Time is the least worth mentioning 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 making gourds according to drawings cannot keep up with Mr. Wu's speed in analyzing and drawing component drawings, which is a more difficult part. What's going on?

This means that their abilities are still not up to par 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, as the leader of this project, has to coordinate well.

After figuring out the work efficiency of the processing workshop, Wu Tong gave out drawings in fixed quantities every day. He did not rush the work but made good overall planning 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 accident to happen in the project team.

Furthermore, if we blindly pursue speed without paying attention to precision, we cannot guarantee quality. Generally, the precision of each component of an air-to-air missile must be below the 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 can 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, and 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 they must withstand significant overloads, steel is currently the most commonly used material for air-to-air missile bodies. The missile body is the armor of the missile, and good material 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, the internal space available for onboard weapons and ammunition is limited, while ensuring the necessary space for fuel, onboard equipment, etc. 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 is closely related to the missiles they carry, because only missiles are real strike weapons. Of course, there is a maximum number of missiles a fighter jet can carry at a time, and it is not good to carry missiles endlessly.

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

However, 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, 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 6 conventional missiles, if the missile body is reduced in size by half and the weight by half with the same power, the 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 accordingly, from 6-8 missiles in the initial version to 10-12 missiles today, which is still limited.

However, on this limited basis, Wu Tong wanted to give the Weilong greater room for development to cope with the increasingly complex and dangerous future aerial battlefield environment as the types of aerial targets continued to increase and their performance continued 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 longer range. The technical content required is enormous.

However, this is not an impossible task.

First of all, the most successful thing was that they had a sudden consensus and had a higher-energy super explosive. The super explosive with twenty times the energy of TNT was used to prepare missile ammunition. On the basis of achieving the power of the previous common missiles, the amount used would undoubtedly be reduced a lot, and the basis for the corresponding reduction of the ammunition compartment was laid.

Second, regarding missile fuel, N24 is unmatched among solid fuels. Its specific impulse is over three times that of conventional fuels. This means that the amount of fuel required to achieve the same burn time is only one-third of the original amount. This allows for a corresponding reduction in fuel tank size, while ensuring greater thrust and range.

Third, with the rapid development of electronic technology, there is room for further reduction in the size of guidance devices. Wu Tong has already had in-depth discussions 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 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 locate and lock onto the target, but also be able to accurately calculate the shortest pursuit distance.

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

Fourth, of course, is her engine research. At the beginning of the 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 and the steering rudder, helping the PL-15 to achieve a higher sprint speed...

... Counting on their fingers, 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 the high goal that Wu Tong requires of himself.