Chapter 4 Future Planning

Looking at Obert, whose face was flushed with excitement, Yannick couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Decades later, this sentence was also popular, that the future of mankind is the sea of ​​stars, and we have to conquer the entire universe. But this sentence has been shouted for decades. Logically, with the rapid development of human technology, we should be getting closer and closer to this goal. But by 2018 when he traveled through, let alone the solar system, humans have not even conquered the "close" moon, and the number of landings on the moon has only been a few times.

Don't look at the various awesome spaceships and even various interstellar war scenes that often appear in science fiction movies in later generations, but all this is still very far away from humans in 2019, let alone the 1920s and 1930s.

When he was a child, he also wondered why the countries on Earth didn't put aside all their prejudices and work together to develop outer space, but later he realized that this was basically a foolish idea.

Prejudice and selfishness are the weaknesses of human nature. It has been six thousand years since the origin of civilization, but humans have never diluted their aggressiveness and various discriminations. Unless the Earth encounters a huge, common external pressure as described in the movie 2012, humans may be united (of course, even at that time, there will still be differences in closeness and distance, and the distribution of interests will still be involved).

Since God has given him such an opportunity, he will not expect to unify the world, but at least it is worth a try to integrate the resources of the entire Europe to go to space.

"But we still need to make technical preparations in advance. When technology reaches a certain level in the future and new materials appear, we only need to put our prepared theories into practice, right? It's much better than starting research from scratch in the dark."

Obert was simply in awe of this young crown prince. He is knowledgeable, calm and rational, pursues the truth, is not arrogant or impatient, and looks to the future as well as the present. If he inherits the throne, he will definitely be a wise ruler.

"You have to eat one bite at a time and walk one step at a time. Let's start with something small. I need several rockets, for military use."

"..."Obert didn't react for a moment. How come he just talked about space rockets and then moved on to military rockets? "What kind of rockets does your highness need?"

Yannick asked his secretary to bring paper and pen, and quickly drew out the rockets in his memory. "The first type is a rocket with a caliber of 122 mm. The length of the rocket shall not exceed 1800 mm, and the weight of the rocket shall not exceed 60 kg, including the warhead weight of 18 kg to 30 kg. When installing an 18 kg warhead, the maximum range must be at least 15 kilometers. This thing does not need to deliberately pursue accuracy, as long as it falls in the approximate direction, and it should save costs as much as possible." When talking about rocket launchers during World War II, the first thing that comes to mind must be the famous Katyusha of the Soviet Union. However, what is less known is that Germany also developed a similar rocket launcher in 1938. Unfortunately, the rigorous character of the Germans has made the researchers and developers always pursue the accuracy of this rocket. As a result, the accuracy did not improve much, but the manufacturing cost reached eight or nine times that of the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher. The German military would be crazy to be interested in such a thing.

Obert once again sighed at Yannick's knowledge and took a look at the paper. It seemed that there was no difficulty. The various data of the rocket had been marked. He only needed to deal with the engine and propellant. However, the last sentence made him very confused. "Your Highness, this weapon does not seem to have much accuracy. Even if it is made, it will not be purchased by the military, right?" Since it is for military use, it must be used in war. He saw at a glance that this thing basically has no accuracy. Once it is launched, there are too many factors that can affect the flight of the missile.

Yannick smiled. "One has no accuracy, but what if more than 20 or 30 rockets are launched together? How large an area will it cover? Will it still be necessary to consider accuracy at that time?" The main function of the rocket launcher is "covering shooting" of the enemy target, that is, hitting the surface instead of hitting the point. It is mainly used for firepower destruction and suppression of cluster targets and large targets, so it does not need to be so "accurate". Of course, rockets with precision guidance are an exception.

"..." After all, Obert is not a professional weapons expert, and he doesn't quite understand what great use this rocket can be used for. But since His Highness has already proposed it, he just needs to make it.

Then Yannick drew the RPzb43/54 88mm "Tank Killer" anti-tank rocket, Panzerfaust, and aviation rockets used on attack aircraft. For these things, Obert only needs to be responsible for making the propulsion device, and the warhead will be handed over to more professional people.

