Modern warfare is the era of integrated warfare!
Even if a naval battle is conducted in waters hundreds or thousands of kilometers away from the mainland, the war weapons involved are no longer battleships and ordinary carrier-based aircraft like the previous two wars.
Since the 1950s, various types of missiles have been continuously developed. The result is that except for a few old ones used for ground attack.
Most new warships use missiles as their most powerful weapons.
Just like a century ago, everyone regarded the large-caliber naval gun on the dreadnought as the most powerful weapon.
"Your missiles performed really well!"
After the anti-aircraft missile test was completed, Han Zitao hammered Geng Bo with his fist and said.
"It's much better than the Yingjiang Standard 2 ship-based air defense missile data we got!"
The Standard 2 ship-based air defense missile, as a missile that has not been in service for a long time, is still considered advanced among the ship-based air defense missiles in the world.
However, it cannot shoot down all eight fighter jets from different directions and altitudes outside the 400-kilometer defense circle like it did in the experimental test just now!
It can even be said that the two are almost two different things.
The Haihongqi-9A brought by Geng Bo and the others can already be said to be a medium- and long-range air defense missile!
"Hahaha."
Geng Bo smiled and said:
"The performance of our missiles has not actually reached its peak."
"But compared to them, it's pretty good."
"I can only say that it all depends on the support of my peers!"
The temperature in the experimental site was close to zero today, but everyone who had just completed the experiment felt warm in their hearts.
At this time, the navy chief finished inspecting the radar team led by Pan Weimin and went straight to the missile launch simulation platform.
"Chief!"
Facing the leader who came over, Han Zitao took the lead in saluting a military salute.
It also reminded Geng Bo of the identity of the person in front of him.
"Hello, Chief." Geng Bo was not a soldier, so he did not give a military salute, but he still said respectfully.
"Are you the missile's commander?"
The navy chief looked Geng Bo up and down and said:
"Looks quite young."
"Sure enough, heroes have been born since ancient times!"
In fact, the chief engineer of Haihongqi-9A is Zhang Xingyang, but he is currently busy with several large-scale projects and has no time to come this time.
Geng Bo was a little embarrassed: "Chief, I am not the chief engineer."
"Our dean is the chief engineer, and I am the assistant."
The navy chief was also a little surprised. The commander-in-chief didn't come to such an important occasion? !
Is there something wrong with your body?
The chief quickly ran through several different guesses in his mind:
"Is there something wrong with your dean?"
"Why didn't you come this time?"
Zhang Xingyang's itinerary is now highly confidential to prevent possible assassinations.
Geng Bo didn't know exactly what he was doing now.
But before he came, Zhang Xingyang had specifically told him that if a big boss asked, then tell him a string of numbers, 0311!
Of course, even such a series of figures that is almost confusing can only be told to one person, the chief.
After looking at the people present, Geng Bo asked the navy chief to let others go away:
"Chief, can you let them go further?"
"Only you are the only one who knows about this."
At this time, the navy chief also realized that for a tall and thin young man, his dean was definitely not a simple person.
After the missile technicians and naval officers around him walked away, Geng Bocai simply said something in the ear of the navy chief.
The people standing not far away could see what Geng Bo said.
After finishing speaking, the chief's brows instantly frowned.
"Don't tell anyone else about this string of numbers in the future!"
As one of the top leaders of the Navy, he naturally knew about this project.
After all, there are also hypersonic anti-ship missiles specially developed for the navy, and there is even a wind tunnel specially used to simulate maritime conditions.
Therefore, he also knows how confidential this project is!
The experimental base where the wind tunnel group is located will not appear on any map. Even because of the special site selection, unless the enemy's spy satellite specifically changes its orbit for reconnaissance, it is actually invisible in everyone's eyes!
Even if it is just its name, only people of a certain level can know it.
"Okay, I know."
Although Geng Bo didn't know why the other party suddenly became nervous, he could tell from Zhang Xingyang's reaction before he set off and the leader's reaction after hearing this string of numbers.
