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With this in mind, he decided to go back to Markkula this time and call everyone to discuss this matter.

If there is money to be made, and it can bring benefits to the company's image, why not do it?

His affairs are settled, and it is up to Mr. Zhang to arrange the auxiliary equipment and other things.

One day off is the day for the drill of the East China Sea Fleet. In order to prove the stealth performance of the unmanned submarine, Xu Ziling asked the warships and submarines of the East China Sea Fleet participating in the drill to turn off the eagle eye system, and used the previous one that was not disassembled during the transformation. The sonar system is needed to find the unmanned submarine in flight.

The new type of anechoic tiles can perfectly absorb sonar signals, and technologies such as propeller jetting can reduce the noise of unmanned submarines to about [-] decibels. From previous tests, ordinary sonar systems are absolutely unable to detect The unmanned submarine is close at hand, but when they tested it, they only used a test ship to test it, and did not test the search of large-scale sonar signals. Whether they will find it or not, Xu Ziling has no answer in his heart.

The Type 094 submarine is a strategic-class submarine, and the missiles it carries are all strategic missiles. In a conventional war, even if its head is overturned, it can only watch.

The country's navy has only been established for more than half a century, and it has only been developed for less than 30 years. Compared with the United States, which had aircraft carriers nearly 100 years ago, the gap between them can be imagined.

Therefore, among the various types of submarines in China, the main battle submarines currently serving in conventional warfare may not necessarily be able to fight against submarines from countries such as the United States and island countries.

In this way, there is a main battle submarine that can reach the international advanced level, which is extremely urgently needed by the navy.

With Tang Jiannian around, the East China Sea Fleet knew very well about unmanned submarines. They didn't care if there was no one or no one. What they valued was combat effectiveness. So when they knew the weapon system of unmanned submarines, they decided to purchase one or two ship.

The test report is just a report. In their eyes, what they see with their own eyes is real. Xu Ziling proposed such a test method, which hit their hands, and immediately agreed. He also asked Xu Ziling about the twelve ships they participated in the drill. Are there enough warships? If not, they can deploy a few more anti-submarine helicopters.

This is just the designated sea area for the test, which is only a few square kilometers. Why do you need so much?

Hearing the other party's excitement, Xu Ziling rolled his eyes and rejected their proposal without hesitation.

At the beginning of the drill, in order to let the people of the East China Sea Fleet understand the performance of the unmanned submarine, Xu Ziling also specially allowed a ten-man team from the fleet to enter the submarine. number of people.

There are about ten people in their military factory and the South China Sea Fleet, plus ten people in the East China Sea Fleet, it is completely the maximum manned capacity of the submarine.

The first day is to test the stealth performance.

In the specified sea area, the submarines were tested again and again at various depths and speeds. For this alone, the test took a whole day.

As if hiding and seeking, the entire fleet had been busy all day, but no one complained, because they knew that this was testing a new type of submarine.

Such a submarine may belong to their fleet in the future. The more powerful it is, the higher the combat effectiveness of their fleet will be.

The next day, the submarine was not retested, but took part in the fleet's tactical drills.

They are all equipped with an "information sharing platform", and there is no problem of communication barriers at all. The people who control the submarines at the Jiangnan factory are technicians, not soldiers, and of course they don't understand tactics and tactics.Fortunately, the fleet commander issued orders to them individually, left, right, ascend, dive, and they only had to follow them.

After two days of training in this way, the main event of this time finally arrived.

Live ammunition drill!

In the past, the domestic navy did not conduct many live-fire drills, but in the past two years, the number of live-fire drills and live-fire drills has increased. This kind of mission is definitely beneficial to the military.

Some people said, since it is beneficial, why not more such tasks?

Why?Because once a live ammunition operation is carried out, the cost is huge. If a country is the richest, if you have nothing to do with the navy every day, it will take a few years to drag down the country.

It’s easy to talk about target shooting in the army, and a bullet costs only a few cents, but what about the navy?That was really a cannon shot, golden ten thousand taels.It's just that the gold is not coming in, but going out.

Before the new ships came out, Xu Ziling and Yang Kaiming had calculated them when they were bored. On the warships, apart from the firearms used by the naval special warfare team, the cheapest unit price of the weapons on the warships is the close-in defense system, 30mm The cost of an ordinary shell is less than a hundred.

It's just that although this guy said that the unit price is the cheapest, but when it is fully activated, it is also a big money eater, because it can launch 1 rounds of runway in one minute, even if one costs 50 yuan, it costs tens of thousands in one minute. up.

As for the main gun or missiles, it goes without saying.

