Chapter 35: Targeting the Biggest Ones! Field-Cooked Caramel?
Perhaps Chen Jinchao hadn't realized that the greatest gain from the 'Cat Car' project wasn't anything else, but the reputation points in the system.
The more weapons and equipment developed were used, the better the feedback, and the more people knew about them, the more reputation points were earned.
The 'Cat Car' happened to meet all the conditions. Whether it was the grand display during military exercises or its high deployment rate, it brought Chen Jinchao a massive amount of reputation points.
This was perhaps the most reputation points Chen Jinchao had ever earned.
Moreover, with the further deployment of the 'Cat Car,' it continued to bring new reputation points.
Low investment, high return.
Chen Jinchao had made a 'profit' from this 'Cat Car' deal.
So many reputation points made many high-end technologies, originally greyed out in the system, light up, indicating they were available for exchange.
Among them were even technologies like wave-riding warhead design, 'Thousand-Hand Guanyin' system-related technologies...
Despite being tempted, Chen Jinchao found himself hesitant.
—Happy troubles.
As usual, a portion of the reputation points was used to exchange for technologies related to engines and non-ferrous metals, for the lab's technology accumulation and reserves.
For the rest, Chen Jinchao didn't exchange them randomly.
He kept accumulating reputation points, as if he had a new plan in mind.
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Days were like constipation. When it was difficult to make progress, it felt like something was stuck, and every day was agonizing.
When things were calm, time flew by in a blink of an eye, like a waterfall.
After a while, Chen Jinchao's small park officially opened. There was no ribbon-cutting, no celebration. Just a few not-so-tall grey modern buildings were built for Chen Jinchao's research group and labs.
The plaque 'Second-Class Meritorious Service' was hung above the specially extended entrance, and a half-grown black back dog stood guard, proudly surveying its surroundings, its ears perked up at the slightest disturbance, maintaining vigilance.
It was very smart. This half-grown pup could recognize the park's staff. It was just that its shiny fur was a bit too glossy, thanks to the overfeeding by the researchers who worked here.
Apart from the official opening of the small park, Chen Jinchao hadn't been idle either.
In addition to his continued in-depth learning of various knowledge and leading laboratory research, he also closely followed the research and development of the 'Guardian New Rocket Launcher' and 'Mountain Cat All-Terrain Assault Vehicle' projects.
The main area for improvement in the Guardian New Rocket Launcher was in the development and refinement of new rocket ammunition.
It wasn't that Chen Jinchao was unwilling to exchange for more advanced auxiliary equipment to build information-based weapons.
But the current environment didn't allow it.
The simplest example was that the satellite guidance module reserved in the warhead design couldn't be filled in now. How could he implement satellite guidance without a satellite?
Use GPS?
That would be great. He would be putting his head under the knife of the beautiful country, begging them to chop it off.
The scenes of the Yinhe ship adrift in the vast ocean for more than a month and the failure of all of China's missile launches in those days, they were still fresh in everyone's minds, like they happened yesterday!
Other information-based auxiliary equipment was even more out of the question.
If even satellite guidance couldn't be achieved, talking about more advanced technology was pure nonsense.
Of course, the rich have their ways, and the poor have theirs.
Although he couldn't have satellite guidance, Chen Jinchao improved a transitional automatic guidance function.
Simply put, after the shell was fired, if it encountered interference or the target parameters changed, it would automatically find the largest target and attack.
Targeting the biggest ones. This was truly the simple values of the Eastern great nation.
In terms of rocket ammunition, it was much more complicated than this automatic guidance function.
For example, the PGMM (Proximity-fused Munition), which China formally researched and successfully developed in 2008, was now proposed by Chen Jinchao and started to be researched in-depth.
PGMM is a smart type of ammunition developed after traditional ammunition and missiles.
It combined area and point targets, was fast and fierce, accurate and efficient, and easy to use and maintain... It was an important equipment development technology that only a few countries like the beautiful country, big furry, and a few others possessed.
It is mainly used to attack formations or groups of armored targets.
As a typical example of a precision ammunition, PGMM involves many new technologies and is a complex system project.
Not only advanced ammunition like PGMM, but also the new generation of high-energy explosive formulas were being pushed forward.
Chen Jinchao pointed out a direction, namely the world's strongest conventional explosive, CL-20, which China developed later.
Its full name is hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane. This is a fourth-generation explosive that provides high energy, high density, and high stability, and also has low sensitivity, low toxicity, and low cost.
Just imagine, this stuff is going to be on the 'intercontinental missiles' in the future.
You don't even need many of them. 24 of these can destroy an aircraft carrier battle group.
At least four or five conventional missiles are needed to destroy one aircraft carrier, while 24 of these things can destroy a carrier battle group of at least 18 warships.
As you can imagine, its power is immense.
Great power naturally comes with great research difficulty.
But don't worry, good food is worth the wait. Let the bullets fly a little longer...
Maybe it was because of the major achievements in the rocket field that the Red Banner Machinery Factory in Lu Province came knocking, inviting Chen Jinchao to participate in the research and development of a new anti-tank missile.
Chen Jinchao did participate a little, but he didn't 'overshadow the host'.
There was no other reason. The equipment research and development level of the Chinese Army was already very strong around the turn of the millennium.
For example, the second-generation anti-tank missile, the 'Hongjian' 8, developed in the 1970s and 80s, had already adopted advanced infrared semi-automatic guidance.
To put it simply, after the missile is fired, you can forget about it, it will automatically find the enemy by taking turns.
This ballistic trajectory is so unpredictable that even the enemy has a hard time predicting it, let alone your own people.
In the 1991 Gulf War, 35 Iraqi T-72 tanks ambushed a US M1A1 tank company but were completely wiped out.
And in the 2007 Iraq War, one 'Hongjian' 8 turned the M1A1, known as the king of land warfare and unmatched, into scrap metal.
'Hongjian' 8 was so powerful that it was clear that further improvement and increased power would be very difficult.
Chen Jinchao only suggested removing the recoil-operated launch system and making the launch tube non-recoiling, reducing recoil force and improving stability.
Simple mechanical structure, adding a 'top-down' function to the missile...
Compared to the various high-tech rocket launchers, the generational upgrade of the Cat Car was just a change of mind after a long time of hard work...
I heard that the Mountain Cat family has already had a second-generation prototype, and the rear modules even have a field-cooking function.
Well... Food is the first priority for the people!
Cooking caramel in the field, the soldiers are serious about it!
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