Chapter 634 Why should your next missile be just a missile...
Guo Liqiang’s reaction was obviously not what He Ming next to him had expected.
After all, the latter himself and Chang Haonan behaved similarly when they saw this thing for the first time.
"How about it? Although there are many functions I told you in the official letter, it should be a lot more difficult to integrate them into such a big thing, right?"
At this time Guo Liqiang was still immersed in joy and excitement. In just a few words, he had already walked around the missile rack several times, looking here and there.
Although air-to-air missiles are no better than airplanes, they don't actually contain much valuable information from their appearance.
But it did not delay him from being simply happy.
So much so that I couldn’t even answer the question right away.
He Ming looked at Guo Liqiang like a child who got a toy he was interested in, but he didn't rush to urge him.
He has experienced this state before, a few years ago when he first learned that Su-27 technology would be introduced and a production line established in China.
For an engineer, especially one who could only do his work in a shell in the past, it feels very transparent to have a platform with such huge potential in front of him for him to unleash.
In particular, the aviation industry already had several JH-7 and J-8 models as a transition before the Su-27.
Although the Aerospace Technology Research Institute has produced many models here, they are all small and small, such as the Hongqi 61 or the Thunderbolt 11, and even individual ammunition such as the Hongying 5.
Although logically speaking, size does not completely represent the level of technical level, but if you really have a choice...
Men, who wouldn't like big ones...
After Guo Liqiang knocked around the missile for a while, he patted the oil stains and dust left on his hands again, and returned to He Ming:
"He Gong, I just took a quick look, and indeed The potential is not small.”
“Although I can’t take it apart to take a closer look at the internal structure, I speculate that the volume filling rate of its seeker and warhead is not very high, and there is enough space to accommodate more. Complex electronic equipment to make the air-to-air anti-radiation missile you mentioned in your letter before."
At this point, he took two steps forward again and gently placed the missile body near the nose cone. Patted:
“The warheads of tactical missiles are basically at this position (rather than the head). Under normal circumstances, because air targets are generally fragile, anti-air missiles tend to use a large number of prefabricated missiles. Fragments or ring-shaped continuous rods are used as warheads to optimize damage area rather than damage capability, and the proportion of the charge to the total weight of the warhead is very low.”
"If the shape of the warhead is slightly adjusted and a certain degree of range reduction is accepted, with this missile's maximum speed close to 5 times the speed of sound, I don't even think there will be any problems if it is used directly against the ground."
< br>"It's just..."
Guo Liqiang, who was still talking excitedly just now, his face froze:
"It's just that for this kind of air-to-air bomb with a range of 200 kilometers and up , the process from launch to hit may last 3 minutes or even longer. Even if there is a terminal active seeker, guidance correction must be continued during the flight. Otherwise, if the missile is allowed to fly past only by inertial guidance, the target will have long since disappeared. I don’t know where to go.”
“I remember that the R33’s paper range is almost 300 kilometers. Of course, this is the limit data when the carrier aircraft and the target are flying head-to-head, but even if it is discounted in actual combat. , it must be about 150 kilometers, and considering that locking must be completed before launch, the tracking distance of the radar to the target cannot be less than 250 kilometers.”
"This launch condition...can our carrier aircraft meet it now?"
If fighter planes are the heroes who rush into battle, then missiles are the weapons in the hands of the heroes.
The levels of the two must complement each other.
Even if he is as brave as Lu Bu Dianwei, he will not be able to exert much fighting power without someone taking advantage of him. In the end, he will be captured or outnumbered.
On the other hand, even if Xing Daorong is paired with Fang Tian Hua Ji and Red Rabbit, there is a high probability that he will be overthrown by Zhao Zilong with one shot.
"During the previous test flight, the 1493 radar had captured a target the size of a Boeing 737 240km away."
He Minglie thought for a while and then replied:
"However, if we talk about stable tracking, If so... I'm afraid the distance will have to be much closer. "
Radars, especially mechanical scanning radars, cannot increase the search distance indefinitely simply by increasing the power or the target's RCS is large enough. It involves the influence of many factors such as antenna form and radar back-end data processing level.
Guo Liqiang knows more about this than He Ming:
"If this is the case, it would be best to have a native airborne phased array radar, like the MiG-31, to protect target data in the middle of the range."
