Red Soviet Union

Andre and his party took a special plane and went straight to the eastern city of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia.

In the last war between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Iraq won a decisive victory, overthrew the royal regime of the Saudi government, and realized democracy and freedom in Saudi Arabia. Now, although there is a puppet regime supported by the United States in the west of Saudi Arabia, it is already lingering, because almost all of Saudi Arabia’s oil resources are gathered in the east. Without oil wealth, although the Saudi royal family has a past The accumulation has also been going downhill.

The emerging democratic regime has gained a firm foothold with strong military support. At the same time, as a former allied country, the Soviet Union has always stationed troops in eastern Saudi Arabia. These troops are mainly to protect the safety of oil fields.

It can be said that through the last oil war, Saudi Arabia has been controlled by the Soviet Union. As for the small countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, it also depends on the face of the Soviet Union. After all, the facts are clearly in front of us, and the United States will soon be finished. However, the Soviet Union was thriving.

In addition to exploiting oil in Saudi Arabia, the Soviet aerospace industry took a fancy to Saudi Arabia's geographical location and established a new aerospace base near Dhahran.

Yes, it is the aerospace base! Launching a rocket in Saudi Arabia is much more beneficial than launching a rocket in Baikonur!

All rockets are launched from west to east, just to take advantage of the rotation of the earth! Since the earth is rotating, rocket launches can use the linear velocity of rotation. For example, on the equator, this velocity is 465 meters per second, and to launch an artificial satellite, the required velocity is 7900 meters per second, which can be Calculated, this speed is equivalent to one seventeenth, which is quite impressive.

However, in high latitudes, the linear speed of the earth's rotation is much smaller. Near thirty degrees north latitude, it is only half the speed of the equator, and at the poles, this speed is zero.

(It is also for this reason that after our country has three major launch bases, it still built a fourth launch base in hn, just to make more use of the speed of the earth's rotation.)

The Soviet Union is a country with a high latitude. Now the space center of the Soviet Union, Baikonur, is also at about 50 degrees north latitude. It launches spacecraft, which is inherently at a disadvantage. It can be said that compared with the United States, it launches the same spaceflight The Soviet Union needs at least one-tenth more fuel to be enough!

Therefore, after going south to the Indian Ocean, the Soviet aerospace industry began to relocate, looking for a launch site that was more fuel-efficient and could have a higher carrying capacity.

Originally, the vicinity of Bandar Abbas and Chah Bahar Port in Iran were good choices. These places are under the control of the Soviet army and are very safe.

However, there is also a disadvantage here. When launched, the rocket will enter the sky over Pakistan and India!

And now, Pakistan is still the target of the United States. Although the relationship between China and Pakistan is good, the Soviet Union has no intersection. For the safety of the region's borders, Andre will pull Huaxia Chengfei to engage in the Super Seven project. Pakistan is looking for a breakthrough.

After the rocket takes off, the booster and other devices will continue to fall off. If it flies eastward and ends up throwing these things over Pakistan, it will obviously cause a lot of inconvenience. Therefore, after careful consideration, I finally chose the west. Saudi Arabia, in this way, take off from Saudi Arabia, cross the Persian Gulf, and go to the sky over Iran. This route is under the control of the Soviet Union, or an ally of the Soviet Union. It is not a problem at all if something falls from the sky!

Therefore, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, built a space base. Of course, looking at it now, the scale of this base is still very small. For example, it can only launch some simple aircraft, such as ballistic missiles!

Every flight of a rocket requires several months of preparation and repeated testing.

Make sure nothing goes wrong. However, compared with rockets, ballistic missiles with almost the same structure have sufficient reliability guarantees. It can be said that ballistic missiles in a state of combat readiness need to be launched at any time after half an hour of preparation. Those that can go to the sky, and more advanced solid missiles can take off almost after entering the launch data.

When the special plane taken by Andre and others arrived at the space base in Dhahran, an R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile was already standing on the launcher here.

This 34-meter-high intercontinental ballistic missile has a launch weight of 280 tons, and its huge size makes it not suitable for use as an intercontinental ballistic missile. The ballistic missile, although it has the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile, is actually useless.

This R-7 missile uses low-temperature propellant that cannot be stored, and must be refilled before launch, and because of its huge size, it can only be launched from the ground with a launcher, resulting in extremely low reaction speed and survivability of the missile.

Therefore, this initial intercontinental missile was only deployed symbolically, and the main role of the r-7 has become a propaganda weapon and space vehicle. For example, a huge family of rockets has been derived from the r-7, including satellites Vostok, Soyuz and Bliksem. The carrier rocket modified by R7 sent the first artificial satellite into the sky.

The design of the r7's booster is distinct and full of Soviet characteristics, with four cones close to the projectile body. At the same time, this missile is also the prototype of the nuclear bomb in the Red Alert.

With the continuous advancement of Soviet ballistic missile technology, this kind of missile has been gradually withdrawn from active service. However, how to deal with this kind of missile is a difficult problem. It is said that it is the most effective way to use waste to launch spacecraft. However, this kind of missile The reliability of the spacecraft is not high. If it flies or explodes in the air, it will be a tragedy. After all, the spacecraft to be launched is more expensive.

Now, this kind of ballistic missile just has a new use, which is used to test the target of laser weapons in outer space! At the same time, it happened to test the capabilities of the Soviet Union's ballistic missile defense system!

Anyway, the shape of this ballistic missile is similar to that of the Soviet launch vehicle, even if it is detected by Western satellites, there is nothing to say!

Standing in the desert near Dhahran, looking at the ballistic missile on the high launch pad, Andrei is still immersed in the unique violent aesthetics of the Soviet Union.

Andrei, the experiment is about to start. Are you going to the launch center or staying here? Ustinov asked beside Andrei.

Although the launch scene here is very spectacular, if you want to see the entire interception process and the effect of the space laser weapon, you still need to go to the lobby of the launch center, so Andre can only agree and go The base car next to it: Go to the launch center.