Gaul, Toulouse, aerospace city.
As the aerospace center city of the entire Gaul, Toulouse's rocket and satellite industries are very developed.
The supporting data collection industry is also an important pillar here.
Thanks to their satellite industry that has not yet shrunk, the Gauls also received the same news through their satellite fifteen minutes after the Eagle Sauce satellite detected the ballistic missile flight of Dragon Kingdom.
Alex, a Gallic ballistic missile engineer.
Responsible for the research and development of the first-stage solid rocket motor of the M-51 ballistic missile.
In recent years, major countries in the world, including Yingjiang, Damao, and Longguo, have begun to promote different missile defense systems.
The M-45 ballistic missiles that were already in service in Gaul were unable to cope with these increasingly advanced missile defense systems.
Therefore, they began to promote the development of the sixth-generation ballistic missile, which is the current M-51 missile.
Because since 1996, Gaul has made adjustments to its strategic nuclear forces. The original "trinity" nuclear force has been transformed into a "two-in-one" structure composed of nuclear submarines and strategic bombers.
Strategic nuclear missiles launched from underground silos have been completely cancelled, and the originally constructed underground nuclear bomb launch silos have either been filled in or abandoned.
However, unlike John Bull, who was basically in ruins, Gaul still had certain ambitions and wanted to maintain its high status in the Western Continent and the Black State.
Therefore, it is not directly like John Bull. Even nuclear warhead ballistic missiles, which are the last line of national security defense, must be purchased from Eagle Sauce.
No matter what, Gaul still maintains a considerable number of employees related to the nuclear industry and missile industry.
"Colen, do you know why you called us here this time?"
Alex asked Colum next to him with some confusion.
As a senior manager of the aerospace group, Kelen was also confused at this time.
Not knowing what happened, he just shook his head at his old friend Alex.
However, Coren still said speculatively:
"Something big must have happened, otherwise we wouldn't have been found here so late."
At this time, it was already nine o'clock in the evening local time in Gaul.
After the meeting with Yingjiang, the news was passed on to Gaul.
But there is a six-hour time difference between the two places.
So it was still afternoon over there in Eagle Sauce, but it was already midnight over here in Toulouse.
It is a rare thing for the Gauls to still be working at this time.
Just when the two people were still talking quietly, they were talking about why they were called over so late.
In the conference room, another group of people came into the meeting room who were not particularly familiar with each other, but felt familiar.
"Isn't that a senior official of the Ministry of Defense?"
"Why is he here so late?"
Colon, who was more familiar with the Gallic officials, said with some surprise after seeing the crowd coming in.
After seeing Alex, he originally thought that the topic of this meeting would be rocket or missile technology.
But judging from the current situation, it seems that this meeting will not be that simple.
Alan Richard, who had deep eye sockets, looked at the watch on his left wrist, and then glanced at the many participants in the conference room.
Without saying anything more, he directly ordered his assistant to turn on the projection equipment on the side and project the information from their Yingjiang allies onto the screen.
The resolution of satellite images these days is not very high, but thick cloud trails are still easy to distinguish on the ground.
Although Gaul has been pushing to remove its own land-based nuclear bombs in recent years, it has not completely given up on land-based ballistic missiles yet.
Therefore, most of the people present were not unfamiliar with such a scene.
After all, most of them have worked in the missile or rocket field for many years.
I am still very familiar with such solid rocket motor propulsion scenes.
After the picture carousel on the curtain was completed, Richard finally spoke his first words.
"This is the latest intelligence transmitted by our allies an hour ago."
"According to their satellite reconnaissance results, the Longguo people just completed their latest ballistic missile test a few hours ago."
"And our reconnaissance satellite has not reported any results yet!"
"If our allies hadn't told us, we would have been kept in the dark."
"Chris, I want an answer."
"Is it because our satellites are not good enough to detect Dragon Kingdom's missile experiment, or are you not vigilant enough?"
After Richard's question, everyone present focused their attention on Chris.
As the head of the satellite department, Chris originally got off work early today. He did not expect that such a thing could happen so late.
Although he could also guess that it must be the person on duty who left his job without permission and went drinking somewhere.
But after such an occasion, there is no way to put such a reason on the table.
He had no choice but to follow Richard's words and continue:
"It should be that the person on duty today was slacking off, and we will punish him accordingly."
Richard didn't call so many people here so late today just to scold Chris.
He has something more concerned about, which is how to deal with the potential Dragon Kingdom ballistic missile threat.
"You serve as domestic experts in missiles and rockets."
"This time I have called everyone together so late just to know what you think of this weapon."
"I wonder what you just saw?"
Richard glanced around at the many experts present, but now everyone still has many doubts about the image data they just saw.
So Alex stood up first and asked Richard a few questions.
"Sir Alan, we still have a few questions we want to know."
Regarding Alex, Richard's tone was obviously much better than before, and he said pleasantly:
"If you have any questions, please ask."
"First of all, apart from these pictures, didn't our allies provide any other data?"
Even for missile experts, it is not easy to analyze the opponent's missile performance data based on these pictures.
"Aside from these pictures, they only left a few words."
"That is, the Western world must unite this time to deal with threats from the East."
"Other than that, there's nothing."
Richard also knew that it was not reliable to know the specific parameters of the opponent's missile just through this bit of image data.
