In the Dahua Empire, there is a place called the Academy of Sciences under the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Capital. This is a research institute established with the rise of the Tang Empire. It gathers various talents in the military industry of the Dahua Empire.
From here, the Dahua Empire's first propeller aircraft, the Dahua Empire's current fighter jets, and new bombers were born, as well as the Dahua Empire's Type 5 tanks and other advanced weapons and equipment.
At this moment, an engineer was staring blankly at a rocket purchased from the Tang Empire. This thing is not a cannonball, but a "cannonball" that is fired together with a propellant charge, and the propellant provides thrust halfway through the flight.
Frankly speaking, the idea of this thing is actually not unusual. It is just a cannonball that has evolved to another extreme.
It no longer requires a barrel to launch cannonballs, but only a simple barrel or guide rail to launch. In this way, the loading link can be omitted, and a large number of cannons can be launched at one time.
The benefits of this are obvious. If only one round of artillery bombardment is fired, it can use one launch vehicle to reach the total artillery projection of a battalion or even a regiment in the past.
The shortcomings are also obvious: the accuracy of this thing is really very poor, the spread is huge and there is no accuracy at all. This is really not a shortcoming if it covers the shooting, but if you want to roll names as accurately as a cannon, this thing can't do it at all.
Now, because the capital of the Great China Empire was attacked by an inexplicable weapon, engineers and technicians were called together to analyze what the weapon called a missile was from the perspective of their own understanding.
The engineer instinctively thought of the imitation rockets they had been ordered to develop: This thing is indeed similar to artillery shells in nature, but it also has different development directions and differences.
Because there is no need for a gun barrel and there is no need to care about initial velocity, the shell of the rocket does not necessarily need to be so thick. At the same time, because propellants are carried with you, you can theoretically carry unlimited quantities of propellants or fuel.
As long as the rocket is made large enough, its range can be increased almost infinitely! Although the small rocket in front of me can only hit a few kilometers, what if we make a rocket ten times or a hundred times larger? Can it fly more than 100 kilometers?
If it's not enough, if it is expanded a thousand times, can the rocket fly 1,700 kilometers away?
Thinking of this, he suddenly stood up, found his leader, and spoke out all his thoughts.
I have to admit that his idea is indeed correct in theory. Rockets use the theory of rockets. Large rockets are indeed rockets, which are the carriers of missiles.
However, when many people got together and wanted to follow the idea of this rocket, they encountered an unprecedented problem.
An engineer pinched his chin and asked a question that no one could answer: "I think the idea is right, but isn't this thing totally inaccurate? You don't know where it will land after flying 10 kilometers. If it flies 1,000 kilometers, wouldn’t it be impossible to hit the target?”
His words made everyone react: There has always been a problem with the attack accuracy of rockets. If a super huge rocket really flew from Fengjiang to the Imperial Capital, it would probably be deflected by more than ten kilometers...
Just kidding, there is no way that thing would land in the city. There is a high probability that it would land on the outskirts of the city or some other messy place.
Although the Imperial Capital is huge in area, compared with the distance of 1,700 kilometers, it is just a larger "point". Expecting rockets to hit this point can almost only be described as luck.
"Both the opponent's missiles directly hit the Imperial City. This attack accuracy is not something that rockets can achieve." Someone else added.
If the Tang Empire only launched one missile, you can still explain it as a hit by chance. But the Tang Empire launched two missiles, and both missiles almost hit the palace. This cannot be explained by luck.
"I think this is why this new weapon of the Tang Dynasty... is called a missile, not a rocket." said the engineer who first thought that the new weapon of the Tang Empire might be a large rocket.
"What the hell, who's the director?" A few people who were called craftsmen a few years ago but are now called engineers complained sadly.
They don't even know the word, and they haven't seen a real sample. How can they guess what kind of weapon the other party uses?
What is now sent to their Ministry of Industry is only a few black fragments, which have long since lost their original shape due to explosion and friction.
Although you can see some arcs on these fragments, you really can't guess what this thing is just based on these things.
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"The Tang Empire really bombed the capital of the Great China Empire!" A waiter hurriedly handed the newspaper to the Lions Empire's ambassador to the Tang Empire who was waiting for news.
The other party took the newspaper and read the content stupidly, and then he felt bad - the Tang Empire really had weapons that could attack 1,700 kilometers away!
This is really not good news for the Lions Empire, or perhaps not good news for the whole world.
