The Tang Empire was actually equipped with many types of missiles, including surface-to-surface Scud tactical ballistic missiles and medium-range ballistic missiles Dongfeng 3.
In addition, the air defense forces of the Tang Empire have long used the mysterious Hongqi 2 anti-aircraft missiles and deployed them in the southern oil fields and near the capital Chang'an to ensure safety.
The first-generation anti-ship missile Styx used by the navy is in the testing stage, and Tang Mo plans to use this missile to improve the overall combat effectiveness of the navy's destroyers.
After all, the Tang Empire's navy did not have a large number of artillery warships. Apart from the mysterious aircraft carriers, its strike capabilities, especially its ability to strike against ships, were overall weaker.
With such fashionable missile destroyers, at least a single ship can fight when facing large enemy battleships - before, when facing enemy cruisers or battleships, they could only stick to it and use torpedoes to risk their lives.
This type of Styx anti-ship missile used by the navy can also be deployed on the shore to form shore defense firepower and prevent enemy forces from approaching the coastline.
In short, because there is less need to consider size, the Navy's missile research and development is very smooth and has relatively many uses.
The Air Force is different. They are also experimenting with various missiles: anti-ship missiles mounted on the H-6, as well as air-to-air combat missiles that may be used in the future.
But compared to the navy, they don't even know what the missiles they are equipped with can be used for: anti-ship missiles make sense, but having to shoot their own air-to-air missiles is really weird.
It can be said responsibly that the Datang Empire is rapidly entering the missile age, because the computer technology of the Datang Empire has actually been secretly iteratively developed for a long time.
With the blessing of computer technology and the continuous improvement of industrial processing accuracy, the performance of the weapons and equipment of the Datang Empire has been developing in a direction that others cannot understand at all.
The engineering and technical personnel of the Tang Empire are working hard to increase the weapon attack accuracy to the level of ten meters or even meters. Foreign technicians can already see the attack error of 1000 meters and have already started to have intracranial climax.
Because the development was so fast, the technicians of the Tang Empire even found that the new weapons and equipment they developed had no use.
Their bombers could not be intercepted by the enemy at all. This result in turn made many engineers and technicians in the Tang Empire begin to reflect on the usefulness of the expensive Dongfeng 3 ballistic missiles they manufactured.
Yes, in their opinion, 1,700 kilometers is completely within the combat radius of the H-6 bomber. Even without any escort aircraft, the H-6 can easily carry a large number of bombs and bomb the capital of the Great China Empire.
The same effect, the price is even cheaper, and the technology is more mature - then, what is the need for the existence of ballistic missiles with the same range?
In the view of these technicians, as long as the Tang Empire is unwilling to sell key technologies such as anti-aircraft missiles and jet fighters, their jet bombers are invincible.
Go faster than enemy fighters, fly higher than enemy aircraft... They can even keep developing faster and more advanced bombers as long as they want.
In fact, Tang Mo does have relevant technical drawings. The Lighthouse State has the faster B1 bomber, and Mao Xiong also has the faster Tu-22M and Tu-160 bombers.
These supersonic bombers are faster and easier to penetrate defenses. It is a joke to intercept them when the opponent does not even have radar.
However, the Tang Empire's technical department has always had a tradition of technology pre-research. If current ballistic missiles are not good, it does not mean that future ballistic missile technology will not be good.
For the Tang Empire, the significance of the existence of ballistic missiles is definitely not the current city attack war, but represents the more distant future.
Compared with bombers that still need to return, ballistic missiles do not need to return, so they naturally have the natural advantage of a longer range. Carrying the same fuel, the range of a ballistic missile can be calculated based on the bomber's transition range, an advantage that bombers will never have.
On the other hand, ballistic missiles also have advantages when delivering large-yield nuclear warheads: bombers need to consider their own safety when delivering bombs, but ballistic missiles do not need to consider this aspect at all.
Of course, Tang Mo knew very well that future ballistic missiles would directly develop strategic-level giant intercontinental ballistic missiles, with a range that could even reach 20,000 kilometers, and could deliver nuclear bombs anywhere!
Compared with bombers that need to advance to bases and sometimes need support from tankers, ballistic missiles are indeed too convenient.
