Recall the hypersonic "Spade"
We have to eliminate the results of the actual betrayal of the national interests of the country.
May 11 Dmitry Rogozin visited the Raduga State Machine-Building Design Bureau named after A.Ya. Bereznyak, the parent company manufacturing air, sea and land-based cruise missiles. The next working trip to Dubna outside Moscow, the acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, was devoted to solving one of the most important problems of rocket and aircraft construction - the development of hypersonic aircraft.
Hypersound is a speed five times the Mach number (M, let me remind you that this figure is 1230 kilometers per hour). To create an aircraft capable of not moving, but truly rushing at such a speed, it is necessary to use new technologies and materials, to install super-power engines on it. Blowdowns in the wind tunnel showed that the flow of such a product by the air flow follows physical laws different from those that guide the design of subsonic and supersonic airplanes. Accordingly, a different design of the wing, the bow.
Mastering a long flight in the atmosphere with hypersonic speeds is a qualitative leap in aircraft and rocket production, the opportunity to acquire highly efficient weapon systems with fundamentally new properties. Hypersonic weapon will significantly increase the effectiveness of military equipment due to the increase in speed, ensuring invulnerability with modern means of interception, expanding the range of applications in range and height, as well as increasing the kinetic energy of the striking elements.
But the main thing is not even that.
Boomerang hit
The presence and potential use of hypersonic weapons, as well as the level of development that allows them to create technologies, will have a significant impact on the military-political situation on the planet in the twenty-first century, and will determine the status of the country possessing it in the world community. In the near future, hypersonic guided missiles (GZUR), along with ICBM-equipped nuclear warheads, will prove to be a powerful means of defending the strategic interests of the state in the international arena.
In the Soviet Union, the development of hypersonic rocket and artillery systems with a ramjet (ramjet engine) was carried out since the 60-s. Thanks to the considerable scientific, technical and technological reserve accumulated at that time, our state significantly outstripped advanced foreign countries in this area. Unfortunately, now there is a reverse trend, in connection with which Dmitry Rogozin spoke out very harshly:
- We were convinced that this is the result of not only the dramatic processes that influenced the collapse of the USSR and which affected the state of industry, defense and security of the country in general, but also subjective decisions. Today it makes sense to analyze what happened in terms of compliance with the current moment, the current interests of the country. This is a decision of the political leadership of the end of 80-ies to artificially stop the most advanced development of hypersound. Otherwise, as a betrayal of national interests, I can not call it.
Today, after so many years, this decision boomeranged our interests. In many areas in the framework of this work we were ahead of the United States of America, other powers. Now we have to look for technological solutions that will allow us to cut the corner, to reach a serious result in the near future. But what means and human energy it will require!
Of particular danger from the point of view of ensuring the defense capability of our country is the work carried out now in the United States under the programs X-51, Falcon, HiFire, HyFly, and a number of others. Proven breakthrough innovations provide Americans with the prospect of moving from demonstration prototypes to building a long-range multi-function hypersonic missile in 2015 – 2018.
With the help of such hypersonic cruise missiles, the United States is building a new strategy to influence world politics. In the next five to seven years, the city will acquire the ability to deliver lightning, precise strikes to the command and control points of the armed forces, nuclear submarine bases and the mine installations of intercontinental ballistic missiles, long-range bomber locations on the territory of the enemy. And he, even possessing the SNF, simply does not have time to answer.
Jet start
The creation of cruise missiles in the USSR was carried out by the machine-building design bureau Raduga. Founded in 1951 in the city of Dubna, the design bureau developed and produced the first domestic samples of guided missile weapons - the KR, which at that time were called projectiles of air-to-surface, ship-to-ship, and ground-to-ground classes.
Over the 60 years of its existence, the GosMKB Raduga - today the leading enterprise of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation - has transferred over fifty such systems to our military, including high-precision missiles for long-range and front-line aircraft aviation, warships. 20 developments were awarded the Lenin and State Prizes. The first product was the unique anti-ship complex "Comet", which was equipped with a Tu-4 bomber. The prototype of this projectile was created in OKB-155. The development of serial production was entrusted to the aircraft factory number 1.
