Siheyuan: I eat melons while doing scientific research

Chapter 1376 Let's put a rocket on it (4k)

The leader turned to look at him: "What do you mean? You have other ideas?"

Gao Zhendong nodded: "Yes, I do have some ideas about the ancillary facilities and some of them, mainly in terms of thermal power."

"Thermal power? When did you become interested in this?" The question didn't ask when he started researching it, as if it were nothing to Gao Zhendong.

Gao Zhendong laughed and said, "When we were learning about graphite materials last time, we talked about having two rounds of gains, and this is one of them."

The core reason is that Qiancheng has a thermal power plant, and it's not small. Because of "the gift of his hometown," Gao Zhendong was actually able to produce thermal power plant equipment at a relatively low price, just like hard drives—it's related to Qiancheng.

The leader was momentarily at a loss for words, but what he said wasn't important; the key was that he was happy.

"Okay, I'll pass it on. Comrades, we're waiting for your good news!" The leader directly defined this matter as "good news." As for whether there would be any changes, that was impossible, absolutely impossible!
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"Chief Engineer Gao, it's been a while! Haha, all of us at the factory have missed you." General Manager Zhang of Chunlei Machinery Factory, along with several colleagues, sat down in front of Gao Zhendong.

Since laser-guided bombs, television-guided bombs, and cluster bombs became a systematic approach, they have indeed been absent for some time.

The main problem is that it's indeed difficult for the comrades at Chunlei Factory to see Gao Zhendong without a reason; they can't get past the National Defense Commission.

"Well, we meet again, haha." Gao Zhendong laughed. This time, the National Defense Commission had summoned them.

"Let me first give you a brief report on our recent situation..." General Manager Zhang got into position, opened his notebook, and was about to give his report.

Gao Zhendong waved his hand: "No, no, no, you don't need to report your work to me, there are rules to follow."

This has nothing to do with rank. If it's something you shouldn't know, no matter how big the difference in rank is, you shouldn't listen to a single word.

General Manager Zhang smiled and said, "You've misunderstood. This was specifically instructed by the chief engineer of the National Defense Commission to give you a report on the latest situation so that you can stay informed."

The chief engineer of the National Defense Commission had a simple idea: to keep Kao Chen-tung informed of the latest developments in the relevant work, which would also facilitate his future work.

"So that's how it is," Gao Zhendong said, understanding the situation. He nodded with great interest, "I'll have to hear about it."

After all, his comrades were also working, researching, and developing. Gao Zhendong didn't believe that without his help, his comrades would make no progress at all. Especially today, with the rapid development of electronics, software, automation, and battlefield environmental equipment, his comrades' work foundation was far superior to what Gao Zhendong knew in his previous life.

Gao Zhendong had experienced plenty of times when, after six months or a year of not gaining a thorough understanding, his comrades would present him with a whole host of unexpected things. In his previous life, after entering the 10s, Gao Zhendong would experience this every time he participated in a military parade.

I don't know him, I don't know him at all...

General Manager Zhang began by introducing the recent work situation of Chunlei Machinery Factory.

There isn't much new work to be done. After all, laser-guided bombs, television-guided bombs, and small-caliber guided bombs are all relatively new technologies. The main task is to focus on production so that our air force comrades have weapons to use.

As we all know, our "small-batch trials" are quite different from those of other countries. Not to mention other countries, even some major powers can't keep up. At least most of our "small-batch trials," no matter how small the batch size, still produce more tanks than the "flower skirt country," only slightly fewer than the number of captains in the "flower skirt country."

Several precision-guided munitions that have already proven themselves on the battlefield have moved beyond the scope of "small-batch trials" and are now being mass-produced at full capacity.

After all, these things might be needed in large quantities sometime in the future, so if we have the option to "not believe in the wisdom of future generations," it's better not to.

As for the precision-guided munitions that had only been finalized a few years ago, naturally, the more the merrier, and Chunlei Machinery Factory focused its main efforts on these. This was a production plant, not a research institute.

However, in addition to solving production problems, General Manager Zhang and his team also tried to push things forward based on what Gao Zhendong had done, and the results were quite good.

