Chapter 699: Magnificent Mushroom Cloud
H-bomb! As long as you have a little military knowledge, you know that before building a hydrogen bomb, you must build an atomic bomb, and the thermonuclear reaction in the hydrogen bomb can only be carried out at an extremely high temperature, and this temperature is provided by the atomic bomb.
That is, Pakistan has mastered the creation of the atomic bomb and is beginning to move towards a hydrogen bomb!
And another news, even more surprising, is launched from the mountains of northern Pakistan to the vicinity of the Klose Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, which is at least five thousand kilometers!
A ballistic missile test launch of 5,000 kilometers, and a mobile launch! This shows that Pakistan has mastered the creation and use of solid ballistic missiles! Moreover, compared to the silo, mobile ballistic missiles are obviously more survivable, and the United States has invested most of its efforts to search for Iraq's Scud missile launchers, but they are still beaten by Iraq's Scud missiles, which is a good example.
Either piece of news is shocking, even more surprising than Pakistan's occupation of the entire territory of India. Looking at this picture, everyone in the entire conference room stopped thinking, their brains went blank for a while, and there seemed to be a voice in their ears that kept saying that Pakistan has the ability to crush nuclear deterrence!
At the same time as the Pakistani press spokesman announced, these two tests have officially begun!
Generally speaking, nuclear tests should be carried out in inaccessible areas, so as to minimize the impact of radiation caused by nuclear explosions, such as China, the choice is Lop Nur, and the United States, which is generally a small island in the Pacific Ocean, which is also the reason why the general nuclear tests are chosen to be carried out underground.
And now, Pakistan has actually mastered all the technology for underground nuclear testing, the first few nuclear tests. They are all being conducted underground, and now they are conducting a nuclear test on the ground for the sole purpose of demonstrating their own strength.
Pakistan's nuclear test is of great significance, and at the same time, it is intended to deter nearby rogue states. Pakistan deliberately chose the Thar Desert in eastern Pakistan.
The Thar Desert is located between the Indian Plains, the Aravalli Ridges, the Kutch Marshes, and the Punjab Plains. That is, between western India and Pakistan. Although the moist air currents of the summer monsoon pass a short distance to the east, not a single drop of rain has fallen on the desert.
The climate is dry, most of the land is desert Gobi, and there are few people coming and going, such a piece of land is naturally a good place for nuclear testing!
At this time, it is the hottest season in the desert, and in the west of Zisalmer, some all-wheel drive off-road vehicles. It's staying there.
Wide off-road tires, a bulky and sturdy body, and a rugged style at first glance, these are special vehicles made by Pakistan itself, and in the field, the performance of such vehicles is simply more powerful than that of tanks.
In the middle of an off-road vehicle, a robotic arm was raised, which placed a conical warhead in the rear of the off-road vehicle. Lift it down.
All the people are careful, they know. It's equipped with weapons that can destroy a city in an instant!
The first hydrogen bomb successfully tested by the United States at the beginning weighed 62 tons, which was extremely bulky and had no actual combat value, except for the miniaturization of nuclear weapons that could be stuffed into the warheads of ballistic missiles. in order to have practical significance.
And this warhead of Pakistan, with a diameter of only half a meter, is not only a matter of being able to stuff it into the warhead, it is simply possible to place multiple warheads in one warhead to form a layout of divided warheads! Such a ballistic missile. This is not something that the US TMD or NMD system can intercept.
When the explosive device of the hydrogen bomb and the surrounding detection equipment were installed, the entire convoy began to quickly retreat, until it was a hundred kilometers away.
All the vehicles, which have been fitted with thick lead plates shielded from radiation, hide inside the cars, and they wait for orders from their superiors.
When the radio waves from Islamabad arrived, the nuclear test officially began!
"Boom!" With an explosion, the military C4 explosive ignited, pushing the two uranium blocks that were almost reaching a critical volume together, and in a short time, countless neutrons flew sideways, and the chain reaction was violently occurring, and soon the upper limit was broken, and the energy generated by uranium nuclear fission turned into heat!
Millions of degrees of heat, just like that, happened in an instant, and the uranium block caused an explosion caused by a strong chain reaction, which was the atomic bomb!
With the high temperature produced by the explosion, lithium tritide in the outer space of the uranium block, at this high temperature, the nuclei also carried out violent thermal motion, relying on this thermal motion, the nuclei began to collide with each other, and the two nuclei combined into a helium nucleus, and at the same time released a huge amount of energy!
