Chapter 1452 The whole world is shocked

At the end of the aerial review, four consecutive formations belonging to the army and navy, with nearly a hundred helicopters, roared past the heads of the spectators.

The only drawback is that most of them are transport and anti-submarine models, and the proportion of truly dedicated armed helicopters is still small.

The disaster relief operation a year and a half ago demonstrated the value of helicopters to the entire country and the entire military in an unforgettable way.

For the same reason, the Army Aviation Corps not only upgraded the aviation regiments assigned to each army group to brigades, but also specifically raised the equipment priority of transport helicopters to ensure that each aviation brigade has at least two transport battalions that can be fully staffed, so that when dealing with similar crises in the future, sufficient equipment can be quickly mobilized nearby without having to slowly concentrate it from across the country.

Today, this fleet of helicopters that covers the sky is the most perfect annotation to the achievements of the Army Aviation Construction.

It was not until the sound of the propeller tearing through the air gradually subsided that some people at the scene suddenly remembered that there seemed to be some important content that had not appeared.

At the same time, the low roar of the high-power diesel engine also sounded again...

The next second, the military music on the scene changed to the passionate and powerful "March of the East Wind". Led by two Mengshi off-road vehicles, a large number of heavy missile launchers were slowly driving past the Donghuabiao.

At the forefront are the eight Dongfeng 15 short-range missile formations.

It is an old face that appeared in the last military parade.

Only this time, it was equipped with a specially upgraded enhanced earth-penetrating warhead.

The model number marked in white paint on the side of the projectile body has also been changed to "Dongfeng 15C".

Following closely behind is the new model that had been kept secret until now, which was called the "medium- and short-range missile team" in the official commentary.

相比于大部分人都已经熟悉的东风11和东风15，这种被标注为东风16的新型号整体明显更长，甚至使用了与东风21类似的10*10导弹发射车，显然是要填补东风15和东风21之间的射程空白。

The most eye-catching thing is the warhead, which occupies almost half of the length and is unique in size.

Obviously, this is a completely new model.

Not only has it never appeared in public news reports, it has never even been shown in its true form during previous military parade rehearsals. Instead, the missile body has always been hidden under a camouflage protective cover.

If it were in the past, it would have become the absolute focus of the missile equipment array.

After all, the information revealed during the rehearsal has shown that the finale of this parade will still be limited modifications of two existing models.

DF-31A and DF-5B.

However, at the moment, at least at the scene, almost everyone's attention was focused on the back of this square -

The same three-color camouflage paint with green as the base, the same 10*10 heavy transport vehicle, and the same cone-shaped barrel protective cover with the upper part removed...

In previous estimates pieced together from fragmented information, these launch vehicles, which looked exactly the same as the previous Dongfeng 16, were generally considered to be backup vehicles, or another sub-model under the same basic design framework.

But now it seems...

If you have to say "another sub-model", then that might be correct.

After all, the rear half of the single body looks exactly the same as the DF-16, except for the change of warhead.

The only problem is the style of this new warhead.

The upper surface resembles a slightly bulging wedge, while the lower surface is flatter, forming a peculiar shape similar to a large three-edged spike...

Three-dimensional surface waverider.

Amid the gasps of the audience, the metallic-luster flying object was exposed to the autumn sun. The white number "DF-17" on the side of the missile body shone brightly, stinging the eyes of all the foreign guests.

"What's coming towards us now is a formation of surface-to-surface hypersonic missiles!"

The commentator's voice trembled with excitement:

"Hypersonic weapon systems are all-weather, independent, and highly penetrating, and can carry out precise strikes on medium-range and short-range targets..."

The commentary was shorter than any previous parade and did not even mention the history of the parade troops and the main combat missions performed by this type of equipment as was customary.

But these mere sixty words are more powerful than all the previous thousands of words put together.

Chang Haonan, who was standing on the stage, took a deep breath. He should have applauded enthusiastically with everyone else, but at this moment he felt his arms a little heavy.

As the project leader who presided over the entire process of developing hypersonic weapons, Chang Haonan had witnessed more than once through radar the "Xuanniao" drawing a graceful trajectory at the edge of the atmosphere and burning targets made of reinforced concrete into red-hot molten iron.

But today, when this missile that can change the logic of war has truly caught the attention of the whole world, when this weapon that symbolizes the pinnacle of human technology is reviewed by the motherland and the people, when he sees that the foreign guests' seats on the west side of the viewing platform are empty because of shock... he can't help but feel a little nostalgic.

"Forty-seven years..."

He said in a voice that only he could hear.

Exactly forty-seven years have passed since Mr. Guo Yonghuai built China's first ultra-high-speed wind tunnel in the suburbs of Beijing.

And now, the waverider model that once trembled in the wind tunnel has finally turned into a steel Great Wall under the sky of the Republic...

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At the same time, in places that he could not pay attention to for the time being, major mainstream platforms on the Internet had already been flooded with Hypersonic labels.

China's information isolation is so complete that until today, no mainstream authoritative source has been able to predict, or dared to predict, the appearance of a hypersonic weapon.

Especially in the context of the two consecutive failures of the US X51A test and the repeated postponement of the first flight of HTV2.

The sudden appearance of DF-17 shocked the world far more than the military parade itself.

To some extent, it is even comparable to the thunder that exploded over Lop Nur in 1964.

The English subtitles on the live broadcast page of Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun couldn't keep up with the netizens' screen-sweeping:

"China demonstrates weapons that can penetrate any defense system!"

"This is not a conventional missile at all. It is a disruptor of the strategic balance!"

"..."

After being silent for nearly half an hour, the Pentagon's official account released a vague tweet: "We have noticed the relevant display and will continue to pay attention to developments."

China's domestic social media platforms have long since turned into a sea of joy. In a short video uploaded to a social media platform by a college student, students from an entire dormitory building sang "Singing the Motherland" in unison to the live broadcast screen. In the shaking mobile phone camera, countless tears flashed on the young faces.

The cheers on both sides of Chang'an Avenue did not stop until the last Dongfeng 5B team disappeared at the western end.

Chang Haonan looked up at the sky and saw that the helicopter responsible for the broadcast was flying over the national emblem of the Great Hall of the People. The airflow stirred by the rotor seemed to tear the clouds into wisps of golden gauze.

He knew that when night fell, the lights in the Pentagon's operations room would be on, and think tank reports across the Pacific would be filled with headlines such as "Hypersonic Weapons Threat Theory."

But at this moment, all he could hear was the roar of the boiling mountains and rivers, and the declaration of this era that kept refreshing on his phone:

"I have no regrets in my life to enter China!"