Years of the Republic of China 1913

> In Fang Zida's deep memory, there are two most familiar scuds, one is the hand-cranked rewinder of an old-fashioned video recorder at home, and the other is the famous stupid Damu who played against Israel during the Gulf War. Scud missiles are gone. ( .) {..Uploaded by friends} The former is definitely impossible. As for the latter, Fang Zida is 100% sure that it is impossible for the ordnance factory to go against the sky and produce missiles for him in a blink of an eye.

"Could it be...Scud refers to the rocket launcher?" Fang Zida thought of this for a moment, and almost shouted out of excitement, restraining his excitement, he asked Chen Wei in a low voice.

"How can it be so easy to make a rocket launcher, but your guess is not entirely wrong. The Scud is the initial model of a rocket launcher. The ordnance factory has been groping up and down for a long time and just produced a few samples. This time I came here to see the effect. .”

"Have the samples been produced?" Fang Zida asked in surprise. After receiving the confirmation reply, he was not to mention how happy he was. With the samples, can the finished product go far?No matter how he looked at the effect, he couldn't wait to see things.

Because there is going to be a trial today, this kind of work is of course not possible in the ordnance factory. The ordnance factory has a special test site in the suburbs, and it has been prepared for a long time. Old Liu Tou and the others are here specially to wait for Chen Yu.Immediately, Fang Zida did not go to the ordnance factory to rest, and took the old Liu head and went directly to the test site in the suburbs.

"Is this what you call a scud?" Fang Zida couldn't wait to jump out of the car when he got to the place, wanting to see it first.But when I actually saw the samples, I was stunned.I looked at it for a long time with suspicious eyes.Can't help but ask.

The sample is indeed ugly. It is about 60 cm long from front to back. It is a straight iron pipe as thick as an arm. A scrap grenade tube.

"Can this thing be typed?" Fang Zida's face became a little ugly. If he didn't worry about hurting the enthusiasm of Chen Yu, Lao Liutou and others, he even wanted to ask if this crap was just kidding?

Seeing what Fang Zida was thinking, Chen Yu couldn't help but smiled: "No hurry, let's see first." Then.Chen Mu turned around and nodded to Old Liu, indicating that he could start.

Old Liu grinned and greeted, and several of his apprentices immediately brought a box over.When the box was opened, there was a pile of iron parts inside, and several people took them out and assembled them on the spot. *1*1* After a while, an iron launch frame was erected. In the center of the frame were two steel rail-like guide rails, pointing forward at a 45-degree angle.Afterwards, the old head Liu personally pressed the iron pipe on the guide rail, and then installed a few thin pieces of iron at the end of the iron pipe. After installing it, he fiddled with it back and forth for a few minutes. Nodding with satisfaction.

"It's done. Mr. Fang, please stand far away first." Old Liu turned his head and said to Fang Zida and others standing behind him.

Fang Zida, Chen Yu and others hurriedly withdrew a long way under the command of Old Liu, hid behind a low protective wall, and looked over there through the observation hole on the wall.When Fang Zida and the others arrived at a safe place, Old Liu's apprentices also dispersed and retreated for a distance, and squatted down beside the fire starter that had been prepared long ago.

"coming!"

Putting his hand on the handle, Old Liu let out a low growl and twisted it hard.

With a muffled sound, the launcher trembled slightly first, and then a dazzling flame was seen erupting from the tail of the iron pipe installed on the guide rail.In a blink of an eye, the surrounding smoke rose, and the iron pipe flew out along the guide rail.

Seeing that the inconspicuous iron pipe was actually shot out, Fang Zida stood up involuntarily, and stared at the "shooting star" flying away from the distance over the low wall.The flying speed of this thing is not fast, it can be said to be much slower than the cannonball.The line of sight can clearly see the trajectory of its flight in the air.The distance of several hundred meters passed by in an instant, and the iron pipe flew to the highest point in the air and drew a beautiful arc.The head drops slightly and continues to move forward... .

Not long after, the iron pipe fell in the distance, and there was no explosion at the place where the warhead landed, but judging from the results of this test, it was quite unexpected, and Fang Zida was ecstatic. The eye-catching thing seems to be really famous.

"Not bad! The flight is fairly stable, how far has it traveled?" Fang Zida raised his hand to cover the sun and looked into the distance, and asked with a smile on his face.

"It should be 2 miles." Chen Yu estimated the distance and said, and soon the following measurement results were reported. The shooting distance was 991 meters, which was almost 1 kilometer.

Then, Old Liu tried to shoot 4 more one after another. Except for one of which failed to launch due to the failure of the ignition device, the tests of the other several were successful, and the one that flew the farthest even reached With a distance of 1123 meters, the average shooting distance is around 1000 meters.

