Chapter 3091: Impact in space

Measurement and control center.
There are supercomputers here, as well as large radar equipment. At this time, the radar system is staring at the satellites in space, and the two missiles launched on the ground have also appeared on the radar system's screen.
Old Zhong held his breath and watched the bright spots above gradually approach.
Different targets have different interception orbits. Now to intercept satellites in space, of course the higher the better, so it is almost directly above your interception position as the predetermined interception point. However, due to the earth Because of the influence of rotation, it is actually slightly eastward.
This is the difference from intercepting aircraft targets, because in order to intercept targets in outer space, even factors such as the rotation of the earth need to be taken into consideration.
This of course puts forward higher requirements for the design of missile interception procedures.
Now, the sturdy booster of the missile quickly burned and fell off, leaving the projectile above, and the engine continued to burn, pushing the projectile forward. The air became thinner and thinner, and the missile’s flight became more and more intense. It comes faster and faster. If there is a camera on the missile at this time, you can see that the surrounding sky is already dark.
In the atmosphere, everything is bright. This is because of the diffuse reflection of the atmosphere. There is sunlight everywhere. Once you leave the atmosphere, you can only stare at the sun to be bright. Other places are dark universes. , This is also quite interesting.
The projectile body at the back finally burned and began to fall off, leaving the top warhead. This warhead, if called its exclusive name, was an extra-atmospheric interceptor.
If it is intercepted in the atmosphere, the warhead is the uppermost part of the missile, a pointed object. At the same time, the warhead and the missile body will not separate. The missile body has a pneumatic rudder surface, which is used to control the missile. , The interceptor outside the atmosphere is completely different.
Because it is out of the atmosphere, it no longer needs a streamlined shape, and the pointed shell of the bullet has fallen off, revealing its unique shape.
This shape is very strange, some resemble the Hubble Space Telescope. The front end of the warhead has a small telescope. This is its seeker, which uses infrared aiming.
In the atmosphere, interception mainly relies on radar guidance, especially advanced active seekers to guide the missile to reach the target, and then detonate the broken rod warhead, relying on debris to kill enemy aircraft and other equipment.
However, it is different now. It is now necessary to destroy satellites and destroy ballistic missile warheads, not only to guide them near the target, but to guide them to the target and use precise impact to directly destroy the target.
In this way, the required guidance accuracy will be several orders of magnitude higher, which cannot be achieved by radar, and the only way to use infrared is more sensitive.
The outer space is icy, and the infrared seeker almost does not need to be cooled to achieve ideal conditions. At the same time, the ballistic missile flying on the opposite side is very fast. When it leaves the atmosphere, the warhead has already rubbed against the atmosphere. A lot of heat, so it is simply the most ideal goal.
At this time, the seeker of Hongqi 9B was accurately capturing the target. It quickly captured the target's trace at a long distance, and accurately captured the target in the same field of view as its telescope. Then, the computer behind the guidance and control unit starts to perform rapid coordinate transformation, transforming the target information into the target's relative position vector direction relative to itself, find the pitch angle and azimuth angle, and calculate these two angles through filtering. The rate of change, and then, the action of the missile begins.
In front of the warhead is the same device as the infrared telescope. At the rear of the projectile, there are several small and exquisite nitrogen bottles. Each nitrogen bottle drives a nozzle. These nozzles are called orbital control engines and attitude control engines. Instructed, these nozzles began to spray gas intermittently, adjusting their angles.
At this time, even the monitoring radar on the ground will not see the slight changes in its attitude. As for the launching force of the ground-to-air missile, although the phased array radar is also used to monitor the flight and interception of the missile, see The two targets are getting closer and closer, but whether they can shoot down the target is still unknown.
At this time, everyone held their breath, waiting for the result.
On the big screen, the two bright spots are getting closer and closer, and then you can see that they overlap together!
At this time, we can't cheer. After they overlap, they will separate. Then they will continue to fly in their own way, that is, they will pass by.
Only by precise impact can the satellite be shot down.
Now, everyone is waiting. The interceptor outside the atmosphere in the outer space that they can’t see is now reaching the final stage. Its nozzle is now continuously adjusted and adjusted with high precision. On the opposite side is an artificial satellite flying at a speed of 7.9 kilometers per second!
Then, the two aircraft collided in this way in space. At the moment of the collision, the infrared telescope of the extra-atmospheric interceptor first collided with the target. When colliding, it immediately shattered and then vaporized. Drop!
The nitrogen storage tank behind, the sturdy high-pressure container, has also been crushed at this instant, and countless air currents crashed into the opposite satellite. At this time, the same thing was happening with this scrapped satellite. The satellite seemed to hit a balloon on a wall and was smashed.
To intercept high-speed flying targets outside the atmosphere, there is no need for any explosives to form a warhead at all. It uses the same tactics commonly used in naval battles in ancient times: impact.
To be able to become a satellite, it must reach a speed of 7.9 kilometers per second. At this high speed, as long as it depends on impact, it can bring super destructive power. Think of a car on a highway with a speed exceeding 100 kilometers per hour. , Suddenly hit the pillar, the car body will become fragments, and the speed of the satellite in space is hundreds of times its speed, under such a high-speed impact, it will be completely shattered in an instant, even due to the high impact. Energy causes some parts to burn and evaporate directly.
In space, a flame was instantly burned, and the high energy of the impact made the satellite directly turn into a fireball. Of course, this was also the result of the remaining fuel for attitude adjustment inside the satellite. In short, the first interception outside the atmosphere The device has successfully intercepted the target!