Technological power starts with upgrading lenses

With the cooperation of the Jiuquan Launch Center, the booster was erected on the launch pad that afternoon. Yan Hui then led people to check it overnight to ensure that there were no flaws during the transportation process.

In fact, Kang Chi just glanced at the booster and knew that their work was in vain.

Not to mention that these soldiers regard their mission as more important than their lives and are afraid of bumping into it.

Even if he did roll off the car, it would definitely not be a big problem.

After all, those more than 10 billion are not burned in vain. If it is so effortless, then what is the point of recycling?

Although he knew that his work was in vain, Kang Chi couldn't stop him, so he could only let them mess around while he went to sleep.

When the alarm clock rang at eight o'clock in the morning, Kang Chi opened the curtains and found that the group of people were still busy on the launch pad in high spirits. It seemed that they were already refueling the booster.

After arriving at the command center with coffee, Kang Chi quickly found Yan Hui who was communicating with Min Chen.

"Ahem...how is the situation?"

"Mr. Kang!"

After hearing Kang Chi's voice, Yan Hui immediately turned around and said hello: "The fuel has been added and the final preparations are being made before the test launch. Everything is normal now."

Kang Chi nodded, and then turned his gaze to Min Chen beside Yan Hui.

In fact, this launch was not hosted by Kang Chi or Yan Hui, but by Min Chen from the Jiuquan Satellite Center.

The reason is actually very simple. Engineers who can design and build cars may not be able to drive quickly. Therefore, after the car is built, it is usually handed over to a more professional team and driver to be responsible for test driving and debugging. The same is true for the Rockets.

As for the previous projects such as nuclear fusion, why did Kang Chi personally go into battle?

Of course, it’s because those fields are too blank and there is no team or operator that is more professional than Kangchi, so I can only do it myself.

"Director Min, ahem, I'm leaving it to you today..."

"Mr. Kang is out of touch. You don't need to tell us that we will do our best." Min Chen heard that Kang Chi had coughed twice in a row, and his voice was a little different from yesterday, so he asked worriedly, " Is your throat okay?"

"It's okay, it's just that the air here is too dry and my throat feels a little uncomfortable."

Director Min was about to tell him to stop drinking coffee and drink more warm water, but Chen Hai next to him said directly into the microphone: "Go and ask the logistics department what happened. Mr. Kang's room doesn't even have a humidifier? Also, let them Hurry up and get some humidifiers and throat moisturizers and come to the command center!"

Min Chen: "..."

this……

Is it treated like a national treasure?

…

"…5,"

"4,"

"3,"

"2,"

"1!"

"ignition!"

"Boom——"

At nine o'clock in the morning, with a deafening roar, the 13 engines below the booster were ignited simultaneously, but after a full twenty seconds, the booster was still standing motionless on the launch pad.

This is actually the intention of the experiment.

Normally, in order to allow the rocket to lift off faster and reduce gravity loss, the initial thrust must be the highest.

However, the purpose of this launch was not to enter orbit, but to conduct a number of test experiments. In order to actually measure the engine's thrust adjustment capability, the thrust immediately after ignition was set to the lowest 10%.

"Thrust 11%, 12%, 13%..."

As the operator slowly pulled the push rod, the lift was detected and the launch pad automatically opened the robotic arm, and then the booster finally slowly lifted off.

"21.9%!"

"Are you right? Flying with 21.9% thrust?!"

"So its thrust-to-weight ratio now is 4.55?"

"It really has a total thrust of 4550 tons!!?"

"hiss--"

After seeing this data, the command room immediately became excited.

Although Kangchi had already given the performance parameters of Tongtian-1 to the engineers at the Jiuquan Launch Center in advance, it was clear that no one took those data seriously.

The booster has an empty weight of 500 tons and can be filled with up to 1,000 tons of fuel. A single engine has a thrust of 450 tons and a total thrust of 4,550 tons...

Look at the number of tigers and wolves these are!

The more professional people are, the more they feel that none of these data are reliable.

Especially after Yan Hui told them to only add 500 tons of fuel in the morning, saying that adding 50% of the fuel would satisfy all the experimental projects, they became even more certain that the data was accurate.

In other words, that data is actually the ultimate goal of the project, not now.

However, who would have thought that Kang Chi would give them a big surprise just after the experiment started!

However, this shock can only scare these insiders.

If you look at it from the perspective of an uninformed bystander, the lift-off just now is really not exciting, but it feels a bit stretched...

"Phew - finally flying."

Outside the launch center, a guard looked at the red flames and breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time he could not hide his disappointment.

This is already the fifth time he has participated in the defense mission of a rocket launch, but he has never seen such a strenuous rocket take off. It feels like a small horse pulling a cart, struggling to pull it for a long time...

He almost thought that today's test firing would be over.

…

At the same time, near the junction of Afuhan and Kashi,

Two J-20s, which received orders from their superiors, were performing inspection missions.

"This is the command post, call Black Tiger!"

"Black Tiger received it!"

"The aircraft radar is still not responding?"

"right."

"The target is only 250 kilometers away from you now. Your radar is still not responding at such a close distance. It can be basically judged that it is a silly eagle. Be ready for battle at any time. Once the opponent crosses the line, shoot it down without warning!"

"Black Tiger received it!"

After speaking, the pilot codenamed Black Tiger looked at the fuselage radar again to confirm that there was still no signal from the other party.