And the last aviation rocket is also copied from the finished product of the original Soviet Union. In 1930, the aerodynamic research team of Soviet rocket expert Nikolai Ivanovich Dichumilov developed an aviation rocket powered by smokeless gunpowder. It does not require a complex mechanical firing mechanism and the dead weight caused by the gun barrel. It only needs to be launched from the grooved slide rail under the wing of the aircraft. At the end of 1933, the world's first combat aviation rocket-RS-82 rocket was put into service. The diameter of the bullet is 82 mm, the range can reach 5,000 meters, and the power is comparable to that of heavy artillery of the same caliber.

The Il-2 attack aircraft can carry 24 of these rockets. Imagine how much more achievements Rudel would have made if he had these weapons! Maybe he would have to receive another medal in addition to the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds to honor his achievements.

"The last one." Yannick continued after some flirting. "I want a large rocket with a range of more than 300 kilometers. It is a weapon that relies on its own power unit to propel itself and is guided to the target by a guidance system. The total length does not exceed 15 meters and the diameter does not exceed 2 meters. It uses ethanol and liquid oxygen as fuel." According to him. It is known that Obert's main interest lies in solid fuels. He also knows that liquid fuels have strong molecular activity and low chemical stability, and basically must be stored at low temperatures, which is quite troublesome. But the current technology cannot produce such a solid fuel to propel such a large rocket. You must know that the practical solid rocket motor was only developed by the Soviet Union in 1956. Even if he uses future knowledge to promote technological development, he does not think it is possible. A solid rocket motor can be produced within ten years.

So he doesn't want to waste time on goals that are simply impossible to achieve.

"Hiss!" Obert couldn't help but gasped. The range exceeds 300 kilometers? It is not difficult for him to be confident in the previous ones, but he is not so confident in the last one. After hesitating for a while, he asked cautiously. "Your Royal Highness, how much research and development time do I have?"

"Ten years." It only took five years from development to finalization of the original space-time V2 missile. Although he has advanced the development time now, ten years should be more than enough.

"Ten years?" Obert couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. If he was asked to develop such a large rocket in two or three years, it should be said to be a super rocket, then he wouldn't be confident that he could do it even if he put a knife to his neck. arrive. Now that he has had ten years, he feels that it is enough. Once this kind of super rocket is successfully built, it seems that it will not be difficult to develop sounding rockets based on it? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is indeed far-sighted.

"Dr. Obert, you can invite like-minded colleagues to study together. Although the current economic situation of the empire is a bit bad, I will try my best to provide you with all the materials and equipment needed for your experiments. I will not treat anyone who contributes to the empire badly. Not only the researchers themselves, but also their families can enjoy various benefits. However, I don’t need those idlers who have no real talent. Also, the national security department will intervene in the research department to prevent this technology from being used. Foreign theft.”

Of course, Yannick didn't have the ability to read minds, so he wouldn't know that the Hermann Oberth in front of him was about to become his crazy fan, so he continued to talk to himself. Although this person was not an anti-war person, Yannick still explained. "Dr. Obert, to be honest, I am also a pacifist. I also want Germany to develop peacefully and be strong. Unfortunately, sometimes we can't help ourselves. Now Germany is surrounded by enemies who are eager to look at us. They will not look at us. "Send something into space and maybe they'll worry about it falling down and hitting their home."

Obert smiled and nodded. “Fear comes from ignorance.”

"Perhaps they will be curious to find out, and more likely they will take these achievements into their homes and keep them for themselves. I don't know what they will use them for. What I want to do is to try my best to create a stable environment for you. Research environment. Moreover, Zhengtu Universe is definitely a bottomless pit, and it is impossible to accomplish it with our German financial resources, so we must at least integrate the power of Europe. So, Dr. Obert, this important task is in your hands." Much easier to fool than Einstein. Yannick sighed in his heart and sent Dr. Obert out who looked flattered.