Chapter 971: Chapter 728: Test-2 Missile (3/3 Update)
As April 1929 approached, preparations were underway for several kingdoms to be established in the United States region.
The British had implented military control over New York, which barely suppressed the continuous protests occurring there.
ngine serving as the foundation for the missile’s propulsion.
The ground-launched missile is 8.7 ters long and weighs 7.9 tons, capable of carrying nearly a ton of explosives.
Given the missile’s power system, the ground-launched version can achieve a maximum flight altitude of 17.5 kiloters and a range of up to 240 kiloters, allowing it to strike targets in marine, terrestrial, and aerial domains from a distance.
However, due to the underdeveloped technology, this missile doesn’t have much targeting ability, and the final explosion site might deviate by hundreds of ters to several kiloters from the intended target.
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Yes, the deviation can be that outrageous.
If the weather is good and no accidents occur during the missile launch, the deviation might be within one kiloter.
But if any accidents happen, the deviation will basically exceed one kiloter.
This ans that this version of the missile is more suited for striking ground troops, urban cities, and important areas—large targets—as the hit rate for small targets like aircraft and warships would be worrying.
t and airships shouldn’t be an issue. But poor targeting could an the missile could end up anywhere, even exploding amidst a crowd of people.
Arthur was very interested in both versions of the missile.
To personally experience the power and hit rate of both missiles, Arthur decided to conduct a test launch and assessnt of the two missiles in the mountainous areas of Australasia.
Each type of missile aid at a different simulated target, but the number of missiles involved in the test was the sa for each type.
After communicating with the missile research project team, they decided to manufacture 100 of each type of missile for the test.
The ground-launched missiles aid at a simulated ground army and enemy industrial area, while the bomber-launched missiles targeted aircraft in the air and enemy warships.
As the production of the missiles required so ti, the missile test was scheduled for June, and the location was set in the Great Desert of Western Australia.
Anyway, there are no satellites now, so by selecting a sparsely populated area, we can ensure that foreign spies are unlikely to find out.
Of course, missile transportation still has to be carried out quietly, for no one knows how many spies are among the population of over 30 million in Australasia, and the slightest exposure could lead to unexpected incidents.
Fortunately, a large number of missiles had already been manufactured during earlier testing, so it only took a little over a month to make up for the shortfall.
After a little more than a month of ergency construction and preparation, on June 11th, 1929, Western Australia’s desert officially began testing two types of missiles.
The first tests were of the ground missiles. This simulation target was a large industrial area of the enemy 210 kiloters away, and one of the enemy’s divisions 140 kiloters away.
Fifty missiles were launched in each of the two strikes, and they were quickly launched by the launchers. The power systems of the missiles also activated swiftly and headed towards their predetermined targets.
Although it was already known that the missiles might have a low hit rate, the actual test results still disappointed Arthur sowhat.
Of the 50 missiles launched at the industrial area and the enemy troops, less than 20 actually hit the targets.
Considering that both the simulated large industrial area and the area where the enemy troops were stationed were quite large, this also ans that the missile accuracy might be even more severe than anticipated.
A total of 100 missiles hit just 17 targets, with 21 landing within three kiloters of the target, and the rest all falling outside of the three-kiloter range.
There were even about ten missiles that landed in the desert more than ten kiloters away from the target, and had it not been for soldiers tracking along the missile’s trajectory for a long ti, these missiles might have been buried in the desert.
Although the destructive power of the missiles was still impressive, a 17% hit rate ant that to effectively destroy the enemy’s industrial area and ground troops, a large number of missiles would have to be deployed.
In other words, if the quality is inadequate, rely on quantity: launch hundreds of missiles in each bombing run, and dozens of them are bound to hit the target.
The downside to this approach is the financial pressure. After all, the missiles contain air jet engines, plus gunpowder and various other components, making the cost of each missile close to 12,000 Australian dollars.
To have at least a hundred missiles hit the enemy’s targets, at least 600 missiles would have to be fired, which ans a cost of 7.2 million Australian dollars.
However, if one thinks about it, being able to destroy the enemy’s industrial base or massively harming the enemy’s ground troops ans that even a cost of several million Australian dollars is not a problem.
It can only be said that war is indeed too expensive, whether the wars of now or of a hundred years later, they all represent a huge financial burden for countries.
Although the current war does not involve a massive use of high-tech weapons, the fund needed for the war is also substantial.
The military expenditures of the powers during World War I were calculated in hundreds of billions of US dollars, and even with their vast colonies, Britain and France could only sustain it for a few years.
Now that tanks and airplanes have beco one of the mainstream weapons for various countries, the next large-scale war will consu even more funds, making war a last resort for countries without colonies and backup markets.
llions of Australian dollars, which is nearly equivalent to 1,000 missiles.
This doesn’t even account for the cost of training navy soldiers and the daily maintenance of the warships.
If 1,000 small missiles could take out one enemy main battleship, then strategically speaking, it was undoubtedly worth it.
After all, manufacturing missiles is much simpler than building warships, which can be used imdiately once produced.
The construction of a single main battleship takes at least nearly two years, so the investnt in ti for both parties is completely disproportionate, and in war, ti is the most important factor.
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