LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 71 Project
Yannick easily solved the problem raised by Aubert, which made Aubert admire him even more.
"Your Highness, you are really a genius. This is a good method. But this method can't hit too far, right?" After all, no matter how good the eyesight is, a pilot can only detect enemy planes 30 kilometers away at most, and a fighter with a range of 300 kilometers can How to control V2? And the weight of the wire itself is also a big problem! I'm afraid it will affect the missile's flight if it exceeds a certain length!
Yannick nodded. "I'm just providing ideas. This wired guidance method can be said to be held back by wires. It can only be used on short-range missiles to deal with enemy tanks, bunkers and the like. It will be used after fiber optic energy is produced. It replaces wires and will have no problem dealing with enemy bombers." The weight, length and signal attenuation of metal wires limit the missile's range to 2,000-3,000 meters, and the combat targets are also anti-tank and anti-tank weapons. Mainly bunkers.
The conductor of wired guidance in later generations is optical fiber. Optical fiber is light in weight (a thousand meters of copper wire weighs 3kg, and an optical fiber of more than ten kilometers is only a few hundred grams) and has good concealment (the laser beam of image data and control instructions is inside the optical fiber). transmission, no external light or electromagnetic signal radiation, strong attack concealment), long control distance (extended distance up to 60 kilometers) and other advantages, it is favored.
Speaking of "optical fiber", I'm afraid not many people in later generations don't know about this thing. In later generations, the most closely related thing to optical fiber is broadband. Even if you go online, you will know that optical fiber transmission speed is faster than traditional network cables. After all, fiber optics use light to propagate signals, and the speed of light is the fastest known.
Some people may think that "optical fiber", a high-sounding thing, is a high-tech technology that was only developed in recent decades. In fact, as early as 1887, a certain scientist created an optical fiber more than 2 meters long for the first time.
Making optical fiber can be both easy and difficult.
Easy because fiber optics are glass (and plastic fiber optics, of course), the kind of optical glass you put in your windows.
The difficulty lies in making this optical glass pure enough.
How pure is it? The glass windows in your home are transparent. Generally, the thicker the glass, the more opaque it becomes. This is because there are impurities in the glass. Even if the glass used in optical fiber is several kilometers thick, you can still see objects clearly through this glass.
After achieving this purity, it is drawn into optical fiber.
Of course, Yanik will not ignore this strategically important product. Unfortunately, it has not yet broken through the equipment and process bottlenecks and cannot achieve mass production. But he believed it would only last a few years.
"Since wired guidance has flaws, we can study wireless guidance methods. For example, using radio or television guidance. Install a camera and signal transmitter on the front end of the rocket's warhead, and then continuously send signals, and put a The TV and receiver receive the signal sent by the camera, and the operator controls the missile while watching the TV screen."
This is not an excessive request. You must know that the world's earliest wireless guided weapon was the German "Fritz-X" in World War II.
The "Fritz-X" bomb has a total weight of 1,570 kilograms, a bomb length of 2 meters, a maximum diameter of 562 millimeters, a cross-shaped wing, and a wingspan of 6 meters. The tail combination control wing of the bomb adopts a ring structure, with 4 radio-controlled rudder surfaces, and 5 luminous tubes at the back, so that the pilot can accurately judge the position of the "Fritz-X" wireless guided bomb and target it. Course adjustment intervention.
The TV guidance system also appeared during World War II. The earliest TV system guidance weapon used was the Hs294D air-to-ground missile used by Germany in World War II.
As for their actual combat performance and results, it is open to debate, but they are indeed the ancestors of modern guided missiles in later generations.
However, both methods also have flaws. Radio guidance has poor anti-interference performance and can easily be interfered by the enemy and lose control. As one of the radio-guided missiles, TV-guided missiles not only have all the shortcomings mentioned above, but they can also only work during the day and are greatly affected by meteorological conditions; when there is smoke, dust, fog, etc. and low visibility, combat Performance is reduced. Moreover, the equipment on the missile is relatively complex and the cost of the guidance system is high.
But no matter what, he still wants to develop anti-aircraft missiles. Just thinking about the U.S. imperialist bomber force that covers the sky gives people chills down the back.
In the original time and space of World War II, Germany's anti-aircraft artillery force was in crisis in the middle and late stages, because the results achieved by the existing anti-aircraft artillery were completely out of proportion to the shells consumed. It is estimated that for every enemy aircraft shot down, the German army needs to consume 16,000 rounds of 88mm artillery shells, which is equivalent to 6,000 rounds of 105mm artillery shells or 3,000 rounds of 128mm artillery shells.
Anyone with a little foresight will foresee that with the development of technology and the increase in aircraft speed, the situation will continue to worsen. If surface-to-air missiles are used and one missile is replaced by one aircraft, the combat effectiveness will undoubtedly be greatly improved. You must know that today's aircraft are not the jet aircraft of later generations that come and go without a trace.
But even though Germany in the original time and space had developed many surface-to-air missiles such as "Gentian", "Fire Lily Butterfly", "Waterfall", "Butterfly", and "Rhine Daughter", it did not rush to adopt this advanced missile. Air defense method. Because there are huge risks in this change, it is not only a change in the weapon itself, but also a change in the way of combat. What is significant is that the existing air defense mode has changed from a prediction mode to a radar guidance mode. Such a change involves numerous technical difficulties, such as risks that have to make the Germans act cautiously.
Yannick believes that as long as research and development is stepped up, these anti-aircraft weapons can be deployed before the Allied forces launch a large-scale bombing of Germany.
The effect of these anti-aircraft missiles may be unsatisfactory, but no matter how poor the accuracy is, they are absolutely fatal when faced with a dense box formation of bombers. If the fleet dares to disperse, the German fighter jets will definitely teach the Americans how to behave. At that time, under the triple interception of anti-aircraft missiles, proximity fuze anti-aircraft artillery shells, and high-altitude interceptor aircraft, many of those so-called air fortresses will be shot down.
"I think unless new technology emerges, these two missiles will not make any qualitative leap in a short time. The research department is divided into three groups. The first group continues to find ways to improve these two missiles, and the second group studies Air, ground, and sea missiles, the third team should start studying sounding rockets.”
The current Rocketry Academy is full of talents. Not to mention local scientists such as Wernher von Braun, Hubertus Stragerhold, Ludwig Prandtl, etc., there are also many talents absorbed from abroad.
Sergey Pavlovich Korolev of the Soviet Union (because of Yannik's interference, accidents occurred in his laboratory from time to time. In the last explosion, dozens of people were killed. The authorities directly The person in charge was sent to Siberia, permanently banning such research), and German intelligence agents secretly took him to Germany. Unexpectedly, this guy is a diehard and refuses to cooperate no matter what. It took more than a year of hard and soft lobbying before agreeing to serve Germany.
Scientists such as Robert Goddard and Theodore von Karman, the "father of space rockets" in the United States, were "abducted" to Germany and participated in rocket research and development. Today's Americans probably don't even know what fuel is used in rockets, let alone complex technological projects such as navigation, rocket engines, and materials.