Chapter 1335: Guardian of the Empire
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In Western literature and movies, there are always various people who sell themselves to the devil. It is naturally a great temptation to make people so happy.
Zhou Qingfeng only gave the strengthening medicine that can improve energy and physical strength, which immediately made the highly respected Professor Johnson bow his head, because the effect of this medicine is so attractive.
Professor Johnson injected the drug with great excitement, and then rested for a few hours in the legion commander's office to observe the aftereffect.
I don't know if it's the psychological effect or the medicine really has a miraculous effect. After taking a nap for a while, the professor felt that his body glowed with incredible vitality, and then he happily took Zhou Qingfeng's appointment to choose his subordinates.
Professor Johnson was originally kidnapped by Zhou Qingfeng from Florida, and he is very familiar with the personnel relations at the Kennedy Space Center. When he walked out of the Capitol in Havana, he was already seven or eight percent sure of the work to be done next.
First of all, a group of people must be recruited, mainly students, friends, and colleagues of Professor Johnson. The initial scale of the Rocket Army will not be very large, only a dozen or so key personnel will do. Then these ten or so backbones will go to the middle level of seventy or eighty people, and the middle level will choose the bottom level of five or six hundred people.
OK, a team on paper is formed.
"Familiarity with this 'Dongfeng-3' missile is only the first step, and we will improve it next. Fortunately, this is an early first-generation ballistic missile, and the technical difficulty is not complicated." Professor Johnson in the barracks near the Capitol Li called a meeting of his key members.
When the professor took out the enhanced medicine given by Zhou Qingfeng, and personally demonstrated its use, the backbone he recruited burst out with a strong enthusiasm for work—they only need to do their best work to get the most amazing medicine in the world , is there anything better than this?
One of the professor's students, eager to get to work, volunteered, "This missile has a simple design, what do we want to improve?"
The design of "Dongfeng-3" was finalized in the 1960s, and its technical level is still very simple. At that time, the rabbit's technical ability was really not very good, which led to many shortcomings of this missile.
"We need to improve the circular error accuracy of this missile by an order of magnitude," said the professor. "This is our first task."
If a missile is inaccurate, no matter how powerful it is, it is useless. Back then, when the Dongfeng-5 was tested, it deviated by hundreds of thousands of kilometers several times. The joke is too big!
However, the accuracy of 'Dongfeng-3' is very poor, with a circular error accuracy of more than 1,300 meters. That is to say, draw a circle with a radius of more than one kilometer at the predetermined landing point, and the warhead has a half probability of falling within this circle.
'Dongfeng-3' could have been equipped with a megaton-level hydrogen bomb, but the error is too big to bear. But what Zhou Qingfeng got was a version that could only carry two tons of ordinary high-explosive warheads—spending 500 million soft sister coins just to throw two tons of explosives thousands of kilometers away?
And the error of this throw is more than one kilometer?
Only crazy people can make such a loss-making business!
I might as well fly an F-35 and drop the bombs.
'Dongfeng-3' uses an inertial gyro integrator for guidance, and Professor Johnson scoffed at this thing. Zhou Qingfeng got a lot of good things when he searched Florida, and the professor decided to use the 'three-axis liquid-floating inertial gyro plus laser guidance plus high-performance space computer'.
The probability of circular error can be reduced to about 100 meters immediately, which is much more powerful.
"It's not difficult to change the seeker and control system." The recruited colleagues were equally eager. Several people have observed that the professor in his seventies has a ruddy complexion, many wrinkles on the skin, and age spots have faded, which is obviously a manifestation of a substantial improvement in health.
"Improving the accuracy is the first step, and the second step is to replace conventional warheads with nuclear warheads." Professor Johnson's second step of improvement made the backbones who surrounded him a little silent.
It is impossible for 500 million to throw only one ordinary explosive, and no matter how powerful the two-ton warhead is, it is only two tons. Changing nuclear warheads is different.
'Dongfeng-3' could originally carry three missile heads. Zhou Qingfeng can't get nuclear warheads in the real world, but he has a lot of nuclear warheads that he can use in the chaotic wasteland - American B61 nuclear warheads, each weighing only three to four hundred kilograms, and the yield is adjustable, with a maximum of more than 100,000 tons of T* N*T.
But the wasteland is caused by nuclear bomb washing. To be honest, no one likes nuclear weapons now. But his boss wants to use nuclear warheads, and no one can stop him.
"I think that if we change the nuclear warhead, one 100,000-ton warhead in one missile is enough. The saved weight can be used to increase fuel and increase the range." A student of the professor suggested, "After all, our nuclear warhead Rare and more precious than this missile."
makes sense. There is still room for missiles, and nuclear warheads are really one less. Professor Johnson also didn't want to see nuclear bombs flying all over the sky, and nodded in agreement, "Okay, we will make a single warhead. The extra payload can be used to increase the range."
After saying this, the professor and others silently made a calculation in their hearts. Soon everyone will be able to roughly estimate the effect of the range extension—up to 4,000 kilometers, covering most of the continental United States except Alaska, and even a part of Canada.
The effect of this deterrent is just now!
Originally, it could only scare the Enclave, but now even the Brotherhood of Steel must be careful.
Professor Johnson gathered all the elites of the original American aerospace industry, and most of them have participated in the development and launch of American rockets and missiles. After they crudely planned the improvement plan for 'Dongfeng-3', they were all amazed from the bottom of their hearts.
In a world where no one else has ballistic missiles and nuclear bombs, how terrible is it that a guy who can wield a nuclear stick suddenly appears?
"How long will it take to complete the entire improvement plan?" the professor asked a colleague who was good at project management.
"It will take about one and a half months to two months. We have to train all the people involved in the project in advance. For example, the fuel used by this missile is 'unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine', which is highly poisonous, and we have long since stopped using it. No It is easy to go wrong in training." A missile expert said.
Liquid-fueled missiles are such a hassle that they need to be refueled before launch. And you have to be very careful.
The filling process of liquid fuel is extremely dangerous. If something happens, it will kill a large number of people if it is not a big explosion. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union once had a big explosion when refueling intercontinental missiles, and killed their strategic rocket army in one go. Commander and one hundred and sixty rocket experts.
The Aurora Legion cannot afford such a loss.
"Okay, let's start to act." Professor Johnson said with emotion: "A new empire will be worried under our guardianship."
Looking at the various materials of 'Dongfeng-3' on the desktop, everyone was both excited and heavy. But before they could release any emotion, a shrill air defense siren sounded suddenly.