Although blocked by the endless sea, 1,700 kilometers is actually not a range that can threaten the Western Continent. But everyone is guessing that since the Tang Empire can produce weapons with a range of 1,700 kilometers, will it also be able to produce weapons with a range of 1,700 kilometers? 17,000 kilometers of weapons.
No one can say for sure, so everyone will be on tenterhooks. Ryans' ambassador is just one of them. On this day, all countries in the world feel that there is a sharp sword hanging over their heads.
"Send the news back to the country immediately! The Tang Empire is showing us their fists!" the ambassador of the Lions Empire ordered with an ugly face.
To suddenly take out a new weapon at this time is to show off their muscles... At first, all the countries in the world felt that they were good again and were ready to take action. However, this time it was like a slap in the face, and they immediately They all calmed down.
If war breaks out again in the Western Continent and the Tang Empire takes advantage of the situation... Coupled with the blessing of such ultra-long-range weapons, not many places in the world will be safe.
At the same time, all countries are inquiring about the Tang Empire's ultra-long-range weapons, and many people are also doing what the ambassador of the Lions Empire is doing.
They hurriedly reported the situation to the country, proving the authenticity of the incident: the Tang Empire did attack the capital of the Great China Empire...or to be precise, the Tang Empire sold some weapons to Fengjiang, and Fengjiang used them This weapon directly attacked his own imperial capital.
Who made the move was actually not that important at this time. What was important was that the Tang Empire did have the ability to attack cities 1,700 kilometers away.
At the same time, in the Datang Group's building, some fast personnel had begun to ask if the Datang Empire had similar weapons that could be "exported." They are willing to purchase similar weapons for any amount of money...
Of course, as a qualified arms dealer, Datang Group must be very willing to sell similar weapons. It's just that compared with the weapons used by the Tang Empire itself, their performance will be slightly reduced.
Yes, shrinkage - Datang Empire's own Dongfeng series missiles cannot be sold in a short time. Datang Group is selling Scuds that have been mass-produced a long time ago.
The range of the Scud missile is only 300 kilometers, but in the eyes of many countries, this thing is already an artifact that excites them.
Although bombers can bomb targets within a range of 300 kilometers, the use of bombers will be intercepted by aircraft from other countries.
It would be different if Scud missiles were used directly. Scud missiles could not be intercepted. Its speed is fast enough, its trajectory is high enough, and its penetration properties are fully maxed out.
Moreover, the attack accuracy of this thing is sufficient, with an attack error of about 1,000 meters within 300 kilometers. With a high-explosive warhead, it can attack city-sized targets.
Yes, the Scud version sold by Datang Group is the earliest model. It is purely inertial guidance and the error accuracy is really impressive.
However, for countries around the world that have never had the concept of guidance before, the new guidance system has scared them silly.
For the first time, they learned that there are weapons that can correct their own trajectory, and weapons that can adjust their flight attitude until they hit the target.
This has given engineers and designers from all over the world a new idea. They can't wait to take apart a Scud missile and study its working principle.
Of course, Tang Mo has no doubt that there will be people in this world who will make a big fuss about Scud missiles: they will develop weapons similar to Hussein bombs and find ways to increase the range of Scud missiles and increase their attack accuracy.
They would succeed, at least the Scud missiles weren't complicated. However, making a fuss about a tactical ballistic missile, no matter how much research and development is done, will not change the fact that the Scud missile is not very good at all.
"Of course we can sell the launch vehicle. Yes, together with the launch vehicle, fueling vehicle and a complete set of equipment, we can sell it. Our after-sales service is very comprehensive and we can even provide training for the launch troops." The receptionist said very calmly A leaflet was issued.
The above briefly introduces the performance of the Scud missile and the related supporting vehicles. Of course, the price is printed in the most eye-catching place, a prohibitive price.
Those who got the flyers didn't find it too expensive. They didn't seem to take tens of millions of gold coins seriously, as if the equipment printed on paper were already their trump card.
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Some readers questioned the choice of Figure 16. Long Ling explained: Long Ling naturally knew that the B-52 strategic bomber was better, but Long Ling had already used it in the previous book.
As we all know, the lighthouse country has the highest quality of modern aviation weapons, starting with the F-4 Phantom and continuing to the F-22 and F-35. This situation was not changed until Rabbit's 20th year of service.
You don’t want to watch F-15 and F-16 all the time, right... So Long Ling is a little more willful, it’s not that Long Ling is the second best, it’s just a change of taste...
(End of chapter)
