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Preface
When it comes to the hegemony of weapons in the world, the United States is an unshakable existence, especially in missile research, the United States is the second, and no one dares to call it the first.
However, it is in this situation that the appearance of the mainland's Dongfeng-17 missile has made the United States deeply jealous.
Compared with the fear of the power of the missile, the designer behind it is the existence that the United States fears the most.
Who the hell is she?
What contributions has it made to the mainland's national defense?
Dongfeng-17
If national defense is strong, the country will be safe.
With the progress of science and technology, the pattern of the world is constantly changing, and with the blessing of science and technology, war has also become a scientific and technological contest between countries.
China's defense weapons started late, there is also a shortage of scientific and technological talents, and many cutting-edge weapons are subject to foreign sanctions.
But in this situation of internal and external troubles, the DF-17 was born.
On October 1, 2019, at a meeting to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the mainland displayed a variety of sophisticated weapons.
The most dazzling of these is the DF-17.
It is a new type of hypersonic medium and short-range conventional ballistic missile independently developed by the mainland.
As soon as this missile came out, it directly made the United States dumbfounded, because the DF-17 can directly overturn the American Ford-class aircraft carrier.
This deterrent is enough to deter the United States.
The DF-17 is blessed with three major performance advantages:
First, the ability to fly at supersonic speeds, which can break through the enemy's defense line at extremely high speeds and catch the opponent off guard.
Second, the improvement of its cruising altitude and the accuracy of the warhead can enable the missile to hit the target more accurately and increase its striking capability.
Third, it has the ability to be invisible.
You must know that no matter how powerful the weapon is, exposing the target too early will make the enemy fully prepared, and its strike capability will be reduced, or even the target will not be reached.
The DF-17 can be stealthy, making it more difficult for the opponent to detect and intercept, which makes the DF-17 more powerful.
The birth of the DF-17 represents the progress of the mainland's national defense science and technology, and it has successfully deterred those countries that have bad intentions against China.
But compared with the power of the DF-17, the designer behind it is even more feared by the United States, and even the outside world praises her as "a woman more terrible than missiles".
But such a woman who has made outstanding contributions to national defense is just an ordinary person.
Behind the glory
The success of the DF-17 is entirely due to a woman, her name is Zhu Xuejun.
You must know that there are many people engaged in national defense scientific research in various countries, but there are only a handful of female scientists, and Zhu Xuejun is one of them.
After graduating from the National University of Defense Technology, she went on to study for a master's degree in the Ministry of Aerospace Industry.
After graduation, he was directly assigned to work in the general department, and then he was transferred to work in the rocket institute.
At first, when she was transferred to the rocket department, Zhu Xuejun was not adaptable, because she was not familiar with rockets at all, and other colleagues Zhu Xuejun did not take it to heart.
After all, a woman doing rocket research will not lead to anything in their opinion.
Everyone regards Zhu Xuejun as a highly educated woman with mixed titles.
But who would have thought that a woman they looked down on would make such a breakthrough research.
You must know that Qian Xuesen has also studied this scientific research problem for many years, and he failed to succeed until his death.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the mainland did not have the core technology of missiles, and in addition to the blockade of this technology by foreign countries, the research on the mainland's missile technology was in a difficult state.
Fortunately, at this time, Qian Xuesen gave up the superior conditions abroad and resolutely returned to China, opening the door to the mainland's ballistic technology.
At that time, Qian Xuesen wanted to design a missile with striking power, but it was necessary to combine ballistic missiles and flying missiles in order to improve the power and flexibility of the missile.
In fact, to put it simply, Qian Xuesen's idea to realize it requires changing the ordinary trajectory to a "boost-glide" trajectory.
However, many people believe that Qian Xuesen's idea cannot be realized, because after all, the mainland has not even been able to master ordinary missile technology, and it still has to create new technology.
But Qian Xuesen's idea undoubtedly opened up an idea for everyone, you must know that many scientific research successes are made breakthroughs after decades or even generations of scientific researchers.
Therefore, there are many scientific researchers in the mainland who have devoted themselves to the study of this idea, and Zhu Xuejun is one of them, and she is also a favorite disciple of Qian Xueshen.
You must know that when you engage in scientific research, you are generally a person with good computing ability and physical knowledge.
And girls are naturally weaker in this area.
But Zhu Xuejun is an exception.
She has been good at mathematics, physics and chemistry since she was a child, and has a natural sensitivity to machinery.
When I was a child, other little girls liked skipping ropes, sandbags, and dolls, but Zhu Xuejun could play for a day with a few mechanical parts.
And her parents are workers, she has followed her parents to work since she was a child, and what she sees every day is the rotation of this gear and machinery, which makes Zhu Xuejun's life full of mechanized items.
When she was a student, she was also better at physics than other girls.
Whenever the teacher talks about a physics experiment, she can quickly understand the principle and even draw inferences quickly.
During the college entrance examination, she was admitted to the National University of Defense Technology with the title of Liaoning Provincial Science Champion.
From the moment he stepped into the National University of Defense Technology, he was destined to embark on an unusual path from other women.
Regarding Qian Xuesen's theory, Zhu Xuejun also seemed to have found the door to the direction, so she began to devote herself to research.
In the absence of any strong data support, Zhu Xuejun must carry out continuous calculations by himself if he wants to obtain various experimental data.
At that time, technology was far less advanced than it is now, and even the country could not find a few computers.
In order to get more complete data, Zhu Xuejun could only check the calculations over and over again, and the entire table was full of slow calculation straw paper.
The technical data has been scrutinized in many ways, and Zhu Xuejun will budget in his heart over and over again.
She used to sit in the office all day, and when she realized that she had been sitting for a long time, she tried to stand up, and her legs were numb and unconscious.
Seeing Zhu Xuejun working so hard, Qian Lao will also discuss with Zhu Xuejun when he is fine, study the data, and give Zhu Xuejun more theoretical support.
Unfortunately, before Qian Lao passed away, he did not see the successful birth of this research.
And Qian Lao's death gave Zhu Xuejun a lot of pressure, and at the same time she had more motivation, she would not give up, and she must not let this achievement fold in her own hands.
In this way, Zhu Xuejun threw himself on work day and night, and finally caused her husband and children to complain, and she couldn't see Zhu Xuejun for several months.
And the country also knows how difficult this research is, and seeing Zhu Xuejun's research so wasteful, he can't bear to force her to complete the task, and even told her that if she really can't help it, she can give up and find a new research topic.
But Zhu Xuejun did not give up.
In 2011, after countless days and nights, and many hardships, Zhu Xuejun finally succeeded, and she made Qian Xuesen's ballistic theory successfully become a reality.
This sensational achievement in the world, many people did not expect, was actually created by a woman.
Moreover, the indicators of Dongfeng-17 have fully reached the international level, and more importantly, the three performance advantages of Dongfeng-17 are the three major performance advantages.
Even the United States and Russia, which are super militarily powerful, have to be afraid, especially when they know that the designer is actually a woman, and they sincerely sigh that Zhu Xuejun is a woman who is more terrible than missiles.
epilogue
Over the years, Zhu Xuejun has been conscientious and conscientious in his scientific research work, and has not only successfully developed a number of important weapons, but also trained many engineers for the mainland.
Zhu Xuejun can be said to be the backbone of the mainland's national defense.
Therefore, for such an important strategic talent, the state will definitely protect her closely and prevent her from being harmed at all.
Today, Zhu Xuejun is already an expert in the field of Chinese missile technology, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the chief designer of the series, the chief designer of the model, and the researcher of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology.
This is the backbone of the Chinese and an example worth emulating.
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