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Chapter 270 ICBM Test Launch
At 1987 p.m. on January 1, 2, Wang Jiankun contacted Burmese senior official Peng Sheng at the military missile test control center in Myitkyina.

"Commander Peng, where is our test fleet?"

"Jiankun, I just wanted to inform you of the progress. The test fleet has arrived at the target sea area and is currently patrolling nearby, setting up beacons and observing hydrological conditions."

"Very good. Also, tell them to stay alert. The reconnaissance satellite has captured an American fleet setting off from Hawaii. It will arrive at the sea area where the warheads landed tonight as reported by us." Wang Jiankun informed Peng Sheng of the situation just captured by the reconnaissance satellite and asked him to inform Myanmar's test fleet to be prepared.

"Do the Americans like to stir up trouble so much? This place is not close to their military base!" Peng Sheng said a little angrily.

"They have always been like this. After all, the South Pacific has always been their sphere of influence. If we were to fire missiles there, they would definitely be unhappy. The protest letter has already reached our External Liaison Department."

"Well, unfortunately our fleet is still too small. I'm afraid they will suffer in the confrontation." Peng Sheng said.

At this time, the Myanmar Navy's surface ships were really very weak.

During the war of unification, most of the several hundred-ton offshore gunboats imported by the former Myanmar government from Shanghai, China were destroyed. Although the remaining ones surrendered early, their performance was indeed too poor and they had to be handed over to the coast guard.

The new Myanmar Navy was actually trained in the Irrawaddy River.

In 1983, Wang Jiankun began to try to use his superpowers to build some small destroyers of about 2000 tons to provide training ships for the future All-China Navy.

But the construction of large warships is very energy intensive, so it is not appropriate to use super powers to build larger ones.

In addition, in order to increase military power on a large scale in the future, it is necessary to use conventional manufacturing methods to manufacture warships.

Previously, in order to manufacture rocket segment transport ships, Wang Jiankun specially used his superpowers to manufacture a batch of shipbuilding equipment.

After the infrastructure project of the large shipyard was completed, Wang Jiankun flew to the United States and spent a week learning from the Ingalls Shipyard.

After returning to the base in northern Myanmar, he asked Tomoko to refer to the shipbuilding equipment in the Ingalls Shipyard, and on this basis designed two sets of destroyer construction equipment with a higher degree of automation, which he then materialized using his superpowers.

As for why the equipment of Ingalls Shipyard was copied, it was mainly because this shipyard specializes in manufacturing destroyers.

Ingalls Shipbuilding is located in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and is affiliated with Litton Industries. Its main products are Kidd-class destroyers, Tarawa-class amphibious assault ships (such as USS Tarawa LHA-1), and parts of the hulls of Ticonderoga-class cruisers. It also manufactures some auxiliary ships and naval supply ships.

There are 6 other shipyards capable of manufacturing naval vessels. They are:

Newport News Shipyard: Located in Newport News, Virginia, its main products are nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (Nimitz-class, Enterprise) and nuclear submarines (Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarines, Ohio-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines). It is the only shipyard in the United States that can build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, a core strategic asset during the Cold War.

Bath Iron Works: Located in Bath, Maine, its main products are destroyers (Spruance class) and cruisers (Ticonderoga class). It is the first shipyard to apply gas turbine propulsion system and Aegis radar integration.

General Dynamics Electric Boat Division: Located in Groton, Connecticut, its main products are nuclear submarines (Los Angeles-class attack submarines such as USS Providence SSN-719, Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines such as USS Michigan SSBN-727).

Avondale Shipyard: Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, its main products are auxiliary ships such as supply-class fast combat support ships, frigates (Perry-class guided missile frigates), focusing on logistics support ships and small and medium-sized surface ships.

Todd Pacific Shipyard: Located in Seattle, Washington and San Pedro, California, its main products are frigates (Perry-class frigates) and auxiliary ships (tugboats, training ships, etc.).

