Chapter 134 Sea-Skimming Guided Rockets! (A 5,000-Word Chapter!)

"These are the first modified guided rockets."

Qin Ming patted a square wooden box and said to the naval officer in front of him.

"The renovation took a little longer than planned. Did you encounter any difficulties?" Han Zitao asked happily as he walked around the wooden box a few times.

"The guidance part is relatively easy to solve. We completed the integration of the system in less than a month."

Qin Ming was a little embarrassed to explain the reason for the overdue date.

"Originally, this was enough, but our dean felt that some improvements could be made, so he modified the rocket engine."

Although it was not yet known what specific modifications had been made to the rocket engine, Han Zitao was still very interested.

After all, Zhang Xingyang's reputation is here, so the transformation he carried out will definitely not be too bad.

"What specific modifications were made?"

"Can you give me a brief introduction?"

Han Zitao looked at Qin Ming very curiously and asked.

"I don't know much about this part. According to Dean Zhang, it seems that the original problem of the end being unable to maneuver has been improved?"

After all, Qin Ming is mainly responsible for the control system and rocket guidance system. He doesn’t know much about the engine part:

"The dean should have come in person, but unfortunately he has other more important things to do now."

"So you can only ask me to come over and send you the first batch of guided rockets."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

Han Zitao also understands that with Zhang Xingyang's ability, there may be many projects that he needs to participate in. It is normal that he does not have much time to take care of the small project of rocket modification.

"Is the test target ship ready?"

Qin Ming did not discuss the rocket engine modification with Han Zitao too much.

Because rockets are used for combat anyway, you only need to test them to see how they are.

"The target ship has been prepared a long time ago, and the fire support ship has been modified!"

Han Zitao rubbed his hands excitedly and said.

"You can start testing now!"

The guided rocket is about to be launched on a former Navy fire support ship, a 053H2 ship that has been in service for about ten years.

The Navy modified the two rocket launchers on it because the original launchers were compatible with 122mm rockets.

There is still a big difference from the 300mm heavy-duty guided rockets that are about to be put on the ship now.

What's more critical is that the original 122mm rockets don't need to be taken care of after launch, and of course there is no way to take care of them.

The 122mm rocket has no guidance function. Where it can hit after flying out depends on luck.

The guided rockets Qin Ming sent this time used two guidance methods: inertial and Beidou satellite guidance.

During the supercomputer simulation process of the Rocket Research Institute, there was even a shocking result of a strike deviation of only 5 meters at a strike distance of 500 kilometers.

You know, this is a rocket, not a missile, and it does not have terminal guidance radar.

Being able to achieve such target accuracy is simply astonishing!

Moreover, with the power of 150 kilograms of total nitrogen explosives of 300 mm rockets, the killing range is within 100 meters.

Even if it is still five meters away from the ship, the huge waves can overturn a ship weighing two to three thousand tons!

Of course, the target hit was a stationary target, not a moving target.

Ships are basically in a moving state above the sea, but they are faced with high-speed rockets whose terminal speed can reach Mach 7.

A warship that can only travel at a speed of dozens of nautical miles per hour has little chance even if it wants to change its course! ——

Although the 053H2 fire support ship is not an advanced ship in this era, our naval officers and soldiers are still full of feelings for this ship.

At least there is no trace of rust on the surface of the ship. This alone has defeated the navies of many countries in the world.

Naval ships are in great need of good maintenance. If the rust on the exterior cannot be removed, let alone the maintenance of weapon systems and other important systems on the warship.

Several boxes of 300mm heavy-duty guided rockets were transported to the 053H2 fire support ship through a crane on the pier.

In addition to rockets, this time they also brought various supporting equipment, including ballistic computers.

Although the 053H2 originally had a ballistic computer, it was not specifically matched for 300mm rockets.

Inaccuracies are inevitable when calculating.

So Qin Ming came over this time and brought its original ballistic computer system with him.

This part is also the responsibility of the control system research laboratory led by Qin Ming, which is also an important reason why he came here this time.

"How long does it take to reload a rocket?"

Although Qin Ming is relatively familiar with technical matters, he is not so familiar with things that are more military-oriented, such as loading ammunition.

Although Qin Ming was at the scene when the land-based rocket launcher was being loaded before, and he also knew that reloading the land-based version only took fifteen minutes.

But in the warship version, in Qin Ming's opinion, the gap between the two is still relatively large.

First of all, the biggest difference is that the land-based version has six tubes and the warship version has four tubes.

"It will take about twenty minutes."

After Han Zitao looked at his watch, he gave a time that he thought was relatively conservative.

The sea surface is different from the land, which is firm and has no fluctuations every day. On the warship, there is a slight sway all the time.

This undoubtedly increases the difficulty of various tasks of the Navy.

Twenty minutes later, thanks to the efforts of the naval officers and soldiers on the warship, both 300mm rocket launchers completed the loading work.

A total of eight 300mm rockets are ready to go!

Get ready to destroy your target!

The designated maritime experiment area is still some distance from the dock.

After driving for three hours on the azure sea, we finally arrived at the scheduled sea area.

