Chapter 1060: 982 extra large rockets
Dahua Empire, under the Imperial Capital’s Ministry of Engineering, there’s a place called the Academy of Sciences, established as the Great Tang Empire rose. It has gathered various talents in the military industry of the Dahua Empire.
Here, the first propeller plane, the current active fighter jets of the Dahua Empire, new bombers, and the advanced Type 5 tanks of the Dahua Empire were all developed.
At the mont, an engineer is staring blankly at a rocket purchased from the Great Tang Empire. This thing is not a shell; it’s a type of “shell” that is launched together with the propellant, which provides thrust during its flight halfway.
Frankly speaking, the concept of this thing is not that novel; it’s rely a shell evolved to another extre.
It does not need a cannon chamber to launch the shell anymore; a simple barrel or guide rail is sufficient for launching, which can omit the loading process and allow mass launching at once.
The advantages of this approach are obvious; if it only fires one round of artillery, it could achieve the total artillery projection of a past battalion or even a regint with just one launcher vehicle.
The downside is also obvious: the accuracy of this thing is extrely poor, with huge dispersion that makes any precise targeting hopeless. If the goal is area bombardnt, this may not be considered a disadvantage, but if it needs to pinpoint like a cannon, it simply cannot do that.
Now, because the Imperial Capital of the Dahua Empire was attacked by a mysterious weapon, these engineers and technicians were summoned to analyze, from their understanding, what this weapon called a “missile” really is.
This engineer instinctively thought of the rocket they were ordered to develop and replicate: this thing is indeed fundantally similar to a shell, but it also has a different direction and distinction in its developnt.
Because there is no need for a cannon chamber and no concern for initial velocity, the shell of the rocket does not necessarily have to be thick. At the sa ti, since the propellant is carried along, theoretically, it can carry an infinite amount of propellant.
Just make the rocket big enough, and it can virtually increase its range without limit! Although the small rocket can only hit a few kiloters, what if a rocket a hundred tis bigger were made? Could it not then fly distances over 100 kiloters?
If that’s still not enough, by expanding it a thousand or ten thousand tis, couldn’t this rocket then be made to fly as far as 1700 kiloters?
Thinking of this, he suddenly stood up, found his superior, and poured out all his thoughts.
One must admit, his ideas are theoretically correct. Rockets use the theory of rockets, and large rockets are indeed rockets, which serves as the carrier for missiles.
However, when many gathered to discuss further along the lines of this rocket, they encountered an unprecedented difficulty.
An engineer stroked his chin and asked a question that left everyone speechless: “I think the idea is right, but isn’t this thing fundantally inaccurate? It flies 10 kiloters and who knows where it’ll land; if we make it fly 1000 kiloters, won’t it completely miss the target?”
His words made everyone realize: the issue of the rocket’s attack precision has always existed; if there really was a super-huge rocket flying from Fengjiang to the Imperial Capital, it’s estimated to deviate by several kiloters…
Jokingly, that thing would never fall in the city, and there’s a high chance it lands in the suburbs or so other chaotic place.
Although the Imperial Capital is vast, compared to a distance of 1700 kiloters, it’s just a slightly larger “dot”; hoping that a rocket can hit this dot is almost rely relying on luck.
“Both missiles from the opposing side directly hit the Imperial Palace; this level of attack precision is sothing rockets cannot achieve,” another person added.
If it were said that the Great Tang Empire launched only one missile, it could have been explained as a lucky hit. But the Great Tang Empire launched two missiles, both almost hitting the Imperial Palace; this can’t be explained by luck.
“I think, this is why Tang Country’s new weapon… is called a missile, not a rocket,” said the engineer who first thought the new weapon of Great Tang Empire might be a large rocket.
“Who the heck are people guiding this thing?” several people, who were once called craftsn and now called engineers, complained with furrowed brows.
They don’t even understand that character, nor have they seen a real sample, how could they guess what weapon the other side is using?
What has been sent to their Departnt of Engineering are just a few blackened fragnts, long deford due to the explosion and friction.
Although so curvature can be seen on these fragnts, simply based on them, it’s really hard to guess what this thing actually is.