This string of numbers definitely has a very profound meaning, which you cannot know by yourself.
After some warnings, the chief was full of curiosity about the Haihongqi-9A missile, which had been magically modified in this world.
"By the way, how did you change the Haihongqi-9 missile into what it is now?"
This was the most puzzling thing for him. He had seen both the Haihongqi-9 and the Army's Hongqi-9 air defense missiles.
No matter how you look at it, you can't do what you just demonstrated on the experimental field.
It can be said that the anti-aircraft missiles with such a high interception rate and a defense circle of 400 kilometers can almost replace the work of the former airport guardian!
"The main thing is the progress in materials science!"
Geng Bo honestly introduced various new materials used on Haihongqi-9A.
"First of all, let's talk about the two most important materials, the explosives in the warhead and the propellant in the solid engine. We use completely different formulas."
At this time, the chief also thought of the ship-borne 300mm rocket launcher that had also performed extremely well.
Both should be common in this regard.
"The most important thing here is actually the same thing."
Before saying its name, Geng Bo paused and asked the chief a question.
"Chief, do you know anything about explosives?"
"Why do you ask this suddenly?"
The chief replied somewhat confused, but when he was young, he was indeed from the army.
At this time, almost all the senior leaders of the Navy were from the Army. After all, it had only been fifty years since the Navy was officially established.
Therefore, the old chief still knows a lot about explosives.
"Understand some basic concepts."
"That's fine."
Geng Bo breathed a sigh of relief. He probably didn’t have to start from the beginning:
"Then you should know that whether it is TNT or RDX, the main reason why they can explode is nitrogen."
"So in the scientific research community, someone has proposed a long time ago, why don't we create an explosive composed of all nitrogen?!"
"After our dean worked on it for a period of time, he actually created something that everyone thought was legendary."
“Then, you have this thing you see now!”
Geng Bo pointed at the remaining missiles in the launch pit and said.
"How much more powerful is the explosive you are talking about than TNT?"
Although Geng Bo explained Datong, the other party had not yet established a very intuitive concept of power.
During the experiment just now, although I saw the power of the missile, I had not seen the actual missile at that time.
The old leader just thought that they had expanded the charge in the warhead a lot.
Now that I learned about the brand new explosives they used, I realized that I had misunderstood.
"About this number."
Geng Bo made a √ sign with his finger.
"Eight times?"
"That's really awesome!"
This number is a bit hard for the old chief to believe, but it is still within the acceptable range.
"Not eight times."
Seeing that the other party had a misunderstanding, Geng Bo quickly corrected him:
"Eighty times!"
"What!"
The tone of the old chief's voice has changed. This data is really too outrageous.
What is the concept of eighty times?
This means that one-eightyth of the charge can achieve the same power as the original.
"Are you telling the truth?"
The old chief quickly adjusted his mentality and asked in disbelief.
"Really, we've actually weakened the explosives quite a bit."
"Without the addition of passivating agents, its power can be eighty-five times that of TNT."
Geng Bo explained some changes to the total nitrogen explosive.
"However, without the addition of passivating agents, the sensitivity of explosives is too high. Even slight friction and collision may cause accidents."
At this time, the old chief had basically digested the information about total nitrogen explosives, and he even thought of many related things.
"No wonder your guidance performance and anti-electromagnetic interference performance are so strong."
"You guys can add a lot more equipment than others."
The other party's guess was not wrong, because the space for charging explosives was greatly reduced, and the space left for radar and other equipment was greatly increased.
This has also resulted in the missile's other performance being greatly improved.
"Is such that."
"In addition to the change in the explosive formula, the engine propellant has also been upgraded. The range and speed that can be achieved under the same conditions are several times greater than before!"
Geng Bo further explained why the Haihongqi-9A has a range of 400 kilometers and a speed of Mach 6.
"You guys did a really good job."
"Thanks to you, our large destroyer can have such powerful weapons."
The old chief praised Geng Bo a few words and then changed the subject:
"What do you think, based on the current design situation, what is the level of our 052C?"
