The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Chapter 556 PL-8 and PL-12 Missiles

Investing in the development of air-to-air missiles, time passed quickly, and more than a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Under the guidance of technical personnel, Liu Tao manufactured 35 PL-5B short-range air-to-air missiles and 30 PL-4 medium-range air-to-air missiles.

After letting the technicians leave, Liu Tao was the only one left.

Liu Tao placed his hand on a 'PL-5B' short-range air-to-air missile, and a virtual panel appeared in the corner of his eye.

[Item: ‘PL-5B’ short-range air-to-air missile]

[Manufacturer: Liu Tao]

[Item Level: LV1 (0/10)]

[Upgrade points: 1050]

[Item status: intact, parsable]

Liu Tao naturally cannot improve the item level by using this kind of air-to-air missile to increase his experience. He can only upgrade items by accumulating upgrade points.

I took a detailed look at the performance parameters of the 'PL-5B' short-range air-to-air missile. The missile length is 3.128m, the diameter is 0.190m, the wingspan is 0.657m, the missile weight is 148kg, and the warhead uses high explosives, weighing 30kg, 657mm, the smallest The range is 1300m, the maximum range is 16km, the maximum speed is Mach 2.2, the maximum overload is 30G, the operating altitude is 500~21500m, the guidance method is passive infrared, and the power unit uses a solid rocket motor.

Later, Liu Tao used the item upgrade panel and smashed the upgrade points to upgrade.

Swish swish swish~~

Small lights flickered.

Liu Tao touched the short-range air-to-air missile in his hand and saw the trajectory of the short-range air-to-air missile flickering, and then its shape, structure, etc. changed visible to the naked eye.

Finally, when the upgrade was almost exhausted, Liu Tao stopped the upgrade.

Looking at the virtual panel again, the above values ​​have changed.

[Item: New short-range air-to-air missile]

[Manufacturer: Liu Tao]

[Item Level: LV9]

[Upgrade Points: 150]

[Item status: intact, parsable]

Liu Tao learned more about the relevant parameter changes.

The total length is 2.87 meters, the weight is 85.5 kilograms, the maximum speed is Mach 2.5, the warhead weighs 10 kilograms, and the maximum range is 18 kilometers. The seeker has relatively strong anti-interference ability.

The missile adopts passive infrared guidance, and uses an antimony steel photosensitive element and an argon-cooled control detector to enable the missile to detect the front hemisphere; the rudder surface is a double triangle, which greatly enhances the maneuverability of the missile; it uses active laser proximity explosion The fuze can accurately control the explosion point; it adopts a ring-shaped continuous rod type prefabricated fragment killing warhead. When working, the main charge detonates evenly from both sides at the same time, so that the prefabricated continuous rod evenly forms a ring shape, and then becomes fragments and spreads, which can eliminate killing Dependence of the effect on the angle of encounter between missile and target.

Liu Tao showed a look of satisfaction. Such a short-range air-to-air missile can not only satisfy the use of imported American fighter jets, but also satisfy the improved use of domestic fighter jets and fighter jets.

If the air-to-air missile is too heavy, it will not be usable for domestic fighter jets.

"System, analyze!" Liu Tao thought silently in his heart.

I saw the virtual panels forming drawings one after another, and the analysis was quickly completed.

Compared with tanks, armored vehicles, warships, and air defense missile systems, the design drawings of this short-range air defense missile are undoubtedly much fewer.

Subsequently, Liu Tao began to upgrade medium-range air-to-air missiles. This medium-range air-to-air missile, also known as medium-range air-to-air missile, has a much longer range.

Soon, this 'PL-4' medium-range air-to-air missile was upgraded to a level that satisfied Liu Tao.

Looking at the performance parameters of this new medium-range air-to-air missile, the missile adopts the normal layout of two sections and four delta wings, with a total length of 3.85m, a diameter of 0.203m, a wingspan of 674mm, a missile weight of 160kg, and a maximum range of 90 kilometers. The maximum combat altitude is 25 kilometers, the maximum speed is Mach 4, and the maximum operational overload is 38G. It adopts mid-stage radar semi-active/data link guidance + terminal-stage radar active guidance system.

It can be said that this is a medium-range air-to-air missile with quite excellent performance.

Liu Tao returned to his residence and downloaded these two air-to-air missiles.

The next day, Liu Tao began to arrange the sample production of these two air-to-air missiles.

Of these two air-to-air missiles, Liu Tao named the short-range air-to-air missile the ‘Thunderbolt-8’ air-to-air missile (PL-8), and the medium-range air-to-air missile he named the ‘Thunderbolt-12’ air-to-air missile (PL-12).

Yangcheng Shipyard.

Nowadays, in addition to two very large shipyards at Yangcheng Shipyard, other shipyards have been built.

Now the entire Yangcheng Shipyard is very busy, with a full schedule of warships and merchant ships. Part of the shipbuilding capacity is arranged to produce warships, and part of the shipbuilding capacity is arranged to produce merchant ships.

In this busy situation, many new workers have been able to practice their skills and become skilled workers.

Liu Tao attaches great importance to the shipbuilding industry.

Shipbuilding is a very comprehensive project. A large shipyard, such as Yangcheng Shipyard, currently has more than 10,000 workers, and these 10,000 people are engaged in the construction of entire ships. However, they don't build a boat from scratch, but assemble it from products supplied by thousands of suppliers.

For example, steel plates, pipes, cables, various equipment, various electrical components, various valves, various pumps, generators, turbines, paints, etc. Each factory has as few as a hundred people and as many as tens of thousands of people.

So, building a ship does not only rely on the more than 10,000 people in Yangcheng Shipyard, but also on the suppliers with a total of more than hundreds of thousands of workers.

As for the shipyard itself, designers, inspection standards, production management personnel, equipment maintenance personnel, procurement personnel, front-line workers, etc., each type of work is highly professional, not just a group of people pulled from the street can do it, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a technical job.

And this is only now. According to the design, when it reaches its peak, the staff of the entire Yangcheng Shipyard will reach 25,000, and the workers of the suppliers behind it will be as many as one million.

This means that a Yangcheng Shipyard will directly and indirectly provide more than one million jobs!

This can be said to be one million families.

Adding Mawei Shipyard, the direct and indirect jobs will exceed two million.

Liu Tao's goal is to compete with the Koreans, snatch the crown of the shipbuilding industry from the Japanese, and transfer the world's shipbuilding center to China.

Once China's shipbuilding industry replaces Japan and takes the crown of the world's shipbuilding industry, there will be millions of shipbuilding workers alone, and as many as 30 to 40 million indirect workers.

With such a large population in China, jobs will be a very important consideration, because only when everyone has a job can society be stable and harmonious.

Why did social security problems occur frequently in the past few years? Isn't it because a large number of educated youth returned to the city, a large number of young people were unemployed and had no jobs, and there were idle people everywhere.

If everyone had a job and was busy making money, where would they have time to do sneaky things?

Liu Tao and Li Weimin came to Yangcheng Shipyard this time. Yangcheng Shipyard is a military and civilian integrated shipyard, under the dual leadership of China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation and China Southwest Industry Group Corporation.

And this is the first time that Li Weimin has come to Yangcheng Shipyard.

When he saw the scale of Yangcheng Shipyard and the busy workers, Li Weimin was greatly shocked.

During this period, he was almost at the headquarters of China Southwest Industry Group Corporation, familiar with the work and the main personnel.

Only now has the work been done, and this is because Xue Yunpeng and the leadership of Huaxia Southwest Industrial Group Corporation helped Li Weimin.

During this period, Li Weimin felt how heavy the burden on his shoulders was.