Chapter 771: Flame Region
For the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Gao Zhendong is a treasure. As for why the things designed by Gao Zhendong appear in overseas orders, this is not something the 12th Ministry of Machine Building should be concerned about. The Defense Work Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Trade have no objections and even handle it personally. Naturally, they have their reasons.
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At an airport in the northwest, the four engines of a Tu-4 bomber are spinning rapidly, making a huge roar. Although they have been scheduled to be used as auxiliary special aircraft, before the development of these special aircraft is completed, these Tu-4s are still playing their last role, such as today's new ammunition test.

There was only one bomb in the bomber's belly bomb bay.

Judging from the caliber of the bomb, it is of the 500kg level, but unlike the ordinary 500kg high-drag bomb, this bomb does not look that round, and its cross-section is slightly square. After a few decades, this cross-section may infringe on the "rounded trapezoid patent."

After receiving the take-off permission from the tower, the bomber pilot pushed the throttle to the maximum. The plane made a loud roar, slowly took off and flew towards the shooting range further west.

On the shooting range hundreds of kilometers away, dozens of scrapped tanks were lined up in a marching formation, looking very imposing. If they had not just started their engines without moving the vehicle bodies, one would probably have thought they were launching a sneak attack.

In addition to the crew members, there were also several test personnel on the Tu-4 bomber. They were concentrating on watching the data transmitted back by the bomb's self-test system.

"The gyro is working properly and the inertial navigation system is normal."

"Comparing the data of the inertial navigation system with that of the aircraft navigation system, the error is within an acceptable range."

"Dispenser status normal."

Pieces of data and reports were reported from the testers and gathered at Mr. Zhang of Chunlei Factory.

Since we had computers and they were quite fast, the comrades who designed the dispenser simply designed a status monitoring system to transmit the status of the dispenser to the testing instrument in real time, which greatly simplified and facilitated the testing. In actual use, this system can also greatly reduce the maintenance workload of stockpiled ammunition.

"Mr. Zhang, I didn't expect that our dispenser could also use inertial navigation. Although the accuracy is not very high, it is sufficient."

Mr. Zhang smiled and said, "We have to thank Mr. Gao for his single chip microcomputer. With it, we can save space on the original DJS-60DJ and have extra space and money to install a simple inertial navigation system."

"I never thought that such a simple cluster bomb could be guided."

Unlike the original plan of determining the direction and range and then installing a time fuse, they used a lot of advanced technology on this missile. Now this missile has made a lot of progress compared to when it was first planned.

At this time, the captain's voice came: "About to enter the drop zone."

Zhang looked at the data on the mission navigation display and signaled to his comrades: "Set the target data and prepare to drop the bomb."

On the mission navigation display, a small light dot representing the Tu-4 bomber was moving towards a green circle. Once it entered the circle, it meant that it had reached the bombing area.

Unlike horizontal bombing and dive bombing, the requirements for the bombing area of ​​the long-range dispenser are not very strict. As long as the target direction is set, it is okay to drop the bomb earlier or later. The simple inertial navigation system of the dispenser will naturally adjust the flight trajectory of the dispenser according to the target data.

It can be said that the time window for dropping bombs with inertial guidance is extremely large.

"The target data has been set." For the dispenser, it is better to call it a dispensing point rather than a target. It only needs to fly to the appropriate position and altitude according to the set data, and then explode to scatter the ammunition.

"We have reached the predetermined bombing altitude." For a non-powered, gliding dispenser, the higher the bombing altitude, the better.

Zhang watched the plane enter the designated bombing area and calmly gave the order: "Drop the bomb!"

At this time, the belly bomb bay door had already been opened.

As the bomber pressed the button, the dispenser fell out from the belly of the plane, its two wings spread out, and it flew towards the target area. It still had a long way to go, as it was about 60 kilometers away from the target area. For a dispenser with a slow gliding speed, it would take more than ten minutes to fly.

"Bomb drop completed, the dispenser's flight trajectory is normal."

After dropping the bombs, the Tu-4 did not rush back, but flew towards the target area. Their current task became to keep up with the dispenser. The telemetry transmission station specially installed on the dispenser had a limited effective distance. If they wanted to obtain real-time test data, the Tu-4 had to follow it.

The gliding speed of the dispenser is very slow, which is already a bit difficult for the Tu-4 bomber. An airplane can neither fly too fast nor fly very slowly, which is also a huge challenge.

"It's a good plane, but it can't fly too slow." This is what the pilots on the island say about the famous widow-maker, the flying coffin F-104 Starfighter. Except for a few that were shot down, a huge number of them fell. If you look at the crash list published on the island, even the numbers are consecutive. But in fact, this evaluation applies to all aircraft.