Although there is no objection to the current demand for building new destroyers, there is still some controversy over the technical route.
"Our view here mainly focuses on the launch crater."
The institute had a lot of opinions on the decision to use the wheel launch method at the beginning of the design.
Since some big shots asked about it this time, Geng Bo just wanted to share their thoughts.
"The rotary launch method saves craters and can reduce the size of the ship platform."
"However, this approach requires more time."
"It is difficult to complete the launch of several anti-aircraft missiles at the same time."
What Geng Bo said is true, but the navy is also helpless.
The scale of the destroyer platform is so large, with a total displacement of only 6,500 tons.
It looks big, but in addition to air defense tasks, it also needs to undertake anti-ship and anti-submarine tasks.
Therefore, at the beginning of the design, a total of eight vertical launch units were reserved.
"There is nothing we can do about this. The space of the 052C first ship is relatively tight, so we can only adopt this launch method."
The old chief was also a little helpless.
If the wheel launch method is not adopted, the reloading work of the missile is too slow and cannot keep up with the rhythm of the war.
"Besides this?"
"Do you think there is anything we can improve on?"
The old chief still values the opinions of professional and technical personnel and looks forward to hearing something different.
"Chief, what I say next may be strange."
Geng Bo first made a layer of armor for himself.
"If you have any objections, wait until I finish speaking."
The old chief was also a little curious about what novel remarks Geng Bo could say.
So he nodded and motioned for Geng Bo to continue speaking.
"Actually, these ideas of mine mainly come from our Dean Zhang."
"He believed that the two most important things in modern warfare are discovery and destruction."
Such remarks are not particularly new, especially after the Gulf War, there were more similar studies.
"In future wars, the time between these two events will become shorter and shorter."
"Until the most extreme situation, destroy it upon discovery!"
"Most of our current warships need to rely on shore-based radar or ship-based radar to detect enemies."
“Not only is there a problem with the small search range, but the time from when a target is discovered to when a missile is launched to destroy it is too long.”
"If you want to gain a first-hand advantage in a war, you must shorten this process."
Although no one has spoken to the old chief about what Geng Bo said before, the basic contents are easy to understand.
"Actually, this matter will be greatly alleviated if we can have an aircraft carrier and form an aircraft carrier formation."
Geng Bo was also a little helpless at this time. The construction of the aircraft carrier would take at least ten years.
Wanting to get a combat-effective aircraft carrier is almost a fantasy at this time.
Although not long ago, China bought an aircraft carrier with almost only an empty shell from Ermao in the name of an entertainment company.
But now it is not possible to pass through a certain strait, and it is still a long way to return home.
"In the absence of carrier-based aircraft and aircraft carriers, we can only find solutions from other aspects."
"For example, drones."
In this era, the development of drones has not yet received everyone's attention. After all, it has not yet shown its terrifying war potential in war.
"Carry out reconnaissance and strike work through the development of ship-based unmanned aerial vehicles."
"Even to the extreme, we could build a light drone aircraft carrier to provide reconnaissance and some attack work for the fleet."
After Geng Bo finished speaking, he had a happy expression on his face.
After thinking for a while, the old chief asked:
"Can drones now take on such a job?"
It makes sense for the old chief to ask this. After all, there are almost no perfect products for large drones that can operate across thousands of kilometers at this time.
"It's not possible yet. To be honest, there is almost no research on large drones."
"But in terms of difficulty, this matter is definitely much simpler than the research and development of carrier-based aircraft."
"There is no other way."
If there is a mature aircraft carrier and combat-effective carrier-based aircraft, there is no need to click on the technological point of drones.
The construction work of the navy is almost the longest among the major armies.
Even in this era of industrialization, the construction of naval warships no longer needs to wait a hundred years for an oak tree to grow.
However, the training of personnel and the response to various hydrological conditions will take at least several decades.
However, the future of the navy is still bright. There will be 10,000-ton cruisers and aircraft carriers.
Sooner or later, we will move towards the deep blue!
The bandits can go, and so can I! ! !
(End of chapter)
