I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"The pre-coordinates are 141 degrees east longitude 1 minute 41.857 seconds, north latitude 37 degrees 25 minutes 13.900 seconds, warhead code ZDZY34, trigger depth 137 meters!"

The operator in the command vehicle announced the coordinate information on the folder in the loudest voice, and then turned to hand it to the lieutenant colonel:

"Dongfeng 15 launches, ready! Please give instructions!"

The lieutenant colonel took the folder seriously and opened it, slowly examining it. In fact, he had read the same text countless times in the past few days, and the coordinates had been firmly remembered in his heart.

But he still opened the tactical tablet according to the procedural principles and pressed the intercom:

"Dragon Palace, the flag bearer is in place, please confirm the coordinates!"

"Dragon Palace received it, east longitude 141 degrees 1 minute 41.857 seconds, north latitude 37 degrees 25 minutes 13.900 seconds. Please check again. If you are not sure, report immediately!"

"yes!"

The lieutenant colonel glanced at the numbers one by one, then recited them in his mind, and finally moved his eyes to the coordinates that had been entered but not yet confirmed on the console.

"The verification is completed and the target is confirmed to be correct. Please give instructions!"

"do it according to plan."

"The flag bearer understands!"

The lieutenant colonel closed the folder with a snap and solemnly returned it to the operator.

"The coordinates are confirmed, please continue preparations for launch!"

"yes!"

The operator who couldn't wait for a long time pressed the confirmation button hard. In fact, this coordinate had already been pre-stored in the missile's computer, and now it was just a formal selection.

A dotted trajectory from Mudanjiang to the First Nuclear Power Plant appeared on the screen of the operating console, which will be the path that Dongfeng 15C will fly through.

The lieutenant colonel looked down at the time. It was now 10:59, 40 minutes left before launch.

The Dongfeng 15C is a two-stage solid rocket that does not require temporary refueling before launch like previous liquid rockets. This means that all their attention will be on waiting for launch.

What he hopes most now is that there will be no more messages on the radio, so that he will definitely launch the rocket as planned.

There was a terrible silence in the command vehicle. Everyone was motionless at their posts. The people beside the launch vehicle had already evacuated. Everyone was counting the time in their hearts.

The launch time is 11:40, and it takes almost ten minutes to reach the destination.

There are also quite a few satellites that can provide navigation over the Western Pacific during this time. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the central government even mobilized two Kuaizhou rockets three days in advance to launch two small satellites into a 200-kilometer low orbit.

This was definitely the longest forty minutes the lieutenant colonel had ever spent. The last time I felt like this was when I was in the recruit company, when the squad leader tied his hands to the horizontal bar because he couldn't pull it up.

At 11:29, there was still no sound on the radio.

The lieutenant colonel believed that the headquarters did not want to hear any more changes. In his imagination, there was also a group of people standing nervously in front of the electronic map, their eyes firmly fixed on the location marked in red.

The command car was surprisingly quiet. He could clearly hear the hum of the generator, the whistling sound caused by the current passing through the capacitor, breathing sounds of different frequencies, and the pounding of the chest. heart.

One second before the second hand of the watch crossed the middle, he took a deep breath, glared at the operator who was also staring at him with fire in his eyes, and shouted with all his strength:

"Launch-ready!"

The operator squeezed his legs together hard, and his boots made a crisp sound when they hit each other.

"yes!!"

The operator quickly pressed the buttons on the console using the memory he had practiced countless times. Finally, he picked up the microphone with his left hand and put it to his ear. With his right hand, he faced the stopwatch towards himself and stared sternly at the beating numbers on it.

Once again, only ambient noise and breathing were left in the command vehicle, and everyone was frozen like machines.

11:39:00, 11:39:10, 11:39:20...

At 11:39:40, the operator spoke at the moment the numbers jumped:

"Attention all units, target points on land... five, four, three, two, one, release!"

When the countdown reached zero, the bottom of the already erected rocket released a large amount of gas, and then rapidly expanded and blew up the surrounding dust, forming a white mist mixed with brown.

In fact, the rocket computer had entered the launch program an hour ago, and it would launch on time as long as it was not manually terminated.

The ignited solid motor reached its maximum thrust in one second, pushing the rocket to rise rapidly along the vertical rail, and then immediately turned and began to accelerate in the tangent direction of the earth's rotation.

The Dongfeng 15C with a special mission had a much higher ascent rate than conventional rockets. It only took a few seconds to pass through the clouds with a "boom" sound, becoming a shining star in the clear sky.

…

"Target captured!"

"Two holes in the direction, two holes in the direction, estimated time is 689 seconds, correction 4."

"Level 1 escape!"

Dongfeng 15C appeared in Yuanwang-7's radar field of view more than ten seconds after its launch. On the display map in the center of its operating console, a breathing, flashing dot was slowly moving along the dotted line.

The Dongfeng 15C flew a distance of 1,190 kilometers this time, which is still a lot of margin from its maximum range.

Therefore, in order to enhance its ground-penetrating strike capability, its warhead mass has almost reached the limit, and its launch height has been increased from 150 kilometers to 200 kilometers. The descent process alone takes 195 seconds, and the maximum terminal speed exceeds Mach 5.

This is not because the speed cannot be faster, but because the ground-penetrating projectile pursues ultra-high-precision strikes. If the speed is too fast, there will be no time for trajectory correction, and the difficulty of correction will also increase exponentially.

Even Mach 5 is actually quite difficult to control. At this speed, as long as it deviates a little at high altitude, the error may be more than ten meters when it lands on the ground.

There are limits to the precision control of ballistic missiles. It is extremely difficult to go from an error of 100 meters to 10 meters. To control it to the order of single digits can make people scratch their heads.

However, the positioning conditions for this launch are extremely sufficient. A large number of beacons have been deployed on the ground, there is a complete satellite network in the sky, and Yuanwang 7 provides real-time correction data at sea. Most people are still very confident.

From the moment of launch, Lin Ju had been looking at the sky in the direction of the landing place from the bridge. At this time, the sun had completely risen. After just a few seconds of looking at it, he was so stung that he couldn't open his eyes.

A few hundred meters away from Yuanwang 7, the side of a patrolling 052C was also filled with sailors, who obviously knew the news of the launch.

As for the cruise ship full of tourists, they are not visible. They are blocked in a specific area and cannot get close to Yuanwang 7.

"If I were the commander of the Pacific Fleet, I would definitely take the opportunity now to conduct interception exercises using the Dongfeng 15C as an imaginary enemy. This opportunity is too rare."

I don't know when Zhang Zheng appeared on the bridge, looking forward as he spoke.

Lin Ju: "Hmm... So our battleships are doing the same thing?"

"..."