"...Currently, the production volume of several guided weapons is sufficient to meet the equipment needs of the Air Force for new aircraft, and production has stabilized..."

Gao Zhendong nodded: "Yes, it's best to produce stably in batches. Otherwise, if we produce too much at once, it will be difficult to coordinate when it's close to the expiration date."

Mr. Zhang was not surprised at all by Gao Zhendong's words. Gao was an expert in project management and must have his own mature set of views on the management of production, material preparation, scrapping, and disposal.

"Yes, that's what the Air Force comrades said too. As long as we have sufficient reserves and supporting equipment, we just need to meet the matching speed requirements." To put it simply, for every additional aircraft, there needs to be a corresponding supply of ammunition.

"However, while producing ammunition, we also conducted some research, building upon the foundation you laid." General Manager Zhang said this with a hint of pride, but also with an element of gratitude towards Gao Zhendong.

"What did you do?" Gao Zhendong asked with great interest.

"We've combined a remote dispenser with television guidance!" General Manager Zhang said with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Gao Zhendong nodded repeatedly: "Great! That's a good idea!"

The original long-range dispensers mainly relied on simple inertial guidance, which was simple and cheap, but not very accurate. Fortunately, they could hit a large area at once, so it wasn't unusable even if the target was slightly off-target.

But bias is bias, and that cannot be concealed. For the Air Force, which has already tasted the benefits of "precision," aiming exactly where it is is the best. So, on a whim, General Zhang and his team installed a long-range dispenser on the television guidance system.

As for laser guidance, unlike television guidance which allows direct observation of the situation on-site, it presents a certain challenge in determining a suitable detonation timing.

If they wanted to solve the problem, firstly, it would be beyond the current capacity of Chunlei Factory, and secondly, the price would be sky-high, so they gave up on the idea.

"How's the effect?"

"The guidance effect is quite good," Mr. Zhang said with a smile.

"The guidance system works well?" Gao Zhendong laughed upon hearing this. This kind of statement usually means that there are some minor issues with the system's performance in other areas, and these issues are not easy to hide. "What about the others?" General Manager Zhang was a little embarrassed. Sure enough, he couldn't hide it from Chief Engineer Gao.

"Hehe, it's just a bit... a bit expensive." Remote dispensers are already much more expensive than ordinary bombs, and with the addition of a television guidance system, which is considered high-end these days, the price skyrockets.

"That's it? That's alright, that's alright." Gao Zhendong was unimpressed. It wasn't a particularly serious drawback, especially since the price of television guidance would drop significantly with technological advancements.

Having something is better than having nothing! That's the most important thing.

It's estimated that the Air Force doesn't take it too seriously. If the price is high, they can just produce fewer units during normal times and ramp up production when war breaks out.

"The Air Force comrades didn't seem to mind much, but we felt a little embarrassed," General Zhang said with a smile. Although he said that, his expression didn't show any embarrassment; on the contrary, he seemed a little proud and pleased.

This is indeed something to be proud of, after all, they have actually developed a brand-new technological equipment with practical combat significance.

Gao Zhendong nodded and smiled, "Actually, there are other ways to bring down the price of this thing, and the effect is not much different from that of television directing."

Due to transmission delays and low frame rates caused by technological limitations, television guidance does have some errors. However, this is not a problem for diving bombs or long-range spreaders used for aerial spraying.

Upon hearing Gao Zhendong's words, General Manager Zhang disregarded the important business he had come for and said with delight, "Chief Engineer Gao, please give me your guidance."

He didn't ask whether it was true or false.

Gao Zhendong laughed and said, "Go find the comrades in the army. They currently have two positioning systems: triangulation and monostation. Triangulation is already mature, while monostation is being tested. Regardless of which one it is, what I mean is that you should integrate the positioning system that the army is currently using..."

Upon hearing this, Mr. Zhang felt as if his head had been hit with a stick, and it was buzzing.

"Yes, that's a good approach. I'm not familiar with single-point positioning systems, but triangulation equipment isn't expensive. As long as battlefield conditions support it, this kind of guidance system will definitely be cheaper than laser guidance or television guidance! But triangulation requires continuous calculations, and computing devices aren't cheap, are they?"

