Dominate South Asia

"Xiao, can we get other missiles?" Mhammad asked Shostakovich after coming out of the laboratory and entering a conference room.

After hearing what Hamad said, he had just boasted that Haikou could even build a spaceship. At this time, Shostakovich looked embarrassed and said: "Mr. President, I am working hard, but that thing, the Soviet Union People are very careful and it is difficult to get them. It is the most powerful anti-ship missile in the Soviet arsenal, with a range of more than 500 kilometers, and many of its warheads are nuclear warheads. "

The range is more than 500 kilometers! What Hamad wants most is of course the most powerful anti-ship missile in the Soviet era, the P-700 Granit long-range anti-ship missile. NATO gave it the code name SS-N-19 Shipwreck (also known as shipwreck)

This missile comes from the Cheromey Design Bureau, and the anti-ship cruise missiles designed by this design bureau are specifically aimed at U.S. aircraft carriers and their formations, such as the P-6/SS-N-3 missiles developed in the 1950s. Mach 1.4, range 460 kilometers. The P-500/SS-N-12 "Basalt" missile developed in the 1960s has a speed of Mach 2.5 and a range of 550 kilometers.

The current Granite missile is the third generation of specialized anti-aircraft carrier missiles. It was developed in the early 1970s, finalized for production in 1976, and began to be equipped on ships in 1979. It is mainly equipped with the Soviet Union's Kirov-class cruisers, Kuznetsov aircraft carriers, and Oscar-class nuclear submarines. These anti-ship missiles have a range of more than 500 kilowatts. They are outside the firepower circle of American aircraft carriers and are aircraft carrier nemesis specially tailored for American aircraft carriers.

Hamad hopes to get such a missile and copy it, but it seems to be difficult now.

"However, when I came back this time, I had something extra." Shostakovich said: "I sponsored a female student who wanted to study in Europe. Her father was very grateful and met with me. On the other hand, I learned that this man was in the Alexeyev Central Design Bureau and was an engineer for the Caspian Sea Monster!”

Caspian Sea Monster! Suddenly, Mhamad felt his eyelids twitch. This was good news!

When the aircraft flies at low altitudes and during takeoff and landing, the ground produces a force that reduces the wing-induced drag and increases the lift-to-drag ratio. The effect of significantly increasing the lift of an aircraft is called ground effect. When the height of the wing from the ground is 15% of the wing length, the ground effect is most obvious. The aircraft seems to be gently lifted up by a mysterious force. This ground effect is also called the "Hand of God".

After the discovery of this ground effect, many countries started research. Unfortunately, the three-minute popularity was only a few years later. Only the Soviet Union persisted. The Alexeyev Central Design Bureau of the Soviet Union specialized in ground-effect aircraft designed using wing-ground effect. It has been carried out for more than 20 years. The project finally matured, and it began to be designed and built by the Volga Factory, and flight tests were conducted in the Caspian Sea. This kind of thing looks like a ship and an airplane. It can fly at a speed of 300 knots on the water, which is comparable to a helicopter. And the transportation capacity is comparable to that of cargo ships. Transporting hundreds of soldiers at a time is trivial.

It was not until the 1980s that Western reconnaissance satellites discovered this kind of ground-effect aircraft in the Caspian Sea, giving it the nickname Caspian Sea Monster.

In later generations, ground effect aircraft have never been put into practical use, but Mhamad knew that once this thing was put into practical use. That value is truly immeasurable.

After all, this thing has a large transport capacity and is fast. In the Gulf War in later generations, if the Americans had such a thing. Troops can be deployed to the Gulf more quickly.

Moreover, because of its flying height, it is just above the sea. It is difficult to be detected by shipborne radar at long distances, so it can also be transformed into a weapon for attacking aircraft carriers!

"Okay, good job!" said Mhamad. "How is the engineer doing now?"

"It's not a good life." Shostakovich said: "Due to the reforms in the Soviet Union, this project of their design bureau was axed by the military. Without the support of the project, their design bureau lost the support from above. It’s been a hard time appropriating funds.”

Cut off! Historically, the Caspian Sea Monster project was stopped when the Soviet Union collapsed. At that time, the project was almost successfully developed. Now, although the Soviet Union has not collapsed, this project has been axed due to lack of support from superiors!

If there were still funding from their superiors, they could live a better life, but now, they can only live a hard life.

The engineer's daughter wanted to study in Europe, but he certainly couldn't afford such a large sum of money.