Bethlehem Steel Company: Located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and San Pedro, California, its main products are destroyers (Kidd-class destroyers). At this time, it has gradually reduced its warship business and turned to civilian ships.

Wang Jiankun had long had the idea of ​​replicating and upgrading the American warship manufacturing technology, but after visiting shipyards across the United States, he couldn't help but feel ashamed of his narrow vision.

Because the shipbuilding industry's industrial chain is so huge, cruisers and destroyers alone require the support of a large number of supporting factories.

At this time, northern Myanmar was in a state of disrepair. The simultaneous launch of high-speed rail projects, large-scale launch vehicle projects and ballistic missile projects had already exhausted all manpower and material resources. It would be very difficult to develop a large-scale shipbuilding industry.

Although the military had a strong desire for large surface ships, it had to give up the idea after seeing the areas of several major shipbuilding bases in the United States, the numerous engineering equipment, and a series of supporting factories inland that Wang Jiankun had shown.

Therefore, after much consideration, it was finally decided that within five years, the focus would still be on small surface ships, and to fully manufacture destroyers of about 5 tons.

Destroyers of this tonnage are currently the most widely equipped naval equipment in the world.

It is about 100 meters in size and is generally equipped with 1 to 2 naval guns. Depending on the mission, it is also equipped with torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, air defense missiles, anti-submarine systems such as torpedoes, and helicopters.

When Wang Jiankun designed the destroyer for the Myanmar Navy, he mainly referred to the French Georges Leger-class destroyer.

The standard displacement is 3600 tons and the full load displacement is 4600 tons, which is slightly larger than the French one.

Weapons and equipment:

Anti-submarine: 1 eight-unit anti-submarine missile (range 15 kilometers).

Anti-ship: 4 anti-ship missiles (range 45 kilometers).

Air defense: 1 eight-unit air defense missile system (range 20 kilometers).

Naval guns: 1 120mm naval gun, 2 20mm machine guns.

It has four types of weapons: anti-submarine, anti-ship, air defense, and naval guns.

Xingyao Group has manufactured the latest information system and radar for this destroyer.

With the support of 120-nanometer process chips, the command and information systems of this destroyer are very powerful.

The radar also used the T/R components that were just being trial-produced in laboratories in Europe, the United States and other countries.

Therefore, the size of the radar is much smaller than that of the French Georges Leger class, and the number of antennas is also greatly reduced.

Chieko combined these latest technologies to design a stealth shape for this destroyer, making the destroyer's echo on conventional radar very small. In high sea conditions, it is difficult to detect it even 20 nautical miles away.

After the design was completed, the military slipway at the Yangon Shipyard immediately began construction work.

Pieces of steel plates used for building warships start from Gaoya Steel City. Once they arrive at the shipyard, workers operate CNC water jet machines to cut the steel plates into the required shapes.

This water jet was originally designed for cutting titanium alloys, because titanium alloys will creep at high temperatures. If gas cutting or spark cutting is used, the performance of the titanium alloy near the cut will deteriorate.

Later, it was discovered that using a water jet to cut steel plates would make the blade very smooth, and the amount of grinding required during subsequent welding would be much less, so Wang Jiankun specially manufactured a CNC water jet suitable for cutting large marine plates.

Because it is a steel plate used to build destroyers, even though it is not much thicker than ordinary ship steel plates, its strength is several times higher.

It feels very textured in the hand.

Workers use lifting equipment to lift the cut plates onto the 3D fully automatic plate bending machine.

The plate bending machine follows the program, and each pressure point is driven by a separate hydraulic press to press a whole piece of steel plate into the required curvature.

Currently, the working length of this 3D fully automatic plate bending machine is 8 meters and the width is 5 meters, which can basically meet the one-time forming requirements of all plates.

The precision of this one-step formed sheet is several orders of magnitude higher than that of sheets pressed by conventional press brakes.

Therefore multiple pressings are rarely necessary.

In addition, the stress is very small, and the fixture required for welding is greatly simplified.

