Chapter 494: New Type of Missile

"This data regarding the North Wind-class Supercomputer is very valuable!"

After spending some time reviewing the data on the North Wind-class Supercomputer stolen by AI-001 once more, Sun Cheng finally closed the folder with satisfaction.

Good things like supercomputers can be called the heavy equipment of a great power in any world.

His subsequent series of actions will all require massive computing power, so assembling a supercomputer is imperative.

Since AI-001's first harvest was so precious, it actually piqued Sun Cheng's interest in the other data it had stolen.

It is just a pity that he soon discovered he had overthought it.

The data on the North Wind-class Supercomputer, which was organized and placed at the top by Frenzy, was undoubtedly the biggest harvest from AI-001's intrusion into the Nandu Supercomputing Center.

The other files were basically test data on weapon power and performance conducted by the military using the powerful computing power of the North Wind-class Supercomputer.

After Sun Cheng finished reading the test data, he discovered that the vast majority of these weapons were not much more powerful than some of the American-made and Russian-style weapons he had mastered in the Transformers Universe, and some even had a considerable gap in performance, making them useless to him.

Of course, a portion still had reference value.

For example, the North Wind-class Supercomputer once provided a large amount of testing and data verification work for a new type of missile that had not yet been finalized by the military; this new type of missile made Sun Cheng very interested.

As everyone knows, nuclear weapons should be the most powerful weapons created by human civilization. By utilizing the enormous energy instantaneously released by nuclear fission or fusion reactions, they can change the surface environment and destroy regional ecology in the instant of an explosion. Thermal shock and persistent nuclear radiation can even cause the life in a region to be completely extinct.

With the continuous development of technology, humanity has increasingly realized the limitations of nuclear weapons.

Nuclear weapons are a Sword of Damocles; unless those politicians all have water in their brains, no one really dares to "plant mushrooms" in a war.

During the Cold War, a nuclear physicist once proposed a new type of nuclear weapon—the Cobalt Bomb. By wrapping a layer of Cobalt-59 around a traditional nuclear bomb, the neutrons emitted by the nuclear explosion strike the Cobalt-59, turning it into Cobalt-60. The rays produced by the decay of Cobalt-60 can completely destroy the DNA of living organisms, causing them to die on a large scale in a short period of time.

This type of nuclear weapon, which only exists in theory, would only require one to be detonated in the stratosphere—it wouldn't even need the yield of something like the Tsar Bomba—to be enough to spread radiation throughout the entire Earth's atmosphere, thereby causing all kinds of living things on Earth to perish in a short period of time.

From a theoretical perspective, the Cobalt Bomb could indeed be manufactured.

However, this weapon, capable of erasing the entire surface biological system, was boycotted by the entire scientific community shortly after the theory was born. It also made many nuclear-armed countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, extremely wary, which ultimately prevented this evil weapon from being born.

Over the past few decades, the risk of a Third World War occurring has been gradually decreasing, and in its place, regional conflicts between major powers are intensifying.

Because of this, various new types of weapons that are no less powerful than nuclear weapons, do not pose a threat to the Earth's ecological environment, and can bypass the "Nuclear Control Agreement"—especially various conventional missiles—have become the focus of research for various countries.

The missile test data that AI-001 discovered on the North Wind-class Supercomputer was for a new type of cluster bomb that the military is currently developing.

The so-called cluster bomb refers to a large bomb body loaded with several to hundreds of small bombs; each small bomb is called a sub-munition, so it is also known as a sub-mother bomb.

Cluster bombs are generally air-to-ground missiles. After being dropped by attack aircraft, multi-role fighters, or bombers in the target area, they can decompose in the air, spreading sub-munitions over a wide area of the ground to cause regional damage. Utilizing the characteristic of their quantity to increase the coverage area and lethality, they are widely used to strike ground cluster targets such as tanks, armored combat vehicles, and troop stations, or large-area targets such as Jichang runways, and possess strong destructive capabilities.

In the Transformers Universe, because the main research team at Base No. 2 is also conducting in-depth research on missiles, this unexpected acquisition was actually more to Sun Cheng's liking than other data.

This new type of cluster bomb designed and tested by the military was specifically designed against the Soviet Union.

Because of the difference in the world line, the Soviet Union in the real world did not disintegrate in 1991 as it did in the Transformers Universe, but still stands on the Eurasian continent, deterring the whole world.

Because of the deep-seated hatred forged between China and Russia during the Russian Empire period, since the Xinhai Revolution, the relationship between China and Russia and China and the Soviet Union in the real world has always been in a state of hostility.

From Northeast Asia to Central Asia, the two countries have deployed millions of troops along a border spanning over ten thousand li, and border conflicts have lasted for over a hundred years; saying the hatred is as deep as the sea is not an exaggeration at all.

Like China, the Soviet Union is also a traditional land power, possessing tens of thousands of ground combat tanks, armored vehicles, and various types of artillery.

To face such an opponent directly, the military's demand for cluster bombs has always been very high.

The new type of missile that AI-001 discovered this time in the North Wind-class Supercomputer, which was designed by a laboratory under the military, is temporarily named "Ground-to-Ground Multi-Point Precision Attack Bomb" within the military. Strictly speaking, it counts as a type of cluster bomb, yet it is not exactly the same.

It adopts the design concept of a cluster bomb while combining it with a precision-guided bomb for a redesign; even in Sun Cheng's view, it is quite eye-catching.

Because of their huge size, traditional cluster bombs can generally only be carried in small quantities by fighter jets and mainly need to be dropped by bombers.

From the beginning of its design, the military's requirement for this "Ground-to-Ground Multi-Point Precision Attack Missile" was that it be a type of ground-bombing missile that fighter jets could also equip in large quantities.

Therefore, besides miniaturizing its volume and using new high-explosive explosives to compensate for the insufficient explosive power of the sub-munitions, it also borrowed some design concepts from precision-guided bombs, attempting to improve the strike accuracy of the sub-munitions.

This is undoubtedly a very correct development direction, although there were constant problems during the military's research and testing process.

For example, the various high-explosive explosives already available domestically could not solve the problem of the power decreasing along with the reduction in the new missile's volume.

The most difficult part was improving the strike accuracy of the sub-munitions. It is not easy to improve missile accuracy to begin with, let alone the military's requirement to improve the strike accuracy of sub-munitions that are only the size of a fist.

The military-affiliated laboratory responsible for developing this new type of missile had to develop and design one plan after another, from researching new types of explosives to using fluid dynamics to redesign the exterior of the sub-munitions, and then to contacting other laboratories to design a brand-new precision positioning system for the new missile, and so on.

Because this required a large amount of computing power, the test and research data for the new missile remained inside that North Wind-class Supercomputer belonging to the military, which is housed in the Nandu Supercomputing Center.

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