However, the insufficient power of the airframe radar does not mean that the ground radar is not effective. In fact, the ground radar had discovered the opponent as early as five minutes ago and shared the real-time transmission of the information with the aircraft.

Although they were ready to shoot down the invaders, after several previous battles, the enemy clearly knew that their every move was clearly seen by the Chinese state, and they did not dare to make any cross-border moves.

When it was about to cross the border airspace, the other party suddenly made a sharp turn, and then flew slowly and leisurely along the border line, so that the black tiger easily followed it for a medium-distance flight and started broadcasting at the same time. warn.

Through the glass, they could even roughly see the outline of each other's model.

"The report confirms that it is an SR-72 Silly Eagle reconnaissance aircraft. Their detection radar is facing 10 degrees east by north."

"Command received it, just keep staring at it."

"receive."

Thinking that the Mach 6 speed of that thing had once made him spin around, Black Tiger couldn't help but ask, "Should we let the Velociraptor come over to meet him?"

"It's not necessary. This person is obviously here to watch a show. He shouldn't do anything that crosses the line."

"All right……"

…

It has to be said that after Lao M temporarily withdrew from Liu Chief, Long Ge's geographical advantage has become bigger and bigger.

There is Lao Mao guarding the north, and although there is also a Menggou who still can't understand the situation, he is caught in the middle and can't get out or in, and he can't do anything.

Not to mention the east and south sides,

After the first island chain existed in name only, the huge strategic buffer space made it more and more difficult for them to collect some intelligence, so they could only sneakily start from the west.

And this sneakiness is only aimed at targets like Afuhan who do not have strong anti-stealth combat capabilities.

In the CIA headquarters building, a group of people were a little confused after seeing the real-time data sent by the Critical Eagle reconnaissance aircraft.

Boss Hua sent Critical Eagle there, but this was the result detected?

It took off slowly at first, then stopped immediately after flying to an altitude of 20,000 meters.

"What are they doing? Rocket hovering?"

"Obviously this is a reusable rocket and this is testing its balance of capabilities."

"The height data is very stable. It seems that their balance ability is good."

"But no matter how high the balance is, it can't cover up that pitiful thrust."

"Wait, the height has changed!"

"21223 meters, 20456 meters, 19560 meters..."

Looking at the declining data, excitement and anticipation suddenly appeared on their faces.

Rocket failure!

The engine stalls!

Explode!

Burn!

They kept praying in their hearts,

As the rocket free-falled, the altitude data became lower and lower, and soon passed what they considered the safe deceleration threshold.

The curse is in effect!

Just when they wanted to cheer for the upcoming fireworks, the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse!

In less than five seconds, the rocket's landing speed changed from 180KM to 0.

"Stop... stop?!"

"How is this possible?!"

"Did the radar fail?"

"No! It's accelerating!"

"..."

Looking at the numbers that kept jumping on the screen, the agents of the CIA's China Science and Technology Investigation and Tracking Team went numb.

5 seconds to stop, acceleration of 183m/s...

How big a thrust-to-weight ratio is this?

In silence, the rocket has rapidly accelerated to the first cosmic speed, and at this time it is even more than half way from the 100KM Kármán line.

"I know, we were misled!"

"What they tested was not a launch vehicle at all, but a missile! It was also a recyclable missile!"

missile?

After hearing this word, everyone suddenly understood.

If explained this way, everything seems much more reasonable.

Missiles do not need to consider the load issue too much. After all, a nuclear warhead now is about 150KG. If the load is large, carry a few more, and if the load is small, carry fewer. It is nothing more than a matter of combat effectiveness.

At the same time, there is no hard requirement for the range of missiles. The long point is intercontinental missiles, and the short point is short-range missiles. There is always room for use.

Without considering the load and range, it is normal for the thrust-to-weight ratio and acceleration to be high.

The smaller size of the rocket seems to illustrate this point from the side.

"It turned out to be a false alarm..."

"But he is really greedy. He still wants to make the missile recyclable?"

"It's just that we haven't figured out the reusable rocket yet."

"..."

The flight trajectory of the next 'test missile' further confirmed their conjecture.

Normally, in order to overcome the gravity of the earth and send the payload into space, the flight trajectory of the rocket is usually upward.

In order to reduce the probability of being intercepted, the missile's trajectory pursues flexibility.

Just like this test-fired ‘missile’, after accelerating to the first cosmic speed, it quickly turned around and flew back to China, and finally landed smoothly in the open space near the launch pad.

So the CIA's final conclusion is:

Kang Chi is currently developing recoverable medium- and short-range missiles.

The missile was successfully recovered in the end, indicating that their recovery technology has indeed achieved certain results, but the range and ammunition load should not be high.

To be honest, when seeing this conclusion, even the CIA itself felt a little incredible.

They clearly already have a fighter with terrifying performance like the Xunlong, so why do they still need to develop recoverable missiles?

Isn't that a waste of effort?

Faced with Kashimiya's questioning, the CIA agent could only forcefully explain: "Maybe they think that although the Swift Dragon is concealed, its attack speed is not as fast as missiles, so they want to continue to develop missile technology..."

"Develop? Their military strength is already so strong, why are they still doing this? Fighting aliens? Yes?"

"That is because they think the negotiation progress is too slow, and they want to put pressure on the negotiation table..."

"We have already made concessions again and again, what else do they want?! Give them the second island chain too?!"

"Ahem, I remember that they did mention the demand for the demilitarization of the second island chain..."

"Get lost! Don't even think about it!"

"..."