Eagle Sauce: The 055 destroyer was launched into the sea just after the founding of the country?

"Three minutes to prepare!" Fang Yu's voice sounded again.

Li Dingyuan unconsciously gripped the railing tightly. In his twenty-plus years of aviation career, this was the first time he had witnessed such a significant moment.

“Two minutes!”

The workers all held their breath. Some even couldn't help but clasp their hands together and pray for God's blessing, although most of them were staunch materialists...

“One minute!”

Fang Yu's hand was on the launch button and he could feel his own heartbeat.

"Prepare!"

In the cockpit, Lei Jun pushed the throttle to the maximum, and the roar of the fighter plane was deafening.

"emission!"

As Fang Yu pressed the button, a deafening roar was heard.

The high-pressure steam is released instantly, and the huge thrust sends the fighter plane into orbit like an arrow.

In a flash, the fighter plane had reached the end of the track.

As everyone watched with bated breath, the nose of the plane rose slightly and took off gracefully.

"Success!" I don't know who was the first to shout.

Cheers instantly broke out in the testing ground.

The workers hugged each other excitedly, and some even cried with joy.

Li Dingyuan took off his glasses and wiped the blurry lenses with a handkerchief, but found that his hands were shaking.

Fang Yu was still standing in front of the control console, watching the fighter plane draw a graceful arc in the air.

There was not much expression on his face, but his tense shoulders finally relaxed.

"Xiao Fang!" Li Dingyuan walked quickly to his side. "You're amazing! You even developed this ejection technology before the Eagles did!"

"This really brings honor to our Dragon Country!"

Fang Yu turned around and looked at his excited old superior. He suddenly smiled: "Director Li, this is just the beginning."

"What's the meaning?"

"Think about it," Fang Yu pointed at the fighter planes circling in the sky, "now that we have a catapult, the next step is to enable more aircraft to use it."

"Moreover, this system can be further improved, such as changing to an electromagnetic catapult..."

"Okay, okay," Li Dingyuan interrupted him, "Don't think too far ahead."

"Today is such a big happy event, we have to celebrate it properly. I'll ask the canteen to cook a few more dishes and have a dinner for the whole factory tonight!"

Amidst laughter and cheers, the morning sun finally broke through the clouds, casting golden light over the entire testing ground.

At that moment, everyone knew that they had witnessed history.

And this morning will be forever engraved in the history of the development of China's aviation industry...

……

A few days later.

The research institute is brightly lit late at night.

Fang Yu stood in front of the sand table in the laboratory, his eyes wandering over the aircraft carrier model.

Carrier-based aircraft, radar, hull structure, materials, catapult devices... one difficulty after another has been overcome.

But he knew that the last problem might be more difficult than all the previous ones combined.

"Close-in defense system..." Fang Yu muttered the word softly, tapping the table lightly with his fingers.

There is a photo hanging on the wall.

That was the scene many years ago when a US destroyer was hit by the earliest "artificial intelligence" suicide plane of the Sakura Country.

The importance of ship air defense systems was most brutally demonstrated in that war.

Fang Yu walked to the blackboard, picked up the chalk and began to write:

"Close-in defense system requirements: reaction time no more than 3 seconds; interception probability greater than 90%; all-weather combat capability; simultaneous interception of multiple targets..."

After writing this, he smiled bitterly and shook his head.

These technologies were not available in all countries at the time when I lived.

Now, these demands seem like fantasy.

It is probably impossible to build close-in weapon systems like those in the future in this era.

but……

Fang Yu's eyes fell on the transistor computer in the corner.

This machine, called "the monster" by colleagues, has demonstrated its powerful computing power.

The phased array radar components on the shelf on the other side make the impossible possible.

“If you combine them…”

Fang Yu walked quickly to the drawing table and spread out a large drawing.

His hands moved quickly on the paper, and soon he sketched out a complex system block diagram.

"First, the detection system." He drew a radar antenna array on the blueprint.

"Phase-scanned array radar has a large scanning range and fast response speed, making it most suitable for tracking fast-moving targets at close range."

Next comes the computer system.

Fang Yu deliberately drew a large box around this part: "This is the brain of the entire system. It needs to complete target recognition, trajectory calculation, and fire control command generation within a few tenths of a second."

Finally, the weapons section.

Fang Yu's pen paused on the paper, then he firmly drew the outline of a six-barreled cannon.

"Gatling..." he muttered to himself, "Only it can provide sufficient firepower density."

Just then, footsteps were heard at the door.

"I knew you were working overtime again." Li Dingyuan walked in with a thermos in his hand. "Drink some ginger soup to warm yourself up."

Fang Yu took the thermos and said with a smile, "Director Li, why haven't you gone home yet so late?"

"Hmph, if I didn't come to watch over you, you'd probably have to stay up all night."

Li Dingyuan walked to the blueprint and asked, "What's this new thing?"

"Close-in defense system." Fang Yu said simply.

Li Dingyuan's expression suddenly turned serious: "You mean... like the dense formation of the Eagle Sauce?"

“No, it’s much more advanced than that.”

Fang Yu pointed at the drawing and explained.

"We have transistor computers and phased array radars, so we can create a fully automated system."

"From detecting the target to opening fire, it takes only three seconds at most."

"Three seconds?" Li Dingyuan gasped. "How fast is that?"

Fang Yu opened the drawer and took out a stack of calculation results.

"I calculated this. The phased array radar takes only 0.1 second to scan once, and the computer takes 0.5 seconds to process the data. The remaining time is enough for the turret to turn and fire."

Li Dingyuan carefully looked through the calculation results and suddenly asked, "What caliber of gun are you going to use?"

"Twenty millimeters," Fang Yu said. "Rate of fire: six thousand rounds per minute, effective range: two thousand meters."

"Madman!" Li Dingyuan blurted out, "Such a high rate of fire, the gun barrel won't be able to withstand it!"

Fang Yu said confidently, "No. I have designed a new cooling system, and the barrel is made of a special alloy that can fully withstand this rate of fire."

Li Dingyuan was silent for a while and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Yes." Fang Yu said firmly, "And we must build it."

"As the last layer of defense for an aircraft carrier, I won't feel at ease until this thing is built."

Li Dingyuan sighed: "Okay, I support you. But this time we may need more manpower..."

"I've thought about it." Fang Yu pointed to several key parts on the blueprint. "We can divide it into three teams, responsible for the radar system, computer system, and weapon system respectively. As long as we unify the interface standards, there will be no problems during the final assembly."

"Okay, as I said before, I fully support you!" Li Dingyuan turned to leave, then turned back and said, "Let's start construction tomorrow!"

"By the way, what are you going to call this project?"

Fang Yu thought for a moment and wrote four words in the upper right corner of the drawing:

"Vulcan system."

Li Dingyuan looked at these four words and suddenly laughed.

"Good name."

"Just like Zhurong, the God of Fire in our ancient mythology, his divine fire was so powerful that even the Emperor of Heaven was afraid of it!"

Fang Yu also laughed.

"I hope our God of Fire can be as powerful as Zhurong..."