RPAGF #253 - Winning Hand
#253 - Winning Hand
Mao Wusu Base.
Ren Chong appeared again before Professor Qian's team because today there would be a very special performance that required Ren Chong's on-site witness.
Ren Chong looked at the familiar shape erected not far away and couldn't help but smile.
This is the new version of the Sam-2 in the Bright Sword world - the Hongqi I surface-to-air missile. Of course, not all of it, only the missile part has been realized. The original fire control radar cannot be realized yet, so next to it, there is also the latest improved version of the SCR-268 radar - a mobile improvement that weakens the early warning distance but greatly reduces the weight, from 36 tons to 20 tons, which can be installed on 6 trucks for mobile deployment.
Of course, these two cannot be seamlessly connected, so the current Hongqi I still needs to be remotely controlled by humans.
The missile is still that missile, but the control method is quite primitive at this stage. The data obtained from the SCR-268 fire control radar is used to control the missile to strike the target by radio remote control.
That is to say, this missile needs to combine the human brain, radar, and missile body to function.
This is Ren Chong's helpless choice after research based on the current stage. The Fan Song radar, which is the radar guidance of the Sam-2, has not been developed for the time being. The radar research team has only digested the SCR-268, so temporarily take this thing out for temporary transition.
As for whether it will work, we will know today.
A PT-19 trainer aircraft was modified into a simple radio-controlled drone.
It took off from a remote temporary battlefield airport and cruised at an altitude of about 3,000 meters at a speed of 160 kilometers per hour to the airspace above the base. The radar had already searched for the PT-19's flight altitude, cruising speed, direction, and other key indicators. The ground-to-air missile operation team quickly set the launch parameters.
The missile successfully ignited and lifted off, began to accelerate, and then flew to the designated airspace.
On the ground, the researchers remotely controlling the missile stared nervously at the sky, waiting for the missile to meet the PT19 trainer aircraft slowly flying over from a distance.
Although the direction of the missile can still be controlled from the ground, for the first launch, it was like a well-negotiated trip. The missile and the PT19 trainer aircraft quickly met in the air. Before the meeting, the researchers on the ground nervously pressed the detonation button. Before the two met, the missile exploded and launched countless fragments, almost instantly igniting the PT19 trainer aircraft!
The missile's combat explosion section, which uses a radio proximity fuze, will produce more than 3,000 metal fragments, which will become its killing range within a diameter of at least several hundred meters!
In this way, the first launch of the Hongqi I was a complete success after the PT19 trainer aircraft turned into a fireball!
Although this test is quite different from the real combat environment, the little devils will not fly fighter planes in a constant direction.
But from the current point of view, at least the radar can detect enemy planes 10 kilometers in advance. For air defense over fixed locations, as long as the little devil's warplanes dare to come, this missile will become another more powerful air defense weapon besides the 88mm anti-aircraft gun and the G20 anti-aircraft gun.
"Professor Qian, congratulations on your new achievement. I want to deploy this air defense system in Taiyuan to protect the sky over Taiyuan from being ravaged by the little devils' warplanes. From now on, this air defense system needs to be mass-produced, and the training of relevant operators must also be rolled out. We need at least 100 sets of this air defense system to protect the sky over our current key cities."
Ren Chong looked at the black smoke spreading in the sky and the falling fireball and said to Professor Qian on the side.
Now he is the only person in charge of finalization. Even though this system is still quite rudimentary, Ren Chong feels that it may be more useful than the 88 anti-aircraft gun.
After all, the role of anti-aircraft guns is to increase the probability of shooting down enemy planes by quantity.
And this air defense system, compared to it, has a stronger ability to lock targets, and the destructive power after the explosion is also greater!
Even if it is currently remote-controlled by humans, the effect should be much stronger than the 88mm anti-aircraft gun.
Now that Operation Zero is about to start, for Ren Chong, he did not expect to rely on the 50-plus warplanes of the Divine Eagle Brigade to ensure the safety of the entire Jin area.
The little devils have dispatched such a powerful ground force, and the air force cannot be ignored.
Judging from the current strength of the little devils, if they regard Operation Zero as the largest battle in the near future, the supporting air force will be at least several hundred planes!
No matter how strong the Mustang fighter is, it can only fight one-on-one with the Zero fighter at this stage. But facing hundreds or even more enemy planes attacking, the Mustang fighter will also be overwhelmed, leaving the sky over the city in an extremely dangerous state.
Ren Chong can imagine that the little devils will definitely not let go of the bombing opportunities for important factories such as Taiyuan and Lu'an.