The main gun is okay. The 76mm main gun shells equipped with auxiliary ships such as frigates cost about [-] per shell, but what about missiles?Like destroyers, the smallest missiles are in units of one hundred thousand, and the largest, such as cruise missiles, are in the millions.

It can be seen that live ammunition drills and exercises are completely money-burning behaviors.

In addition to equipment loss, supplies, etc., after an exercise, as long as one or two more missiles are fired at random, the cost this time may be tens of millions.

Therefore, this kind of thing is not something that ordinary small countries can play.

Even if it is a big country, it is impossible to use missiles for fun.

It was the first weapon test for a submarine, and these weapons were all brand-new models. Xu Ziling didn't consider the cost, whether it was torpedoes or various missiles. Five torpedoes were installed, and a total of sixteen torpedoes were installed. There are eight torpedo launchers, each of which has two chances to launch.

With these, he believes that it is enough to be able to exert the combat effectiveness of the submarine.

The drill of the East China Sea Fleet is mainly aimed at the possible future battle to seize the island. However, once Xu Ziling's submarine participates, the protagonist becomes the submarine, and their live-fire drill becomes dispensable instead.

As soon as the time for the exercise arrived, the Fleet Command Center and Xu Ziling’s control room were remotely connected. The general manager of the exercise, Rear Admiral Mo Kaihua of the East China Sea Fleet, told Xu Ziling that today’s exercise will focus on submarines, and their fleet will fully cooperate. .

Xu Ziling had never met Mo Kaihua before, but he still knew him. After a few days of contact, he became familiar with him. Hearing what Mo Kaihua said, he smiled and said: "Then we have some Xuanbing Take over?"

"That's not counting. It should be said that we are more happy to watch your wonderful performance!" Mo Kaihua's face was a little cold, but he did not speak coldly.

"Ha ha……"

Gossip was enough, Xu Ziling also understood their thoughts, did not shirk, and immediately agreed.

In order to verify the combat effectiveness of the submarine, the East China Sea Fleet did spend a lot of money this time. Not only did it drag in a scrapped warship as the target of the anti-ship missile, it also got a special underwater submarine to use Test the power of torpedoes.

They have invested such a large amount of money, Xu Ziling naturally wants to perform well.

All the submarine's weapon systems are their own technology, even the torpedoes ordered from the northern military industry, and when ordering, Xu Ziling also left a hand: the guidance system and the tail fins were developed by themselves.

In other words, the specific performance of the torpedo is not known to the Northern Military Industry.

The most advanced technology of torpedoes is the United States, followed by Russia, and although torpedoes are used by the navies of countless countries, there are actually not many countries that can manufacture torpedoes. At least as far as he knows, there are only a few countries in the world. The number of hands.

And the technology of the Celestial Dynasty can only be regarded as mediocre. Torpedoes are indispensable weapons in naval battles, whether it is anti-submarine or attacking the enemy's underwater fortifications. A great country has only second-rate technology. For Xu Ziling , this is definitely not a very happy thing.

So in this exercise, he wants to make the weapons on the submarine a blockbuster, and after that, he will publicly release their submarine-launched torpedoes to let everyone know that their torpedoes are powerful.

The first anti-ship missile launched.

The anti-ship missile on the submarine is the XH series cruise missile. Although it is the same system, the launch system is completely different. The land-based launch system is launched at a certain angle from the launch vehicle, while the submarine-launched system is launched vertically.

As we all know, the vertical launch system requires quite high technology, especially for submarine-launched vertical systems, and surface ships have higher technical requirements.

Although Xu Ziling and his team are not strategic submarines, in order to increase the amount of ammunition prepared, he finally considered using the cold launch method, but in terms of the technology in the world today, the cold launch technology is not widely used for no other reason than It is this launch method that requires too much technology.

Where is the high demand?The main disadvantage of cold launch is that it must rely on external force to assist the launch of the missile. Therefore, the structure of the launch system is quite complicated and the reliability is relatively poor, especially for the missile rocket engine ignition control device technology and missile attitude control technology. The requirements are very high.

Compared with the mature technology of thermal launch, why did Xu Ziling choose cold launch?

Because the advantages of cold launch are also quite obvious: [-]. Low temperature launch will not ablate the launch system, and will not cause structural damage to the launch system.Second, since there is no need for a special exhaust channel like thermal launch, the launch system is small in size and can load missiles to the maximum in a limited space.

Not to mention the first point, but the second point is that it can increase the amount of ammunition prepared. Xu Ziling also chose cold launch without hesitation. What's more, with a lion, this cold launch technique is a problem for others, but For him, it is definitely not a problem.

(In reality, there are indeed not many countries that can build torpedoes, but I don’t know how many there are. Does anyone know of countries other than Wuchang?)