Chapter 181 High Goals

Time is the least important thing in the struggle. They only hope that time can go slower so that they can do more things.

Several core engineers who have access to Wu Tong are under a lot of pressure. Their speed in drawing gourds according to drawings cannot keep up with Mr. Wu's speed in analyzing and drawing component drawings, which is more difficult. What a problem.

This means that their abilities are still not good enough and they still have a lot of room for improvement. They feel ashamed of their previous complacency.

Make them feel that the titles they currently have, such as Yangtze River Scholar, Outstanding Young Scholar, and Academic Leader, are all undeserved.

However, Wu Tong did not express dissatisfaction with this. Limited manpower is doing quantitative work, which is what she, the leader of this project, needs to coordinate well.

After figuring out the work efficiency of the processing workshop, Wu Tong gave out drawings in a fixed quantity every day. He did not rush the work but made a good overall plan and just stuck to the upper limit of everyone.

We cannot let engineers and workers work hard to complete tasks just to speed up the process. This is a basic matter of principle.

In later generations, there are often reports of certain programmers or staff members losing their lives at a young age due to working overtime for a long time. Wu Tong does not want and will never allow such a tragic major accident to occur in the project team.

Furthermore, if we only focus on speed and ignore precision, we cannot ensure quality. Generally, the precision of each component of an air-to-air missile must be less than a millimeter.

This time, she is challenging a new type of air-to-air missile for the first time ever, and Wu Tong hopes to achieve precision in microns.

For components with special angles, even if we only make one in a day, we must improve the precision.

After a week of detailed discussions and consultations with President Hua on the projectile design, as well as remote communication and research with Lu Xiao, Wu Tong finally and thoroughly implemented the projectile design.

Based on the design, Wu Tong began to deduce the projectile material.

Staring at the small and detailed missile design drawing on the screen, Wu Tong's men kept deducing based on the data on it, and their thoughts expanded in their minds.

Because of the large overload, the materials commonly used for air-to-air missile bodies are generally steel. The missile body is the armor of the missile. Good missile body materials can improve the missile's carrying capacity, increase structural strength, and provide better protection and connectivity for the missile's components.

The new PL-15 she designed this time has very high requirements for the missile body material, and needs to bear a higher overload per unit area than ordinary missiles, even several times higher.

For an advanced fighter jet, while ensuring the necessary space for fuel, onboard equipment, etc., the internal space that can be provided for onboard weapons and ammunition is limited. In order to increase the power of the aircraft's weapon system within the limited ammunition carrying space.

The reason why fighter jets are so powerful has a lot to do with the missiles they carry, because only missiles are real strike weapons. Of course, there is a limit to how many missiles a fighter jet can carry at a time, and it is not good to carry missiles endlessly.

According to current air-to-air missile specifications, generally speaking, a medium or heavy fighter can carry 8 missiles, while a light fighter can usually carry 2-4 missiles.

However, the fighter jets are not so fully loaded during actual combat, because carrying too many missiles will not only destroy the aerodynamic shape, but also increase the weight of the fighter jet, all of which will reduce the performance of the fighter jet and lead to combat failure.

Therefore, in many cases, fighter jets are not fully loaded with missiles.

Therefore, small, light, more agile, with increased range and capable of high-density mounting of air-to-air missiles have become the main research objects in the future.

To give the simplest example, a fighter jet that can only carry six conventional missiles, if the missile body is reduced in size by half and its weight by half with the same power, the amount of ammunition carried can be directly multiplied by two to 12 missiles while the fighter jet's ammunition bay capacity remains unchanged. Naturally, the combat capability will double or even increase several times.

The J20 has a powerful heart and an ultra-light body. Its bomb load has increased significantly, from 6-8 missiles in the initial version to 10-12 missiles today, which is still limited.

However, on a limited basis, Wu Tong wants to give the Weilong more room to play, to cope with the increasingly complex and dangerous future air battlefield environment as the types of air targets continue to increase and the performance continues to improve.

Based on the increasingly higher requirements of the carrier platform for the number of mounted weapons and the diversity of attack modes, Wu Tong attempted to make a series of new technological innovations in the performance of air-to-air missiles within her capabilities.

Try to achieve targeted miniaturization design of PL-15 on a limited basis.

Of course, air-to-air missiles cannot be reduced in size at will. They must be reduced in size while maintaining greater combat capability, faster speed, and greater range. The technical content required is enormous.

However, this is not an impossible task.

First of all, the most successful thing was that, as a result of a momentary resonance, they had super explosives with higher energy. Super explosives with energy twenty times that of TNT were used to prepare missile ammunition. On the basis of achieving the power of common missiles before, the amount used would undoubtedly be reduced a lot, and the basis for the corresponding reduction of the ammunition compartment was laid.

Second, the missile fuel, among solid fuels, the fuel N24 has the best performance. The specific impulse of the fuel N24 is more than three times that of the previous ordinary fuel, which means that the amount of fuel to achieve the same burning time is only one-third of the previous state. The fuel tank has a corresponding reduction basis to ensure greater thrust and greater range.

Third, with the rapid development of electronic technology, there is room for further reduction in the size of the guidance device. Wu Tong has already had in-depth communication with Lu Xiao on this point. She wants to improve the locking capability of the positioning and tracking system on the basis of reducing the size of the device.

Once a fighter jet locks onto a target and launches an air-to-air missile, there are only two possible outcomes: either it hits the target or it eventually self-destructs.

Therefore, Wu Tong's research and development requirements for Lu Xiao's guidance device are that during the pursuit process it must not only be able to accurately position and lock onto the target, but also be able to accurately calculate the shortest pursuit distance.

With powerful tracking and turning capabilities, it relies on its extremely fast speed and strong inertia to carry out long-distance pursuit, achieving higher and more accurate strike capabilities.

Fourth, of course, is her engine research. At the beginning of engine design, she took miniaturization into consideration. Therefore, on the basis of pursuing the ultimate performance of the engine, Wu Tong also controlled the size.

Fifth, Wu Tong and Lu Xiao worked together to perfect the smooth shape of the missile body and the steering rudder, which helped the PL-15 to have a higher sprint speed...

...·····According to the calculations, they have actually made what can be considered a good start and laid a fairly solid foundation. To continue to improve on this start is Wu Tong's high goal for himself.