With this idea in mind, he decided to return to Markkula this time and convene everyone to discuss the matter.

There is money to be made and it can bring image benefits to the company, so why not?

His affairs are taken care of, and it is up to Mr. Zhang to arrange the auxiliary equipment and other things himself.

After a day off, it was the day for the East China Sea Fleet's drill. In order to prove the stealth performance of the unmanned submarine, Xu Ziling asked the warships and submarines participating in the East China Sea Fleet's drill to turn off the Eagle Eye system and use the previous ones that had not been disassembled during the transformation.

Sonar systems are needed to find unmanned submarines in motion.

The new anechoic tiles can perfectly absorb sonar signals, and technologies such as propeller injection can reduce the noise of unmanned submarines to about 90 decibels. From previous tests, ordinary sonar systems are absolutely unable to detect objects within feet.

However, when they tested the unmanned submarine, they only used one test ship and did not test the search for large-scale sonar signals. Whether they would find it or not, Xu Ziling had no answer in his heart.

The Type 094 submarine is a strategic-class submarine, and the missiles it carries are all strategic missiles. In conventional warfare, even if the sky is shaking above its head, it can only watch.

The country's navy has only been established for more than half a century, and it has only developed in less than thirty years. Compared with the United States, which had aircraft carriers nearly a hundred years ago, the gap can be imagined.

Therefore, among the many types of domestic submarines, the main battle submarines currently serving in conventional warfare may not necessarily be able to defeat submarines from countries such as the United States and island countries.

As a result, there is a main battle submarine that can reach the international advanced level, which is extremely urgent for the navy.

With Tang Jiannian here, the East China Sea Fleet knew very much about unmanned submarines. It didn't matter to them whether there were no one or no unmanned submarines. What they valued was combat effectiveness. So when they learned about the weapon systems of unmanned submarines, they decided to purchase one or two

ship.

The test report is just a report. In their eyes, what they see with their own eyes is the real thing. Xu Ziling proposed such a test method, which met their wishes. They immediately agreed and asked Xu Ziling about the twelve ships they participated in this exercise.

Do they have enough warships? If not, they can bring in a few more anti-submarine helicopters.

This is just the designated sea area for testing, only a few square kilometers. Why do you need so much?

Listening to the other party's excitement, Xu Ziling rolled his eyes and rejected their proposal without hesitation.

At the beginning of the drill, in order to allow the people of the East China Sea Fleet to personally understand the performance of the unmanned submarine, Xu Ziling also specifically allowed a team of ten people from the fleet to enter the submarine. It was not that he did not want more people to enter the submarine, but the submarine was designed with restrictions.

The number of people.

There are about ten people in their military factory and the South China Sea Fleet, plus ten people in the East China Sea Fleet, which is the largest number of people on the submarine.

The first day was to test the stealth performance.

In the prescribed sea area, the submarine was tested at various depths and speeds. This test alone took a whole day.

As if hiding and hiding, the entire fleet was busy all day, but no one complained, because they knew that they were testing a new type of submarine.

Such a submarine might belong to their fleet in the future. The more powerful it is, the higher the combat effectiveness of their fleet will be in the future. They can calculate such an account, so why would they be discouraged because they didn't find it?

The next day, the submarine did not test again, but participated in the fleet's tactical exercises.

They are all equipped with an "information sharing platform", so there is no problem of communication barriers at all. The people controlling the submarines at Jiangnan Factory are all technicians, not soldiers. Of course they don't understand the tactics and methods of warfare. Fortunately, there is a fleet commander who communicates with them individually.

Give the command, go left, go right, go up, go down, they just have to do it.

After two days of training like this, the highlight of this time finally arrived.

Live fire drill!

In the past, the domestic navy did not conduct many live-fire drills, but in the past two years, the number of live-fire drills and live-fire exercises has increased. This kind of mission is definitely beneficial to the military.

Some people say that since there are benefits, why don’t we hold more missions like this?

Why? Because the cost of a live-fire operation is huge. If a country is the richest, if you use the navy to play every day when you have nothing to do, it will bring down the country in just a few years.

Target shooting in the army is easy, a bullet only costs a few cents, but what about the navy? It's really like firing a cannon and earning thousands of taels of gold. But this gold is not coming in, but going out.

Before the new ships came out, Xu Ziling and Yang Kaiming figured it out when they were bored. On warships, in addition to the firearms used by the naval special operations team, the cheapest weapon on the warship is the close-in defense system, 30mm.

Ordinary artillery shells cost less than a hundred each.

It's just that although this guy is said to have the cheapest unit price, when it is fully activated, it is also a big money maker, because it can fire 5,000 rounds per minute. Even if one costs 50 yuan, it only costs several dollars per minute.

All in all.