Especially when Tang Mo also knew that future ballistic missiles could use solid fuel and their reaction speeds would skyrocket, he had no reason to stop related research.
Do we have to wait until other countries also begin to equip a large number of surface-to-air missiles before rushing into missile research and development? Doesn't this give your opponent a chance?
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In the exhibition hall that had been arranged long ago, many diplomats from other countries saw the Scud missile launcher with their own eyes.
When they saw the terrifying giant rocket (Scud missile), they were completely stunned by the sight before them.
That's right, they really didn't expect that the Tang Empire could build such a huge rocket. This thing is not even a solid rocket, but uses fueling technology.
This thing is indeed not advanced in the Tang Empire, because the Tang Empire has begun extensive research on solid fuel technology for missiles.
Other countries don't know about this. When they see the complex liquid fuel filling vehicles, the command vehicles of the missile forces, and the missile launch vehicles, they will only feel that the weapons they paid for are really Excellent value for money.
If these gadgets in front of them were developed by their own country's technical personnel, they would probably have to wait at least twenty years if they wanted to use Scud missiles.
But now, just now, as long as you pay, you can buy the equipment in front of you, including the big treasure erected on the missile truck that makes all men excited.
"This is the 'Scud' missile with a range of 300 kilometers. Its attack accuracy is about 900 meters. In other words, if you use it to attack a target, there is a chance of directly hitting the building where the target is located!" The receptionist politely introduced the missile. performance.
Photography was not allowed at the venue, and many guests were attracted by a 20-inch color TV hanging on the wall.
This was the first time they saw a color display screen, and they were immediately shocked by the content played on it in a loop.
It was a video of the Scud missile being erected, and the switching of the launch shots. At the end, there was a deliberately made small animation demonstrating the strike route.
When everyone saw a red line extending forward on the map, they were all conquered by this animation. This is the first time they can see the flight path of a weapon in real time (although it is fake), and it is also the first time they can intuitively feel the strike distance of a weapon.
In the past, it would have taken a long time for them to cross the distance represented by the map in the shot. If the enemy built a complex defensive position within this distance, it would probably take several months or even a year to cross it. But now it only takes more than ten minutes for the Scud missile to cross this distance.
Although airplanes can do it, the enemy also has airplanes... The Scud missile does not care about the enemy's airplane interception, it cannot be intercepted!
Many people have begun to fantasize about their country dismantling Scud missiles, and then after understanding the principles, they can develop missiles with a greater range.
They also want to be like the Tang Empire, which can gain the super power to attack the enemy's capital at any time! In this way, they can intimidate the other party, use the other party's life safety to intimidate the other party, and let the other party think clearly when making decisions.
In addition, there are some radical people who know a little bit about technology and are already thinking about using missile ideas to develop new fighter jets.
They imagine that they can get inspiration from it, and then greatly increase the speed and flying height of fighter jets, so that they can gain an advantage when intercepting enemy aircraft.
Others were thinking about what the inertial guidance that the person who received them just said was.
They feel that as long as they understand this thing, they can improve the attack accuracy of missiles, so that they can be applied to missiles with longer ranges that they develop themselves.
These people probably would not have thought that when they disassembled the inertial guidance gyroscopes and other equipment manufactured by the Tang Empire in the future, they would find that they had no way to process parts with such precision.
To put it bluntly, they also need to purchase mechanical equipment with higher processing precision, and then repeatedly polish their own parts and debug related equipment...
Finally...well, I finally walked to the south wall on the inertial guidance road and hit my head and broke my blood. Only then will they discover that inertial guidance has its limits, and it is simply impossible for them to rely solely on inertial guidance to improve missile accuracy to the level they want.
At least they now know why this kind of thing is called a missile and not a rocket missile or something like that. Because it adds a guidance process, the word missile nicely summarizes the performance characteristics of this weapon.
Therefore, the word missile was soon accepted by everyone, and cables and news appeared in various countries.
At the same moment, Zhao Kai, who was in the hospital bed, finally heard that his eldest son Zhao Ji had left his post without permission and returned to the imperial capital from the Wanliang Front.
At this moment, Zhao Kai was furious! He had already calmed down a lot and even acquiesced to the diplomatic action of compromising the Tang Empire. But when he heard that his son had returned from the front without permission, he smashed everything he could reach.
(End of chapter)
