Volume 4 Arms Empire Chapter 19 Security Cornerstone
In addition to the development plan of the three armies, Pan Yunsheng also sent a "National Strategic Defense Development Plan" jointly written by the General Staff of the National Defense and the Military Intelligence Bureau. Compared with the military development plan, this report is not only more important, but also more "high-end".
"National Strategic Defense" is not a new concept, it was born during the Cold War of the United States and the Soviet Union.
The key idea of strategic defense is to intercept strategic weapons such as enemy countries through various means to provide absolute security for the local government.
The "Star Wars" plan as known to the world is a typical "national strategic defense" plan.
After the end of the Cold War, Clinton came to power and downgraded the "Star Wars" plan during the Reagan period to the "National Missile Defense Plan" and the "War Theater Missile Defense Plan", which derived NMD and TMD respectively. During the period of Bush Jr.'s administration, TMD was excluded from the "National Strategic Defense", and made every effort to develop NMDD and launched many new concept weapons, such as ABL (airborne tactical laser weapon system).
At the end of the 2c period, the Republic also launched the "National Strategic Defense" plan.
Before Ji Youguo came to power, "national strategic defense" was mainly concentrated in the tactical field and did not have real strategic defense capabilities.
In 2011, Ji Youguo adopted Peng Maobang's suggestion and divided the "national strategic defense" into three stages.
The main task of the first phase is to use long-range air defense systems to cover major cities and strategic locations, and initially have the combat capability of intercepting tactical ballistic missiles with a range of less than 1,500 kilometers, and provide the most basic strategic defense for major cities and strategic locations.
By early 20177, the tasks at this stage have been basically completed.
In major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi'an, Shenyang, as well as strategic command centers, strategic weapons reserve warehouses, and strategic counterattack troops, they have deployed anti-missile air defense systems mainly based on the "Red Flag" series of long-range air defense missiles.
Obviously, the defense standards in the first stage are not high.
Only if the second phase of planning the land goal can be called "national strategic defense" according to the Western national standards.
According to the initial ground plan, the second phase will not only increase the ground capacity of the ground intercepting ballistic missile in the first phase from 1,500 kilometers to 2,500 kilometers (mainly targeting the Indian "Fire" series of ballistic missiles). Strategic ballistic missiles that can intercept a range of more than 5,000 kilometers will also be deployed in the northeast and southwest directions. In 2015, the General Staff made adjustments to the planning content and added air-based and sea-based missile interception systems.
Small changes have caused essential changes in the second phase of strategic defense planning.
The ground nature of the air-based missile interception system is similar to that of the US ground abl. That is, airborne high-energy lasers intercept the ballistic missile in the boost-up section. Defensive operations are completed outside the country. The sea-based missile interception system was initially dominated by external kinetic energy interception missiles. By the end of 2016, it was mainly replaced by carrier-based high-energy lasers.
The core of both interception systems is a "high-energy laser".
It seems that this is indeed very similar to American local abl. In fact, there is an essential difference between the two.
The core of abl is a high-energy chemical laser, while the core of GLZ of the Republic is a high-energy electric laser.
After the Fourth India-Pakistan War, Ji Youguo personally issued an instruction, demanding that the development of high-energy electric lasers be accelerated at all costs and strive to complete the first prototype within three years. In fact, it took only one year for a research institute in Xi'an, who was responsible for the project, built the first prototype.
There are three key equipment for high-energy power lasers: one is a 12-stage composite battery, the second is an ultra-high current pulse generator, and the third is a high-precision optical lens.
If "Longxiang Battery" is a top-notch composite battery, then 12-level composite battery is rare.
From 20133, composite batteries were put into production, to the end of 2016, the 12-level composite batteries produced only less than 150 kilograms!
In order to accelerate the development progress of high-energy electric lasers, all 15c kilograms of 12-stage composite batteries were provided to the research unit.
Although the output of 12-level composite batteries has increased several times after the new process, before the physical experimental center found a more effective production method, 12-level composite batteries are still the most expensive "product" in the world.
Relatively speaking, the development of the latter two key equipment is much simpler.
During theoretical research, researchers proposed a solution to the insufficient production of 12 composite batteries, that is, to equip the carrier with a high-power generator to charge the composite batteries in a timely manner. In this way, according to the tactical standards proposed by the General Staff, that is, if at least 5 targets are intercepted at one full charge, a carrier only needs 120 kilograms of 12-level composite batteries.
2c In early 177, Ji Youguo almost approved the project to enter the engineering test stage.
As a result, in three practical tests in early January, the output power of the high-energy power laser equipped with a 150 kg 12-level composite battery failed to reach the 1 watt required to destroy the target!
After summarizing the reasons, the engineer found that there was something wrong with the intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau!
The U.S. dollar needs more than 50 grams of chemical fuel to destroy a target, at least 150 kilograms!
