Confrontations between countries are increasingly becoming conventional war confrontations.
Mushroom eggs are still the last deterrent of a big country. As long as its nuclear arsenal still exists, no one will dare to truly invade such a country.
After all, no one on this planet wants to see mushroom eggs thrown around, and no one wants to pick up nuclear soda bottle caps in the wasteland.
Of course, the premise of this is that your mushroom eggs can really hit the opponent's head.
Rather than just staying on the launch pad and eating ashes, you will still be bullied.
This is the current embarrassment in China. Although our mushroom eggs are large enough, one can reach the level of five million tons of TNT.
But we lack weapons that can quickly penetrate the Yingjiang anti-missile system.
As for the separately guided mushroom egg ballistic missile that can hit dozens of targets at once, although it just completed its first test launch last year, it is still far from being able to be put into actual combat.
"Xiao Zhang, your one-arrow multi-star technique is pretty good!"
After the rocket launch mission was a complete success, the director took Zhang Xingyang to a room with nothing except two sofas.
First, he praised the Rocket Research Institute’s technology, and then said:
"This room is specially designed to block high-power radio signals, so conversations are safe."
"I told you directly that the long-range ballistic missile equipped with a separately guided nuclear warhead we are currently researching has encountered a technical bottleneck."
Although the leader has not said what the bottleneck is, from the other party's words, Zhang Xingyang can also know that the bottleneck mentioned by the other party should be in the separation and guidance technology.
After all, when the other party was in the control room before, when he learned that one arrow and multiple stars were successful, his expression was very strange.
Compared with ordinary mushroom eggs, split-guide mushroom eggs have a lower yield, but they can hit more high-value targets, and the actual strike effect is greatly improved.
When large-yield nuclear bombs are used in the atmosphere, most of the energy is actually wasted in the air.
It is far less helpful to the combat system than multiple small-yield nuclear bombs.
"Has the branching technology encountered a bottleneck?" Zhang Xingyang asked bluntly.
"Sure enough, you can see through it in just one click!"
The chief patted Zhang Xingyang on the shoulder. The other person's hand was so strong that Zhang Xingyang felt that his shoulder was a little numb.
"Our current multi-warhead ballistic missiles with separate guidance are not up to standard because of their separate guidance technology."
"During multiple simulation tests, the separation and guidance technology of each missile warhead was not up to standard."
"It often happens that the strike deviation is too large, or the warheads damage each other because the distance between the missile warheads is too close."
"It is difficult for the new generation missiles we develop to be directly equipped to the troops and put into actual combat."
The old leader has been immersed in the missile field for decades. Naturally, he knows that under such circumstances, our strategic deterrence capability will be greatly reduced.
And even the Dongfeng 5-B separately guided multi-warhead ballistic missile currently under development uses technology that is relatively backward at this time.
Because Dongfeng 5-B was originally developed on the basis of Dongfeng 5, it also uses a liquid engine that is more troublesome to use.
The missile needs to be refueled before use, which takes a lot of time. It cannot be launched like a missile using a solid fuel engine, which only takes a few minutes to complete the missile launch.
"The reason for the deviation of the sub-warhead navigation is largely due to the accuracy of the measurement and control equipment."
"Nowadays, more inertial guidance is used, the most critical of which are various gyroscopes and accelerometers."
"The gyroscope is not accurate enough and can easily cause warhead angle deviation during navigation."
As an expert in aerospace, Zhang Xingyang is not very unfamiliar with the similar technology of split-guided multiple warheads.
Its essence is not particularly different from the one-rocket multi-satellite technology, except that one payload is a satellite and the other payload is a mushroom egg.
"Of course these can be adjusted by adjusting the release pattern of the load."
Because ballistic missiles are used in space, they can move in many directions after releasing the first sub-warhead.
You can continue moving in the direction of the furthest target.
Or decelerate after releasing the first sub-warhead, so that more fuel can be left for the last warhead, allowing it to hit farther.
Either it moves perpendicular to the original trajectory, or it maneuvers against the side sector of the meteorite trajectory.
"But tell the truth, old chief."
"Nowadays, the new generation of ballistic missiles are strengthening their terminal penetration capabilities, and we should also pay attention to this aspect."
"In the future, missiles that cannot reach a terminal speed of more than 10 times the speed of sound and can perform terminal maneuvers will have a high chance of being intercepted."
For Zhang Xingyang, who is more aware of the direction of future weapons development, he only needs to promote his ideas on the hypersonic development of future weapons whenever he has the opportunity to talk to the big guys who can influence the direction of future weapons.
"If our missiles can have the capability of terminal hypersonic penetration, then we will have the most powerful spear that can kill people with a single strike."
"And in this way our ability to strike quickly around the world will be greatly enhanced!"
“It’s not a dream to reach any location in the world within an hour!”
Zhang Xingyang looked at the old leader with bright eyes when he talked about hypersonic ballistic missiles.
It has to be said that Zhang Xingyang's words did speak to the old chief's heart.
To hit the whole world in one hour, it was a military target that seemed difficult for anyone to refuse.
The old chief also knew that it was actually very difficult to do this.
But if we can really "cover the whole world in one hour", then no one on this planet will dare to speak loudly to us anymore!
"The difficulties here mainly lie in the problem of the ballistic missile's engine and the problem of terminal maneuvering hypersonic penetration of the missile warhead."
"The problem of penetration of the missile warhead still depends on the technology of the warhead's side injection engine and the technology of changing the center of mass of the rotating warhead."
Zhang Xingyang also took the initiative to talk about the technical difficulties here, but after speaking, he also assured the old chief:
"As long as the country needs it, I will break through these technologies even if I don't eat, drink or sleep!"
The old chief patted Zhang Xingyang's shoulder appreciatively, but did not comment on his guarantee:
"Let's talk about the separation technology first!"
As for Zhang Xingyang's proposal of terminal hypersonic maneuvers to reach the world in one hour, there was not much discussion.
However, Zhang Xingyang believes that his ideas must have left a deep impression on the old chief!
(End of chapter)
