Chapter 690 Their interest is in this direction!
The minister smiled: "My dear Davari, if they want to import our latest tanks, then I will be highly vigilant. The latest tanks are of no use to them except against us. But seaplanes are very The special equipment indicates a fact, or they are showing us a certain attitude.”
Under Linochka's curious eyes, the minister walked to the world map and pointed to the south of the big rooster's little chicken's feet, which was a blue area.
"I think their interest is in this direction!"
Linochka expressed clear doubts about the minister's judgment: "Comrade minister, you should know their naval strength. This area is obviously not the direction they should consider now."
Linochka's judgment is not unfounded. In terms of actual progress, we have not even completed the construction of the "Air Submarine Speed". It is undoubtedly too early to look at this area at this time.
The minister smiled and said: "Comrade Linochka, inability and lack of preparation are two different things. If you don't prepare early, you will never have this strength. Isn't strength accumulated step by step? For example, what they want Are these seaplanes part of their strength?”
"Comrade Minister, I don't quite understand."
"Comrade Linochka, have you never been on the battlefield?"
"Yes, Comrade Minister. I have been working on the economic front, which I very much regret."
"Well, it's nothing. You don't have to be upset about this. My comrade, every effort you make on the economic front has turned into bullets fired at the Hans. From a combat perspective, every battle Before the battle, we all hope to understand the situation on the battlefield as clearly as possible.”
After saying this, Comrade Minister pointed his finger at the performance data of the Be-6.
"You have had a lot of dealings with southern comrades. You should know that under normal circumstances, even if they want to buy a seaplane, which model will they prefer?"
Linochka answered without any hesitation: "B-12! We are studying B-12!"
"Very correct, my Davari. They have an eternal pursuit of advanced technology. Compared with the Be-6, the Be-12 is newer and adopts more new technologies, use, maintenance, and most of the performance All indicators are better.”
"Perhaps they feel that the Bi-6 is more mature, reliable, and can quickly form combat effectiveness?"
Comrade Minister nodded: "Well, Comrade Linochka, you have seen an urgent need of theirs. Compared with the Be-12, the Be-6 is readily available. They also have considerable experience in using it and can use it as quickly as possible." Speed, use them.”
Linochka shrugged: "Comrade Minister, what else?"
"Range and load! Maybe they don't necessarily have to use the B-6 for combat, but a larger load has better mission flexibility. You know, load can be converted into range."
The range of the Be-6 is almost 5,000 kilometers, while the Be-12 is only 3,500 kilometers.
In terms of maximum load capacity, the former is 4 tons and the latter is 3 tons.
After saying this, Comrade Minister drew a circle in the blue area he just pointed out.
“Only this area requires such a huge range and load, and only considering the particularity of this area, it is necessary to purchase such a number of seaplanes, and only this area of the sea has so many but not large enough islands. It is more suitable for seaplanes. Otherwise, in any other sea area, the Be-12 is more suitable than the Be-6.”
"You see, the distance from their island to the southernmost tip of this sea area is about 1,700 kilometers. This is too extreme for the Be-12, but for the Be-6, its range is enough to do many things. .”
Having said this, Comrade Minister even speculated on the purpose of these aircraft.
"I think these aircraft are not even for combat, but are used for ocean exploration, hydrographic survey, island and reef mapping, etc. They are just the executors of the preparation work of the southern comrades before the official operation."
"Comrade Minister, if it is this area, they lack the ability to escort the Be-6 in this area. Their opponents are still entrenched on these islands, and there is no shortage of air power." Linochka said about the two sides. The current situation is still very clear.
As a water patrol aircraft, the Be-6 is very bulky compared to fighter jets.
"Comrade Linochka, you have to look at the problem from a systemic perspective. Just because they buy Be-6 from us does not mean that they only have one direction to strengthen Be-6. I don't know what our southern comrades will do specifically. But I think they have many ideas and methods. Maybe these ideas and methods may not work, but they are better than nothing, right? If they have actions, their enemies must respond, and their enemies and our enemies, It’s the same one.”
Having said this, Comrade Minister took the document and signed his name on it: "No matter what others think, I think this deal is worth it. Linochka, as long as they don't go north, then they can go in any direction." , are all I want to see.”