However, this is completely embarrassing. How clear.
The MiG-31 is essentially a high-altitude, high-speed missile launcher unique to the Homeland Defense Force. It is a dumpling specially made for the R33 missile and the N007S radar.
For China, even if the technical aspect is not taken into consideration, from the perspective of military construction route alone, such a thing will not be developed.
So, he waved his hand and decided to give up on this issue for the time being:
"Gong Guo, I'm just responsible for the production of aircraft. I don't know much about the radar project, but at least, there should be no phased array radar that can be installed on fighter jets in a short time. Otherwise, we should have started long ago. We are working on a related verification aircraft.”
“I think that instead of thinking about so many things that neither of us can decide, we should first build a missile with sufficient performance and mount it on an existing model of aircraft. Testing, as for the radar... I think there will be one after all." Of course Guo Liqiang also understands this truth, but as a missile designer, if he cannot exert the full performance of the weapon, there will always be a magic weapon made by a famous craftsman. regret.
“This is the best for the time being.”
He sighed softly, and his slightly red-hot brain gradually returned to calmness:
"As far as the bomb itself is concerned, the main difficulty for us is the propellant. Even if we get a full set of technical information from Lao Maozi, it will take some time to organize the production. The remaining problems are not big."< br>
“Whether it is active radar, passive anti-radiation, radar guidance to the ground, or directly changed to TV guidance or laser guidance, as you just said, the space inside the radome is really too big, so these are not difficult. "
"In terms of target signal processing and control rate, long-range missiles and medium- and short-range missiles may be different, but our country is considered the best in the world in this aspect, so it is not a problem..."
< br>Originally, Guo Liqiang just took stock and said that he would definitely not live up to He Ming's kindness, which was a reassurance to the other party.
But halfway through the inventory, the latter was shocked:
"Top in the world?"
Guo Liqiang, who was suddenly interrupted, was stunned for a moment, then nodded:
"Yes, you don't know?"
He Ming had a look on his face Confused:
“Don’t know what?”
Guo Liqiang straightened his half-white hair:
"Well... Mr. Chang, and another researcher from the Institute of Computing of the Academy of Sciences, are considered pioneers in this field. Although they published an article I probably didn’t continue to work in this area after that, but domestic and foreign Chinese researchers were greatly encouraged by them and invested a lot of energy in this direction in the past two years, so... we are so ahead.”
He Ming took a deep breath.
His job is in machinery manufacturing, and he has indeed never heard of these things.
But then I thought about it, if it was Mr. Chang...
It seems reasonable.
So I accepted this setting.
Seeing that the expression on He Ming's face returned to normal, Guo Liqiang continued:
"Of course, our research capabilities are also limited, and it is impossible to open so many stalls at the same time. , so we should focus on the basic model of active and passive composite seekers first.”
“In addition, if you want to perform anti-radiation missions, whether it is a ground radar, an early warning aircraft, or other aircraft with radar, Missiles with passive anti-radiation capabilities alone are not effective. It is best to cooperate with electronic warfare aircraft with relevant capabilities.”
"I know that Haofei has used the JH-7 platform to develop an electronic warfare model before. When this missile is tested, it would be best for He Gong to make a connection and borrow one for testing."
"That's no problem."
He Ming nodded immediately:
"And if we wait a few more years, we may also have an electronic warfare model of the J-11 platform here. Mr. Chang mentioned it before when he came to inspect our factory..."
"It shouldn't take a few years..."
Guo Liqiang lowered his head and thought for a moment:
"In short, we can discuss this later. Anyway, as long as there is a reliable electronic warfare platform, the basic functions of this missile can be guaranteed, but the effective range is limited by..."
At this point, his voice stopped abruptly.
He Ming turned his head curiously and saw Guo Liqiang staring closely at the three missiles in front of him, wondering what he was thinking.
“I suddenly had a bold idea...”
After a long while, the latter spoke again:
"A missile as big as this can be more than just a missile..."
"Huh?"
He Ming was a little confused by this sentence.
“This matter is a bit complicated to say.”
Guo Liqiang shook his head, turned around and looked at He Ming:
"I hope to meet Mr. Chang as soon as possible. I wonder if you can contact him?"
(End of this chapter)