Chapter 80: A Different Approach
As a naval officer, Ovi carefully checked the parameters of this cruise missile and found a problem. He quickly reminded:
"Boss, isn't the speed of this missile too slow?"
According to the design plan, the flight speed of this cruise missile is approximately between 500 kilometers and 700 kilometers per hour.
This is not a design problem, but the spare parts used mean that civilian piston engines can only reach this level of speed.
If you want to increase the speed, you can only use jet engines or solid fuel engines, but doing so will inevitably lead to increased production costs.
Moreover, jet engines and solid fuels are not so easy to make. With Luzon's current industrial capacity, large-scale mass production is not possible.
Even if it is possible to mass-produce, the cost will prevent the output from being increased.
The positioning of this cruise missile is to overwhelm the enemy with numbers, so it is natural that the cost cannot be greatly increased for a part of the performance.
"Speed is indeed a weakness, but it is not uncompensable." Li Qingye pulled up a new file.
The document contains ideas for improving this cruise missile.
Since the speed is limited by the engine, use other solutions to compensate.
Option 1: Ultra-low altitude penetration model.
By leveraging the biological computer technology advantages of the Sapiens company, the cruise missiles are equipped with a super-powerful intelligent control system, allowing the missiles to fly directly close to the ground or sea surface.
You should know that when radar is monitoring ultra-low altitudes, there are insurmountable blind spots because it is easily interfered by surface terrain, obstacles and water waves.
It doesn't matter how slow the missile is as long as it is not detected by radar.
After all, modern interception systems and defense systems all rely on radar, sonar and satellites, among which radar is the key detection method. Once the radar cannot lock onto the target, those interception missiles and interception systems can only turn a blind eye.
By the time you see the missile with your naked eyes, it’s almost a death sentence.
Option 2: radar-absorbing stealth model.
It is to use materials that can absorb radar waves, making the missile invisible to electromagnetic waves, and also able to attack the enemy silently.
Option three: underwater submersible model.
Designed in the form of a torpedo, combined with the silencing tile technology and bio-computer technology currently owned by Sapiens, this torpedo can dive near the target and directly attack the waterline of the ship.
Or after being modified to be close to the target coastline, it can directly become a fixed-wing missile to attack land targets near the coastline .
Option 4: composite model.
The use of a variety of technologies combined gives it the capabilities of electromagnetic invisibility, ultra-low altitude flight, and low-noise diving.
This model is also one of Li Qingye's backup plans for intercontinental strategic missiles.
Its technical specifications require that it be able to secretly dive to the vicinity of the North American coastline of America, then penetrate into its land from an ultra-low altitude and deliver a warhead weighing about 3 tons to any city in America.
If you want to compete with the five big gangsters, you can't compete with them financially, but you have to use asymmetric means to make them afraid to act rashly.
Anyway, Li Qingye’s strategic thinking is that you can destroy one of my branches, but I can also cause you to suffer heavy losses on your home ground. Let’s hurt each other and see who can withstand it.
Ovi re-deduce the performance of these weapons in his mind.
He found that if these weapons could really be realized, America would be able to take Luzon, and it was estimated that the coastline of North America within 100 to 200 kilometers would definitely be destroyed by the Homo Sapiens company.
After all, many of Sapiens' technologies have very low production costs and use a large number of civilian spare parts. They can completely adopt the missile rain method to consume the enemy's interceptor missiles and CIWS ammunition on a large scale, and then create a defensive blind spot.
Li Qingye continued, "I plan to set up a military industry department to specialize in the production and storage of various weapons. This year, I will allocate 200 million US dollars to the military industry department, and the allocation in the next few years will not be less than this figure."
"Boss, although some parts are civilian products, I still think it is necessary to promote localization." Ovi reminded again.
Li Qingye nodded in satisfaction: "That's right. This year's allocation to the Ministry of Military Industry is to build some supporting factories in remote islands and mountainous areas in the mainland."
Ovi, who has completely boarded the pirate ship of the Sapiens Company, naturally would not have the comprador mentality that it is better to buy than to make.
Even though many of the spare parts suppliers were Chinese companies, Aowei did not let its guard down.
Therefore, it becomes very important to establish a self-sufficient supply chain.
After talking about the weapons strategy , Li Qingye instructed Ao Wei and Chen Jianxiong:
"Ovi, you need to select a group of suitable personnel from within the navy and assign them to a warship."
"Okay." Ovi nodded.
"Jianxiong, you prepare a special intelligence team, use pheromone flies, and leave pheromone transmitters in their warships, planes, submarines, and bases."
Chen Jianxiong immediately understood Li Qingye's thoughts.
This is to be prepared for any emergency. Once an emergency occurs, Sapiens can use these pheromone emitters to lock onto these targets and take the initiative.
At the same time, this is also to cooperate with the missile to achieve the effect of precision guidance.
After all, Sapiens does not have a satellite navigation system. It relies solely on the computing power of biological computers. Although it can achieve precise flight posture control, the guidance method is still relatively crude.
If pheromone launchers can be placed on the target or around the target in advance, the missile can then be equipped with a pheromone positioning system to achieve the effect of precision guidance.
Moreover, this guidance method has its own advantages compared with active radar and satellite navigation.
Currently, the coverage range of micro-pheromone transmitters can reach a radius of about 23 to 28 kilometers in areas such as open sea, desert, and ice field.
In cities, mountainous areas, and tropical rainforests, it can cover a radius of about 13 to 17 kilometers.
And this is not the limit.
Because the pheromone detection system is composed of pheromone transmitters, pheromone receptors, and biological computers.
The current bottleneck of pheromone transmitters is mainly limited by the transmission distance of pheromones. The maximum transmission distance of the Leaf Moth Type 3 tracking pheromone currently equipped can only reach about 30 kilometers.
Pheromone sensors are not a big problem, and biological computers will become more and more accurate as their operating speed increases.
Therefore, the detection distance often depends on the type of pheromone of the pheromone transmitter.
Li Qingye has found a solution to this problem.
That is the step-by-step variation plan, which uses technical means to synthesize a large molecule pheromone.
Assuming the macromolecular pheromone is A, when its propagation time reaches the limit, it will decompose into pheromone B. Similarly, pheromone B can be decomposed into pheromone C again.
Through this step-by-step mutation, as long as the pheromone decomposition and mutation times are sufficient, it may be possible to cover the entire earth in the future.
You know, a few milligrams of pheromones can cover an area of dozens of square kilometers.
In this way, Sapiens can establish a global monitoring system that is different from electromagnetic wave detection.