Fortunately, the Tu-4 crew had superb piloting skills. Although it still flew faster than the dispenser, it basically maintained the reception of telemetry signals and only needed to turn around and circle occasionally.

"The flight attitude is normal."

"The speed is normal." "The descent rate is normal."

The descent rate is a very important indicator. The overall trend of a gliding aircraft is to descend. This descent rate, in addition to being related to the range, is also related to the predetermined scattering height. Different ammunition has different requirements for this parameter.

When the dispenser is flying in the air, it may encounter changes in air density or intense atmospheric activity, which will interfere with the descent rate. At this time, the guidance system needs to take action.

"There is an updraft, and the flight altitude rises." This situation can be translated as "blown up by the wind." In fact, it is not only the updraft that can affect this, but also the wind with a faster speed, and in the most extreme case, there is even downwash.

"Guidance system descent rate compensation intervention effective!"

This is a test under actual combat conditions, and all kinds of situations will be encountered, but fortunately the guidance and flight control systems work very effectively.

At this time, in the shooting range, far away from the tank array, there was an observation post, which was also full of test personnel. The observation post had obviously been specially reinforced, with a steel plate installed on the top, and on top of the steel plate were many thick layers of sandbags.

There is no way. This kind of palm method that falls from the sky is really unreasonable, and the striking area is very wide.

A voice with a slight rustling sound came from the radio station in the observation post: "The dispenser is about to reach the designated target."

At this time, the personnel at the observation post had already heard the roar of the Tu-4 flying. In order to keep up with the test missiles, they took the initiative to descend in altitude. If the altitude was too high, they could receive the radio signal, but they might not be able to see the scattering situation clearly.

At this time, Mr. Zhang was in the navigator's cabin of the Tu-4, looking down with a telescope. Although the dispenser was not easy to find, the row of tanks on the ground were very conspicuous, so he just had to look at them.

The comrades at the observation post looked towards the east with binoculars and saw an airplane, but did not find any shadow of the dispenser as it was too small.

The comrades searched hard, and finally someone shouted: "I see it, I see it, we are almost there!"

Shortly after this sentence was shouted, a few thin things suddenly flew into the air. It was the outer shell of the dispenser that was thrown away. Then small black dots were seen bouncing off the dispenser, and umbrella flowers bloomed in the sky above the tank group, which was very beautiful.

It looks good, but it hides a strong murderous intent.

Looking down from Figure 4, the black and white umbrella flowers in the sky gradually turned into red flowers, and then the tanks on the ground began to explode and catch fire one after another, emitting thick smoke.

If the picture shown in Figure 4 is not direct enough because it is too high, then the comrades at the ground observation station will have a different feeling.

Looking up from the bottom, dragons of fire fell from the sky and attacked the tanks one after another, with almost no bullets hitting their targets. These ghosts in the sky would even ignore the tanks that were on fire and only attack the intact ones.

For a moment, the shooting range in front was a hellish scene of smoke and fire.

Some of the comrades here have also participated in the test of mortar terminal-sensitive shells, but those few tanks were not as shocking as the large cluster today.

A few tanks burning was just a drizzle, but in front of them was an entire tank battalion! This was an extremely huge impact on everyone!
Our current tank company is a "ten-tank company", with ten tanks in one tank company, and a tank battalion, not counting other vehicles, has thirty tanks.

The dispenser in the air was loaded with a total of 45 terminal-sensitive bombs.

This battalion of 30 tanks, if it were not a situation like the Battle of Kursk between the Russians and Hans, would normally require multiple attacks back and forth before they would be completely exhausted.

Today, under the attack of a dispenser dropped from 60 kilometers away, this tank battalion was almost completely destroyed in an instant, with thick smoke and fire everywhere, making crackling sounds.

When quantitative change reaches a certain level, it becomes qualitative change, and the same is true for the impact on human psychology. The armored troops participating in the test looked at each other in bewilderment.

Terrible! Very terrible! This is not cowardice, but an objective evaluation.

What? This thing is ours? That's fine!
A few hours later, a report and two photos were placed on the desk of the leader of the Defense Work Committee.

One photo was taken from Tu-4. Looking from a high vantage point, most of the thirty tanks were on fire, and the few lucky ones that escaped the disaster looked very lonely inside.

The other one was taken from the observation post. At first glance, the photo was filled with thick smoke streaks slanting up into the blue sky; nothing else could be seen.

(End of this chapter)