The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 556 PL-8 and PL-12 Missiles
Time passed quickly as we devoted ourselves to the development of air-to-air missiles, and more than a month had passed in the blink of an eye.

Under the guidance of technical personnel, Liu Tao manufactured 35 PL-5B short-range air-to-air missiles and 30 PL-4 medium-range air-to-air missiles.

After letting the technicians leave, Liu Tao was the only one left.

Liu Tao placed his hand on a 'PL-5B' short-range air-to-air missile, and a virtual panel appeared in the corner of his eye.

[Item: 'PL-5B' short-range air-to-air missile]

【Manufacturer: Liu Tao】

[Item Level: LV1 (0/10)]

[Upgrade Points: 1050]

[Item status: intact, analyzable]

Naturally, it is impossible for Liu Tao to improve the level of this kind of air-to-air missile by using it to increase experience. He can only upgrade the item by accumulating upgrade points.

I took a detailed look at the performance parameters of the 'PL-5B' short-range air-to-air missile. The missile is 3.128m long, 0.190m in diameter, 0.657m in wingspan, and weighs 148kg. The warhead uses high explosives, weighs 30kg, and is 657mm long. The minimum range is 1300m, the maximum range is 16km, the maximum speed is 2.2 Mach, the maximum overload is 30G, the operating altitude is 500~21500m, the guidance method is passive infrared, and the power unit uses a solid rocket engine.

Afterwards, Liu Tao used the item upgrade panel to smash the upgrade points for upgrades.

shhhh~~
Tiny rays of light flickered.

Liu Tao touched the short-range air-to-air missile in his hand and saw faint flashes of light coming from it. Then its shape, structure, etc. underwent visible changes.

Finally, when the upgrade energy was almost consumed, Liu Tao stopped upgrading.

Looking at the virtual panel again, the values ​​​​have changed.

[Item: New short-range air-to-air missile]

【Manufacturer: Liu Tao】

[Item Level: LV9]

[Upgrade Points: 150]

[Item status: intact, analyzable]

Liu Tao learned about the relevant parameter changes in detail.

It is 2.87 meters long, weighs 85.5 kilograms, has a maximum speed of 2.5 Mach, a warhead weight of 10 kilograms, a maximum range of 18 kilometers, and the seeker has relatively strong anti-interference capabilities.

The missile adopts passive infrared guidance and a control and detection device with antimony steel photosensors and argon gas cooling, which gives the missile the ability to detect the front hemisphere; the rudder is a double triangle, which greatly enhances the maneuverability of the missile; the active laser proximity fuze can accurately control the explosion point; the annular continuous rod prefabricated fragmentation killing warhead is adopted. When working, the main charge is detonated evenly from both sides at the same time, so that the prefabricated continuous rod is evenly formed into a ring, and then becomes fragment dispersion, which can eliminate the dependence of the killing effect on the encounter angle between the missile and the target.

Liu Tao showed a look of satisfaction. Such a short-range air-to-air missile can not only meet the use of imported American fighter jets, but also meet the improved use of domestic fighter jets and fighter jets.

If the air-to-air missile is too heavy, it will not be usable against domestic fighter jets.

"System, analysis!" Liu Tao muttered to himself.

The virtual panel formed a series of drawings, and the analysis was quickly completed.

Compared with tanks, armored vehicles, warships, and air defense missile systems, the design drawings of this short-range air defense missile are undoubtedly much fewer.

Afterwards, Liu Tao began to upgrade the medium-range air-to-air missile, which is also called the medium-range air-to-air missile, has a much longer range.

Soon, this 'PILI-4' medium-range air-to-air missile was upgraded to a level that satisfied Liu Tao. Looking at the performance parameters of this new medium-range air-to-air missile, the missile adopts a normal layout of two sections and four delta wings, with a total length of 3.85m, a diameter of 0.203m, a wingspan of 674mm, a missile weight of 160kg, a maximum range of 90 kilometers, a maximum combat altitude of 25 kilometers, a maximum speed of 4 Mach, and a maximum overload of 38G. It adopts a mid-course radar semi-active/data link guidance + terminal radar active guidance system.

It can be said that this is a medium-range air-to-air missile with excellent performance.

Liu Tao returned to his residence and downloaded the two air-to-air missiles.

The next day, Liu Tao began to arrange the production of samples of the two air-to-air missiles.

As for these two air-to-air missiles, the short-range air-to-air missile was named "Pili-8" air-to-air missile (PL-8) by Liu Tao, and the medium-range air-to-air missile was named "Pili-12" air-to-air missile (PL-12) by him.

Yangcheng Shipyard.

Now, except for two super-large docks, all other docks of Yangcheng Shipyard have been built.

Now the entire Yangcheng Shipyard is very busy, with a full schedule of warships and merchant ships. Part of the shipbuilding capacity is allocated to the production of warships, and part of it is allocated to the production of merchant ships.

Under such busy conditions, many new workers are able to practice and become skilled workers.

Liu Tao attaches great importance to the shipbuilding industry.

Shipbuilding is a highly comprehensive project. A large shipyard, such as Yangcheng Shipyard, now has more than 10,000 workers who are engaged in the construction of the entire ship. However, they do not build ships from scratch, but assemble products supplied by thousands of suppliers into a ship.

For example, steel plates, pipes, cables, various equipment, various electrical components, various valves, various pumps, generators, turbines, paints, etc. Each factory employs at least a hundred people and as many as thousands or tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, building a ship not only relies on the more than 10,000 people in the Yangcheng Shipyard, but also on suppliers with a total of more than hundreds of thousands of workers.

As for the shipyard itself, designers, inspection standards, production managers, equipment maintenance personnel, purchasing personnel, front-line workers, etc., each type of work is a highly professional job. It is not something that can be done by just a group of people pulled from the street. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a technical job.

And this is only for now. According to the design, when it reaches its peak, the staff of the entire Yangcheng Shipyard will reach 2.5 people, and the workers of the suppliers behind it will reach one million.

This means that the Yangcheng Shipyard will provide more than one million jobs directly and indirectly!
That's arguably one million households.

Together with the Mawei Shipyard, the number of direct and indirect jobs provided will exceed two million.

Liu Tao's goal is to compete with the Koreans, snatch the crown of the shipbuilding industry from the Japanese, and transfer the world's shipbuilding center to China.

Once China's shipbuilding industry replaces Japan and takes the crown of the world's shipbuilding industry, the number of shipbuilding workers alone will reach one million, and the number of indirect workers will reach 30 to 40 million.

With such a large population in China, jobs will be a very important consideration, because only when everyone has a job can society be stable and harmonious.

Why did social security problems occur frequently in recent years? Isn’t it because a large number of educated youth returned to the city, a large number of young people were unemployed, and there were idle people everywhere?

If everyone had a job and was busy making money, they wouldn't have the time to do anything sneaky.

Liu Tao and Li Weimin came to Yangcheng Shipyard this time. Yangcheng Shipyard is a military and civilian integrated shipyard under the dual leadership of China Southern Ordnance Industry Group Corporation and China Southwest Industrial Group Corporation.

This is Li Weimin’s first visit to Yangcheng Shipyard.

Li Weimin was greatly shocked when he saw the scale of Yangcheng Shipyard and the busy workers.

During this period, he was almost always at the headquarters of China Southwest Industrial Group Corporation, becoming familiar with the work and the key personnel.

Only now has the work been managed to go smoothly, and this is only possible because of the help from Xue Yunpeng and the leadership of China Southwest Industrial Group Corporation to Li Weimin.

During this period, Li Weimin felt how heavy the burden on his shoulders was.

(End of this chapter)