908, devil headache
Bai Shujie and the expert group studied the future development direction of the missile at Yueli Mountain, as well as the problems that need to be solved immediately when they are put into practical use, and quickly straightened out a basic development sequence.
The first problem to be solved is that the rockets that have already started to take off must effectively draw on the experience and technology of the successful launch of the missiles this time and come up with rockets that can be used in actual combat.
The first batch of 24 rocket launchers from the tractor plant left the factory, but the rockets for the battlefield have not yet been finalized. Time waits for no one, and this must be grasped quickly.
Bai Shujie's basic requirements are: This year, that is, before the end of September 1941, it is necessary to develop a vehicle-mounted rocket with a range of more than 8 kilometers, a ship-based rocket with a range of more than 24 kilometers, and an airborne rocket launch nest with a range of more than 3,600 meters (each rocket launch nest has four rockets, single, double, or group launches).
There are three main types of rocket warheads: rocket armor-piercing projectiles, rocket incendiary bombs, and rocket high-explosive shells. Among them, the airborne type mainly uses armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells to ensure that it can attack enemy aircraft and surface ships.
The second problem to be solved is the ship-based missile as the first step, but the warhead should be strengthened. The current 1.5-ton warhead is too powerful to deal with enemy battleships.
The reason why Hitler, the German mustache, pursued range was because his navy was not good, and in order to deal with the English Channel, he was able to strike at the British mainland, which was also a last resort.
It is for the Wyvern Expeditionary Force that either it reaches a range of more than 3,000 kilometers, or it is within 300 kilometers. A medium range of 500-2000 km is simply chicken ribs and is completely useless.
Because of this, Bai Shujie's guiding ideology is: In order to ensure that the missile can be used as much as possible in the carrier-based version, for the time being, not only does it not need to pursue the range excessively, but the range should be compressed, and the limited weight should be used to increase the charge of the warhead, and at the same time increase the control system to ensure accuracy.
The emergency parameters are: the launch weight of the ship-based missile can reach 8-10 tons, and the weight of the warhead should reach 4-5 tons; The firing range has been reduced from more than 400 kilometers to 50-180 kilometers, and the accuracy is controlled within 300 meters.
In order to cooperate with the missile development work, the six battleships in the naval formation are ready to be refitted, half of the large-caliber main and secondary guns will be removed, and two missile launchers will be added to carry eight missiles. Added 2 rocket launchers to carry 48 rockets.
After such a transformation, the battleship's strike capability was able to form a combat level: rockets hit targets within 20 km, main and secondary guns hit targets 20-40 km, and missiles hit targets 40 km away.
In particular, the two Yamato-class battlecruisers and the one Founding class battlecruiser have a standard displacement of more than 60,000 tons.
The future direction of development is to remove all 406mm naval guns and convert them into missile launchers and rocket launchers as mobile firepower fortresses for the entire navy.
Bai Shujie has long had a plan in his heart, the 388mm caliber triple secondary gun, 1 is 720 tons, and 4 are 2880 tons; The weight of the 406mm caliber triple main gun is 1380 tons, and the 4 guns are 5520 tons (not including the automatic loader, shells and medicine kits).
If these cannons were removed, and at the same time the shells and automatic loaders in the ammunition depot could be removed, it would have freed up 14,000 tons of equipment displacement for the battlecruiser.
Theoretically, 1,400 missiles can be loaded with 10-ton missiles and 240 missiles with 50-ton heavy classes, without taking into account storage space.
Any heavy missile can be put on it, and it is also a large number of missile equipment, which can completely carry out saturation attacks.
Bai Shujie's ultimate guiding ideology is to learn from the former Soviet Union's equipment methods and achieve the greatest deterrent effect with the least number of missile technologies after the missile technology gradually matures, and this is the "Varyag missile cruiser" that threatens the world.
The ship has a total length of 186 meters, a total width of 20.8 meters, a draft of 7.6 meters, a standard displacement of 9,800 tons, and a full load displacement of 11,200 tons. 4 gas turbines with 120,000 shaft horsepower, twin shaft drive, speed 34 knots.
8-seat twin SS-N-12 "Sandbox" long-range supersonic anti-ship missile launcher. The missile is 10.9 meters long and 0.9 meters in diameter; the launch canisters are laid on both sides of the front superstructure, with 4 pairs on the left and right sides, a total of 8 pairs and 16 pieces, all of which are at a 16-degree elevation angle; the launch canisters are about 2 meters in diameter and about 12 meters long.
Command correction inertial guidance, active radar homing. It has a range of 1.7 km at Mach 550 and a warhead of a nuclear warhead with a yield of 350 kilotons, or a 1-ton high-energy charge.
The S-300 ship-based long-range anti-aircraft missile, the launcher is located under the deck at the rear of the ship, arranged symmetrically along both sides of the longitudinal line, and 8 missile launchers are arranged along the circumference, with a total of 64 bombs. Command guidance, semi-active radar homing, warhead weight 90 kg, range 100 km, launch height 27 km.
The third problem to be solved is the airborne rocket or air-to-air missile, which is very crucial. Because the aircraft's guns are too heavy and too clumsy, there is no room for development.
If you want to increase the strike power and increase the caliber of the aircraft gun to 57mm, a cannon with 72 shells is 2.4 tons, and two aircraft guns in parallel is 4.8 tons.
In this way, Bai Shujie continued to come up with "his own" whimsical ideas, expressed his opinions with experts, widely expressed his opinions, and gradually formed a consensus.
