Chapter 723 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Sky 1 Missile

"The Cangqiong 1 ballistic missile is imitated from the Iranian Meteor-3 ballistic missile. The first technology came from the former Soviet Union's SS-N-5 submarine-launched missile. The missile is 16 meters long, with a bullet diameter of 0.35 meters and a weight of 16 tons. The fuel is TM-185 (20% gasoline and 80% kerosene), and the maximum thrust is 13 tons. With a payload of 1200 kg, it can carry a combat part of 760-1200 kg, with a maximum range of 1500 kilometers. The missile adopts customary guidance with a strike accuracy of 190 meters, which is an effective deterrent force for attacking medium- and short-range enemy military fortifications. An expert from the missile research center pointed to the missile under final assembly.

The officers of the navy and air force are better. Although they know that this kind of missile is powerful, it is not prepared for them. The army and the strategic missile battalion are very happy.

"The technology of the Sky missile is all from Iran. At present, our research center is working hard to master these technologies and will make improvements as needed. This missile is excellent, but it also has shortcomings." As the general head of the scientific research department, Abick has been accompanying Li Mo. After the expert's introduction, he continued to explain beside Li Mo.

"First of all, the promotion mode of the Sky missile is backward. The missile with a single-stage ** rocket engine has been basically abandoned by various countries in the modern military. Because of the inconvenience of fuel storage, the logistical pressure is high, and it is prone to accidents. Secondly, this kind of missile has insufficient range. If the maximum distance of 1,500 kilometers is deployed in the north of China, it is enough to cover the Gulf of Aden and southern Saudi Arabia. However, the medium-range ballistic missile is a war zone ballistic missile. The best way to attack is to attack with a missile with a range higher than the target. That is to say, the Sky 1 missile is the best shot. The hit distance is 300-500 kilometers. If the enemy target is in this range, the missile can directly rush out of the atmosphere after launch. When it reaches the target, the missile is basically in space hundreds of kilometers higher than the target, and then dive down at a very fast speed, which can basically reach more than a dozen times the speed of sound to dive from high altitude to hit the target. It can't be defended. The distance of 300-500 strictly limits the operational use of the Sky missile. It can only be an excellent home defense missile and a front-line offensive missile, and it can't become a better deterrent missile at all.

Li Mo and several people around him heard the dissatisfaction in Abiq's tone and couldn't help peeping at each other. Others may not understand, but Li Mo knows that Abick has studied the 'sword' missile, and he is not very eye-catching the sky that imitates the meteor missile.

Although Li Mo also agrees with Abick's words in his heart, as a boss, he can't directly agree, because Li Mo sees more and farther.

With the help of Iran, the missile technology of the Star Group has just begun to develop, and it is impossible to do it overnight. Li Mo has now paid more and more attention to the foundation. For example, on the other side of the aircraft, Li Mo asked the aviation experts of the power institute to study the propeller aircraft first, one is to run in the scientific research team, and the other is about those knowledge. Insufficient technicians are trained and trained.

"Abick, how is the research of solid rocket engines going?" Li Mocha opened the topic and asked.

Several people around him also pricked up their ears, especially the poisonous snake. He is now the commander of the strategic missile battalion. During this period, he also learned about missiles every day and added a lot of knowledge. Naturally, he knew the use of solid rocket engines on missiles.

Just now, he planned to put forward this opinion, but he didn't expect that the boss had already given an order with the scientific research department to study the solid rocket engine.

"Boss, the solid rocket engine is composed of four parts: solid propellant, nozzle assembly, shell and ignition device. Among them, the formula and manufacturing process of solid propellant, the material and process used in the nozzle design, the shell material and the manufacturing process are the most critical, which directly affect the energy of the engine. At present, we have completed the design and manufacture of the ignition device. The gunpowder box is made of black gunpowder. After the black gunpowder is ignited through the electric wire, the medicine column is ignited. The material of the shell is composite armor composed of silicon uranium alloy and high-strength alloy steel, which can withstand a high temperature of 3,500 degrees and 102* High pressure of 107 Pa. The main difficulties we face now are the formulation of the propellant and the design of the nozzle. Formulas We can find the best formula from polyurethane, polybutadiene and other compounds according to the existing data. It only takes a little more time, and it is not difficult to find a primary solid fuel propellant. What is really tricky is the design of sprinkler irrigation, because the solid rocket engine has high acceleration and thrust when working. It is not easy to control, so the nozzle assembly must be able to control the thrust generated by supersonic exhaust gas, which involves thrust vector control. That is to say, we must make the nozzle assembly have a thrust vector control system to control the flight posture of the missile.

Vector technology was first created in the 1970s by Wolfgang, an aircraft designer of German MBB. Herbos proposed to use the direction of the rear jet of the engine to change the maneuverability of the aircraft. In 1985, the U.S. Defense Pre-Research Bureau cooperated with MBB to conduct a feasible surname study. In the 1990s, the first tail jet can change thrust verification machine X-31 left the factory.

In the simulated air battle between the X-31 verification machine and the F-18 fighter, if the X-31 verification machine does not use thrust vector technology, it will fight 16 times and F-18 wins 12 times, while when the X-31 verification machine uses thrust vector technology, it will fight 66 times and X-31 wins 64 times.