However, our domestic satellite reconnaissance and monitoring personnel are unreliable and did not obtain the data from the other party's launch.
This news is really bad news for the technical experts present.
Alex was a little helpless at this time. There was no data and the conclusions they could draw were very limited.
But as an expert on solid fuel rocket engines, Alex saw a lot of things first.
The first is the opponent's rocket engine, which must have used solid fuel with high specific impulse.
"Judging from the timing of the photo, their missile's ascent phase was very short."
"This means that their rocket engine has a very high thrust and can push the missile out of the atmosphere in a very short time."
At this time, Coren also thought of the Dragon Kingdom high-thrust rockets and ultra-long-range rocket launchers he had seen at the Dragon Kingdom Air Show.
In recent years, Longguo seems to have made considerable progress in rocket liquid engines and solid engines.
But now it was Alex's time to speak. Out of gentlemanly etiquette, he did not speak directly.
Instead, he was prepared to wait until Alex finished speaking before telling him about it.
"But one thing is strange. After their missiles entered and flew outside the atmosphere, they did not last too long before re-entering the atmosphere."
When Alex was talking about this, he did not expect that Long Guo was actually using the "Qian Xuesen Ballistic".
In addition, Yingjiang did not tell all the conclusions of their analysis to the Gauls.
So Alex subconsciously thought that the opponent's ballistic missiles still used traditional parabolic trajectories.
Anthony, a missile aerodynamics expert on the side, had already seen through several before and after photos that Long Guo's missile used the "Qian Xuesen ballistics".
"Alex, they should be using the special trajectory proposed by that Qian."
After being reminded by Anthony, Alex also reacted at this time.
Judging from the missile's trajectory, it should indeed be Qian Xuesen's trajectory.
Alex nodded and said:
"Then you understand, they used Qian Xuesen's ballistics in the first half."
"But in the second half of the process, the Sanger ballistics should be used."
Alex pointed at the wavy clouds above the projection screen and said with a frown.
Although he didn't know how the Longguo people managed to combine these two different ballistics.
But judging from the ballistic trajectory, their ballistics must have extremely strong penetration capabilities.
Ordinary anti-missile systems can only be wishful thinking if they want to defend against such weapons.
"I just don't know what the range of their missiles is?"
"Minister Alan, haven't the allies said what the range of this missile is?"
Richard did not answer directly at this time, but looked at a middle-aged man next to him.
"From our analysis of the image topography, the missile's range is at least more than 5,000 kilometers."
The middle-aged man is not a rocket or missile technician, he is a professional technician in the military department.
This is also an important reason why he can determine the location of the image in a very short time.
"Five thousand kilometers?"
Alex fell into silence, but Anthony beside him seemed to be frightened.
Richard didn't know what Anthony was thinking about to make such a strange cry, so he asked:
"Is there any problem with this?"
Anthony finally calmed down and said helplessly:
"Judging from the time in the photo, their overall flight time was only about twenty minutes."
"If the missile's range can reach five thousand kilometers, then their average missile speed will be at least around Mach 12."
"Even though they're capable of Mach twenty in mid-course."
"But because they used Qian Xuesen's ballistic trajectory, the flight time in the middle section is very short, and the distance in this section will not be very long."
"This means that their terminal flight speed will be unprecedentedly high."
Richard also reacted somewhat at this time and asked:
"What's the fastest speed you can reach?"
After Anthony discussed with Alex beside him for a few minutes, he raised his head and answered Richard's question:
"The fastest it can reach is around Mach 10."
"Of course, because there is no detailed measurement data, there is a considerable error in this number."
"It's possible that their speed is not as high as we thought, maybe only around Mach 7."
"But it's also possible that they can actually achieve speeds around Mach 10."
The people in the conference room were not ordinary people who had no idea about missiles.
Ordinary people may not have much idea of the speed of Mach 10.
But the military personnel present knew very well that if it was this speed.
Then any of our own air defense and anti-missile systems are just decorations, and have no ability to counterattack in the face of the opponent's attack.
The best way to prevent such an attack is to put all key high-value targets underground.
Relying on tens to hundreds of meters of solid rock protection, it can effectively withstand missile attacks.
But the only military units that can be placed underground are command centers.
Other important units, such as airports, radar stations, air defense systems, etc., cannot be placed underground.
Otherwise, it will just be like the weapons and equipment buried in the sand dunes during the Gulf War. Before they can play their role, they will immediately become a pile of scrap metal.
"The bottom line is, we don't know the accuracy of their strikes."
At this time, Anthony mentioned an issue that everyone had ignored.
After all, they still don't know whether Longguo's ballistic missiles use conventional warheads or nuclear warheads.
Take the M-45 ballistic missiles they currently use as an example.
The range is 6,000 kilometers and the strike accuracy is around 500 meters. However, because it uses a separately guided nuclear warhead, the accuracy requirements are not actually very high.
The current ballistic missiles of the Dragon Kingdom can be said to be relatively close to their M-45 ballistic missiles in terms of range.
However, they have not yet received any information on the accuracy of the attack.
So Anthony could only deceive himself and others and said:
"Maybe their strike accuracy isn't as good as ours."
"The error may reach one kilometer level."
"Then we don't need to worry about their missile threats."
However, what everyone present did not know is that the accuracy of the Dongfeng-17 waverider hypersonic ballistic missile can reach an appalling three meters! (End of chapter)