As for the main gun or missiles, it goes without saying.

The main guns are okay. The 76mm main gun shells equipped by auxiliary ships such as frigates only cost about a thousand each. But what about missiles? Like destroyers, the smallest missiles are priced in units of one hundred thousand, and the largest ones are like

It's cruise missiles, one of which costs millions.

It can be seen from this that live-fire drills and exercises are completely money-burning behaviors.

Including equipment losses, supplies, etc., after an exercise, as long as one or two more missiles are fired, the cost this time may be tens of millions.

Therefore, this kind of thing is not something that ordinary small countries can handle.

Even if it is a big country, it is impossible to use missiles for fun.

It was the submarine's first weapons test, and these weapons were all brand-new models. Xu Ziling did not consider the cost. No matter torpedoes or various missiles, when preparing before, he had people install anti-ship missiles and land attack missiles.

Five torpedoes were installed, and a total of sixteen torpedoes were installed. Each of the eight torpedo launchers had two chances to launch.

With these, he believed that it would be enough to bring out the combat effectiveness of the submarine.

The East China Sea Fleet's exercise was mainly aimed at the possible future battle to seize the island. However, as soon as Xu Ziling's submarine joined in, the protagonist became the submarine, and their live-fire exercise became dispensable.

As soon as the time for the exercise arrived, the fleet command center and Xu Ziling's control room were connected remotely. The person in charge of the exercise, Rear Admiral Mo Kaihua of the East China Sea Fleet, told Xu Ziling that today's exercise will focus on submarines, and their fleet will fully cooperate.

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Xu Ziling had never met Mo Kaihua before, but he still knew him. After these few days of contact, he became familiar with him. When he heard Mo Kaihua's words, he smiled and said: "Then we have some propaganda."

Seized the master?"

"This doesn't count. It should be said that we are more willing to watch your wonderful performance!" Mo Kaihua's face was a little cold, but his words were not cold.

"hehe……"

It was enough to stop gossiping. Xu Ziling also understood their thoughts and immediately accepted them without any hesitation.

In order to verify the combat effectiveness of the submarine, the East China Sea Fleet has indeed spent a lot of money this time. Not only did it drag in a scrapped warship as a target for the anti-ship missile, it also built a special underwater submarine to use it.

Test the power of torpedoes.

They had invested so much money, so Xu Ziling naturally had to perform well.

All weapon systems of the submarine are their own technology, even the torpedoes customized from the Northern Military Industry, and when ordering, Xu Ziling also left a secret: the guidance system and the tail missile wing were developed by himself.

In other words, the Northern Military Industry does not know the specific performance of the torpedo.

The United States has the most advanced torpedo technology, followed by Russia. Even though torpedoes are used by the navies of countless countries, there are not many countries that can actually build torpedoes. At least the ones he knows about in the world are

Number of hands.

The technology of the Celestial Dynasty can only be regarded as average. Torpedoes are indispensable weapons in naval battles, whether for anti-submarine warfare or attacking enemy underwater fortifications. However, for a huge country, it only has second-rate technology. For Xu Ziling, this is

, this is definitely an unhappy thing.

So in this drill, he wanted to make the weapons on the submarine a surprise, and after that, he would publicly release their submarine-launched torpedoes to let everyone know how powerful their torpedoes were.

The anti-ship missile was launched first.

The anti-ship missiles on submarines are XH series cruise missiles. Although they are the same system, the launch systems are completely different. The land-based launch system launches the launch vehicle diagonally at a certain angle, while the submarine launch system launches vertically.

As we all know, vertical launch systems require quite high technology, especially submarine-launched vertical systems, which have higher technical requirements than surface ships.

Although Xu Ziling's submarine was not a strategic submarine, in order to increase the amount of ammunition, he finally considered using cold launch. However, according to the technology in today's world, cold launch technology is not suitable for large-scale use. There is no other reason than

It’s just that this kind of launch method has too high technical requirements.

What are the high requirements? The main disadvantage of cold launch is that it must rely on external force to launch the missile. Therefore, the launch system structure is quite complex and the reliability is relatively poor. In particular, the requirements for missile rocket engine ignition control device technology and missile attitude control technology are very high.

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Compared with thermal emission, a very mature technology, why did Xu Ziling choose cold emission?

Because the advantages of cold launch are also quite obvious: first, low-temperature launch will not ablate the launch system and will not cause structural damage to the launch system. Second, because there is no need for a special exhaust channel like thermal launch, the launch system is smaller and can

Load missiles to the maximum extent within a limited space,

Not to mention the first one, the second one is that it can increase the amount of ammunition. Xu Ziling did not hesitate to choose cold launch. What's more, with the lion around, this cold launch technology is a problem for others, but

For him, it's definitely not a problem.
Chapter completed!