Super military empire

Chapter 918 Air-to-air missiles are not as good as imagined

(Greatly added 13/20 for @driden)

"It doesn't matter who the commander of the Blue Army is, whoever he is, as long as he can't pee in the same pot with him, he won't bother to worry about the Blue Army. Equipment or something, let the military leaders worry about it!" Knowing who the commander of the Blue Army was, even Liu Yijiu didn't know what organization the military was going to give, so he didn't bother to think about these issues immediately.

He went straight back to Rongcheng, and then took the Zhi-91 sent by the base back to the Dabashan base.

Liu Yijiu needs to arrange a lot of things, especially this transaction with the Soviet Union, he must organize the supply of goods for the transaction, and he must train the pilots to at least enable the Tu-22 to take off and land smoothly.

As long as you can fly up, land smoothly, and then fly back all the way from the north, you will be fine. Then you can explore slowly. After all, the weapon system needs to be modified, and even the hydraulic system for auxiliary operations has to be carried out. Design modification.

These things can only be said later.

"...This is the case with this transaction. We obtained the production technology of the Soviets' medium-range air-to-air missile r-77. They gave us not active radar guidance technology, but semi-active radar guidance technology. This guidance technology The missile, even with a range of 90 kilometers, is difficult to use in the air force. It even needs to be launched at a distance of 20 kilometers or even closer. Such a missile..." Liu Yijiu returned to the base of the Ninth Hospital. Even Li Rui didn't have time to meet, so he held a meeting directly.

When he was in Chengdu, he had already called the base to arrange a meeting. When he arrived, all the people attending the meeting in the base had been in place.

After introducing the situation of the negotiations with the Soviet Union, Liu Yijiu focused on the missile project.

"Xiao Liu, this time such a huge CNC machining center, especially the five-axis, delivered 30 units at one time, and it will take half a year. This will put a lot of pressure on our plan..." Xie Heping listened When Liu Yijiu asked them to find a way as soon as possible, to provide 30 additional five-axis CNC machining centers within half a year, which is very difficult for them.

The machinery manufacturing in the three districts undertakes most of the high-precision and sophisticated machinery manufacturing tasks of the entire Ninth Institute.

It even undertakes the manufacturing of the core components of the turbofan-8, as well as the manufacturing of the key components of the panda J-10 imitating the f-14, such as the hydraulic system and so on.

Many managers in the three districts have been asking the base to transfer the assembly technology of the five-axis CNC machining center to Hongshan Machinery Factory. The managers of Hongshan Machinery Factory also hope to obtain the manufacturing technology of the five-axis machining center to further expand Hongshan Machinery Factory. Liu Yijiu simply disagrees with the scale of production.

Most of the spare parts are processed by Hongshan Machinery Factory, North Industries Group, which has business dealings with the Jiuyuan Base, and related machinery manufacturing plants in the Aerospace 002 Base. The production and assembly of core components are all performed by the three districts. Be responsible for.

"The five-axis machining centers of our own production units are not enough. North Industries Group, Aerospace 002 Base, Shen Fei, Qin Fei, the Ministry of Aerospace Industry, etc. are all urging us to increase the production of five-axis machining centers... …" Xie Heping frowned when Liu Yijiu saw Liu Yijiu, he had to lay out the difficulties.

For him, it doesn't matter if Liu Yijiu thinks he cannot bear such a responsibility.

Unless the three districts are allowed to continue to expand production scale.

The problem is that the scale of production in the three districts has been continuously expanding, but it is simply unable to satisfy their growing business. In the mountains, they can no longer undertake the construction of a larger factory area unless the mountain is dug. Drop.

"The problem is there, but this time 30 five-axis CNC machining centers must be provided within half a year, and within three months, at least six. Our country does not have advanced strategic bombers, and we The current energy cannot be put on the strategic bombers. Let's discuss the solution later. Let's talk about air-to-air missiles for now..." Liu Yijiu would feel bad when he returned to the base.

Because no matter how the base expands, it is facing a problem-the technology is not advanced enough, the equipment is not enough, and the people are not enough. Taken together, the productivity cannot meet the requirements of the production task!

"How about the progress of the Houyi-3 missile to the short-range air-to-air missile? The Iranians have urged it many times. Also, how is the imitation of the Phoenix long-range air-to-air missile going? Now the imitation f The first flight of the -14 has been successful, and the second prototype has begun to fly. The other two are being assembled. Before May Day, our giant panda project will also fly for the first time..."

