Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 834 834 Red Flag

 In the era without GPS navigation, the accuracy of missiles could actually be slightly higher. It's just that this device is quite expensive, and its name is a starlight navigation system.

This thing can control the attack error of ballistic missiles within 200 meters in an era without satellite positioning and navigation, which is a miracle.

However, the price of this thing is also "leverage", so the cost of the missile itself has also risen with the tide.

 Generally, in order to reduce the cost of missiles, manufacturers will not install this sophisticated and expensive guidance system on unimportant missiles.

 The Tang Dynasty's Dongfeng series ballistic missiles did not adopt this new system that was immature at the time and was lagging behind in research and development progress because of the war schedule.

 But now, everything has become different.

 In the end, the Dongfeng-3 ballistic missile was not able to be put into actual combat before the end of the war, so the speed of all research and development can be slowed down.

Many performance indicators that had to be compromised at the time have also been restored: the Tang State canceled the "1,700-kilometer range" requirement tailor-made for the capital of the Dahua Empire.

 Hence, what has really begun mass production and deployment is the "complete" version with a range of more than 2,000 kilometers. This ultra-high-range strategic weapon is of course also equipped with starlight navigation equipment.

This is actually a real Dongfeng 3 missile. Except that the navigation system is more advanced and there is no nuclear warhead installed, there is no difference.

Completely different from the cheap Scud missiles, Tang Guo’s Dongfeng 3 missiles, with the technical blessing of Tang Mo, are truly cutting-edge.

Tang Mo hopes that this kind of ballistic missile will still have considerable strategic deterrence capabilities without the support of nuclear warheads.

 In fact, he did it. This new ballistic missile, which has begun to be secretly deployed, has an attack error of no more than 200 meters at its extreme range.

For city-level targets, this attack accuracy is already terrifying: the Scud missiles currently equipped by Tang State have an attack accuracy of as much as 300 meters after flying 300 kilometers.

“Have you heard?” In the drawing room, an engineer in overalls had just finished a drawing and raised his head to ask his companion.

 They have no secrets here, because the area they are in is a secret to the Tang Dynasty.

These engineers have their own homes, their own living facilities, their children have their own kindergartens, there are hospitals and schools in the factory, and there is a one-stop service from kindergarten to the cemetery.

 People living here may never have any interaction with outsiders in their entire lives, and they are not willing to have any interaction: everything here is the best, why should they leave?

 The companion next to him raised his head curiously: "What did you hear?"

The engineer who started the topic quickly showed off the gossip he had heard: "I heard that because of the Dragon Island incident, the Technology Department is preparing to launch a new weapons research and development project."

 “You’re talking about this? I’ve heard about it.” The companion nodded immediately. This matter was not a secret among them.

The engineer who spoke first continued to lament: "Half of the entire anti-aircraft weapons technology department has been transferred to participate in the development of new projects, and the development of subsequent models of the 88 mm caliber anti-aircraft gun has been cancelled..."

The companion also laughed and said: "Ha! That's a new anti-aircraft gun. Less than 1,000 of them have been deployed, and they are ready to be eliminated?"

"Isn't that true? However, the 40mm caliber anti-aircraft guns produced earlier have been in mass production. Do you think it's interesting?" the engineer who spoke first asked while laying out the new drawings on the drawing board.

The companion didn’t know either, so he could only say casually: “I don’t know what the chief engineers think. Who knows why.”

"I'm telling you, the new project code name has just been finalized." The engineer who spoke first lowered his voice mysteriously, showing off his good ears and eyes.

 “Code name? What’s it called?” the engineer who spoke asked curiously. The engineer who started the topic finally got to the point and proudly said two words: "Red flag!"

Hearing the project code name, the engineer who spoke nodded and praised: "Listen...it's not bad."

 Yes, Tang State is secretly developing a brand new air defense weapon, namely the Hongqi 2 air defense missile. This thing is called S-75 in the Soviet Union, and its opponents nickname it Sam 2. It looks tall and mighty.

 Although it looks huge, it is actually an anti-aircraft missile. The early warning search radar used in the entire system has a theoretical design range of 275 kilometers, and is equipped with an altitude measurement radar that can basically detect the three-dimensional coordinates of the target.

 Different from the previous one, the entire system has a new auxiliary radar, which is responsible for indicating tracking and guidance. The range of this radar is 65 kilometers.

In addition, the fire control guidance radar can detect targets 70 kilometers away. This system can automatically follow the target with a tracking distance of 55 kilometers. It uses a mechanical dual-antenna dual-beam scanning method and can simultaneously track 6 batches of targets and guide 3 missiles. Attack a target.

 The entire system is actually very large, but its performance can only be said to be average. However, it has fulfilled the dream of many people: a weapon that will automatically attack long-distance targets and achieve the feat of destroying targets beyond visual range.

Although it can only attack one target at a time, it does have wider coverage and better attack accuracy than anti-aircraft guns.

 Another good news is that this missile faces a better battlefield environment than its "real body". You know, when the S-2, the Sam 2 missile, was born, jet fighters were already flying all over the sky.

But Tang is different. Tang's anti-aircraft missiles have to face propeller aircraft from various countries. To put it bluntly, it is really killing a chicken with a knife.

As long as the radar locks the target, the probability of the missile hitting the target is infinitely close to 100%, because the target is too weak.

 In terms of price, using missiles to attack propeller-driven aircraft may be a bit like using anti-aircraft guns to swat mosquitoes. Maybe, the price of that aircraft is not as expensive as Tang's anti-aircraft missiles.

 Another interesting thing is that because the opponent's aircraft are too different generations, Tang's air defense missiles actually have a little "defect".

  After all, the speed of the aircraft of these other countries is too slow, so the propeller planes of various countries can fly very low and very slowly - but Tang's anti-aircraft missiles can only hit targets at medium and high altitudes, and there is nothing they can do about them at low altitudes.

This is also a technical flaw. Early air defense missiles were unable to deal with low-altitude targets. Missiles that specifically targeted low-altitude targets only appeared later.

  The second flaw is that this missile has too few guidance channels, so it has no way to fight against large-scale target invasion.

If the enemy dispatches 100 aircraft to invade the defense zone at one time, the anti-aircraft missile force will probably not be able to destroy even one-fifth of the aircraft at the same time.

 Because each launch battalion is equipped with six launchers arranged in a hexagonal shape, it can only attack one target at the same time. It is almost impossible to deploy more than a dozen missile battalions at the same time.

The missile is a two-stage engine. The first-stage solid fuel boost stage works for 4-5 seconds and has a projectile diameter of 0.645 meters; the second-stage fuming nitric acid-kerosene liquid engine works for 22 seconds, the projectile diameter is 0.5 meters and the thrust is 2,650 kilograms.

As long as it is locked by it, the target is unlikely to escape: although a missile battalion can only lock one target at a time, it can attack with up to three missiles at the same time. The interception probability is quite terrifying, but the interception efficiency is not high.

Therefore, while researching new missiles, Tang's aircraft research and development department is also working frantically to make progress, trying to bring out the first-generation jet fighter as soon as possible to deal with the almost non-existent "air superiority crisis."

Yes, the Tang State is developing the next generation of fighter jets, but countries around the world are now unable to even come up with a thing that is truly capable of dealing with the Butcher fighter jets.

 (End of this chapter)