"Good! Good! Good!" Looking at the reported data, Fang Zida excitedly said three good words, and walked to the hair rack with great interest to look carefully for a while, although he was not familiar with these structures and designs. He didn't know anything about it at all, but it didn't stop him from asking Lao Liutou and others about the principles with great relish.

"How far can it be shot if a warhead is installed in front?" Fang Zida asked, pointing to the retrieved wreckage.

"There is no difference. Mr. Fang saw that this section is actually a fake warhead. It weighs the same as the real warhead, but it cannot explode." Old Liu pointed to the front of the iron pipe and said with a smile. It is indeed so before a closer look.

"Not bad, really good. It's a pity... the distance is a bit short." Fang Zida admired a few words, and couldn't help shaking his head again. This thing called the Scud by the old head Liu is stable in flight and simple in device, but the biggest shortcoming is the distance. Too short, the range of 1 kilometer is not as good as that of a mortar, and it is really of little significance in actual combat.

"Shang Ming, your appetite is too big. Don't you want to go to the sky in one step?" Chen Yu smiled from the side: "Do you know how much effort it took to solve the key issues such as ignition, launch, and flight stability? It’s not easy to do this in such a short time, and it’s all thanks to old master Liu, if it wasn’t for his help, the problem of flight balance alone would be enough.”

Fang Zida couldn't help laughing. He was indeed too impatient. This is just an experimental product. It is already quite good to have such a result.As for the short distance, it should be mainly due to the problem of propellant fuel. As long as this problem is solved, the success of the real rocket launcher will not be far away.

For Liu Tou, the hero who made the "Scud", Fang Zida immediately decided to give a huge reward of 1000 oceans. At the same time, other workers who participated in the research and design were also awarded nearly [-] oceans in recognition of their contributions to military work.As for what Chen Wei said, the old Liu headed out to solve the problem of the stability of the scud flight, so he couldn't help asking curiously. Who knows, the old Liu head replied with a smile that his family's ancestors were all engaged in fireworks. Hearing and seeing, plus having spent most of his life in the military industry, making this kind of thing is a piece of cake.

"The folks are really a master!" Fang Zida stared for a long time with his mouth open, and then stuck out his thumb in admiration and shook at Old Liu. Dayang is even happier.

Regarding the problem of propellant fuel for rocket launchers, Fang Zida exchanged opinions with Chen Wei in private. No rifling, pressure, etc., the propulsion depends entirely on the action of fuel.To find a suitable propellant, various experiments must be carried out, which will be the real key to the formation of the rocket launcher.

"You can try mixing fuel, and find a way from chemical means." Fang Zida thought for a while, and vaguely recalled that rocket launcher fuels in later generations were divided into solid and liquid, and their formulas were not conventional, as if they were based on chemical formulas** of.It's a pity that Fang Zida's knowledge is limited to this, and he can only remind Chen Wei a little in this regard.

Chen Wei nodded thoughtfully. This was a line of thought. He decided to do a few more experiments to find a suitable method.

"By the way, the rocket launcher project will be kept strictly confidential from today onwards. All participants are not allowed to disclose the news. Please handle it with Mr. Le. It must be classified as top secret." Fang Zida thought for a while and then said: Send some people to you as Jingwei Well, the rocket launcher project will no longer be developed in the ordnance factory from today, just... find a place in Songjiang, Songjiang, the location is remote, and all staff must be audited before they can enter the factory. "

"Is it necessary?" Chen Wei asked strangely, since he felt that there was no need to do this at all, it was just making weapons, so why make it so mysterious?

"Of course it is necessary!" Fang Zida said seriously: "This must be done like this, and starting from the rocket launcher project, all other newly developed projects in the future must be operated in this way." Regarding this point, Fang Zida did not bargain with Chen Wei at all, and immediately It was confirmed as the president, and at the same time, he planned to start to deal with it after returning home, and call some reliable people to assist Chen Wei.Fang Zida is more aware of the role of rockets in war than Chen Yu. This will be a big killer in conventional warfare. Even a hundred years later, the use of rockets in conventional warfare by the army is still a common method. It swept across the European continent in World War II. How strong was the reaction of the German army when it encountered the Soviet rocket launcher? Until the end of the war, Germany was desperate to obtain the rocket launcher technology. Therefore, the rocket launcher that appeared decades in advance must be kept top secret.

Not only that, but Fang Zida has a more ambitious goal in mind, but it is only limited by the conditions and cannot be carried out temporarily.Let the rocket launcher be the beginning of all this. The name "Scud" is not bad. Fang Zida decided to use the code name "Scud" to start the military industry plan. (To be continued..)