Chapter 887 Solid Fuel (II)

In fact, Zhang Chi wants a "missile" of solid fuel not only because of the reasons he said to Basil and others. Please search and read the most complete novel.

Actual liquid fuel and solid fuel have their own benefits.

Although liquid fuel has the disadvantages of filling and other time-consuming and more dangerous, the advantage is that the same volume of fuel can release much more energy than solid fuel, and it is more economical, cheaper and has greater thrust. This means that using liquid fuel can carry larger and heavier warheads and fly farther, which is obviously more suitable for long-range missiles.

Solid fuels are exactly the opposite of liquid fuels.

However, the application of solid fuel in missiles is extremely important, because missiles often need to be mounted on fighter jets or warships, and can even be carried by individual soldiers... If these missiles use liquid fuel, they are only refueled before they are launched, which is obviously unrealistic.

At the end of the World War, Germany did bring the V1 missile to the bomber and wanted to launch it with a bomber... From this point of view, the Germans have strong innovation capabilities.

However, this plan left a painful lesson for the Germans because of the liquid fuel problem.

As mentioned before, liquid fuel is extremely unstable, corrosive and highly toxic. It is easy to cause various accidents of unknown causes when filled in the "missile" for a long time.

On the other hand, because the bomber cannot refuel the "missile" when it is flying, it can only refuel the fuel before the bomber takes off and then mount it on the bomber.

Then, a series of problems occurred when the bomber took off and launched "missiles", and some "missiles" even exploded when the bomber just left the runway.

As a result, the Germans only launched more than 100 "missiles" in this way but lost more than 70 bombers... It can almost be said that one bomber was lost for every two "missiles" launched.

The Germans were unable to find a solution in the end, so they could only end this plan to kill 800 enemies and lose 1,000 by themselves.

In fact, it would be fine if you just replace this unstable liquid fuel with solid fuel.

"Of course, we have to miniaturize the 'missile'!" Zhang Chi said: "Sometimes we can consider that there is no need for such a long range... 200 kilometers, more often it only takes a few dozen kilometers, and the warhead does not require so much charge. This can reduce fuel and explosives, and simplify them as much as possible, so as to achieve the purpose of convenient transportation! Also... Why don't you install the launch rack in the car? Even integrating the missile, launch rack and the car into one, and install control equipment in the car, which not only facilitates transportation, but also saves a lot of preparation time!"

The scientists were all stunned when they heard this. They couldn't believe that these were all said by Zhang Chi.

At the same time, they couldn't hide their embarrassment... They were still scientists, and they were studying these things all day long, but after researching, no one thought of the simple and practical methods that Zhang Chi just mentioned.

"So much to say first!" Zhang Chi took the teacup in front of him and took a sip of water: "It's time for you to work in these directions!"

This is Zhang Chi's way, only telling them the direction of R&D... In fact, Zhang Chi can only tell them the direction of R&D, because he knows that these directions are definitely correct. This is how modern missiles are, and those missiles are the result of countless scientists learning lessons from failures over and over again.

For example, from the development of liquid fuel to solid fuel... I won’t talk about the Germans’ attempts, but then scientists tried every means to think about how to make liquid fuel more stable and easier to store, etc. After a long time of struggle, I found that they were all doing useless work, and finally the solid fuel began to come out after much attempt.

Zhang Chi told Basil and others these directions, which meant that they could take many detours and also saved a lot of time and energy.

"General!" Basil was a little scared by what Zhang Chi said just now. He hesitated and said, "From your tone... there seems to be other opinions?"

"Of course!" Zhang Chi replied: "For example, why don't we use this kind of 'missile' for reconnaissance mission? All we need to do is to equip it with a better engine, change the warhead to a camera or camera with a higher resolution, and turn it into a good reconnaissance aircraft. It can even provide very reliable intelligence for 'missile' operations, such as... the terrain passing through the 'missile', and whether the 'missile' will kill the target, etc."

Basil nodded with emotion while listening: "It's right, in this way, the life rate of the 'missile' will be greatly leap, and we don't need to let the pilot take risks!"

"Yes!" Zhang Chi said: "More importantly, it is difficult to detect by the enemy because it is small. If the fuel is brought enough, it can be operated in the air for a long time, while the pilot will not be able to perform such high-intensity tasks for a long time!"

After hearing this, scientists such as Basil didn't know what to say.

In fact, Zhang Chi still has many ideas, such as combining radar technology with "missiles" to achieve a true "missile".

However, Zhang Chi knew that the radar technology at this time was not mature... It has not been miniaturized yet, and its size and weight are very large. It is very difficult to even install it on an aircraft and fighter, let alone a "missile".

On the other hand, Zhang Chi didn't want to say too much about the ancient brain that these scientists couldn't accept it.

This sounds a bit ironic and scientists can't accept it...

However, this is true. Zhang Chi at this time is not just Zhang Chi, he represents the crystallization of modern scientific research achievements.

Of course, it's just a part, a small part.

But it is only a small part, which is enough for scientists of this era to drink a pot.

After pausing, Zhang Chi asked Basil: "I want to know, do you have the ability to complete the research and development of these projects?"

Basil thought for a while and replied: "Most projects are not a big problem, such as integrating missiles, launchers and trucks together, which does not have a big problem in technology. The difficulty of developing reconnaissance aircraft lies in an engine that suits it... We are from Air France, and you can also get machine tools from the United States, so there will be no problem. Miniaturizing missiles is what we originally planned to do, only this solid fuel... we are not sure!"

Zhang Chi nodded.

Basil is very honest, this is the most difficult one, and it also requires countless experiments with high risk.
Chapter completed!