Chapter 44 Who Is the Founder of Cavitation Weapons?

Director Song and Fan Heng waited until after eight o'clock in the evening. When the two of them planned to forget about it today, Director Zhang hurried back.

"Why is it so long, have you eaten yet?" Director Song noticed that Director Zhang's head was covered with beads of sweat, and thought that he must be waiting in the fax room for news, so he must not have time to eat, so he asked One sentence.

Director Zhang ran out of breath, raised the fax he had just received in his hand, was so excited that he couldn't speak, and it took him a long time to utter a few words, "Director—it's possible—"

Director Song finally faxed the draft and read it. Sure enough, after preliminary demonstrations by more than a dozen top domestic military experts, he concluded that the design of the Blizzard torpedo surpassed the characteristics of the times and completely subverted the traditional design. After discussion by experts, the torpedo technology is considered to be very feasible, and they urgently request the country to set up a special project team to carry out theoretical improvement and physical realization.

"Okay - okay -" Director Song was also very excited, and his hand holding the fax was a little trembling.

The impact of this matter is extremely far-reaching, far more than the benefits that can be seen so far.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Chinese Navy immediately fell from the No. 1 position in Asia. It has been weak for nearly a hundred years, and the distance from the international powers is getting farther and farther. American aircraft carrier formations appear in every corner of the world. While cruising, we were still grappling with the provenance of military spending.

In the past, we could hypnotize ourselves behind closed doors. Our air force can't, our navy can't, but our army can! However, a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam at the beginning of this year suddenly made the high-level officials realize that after ten years of turmoil, the last private land of the Chinese army is also in crisis!

It's not that our people are not good, but that the equipment is too backward, the command system is too backward, the tactical thinking is too backward, and the gap with the United States and the Soviet Union is too backward.

Director Song, as the head directly leading the military industry, naturally knows how far-reaching the blizzard torpedo will have if it can be realized.

China's naval fleet has a small tonnage and poor sea-air coordination capabilities. Compared with the integrated naval-air equipment of the US military or the Soviet army, the gap is not the slightest bit. fight back.

Yes, some people say that we have nuclear submarines and have the capability of a second nuclear strike. This is certainly true, but are we going to make a threat of nuclear deterrence casually? In the mode of conventional warfare, can our navy and air force compete with the United States and the Soviet Union?

The answer to this question is indeed somewhat depressing.

Missiles, we can't have more US troops, ships, we can't have more US troops, torpedoes, our speed is ten or even twenty knots slower than others, what can we use to fight them? Offshore combat can also rely on land-based combat systems, but what about offshore?

If the Blizzard torpedo can be successfully developed, all these problems can be solved.

In fact, everyone including Fan Wubing did not know that the Ukrainian Institute of Fluid Mechanics in the Soviet Union began to research and develop supercavitation technology in the early 1960s. Naturally, all this is highly confidential and the outside world does not know. The progress of Soviet cavitation weapons has been slow, and up to now, only laboratory products have been developed that are much faster than ordinary torpedoes, but their effective range is less than eight kilometers, and there is still a long way to go before actual combat.

Director Song's excited mood calmed down a bit, and he held Fan Heng's hand and said, "Okay! Your design is good! The key is the idea of ​​cavitation weapons and its theory, which is very important for our coastal defense. The meaning is profound!"

Director Zhang also stood there with great emotion. As the competent coordination department of the military industry enterprise, he knew very well how much confidence this kind of weapon would give the weak Chinese Navy once it was put into use. contempt,

Director Zhang felt very ashamed at this time, if he hadn't been able to hold his breath, he would have almost delayed the big event.

"Experts in Beijing have also put forward a request, and hope that the designers of the Blizzard torpedo can go to Beijing in person to provide them with as much guidance as possible in theory and practical implementation, which will speed up the progress of the work, Comrade Fan Heng , I think you don’t need to know Pingyuan Factory for the time being, how about waiting until this matter is a little bit more obvious?” Director Song put forward specific requirements to Fan Heng.

"Ah?!" Fan Heng obviously did not expect such a sudden change.

Director Zhang said with a smile on the side, "Comrade Fan Heng, there are many benefits to going to Beijing! There are many experts and learning opportunities there. It is very beneficial to improve your technical ability and understand the large-scale military-industrial cooperation system." ah!"

"Yes, yes!" Director Song also nodded in agreement, "For example, your design drawing, I think it's a big problem! You actually just drew it on a piece of paper. This confidentiality work is not done well. It is very serious. It’s easy to cause leaks! However, it’s hard to imagine that such an important blueprint would actually be drawn on a few sheets of paper in the guestbook, haha—”

Fan Heng was a little dazed. The design drawings passed the expert demonstration, but he was a little hesitant. Going to Beijing naturally has a lot of benefits. It is an opportunity for him to learn and improve.

However, it is probably inappropriate for me to explain the theory and design ideas to the experts, right? One must know that it was not Fan Heng himself who made this thing, but that precious youngest, Fan Wubing!

So Fan Heng said very seriously to Director Song and Director Zhang, "Actually, I didn't come up with the design idea of ​​this blizzard torpedo first. The designer was someone else, and even this sketch was not made by me." .”

"Ah?! The designer isn't you, who is that?" Director Song and Director Zhang didn't expect such a change.

I originally thought that Fan Heng is a comrade with many years of experience in torpedo weapon technology. It is very reasonable that this kind of thing came from him, but he actually said that he is not the designer. This question is very important!

"It's my son." Fan Heng replied with some embarrassment.