This scheme realizes the thrust vector by adding 3-4 tail plates that can be used for internal and external steering in the rear part, and changing the direction of the tail jet by the steering of the tail plate. It is characterized by the fact that there is no need to make any changes to the engine. It is suitable for experiments on active aircraft. It has a simple structure and low cost. But the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the increased tail weight and the thrust vector work efficiency are low, which is not good for aircraft stealth and supersonic cruise.

Human command is infinite. Thrust vector technology is valued by political axes of various countries and used in the research and application of the next generation of military aircraft. For example, the current vector technology has several kinds of control methods: binary vector technology, which is applied to F-22 fighters; axisymmetric vector technology, which will be applied to Su- 35. On aircraft such as Su-37, there are several kinds of flow field thrust vector technology.

Speaking of which, binary vector technology is the earliest and the most mature; in comparison, axisymmetric vector technology has better functions and higher technical requirements. At present, political axes in various countries have basically transferred their research centers to axisymmetric vector technology; while flow field thrust vector technology is the latest research, development progress and potential. The most, although there are still some practical requirements, it is foreseeable that this vector technology will be the most promising.

At present, the missile solid rocket engine nozzles in various countries are basically practical. The X-31 verification machine is equipped with a few pieces of steering tail plates, because the missile is a consumable. This method is the simplest, the cost is the lowest, and the missile is not like an aircraft. In that way, the pursuit of mobility is agile, and the thrust vector control is enough for the flight posture of the longitudinal missile. However, with the maturity of binary vector technology and the development of manufacturing technology, the cost is certainly getting lower and lower. Now many missile engines have adopted new vector technology.

Having said so much, the main meaning is that whether it is thrust vector technology, solid rocket engine, or missile technology, it is still an advanced technology mastered by a few countries. The main reason for the current achievements of the Somali Star Company is that Li Mo himself is also good at 'long sleeves and dancing', and has seized the opportunity several times to seek benefits and benefits for himself.

Both North Korea and Iran have mastered missile technology, but the medium-range missiles of the two countries, whether single-stage or multi-stage, are practical ** propellants. The two countries have studied solid rocket engines for more than a decade. So far, the two countries have not mastered mature solid rocket engine technology, except in In addition to the lack of technology on materials, nozzle vector technology is also an important problem.

At the beginning, when the political axes of the two countries learned that Li Mo had mastered the high-temperature alloy technology of silicon-uranium alloy, they immediately rushed to cooperate. The purpose was nothing more than to make up for the problems in this military technology. Although thrust vector technology is very demanding, the two countries have studied it for many years, not to mention the most advanced axisymmetric vector technology and flow field thrust vector technology. The first two simple and mature vector technologies can always be mastered. Now with the silicon-uranium alloy provided by Li Mo, the two countries have time to take out mature solid rocket engines. It's not far.

Once the solid rocket engine is mastered, the missile technology of the two countries will make a big leap. If the political axes of the two countries can achieve complete complementarity in missile technology, perhaps not far away, the political axes of the two countries can really make multi-stage composite forward intercontinental missiles. Once that time comes, I'm afraid of war. It's not far away.

Listening to Li Mo and Abick talking in a low voice, the poisonous snake felt that it was scratched by countless small hands.

Seeing this kind of missile, Viper's most urgent thing is to hope that it can be deployed to the strategic missile battalion as soon as possible, and the most important of this is to install nuclear warheads on the Sky missile.

What is a strategic missile battalion? To put it simply, it is necessary to equip nuclear weapons with strategic nuclear deterrence. The Sky 1 missile can be equipped with a combat unit of 760-1200 kg, and the least equivalent of more than ten nuclear warheads stored by Star Company are several nuclear warheads with a equivalent of 500,000 tons. Because uranium 235 is used as the nuclear raw material, one kilogram of weapon-grade enriched uranium is equivalent to 2,500 tons. The warhead is a nuclear raw material alone, which is up to 200 kg. In addition, with other nuclear devices, the total weight is about 500 kg. It seems feasible to install it on the Sky 1 missile, but don't forget that this missile has a range of only 1,500 kilometers. Although it is a ballistic missile, it can also be said to be a tactical missile. It is obviously inappropriate for tactical missiles to be equipped with strategic nuclear warheads. The miniaturization of nuclear weapons is also one of the centers of gravity of Laboratory 9, but because Li Mo once ordered that most of the human and material materials should be placed in the research of alien materials, the miniaturization of nuclear weapons is still far away.

The technology of the nuclear bomb obtained in the Japanese nuclear weapons base is quite lagging behind. As early as the 1990s, the most advanced nuclear bomb W88 in the United States, with a equivalent capacity of 475,000 tons, but a weight of only 350 kg. These nuclear warheads are nuclear fuel mixed with plutonium-239. At the same equivalent, they are lighter than pure uranium 235 nuclear bombs. From the nuclear weapons base, Li Mo only obtained a few nuclear warheads with plutonium 239 as nuclear raw materials, and the others were uranium-235 nuclear bombs, weighing only a few tons, which could not be installed on the Sky 1 missile.

(to be continued)