Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Perhaps because they were frightened by the German armored forces during World War II, France was very determined after the war. It was the first to successfully develop and equip anti-tank missiles SS-10, which was used to attack tanks, armored vehicles, bunkers and other hard ground targets. Target.

The SS-10 bomb weighs 15kg and is 44cm long. It has four tail blades and a large sweep angle. It can fly at an average speed of 80 m/s and has a range of 1,600 meters. In the 1956 Middle East War, the Israeli Army used this missile to attack Egyptian armored vehicles with great success.

Then the French launched their improved version, the SS-11.

The SS-11 missile has a total length of 201 meters and a weight of 9 kilograms. The missile has a solid-state rocket booster and an SNPE solid-state rocket thruster at the tail end of the missile. After launch, the booster quickly pushes the missile to a maximum speed of 100 meters per second. After the booster detaches from the missile body, the thruster continues to maintain flight.

SS-11/AS-11 (airborne type) is adopted by more than 30 countries, including France, with a total of 180,000 produced.

The United States also purchased a batch of SS-10/SS-11 anti-tank missiles from France, but found that these missiles were a scam. The general principle of this anti-tank missile is no different from the German X-7 anti-tank missile, that is, the shooter transmits data to the missile to control the trajectory, and finally hits the target; the difference is that there is an additional display screen on the console, and the shooter can use the screen to Observe the flight path of the missile.

In the ten or even tens of seconds from the launch of the missile to the time it hits, the shooter must be highly concentrated. A little inattention will cause the missile to escape control; and the missile body will rise and fall, left and right, during flight. Quite difficult to control.

Americans with deep pockets naturally looked down on this kind of thing, and went straight to semi-automatic guided missiles; soon after, they developed the famous "TOW" anti-tank missile.

According to the classification of later generations, the first generation of anti-tank missiles used a manual command guidance system, using visual aiming and wired command guidance. The shooter tracks the target through the sight, visually determines the deviation of the anti-tank missile axis relative to the aiming line, issues control instructions through the handle, and transmits them to the guidance device on the missile through the wire dragged from the tail of the missile, correcting the missile's flight direction until it hits the target.

The second generation is a semi-automatic command guidance system; using semi-automatic wired command guidance, the shooter only needs to align the crosshairs of the scope on the target, and the missile can continuously correct its flight direction until it hits the target.

Although there are more advanced third and fourth generations, Yannick cannot count on such advanced things at this time.

"Dr. Kramer, you did a good job, but this missile cannot be put into mass production. I need a weapon that is simpler and more convenient for soldiers to use."

Max Kramer rushed to report. "Your Highness, there is indeed an improved version of this missile, which is equipped with a TV seeker. Its operability is relatively easy to use."

"Oh?" This surprised Yannick. In his original time and space, he had never heard of German anti-tank missiles equipped with TV seekers during World War II. "Then what's the cost of this kind of TV seeker?"

Max Kramer scratched his head in embarrassment. "It's expensive to make. The TV seeker is more expensive than a missile."

Yannick shook his head. "Then don't use TV guidance and upgrade this missile to semi-automatic first."

"Semi-automatic?" Max Kramer asked with some confusion. "Your Highness, please make it clear."

"Semi-automatic means that after launch, the shooter only needs to indicate the target to the missile, and the flight trajectory and other aspects are controlled and corrected by the missile until the missile hits the target."

The second-generation anti-tank missile with infrared semi-automatic tracking uses optical aiming, infrared tracking, wire transmission instructions, and semi-automatic guidance.

Due to the use of infrared goniometer in the guidance system, infrared semi-automatic tracking is formed. The shooter aims at the target from the visible light sight or the thermal imager sight, launches the missile, and throws the wire backward when the missile flies forward. The wire transmits the command from the infrared goniometer to the missile. The missile is driven by the tail of the missile during flight. Infrared beacons emit 2 microns of infrared radiation backwards. The infrared goniometer measures the error between the missile and the target's sight line based on this signal. After processing by the guidance device, it is transmitted to the control mechanism on the missile through the wire to correct the flight path of the missile until it hits the target.

To put it simply, it is equivalent to transforming the manual control lever into automatic control. In this way, there is no need to train the shooter to operate it, as long as he can use it. The complexity of the system is greatly increased, but the complexity of the user is greatly reduced.

The most critical one is the infrared goniometer, but Germany is already equipped with infrared night vision devices and has a deep understanding of infrared technology. With the transistors that have begun mass production, it does not seem to be difficult to create automatic control circuits.

Inspiration is extremely important for a good designer. Now that he heard Yannick’s advice, Max Kramer suddenly showed a look of enlightenment. "Understood, Your Highness, we will start improving it immediately."

After leaving the shooting range, everyone went to the air-to-air missile research and development department.

Max Kramer was also responsible for the air-to-air missile project. In fact, the German Air Force is now equipped with air-to-air rockets equipped with proximity fuses, but the accuracy of this thing is really impressive, and it is not worthy of the expensive proximity fuse components. Yannick canceled the subsequent production plan and invested funds in air-to-air missiles. in development.

This X-4 air-to-air missile consists of three parts: warhead, engine compartment and missile wings. The entire missile is like a cigar-shaped spindle, with two groups of wings, one large and one small.

Its warhead is made of steel casing, the warhead has a charge of 20kg, and the damage radius is about 8 meters. Inside the engine compartment is a BMW 109-548 liquid rocket engine. Because the missile body is too small to fit a fuel pump, a squeeze fuel supply method is used.

S-Stoff and R-Stoff fuels are stored in spiral pipes respectively. A compressed air tank pushes a piston in the pipe, forcing the fuel into the combustion chamber like squeezing toothpaste.

Yannick remembered that these two fuels were quite dangerous and did not even need to be ignited. As long as they were mixed together, they would burn violently. "Are these two fuels poisonous?"

Max Kramer nodded. "Yes, and it corrodes metal seriously, so you have to be extremely careful even when wearing protective clothing."

"..." Yanik couldn't help but think of the tragedy that happened in the history of Soviet missile development in later generations. Once when refueling the S-75 missile, a new missile soldier made a control error and the fuel suddenly sprayed out and was instantly corroded. Sexual fuel was sprayed all over his body, and despite wearing protective clothing, his whole body was still severely corroded and burned! Because of the timely rescue, the person was saved, but he was severely disabled and his life was ruined.

There are worse ones. Gornev, a protégé of Korolev, the "Father of Russian Missiles", went to the fuel factory for inspection. Because at that time the Soviet Union was developing a medium-to-long-range missile with a range of nearly 1,000 kilometers, also known as the R3 type. In addition to the technology of the engine itself, the development of new fuels is also extremely important.

This new type of dye has a strong combustion efficiency and contains highly toxic and corrosive gases. It requires strict protection in production and transportation. However, in order to facilitate the testing activities, there was no fence set up next to the walkway. When Gornev and other staff wearing protective clothing opened the fuel tank for testing, Gornev was too focused and did not pay attention to his footing and missed the step. Falling into the fuel tank - 10 seconds later, the whole person was completely dissolved, as if he had never existed in this world except for bubbles. No one dared to help him - not even in time.