Future Planning

Looking at the excited face of Oberth, Wilhelm could not help but sigh secretly in his heart.

Decades later also popular with the phrase, the future of mankind is the starry sea, to conquer the entire universe. But this phrase shouted for decades, it is reasonable to say that with the rapid development of human technology, from this we should get closer and closer to the goal. But by the time he crossed over in 20**, not to mention the solar system, mankind has not even been able to conquer the moon " close at hand ", the number of landings on the moon was only a few times

Don't look at the various beefy spaceships that often appear in the science fiction movies of later generations, and even various scenes of star wars, but all of this is still very far away from the human race in 2019, let alone the 1920s and 1930s of today's nineteenth century.

He had wondered as a child why the nations of the earth did not put aside all their prejudices and work together to the development of outer space, but then also figured out that this is basically a fool's dream.

Prejudice and selfishness is the weakness of human nature, the origin of civilization has been 6,000 years, but mankind has not diluted its aggression and various kinds of discrimination. Unless the Earth encounters a huge, common external pressure as depicted in the movie 2012, it is possible that mankind will be united (of course, even at that time is as close as the differences, as well as the distribution of interests involved).

Since God has given him such an opportunity, he will not hope for global unification, but at least the integration of the entire European resources into space is worth a try.

" However, we still need to do a good job in advance of the technical reserves, and when science and technology reach a certain level in the future, after the emergence of new materials, as long as we are ready to put the theory into practice, right? It's better than to be in the dark and start from scratch."

Oberth simply admires this young Crown Prince. Knowledgeable, calm and rational, the pursuit of truth, not arrogant or impatient, looking at the future, but also focusing on the present. If he inherits the throne, he will definitely be a great emperor.

"You have to eat one bite at a time and take one step at a time. Let's start with the small ones. I need several kinds of rockets, military ones."

"..." Oberth didn't react for a moment, how come we just talked about space rockets and then switched to military rockets? "What kind of rockets does His Highness need?"

Wilhelm asked his secretary to bring paper and pen and brushed up his memory of the rockets scribbled out. "The first is a rocket with a calibre of 122 mm. The length of the projectile does not exceed 1800 mm and the weight of the projectile does not exceed 60 kg, including the counterweight of the combat section from 18 kg to - 30 kg. The maximum range should be at least 15 kilometres when installing 18 kilograms of combat parts. This thing does not have to deliberately pursue accuracy, as long as it falls in the general direction, to save as much as possible." When it comes to WWII rocket launchers, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely the famous Soviet Katyusha. What is less well-known is that Germany developed a similar rocket launcher in 1938. Unfortunately, the rigorous character of the Germans made the developers pursue the accuracy of this rocket. As a result, the accuracy did not improve much, but the manufacturing cost reached eight or nine times more than the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher, the German military was crazy to see this kind of thing.

Oberth once again sighed at Wilhelm's insight and took the paper and looked at it. There seems to be little difficulty, the various data of the rocket has been marked, and he just needs to fix the engine with the propellant on it. But the last sentence made him puzzled. " Your Royal Highness, this kind of weapon seems to have little precision, even if it is built, it will not be purchased by the military, right?" Since it is for military use, it must be used for warfare, and he could see at a glance that this thing would basically have little accuracy, and once it was launched, there were too many factors that could affect the flight of the projectile.

Wilhelm laughed. "One has no accuracy, but what if two dozen or three dozen were fired together? How large an area would that cover? Would there be any need to consider accuracy?" The main role of rocket artillery is to "cover the enemy's targets", that is, to hit the surface but not the point, mainly for the destruction and suppression of fire on clusters of targets and large targets, so it does not need to be so "accurate". Except, of course, for rockets with precision guidance.

"..." Oberth, after all, is not a professional weapons expert and does not quite understand what great use this rocket would be able to put to, but since His Royal Highness has brought it up, he just needs to make it.

Then Wilhelm drew up the RPzb43/54 88mm "Tank Killer" anti-tank rocket launcher, the Iron Fist, and the aerial rocket used on attack aircraft. These things only need to let Oberth be in charge of getting the propulsion device on the line, the combat warheads will be left to more professional people.

