Chapter 566: The Great Underground City

The "4.1" collision between China and the United States quickly expanded into an international storm. After hearing this, media around the world all started a series of reports as if they were injected with chicken blood. They speculated whether this marked the beginning of the confrontation between the two major superpowers, old and new. Could a "new Cold War" be repeated in East Asia?

Lenovo's rich overseas media hired various political and military commentators to predict what happened next, and also linked the president of the Democratic Progressive Party of Taiwan, who had just come to power and has been clamoring for Taiwan, with the previous Galaxy incident and the US air strike against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and other Sino-US frictions. They were afraid that the world would release all kinds of news to stimulate China and the United States, and were waiting to see the drama of fierce conflict between the two sides!

The broken ep-3 stopped at the Lingshui Airport in Hainan for a time and suddenly became the focus of the world. News Agency around the world sent elite soldiers and generals to investigate nearby. Yang Xing naturally did not want to expose it anymore. Although he came here for a trip under the name of inspecting Hainan projects, he left the hidden military base early on being cautious. He just wanted to balance the contributions made by the military again before leaving, and proposed whether his subordinate Yahuangtai could enter Lingshui Airport to take some exclusive news.

As a result, when Bai Bing's handheld microphone and backed ep-3 appeared on major TV stations around the world, the sensation caused was probably even greater. Only then did everyone realize that this exclusive interviewing right was only Yahuang TV, except for Xinhua News Agency, CCTV and a Russian TV station. Many foreign news agencies could only buy news from Yahuang TV. So far, Yahuang TV has become the largest news group in Asia.

Although Yang Xing left Hainan at this time, he did not return to Europe. Instead, he was in the depths of the mountains in a province in North China. Because his loyalty to the country was beyond doubt, and he made too many great achievements, he was also rich and lustful. The central government really felt that he was unappreciated.

It just so happened that he had a long-term cooperative relationship with the military and had always been holding the title of "Lieutenant Colonel of the Air Force", so he agreed to let him visit some top-secret military projects of the military as a reward to commend his merits. Most of these projects are related to the military technology he provided, and strictly speaking it is not considered a violation of military discipline.

However, when Yang Xing stood in the heart of a mountain and looked up at the interior of the mountain that was almost hollowed out, extending thousands of meters long and as dense as a spider web, he still couldn't help but admire the perseverance and creativity of the Chinese people. This is the strategic missile launch method that my country is not as afraid of their nuclear blackmail when nuclear warheads and strategic missiles are not as good as the United States and the Soviet Union. He dared to fight against them with his trump card. The underground Great Wall, which was talked about by foreign strategic missile experts, was used to carry out "deep deployment" strategic missile launch method.

Strategic nuclear missiles, such as the "national weapon", are the first protection target for any country. The two major countries in the Cold War, China, the United States and the Soviet Union have been constantly upgrading their technology for this reason. The fuel, methods, locations and other strategic nuclear missiles have developed rapidly. The United States has overwhelmed the heroes in the early stages of nuclear bombs and missile development.

The Soviet Union, which did not want to be suppressed, took a different approach and sent satellites to space with rockets. Based on this, in order to fight against the conventional weapons advantages of Western allies led by the United States, it developed dozens of models and thousands of intercontinental nuclear missiles, with a quality inferior to humans, and had to surpass the United States in quantity.

The United States is naturally not willing to lag behind and vigorously develops a trinity of air, ground and sea. Especially in sea-based nuclear weapons, the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine created by its technological advantages. One boat is equipped with 24 missile launchers, and each "Trident" missile also carries eight million-ton nuclear warheads. For an inappropriate example, as long as an Ohio-class nuclear submarine can survive the first wave of the nuclear war, the 196 nuclear warheads it has is enough to destroy countries like the Soviet Union and China, and similar to Japan.

In order to save time in rapid response, ground nuclear missile launches have undergone liquid fuel rack launch (similar to rocket launch satellites), underground launches, and evolution of the motorized launch method of solid fuel missiles. The volume and weight of nuclear missiles have been greatly reduced, but the range and power have increased exponentially. The Americans have the advantage of nuclear submarines and have a strong ability to "secondary counterattack", which invisibly improves nuclear deterrence. In order to fight against the United States, the solution that the former Soviet Union thought of was to give full play to its advantages of land-based missiles. Before the disintegration, the focus on the launch method of ground vehicle motorized missiles was on the launch method of ground vehicles. The "Popular" and "Popular M" mobile intercontinental missiles came into being.

Compared with these two countries, although the experiments of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs were completed in the 1960s, they have always adhered to the principles of "minimum nuclear deterrence" and "not using nuclear weapons first", and it is crucial to have the ability to "secondary nuclear counterattack". How to ensure that the minimum number of intercontinental missiles can be successfully launched after avoiding enemy attacks, and successfully penetrate the enemy's missile defense system and throw nuclear warheads to selected targets becomes the number one task of the Chinese Second Artillery Force.

my country's second-generation intercontinental missile Dongfeng-5 adopts the method of underground reinforcement of launch silos, but the number of Dongfeng-5 is too small, only about 20, and it is easy to be taken away in wartime. The Dongfeng-31 and Dongfeng-41 missiles that appeared at the military parade in 1999 are undoubtedly eye-catching.

