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Chapter 328 W88 air-to-air missile

So under Liu Xiu's words, as long as Liu Peiqiang completes this mission smoothly, then the medium effect can become a big effect!

Not long after Liu Peiqiang and others left the Navigator space station in a space bomber, the Navigator space station also entered the asteroid belt with Blue Star.

All the escorts on the Natural Navigator space station, that is, the space fighter pilots, have also canceled their vacations and entered a standby state.

The guard captain also began to explain to the fighter pilots the main mission requirements and precautions for guarding Blue Star this time.

"What you should pay attention to when flying a space fighter to destroy an asteroid in the asteroid belt that is attracted by the Blue Star's gravity is to pay attention to receiving instructions from your superiors. However, if the communication terminal is occupied due to an explosion, then you should make a judgment based on the size of the meteorite scanned by the radar. Those with a diameter of more than 100 meters will be destroyed, while those with a diameter of less than 100 meters will be ignored!

Of course, in order to be able to deal with these meteorites with a diameter of more than 88 meters, the Nuclear Energy Research Institute and the Missile Research Institute jointly developed a W air-to-air nuclear missile to deal with these meteorites, so next you must become familiar with the range and power of this nuclear missile. scope! "

There is no way to deal with those meteorites that directly reach more than 100 meters. Ordinary missiles with conventional explosives are basically equivalent to scratching these meteorites. If you want to deal with large meteorites with a diameter of more than 100 meters and a mass of more than one million tons, you still have to use them. Nuclear bombs are effective.

Of course, the nuclear explosive warhead of this W88 air-to-air nuclear missile is actually borrowed from the previous Mi'ao's most famous W88 fusion warhead, slightly improved, and then installed on the air-to-air missile to become the W88 air-to-air missile.

The overall appearance design of the W88 series nuclear warhead is basically the same as that of the previous generation, but the size and weight have been greatly optimized. The overall appearance is tapered, with a length of about cm, a base diameter of about cm, and a weight of At kilograms, its explosive yield can reach tons, which is more than thirty times the equivalent of a boy.

But its weight is much lighter than the boy's 4.4 tons. It is precisely because it is light and powerful that it was selected to become the warhead of the air-to-air missile carried by the space fighter.

After all, if it is too heavy, space fighters cannot carry it. For example, Big Ivan has to use a bomber to carry it.

It has to be said that although Mihao no longer exists, the nuclear warheads designed over the past few decades are very technical, light, small and powerful. The reason why they are designed in this way is naturally to facilitate continental missiles. Carried.

The reason why the W88 nuclear warhead can be miniaturized is inseparable from the optimization of the overall design and the miniaturization of the nuclear explosion core. Its structure adopts the Teller-Ulam configuration. This nuclear weapon design configuration is the solution used by Blue Star's mainstream nuclear fusion weapons.

The basic idea is that different parts of a thermonuclear weapon can be detonated in stages, and the energy generated by the explosion of each stage can be used to ignite the next stage.

The W88 nuclear warhead primary nuclear bomb is designed in the upper part of the cone-shaped structure, which is an egg-shaped or oval-shaped structure.

The primary structure uses a standard implosion fission bomb, consisting of an outermost structural shell, a first layer of conventional high explosives for detonation, a reflector layer made of uranium-88, a vacuum layer and an innermost layer. The core of uranium and plutonium bombs is generally made of plutonium 238 or uranium into a spherical shape, and a small amount of fusion fuel is injected into the middle, usually a : deuterium and tritium mixed gas, to increase the efficiency of fission. efficiency. The secondary structure is located below the primary structure and is generally cylindrical or spherical. The W nuclear warhead uses a spherical structure. The outermost is the push-reflective layer. It is generally made of uranium- or lead with better structural strength and density. Its main purpose It is used to compress the fusion fuel during the secondary fusion process.

The W88 nuclear warhead uses uranium to make a push-reflector layer. The advantage of this is that the uranium layer can fission under the action of fast neutrons produced by fusion, thus releasing more energy again.

Then the inner layer is composed of lithium six deuteride fuel, which is an ideal hydrogen bomb fuel. Lithium six deuteride can immediately decompose into deuterium and lithium six under the high temperature and high pressure environment formed by the primary explosion, forming a In a high-temperature, high-density plasma state, the neutrons released by fission will be injected into the deuterium and lithium hex plasma, forming a cyclic reaction. In this reaction, lithium hex captures the neutrons released by fission to generate tritium and helium. , this process is generally called lithium six to tritium.

The produced tritium will undergo a fission reaction with the cracked deuterium at high temperature. The deuterium-tritium reaction will release a large number of neutrons for lithium to produce tritium, thus forming a closed cycle. In this process, the A lot of energy will be released.

It can be seen from this design that tritium itself does not exist. Instead, tritium is created on-site at the end of the primary explosion, and then undergoes nuclear fusion with deuterium. It is ready to use. Compared with storing tritium alone, lithium hexadeuteride It is low in cost and is a stable solid compound, so it can be stored at room temperature and greatly reduces the storage environment requirements, so the hydrogen bomb can be made very small.

In addition, a hollow sphere made of plutonium-239 or uranium-235 is generally made in the secondary lithium deuteride 6, which can produce tritium during the secondary nuclear fusion process and provide more sufficient reaction fuel. .

These main structures of the W88 nuclear warhead are included in an annular cavity similar to a peanut structure, also called a radiation box. On the one hand, this radiation shell can temporarily store the energy generated by the primary nuclear bomb explosion in it, that is, it will be heated to a very high temperature under the action of the X-rays generated by the primary nuclear bomb.

Its own thermal radiation would then produce a more even distribution of X-rays, which would be directed to the secondary bomb, triggering a radioactive implosion.

Outside the radiation shell is the shell of the bomb that everyone sees every day. The shell of the W88 nuclear warhead is a cone-shaped structure, with a fixed structure at the bottom for mounting on an insulating base of the third stage of the Jiji missile.

At the top of the W88 nuclear warhead is a specially made fuze and ignition system. It is a relatively conventional fuze device and can achieve contact and air burst detonation.

When the W88 nuclear warhead explodes, the fission of the primary nuclear bomb will produce three types of energy, namely the expanding hot air produced when the high explosive implodes the primary nuclear bomb, electromagnetic radiation, and the neutrons produced when the primary nuclear bomb explodes.

This energy is transferred to the secondary structure through the peanut shell and interstage structure that are responsible for precise adjustment. The energy and neutrons are precisely controlled to be transferred to the appropriate location at the appropriate time, thereby compressing the fusion fuel and nuclear fission of the secondary structure. Detonate structure.

At this time, the nuclear fission material in the secondary structure reaches a critical mass and begins a chain reaction of fission. This process is called the radiation implosion of the secondary nuclear bomb. The energy released by the reaction heats the fusion fuel to a high enough temperature. It will trigger fusion. At the same time, the reaction also provides neutrons to the lithium in the fusion fuel to produce tritium for fusion, forming a chain reaction process of continuous nuclear fusion and nuclear fission, and finally releases a large amount of energy instantly to achieve the killing effect.

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