The last aerial rocket was also copied from the finished product of the Soviet Union in the original era. In the 1930's Soviet rocket expert Nikolai Ivanovich Tikhomirov and his aerodynamic research group developed an aerial rocket powered by smokeless gunpowder, which did not require a complicated mechanical firing mechanism and dead weight caused by the gun body tube but simply fired from a slotted slide under the wing of an aircraft. In late 1933 the world's first The RS-82, the first operational aerial rocket in the world, entered service in late 1933, with a diameter of 82mm and a range of 5,000 meters, making it as powerful as heavy artillery of the same calibre.

The IL-2 attack aircraft can carry 24 of these rockets, think of how much this weapon is to the "ground licker" Rudel, which will increase the performance of the battle! Maybe in addition to the Golden Oak Leaf Double Sword Diamond Knight Cross will have to set up another medal to recognize his merits.

"The last one."Wilhelm continued after a while."I want a large rocket with a range of more than 300 kilometres. A weapon that relies on its own power unit for propulsion and is guided to the target by a guidance system. The total length does not exceed 15m and the diameter does not exceed 2m. using ethanol and liquid oxygen as fuel ."As far as he knows, this Oberth's main interest lies in solid fuels. He also knows that liquid fuels have strong molecular activity and low chemical stability. They must basically be stored at low temperatures, which is quite troublesome. It can be said that the current technology simply can't make this kind of solid fuel to propel such a large rocket.

It is necessary to know that the solid rocket engine with practical value was only developed by the Soviet Union in 1956. Even if he uses future knowledge to promote the development of science and technology, he doesn't think that a solid rocket engine can be developed within ten years.

So he doesn't want to waste his time on goals that are simply impossible to achieve for nothing.

"Hiss!" Oberth couldn't help taking a breath of air, with a range of more than 300 kilometres?" For the first few types he was confident that it was not too difficult, but the last one is not so confident. After hesitating for a moment, he carefully asked. "Your Royal Highness, how much research and development time do I have?"

"Ten years." The original V2 missile only took 5 years from development to finalization, but now he has advanced the development time, but ten years should be more than enough time.

"Ten years?" Oberth could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, if he was asked to come up with such a large rocket, I should say super rocket, in two or three years, then even with a knife to his neck he was not confident that he could do it. Now with ten years' time, he thinks it's enough. Once this kind of super rocket was successfully built, it seemed that it would not be difficult to develop a sounding rocket on this basis. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was really far-sighted.

"Dr Oberth, you can invite like-minded peers to study together, although the current economic situation of the Empire is a bit bad, I will try to meet the various materials and equipment needed for your experiments. I will not treat those who contribute to the empire poorly either, not only the researchers themselves, but their families can also enjoy various welfare benefits. However, I do not need those who do not have real talent. Also, the research department will have the involvement of the national security department to prevent this technology from being stolen by foreign countries."

Wilhelm, of course, does not have the ability to read minds and will not know that the Herman Aubert in front of him is already turning into his brainwashed fan, and continues to talk to himself. Although this is not an anti-war person, Yannick still explained. "Dr Oberth, to be honest, I am also a pacifist, I also want to let Germany develop peacefully and powerfully. Unfortunately, sometimes you can't help yourself, and now Germany is surrounded by enemies who are watching, and they won't watch us send certain things into space, and maybe they will worry that one day those things will fall down and hit their heads at home."

Oberth smiled and nodded. "Fear comes from ignorance."

"Maybe they'll be curious to find out what's going on, and more likely they'll want to grab the results for their own use at home, for what purpose I have no way of knowing. What I want to do is to try to create a stable research environment for you. And the journey of the universe is certainly a bottomless pit, relying on our German financial resources alone is simply impossible to complete, so at least the integration of European power to reach. So, Dr Aubert, this heavy responsibility is handed over to you." This one is much better than Einstein. Wilhelm sighed in his heart and sent Dr Aubert out with a flattened face.