Fission is the process of splitting an atomic nucleus into two nuclei, while fusion is the process of merging two nuclei into one nucleus, due to the loss of mass, both are accompanied by a huge release of energy! Of these, fusion releases more energy than fission!
The steps were complicated, but the time was short, almost a second, and an even louder explosion was heard.
With the sound of the explosion, the ground shook, a shock wave came from the air, and at the center of the explosion, the white column of smoke was instantly released, transpiring upward, and the high temperature of tens of millions of degrees melted everything around in an instant, and a huge mushroom cloud slowly rose.
Brighter than 10 million suns! This is the most advanced weapon made in Pakistan! Its explosion, solemnly announcing to the world that Pakistan has entered the nuclear club!
The surrounding sand dunes were subjected to a powerful shock wave, countless sand and gravel flew sideways, and the nearby sand dunes were cut off several meters high in an instant!
The test personnel a hundred kilometers away, sitting in the test car, felt the arrival of the shock wave, the truck with a heavy off-road chassis, like leaves fluttering in the wind, swaying left and right, and the instruments for detecting radiation kept dripping.
When the shock wave passed, a Type 90 tank, which had already been prepared, began to drive towards the center of the explosion with a rumbling sound, and this tank was used to collect all kinds of data.
Although the times are advancing, this method is also essential, but unlike the previous kind of tanks that rely on people to drive, this tank has been modified and can be completely unmanned.
Amid the roar of the engine, according to the preset program, the Type 90 tank headed towards the center of the explosion, and at the same time, in the sky, a drone used to collect explosives in the air had already taken off.
At this time, the steaming mushroom cloud in the distance was also captured by the camera set up near the center of the explosion, and the image was transmitted back synchronously, and the magnificent scene was enough for everyone to be excited for several hours.
Pakistan not only has the atomic bomb, but also the hydrogen bomb technology! Pakistan, fully capable of defending its national security, can say no to the nuclear deterrence of the superpower!
Almost at the same time as the nuclear explosion, Pakistan's ballistic missile test launch also began.
Mountainous northern Pakistan.
A large seven-axle vehicle, traveling in the mountains, although the mountain road is rugged, but it is like walking on the ground, when it reaches a clearing in the mountains, with the sound of braking, the whole vehicle, stopped.
The personnel on the vehicle next to them quickly spread out to form a defensive circle, and they looked vigilantly into the distance with this large vehicle as the center.
And the vehicle in the middle, with the roar of the engine, the hydraulic cylinder drive, the huge missile, slowly rises.
This is Pakistan's national weapon, the imitation SS-20 ballistic missile!
On this day, it is not only the test explosion of the hydrogen bomb, but also the test launch of the SS-20 missile!
A similar test launch had already been carried out in South Africa, but it was not known to the outside world due to the need for secrecy, and the range was shortened at that time.
And now, Pakistan's test launch is completely at the extreme range, and this ballistic missile will be launched 5,000 kilometers away!
Now, this ballistic missile unit has completely entered the actual combat deployment, and the current launch vehicle is the one pulled out of the Pakistan ballistic missile unit, and at the same time, the launch is completely carried out in accordance with the actual combat, there is no preset position, it is a completely unfamiliar area, and then hit and leave!
The fighters on the launch vehicle are operating nervously, and with the rapid calculation of the computer, the launch data is quickly transmitted to the missile.
Time is passing little by little, more than ten minutes have passed, and the ballistic missile is finally ready for launch!
"Launch!" With the commander's order, one of the fighters pressed his hand to the red launch button.
Only a loud roar was heard, and with the roar, the lid on the launch canister was broken, and a missile was bounced out of it by high-pressure air.
Flames burst out from the bottom of the missile, and in the red-hot air flow, the missile began to accelerate, dragging a long tongue of fire into the sky.
Launch successful!
As the missile broke out of the atmosphere, it continued to fly in outer space, flew over South Asia, flew over the equator, and flew all the way to the Southern Hemisphere, where it slowed down and re-entered the atmosphere.
A Pakistani Friendship Shield battleship, which had been prepared for a long time, had its phased array radar turned on, monitoring the trajectory of the flight, and at the same time judging the predetermined splash point, heading towards the predetermined direction.
A minute later, a bright spot appeared on the horizon, and this bright spot was flying rapidly.
The computer system on the battleship was rapidly calculating, capturing, and at the same time, the ship's helicopter flew in the direction of the splash.
Splash in the predetermined sea! This ballistic missile test was a complete success! The Sea Hawk helicopter quickly returned to the warship with the payload bay that ejected when the warhead was splashed down.
Pakistan's test was also captured by a US reconnaissance satellite in outer space. (To be continued.) )