"Are the target ships ready?"

Qin Ming looked at the direction of the target ship and found that he couldn't see anything, so he turned to ask Han Zitao, the person in charge of the navy.

"Four 5,000-ton target ships have arrived at their predetermined locations!"

At this time, there was only one step away from the weapons test experiment, and Han Zitao was also very excited.

"Have all the people on the ship been evacuated?"

"Don't let any accident happen then!"

When it comes to safety issues, Qin Ming also looks serious.

After all, this test is not only to test the guidance capability of the 300mm heavy-duty guided rocket, but also to test the further improved total nitrogen explosive!

If anyone on the ship does not evacuate, there is almost no chance of survival after the rocket hits!

"I just checked with the target ship and all personnel have been evacuated!"

At this time, Han Zitao gave an answer that made Qin Ming feel more at ease.

"The navy also spent a lot of money this time and brought out four target ships. How did you convince everyone?"

Although the navy is slightly wealthier at this time than it was a decade or two ago, it has not yet reached the level of launching one or two million tons of ships a year like in later generations.

Four ships of about 5,000 tons can be regarded as a loss of capital, even if these ships are all originally retired ships!

"Originally we wanted to pull out the four previous King Kongs and use them as target ships."

Han Zitao looked troubled, obviously remembering his previous efforts to win these four target ships.

"But in the end, the superiors still didn't agree. After all, these are the Navy's meritorious ships!"

"If you don't allow the use of the Four King Kongs, then where did these four boats come from?" Qin Ming was also a little curious at this time.

"They found four civilian ships and modified them at the shipyard to use them as target ships."

Han Zitao still looked emotional when he thought of this incident.

Even so, Han Zitao spent a long time paying for the cost of rebuilding the civilian ship.

After all, the navy at this time was really poor.

"The target ships are all in place and are sailing according to the scheduled route!"

In the radio communication system, reports on the situation of target ships in various places came.

In this rocket test, all targets are in a moving state, and the main purpose is to test the guidance capability of the rocket after the guidance system is installed!

"Everything is ready over there, can we start testing?"

Han Zitao asked, looking at Qin Ming who was still checking the ballistic computer system.

After carefully checking that there were no unexpected problems with the ship-borne rocket system, Qin Ming stood up and said:

"let's start!"

"The first test of the ship-borne 300mm heavy-duty guided rocket system begins!"

Han Zitao turned around and informed the radio system that the test had officially begun.

Various systems on the warship began to work.

The first and most important thing is that the search radar starts working and begins to find the locations of the four target ships.

For naval officers and soldiers, this kind of work is no different from daily training content.

So everyone is carrying out various tasks step by step.

Although the radar system of 053H2 is not very good, it is not a problem to find a few civilian ships that are not very far away.

Even if these civilian ships have undergone targeted modifications, it is still the same.

The radar system quickly transferred various data about the target to Qin Ming's ballistic calculation system.

Then the data is transmitted through the cable to the microcomputer in the rocket!

The rocket began to calculate the final destination it needed to hit based on various position data, as well as the target speed, heading and other data given by the radar system!

This series of operations sounds very complicated, but from the perspective of everyone on the warship, only a few seconds have passed.

call out! ! call out! ! call out! ! call out! !

Four blue ocean-like flames shot out from behind the rocket launcher.

Four 300mm rockets left the warship!

At this time, there was very little that everyone on the warship could do.

Only the naval officers and soldiers responsible for ammunition loading prepared to load the rockets after cooling down the rocket launcher that had just experienced the flames.

And within half a minute, the rocket, which had flown 70 to 80 kilometers away, began to activate its own guidance system!

The internal micro Beidou navigation terminal started working and completed the two-way guidance work in less than 20ms!

At this time, the internal gyroscope and accelerometer responsible for inertial guidance also started working.

Further improve positioning accuracy!

Originally, if only Beidou navigation or inertial navigation was used, the positioning accuracy could only reach a level of 20-50 meters.

After the two complement each other, the guidance accuracy can reach the level of 10 meters to 20 meters.

Under such a precision strike, even a five thousand-ton warship would be hard-pressed to withstand the bombing of a total nitrogen explosive with an explosive power of 12 tons of TNT!

The first target ship was not very far away, only about three hundred kilometers away. At this point, the rocket only flew for two minutes and was already close to the target.

When there were still more than ten kilometers away from the target ship, the rocket suddenly turned on the rocket engine that had been extinguished again!

Then with the advancement of the engine, the speed began to increase further!

And it continued to lower its height, and finally remained less than five meters away from the sea level!

There was even obvious formation behavior between the four rockets, forming a very obvious prismatic array!

Of course, these changes would not be seen by Qin Ming and Han Zitao on the warship 300 kilometers away.

This is what Zhang Xingyang told Qin Ming about the small changes to the rocket engine before he left.

Even the monitoring ship, which was dozens of nautical miles away from the target ship, did not detect any changes in the rocket at this time.

Mainly because the rocket group is now flying close to the sea surface, and its own electromagnetic waves are hidden in the sea waves.

