manynovel #335 - First generation air-to-air missiles
#335 - First generation air-to-air missiles
The first-generation J-5 fighter jets were not in the first batch to go into battle, and this was not solely for the sake of preserving strength.
In fact, besides achieving jet propulsion and a high subsonic speed of 1145 km/h approaching the speed of sound, the first-generation J-5 fighter's combat methods were no different from the previous generation's P51D Mustang fighter.
Furthermore, there were still many differences between jet engine aircraft and propeller aircraft. Even the most seasoned propeller aircraft pilots did not yet have the ability to properly control this new technology aircraft.
Therefore, although over a hundred J-5 fighter jets had been produced, their actual combat capability was still very weak, and they were currently undergoing high-frequency flight training.
In addition, the two most important subsystems, the radar subsystem and the air-to-air missile subsystem, had not yet overcome technical obstacles to produce successful products.
Ren Zhong provided detailed technical data for the AN/APQ-50 radar and AIM-7 A missiles. Because these two models were historically old, a lot of information was publicly available, and Ren Zhong managed to obtain almost exhaustive details, down to the detailed design level.
Even so, the radar research team and the air-to-air missile research team were still very strained!
Many things were currently difficult for them to achieve and required starting with basic materials. Especially in terms of radar, the units for transmitting and receiving radar required new material support in order to be miniaturized and placed on fighter jets.
Such things were not uncommon for everyone. After all, we lacked many basic things and had to catch up to complete the upstream parts of this product chain.
Even in terms of materials, Ren Zhong had provided relevant technical data for support, but the process from experimentation to realization could not be completed by simply looking at some data. It required solid effort to conduct various experiments in order to truly master their characteristic data and then produce qualified products under laboratory conditions.
This process was unavoidable even with Ren Zhong's information provision.
Currently, these things were completely beyond the capabilities of the Rogue Eagle.
The Rogue Eagle's most advanced F-86 Sabre, a current supersonic fighter, did not have these things either, but was equipped with machine guns and rockets, as well as an AN/APG-36 search radar. This radar only had search capabilities and no fire control capabilities.
Ren Zhong was certainly very clear about this situation.
But that did not mean that Ren Zhong would be limited to the current technical status quo.
He now had the opportunity to take a step ahead and be the first to complete the top-level combat standard of fire control radar + air-to-air missiles for air force operations, so of course, he needed to make a 100% effort.
Moreover, after researching the basic technology, Ren Zhong asked experts to separately assess the realization of basic materials and concluded that products could be made in this era. In other words, although the two things he provided were beyond current capabilities, they were still solvable within this era!
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Professor Qian served as the chief engineer of rockets and missiles.
And the first-generation air-to-air missile, the Thunderbolt I.
Even though the team under his command had expanded several times, his current workload had reached saturation around the clock, requiring the implementation of Ren Zhong's mandatory rest system to ensure normal sleep.
Although they all looked like missiles, they each had their own technical characteristics, and the technical details that needed attention in the middle were still not quite the same.
Ren Zhong was not pretentious. He came today to see how the two trump cards in his hand were progressing.
Surface-to-air missiles and air-to-air missiles were the two most important magic weapons he planned to use to overcome the strong with the weak and fight for air superiority in the peninsula. The Hongqi I anti-aircraft missile was unsatisfactory. Whether it was the radar device or the missile body itself, it was almost meaningless. The accuracy was too poor to provide reliable air interference to the ground.
Of course, compared to anti-aircraft guns, the Hongqi anti-aircraft missile was still much higher, hitting higher and farther. In theory, it could hit enemy fighter jets at an altitude of 30,000 meters. Of course, at such a high distance, there were too many sources of interference that needed to be eliminated, and it was difficult to say that there was a clear hit rate!
The truly high hit rate may still be at an altitude of 3,000 to 7,000 or 8,000 meters.
Therefore, after this missile was launched, it basically did not have much use.
Now, several Hongqi anti-aircraft missile battalions have entered the peninsula. In the first battle, because there were their own fighter jets fighting in the sky, the Hongqi surface-to-air missile battalions did not dare to release them to test the waters.
Now the Hongqi surface-to-air missile battalions are still too bloated. The radar alone uses 6 trucks to carry them together. The target is large and the reaction is slow. For fast-moving jet fighters, once the target is exposed, these surface-to-air missile battalions are almost wiped out in minutes!
So, unless absolutely necessary and at a critical moment, the surface-to-air missile battalions are not easily dispatched.
This is almost the opponent's last trump card.
Of course, it must be used on the edge of the knife.
If new breakthroughs are made in radar, then the power of the Hongqi anti-aircraft missile battalion will be greatly increased, even if the old warheads and missile bodies are still used.
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As long as the radar is more powerful, then indicators such as hit rate will quickly improve on this basis.
Therefore, the strongest things to deal with the Rogue Eagle Air Force are all under intensive research at the Dawn Research Institute.
War is the strongest catalyst for the birth of technology. The technology provided by Ren Zhong, which is ten years ahead or seven or eight years ahead, is now progressing rapidly in the face of the huge pressure of war.
The Hongqi I anti-aircraft missile, a pirated version of the SAM-2 from the Bright Sword world. The supporting fire control radar is the latest improved version of the SCR-268 radar. After simplification, the huge SCR268 radar is now equipped on 6 trucks to move with the anti-aircraft missiles.
Of course, the hit rate is much stronger than that of anti-aircraft guns, that is for sure.
Now a team is fighting for infrared guidance technology. The best technology to deal with jet fighters at this stage is heat seeking, which is the technology of infrared identification and application. Now the gas temperature emitted by jet fighters is amazing, which is simply a guiding light for infrared guidance technology!
Before the invention of infrared recognition interference technology such as jamming bombs, infrared guidance was simply a must-kill skill for jet fighters!
For infrared guidance, there is a material that cannot be avoided, that is, antimony compound semiconductor. For this high-end material, Ren Zhong did not expect to be able to quickly replicate it in the Bright Sword world this time, so he simply purchased a batch from the main world and brought it over!
Now that the situation is urgent, Ren Zhong cannot let the team start from scratch step by step.
He even purchased a batch of defined embedded single-board computers for infrared guidance calculations.
The two key things for infrared detection were researched in the main world to create a complete docking method, and directly imported into the Bright Sword world to promote their birth!
In this way, the progress of the entire project has advanced by leaps and bounds. The researchers in the Bright Sword world are more about learning the C language programming of the main world and developing on this already defined embedded motherboard. Of course, related computer tools are strictly managed in the Fifth District!
Although this is a bit like forcing growth and related components all have to be brought in from the main world, Ren Zhong can't wait. Even if the first air battle is glorious, Ren Zhong can't afford the one-for-one attrition ratio. He must come up with new weapons as soon as possible and use the magic of technology to defeat the Rogue Eagle's magic in quantity!
Now Ren Zhong can't win against the Rogue Eagle in terms of quantity, so he can only rely on the flexible operations of new jet fighters, coupled with the two magic weapons of infrared-guided air-to-air missiles and surface-to-air missiles to kill the Rogue Eagle's aircraft group, in order to balance the great disadvantage in the air!
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