Chapter 256: with translation of chapter title

This precision is awesome!

You should know, this aerial bomb is a 500‑kilogram class, with a lethal radius of 80 meters!

Even if the error were eighty meters, it could still be considered a precise bombing on target, and the blast's aftermath would destroy the target; now the error is only eight meters, meaning we can precisely drop it right on top of the target!

"Great, great!" Fan Congxi beamed with excitement: "Comrade Qin Miao, your Ha Gong Da has solved a major problem for our troops! From now on, our strike aircraft units won't need to carry out dangerous dive‑bombing, although we're not afraid of sacrifice, but…"

"But, as scientific researchers, we must make the troops safer." Qin Miao took up his words: "Our troops will win future battles not by relying on our flesh and blood, but by relying on our high technology!"

"Exactly, that's the point!"

Amid the roar, the Qiang‑5 landed; Li Daming didn't get out of the plane, opened the cockpit canopy, and shouted down: "Hang another bomb on me, this time I want to try dropping from five thousand meters!"

The higher the altitude, the farther the throw distance, which means the carrier aircraft will be safer.

If dropping from a one‑kilometer altitude, one must enter the enemy's high‑gun anti‑aircraft zone; at five thousand meters, none of the enemy's high guns can reach the aircraft; at ten thousand meters, even ordinary anti‑aircraft missiles can't hit it!

Now, only this one has been modified! Everyone dug the bomb out of the pit, Qin Miao removed the navigation positioning device and bomb fins, confirmed there was no problem, then transferred them to another bomb, watched the ground crew re‑hang it on the wing, and then the Qiang‑5 took off.

At five thousand meters altitude, Li Daming carefully adjusted the sight; although he knew the satellite navigation system was powerful, what if it failed? He still needed a rough estimate so the bomb would land in the target area; if it landed elsewhere, that would be a serious problem!

The Jiao‑gong 1, the primary sight equipped on the Qiang‑5, was designed to serve both shooting and bombing, since the Qiang‑5 carries many weapons—machine guns, rockets, bombs—and having two separate sight systems would be unrealistic……

All in all, it was usable, but everything was mediocre— inaccurate shooting, imprecise bombing. Moreover, the designers had installed fancy automatic visual and blind‑drop functions, originally meant to ease the pilot's burden, but in fact these features turned out to be useless, even more so than useless.

Especially, the sight's over‑angle calculation… is practically as random as Brownian motion!

Dive‑bombing accuracy could be over forty meters; for level bombing… the veteran Qiang‑5 pilots had developed a human sight function, eyeballing the target, judging the drop moment with their brains……

Hmm, about right!

Seeing that the sight and his own estimate were about the same, Li Daming pressed the release button.

Clang!

The bomb came loose and swayed downwards.

On the ground, everyone kept moving, following the bomb's direction.

"Niu Haitao, Ma Bowen, what are you two doing?" Fan Congxi suddenly noticed that the two had run to a spot less than twenty meters from the target—are you looking for death?

These two pretended not to hear, acting clueless, and even pointed at the bomb in the sky!

So, Fan Congxi ran up to them.

"Hey, you two, come over here!"

Five hundred meters, one hundred meters, fifty meters……

The bomb whistled down.

Clang!

Finally, the bomb hit the ground, blasting a large crater in the soft soil; the flying mud instantly knocked Niu Haitao and Ma Bowen over and buried them……

Fortunately, Fan Congxi had already run over and dug them out of the mud a few times: "You two have seriously violated discipline; you're not allowed to fly for the next month!"

"No, Commissioner Fan, we were wrong."

"We didn't hear your command, we were just unaware……"

"Someone, take these two away!"

Young people all have a reckless spirit; only with age do they become increasingly careful and cautious.

Even if these guys had full confidence in Ha Gong Da's technology, thinking the bomb would land within about ten meters of the target, they still needed to guard against the mud sprayed up when the bomb hit!

Even if the bomb had no explosive, its five‑hundred‑kilogram weight is real; such a big lump of iron falling down is no joke!

Wait, where's the bomb?

Fan Congxi looked over; just like last time, this impact point's accuracy was also within ten meters!

This technology is awesome!

"Someone, report to superiors immediately: Ha Gong Da has developed for us a more advanced precision‑guided bomb; no matter the release height, its accuracy stays within ten meters! We request rapid mass production of this bomb!"

"Yes!"

Li Daming came down from the sky, personally went to inspect the impact point, and was so happy he couldn't stop grinning.

"Comrade Qin Miao, your Ha Gong Da is truly our army's savior! By the way, next, can you also help us improve the accuracy of our rockets and machine guns?"

"Well… this is really the most specialized field," Qin Miao scratched his head: "We can't attend to it now; let's wait until later?"

"Alright, we'll wait!"

Capital, Princess Tomb, Aircraft Building.

"Comrades, after years of effort, our Factory 5311 has finally found a way to improve the Jiao‑gong 1 sight; we are confident we can achieve ten‑meter precision in dive‑bombing!"

The person in blue work clothes said this, pushing up his glasses, and looked at the assembled crowd; sure enough, excitement showed in everyone's eyes.

"Ten‑meter precision?"

"Great!"

"As expected, when it comes to bombing sights, we still have to rely on Factory 5311!"

Back then, Factory 320, based on the Jian‑6, modified it into the Qiang‑5, but the sighting system lagged; pilots had to judge attack timing from altitude, angle, speed, etc., instrument readings, and in that situation hitting the target relied entirely on faith.

Thus, in 1970 the Air Force held a meeting, proposing the need to give the Qiang‑5 an advanced sighting system; at the time, no one took on the task, after all, such equipment had never existed before!

Then, the chief engineer of Factory 5311, Chen Yuezu, stood up: "I'll take it!"

He returned to Nanjing and plunged into intense research; just the paper used for calculations stood over two meters tall! After years of tinkering, he finally solved the accuracy problem, but operation still depended entirely on the pilot's final button press—being off by even one second would cause a huge error.

So, we needed the aircraft to drop the bomb on its own!

Engineer Chen overturned all previous plans, decided to start over, and added a data simulation system so the aircraft could automatically calculate and release the bomb!

After years of hard work, the Jiao‑gong‑1 finally emerged, solving the existence issue, but its precision was still insufficient!

In 1978, Engineer Chen came to the Capital, accepting the leadership's assignment: continue improving and raise the sight's precision!

"Continuously auto‑computing the over‑angle—this is definitely an innovation!" Lao Lin also sighed; the Qiang‑5's bombing precision could finally be improved, and next the Air Force could go south to give the monkeys a lesson!

"Report!"

"What's up?"

"Ha Cheng base sent a telegram: Ha Gong Da has developed a brand-new bomb, to be dropped from an altitude of five kilometers, with a precision of ten meters!"

"What?"