Near an unmanned island in the Central Pacific, on a marine scientific research ship from the National Science Laboratory of the Tang Empire, Zhang Meng, accompanied by a group of scientists, was looking at the unmanned island ahead.

At this moment, scientists from the Rocket Engineering Research Group of the National Science Laboratory and their assistants are installing a huge rocket on the island. According to the definition given by Zhang Meng, it is a ground-to-ground intermediate-range ballistic missile, code-named "Conquer".

The Tang Empire was founded in 1929 and has only gone through ten years. It has been ahead of the world in missile engineering and has become the first country in the world to develop ground-to-ground medium-range ballistic missiles. Among them, it includes the strong financial resources and talent technology of the Tang Empire, but more of it is caused by stepping on the shoulders of giants and making twice the result with half the effort.

Although the concept of missiles was first proposed and successfully developed by the Tang Empire, the composition of missiles was based on rocket technology and has long been studied by all parties around the world. In particular, the United States and Germany have made great progress in this regard, which is the main source of the Tang Empire's absorption of experience technology.

As early as 1926, the United States launched an uncontrolled liquid rocket for the first time. With the development of electronic, high-temperature materials and rocket propellant technology in the 1930s, it injected new vitality into rocket weapons. Germany also began research on rocket and missile technology, and established a large-scale production base, and successively launched a-1 and a-2 small rockets. Although the range was only 8 kilometers, it laid the foundation for the future development of missiles.

Braun, a German engineer responsible for the development of the A-1 and A-2 small rockets, did not get the opportunity to try to develop larger and stronger rockets due to funding issues. The Tang Empire extended an olive branch to him at a critical moment. Before the German Army, he invited him and his R&D team to Datang and funded his research and development project.

As the performance of the turboprop aircraft engines of the Tang Empire continued to mature, it was used to replace traditional rocket engines. The air compressor technology from Quincy was quickly integrated into the new rocket engines, giving Braun a sufficient rocket engine to fly hundreds of kilometers with more than one ton of payloads. In addition, the Tang Empire had sufficient aviation materials and abundant funds. In just three years, Braun successfully tested the sounding rockets of a-3, a-4, and a-5, with a maximum altitude exceeding 80 kilometers. It unraveled the historic chapter of human beings launching rockets into space outside the earth.

However, due to the request of Emperor Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the exploration of outer space is not yet time. Priority is given to the development of missile projects, namely, carrying effective warheads on rockets and installing guidance devices to enable them to accurately hit enemy targets.

Then the Datang National Laboratory drew elites from various fields to participate in missile development projects. After several tests two years later, the guidance device was greatly improved, and the accuracy dropped from three kilometers to less than one kilometer.

The ground-to-ground missiles to be tested today are the most powerful, farthest range and highest accuracy in the Conquest series. According to data reported to Zhang Meng by the Rocket Engineering Team. The missile is 25 meters long and 2 meters in diameter, and is filled with mixed fuel of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. It uses a large thrust turboprop engine. The warhead is a one-ton warhead.

As Zhang Meng and others were gaze, a violent roar suddenly came from the island ahead. The missile was launched at an extremely fast speed. Bright flames were sprayed from the tail, illuminating the sky like a red sun.

Several maritime monitoring ships accompanied them and continuously measured the missile's flight altitude, ballistic trajectory and flight speed through radar. A set of data was reported through walkie-talkies and was known by Zhang Meng and others.

"The altitude reaches 81 kilometers, the speed reaches Mach 1.9, and enter the descent track, everything is normal!"

Five or six minutes later, the missile landed in the predetermined shooting range, and a huge cloud of mushrooms soared into the air. Zhang Meng and others watched it from the high-power telescope.

"390 kilometers! The bounce point error is 0.9 kilometers! The test shot is successful!"

Thunderous applause sounded on the bridge, and Zhang Meng was very happy. If the development continues at this rate, the Tang Empire will be able to deploy the Conqueror missile in actual combat within the next two years.

This is a big leap and a big deterrent.

The accompanying Secretary of Defense Tsai Zhenghua said: "The most critical thing at the moment is the guidance system. Our military is developing an inertial guidance system to replace simple gyroscopes. In addition, the radio remote control guide distance is still too short. At present, it depends on the guidance of the relay equipment. We are planning to use TV remote control to improve the strike accuracy of the conqueror."

"The remote control cost of TV is too high, and I do not recommend researching in this regard. Just study the inertial guidance system on complex gyroscopes for the time being. When our space project officially begins in the future, the accuracy will be greatly improved when we use satellites to guide it in the future. Now it is enough to study a set of missiles that can ensure that the accuracy of the bounce point is within 1 kilometer. You can start in terms of ammunition capacity and range. If you can develop a missile that can hit 10,000 kilometers, even if the error is large, it will cause them to collapse when it falls on the enemy's land."

Zhang Meng had to be strategic deterrent for the time being, Cai Zhenghua immediately guessed and immediately took the order.

After the successful test-fire of the Conqueror missile, the Tang Empire Army was approved to purchase 200 pieces, which will be used for strategic strike missions. The navy also received a nod from Zhang Meng, requiring the Conqueror series of missiles to develop a missile weapon that can be carried by naval warships, which can attack land and ships hundreds of kilometers away. This is also an amazing weapon for the Tang Navy.

Although the Air Force also has ideas, the Conqueror missile is huge and cannot be carried by an aircraft for the time being. Otherwise, the Air Force will have missiles with a range of more than 300 kilometers as a weapon, which is invincible. However, the National Laboratory Missile Engineering Team still has ideas in this regard. They can develop small-caliber, lightweight and short-range missiles for the Air Force, which will also play a key role in air combat.

On this day, Zhang Meng visited the missile test base in the morning and received another good news in the afternoon. The submarine research and development project that the Tang army had always ignored finally achieved results. A new submarine was successfully developed. This is the first time since the Tang Empire introduced the American V-4 submarine, the local government has developed a new submarine recognized by the Tang Navy.

Since the establishment of the Tang Empire Navy, submarines have not played much role and have been completely overshadowed by the light of the aircraft carrier battle group. At the beginning, Zhang Meng pursued the naval policy of weak countries and gave priority to the development of submarine wolves units, but the plan could not keep up with the rapid changes. The Tang Army aircraft carrier battle group achieved great success and the submarines were ignored.
Chapter completed!