Military Technology

Perhaps the military will be interested in this flying-wing reusable launch vehicle technology. Wu Hao thought for a while and nodded slightly.

It stands to reason that the aerospace authorities should be very interested in this new type of reusable launch vehicle technology, and even attach great importance to it. But judging from Qin Xinghe's reaction, I'm afraid as he said, their attention or focus is currently on several major projects. If you think about such a project, you probably can't take it up for the time being.

As for the military, they are definitely interested in this cutting-edge technology, but the details will not be known until after the discussion.

In fact, Wu Hao and the others have already researched this project or this kind of flying-wing reusable launch vehicle technology to this stage. It is definitely impossible to give up just like that. This is not in line with their character.

So no matter what, they will continue. First, this technology can be used in many fields, such as aerospace, reusable launch vehicles, space vehicles, etc.

In the military aspect, this technology can also be applied to the military. This technology of gliding and landing from space is actually somewhat similar to the technology of waverider re-entry into the atmosphere, but there are also some differences.

When ballistic missiles return to the atmosphere, they generally fly along a fixed trajectory. This is the original ballistic missile technology.

Later, with the development of air defense defense technology, ballistic missiles with fixed flight trajectories were very easy to intercept. In order to avoid being intercepted by enemy air defense forces, various military powers subsequently developed variable trajectory ballistic technology.

The so-called variable orbit ballistic missile technology means that the warhead uses the power carried by the warhead or upper stage to change orbit in outer space, thereby changing the flight trajectory of the warhead or hitting the target, thereby avoiding early detection and defense by the enemy and reducing the enemy's detection time. This increases the difficulty of its defense.

Later, based on this technology, another multi-warhead technology emerged, which is also a ballistic missile strike technology that enhances penetration capabilities and increases the difficulty of enemy defense.

That is, multiple warheads are installed on a ballistic missile, which can be two or three or more than a dozen. These warheads can all be real warheads, or some false targets can be added. In this way, quantity is used to increase or decrease missile penetration efforts.

A powerful air defense system can deal with one or two missiles, or seven or eight missiles at the same time. However, if it can deal with more than a dozen missiles at the same time, or even more missiles, then this air defense system will not be able to cope with the attack. It was difficult to get up. So despite its powerful performance, it will always make mistakes in the face of large numbers.

Usually the warheads equipped on these ballistic missiles are unconventional warheads. As long as one hits, it can severely damage an enemy's city, which is also difficult for the enemy to bear.

Even these warheads can have different yields depending on the equipment and can be used to attack targets of different sizes in the enemy's territory.

With the establishment of multi-layered air defense networks in various countries, especially the establishment of national defense systems, these strike methods have gradually begun to become difficult. Therefore, all countries are developing strike weapons with stronger penetration capabilities.

So a new flight trajectory re-entered everyone's field of vision, and our country was the first to realize it and was the first to equip this kind of strike weapon, which is the waverider warhead.

The waverider warhead adopts a waverider configuration design, which is an aircraft shape suitable for hypersonic flight. All its leading edges have attached shock waves. When flying in this wave-riding configuration, the front edge plane coincides with the upper surface of the shock wave, just like riding on the wave surface of the shock wave, relying on the pressure of the shock wave to generate lift, so it is called a wave-riding configuration.

The waverider warhead developed based on this shape design can fly into the atmosphere at high speed, just like floating on water, and can bounce several times in the atmosphere continuously. In this way, it will increase the number of enemy targets. The unpredictability of the air defense system greatly increases the difficulty for the enemy to intercept such waverider warheads.

As for Wu Hao's flying-wing reusable launch vehicle technology, although it is somewhat similar to this waverider configuration, it is also very different.

It will not bounce in the atmosphere, but will fly directly into the atmosphere from space and glide in the atmosphere. Through the control of the rocket body itself and the lift brought by the flying wings, the rocket body can be controlled and It allows the rocket body to fly a very long distance and accurately land on the predetermined landing site or runway.

In the military, this flying-wing re-entry flight technology can also be applied to some strike weapons, such as missile warheads.

Missile warheads designed with this flying wing structure can perform long-distance and precise maneuvers when re-entering the atmosphere. While maintaining speed, they can also glide over long distances. In this way, it can not only improve the penetration performance of this flying-wing warhead, but also be able to attack various targets freely and flexibly, and even temporarily change the target.

Therefore, Wu Hao believes that the military will definitely be interested in such technology, but he still hopes that this technology can be used more on launch vehicles.

After all, their original intention of developing this technology was to reduce the launch cost of launch vehicles and thereby promote the development of human aerospace industry.

Xiao Wu, is this your Jianmu-9 launch vehicle? It looks a bit like the Jianmu-7 rocket with two additional boosters. Zou Huanyi asked him.

Wu Hao, who was in a daze, suddenly heard Zou Huanyi's question and immediately reacted, and then replied with a smile: "Yes, this Jianmu-9 rocket is improved and developed on the basis of our Jianmu-7 launch vehicle. . This aspect is actually a bit like the relationship between our Jianmu-2 and Jianmu-5 rockets.

The two boosters of this Jianmu-9 rocket are actually two first-stage rocket bodies of the Jianmu-7 rocket. Therefore, the two booster rockets and core first stage are the same. "

This is still going the way of the Falcon Heavy rocket. After hearing his introduction, Zou Huanyi understood instantly.

Haha, the general structure is the same. Wu Hao answered with a smile.

In other words, its core first-stage rocket and two boosters can be recycled and reused? Some experts asked.

Wu Hao smiled and nodded and replied: "Yes, not only that, but its two halves of the fairing can also be recycled and reused.

In the future, if our flying-wing reusable launch vehicle technology is successfully developed and the problem of cost control is solved, this flying-wing reusable rocket technology will also be applied to the second stage of the Jianmu-9 rocket. on top of the rocket. In this way, the entire Jianmu-9 launch vehicle, except for the 'upper stage' in the fairing, which cannot be recycled, other parts can be recycled and reused, so that the transportation cost can be greatly reduced. "

After hearing his words, the discussion at the scene suddenly became louder. A leader next to him immediately asked: "What is the carrying capacity of this Jianmu-9 rocket?"

[PS: Everyone scroll forward, there is an easter egg at the end of the previous chapter, there is a surprise. 】