At this time, a special demonstration meeting was also being held in the 701 office building in Wuhan.
The moderator of the meeting was Zhao Jinfu, director of 701 and chief designer of the new missile destroyer.
In addition to the members of the 701 new missile destroyer design team, there were also designers from major system design units such as shipborne radar and shipborne weapons.
Among them is Lin Miaoyu's father, Lin Zhengming, the director of the 724 Institute!
If Shen Huan knew that the opinions he put forward were taken seriously by Director Zhao, and at this time he was still having a fierce debate with the chief engineer of the shipborne air defense missile system design unit at the meeting, I am afraid he would really be shocked.
Of course, there was another person at the meeting, who also stood firmly on Zhao Jinfu's side, and this person was Shen Huan's "future father-in-law" Lin Zhengming.
Now Lin Zhengming has developed a strong interest in Shen Huan, this kid, and even Zhao Jinfu directly said at the meeting that the young man who made the suggestion was Shen Huan from Jiangnan Changxing Shipyard, and he didn't expect that now it seems that his daughter's vision is not bad!
In addition to his academic recognition, Lin Zhengming is of course still on his daughter's side, no matter what, now Shen Huan is indeed friends with his daughter, although the tigress at home still has reservations.
But the tigress at home is just hard-mouthed, she didn't listen to Gao Yuanyuan, she followed the stock speculation, and made a lot of money, Lin Zhengming also knew that this was all the credit of Shen Huan, but that kid definitely didn't know it.
In the target task book of the new missile destroyers, a plan has been set for the construction of the first batch of four at the same time, and the first two are general-purpose missile destroyers, which use a large number of shipboard weapons and radar electronic systems from the modern class destroyers, including the Shikili air defense missile system.
The other two missile destroyers are positioned as anti-aircraft destroyers, using first-generation domestic phased array radars and Soviet-style cold-launch vertical launch anti-aircraft missile systems.
The preliminary design has been completed, but now the chief designer said that he would revise the design, make a proposal to the above, compress the first two general-purpose destroyers into one, and also enlarge the tonnage and optimize the hull shape and shape to achieve better stealth results.
Of course, this is a little bit easier to say, after all, the above means walking on two legs, even if you lose one, it is not a big problem, but to make a major change to the current design, it is not a simple matter.
It's just that the point of contention is not here, but on the second type of air defense missile destroyer, because Zhao Jinfu proposed an almost subversive revision.
Why?
Because Shen Huan didn't mention it, if it is possible, you can use the vertical launch system of thermal launch, but now it is very difficult to develop the vertical launch system of thermal launch, and there is no hope of a breakthrough at present, if you want to wait for the vertical launch system, there may be a situation where the ship is built and the weapons and equipment are ready, and if so, it may greatly delay the progress of the service of the new missile destroyer.
If the Navy cannot be delivered on time, who can afford such a big responsibility?
Of course, it's just a discussion now, if it is passed, it is to make suggestions to the above, as for whether the above can pass it, it is difficult to say, if it is not passed, if it is passed, there will really be problems in the future, I am afraid that everyone here will inevitably have to take responsibility.
Especially for the design units of the shipborne air defense missile system, the responsibility is even greater, and if the time comes, if the ship cannot be successfully developed and installed, then whose responsibility will it be?
As long as the above is decided, most of them are still responsible.
Therefore, after Zhao Jinfu put forward his opinion on revising the design, the experts at the meeting were divided into two factions, one side supporting Zhao Jinfu and the other side supporting Wang Keming, chief engineer of the shipborne air defense missile system.
At this time, Wang Keming clearly refuted the views put forward by Zhao Jinfu.
"Lao Zhao, I said were you brainwashed?
Now the day is not far from the finalization of the design of our new missile destroyer, but you say that you want to overhaul the design, of course, I don't want to say much else, but you want to modify the shipboard air defense missile launch system, and you want to use the kind of thermal launch system in the United States, but do you know how difficult it is to develop?
Not only is it difficult, but it also has the disadvantages of high cost and low safety, at least I think so, we will not be able to develop it within five years.
You can do it!
Wang Keming said bluntly.
The designers attending the meeting were all watching the argument between the two chief engineers, in fact, it was mainly a hot and cold dispute.
Wang Keming's shipborne air defense missile system is based on the cold launch method, which is also learned from the former Soviet Union, and originally the Haihongjiu was based on the S300 of the former Soviet Union, and the Hongjiu was improved again.
The former Soviet Union's Rif M shipborne missile system used cold launch, so it is natural that Haihongjiu also used cold launch technology.
There are also many advantages of cold launch, and the former Soviet Union was the first to be equipped with a shipborne vertical launch system, five years earlier than the United States.
The characteristic of the cold launch method is that the missile is not directly ignited in the launch canister, but uses the gas generator at the bottom of the missile launch canister to generate power, push the missile out, and then ignite it when it reaches an altitude of more than 20 meters.
The temperature of this kind of gas is only two or three hundred degrees, so there is no need to set up a gas discharge device, there is no gas corrosion like hot launch, the missile barrel has a long service life, easy maintenance, and low cost.
China's missile designers, as well as the leaders above, have taken a fancy to these advantages of cold launch, and in terms of technology inheritance, there is much less difficulty in research and development, in the navy's ballistic missile submarines have applied a cold launch vertical launch system, which can launch submarine-launched missiles several times heavier than air defense missiles under water, with such experience it is much easier to develop a cold-launched shipborne anti-aircraft missile vertical launch system, so they believe that this kind of cold launch is more suitable for new missile destroyers, so they adopt this design.
Of course, at this time, China has begun to explore the thermal launch of the United States, after all, the thermal launch also has many advantages, and now China is also learning the advanced military technology of the West, but it is still in the exploration stage, and I am afraid that it will take many years to install a ship.
China's missile designers have also taken a fancy to the advantages of hot launch, that is, high reliability, strong multi-target engagement capability, and fast launch speed, and the US Navy's shipborne vertical launch system has been tested countless times in actual combat.
Therefore, although the cold launch system is now applied to the new missile destroyer, in fact, Wang Keming and others are also working on the hot launch system.
Zhao Jinfu laughed and said, "Lao Wang, you are too unconfident, right?"
I think you guys have the strength to get our thermal launch system out.
I think you also know very well in your heart, in the end which launch system is more advanced, although our policy is still to walk on two legs, steady and steady, but our navy can't afford to wait, the future development trend of naval ships must be stealth, missile launch co-frame, only hot launch can meet the trend of future development, you know this better than me, right?
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