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From scratch, from weak to strong
The Chinese Excalibur was born
Liu Yongcai, chief designer of China's first-generation land-based cruise missiles, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
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The story of patriotic struggle and meritorious service
A long sword forged with blood, and it has gone through several tribulations.
Cruising dreams, exhausting thoughts, lying down to taste the guts.
The hero has no regrets and heroic ambition, and the Excalibur has a cold Excalibur.
Why ask, overcome all kinds of dangers, day and night.
Strong three armies, wish to pay; show the majestic wind, parade ground!
Earth-shattering, majestic mountains and rivers and sea frontiers.
Win in a hundred shots, win in a hundred battles, and win a hundred battles and win a hundred strong.
Relying on the Heavenly Sword, it can split the waves and shoot the wolf!
How good are cruise missiles?
In the 1991 Gulf War, the American Tomahawk cruise missile was used on a large scale for the first time.
During the war, the U.S. military fired a total of 288 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Iraqi army, accurately destroying the Iraqi army's command and control structure and air defense positions.
So where is this missile powerful? What's different about ballistic missiles?
In fact, cruise missiles fly much slower than ballistic missiles, and their range is not as good as long-range ballistic missiles or intercontinental missiles, but cruise missiles still have many advantages that ballistic missiles cannot match.
Cruise missiles are smaller, lighter, and can fly ultra-low compared to ballistic missiles; cruise missiles are difficult to spot and intercept without fixed trajectories. Not only that, cruise missiles are also suitable for a variety of launch platforms, which can be launched on the ground and on the surface, as well as from the air and underwater.
Coupled with the low cost of cruise missiles, it is cheaper than ballistic missiles and can launch many at a time. For example, during the Second Iraq War, the U.S. military fired a total of 802 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Iraq.
With so many advantages, cruise missiles have become indispensable strategic and tactical weapons among the world's military powers.
China also needs its own cruise missiles
Cruise missiles are so powerful, out of course, we must build them for the sake of our national defense and security.
The task was handed over to Liu Yongcai and the team. However, compared with the missile models that Liu Yongcai has participated in before, the development of cruise missiles is too difficult.
The engine used by the cruise missile is the first problem that Liu Yongcai and his team must solve. Before the engine was developed, the relevant departments in China once gave such a conclusion: "Even if it costs 1 billion yuan, it will not be guaranteed that it will be done in 10 years."
Most of the members of the cruise team are young people in their thirties, and when developing the engine, in the face of extremely limited foreign language reference materials, some researchers who have just joined the work and lack of experience even pick up dictionaries and start learning from the language.
On a hill not far from the Third Courtyard, a "Bomb-5" bomber was parked. At that time, because there was no corresponding wind tunnel technology, nearly a hundred simulation experiments of cruise missile engines were achieved through this aircraft.
It is with such a scientific research method and firm determination that in two years, Liu Yongcai led the team to overcome 11 technical indicators such as power and guidance.
The day of the cruise missile launch test is coming!
Launched, failed
In the winter of 2001, a special train filled with sophisticated test equipment left Beijing and headed for the desert range thousands of kilometers away. This special train also carries the efforts and expectations of the entire cruise team for ten years.
However, the development of the story is not as people hope.
Soon after the second test bomb was fired, it began to fall rapidly and crashed and exploded not far from the firing position.
Launched, failed.
All the pressure, all the doubts, during that time, Liu Yongcai and the entire cruise team endured too much.
Since that defeat, Liu Yongcai and the cruise team have basically no weekends, and the Spring Festival has only rested for two days. For a long time, looking for the cause of an accident and the potential risks was all they worked and lived.
At that time, many young people did not know that the chief teacher who stayed up late with them and was nearly a year old had only one-third of his stomach.
Before developing cruise missiles, Liu Yongcai participated in the development of another important missile model. Due to years of travel and irregular eating and resting habits, he became ill with overwork, and his stomach was removed two-thirds of the time.
China, on the other hand, did
After two years of debugging, Liu Yongcai and his team not only found the reason for the previous failure, but also eliminated other hidden dangers that may exist in the development and production process.
In 2003, a special train carrying researchers and test equipment set off again, and left Beijing and ran to the shooting range under the gaze of countless lights.
Just an hour before the launch test, Liu Yongcai and his team members were still confirming the details one by one, in case any small flaws caused immeasurable losses.
At 8 a.m., instructions came from the command hall: "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition!" ”
Cruise missiles dragged long flames and whistled out of the launcher.
Telemetry tracking works... Fly normally...
More than two hours later, an excited and decisive voice came from the hall: Success!
This photo was taken at the moment of the successful test of the cruise missile, and everyone in the photo exuded great joy. At this moment, they had waited too long.
In the more than two years after the successful test, Liu Yongcai led the cruise team to complete the process of customizing the cruise missile from finalization to equipment. China has also officially become the third country to have an autonomous cruise missile after the United States and Russia.
On October 1, 2009, at a military parade to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's first generation of land-based cruise missiles, clad in camouflage suits, made their debut and sailed majestically through Tiananmen Square.
The Western media exclaimed: China has actually done it!
After the successful completion of the task of developing the cruise missile, Liu Yongcai once wrote a poem expressing the thousands of thoughts in his heart:
Thunderbolt Excalibur, piercing the firmament; sour, sweet and bitter, traversing it; threatening the world, a generation of tyrants; defending the frontier, will build a miracle!
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Source ✎: Feihang Culture Media, Aviation Xiaoke
Video ✎ Three Courtyards TV
Edited ✎ by Tong Tong
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Executive Producer ✎ Zheng Guilai
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