Chapter 1233 Shooting Range in the Desert

Chapter 1233 Shooting Range in the Desert

In fact, almost anyone with a discerning eye can see that the entire shooting range simulates an aircraft carrier battle group mixed with some civilian ships.

It includes a comprehensive supply ship, a dock landing ship, a cruiser, three destroyers, and four civilian ships that serve as pure interference items and are specially designed to enhance radar reflection intensity.

And the most important one, an aircraft carrier located on the left side of the entire "fleet"——

Having other warships surround the aircraft carrier in the middle was an arrangement made for the show effect when shooting promotional pictures.

In actual situations, formations usually have very clear sources of threats.

Most escort ships will be concentrated in this direction, protecting the highest-value targets on the other side.

And although it is concentrated, it is actually not as dense as in the photo.

Compared to the ever-changing air and land battles, the pace of naval battles is often depressingly slow.

The entire process from launching a weapon to hitting its target is usually calculated in minutes or even hours, and it may take several days to sail to the intended location.

In this case, even if the ships in the same formation are one or two kilometers apart, it will not affect their tactical coordination.

However, due to the limited area of ​​the shooting range, it is impossible to disperse these targets over a large area of ​​more than ten kilometers.

In addition, from a testing perspective, this is also to ensure that when the terminal seeker is activated, there are enough interference items within the SAR's field of view, and to ensure that the aircraft carrier is as close to the edge of the detection range as possible, so as to more clearly reflect the role of the entire guidance and control system.

The result did not disappoint.

In the processed photo, the trajectory of the bullet drew a visible zigzag line.

No complicated numbers or graphs are needed.

Anyone who sees the picture can understand what happened in those few seconds as soon as they see it.

Looking at the hideous and horrible marks on the ground that looked like a brand, Chang Haonan's expression, which had been tense all night, finally relaxed slightly:

"It seems that it is at least technically feasible to integrate the target recognition algorithm on the Ocean Series satellites into the radar guidance system."

As a backup plan, he still arranged a most basic logic when designing the radar seeker program.

That is, if the image segmentation and recognition algorithm cannot find a target with a high enough degree of fit within the predetermined search time, then just select the one with the largest radar reflection cross-section within the field of view and shoot it.

But last night's missile was not disturbed by the corner reflector and accurately found the only correct one among a number of targets.

"Yes... and it is much more difficult to distinguish targets in this shooting range than in a real aircraft carrier formation."

Xing Muchun was sitting opposite Chang Haonan at this time, also craning his neck and looking through the porthole at the situation on the ground:

"It's a pity that we can't do this on dry land, and time and cost don't allow us to restore a more accurate target shape... Otherwise, this verification missile could even complete the test of attacking moving targets."

The latter couldn't help shaking his head with laughter, thinking that Xing Muchun was a rather traditional conservative a year ago, but now he has become even more radical than himself.

I don't know what happened...

At this time, Dai Pengxin, who was sitting on the other side of the cabin, continued:

"In fact, sailing on dry land may not be impossible."

Of course, Chang Haonan already knew their plan, so he just continued to observe the situation on the ground with a telescope.

But the rest of the people were still attracted by this sentence.

"We plan to lay a section of railroad tracks at the new shooting range next to it, and then use a group of old locomotives to install large ship hulls as movable simulated targets, so that we can simulate warships sailing."

"Also, if the rails have curves, we can even simulate targets being avoided at high speed..."

"..."

While everyone was talking, the helicopter had already circled the entire bomb drop area.

Then they landed on the four outer helipads one by one.

The person in charge of the shooting range is a colonel who has been waiting here for some time.

After seeing Chang Haonan coming out of the cabin, he quickly stepped forward and saluted him:

"Wang Hongrang, Director of the Second Artillery Effects Test Range, reporting to you!"

Chang Haonan had no military rank, so naturally he couldn't return the greeting, so he could only shake hands with the other party.

Then he walked towards the jeep parked not far away and said:

"Director Wang, I hear your voice...it sounds familiar?"

Talking about what happened last night, Wang Hongrang, who was walking next to him, couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.

I subconsciously wanted to scratch my head, but I only touched my helmet, so I had to put my hand down awkwardly:

"The scene last night...really shocked me."

