Doomsday: I Build a Space Fleet

Chapter 137 Pre-Battle Preparations - 2

Changkong-23 Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile

The missile is 8 meters long, 70 centimeters in diameter, and has a range of 960 kilometers.

The anti-ship missile carries a 380 kg thermobaric warhead and employs a combined inertial/satellite navigation and terminal radar guidance system.

This type of anti-ship missile is an air-breathing hypersonic missile, equipped with a scramjet engine and a solid-fuel rocket engine. Its primary speed during attack is provided by the scramjet engine.

A scramjet engine is a propulsion system that uses supersonic airflow for combustion. It features high thrust and high efficiency, but at the cost of optimal startup speeds of Mach 4.5 or Mach 5.

Its attack method is as follows: the solid-fuel rocket engine ignites, propelling the missile to a speed of Mach 5. Subsequently, the rocket engine booster stage separates, and the scramjet engine ignites, propelling the missile to attack the target at hypersonic speeds during this phase.

With a cruising speed of Mach 10 and a cruising altitude of approximately 25 to 30 kilometers, its terminal attack speed is Mach 21. No existing air defense or missile defense system can effectively intercept it.

Changkong-25 Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile

The missile is 8.5 meters long, 70 centimeters in diameter, and has a range of 1300 kilometers.

The anti-ship missile carries a 470 kg thermobaric warhead and employs a satellite/inertial and terminal radar/infrared composite guidance system.

This anti-ship missile employs a "boost-glide" design, with the front section being a hypersonic glide vehicle and the rear section being a solid-fuel rocket engine.

Its attack method is as follows: First, a solid-fuel rocket engine propels the missile into the upper atmosphere, then it separates into two parts. The glide vehicle then begins to glide in near space (at an altitude of 20 to 100 kilometers), during which time the missile can also perform extensive lateral maneuvers.

[With a cruising speed of Mach 7.5 and a terminal attack speed of Mach 15, equivalent to 5100 meters per second. No existing air defense or missile defense system can effectively intercept it.]

After reviewing the data of these two types of missiles, Lorraine discovered another anti-ship missile in the database that could also be used for ground attack: the Changkong-26 hypersonic missile.

Changkong-26 Hypersonic Missile

The missile is 8.5 meters long, 70 centimeters in diameter, and has a range of 1600 kilometers.

This type of anti-ship missile has a 910 kg thermobaric/high-explosive warhead and employs a composite guidance system consisting of inertial/satellite/radio navigation and radar/infrared guidance.

This type of missile is a biconical warhead boost-glide hypersonic missile. While its lift-to-drag ratio is lower than that of a waverider warhead, it possesses stronger maneuverability and can perform more unpredictable penetration maneuvers at the terminal stage.

Because of its larger internal space in its biconical warhead, it can accommodate a larger warhead and guidance system, thus enabling it to perform land-attack missions and effectively cover ground targets.

Cruising speed Mach 6, terminal attack speed Mach 12.

Subsequently, Lorraine found this type of hypersonic missile in the ammunition depot, but unfortunately, there were only 8 of these missiles in stock.

After a moment's thought, Lorraine replaced the two Changkong-23 missiles with Changkong-26 missiles equipped with high-explosive warheads.

However, in order to enrich his own means of attack, Lorraine used radio to contact Ouyang Nian, who was at the high-tech industrial base, and asked her whether the pre-research equipment of the experimental machine contained equipment capable of radar detection.

Upon receiving the message, Ouyang Nian was unable to leave temporarily due to the need to oversee the production line, so he could only entrust Bai Jin to go to the corresponding warehouse to make an inquiry.

Bai Jin quickly arrived at Warehouse No. 3, where the testing machines were stored, on his electric motorcycle.

After turning on the warehouse lights, Platinum discovered a control panel on the warehouse wall. With the help of information pre-planted by Cleveland, she successfully located the airborne equipment storage vault hidden beneath the warehouse.

Upon inspection, it was found that almost all of these airborne equipment were stored in the hangar in the form of pods, including terrain scanning radar pods for terrain mapping, integrated aperture radar pods and infrared electro-optical pods for search, as well as external fuel tanks for aerial refueling.

When Platinum saw this fuel tank, she felt like she had seen it somewhere before, but she first sent over the information that Lorraine needed.

After seeing the message from Platinum, Lorraine felt a little strange. It seemed that 600 kilograms of fuel wouldn't make much of a difference to a fighter jet.

After a brief moment of thought, Lorraine still couldn't grasp the meaning behind it, so he had no choice but to set it aside. Subsequently, he instructed Platinum to equip the experimental aircraft with a synthetic aperture radar pod and an infrared electro-optical pod for search purposes during its next sortie.

He received an affirmative reply from Platinum shortly afterward.

After replying to Lorraine, Bai Jin added the two types of pods to the list of items to be tested and sent them to Ouyang Nian.

Upon receiving the message, Ouyang Nian checked the remaining time for the vehicle modification and then replied to Luo Lin with a specific inspection time.

After receiving Ouyang Nian's reply, the pre-battle preparations came to a temporary halt, and for a moment, Lorraine didn't know what to do.

After thinking for a moment, Lorraine got on his motorcycle and headed to the place where weapons and ammunition were stored.

Upon arriving at the ammunition depot, Lorraine began searching for smoke grenades. After some searching, she found M68 smoke grenades and 40mm smoke grenades in the individual weapons and vehicle-mounted ammunition areas, respectively.

Unfortunately, Lorraine did not find any handheld grenade launchers for individual soldiers; instead, they found some under-barrel grenade launchers.

Lorraine glanced at the return time of the transport team, then sat down and began designing a modification plan for the under-barrel grenade launcher.

By the time the transport vehicle returned to the naval base, Lorraine had already converted an under-barrel grenade launcher into a handheld grenade launcher.

The modified underbarrel grenade launcher features a foldable foregrip, a pistol grip, and a retractable stock.

While the transport team was refueling, Lu Lin handed the modified handheld grenade launcher to Liu Haiyang, along with two smoke grenades.

After receiving the launcher, Liu Haiyang tested its feel and then used its built-in ruler to aim.

"Thump"

The grenade was fired and exploded precisely where Liu Haiyang had aimed, creating a cloud of smoke.

Seeing its excellent results, Lorraine slightly delayed the departure of the transport team and took them to the ammunition depot, where he took 40 grenade launchers, as well as a large number of M68 smoke grenades and 40mm smoke grenades.

The modified grenade launchers will be issued to retired soldiers in the transport team, while the M68 smoke grenades will be issued to temporarily selected drivers who have not received much military training.