These two types of missiles are usually carried out by vertical launch by transportation and vehicle-mounted vehicles, which greatly increases the difficulty of enemy strikes. However, this type of missile often has relatively simple positioning instruments and hastily prepared time before launch. Therefore, the strike accuracy after launch of the missile is significantly lower than that of missiles launched from fixed launch positions. For example, the hit accuracy of the Russian Poplar-m intercontinental missile is about 260 meters when launched from underground, but it increases to 450 meters when maneuvering on the road.

The "deep buried deployment" method that integrates the safety of mobile launches and the accuracy of fixed launches has become the pioneering move of the Chinese Second Artillery Force. The so-called "deep buried deployment" is the "underground home" that is hundreds of meters deep for strategic nuclear missiles. The missile can complete all combat readiness activities underground. In wartime, it can rely on underground mesh corridors to transport missiles by railcars or heavy trailers, and equipment and personnel will be launched at a fixed location. All this cannot be discovered only from the ground.

The benefits of this are very obvious. Some Western experts have calculated that the underground corridor of China's Second Artillery Missiles is very strong. "If you use a ground-based nuclear warhead to attack China's missile positions, several nuclear warheads with a capacity of hundreds of thousands of tons will be required to hit the same point continuously before breaking through. To completely destroy it, more nuclear warheads are needed."

Therefore, the Second Artillery Force spent decades and huge manpower and material resources at all costs to finally dug a solid and hidden "underground Great Wall" inside the mountains. Strategic ballistic missiles can be deployed maneuverably in this "underground maze" and launched from hundreds of underground launch silos that are mixed with authenticity.

After walking in this maze-like underground building for a while, Yang Xing finally arrived at the end of his visit today. It was a huge missile launch silo with a deep underground, standing the first intercontinental missile Dongfeng-5 with a range of over 10,000 kilometers.

Dongfeng-5, NATO code-named CSS-4, was successfully tested on May 18, 1980. The missile has a total length of 32.6 meters, a bullet diameter of 3.35 meters, and a take-off weight of 183 tons. It uses a secondary liquid-fuel rocket engine and is launched in the launch silo. It has a maximum range of 12,000 kilometers or 15,000 kilometers (Dongfeng-5a). It can carry a nuclear warhead with a power of 3,000 kg equivalent to 3-4 million tons, or 4-5 sub-guided nuclear warheads (Dongfeng-5a), with a hit accuracy of 500 meters.

Before the launch of Dongfeng-31 and Dongfeng-41, Dongfeng-5 has always been the only heavy sword in my country that can deter the United States and the Soviet Union. Even after the Dongfeng-31 and their solid-fuel intercontinental missiles were put into service, the Dongfeng-5, which uses liquid fuel, has not been retired. Because its range of up to 15,000 kilometers can almost hit the world, making many countries feel as if they were in a stunning position.

The main reason why Yang Xing was able to stand here is that the Dongfeng-5 in front of him is the latest model. It integrates a large number of Soviet SS-18 (Satan) missile technology. Today is the day of its first test launch. It is also a strong signal to the Americans who have been tough after the collision and refused to apologize to China!

The SS-18 is the pinnacle of the Soviet liquid-fuel intercontinental missile and is also the largest intercontinental missile in the world. The ten sub-missile heads loaded on it with an equivalent of up to 500,000 tons per tnt equivalent can attack ten different targets at the same time, which makes the West tremble, so it was given the title of "Satan".

Most of the strategic nuclear missiles of the former Soviet Union were liquid fuels and were very good at preserving missile liquid fuels. "Satan" was placed in the launch silo and could not be replaced for more than ten years. Russia has publicly announced its lifespan to extend its lifespan and conducted lifespan testing and launches, all of which were successful, and is ready to use this big guy who should be retired for more than ten years.

After combining the "Satan" technology, Dongfeng-5 has achieved considerable results in liquid fuel ratio and preservation, engine power increase and missile head improvement, which has played a great role in improving my country's strategic missile industry. Now it is time to accept the results.

"Countdown begins, 10, 9, 8, 7..." With the countdown of the missile launch officer, Yang Xing, an outsider, enjoyed the highest reward. The Second Artillery made an exception and allowed him to press the launch button of the Dongfeng-5 Ding (modified) missile, which was also a reward for bringing back the technical information of the SS-18 missile. At the same time, at two other exits hundreds of kilometers away from the Great Wall underground, two Dongfeng-31 and Dongfeng-41 mobile intercontinental missile launch vehicles were also ready to be launched. Obviously, the military believes that since it is necessary to deterrent, it will make the momentum bigger. Anyway, it will be necessary to conduct intercontinental missile tests. It is better to test three types of intercontinental missiles at one time, which can not only obtain valuable test data, but also scare the Americans.

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