"To be honest, I, Wang, have been working in the Second Artillery for nearly 20 years, and I have never seen anything like this. It's just like the thunderbolt described in the mythological novels..."

The terminal speed of about Mach 7.5 is basically something that a medium-range or higher model can achieve for a general ballistic missile.

In fact, China has not conducted many missile tests of this level in the past few decades.

Even fewer have direct eyewitness conditions.

It is normal that Wang Hongrang didn't have the chance to meet him.

However, Chang Haonan didn't really care about the other party's daze for a few seconds last night, so he didn't continue immediately, but looked at the scene next door with yellow sand all over the sky outside through the car window for a while.

It was not until the convoy entered the target area and stopped again that he suddenly spoke again:

"Director Wang, how long has this effects test range been built?"

"About a year and a half..."

Wang Hongrang almost thought:

"It was officially formed in the fall of 04, and yesterday was only the second time it carried out an official mission."

Chang Haonan roughly estimated the other person's age, and then said:

"Then you should have many opportunities in the future."

"a lot of……"

Wang Hongrang was still a little unresponsive:

"But I see that the missile test went smoothly... it shouldn't be tested many times, right?"

This effects range is a bit like a weapons testing center. It will only be activated when it involves new models, new technologies, or new tactics.

Mature equipment that has been finalized and put into service is rarely launched here.

Chang Haonan smiled and patted the other person's shoulder:

"Just wait, there will be something even better than this..."

After saying that, he put on his hat again and jumped out of the car first.

……

"Report to the commander, the warhead excavation work has been completed, please give your instructions!"

A man in a heavy explosion-proof suit stood next to the jeep.

Because of the equipment he was wearing, he couldn't even raise his arm to salute.

"Academician Chang, this is Sheng Jianhua, our range's ace bomb disposal expert. He is a sixth-term non-commissioned officer and has more military service than our base commander."

Wang Hongrang also came around from the other side and introduced Chang Haonan.

Generally speaking, bomb disposal experts are only needed when a dud bomb occurs.

A normally detonated high-explosive warhead will basically shatter into pieces, and there is no condition to exclude this.

However, the verification missile had no warhead, and the authorities were worried about the risk of the solid fuel in the acceleration engine, so they were asked to dig out the warhead before Chang Haonan and others arrived.

The device next to it that looks a bit like a drilling machine is used for this.

After briefly listening to the report from the shooting range, Chang Haonan and his team, led by Wang Hongrang, finally arrived at the bomb drop site last night.

When I looked down from mid-air just now, due to the distance, I could only see a circle of charred black and bulges around it.

Now, by observing it closely, we can intuitively realize what an amazing impact force the warhead had on the ground.

"Oh my god..."

Xing Muchun was originally from the rocket industry, so he had never seen a missile hit the target:

"This has to be more than ten meters deep, right?"

Because it is a cement surface, the opening that was actually smashed out is not that big.

When you look down and talk at the same time, you can even hear a faint echo.

outrageous.

"12.7 meters, to be exact."

Wang Hongrang added from the side.

After saying that, he stomped his feet hard on the ground:

"If there was no solid concrete slab blocking it, it would have penetrated 20 meters or even deeper... In that case, our equipment would not be able to reach it directly. We would have to use an excavator to dig up the area and then take out the warhead debris."

Today's simulated targets are all flat targets and do not have the exaggerated thickness of real aircraft carriers.

But it is also much stronger than the foundation.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk—”

Although Chang Haonan had already told his superiors about the ground-penetrating warhead, he had been working on aircraft and aero engines before and had no specific idea about the penetration power of ammunition.

Now, ordinary warheads can produce such an effect. If they are equipped with ground-penetrating warheads...

Certain traitors and defeated parties are truly blessed.

Thinking of this, Chang Haonan straightened up and waved to Wang Hongrang behind him:

"Director Wang, get a strong flashlight... No, get a searchlight to make it brighter inside!"

"searchlight?"

The latter had a confused look on his face.

"I'm going to Beijing to make a report this afternoon. Let's take a nice photo of the crater so that the commander can also feel the destructive power of this thing..."