Chapter 1348: Expand nuclear power, expand nuclear power!
"Academician Chang, what do you think?"
Xing Muchun held an English newspaper issued the day before in his hand and asked Chang Haonan, who was waiting for data analysis results behind his desk. He was waiting for the results of data analysis. road.
As summer goes and autumn comes, the development of "Jiadena Express" is gradually getting on track. Many trivial matters can be handed over to the person in charge of each subsystem to decide, and finally report them to project management regularly. The work intensity of Chang Haonan and several others has been significantly reduced.
At least, I have had a moment to rest after work.
"What are you looking at?"
The latter put down the thermos in his hand and turned his eyes from the computer screen to the newspaper on the desktop.
Then almost laughed out loud—
The newspaper was printed with a bold black font:
[Redefine Hypersonics-Air Force] It has been approved by Congress and will restart the "Falcon" plan by the end of this year to build a new strategic deterrent force】
The content is nothing particularly novel.
After all, the United States has been rude about whether to make the HTV2 unpowered glider aircraft become formal, since a few months ago -
Don't look at the ruling of the two men in the court The people in the hall are as hypocritical, but in the final analysis, it is just for the word "money".
As top military giants, Lockheed Martin and Boeing each have extremely tough connections on Capitol Hill and the Pentagon, and hypersonic weapons are undoubtedly the biggest hot topic nowadays. Who can be in this field If you take the lead, you will seize the initiative in subsequent projects of at least hundreds or hundreds of billions of dollars.
In addition, the restrictions on funding flows of projects hosted by the Air Force Space Command are often looser, making it easier for Commissioner Smith to get started.
Under such terrifying interests, even breaking the head is normal.
Just the sentence "redefining xxx" made it difficult for him not to think of some interesting things in the past timeline.
Xing Muchun, who was sitting opposite, certainly didn't understand why Chang Haonan showed such a strange expression. She cast a puzzled look and continued:
"Americans reacted so quickly , in combination with the previous two months they hyped our hypersonic research project in the media, it should be considered a targeted action, right? "
Chang Haonan did not immediately restrain his smile, but joked:
"It's not so much about us, but rather about Boeing."
"I asked Professor Yang to study the budget situation of the X51A based on public information... Although many details are incomplete, it still It can basically be determined that, including the remaining cycles that have not yet been executed, Boeing received about 30 times the amount of funding we paid, and considering that this project is obviously delayed, this number will only become even more terrifying." >
Although Xing Muchun had expected this situation, he was still shocked when he heard this result.
You should know that the funds they received include two solutions: gliding and inhaling.
Boeing, by contrast, only a single aspirated model is responsible for.
And more importantly, for such technology-intensive work, labor costs are not the decisive factor at all. Even considering exchange rate differences, China still has very few advantages in this regard.
In other words, most of the costs of 30 times, or 60 times, are consumed in all the inconspicuous links in the middle.
Xing Muchun nodded and sighed: "Such a terrifying profit... Others really can't be uncensored."
"Actually, in some way, it's a kind of To the extent, the US dollar only needs to print money...so spending money is still secondary."
Chang Haonan smiled and said: "The biggest trouble for Americans is that in this execution mode, it is necessary to maximize benefits by continuously postponing a project. If it succeeds quickly, there is no need to get any money, which leads to Even if Party B has enough ability, he has no motivation to execute it well..."
Now, Xing Muchun understood the implicit meaning:
"So, just like X51A, you too Not optimistic about this Falcon project? ”
From a technical point of view, the gliding type is superb because it does not need to consider the weight changes caused by power, intake, and fuel consumption, so it is more difficult than the inhaled type Lower.
The reason why he talked about this with Chang Haonan today was because he was worried that the other party would catch up in a relatively short time after finding the right development direction of the easy first and then difficult.
Although in terms of progress alone, according to the schedule for the test launch in the first half of 2008, the possibility of Lockheed Martin coming from behind is actually very low.
But the range of HTV-2 is more than 11,000 kilometers. In terms of performance and speed, Americans still have something to say.
As a result, Chang Haonan didn't think this thing could succeed at all.
"In the field of hypersonics, there is no need to regard Americans as their main competitor..."