On the radar display of the surveillance ship, only a large group of radar signals can be seen, suddenly appearing, and then suddenly disappearing.

Just when the personnel on the surveillance ship were still wondering whether a rocket had just flown over.

He just raised his head and looked at the target ship dozens of nautical miles away with his binoculars.

I saw four small mushroom clouds erupting from all sides of the target ship almost at the same time!

As for why the explosion points are in four different directions, it has something to do with Zhang Xingyang's specially designed guidance system for it.

The prismatic group of rockets, after approaching the target point, will maneuver to the surroundings of the target point before exploding.

Strive to completely destroy the target with one batch of rockets!

The inspection personnel on the surveillance ship almost dropped their telescopes to the ground at this time!

Because after the explosion, the huge waves set off could be felt even dozens of nautical miles away, and the ship's hull was shaking constantly!

If the Geiger counter on the ship hadn't gone off, I almost thought four miniature nuclear bombs had exploded around the target ship!

"Monitoring Ship No. 1, please report the target situation!"

At this time, the radio communication on the monitoring ship rang.

"Hello!"

"Target destroyed!"

"Target destroyed!"

After the monitor repeated it twice, he asked a little uneasily:

"Are we really testing conventional weapons?"

"Sorry, I shouldn't have asked."

Soon, he realized that this was not something he could know.

It was just that I was frightened by the power of the explosion.

"Image information is being sent back, please check it carefully!"

The monitoring personnel were still dedicated to their work and transmitted the test scene just captured to the 053H2 fire support ship.

"Thanks a lot!"

After Han Zitao encouraged the other party, he hung up the radio communication.

Then start waiting for the image information to be transmitted.

While waiting, Han Zitao asked Qin Ming what he thought about the experiment just now:

"What do you think of the No. 1 Target Ship experiment just now?"

At this time, Qin Ming frowned and muttered to himself. He raised his head after hearing Han Zitao's question:

"That's not right, how could time go so fast?"

"What time?"

Han Zitao's feeling was very keen and he asked.

"The strike time should be about 130 seconds, but judging from the time just transmitted."

"The strike time is about 122 seconds, how come it is eight seconds faster?"

Qin Ming felt that the problem here might be caused by the engine that Zhang Xingyang had modified himself.

"What's wrong with hurrying up?"

Although Han Zitao sensed some problems, he did not find any specific problems here.

"It's only eight seconds."

"Eight seconds? Just?" Qin Ming was speechless when he heard this. "At its speed, it can run 20 kilometers in eight seconds!"

Han Zitao also came to his senses at this time. Eight seconds may be only a short time for other weapons.

But for a high-speed rocket reaching Mach 7, this is a very long time!

Just when the two people were still thinking about why there was such a huge time gap.

Image information from the No. 1 surveillance ship has also been transmitted to the warship.

"Let's take a look at the images from the scene first."

Han Zitao, who couldn't figure out why, suggested.

Qin Ming nodded and agreed with Han Zitao's point of view.

Two people, as well as some other technicians and naval officers on the ship.

At this time, everyone started looking around the image display on the ship.

Qin Ming and the technicians present frowned when they saw the rocket's signal on the radar suddenly disappear.

They all thought there was something wrong with the radar system at this time.

But at this time, the naval officers led by Han Zitao were stunned.

Others don't know what this is, but they don't see it often in navy drills.

It's just that at this time, the image hasn't been released yet, and they haven't said anything.

One saw four mushroom clouds nearly 100 meters high rising into the sky, tearing a five- to six-thousand-ton ship into pieces as if they were almost devastating.

Qin Ming and other technicians were still deep in thought. Han Zitao frowned and looked at each other and asked:

"You used YJ-8's sea-skimming flight technology on rockets?"

"How did you do it?"

"What?"

"What sea-skimming flight technology?"

At this time, Qin Ming had not yet realized what Han Zitao meant.

However, his reaction was also very fast, and he came to his senses in a short while:

"Are you saying that the rocket disappeared from the radar because it was flying across the sea?"

"how?"

"you do not know?"

Only then did Han Zitao realize that Qin Ming did not know about this.

"Could it be that you are the one who made the changes made by your dean?"

At this time, Qin Ming also had some reaction:

"It should be. Apart from him, I guess no one can do this."

"If he changes it like this, even anti-missile missiles probably won't be able to detect it!"

Han Zitao couldn't help but sigh:

"In this way, this can be regarded as a warship killer!"

"When launched five hundred kilometers away, it will be difficult for the other party to detect their existence when they are in front of others."

"Even if the other party is hit and wants to retaliate, they have no recourse from such a long distance!"

After watching the experimental scene of Target Ship No. 1, Qin Ming was still thinking about how Zhang Xingyang achieved terminal guidance for the rocket.

Han Zitao has already begun to greet the officers and soldiers on the warship, preparing to start several subsequent tests.

The test distance of target ship No. 2 is farther than that of target ship No. 1, reaching 400 kilometers.

The same No. 3 target ship reached 500 kilometers.

The No. 4 target ship is twice as long as the No. 1 target ship, 600 kilometers, which is almost the longest range of the 300mm rocket!