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The engineer finally calculated that in order to destroy missile-like targets, the output power of the laser must reach at least 30 megawatts. Even by increasing the usage of the composite battery, at least a 16-level composite battery must be used.
At that time, a level 16 composite battery could not be produced at all.
The highest-level composite battery manufactured by the Physical Experiment Center in the laboratory is only 1!
After suspending the engineering test work, Ji Youguo issued new instructions at the end of January to accelerate the research and development of higher-level composite batteries, and strive to take out samples of the 16-level composite batteries as soon as possible to prepare for production.
Scientific research is determined by the will of the leader.
According to the most optimistic estimate, the Physical Experiment Center will be able to obtain a 16-level composite battery as soon as possible by the end of 20177, and it would be very good to be able to enter industrial production by the end of 20199.
Under this circumstance, the General Staff brought the sea-based interception system back to its original development direction.
The 16-level composite battery cannot be built, and there is no chance to have air-based ones, and the sea base high-energy laser interception system is still no chance to have it.
Due to the delay in the development progress of the second phase, the Ministry of National Defense, which took over the "National Strategic Defense" plan from the General Staff, adjusted the goals of the third phase in accordance with the military reform plan.
According to the original plan, the main goal of the third phase is to establish a comprehensive strategic defense system with the "space-based interception system" as the core. To this end, a code-named "Fengyun 113" reconnaissance satellite" was launched in the name of the Military Intelligence Bureau at the end of 2015. A small-power laser was installed on this satellite to test the deflection and interference caused by the laser when it enters the atmosphere.
After the adjustment, the goals of the third stage are gradually completed in the two stages of "three subtractions" and "three pluses".
The main goal of the "three reductions" stage is to improve the land-based and sea-based "outer kinetic energy interception system" and strive to deploy 50 "land-based atmospheric outer kinetic energy interception missiles" in each of the four strategic directions of northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest by 2025, and deploy 16 "sea-based atmospheric outer kinetic energy interception missiles" on each of the eight air defense cruisers, and initially have the comprehensive "national strategic defense" capabilities.
The main goal of the "three plus" stage is to establish a "space-based energy weapon interception system" in the results of the second stage. In 20117, the relevant research funds invested in the Physical Experimental Center and other research units will double, and the annual research funds will increase by 25% in the future. We strive to complete all relevant research by 2027, so that the composite batteries of level 16 or higher can be mass-produced, and in-depth research is carried out in the fields of high-energy laser weapons, particle beam weapons, and electromagnetic weapons.
According to the plan, by around 2030, the Republic will have real "national strategic defense" capabilities.
It is obvious that this report led by the Ministry of National Defense is not only more objective and pragmatic, but also adjusted the development plan formulated by the former General Staff and added more new concept weapons.
If all the goals of the "three plus" stage can be achieved, the final results will definitely exceed the original plan.
Like the development plan of the three armies, the main bottleneck problem of the "national strategic defense plan" is still the composite battery.
After reading this report, Ji Youguo also felt a lot.
During the Fourth India-Pakistan War, Ji Youguo withstood the pressure from the military at the last moment and made the decision not to take back the southern Tibet region. The key reason is that the Republic is unable to resist India's strategic strike.
Although the Republic has absolute strength to bring India back to the Stone Age and even turn the Indian Peninsula into a "no man's land", the Republic cannot "died together" with India. Even if only a few cities are attacked by nuclear weapons, the Republic's development will be fatal. Before the problem of "aging" is resolved, development will come to a halt, which will only make the future of the Republic dark.
Imagine that if the Republic can block India's strategic missiles from the country, will Jiyou Congress be lenient?
After the Fourth India-Pakistan War, Ji Youguo spared no effort to promote the "national strategic defense plan", hoping to establish a defense system that is sufficient to resist strategic strikes in all countries except the United States and Russia as soon as possible, so that the Republic will no longer be threatened by "rogue states".
Now it seems that not to mention Zhao Rundong's term, it may be difficult to achieve in Ji Youguo's lifetime.
Ji Youguo is not a person without "patience", otherwise he would not have waited for 5 after 2010.
However, thinking of the severe situation in the future, Ji Youguo could not feel at ease.
The global financial crisis will inevitably evolve into an economic crisis that swept the world. Fundamentally, the economic crisis is caused by imbalance in distribution, consumption cannot keep up with production, and a large amount of "surplus" of products. The most effective way to resolve the economic crisis is not government policies or civil forces, but war.
A large-scale war can consume all the materials that cannot be consumed in the world.
When the economic crisis develops to a certain extent, no one can stop the war from coming, and the republic, which performed best in the economic crisis, will be affected first.
If the land cannot be effectively defended, can the Republic achieve the final victory?
damn it**
Please give me a monthly ticket. It’s mid-month, brothers who have tickets will smash it! (To be continued,)
Chapter completed!