"Okay, this is best!" Mhamad said to Shostakovich: "If you continue to contact them, it is best to bring a few more engineers over. We will meet whatever conditions they want! If you can bring them If you come over with development materials, we’ll be more than happy!”

"Yes." Shostakovich replied.

Shostakovich accepted the mission and left, and Mhamad continued to inspect the High-Tech Center in the Tower of Babel. In an office on the third floor, he listened to a report by experts on a new project.

"The most critical technologies for cruise missiles are terrain matching technology and small, low-fuel consumption turbofan engines." Project leader Sterling, a Pakistani expert, said.

cruise missile! In addition to ballistic missiles, cruise missiles are even more important because cruise missiles are long-range strike forces! Due to the low flying altitude, it was difficult to be detected by the enemy. When the United States launched the Gulf War, including a series of subsequent wars, the first wave of strike force was cruise missiles.

Ballistic missiles refer to flight trajectories that are the same as ballistics, hitting the sky directly and then falling to the ground. Cruise missiles, like airplanes, always fly at ultra-low altitude close to the ground, are more concealed, and have higher attack accuracy. High, the accuracy of the U.S. Tomahawk series missiles can be as high as meters.

If you want to fly a long distance, such as the American Tomahawk series, which has a flight distance of several thousand kilometers, you must have an engine with low fuel consumption. If you want high accuracy, you must have terrain matching technology. Otherwise, regardless of inertial navigation, No matter how precise the device is, the error will become larger and larger over time.

"Among them, terrain matching technology is to draw the height of the terrain into a digital map and compare it during the flight, which can greatly improve the accuracy." Sterling said: "However, we currently lack a lot. For example, we need to use Satellites draw high-precision digital maps through synthetic aperture mode for use by our cruise missiles.”

satellite! If you want to match the terrain, you need a matching map. This map is best drawn by satellite.

Mhammad frowned. Now, Pakistan's space exploration has just begun, and it is still a long way from being able to launch satellites.

"Is there any alternative?" Mhamad asked.

"The alternative is to use airplanes, but this method is slow and inefficient, and we can't fly to some places."

There is no concept of airspace in outer space and you can fly through it at will. However, if you use an airplane and want to fly over other countries to survey and map digital maps, you will definitely be opposed by the other country.

"Okay, then we can conduct a demonstration. If the feasibility is high enough, then we will set up a project to develop a reconnaissance satellite ourselves." Mhamad said: "It can be launched with the help of China's launch vehicle."

Pakistan's launch vehicle technology is still unable to achieve the goal of launching satellites, so it can only turn to China for help. Now China's Long March series of rockets have begun to be market-oriented and undertake external launch business.

"The other one is the small turbofan engine. We mapped the American F107 small turbofan engine. Based on this, we developed our own engine for cruise missiles, and everything tested normal." Sterling continued.

The American F107 engine is the engine used on the Tomahawk cruise missile. In order to obtain this engine, Pakistan also used a lot of connections. In the end, with the help of Grumman, it purchased one at a high price.

The engine used by the cruise missile is disposable and only needs to meet the life span of a few hours. The focus is on low fuel consumption and low cost. Therefore, it is not very difficult to survey and map. It can also be done with the level of Pakistan's aviation industry. of.

"It takes a lot of hard work for us to independently develop a weapon. I hope everyone can overcome the difficulties and strive to successfully develop our cruise missile as soon as possible." Mhamad said, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, How is the research on our GPS module going? "

Now, the United States' global positioning system, GPS, has successfully implemented a network and has begun to provide civilian signals. Although the accuracy for civilian use is slightly worse and will be restricted by the Americans, it has to be said that the GPS system is indeed This is a way to greatly improve accuracy.

Moreover, in order to promote the use of GPS around the world, the Americans were completely liberal in civilian use, and even provided various parameters to allow other companies to participate in the design of the circuit of the GPS receiving module. This led to the GPS system quickly becoming a global positioning system, and now, it has also given Hamad a big favor. He can obtain the GPS module without being known by the United States.

"We are studying that this system can be transplanted to our guidance system, and the accuracy will be improved to the order of 10 meters. Moreover, with slight improvements, we can transplant it to other systems, such as our ordinary falling bombs, and add With this system and control system, the hit accuracy can be greatly improved.”

Hearing this, Hamad's eyes suddenly lit up. Isn't this the JDAM joint attack munition commonly used by the US military in later generations? (To be continued ~^~)