Bright Sword Military System

"So!" Chen Jiefeng asked: "Are we going to increase the production of anti-ship missiles?"

Chen Jiefeng now felt like he had a headache and a pain in his head and feet.

When Wang Xuexin raised this issue, he was talking about the lack of anti-ship missiles in Huludao that allowed the Japanese fleet to retreat unscathed.

Chen Jiefeng took it for granted that it would be enough to produce more anti-ship missiles.

Wang Xuexin shook his head and said in denial: "It's certainly good to produce more anti-ship missiles, but no matter how many anti-ship missiles we produce... I'm afraid it will be difficult to protect every coastal point in an all-round way!"

"That's right!" Professor Su nodded: "The lack of anti-ship missiles in Huludao this time is actually not because our military's production is insufficient, but because we judged that the Japanese would attack the two coastal key points of the shipyard and the port, so most of the anti-ship missiles were Missiles are deployed in these two places! Even if we produce more anti-ship missiles in the future, we will still prefer shipyards and ports. Huludao can be supplemented and even used as a defensive point. But if the Japanese attack next time Instead of attacking Huludao, what if we attack other places? This problem will still arise!"

The researchers nodded in agreement with Professor Su's point of view.

The disadvantage of anti-ship missiles is that they are passive defense equipment. If the number is only increased, it will enter a vicious cycle of "offense outweighs defense". The defender will waste money and energy and ultimately will not be able to gain a good outcome.

"Then, the only way is to upgrade the carrier-based aircraft!" Su Xin frowned and said, "But... we all know that swept-wing jet fighters require a long take-off distance, and our aircraft carrier is far from reaching the level where it can take off. , I’m afraid it will be difficult to improve!”

Suxinti didn't even mention the propeller fighter.

Wang Xuexin knew what she meant: The astonishing success of swept-wing jet fighters meant that it was the direction of development and that propeller-driven fighters were destined to be eliminated.

Under this general direction, upgrading propeller fighters becomes meaningless.

What's more, the Eighth Route Army's propeller engines are not yet self-produced... The engines of "La 5" have always been imported from Mao Xiong.

When the engines cannot be produced in-house, upgrading propeller fighters will not only take a long time and require more funds, but when they are finally developed, they may already fall behind before they are put into production.

Wang Xuexin was very pleased to hear Su Xin's words, because he found that military industry personnel already had a set of theories when discussing equipment. This was completely different from the previous ones who only knew technology and knew nothing about military affairs.

But this is not surprising. For those who produce military equipment, it will be difficult to grasp the direction of research and development if they do not know more about military knowledge.

"Developing carrier-based aircraft is necessary!" Wang Xuexin said: "But it is not realistic at present. It is too difficult and too dangerous for our military!"

Putting a jet fighter on a ship requires at least several improvements: the fuselage structure and landing gear are strengthened to withstand the high salt and high humidity environment, and the aircraft carrier flight deck must be lengthened.

None of this can be done easily.

"Then..." Su Xin was a little confused when she heard this: "Captain, what should we do?"

"I think we can start from two aspects!" Wang Xuexin said: "One is to increase the speed of air-to-air missiles!"

Professor Su couldn't help but nodded after hearing this: "One of the reasons why our military's Wildcat fighter planes can only compete with the Zero Fighter is that the air-to-air missile speed is too slow. If its speed or range can be increased, it will It can increase the combat effectiveness of the 'Wild Cat', and then it can be used to gain air superiority on the sea!"

Su Xin looked a little hesitant. She said: "Although this is feasible, but... if the Japanese appear new fighters again and again, there is no guarantee that their carrier-based aircraft will also have new fighters. Even if our army's air-to-air missiles have improved , I’m afraid I still can’t gain the advantage!”

That's the importance of the platform.

If the "Wildcat" cannot keep up with the speed, it may not even have a chance to launch missiles during combat, and improving the performance of the missiles will be useless.

"So we have a second direction!" Wang Xuexin continued: "That is to put anti-ship missiles on fighter planes!"

"Put anti-ship missiles onto fighter planes?" Everyone couldn't help but exclaimed.

But when I think about it, since air-to-air missiles can be mounted on fighter planes, why not anti-ship missiles?

So they all nodded in agreement.

"That's a good idea!" Professor Su praised: "If we can put anti-ship missiles on fighter planes, it will solve its passive defense problem!"

So this is actually a cheaper way to fight.

For example, the Eighth Route Army previously had three coastal points that needed to be defended: ports, shipyards, and Huludao.

Assuming that each place requires two hundred bombs to defend it, three ports would require six hundred bombs.

But if anti-ship missiles are mounted on fighter planes, only two hundred anti-ship missiles can in principle be defended, because fighter planes can quickly rush to the battlefield with them and use them to attack targets.

But that's just one of the benefits.

Wang Xuexin said: "What's more important is that it can reinforce our coastal defense regiment and can easily push the safety line to the depths of the ocean to [-] to [-] kilometers!"

The researcher didn't understand for a moment. Didn't he just say that it would be difficult for the "J-2" to defend 300 kilometers at sea?How can it now be protected against [-] to [-] kilometers?

Su Xin was the first to understand what Wang Xuexin meant. She looked at Wang Xuexin in surprise with her eyes wide open and said, "What does the leader mean, that we should take the initiative instead of being passive in attack and defense?"

"That's what it means!" Wang Xuexin stood up and pointed at the map on the wall and said: "Comrades, if our anti-ship missiles can be successfully mounted on fighter planes, then our fighter planes will no longer be waiting for Japanese fighter planes to appear above the warships, but will They fly over the Japanese warships and launch anti-ship missiles... Do you know the difference between them?"

Now everyone understands:

“No need to cruise and wait!”

"The attack radius is half the range!"

"Isn't it only seven or eight hundred kilometers?"

……

Professor Su slapped his thigh and said: "Get on the plane. Anti-ship missiles must be on the plane!"

It is not that the researchers have not thought about this problem. After all, air-to-air missiles are used, and anti-ship missiles are just a different type of missile.

But many of them think this means little.

Anti-ship missiles can be launched from warships and on the ground, why must they be launched from aircraft?

Now that Wang Xuexin said this, I realized that it was not only meaningful but also meaningful.

"Is there any difficulty?" Wang Xuexin asked.

"It should be... no difficulty!" Professor Su said: "What is needed is to add a ship-attack radar on the fighter plane, and then appropriately reduce the size and weight of the anti-ship missile to adapt to the load-carrying capacity of the fighter plane!"

Wang Xuexin added: "We also need to increase the flight speed of the missiles so that they will not be easily intercepted by the Japanese!"

"Yes!" Professor Su's expression changed, and he immediately realized that this was not simple.

Reduced size and light weight also require high speed, and the combat effectiveness cannot be weakened, otherwise the Japanese warships will be thick-skinned and thick-skinned...