Chapter 388: Leading the industry by years

Several other comrades also looked at him as if they were not full.

Seeing that everyone was like this, Gao Zhendong didn't keep it a secret anymore.

"While I was researching silicon single crystals, I combined foreign literature and discovered a new infrared sensitive material. Although it is relatively expensive, its performance far exceeds that of lead sulfide. Moreover, if it is made into a four-element orthogonal detector, it will not be too expensive given its structural characteristics."

Mercury cadmium telluride is relatively expensive for making linear arrays and planar arrays, but it is much cheaper to make four long strip detection units.

Moreover, the orthogonal quaternion outputs pulse signals, which means that the consistency requirements for the four units are not too high, unlike line arrays and planar arrays, which is very beneficial for reducing costs.

"What materials?" A group of people asked in unison, wishing they could pick Gao Zhendong up and shake him a few times to get all the stuff in his stomach out!
"The infrared performance of mercury cadmium telluride is far superior to that of lead sulfide, and the infrared sensitive band can be adjusted according to needs."

Indium antimonide is good stuff, but so is cadmium mercury telluride.

To be honest, no one knows anything about this thing, but Gao Zhendong can take it out with such confidence, which proves that he must have the confidence.

The comrades in the Guidance and Research Institute were so happy. Isn’t this the superiority of large-scale troop operations? Whatever you think of will come true, even things that the comrades have not even thought of, have been prepared.

Engineer Lu was very anxious: "Advisor Gao, do you have any samples of this material now?"

Gao Zhendong smiled and said, "I have led the relevant institutes of our department to prepare stable polycrystalline compounds and have also done some preliminary tests. The performance is very good! I will give you some existing test results for your research. However, to be used in infrared detectors, single crystals are required. The manufacture of single crystals is currently being studied, and the progress is very fast and relatively smooth. The possibility of success is very high."

These two "very"s immediately excited everyone present. Most of the people present were acquaintances, and they knew Gao Zhendong's habit of using words. He tended to use conservative words, but since he had said "very good" and "very big", it meant that the matter was basically certain.

The most excited one was the comrade from the Flying Army, as they were the ones using all the stuff.

He couldn't help but ask the question he was most concerned about: "Comrade Zhendong, what effect do you expect this material to achieve if put into use?"

"Preliminary estimates show that we can at least obtain infrared target locking capability of the enemy 2 kilometers ahead, and the pursuit capability is expected to be increased to more than 8 kilometers, and"

Before he could finish his words, the comrades from the Flying Army slammed their hands on the table and said, "We want this, we want this."

Unlike future long-range air-to-air missiles that may have a range of 8, , or even several thousand kilometers, we are still in the era of machine gun combat. He was very excited at the thought of being able to hit the enemy with a dart from kilometers away.

The leader of the Defense Work Committee smiled and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? We are doing it for you. And what is it? Zhendong, continue."

"Moreover, this sensor combined with the four-element orthogonal detector can obtain a search and lock angle of at least 45°. This is why I said that the missile body must be modified. If the missile body and flight control actuator are not modified, the large detection angle of this seeker will be a waste! I hope that with the modification of the missile body, at least a 45° off-axis launch angle can be obtained. At the same time, the upper limit of the G value of the enemy aircraft that can be dealt with and the upper limit of the G value when the carrier aircraft is launched can be greatly increased."

Gao Zhendong had ambushed all of these data.

Even though they had set up an ambush, his words still shocked everyone present. A 45° detection angle? ? This was unheard of in this era, and no one dared to even think about it.

"Are you serious?" The leader of the Defense Work Committee looked at Gao Zhendong seriously.

Gao Zhendong said firmly: "Really!"

"I have approved this major model change! Comrades from the Flying Army, do you have any opinions?" I'll approve it first, and then ask you if you have any opinions.

"No objection. Even if the Defense Work Committee doesn't approve, we can raise money ourselves and make this thing!" The comrade of the Flying Army had a look of happiness on his face. Why did he feel a little disgusted when looking at the already pre-ordered Thunder-1 at this time?

It is not good to be fickle, this comrade began to criticize himself in his heart.

Only the chief designer of the Guidance Research Institute said: "Advisor Gao, what is the off-axis launch angle?"

At that time, there was no such concept yet.

"It is the angle at which the missile can be launched away from the axis of the carrier aircraft."

Wow, the comrades in the flying army immediately understood the advantage of this parameter in combat.

After the excitement, the leader of the Defense Work Committee finally thought of a question: "What is the cost of this thing?"

Don't make it too expensive, because you can't afford it. Even a penny can make a hero fall.

Gao Zhendong said: "The cost is a bit higher, but it is not very high for the orthogonal quaternary detector structure. In fact, I originally wanted to use this material for thermal imagers, but the price was too high. It was really unaffordable to use it in air-to-air missiles, so I chose the orthogonal quaternary detector structure as a second choice." "Thermal imager?" The comrades began to drool again. Ahem, ahem, there is this thing! It sounds like a good product!