With the support of many advanced automated equipment, the two destroyers were basically completed in just half a year.

In order to put the ship into service as soon as possible, some of the equipment on board was manufactured with the help of Wang Jiankun using his superpowers.

Unfortunately, no matter how fast they rushed, only these two destroyers were in service when the intercontinental ballistic missile was launched. That's why Peng Sheng told Wang Jiankun that their naval fleet was too small.

In order to gather the strength to defend the landing area, the original two 2-ton training ships had to set sail.

Because they were all small ships, their voyages were relatively short, so the Navy had to ask the Sihai Group's merchant ships to serve as temporary supply ships.

The mission location is far away from the waterway, and a single supply ship is not enough, so for this fleet of four small ships, Sihai Group dispatched two 1-ton cruise ships to serve as supply ships.

In addition, one cruise ship was temporarily modified to set up a helicopter platform and carry a helicopter to the designated landing area.

Following the six test fleets are four 6-ton ocean-going trawlers, which will fish and recover rocket debris on the high seas to avoid exposing sensitive technology.

At 1987 o'clock in the morning on January 1, 3, the small town of Xingangandi in northern Myanmar was still in the darkness before dawn.

But the valley outside the city was already brightly lit.

Standing on the observation post on the hill and looking into the valley, a military green-painted missile had already been erected.

It is 16.8 meters long, 1.56 meters in diameter, has a launch weight of 33.6 tons, and all three stages use solid fuel.

The overall size is smaller than the US Minuteman missile. The conservative design range is 8 kilometers, and the maximum range is expected to reach 9 kilometers.

"Commander Peng, the test will begin in half an hour. Are all departments ready?" In the command room in Myitkyina, Wang Jiankun asked the military chief Peng Sheng who had arrived.

"Everything is in place. It's afternoon there, the weather is good, the wind and waves are not big, and our boat is hardly affected."

"Is the American fleet nearby?"

"They arrived three hours ago. They relied on the large size of their two frigates and wanted to intrude into our exercise area. Fortunately, our ships were maneuvering at high speed and our commanders were brave enough to defend the two large American ships closely.

This forced the US warships not to risk crossing the blockade, otherwise there would be an American warship in the center of our landing point, and they might even salvage the test warheads."

"Wait, our navy should be patient. The ballistic missile will be tested soon. Once the test is completed, we will have strategic nuclear strike capability. The Americans will have to be polite to us next time they meet us."

"Yes, we only had plutonium bombs before, but the means of delivery were too unsafe, so we dared not show them to the public. Once our intercontinental ballistic missiles are successful, we can show them openly."

"I plan to wait for the hydrogen bomb test. Currently, China has pointed out the optimal configuration, which is consistent with our original expectations. This shows that our route is basically feasible." Wang Jiankun talked about the verification work that China helped to do.

"When are you going to test the hydrogen bomb?"

"If everything goes well, it will probably be in the second half of this year. By that time, we will be able to manufacture about 10 intercontinental ballistic missiles, and basically have the ability to strike at the same level."

"Okay, I'll wait for your good news."

As time passed, several other Myanmar leaders also paid attention to the test of this intercontinental ballistic missile through brain-computer chips.

"Attention all units, countdown 30 seconds." The on-site commander shouted a 30-second countdown.

At this time, all people near the missile had been evacuated.

The missile's onboard computer receives the coordinate position from the command room and then calculates the flight path and actions at each stage.

Boom~, when the sun rose, the military green test bomb exploded.

The whole valley was filled with its sound.

Driven by a powerful solid fuel engine, the rocket quickly flew away from the temporary launch pad.

The solid fuel engine inside the missile is pre-ignited, and the burning rate regulator coating on the surface of the fuel column is vaporized to ensure a smooth thrust curve.

The first-stage engine nozzle vector control system (TVC) fine-tunes the pitch angle at a frequency of 200 times per second to avoid mountain turbulence.