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“Great Tang Empire really bombed the capital of the Dahua Empire!” a servant hurriedly handed a newspaper to an ambassador of the Laines Empire waiting for news in the Great Tang Empire.
The recipient took the newspaper, looked foolishly at the content, and then completely lost composure—Great Tang Empire really possessed a weapon capable of striking beyond 1700 kiloters!
This is not good news for the Laines Empire, or perhaps for the entire world.
Despite the separation by the Endless Sea, a range of 1700 kiloters isn’t necessarily a threat to the Western Continent, but everyone is wondering if the Great Tang Empire, having developed a weapon with a range of 1700 kiloters, could possibly develop one with a range of 17000 kiloters.
Nobody can say for sure, so everyone is on tenterhooks. The Ambassador from Laines is just one among them; on this day, every nation in the world felt a sword hanging over their heads.
“Send the news back to our country imdiately! The Great Tang Empire is showing us their fist!” the Ambassador of the Laines Empire ordered with a grim face.
Suddenly showcasing new weapons at this ti was essentially flexing their muscles… Initially, countries felt ready to make a move, but this direct rebuke suddenly cald everyone down.
If conflict erupts again in the Western Continent, and the Great Tang Empire takes advantage of the vacancy with such long-range weaponry… few places in the world would be safe.
At the sa ti, nations are inquiring about the Great Tang Empire’s long-range weapons, many doing what the Laines Empire’s Ambassador was doing.
They hurriedly report back to their nations, confirming the authenticity of the event: the Great Tang Empire indeed attacked the capital of the Dahua Empire… or more precisely, sold so weapons to Fengjiang, which then directly attacked its own Imperial Capital with these weapons.
At this point, who initiated it may not be as crucial—the point is that the Great Tang Empire indeed has the capability to attack cities 1700 kiloters away.
anwhile, inside the building of the Great Tang Group, so very quick personnel already started inquiring whether similar weapons were available “for export.” They are willing to purchase such weapons, at any cost…
Of course, the Tang Group, as a qualified arms dealer, is very willing to sell similar weapons. It’s just that compared to the weapons used by the Great Tang Empire, their performance would be slightly inferior.
Yes, inferior—the Great Tang Empire’s own Dongfeng series Missiles were not going to be sold anyti soon; what the Tang Group sold were the early mass-produced Scuds.
The Scud Missiles have a range of only 300 kiloters, but in the eyes of many countries, these are already exciting godsend items.
Bombers can strike targets within a 300-kiloter radius, but using bombers ans other countries’ Fighter Jets can intercept them.
Using Scud Missiles, however, is different. They cannot be intercepted. Their speed is fast enough, and their trajectory high enough to completely maximize penetration attributes.
Moreover, these devices are accurate enough to attack city-sized targets within a 300-kiloter range with about 1000 ters of error margin, especially when combined with a high-explosive warhead.
Indeed, the version of the Scud sold internationally by the Tang Group is the earliest model, purely inertial guidance, with genuinely touching error precision.
But for countries previously unfamiliar with guided concepts, this whole new guidance system already amazed them.
For the first ti, they learned that there are weapons capable of correcting their own trajectories, adjusting their own flight attitudes until they hit the target.
This offered engineers and designers around the world a whole new inspiration; they were eager to dismantle a Scud missile to study its working principles thoroughly.
Of course, Tang Mo had no doubt that people in this world would elaborate greatly on the Scud Missile: developing weapons like the Hussein Missile, trying to increase the range and accuracy of the Scud Missile.
They would succeed, as the Scud Missile isn’t exactly a complex device. However, no amount of research could change the fact that the underlying design of the Scud Missiles was sowhat inferior.
“We can certainly sell launch vehicles, yes, along with the launch vehicle, fueling vehicles, a complete set of equipnt, and our after-sales service is very comprehensive, even providing training for launch troops,” the reception staff offered very matter-of-factly while handing out a brochure.
It briefly introduced the performance of the Scud Missile and the relevant vehicle configurations. Of course, the most conspicuous part was the price, a figure daunting enough to make one think twice.
However, those who received the brochure did not find it expensive; they seed not to consider the millions of Gold Coins a big deal, as if the equipnt printed on the paper was already their trump card.
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