Gao Zhendong smiled, shook his head and said, "For now, forget about using that thing on air-to-air missiles. It's very expensive, and the technology needs to be mature. That's what I want for the next generation."

The leader of the Defense Work Committee: "Cough! Cough!! Cough!!!"

It is probably prepared for tanks. He is also the deputy chief designer of the next generation of tanks. Although it is still in the pre-technical research stage, it is not appropriate to talk about it here.

Hmm? Oh! Got it. Got it.

Gao Zhendong quickly changed his words: "In short, the cost-effectiveness is not high. The structure I proposed now is the most suitable at this stage."

Everyone smiled and understood the cooperation between the leader and Gao Zhendong.

The structure and sensor that Gao Zhendong took out are typical third-generation and a half structures. The reason why it is called third-generation and a half is because it is prepared to have a relatively large off-axis emission angle and high overload.

Although indium antimonide is not used, the performance of cadmium mercury telluride is not bad. How bad can it be for making thermal imagers?

As the overall environment and situation developed, Gao Zhendong had some bigger goals in mind than before. Although they were not the biggest ones, which were too complicated, they were at least not small.

Regardless of whether it can be accomplished or not, at least set a goal first and try to create conditions for it, and maybe you will achieve it!

It’s okay to fail temporarily, but you can’t lose your ideals.

Therefore, he began to push the development of related technologies to the maximum extent possible. For example, the infrared combat missile, which is 30 years ahead of the others, is so advanced that it is enough to bring about extremely significant changes in tactics and strategies. Even if the changes only last for a short period of time, it may lead to the emergence of a window of opportunity.

The chief model designer of the Institute of Advanced Technology also understood this truth and said with a smile: "Advisor Gao, our Institute of Advanced Technology strongly requests to participate in your major modification project. You see, we have a lot of experience in this area, and I think you can use it."

What he said was very interesting and skillful.

This project is yours, we want to participate, the position is still very correct and the posture is very elegant.

Gao Zhendong smiled. He had no intention of doing it himself. He simply didn't have the time.

"You should do this yourselves. With the Thunderbolt-1, you can do this better. I have a lot of things to do. I can't handle it all. Hahaha."

"That won't work, we just need to participate."

The leader of the Defense Work Committee laughed. Comrades from the Institute of Guidance and Research are quite flexible. However, Comrade Zhendong obviously didn't care about this. He decided the matter with just one sentence.

"Needless to say, Zhendong is busy, he doesn't have the time to do this for you. So, let's make him a deputy chief engineer. With this, plus he is your consultant, you won't feel so guilty when you take out Comrade Zhendong's family assets, hahahaha."

Just like that, on the day when the Lei Dian-1 was just scheduled to be prototyped, the subject of the Lei Dian-1 modification had already been determined, and even the direction of improvement, main technical route, and improvement indicators were clearly defined. This is almost unprecedented in the history of our equipment research and development, and as for those who will come after it, it is estimated that there will not be many.

All parties involved were very satisfied with this and each got what they needed.

As for Gao Zhendong? Well, he got the title of deputy chief designer of Thunderbolt-1 modification, but his salary didn't increase by a dime.

As for the significance of this small meeting, Lu Gong, who attended the meeting, said decades later: "To use the current Internet buzzwords, we were completely unaware of the 'seriousness' of this matter at the time. The missile proposed by Comrade Gao Zhendong has allowed us to quietly lead the field of infrared air-to-air combat missiles for at least 20 years, and even 30 years later, we still maintain the first-tier level internationally. Before the emergence of infrared focal plane array technology, all technical principles of infrared point source guidance basically did not go beyond the ones he mentioned in just half an hour at the meeting that day. He just went straight to the point and selected the most advanced and suitable one for us."

After the meeting, the leader once again looked at Gao Zhendong's back as he rode away from the window, and said to himself, "This is outrageous, too outrageous! How can this be tolerated? We need to work with his department to sort this out!"
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In the early morning of August 1st, the shadow of a ship was looming on the sea off the southeast coast.

This is a small steel boat with graceful lines. Its weight of about 200 tons is not large, as anything under 500 tons is considered a boat.

The small boat does not look much different from an artillery escort boat or a torpedo boat, but in the night, the four large boxes at the rear of the hull indicate its extraordinary nature.

These are our comrades from the Haidong Shipyard. Under the guidance of Russian experts and with the cooperation of the anti-ship missile imitation unit, they worked overtime to outfit the 6621 missile boat with the domestically-produced Zhengxian No. anti-ship missile as quickly as possible. As soon as the outfitting was completed, it was sent to its most important battlefield sea trial in the future.

Today is a holiday, and it is also the day when the boat conducts night sea trials. All the comrades on the boat are celebrating the birthday of this invincible force in this way.

　Today's completion~~~~~
　　Also, wish him a happy birthday, hahaha
　　
　
(End of this chapter)