Gao Zhendong laughed and said, "You've come to the right place to ask me about this. The C6108 is a common, ubiquitous product."

"This just requires continuous calculation, but the calculation is actually just a simple trigonometric function, which can be calculated very quickly using the table lookup method. C6108 is cheap and easy to use."

Mr. Zhang was overjoyed upon hearing this. Chief Engineer Gao was absolutely the best when it came to computers! This was excellent news for the remote distributor.

Triangulation devices cannot be deployed on every battlefield, or even if they are deployed, they may not survive. But as long as they are available, they are very suitable for use with remote dispensers. An error of tens or hundreds of meters is not a particularly big problem for dispensers.

To put it bluntly, it's not necessarily more accurate than dive bombing when used with ordinary bombs, but it's quite effective when used with long-range dispensers with a range of tens of kilometers.

Moreover, although it is cheaper than television guidance, its effect is not necessarily worse than that of television guidance. Rather, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. After all, television signals have more information than positioning signals, so they have higher requirements for signal-to-noise ratio and are more susceptible to interference.

Thinking about this, Mr. Zhang couldn't help but rub his hands together in anticipation. But then he heard Gao Zhendong's next words.

"besides……"

"Anything else?" While instructing his subordinates to take notes, General Manager Zhang kept a close eye on Gao Zhendong, as if afraid he might run away.

"...This guidance method can be combined with inertial navigation, so that inertial navigation can be used for guidance before entering the target area, and even positioning signals are not needed..."

"Chief Engineer Gao, what are the benefits of this? Combining the two will only drive the price up again."

Gao Zhendong shook his head and laughed, "In this way, we don't need to rely on any signals during flight. Once we reach the target area, we rely on battlefield positioning signals. Think about what that means?"

While the accuracy of a simple inertial navigation system is not high, it is still perfectly capable of guiding a bomb to a battlefield positioning system operating area with a radius of at least tens or hundreds of kilometers. After all, once the bomb enters this area, the guidance of the bomb is actually taken over by the triangulation positioning system. Even if the inertial navigation system deviates, it will not deviate by tens or hundreds of kilometers.

Gao Zhendong did not specify "triangulation signal," but rather referred to it generally as "battlefield positioning signal," indicating his grand ambitions.

"This...this...I understand! In this way, as long as the inertial navigation system is accurate, this composite guidance system can operate at any distance without relying on any signal from the transmitter!"

This is very important.

Gao Zhendong nodded and smiled, "By the way, you can install a small rocket on the long-range dispenser, and you can strike enemies at a greater distance! As long as there is battlefield positioning signal coverage in the area!"

The reason why the range of a TV-guided system is limited is not because the munition cannot fly that far, but because the guidance system cannot support that distance, so making the range too high is useless.

This composite guidance system is different. It uses inertial guidance in the first half and positioning guidance in the second half. In this way, the guidance system can almost ignore the influence of the aircraft's guidance distance.

Why don't you hurry up and install an engine and throw it far away?

General Manager Zhang praised him highly: "Chief Engineer Gao is truly amazing. He not only solved the problem of the high cost of television guidance, but also increased the range of the long-range dispenser."

This system is not very useful for ordinary bombs, as its accuracy is still somewhat insufficient. After all, even the TACAN system has a positioning error of one or two hundred meters and an angle error of about one degree. However, it seems to be tailor-made for the long-range dispenser of the "Sky Maiden Scattering Flowers" bomb.

Gao Zhendong smiled and said, "If the battlefield positioning system hadn't become increasingly sophisticated, I wouldn't have made this suggestion. Everything is the result of comprehensive development and everyone's joint efforts. By the way, for this kind of composite system, you'd better make your guidance methods more flexible and adaptable."

"Flexible? Wasn't what you just said flexible enough?" Mr. Zhang was a little confused. Just how flexible did it have to be to be considered flexible? Being able to think about getting back together was already flexible enough.

Gao Zhendong thought for a moment and gave an example: "Let me give you an example. If we rigidly follow the idea of ​​inertial guidance in the first half and positioning guidance in the second half, what if the bomb receives the positioning signal in the second half, but then loses the positioning signal due to enemy sabotage, signal interference, or even changes in weather?"

(End of this chapter)