The pressure is huge.

Domestic advanced performance missiles, especially air-to-air missiles, simply cannot work.

Otherwise, Iran will not urge Liu Yijiu to change Houyi into an air-to-air missile.

"Director Liu, we have no previous experience in the conversion of surface-to-air missiles into air-to-air missiles. In particular, the missiles are required to have better performance. You require missiles to have a minimum flight speed of Mach 3. This requires a new design. At the same time, we also require that we also have stronger maneuverability and more sensitive response capabilities when the missile is in the air..." Du Zhongkun felt a bit big.

He is in charge of the missile projects of the Ninth Academy.

It stands to reason that every project should have a project leader, but Liu Yijiu does not do that at all.

Anti-armor missiles, air defense missiles, and even air-to-air missiles are all researched by a project team.

Although this can make overall plans and avoid waste, it is very difficult for him.

"I only ask about the progress, how long can it be completed, and what is the reason for it!" Liu Yijiu frowned and said, "As a project leader, I think you should be aware that not everything is up to you. Everything must be done by yourself..."

Everything should be focused.

Since working with the Aerospace 002 base to transform the Hongqi-2 air defense missile into a surface-to-surface missile 8208 missile project, these guys have been focusing their energy on missiles with a longer range.

But the longer-range missiles and rocket launchers are all personally in charge of Wang Shunyi.

"It's mainly the engine, our engine is always prone to problems, and the other is the guidance..." Du Zhongkun was criticized by Liu Yijiu, and there was no dissatisfaction. Instead, he introduced Liu Yijiu about the difficulties of the whole project. Up.

Although the range of small missiles is short, the requirements are sufficient.

Air-to-air missiles are even more complicated than surface-to-surface missiles and surface-to-air missiles.The reason for this is that air-to-air missiles have an initial velocity much higher than that of surface-to-ground or surface-to-air missiles at the initial launch.This requires air-to-air missiles to have a stronger load-bearing ability, and at the same time, the missiles are required to have more flexible maneuverability-when chasing fighters.

"Is there a problem with the structural strength?" Liu Yijiu asked, frowning.

"At present, it is mainly the guidance aspect. If the speed of the missile reaches Mach 3, the infrared detection device will weaken the sensitivity due to the friction between the cutting-edge infrared head and the air... As for active radar, small missiles cannot be mounted at all..." With only a short-range air-to-air missile of more than ten kilometers, it is impossible to use active radar guidance at all.

"In that case, it is not only the missile's guidance system that affects the guidance, but also the thermal insulation coating on the outside?" Liu Yijiu frowned and asked.

"Correct."

"Have you ever tried a heat-insulating coating based on materials such as silicone resin and hollow silica particles?"

Thermal insulation coating is a big problem.

Hollow silica, silicone resin and other materials are combined with other lightweight heat-resistant materials in composite heat-resistant materials, which are specially developed for the Double Three Project.

Of course, this is Liu Yijiu's memory of the coating materials used on strategic missiles by several major international countries in the early days.

"I have tried, although the effect is very good, but it will affect the receiving signal of the infrared detection device. The speed is too high, and it will be affected by the air friction generated by the high speed of the missile..." This is a very headache The problem.

After such a long time, I don’t know how many tests have been done. In terms of infrared detection, the Ninth Academy’s technology is even better than many countries in the world.

"Well, let's discuss this matter later. What's the problem with the engine? Materials? Processing and manufacturing techniques? Or is it a design problem?" Liu Yijiu's head is big.

How can it be so difficult to get a short-range air-to-air missile with a higher speed?

But now he understands a bit, why infrared-guided air-to-air missiles rarely exceed Mach 3.

It is not that countries do not want to make stronger ones, but that they are restricted in this regard.

If the speed is higher, other methods must be used for guidance.

Especially active radar guidance became popular later. Of course, after the satellite system, there is a two-way data link, but it is a bit early to get that technology.It's like learning to run before learning to walk.

"There is no problem with the design, mainly in the processing and manufacturing of materials..." Xie Heping came forward and said directly."At present, the three districts are stepping up their efforts to tackle this aspect..."

"How about the imitation of aim? How about the research work on American active guided radar?"

Huang Qingyu said with some embarrassment, "There is not much progress, and the main energy is to improve the pulse Doppler radar..."

Faced with such a complicated situation, Liu Yijiu suddenly had only one feeling-speechlessly asking the sky.

It seems that his task is to continuously organize research, research, and then research!