They laughed and talked loudly, and the atmosphere was warm. That's really "to the scene, to exalt the words; Push the cup and change the lamp, and point out the country! "Everyone is full of love and confidence.
And at this time, the little devil in Tokyo is already lamenting. From Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe onwards, all the ministers are in mourning and panicking.
It turned out that since Bai Shujie announced the power, and then brazenly dispatched a large number of bombers to show off his might, the base camp of the little devil has been extremely shocked.
Jiang has a tacit understanding between Jiang and the base camp of the little devils to deal with the "different party". The little devil stopped the frontal attack on the national army and turned to attack the base areas of the Eighth Route Army on both sides of the Yellow River, making great room for the national army to operate.
I didn't expect the "Devil of China" Bai Shuming to intervene in the crosshairs, ignoring justice and injustice at all, and whether it was enemies or compatriots, he declared "a pot of stew" in the telegram.
What I didn't expect was that Bai Shujie, the "devil of China", not only issued a telegram to threaten, but really sent out a huge bomber group.
This completely violates Bai Shujie's consistent adherence to the guiding ideology of "Chinese do not fight Chinese", which is simply a big surprise.
According to the battlefield observation intelligence of the Central China Dispatch Army, at least two-thirds of the more than 9,000 New Fourth Army broke out of the encirclement and ran north of the Yangtze River, and in the future it will be a great danger in the direction of Nanjing and Shanghai.
Chiang's national army wasted half a year to concentrate more than 80,000 people to form an iron bucket array, and also paid for the weapons, ammunition and materials necessary for a major battle.
The worst thing is yet to come: the observers of the Central China Dispatch Force emphatically pointed out that the bombers they saw, regardless of size, speed, height, load capacity, and armament, were absolutely "invincible monsters of the apocalypse"!
When Konoe received a report from Seishiro Itagaki of the War Department, he immediately burned his ass like a fire and could no longer sit still, so he summoned the ministers of the General Staff, the War Department, and the Navy Department to focus on studying the air defense of the island.
Because since Bai Shujie was able to bomb Chongqing, southern Anhui, and Nanjing, wouldn't it be a matter of minutes to fly to Tokyo to do mischief? Besides, he had done it once before, and this time he finally admitted it to himself.
Unexpectedly, the island's air defense strategy did not have a clue, and the "mysterious bomb" once again became catastrophic news, so that all the old devils and big devils did not know how to deal with it.
This matter also needs to start with Bai Shujie's order to form a "mixed fleet sea trial".
Bai Shujie dispatched 2 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, and 2 cruisers at one time to conduct sea trials in the sea area 80 kilometers west of Jeju Island for half a month.
The little devil can't even want to know, because the movement is too big.
40 bombers took off and landed on the aircraft carrier, landed and took off, and the movement was insignificant. Then another 48 jet attack aircraft came back several times, and in the blink of an eye it was seven days. Then bombers dropped bombs into the sea, which was nothing short of earth-shattering.
In the sea west of Kagoshima Prefecture, which is said to be a little devil, there is a "men's and women's archipelago", which is the outer submarine base of the Sasebo Military Port.
Since the little devils unilaterally announced the blockade of the East China Sea, the six submarines of the Third Fleet have been hiding here in normal times, monitoring the situation in the East China Sea.
Bombers should be trained to take off from aircraft carriers and then carry out targeted bombing, at least have a reference. The bombing target that Bai Shujie sent out of the mixed fleet was Soam Reef, 170 kilometers southwest of Jeju Island.
Suyan Reef is a reef in the East China Sea and within China's exclusive economic zone. Suyan Reef, that is, the meaning of "Jiangsu Offshore Rock Reef".
Even at low tide in the East China Sea, the rocky reef remains below the surface, reaching 4.6 meters from its shallowest point. Suyan Reef is located in the open sea, on the continental shelf of the East China Sea.
What Bai Shujie needs to conduct a comprehensive exercise of the mixed fleet is that during the march, the sonar system can distinguish the Suyan reef and then direct the bombers to carry out accurate bombing.
As a result, the sonar system of the mixed fleet discovered not only the Sioux Reef, but also the Men and Women Islands to the east, and subsequently the submarine of the little devils.
Zhang Bingyang, the naval commander of the Flying Dragon Expeditionary Force, felt that he was now armed to the teeth, and he should completely show his muscles. Now the little devil is hiding on the side and watching himself act, is it unbearable!
As a result, Zhang Bingyang naturally "disobeyed the military order" and did not bomb Suyan Reef according to the predetermined plan, but instead ordered the bombers to carry depth charges and start bombing the Men'ou and Men Islands.
Fortunately, the commander of the little devil's diving team saw the opportunity quickly and realized that the situation was wrong, so he quickly ordered all the submarines to surface and escape back to Sasebo as fast as possible. Otherwise, an exercise will turn into a sea battle, just like the last time.
The little devil's submarine fled back, and the news of Bai Shujie's bomber group reached the Admiralty. Yamamoto has been studying the strategy and tactics of aircraft carriers all his life, and naturally attaches great importance to this information.
Hardly wasting any time, Uemoto 56 gave a note to His Majesty the Emperor overnight, and the key issues were the air defense of the main island of Japan and the future strategic direction.
His Majesty the Emperor was in the deep palace, so he naturally couldn't understand bullshit, so he instructed the General Staff Headquarters and the Prime Minister of the Cabinet to quickly come up with opinions on how to deal with it.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.