Don't even think about avoiding the intelligence reconnaissance of the little devils for large steel plants and heavy machinery plants, these strategic targets.
After all, these cannot be hidden in the deep mountains and old forests. There is a large amount of material transportation in and out every day. Basically, it is the busiest place in various places. Even if the security work is strict, you can only guarantee the situation inside the factory, but the location of the factory and the information of entry and exit are difficult to hide from the eyes of the little devils' spies.
So now the pressure on urban air defense is very heavy. Even if Ren Chong has greatly increased the production capacity of 88mm anti-aircraft guns and 20mm anti-aircraft guns, and has produced more than 600 20mm anti-aircraft guns and more than 100 88mm anti-aircraft guns, it is still not enough.
Currently, the more than 100 20mm anti-aircraft gun companies in service will mostly be assigned to Class A regiments for field air defense, leaving less than 40 20mm anti-aircraft gun companies. There are more than 10 key cities that need to be defended. Even with the addition of more than 20 88mm anti-aircraft gun companies, a large city like Taiyuan has less than 10 anti-aircraft artillery companies. There are too many places to defend, and the gaps in air defense firepower are too large.
"Mr. Ren, although we have been trying our best to have the rocket factory process and produce the Hongqi I missile, we only have eleven sets of Hongqi I components for assembly so far, and we used up one set today," Professor Qian said with a helpless wry smile.
He knows Ren Zhong's habit: for products with detailed design data provided, the starting production volume is ten sets.
Even so, there are still several problems to overcome in the imitation of radar, especially in the electronics aspect. Even if Ren Zhong provides a lot of data, this field is still cutting-edge today. Many basic equipment needs to be researched by ourselves, so the progress is inevitably a bit slow.
The magnetron for the missile's radar is still under technical research. This thing is not uncommon in the main world. Now microwave ovens can be used everywhere. Ren Zhong even disassembled several microwave ovens' magnetrons for the radar research team to refer to.
However, these basic things cannot be accomplished overnight.
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Just like the transistor computer, although the first-generation machine is close to success, due to the lack of physical reference, it relies entirely on Ren Zhong's data to feel around, stumbling forward. It always takes time to accumulate. Their speed now is already much faster than the research speed in history.
From 1947, when Bell Telephone Laboratories developed the first semiconductor triode (transistor), it took until 1955 to complete the research work of the first generation of 800-transistor computer, spending 8 years from scratch! China's research on computers roughly started in 1953, starting with the research of vacuum tube computers. The first historical vacuum tube computer was successfully researched in 1958, and it was an imitation of the Big Bear, which took more than 5 years.
Of course, the incomplete data provided by the Soviet Union also has a lot to do with it. Ren Zhong's data is a complete set. In contrast, there is no risk of straying from the direction. All the work revolves around how to stably manufacture those transistors.
With the current technology, this is a big challenge, involving a lot of breakthroughs in materials, so even if it is copying homework, this homework has not yet been done.
But it is very close to the final success.
With the breakthrough of key technologies such as this computer and magnetron, the automatic control of missiles will soon make up for the shortcomings.
After conducting preliminary research on surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, the rocket research team will not only continue to delve into these two paths, but also conduct research on air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles.
In another direction, a special team is working all-out to research the air-to-ground rocket launcher proposed by Ren Zhong. This is to provide the air force with a powerful weapon for ground strikes, a 6-unit 90mm rocket launcher customized from the 107 rocket. According to the feedback, it is now basically about to succeed. The principle of this rocket launcher is not much different from the 107 rocket, but because it needs to be installed on the fighter jet, it needs to be re-fixed and a completely new ignition design is required, so the progress is not too fast, but with the main world data provided by Ren Zhong, the project team is still firmly advancing the mass production schedule.
Ren Zhong has no dissatisfaction with the work of Professor Qian and others. Basically, every job now is at its limit.
It's just that the heavy sense of historical responsibility not only drives Ren Zhong to work hard, but also drives every researcher at the Dawn Research Institute to work hard. The infrared imaging research of the Optical Research Center has been widely used in telescopes. Next, in the guidance direction, they are working hard according to the data given by Ren Zhong.
When this technology breaks through, it will also be a historic change for missiles.
It can even be said that if infrared guidance technology is broken through first and applied to surface-to-air missiles and air-to-air missiles, even if the fighter jets are a bit behind, using propeller fighters + missiles to fight jet fighters with only machine guns will have an advantage.
Therefore, the research and application of missiles is regarded by Ren Zhong as a real trump card. Now, the results have begun to gradually appear. Surface-to-air missiles have greatly advanced in terms of practicality and have begun to enter actual combat.
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