The nozzles of the four concrete pipe columns around the missile rack are opened one by one by the drive of the motor, releasing a large amount of carbon nanotube aerosols. Their function is to absorb radar waves and scatter laser ranging, delaying external optical tracking.

30 seconds later, the missile rose to the stratosphere, the surface temperature of the missile body suddenly rose to 800°C, and the ablative carbon-carbon composite thermal protection layer began to sublimate, forming an ionized trail.

After 90 seconds, the first-stage engine separated according to the procedure, the interstage aluminum-magnesium alloy bracket disintegrated within 10 milliseconds, and the first-stage wreckage fell into the disputed area on the Myanmar-India border (near 94° east longitude).

The second stage is ignited, the nozzle throat with an expansion ratio of 50:1 expands, the specific impulse is increased to 290 seconds, and the ballistic elevation angle is adjusted to 32°.

After 180 seconds, the missile began to fly in suborbital space, with a cruising altitude of 1 kilometers and a speed of 200 kilometers per second (7.8% of the first cosmic speed).

The missile-borne infrared astronomical telescope locked onto Betelgeuse and Alpha Centauri in the Orion constellation, compared them with the star map database, and eliminated the accumulated errors of the gyroscope.

After 600 seconds, 20 aluminized polyimide balloons inflated to simulate the warhead radar signature, along with a tungsten filament cloud to interfere with the radar beam.

The GaN jammer emits L-band noise to suppress the staring sensors of the U.S. Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS).

After 1200 seconds, the missile entered the reentry phase.

The first is the black barrier breakthrough, which lasts for 150 seconds.

It entered the ionosphere at an altitude of 80 kilometers. The thickness of the plasma sheath on the warhead surface reached 30 centimeters, and X-band communications were interrupted.

The cold atom interferometer is started with an accuracy of 0.1 millirad/hour, continuously updating the ballistic parameters.

At 1350 seconds, the four boron nitride ceramic rudders on the back of the warhead unfolded, withstanding the high temperature of 4°C at a speed of Mach 15, and implemented an "S"-shaped jump glide.

At 1500 seconds, the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) scanned the sea surface features, compared them with the pre-stored topographic maps, and locked onto the unmanned buoy array in the South Pacific target range.

A titanium alloy data cabin is released at an altitude of 5 kilometers above the sea surface, and the black box storing the flight parameters inside is transmitted back via a sea surface buoy satellite.

The warhead detonates a 10-ton lithium fluoride charge at an altitude of 1 kilometers, generating a 10-microsecond microwave pulse of megawatts to test the damage resistance of the ship's electronic equipment.

"Jiankun, how is it, did it succeed?"

The first thing my uncle asked was Wang Jiankun.

"It succeeded. The landing point was very accurate, much better than originally expected, and the circular deviation was extremely small, which means that our intercontinental ballistic missile navigation redundancy is very effective. The quantum-starlight-inertial triple guidance system compressed the CEP to the critical value of the arms control treaty, 100 meters.

In addition, plasma stealth and multi-dimensional decoy technology reduce the recognition rate of the space-based early warning system to 17%.

The environmental adaptability is also very good. The launch reliability under complex meteorological conditions in mountainous areas is 99.7%, and the 95% humidity environment has no effect on the performance of solid fuel. "Based on the data sent back by the satellite, Wang Jiankun asked Zhizi to quickly analyze it, and then told his uncle many projects that met the test standards.

"Well, why are you talking so much? I just want to ask you, can our missiles reach Europe and the United States in the future?"

"Of course we can. The intelligence agencies and military departments of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Britain, France and other countries should be dumbfounded at this moment. Our missiles are actually at least one generation ahead of theirs. The international pressure we will face next will be considerable."

For this missile, Wang Jiankun used many cutting-edge technologies, many of which were still in the imagination of scientists. Now he has put them all into use on this intercontinental missile.

Many people around the world are watching this right now, and as time goes by, they will discover too many unusual things.

(End of this chapter)