Chapter 1391 Semi-automatic control
The head of Sirick never lacks sexual thoughts in his mind, and every idea of his is the best and is easiest to become reality.
If you listen to the idea of Head Cialick, you will feel your shortcomings. What Head Cialick proposed can be solved by using existing technology. It is such a good idea, which is something you have been dreaming of in your research, but you can never find.
When everyone present heard that Cialique had new ideas, they all raised their ears. As for Dr. Kalemmer, they took out a small notebook and planned to quickly write down the idea of Cialique.
"Using operating rods is just the combat method of our first-generation missiles. The second-generation missile must be able to be semi-automatically controlled. That is to say, the shooting player's mission is to aim at the target, and the missile will fly over according to the target designated by the shooter. The adjustment of the missile's flight is completely automatic."
This goal proposed by Cialick is of course what all technicians hope for.
The same is true for later history. Germany completed the development of the Little Red Riding Hood anti-tank missile before the end of World War II. After the war, out of fear of the rolling armored torrents of the Soviet Union, European countries began to study anti-tank missiles.
The British "vigilance", the Swiss/West Germany "Cobra", the Swedish "Bantam", etc. Among them, the French research ss10/11 was the earliest and most influential one.
It can be said that this first-generation missile was successful, allowing infantry to kill enemy tanks from a distance. However, the United States gave up the first-generation anti-tank missile and only purchased a large number of French SS10/SS11 missiles as test samples.
This made many people as democratic countries unhappy. At that time, many members of parliament accused the army of "sloppy" of giving up a powerful weapon.
Faced with this doubt, the military's solution is to invite a few of the most popular "stingy MPs" to watch the SS11 launch on the spot. Anyone who has observed missile tests' impression of missiles will instantly overturn their appetites.
This thing is just a joke!
It is not so much a missile as a large model aircraft. The operator uses a hand-rod to control the aiming frame to lock the target, transmit data to the missile to control the ballistics, and ultimately hit the target. This is the way in which later generations man-made control of drones to hit the target.
During these few dozen seconds, the shooter must keep his spirits highly concentrated. If he is not careful, the missile will break out of control. Because the height is very low, it is easy to fall on the ground. At the same time, the smoke and flames during the missile launch will expose the shooter's target and will also affect the shooter's observation.
In actual flight, it is going up and down, left and right, just doing irregular Brownian movements. If you want to hit the target, it depends entirely on luck!
So the Americans ignored this at all and jumped over and took the initiative.
Under the technical conditions of World War II, the use of operating rod control was in line with the characteristics of this era, which was also the reason why Cialek agreed to enter the first generation of missiles to serve in the army.
But this can only be a prelude, and the most suitable solution is to create a semi-automatic one!
Semi-automatic means that during the launch process, the shooter still has to aim at the target until the missile hits. If it is fully automatic, then you don’t have to worry about it after launching. When the missile is fired, the personnel can retreat.
Now Cialick has proposed semi-automatic control. If this can be done, it is of course the best, but is this possible?
In everyone's eyes, this is whimsical. As long as you aim at the target, the missile can fly according to its own aim. Everything is adjusted by the internal equipment itself?
Even Dr. Kalemmer only dares to think about it when dreaming.
But now, Cialek has proposed it, and everyone knows that since he has proposed it, he must have more specific ideas.
"Everyone thinks, for missiles, if they want to hit the target, how do you need to adjust it?" Cialick asked.
Kalemmer certainly had the most say, and he immediately said: "Of course it is to adjust the angle and keep the missile on the right route at all times."
The shooting process is actually very simple, which is to make the three points of the scope, missile and tank in a straight line. This is the same as when shooting a gun, using a gap, a three points of the sight and the bull's eye to aim in a line, that is, it overlaps on the aiming line.
If the missile deviates from the aiming line, the shooter will control the handle on the controller to change the angle and return to the aiming line.
"Yes, it's about adjusting the angle." Cialick said: "We add an infrared launch device to the tail of the missile, and on our console, an additional receiving device to form an infrared goniometer, so that the angle of the missile deviates from the aiming line can be automatically measured during the missile's flight."
The most important thing for semi-automatic missiles is infrared goniometers. With the development of German electronic technology, transistors can be produced in large quantities, with particularly stable performance. In this way, the new automatic control circuit can also be completed.
For designers, it is often just a short guide, and Cyric's guide is definitely just right.
In front of Kalemmer's eyes, there seemed to be a flying missile. There was a small infrared launch device at the tail of the missile. In his own receiving system, the angle of the missile deviating from the aiming line can be clearly measured.
Then, use the circuit to replace this deviation angle with an operating command and pass it to the missile in front, so that the missile control rudder surface turns and finally fly to the target!
In fact, it is equivalent to converting the manual control lever to automatic control. In this way, there is no need to train the shooter to operate, as long as you know how to use it.
The complexity of the system is greatly improved, but the complexity of the user is greatly reduced.
"Of course, this is just one of my ideas. There may be many difficulties in it. I hope everyone will overcome the difficulties and realize this semi-automatically controlled missile as soon as possible." Cialick said at the end.
"Yes, Head of Cialek, we will not let your expectations down." The unspeakable Kalemer actually said so many things that made Dr. Langweiler curious.
"Head of War, what you mentioned is semi-automatic control. Can the missile still have fully automatic control?" Dr. Langweiler suddenly asked.
"Of course there is." Cialick said: "Compared with semi-automatic control, it is more difficult to fully automatic, which is also the direction we will develop in the future. For example, in terms of airborne missiles, it is not appropriate for us to use operating rods, and it is not appropriate for us to use the current method. We need to use new means."
Dr. Kalemmer listened more seriously.
Chapter completed!