Linochka seemed to understand the meaning of the minister's words: "For a common goal?"
The minister nodded heavily: "Yes, my Davari, for the common goal!"
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When the comrades working on the 180mm rocket launcher received a notice from the National Defense Work Committee and were rushing to the capital non-stop, the comrades working on the 107 rocket launcher first received a confidential email from the National Defense Work Committee.
The content is not complicated. There is no interference or intervention in the development of 107. It only gives two new technologies.
"...Considering these two latest technologies, the range can be greatly increased without making any size changes to the 107mm rocket launcher..."
"...Therefore, I will transfer two new technologies to your factory. If possible, I hope your factory can try its best to increase the range of the 107mm rocket launcher by 25% or more without affecting other designs..."
"... From an economic point of view, the unit cost of rockets per kilometer of range is required to be no higher than 110% of the unit cost of existing 8.5-kilometer rockets..." It is difficult to increase the cost by no more than 10%, but on the premise of increasing the range It will be much easier if the unit cost increase does not exceed 10%.
It seems that the comrades of the Land Loading Bureau are still obsessed with the range. It should be said that the entire Army is like this. Here, they have given full play to the charm of statistics and beautified the actual cost increase control line of more than 35% to 10%.
35% may scare a lot of people, but 10% is much easier to accept.
The comrades who worked on 107 looked at this email and couldn't believe it, or they felt that the National Defense Work Committee and the Land Loading Bureau were talking to the lion again.
The size of the 107 Fire cannot be changed under any circumstances. This is due to technical and tactical requirements and limitations of turbo rocket spin stabilization technology. Although I don’t know where the problem lies, if the size is further lengthened, the rocket will lose accuracy. , this is almost certain.
Under this restriction, do you require a 25% increase in range? It's just a joke.
However, seeing the two new technologies provided, they felt a little relieved. The National Defense Work Committee and the Land Loading Bureau did not go too far. They made such a request under the premise of technical assistance.
I just don't know if these two techniques will work.
They opened the attachment of the email, and the name of the first one was surprising at first glance.
"High-energy modified double-base propellant for rockets"
Double-base propellants are not unusual, but modified and high-energy propellants are interesting.
The confidence of the comrades working on the 107 suddenly increased. Improving propellant performance is the best way to increase the range without changing the size of the projectile.
This technology is so targeted, it seems that the National Defense Work Committee and the Land Loading Bureau are really not just patting their heads on the head.
When they saw the performance of the modified double-base propellant, they looked at each other and laughed happily.
"The specific impact has increased so much? It seems that 30% is promising."
"Yes, yes, the burning temperature is a bit high..."
"It's okay. It doesn't cost much to make the insulation layer thicker. No matter how thick the insulation layer is, 25% is still no problem, right?"
"Well, this propellant is good, let's change it!"
"What's the rush? It hasn't been officially tested yet, so don't jump to conclusions prematurely."
"Boss, stop pretending, I see you are smiling happier than me."
"What nonsense are you telling the truth! Come on, let's see the next one."
After reading the second technology called "Star-Circular Dual Thrust Solid Rocket Motor", everyone, look at me and I look at you.
This thing looks simple, but theoretical analysis shows that it is really useful. The only problem is that this thing will increase the manufacturing cost.
At the same time, they also need to redesign the grain column. The length of the grain column in the take-off section and flight section is different for different rockets and needs to be designed accordingly.
As costs increase, it is easy to breach the control line.
Several core staff were thinking. One of them stared at the previous copy for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up.
"Comrades, have you noticed anything? Although this modified double-base propellant is more expensive than the one we use now, in terms of the unit cost per kilometer of range, in fact preliminary estimates are that it is higher than our current propellant. Be cheap.”
Everyone calculated carefully, and it turned out to be true.
"Haha, what does the Land Loading Bureau mean? They must know this situation."
"What do you mean? You don't understand. Their 10% is actually prepared for the increased cost of the second technology!"
"Huh? Is there any other way to do this?"
"I estimate that someone has limited the cost of our rocket. After all, we were considering guerrilla warfare from the beginning and required cheap prices and easy production. The comrades in the Land Loading Bureau could not object, and they felt that new technology did not need to be introduced. It’s a pity that this is a word game.”
(End of chapter)