He shook his head: "In contrast, another thing is more worrying." "What?" "This rice as a carrier device The Notao 4 rocket was transformed from the retired Peace Guard Intercontinental Ballistic Missile... If they were asked to launch a few more times, it would be possible to drag the militia to 3rd to live, and then re-energize it in some way." br>
The American technology during the Cold War was really shocking. As a ballistic missile developed in the 1970s and put into service in the 1980s, the LGM118 is still not far behind even from a perspective of thirty years later. If we consider factors such as accuracy and projection ability, it can even be considered far ahead.
Now Americans have gradually lost their ability to build new models. If they really want to go back to do archaeological research, it will bring a lot of new troubles.
Especially for China, whose nuclear capabilities are already at a disadvantage, the threat brought by the old militia 3 is obviously smaller in the exchange of nuclear balance.
As for new ballistic missiles such as "Sentinel", they don't even have to look at them.
At least it will be in vain in the future.
Xing Muchun seemed quite surprised to this conclusion: "I think that as long as the number of warheads is sufficient, even if the success rate of the vehicle is launched is low, it will not be too big... ... Besides, the main body of the US nuclear power is the submarine-launched Trident D5. This thing is currently still of its unique strength and is still in production, far from the time it needs to be updated."
Nuclear Policy and nuclear balance are indefinite things for all mankind.
Especially in the post-Cold War era when the number of nuclear warheads has been greatly reduced and physical test explosions cannot be carried out, it is a brand new research content.
So, Chang Haonan did not continue on this issue.
But suddenly the topic changed, leading to another topic that had just come to mind: "Lao Xing, what are you going to do next after this project is over?"
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This seemingly unreasonable sudden turn made Xing Muchun stunned:
"I really never thought about this..."
When he was transferred from the Rockets deputy chief commander to the hypersonic weapon program, he had actually made plans to retire after finishing this ticket, and he was even worried about whether he could live to see the results come true.
But the actual situation is that the progress has made rapid progress. According to the current progress, after completing this ticket, not only does it take for you to retire, but you even have the opportunity to go from deputy to chief executive and take on a project in person.
The only problem is that in the past system, the chief engineer often retreated to the second line after completing a landmark project, so that the deputy chief engineer could take over the follow-up R&D work on the same route.
It's natural whether in terms of qualifications or ability.
However, Chang Haonan, the chief squad, is over 20 years younger than him, and it is definitely impossible to endure this person by just waiting for time.
And the situation of hypersonic weapons programs is also very special.
Xing Muchun, as the deputy chief engineer, is mainly responsible for overall research and development, and Chang Haonan's main energy is instead focused on the research on the layout of wave-riding bodies.
The division of labor is completely opposite to most projects.
It made it difficult for him to take over the follow-up work alone without Chang Haonan.
After thinking for a while, Xing Muchun simply replied:
"It's not impossible to continue to be the deputy chief engineer and work with you...."
This is not a false statement.
Being Chang Haonan as the deputy chief engineer is definitely more comfortable than more than 95% of the chief engineers.
But the latter shook his head:
"After the project is completed, I should change my research field..."
"Are you doing rockets in general, or are you more suitable to go back to be responsible for launch vehicles, or... continue to stay at the military industry and build the next generation of ballistic missiles."
"Ballistic missile..."
Xing Muchun captured the keywords and seemed to understand why Chang Haonan suddenly talked about this.
The other party had just laid the foundation for a long time about nuclear power, and now it is obviously impossible to refer to a tactical model of small-scale fights.
"Did you hear any wind?"
He asked tentatively. "That's not." Chang Haonan decisively denied it and explained: "But we can roughly believe that the level of nuclear deterrence is approximately equal to nuclear capacity divided by Comprehensive national strength... In the past, our national strength was weak, and we only needed entry-level nuclear forces to maintain strategic nuclear balance. As the strength comparison between our country and the United States gradually approached, it was difficult to continue with the existing nuclear forces alone. Maintain the balance of power."
This theory is indeed a bit novel and sounds very reasonable.
However, before Xing Muchun could fully recall it, Chang Haonan continued to give his own judgment:
"So I guess that in a few years, the expansion of the nuclear power... will be put on the agenda. .”
(This chapter ends)