocket.

For the safety and confidentiality of the rocket launch, this test launch was not at the Xichang launch base that was commonly used before, but at the Dongfeng launch site in Jiuquan.

At the same time, the security level of the rocket has been improved by more than a little bit compared with the previous rocket launch mission.

This is also what the senior leaders of the aerospace system strongly requested after knowing the specific performance parameters of the "Hongyan-1" rocket just developed by the Rocket Research Institute.

To be honest, at the beginning, Zhang Xingyang still didn't care about it.

After all, in his eyes, there was nothing particularly worth keeping secret about such a rocket.

However, after the old leader said a word to him, he changed his view.

Separate guided mushroom head ballistic missile!

At this time, the domestic research and development of sub-guided warheads has not been particularly smooth.

Dongfeng-5B, which can carry ten split-guided mushroom eggs, will take some time before it can be put into service.

The front-end technology of the sub-guided warhead strike is the "one arrow with multiple stars" technology.

A rocket capable of launching multiple satellites with one arrow can, to some extent, be used as a ballistic missile after replacing the satellite with a guided mushroom egg warhead.

This is also the reason why the old leaders will directly ask the military to be responsible for the transportation and security of the rocket after knowing the details of the "Hongyan-1" rocket.

If the new rocket can successfully launch multiple satellites with one arrow, and each satellite can successfully enter the predetermined orbit.

This means that the Rocket Research Institute has reached a practical level in the technology of releasing multiple satellites in different orbits.

If this technology is applied to the separately guided mushroom egg ballistic missile, it means that only one missile needs to be launched to release different mushroom egg warheads in different predetermined orbits.

In this way, one missile can strike several or even dozens of targets with a span of hundreds of kilometers.

Facing the murderous rocket convoy, no existence dared to provoke them.

Even the wolves wandering in the Gobi no-man's land can only run away with their tails between their legs when encountering such a convoy.

"The rocket transport convoy has arrived at the hoisting center."

After the encrypted radio communication information was translated, it came to Zhang Xingyang.

Although the rocket had not been transported to the Dongfeng launch site before, Zhang Xingyang, as the overall person in charge of the entire "Hongyan-1" project, came to the Dongfeng launch site early to coordinate various matters.

"Then go and see our big baby!"

After Zhang Xingyang smiled at the staff around him, he said cheerfully.

Because the rocket with a total length of 70 meters is too difficult to transport as a whole, not only is it difficult to find such a long trailer.

Even if it can be put on a trailer, the weight of hundreds of tons is difficult for the trailer to bear, not to mention the various steering problems during transportation.

Therefore, the rocket is transported in stages, and the rocket is disassembled into three parts: the first-stage rocket, the second-stage rocket, and the fairing.

In this way, the problem of the super length of the rocket is avoided, and the problem of the rocket's excessive weight is also solved.

In the hoisting center, the hoisting device is slowly pulling up the first-stage rocket from its flat state.

People who see "Hongyan No. 1" for the first time are often attracted by its rare propulsion system.

Many workers in the hoisting center were quietly discussing this first-stage rocket with an unusual propulsion system and more than a dozen rocket engine nozzles at the bottom.

"This thing looks so weird!"

"It looks like it has a lot of thrust."

"With so many engines, it seems that the fault tolerance rate is very low."

The shape of "Hongyan No. 1" is actually quite peculiar in this era.

It uses a propulsion system with 11 engines in parallel, four pop-up support legs at the bottom, and the now folded steering rudder on the first-stage rocket.

Everything surprised the workers in the hoisting center who were accustomed to seeing traditional three-stage liquid rockets.

As the explosive bolts tightly connected the first and second rockets of the rocket, the tall and straight figure of the "Hongyan No. 1" rocket began to appear in front of everyone.

Compared with the series of rockets taking Chang Sanyi as an example, "Hongyan No. 1" is more slender and taller.

Chang Sanyi is about 57 meters tall.

"Hongyan No. 1" is nearly fifteen meters taller than Chang Sanyi, but the difference in diameter between the two is only about one meter.

Coupled with the almost perfect aerodynamic shape blown out of the supersonic wind tunnel.

It's hard not to feel his beauty!

"The hoisting work can be completed today, and the time for the rocket test launch will never be delayed!"

The person in charge of the hoisting center is a thin, tall, middle-aged man.

He is a man who has experienced various fights on the battlefield.

"Excuse me, Director Zhao." Zhang Xingyang still respected him very much.

"Dean Zhang, I have to say that I have seen many types of rockets, but yours is the most beautiful one I have ever seen!"

The slender and well-proportioned appearance of "Hongyan No. 1" is no less than an old pervert seeing a stunning beauty for people who love rockets.

"Of course, we spent a lot of energy on the shape design."

The shape that has experienced the baptism of supersonic wind tunnel is very attractive.

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In the early morning of the next day, riding on the Yingjiang military spy satellite, it was impossible to monitor the intermittent time of the Dongfeng launch site.

"Hongyan No. 1" was transferred to the launch tower, and the final work before the rocket launch began.

The engineers went up and down the rocket, doing final inspections, and injected hundreds of tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene into the rocket's fuel tanks at all levels.

The fuel delivery pipeline under the launch pad has a very strong delivery capacity, and the fuel filling work is completed in a short time.

Various detection devices on the launch pad, in cooperation with the engineers who made the final inspection of the rocket, also completed the last problem inspection of the rocket before launch.

After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the rocket, everyone evacuated the launch pad.

Now that the rocket has done all the work on the ground, it is ready to launch at any time.

It can be said that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!