1 November 1951 began work on fine-tuning “Comet”, and at the beginning of 1953, the team coped with the task entrusted to it. The first independent development of the design bureau in Dubna was the B-15 rocket. It was put into service in the 1960 year, and a few years later it successfully passed the baptism of fire in the Middle East. The next achievements are also 70 – 80-s.
The unique "Mosquito"
Today, the Rainbow missile systems, having received high marks in many countries, are shipped abroad. In particular, the company offers a new generation of high-precision long-range weapons:
The Ovod-ME rocket weapons complex with X-59МЕ and Х-59М2Э missiles is designed to destroy ground and surface targets visually visible by the operator. There are no analogues. Rocket X-59МE equipped with a navigation system and automatic control. Television command guidance system ensures accuracy of reaching up to two or three meters at distances up to 115 kilometers. KR can fly around the terrain at a height of up to seven meters (above the sea). There are missiles of increased range - up to 285 kilometers.
Until now, the 3M-80E Moskit anti-ship missile system has not been surpassed by anyone. More than 30 inventions and discoveries have found application in this unique product. He is in the arsenal of our army and fleet (imported version of Moskit-E and Moskit-MVE) and is designed to destroy surface ships and transports from naval strike groups, amphibious assault forces, convoys, single ships with a speed of up to 100 knots at a distance of up to 240 kilometers. It is almost impossible to detect such a supersonic missile, changing the flight path, with air defense systems.
“The Americans tried, but they could not create something similar,” says the general director of the public corporation “Raduga” machine-building plant named after them. A. Ya. Bereznyak "Vladimir Trusov. - The Mosquito anti-ship missile has a speed above 2,5 M and practically flushes the ship even without a warhead. Sold abroad, in particular in China. Now it is being upgraded.
To this day, the aerodynamic configuration of the X-22 rocket, proposed by the designer Rafail Khaykin, remains unchanged. Its upgraded version of the X-58 has a higher TTX. The same can be said about the Rubezh coastal missile system, which was adopted in October 1978 of the year and is still part of the fleet's combat assets. A lot of ingenious technical solutions required the creation of radio transparent fairings for the D-2 product.
One of the most outstanding achievements of GosMCB “Rainbow” is the cruise hypersonic rocket GELA (hypersonic experimental aircraft), nicknamed the “Shovel” for the unusual shape of the head part. It was developed with considerable difficulties - it required unique technologies that are comparable with real scientific discoveries. "Spade" passed flight tests, although not without comment. The speed reached by her exceeded 5 M. However, the work was stopped by the decision of the country's political leadership.
Recovering
Despite all the difficulties, work on new types of high-speed missiles, in particular for strategic aviation, did not stop at GosMKB Raduga. In the 2005 year, Vladimir Putin, for the first time, said about the need to create new missile systems - high-precision long-range cruise missiles and blessed the test of one of the modern models with unique characteristics. After 90-s, employees of the company again felt that their work was in demand. Today we need to take the next step.
“In 60, I came here as an intern,” says Vladimir Trusov. - Next to me worked masters of their craft. And today the most important thing is to preserve unique engineers and developers.
Alas, over the past years in our country some of the rare technologies have been lost, production cooperation and the supply of some components have been disrupted. Not spared these processes and GosMKB "Rainbow". The team has decreased significantly, there are fewer orders for the state defense order. It is urgent to restore the lost potential. Heads of enterprises like Raduga fully experience, to put it mildly, the negative result of the short-sighted, even short-sighted policy of the then leadership of our country, for which Rogozin now has to apologize. Truly, Russia is a country with an unpredictable past.
GosMKB “Raduga” has accumulated a unique scientific, technical and design potential throughout the entire cycle of development, production, operation and modernization of samples of guided missile weapons. As part of the federal program, industrial buildings are being reconstructed; in recent years, new progressive technologies and equipment have been introduced, including a robotic welding complex that provides automatic welding of complex-shaped welds on surfaces of double curvature, a CNC press, and a coordinate measuring machine. The process of stamping with heating by hydraulic press combined with heat treatment and calibration has been successfully mastered. There is a laboratory and test base that provides an almost complete range of tests needed to create new versions of mass-produced products, ground testing and testing of air and ship-based missiles, as well as an aerodynamic complex, stands for semi-natural and mathematical modeling.
Much needed
Speaking at the meeting "On the state and prospects of hypersonic aircraft and building weapons systems based on them," Dmitry Rogozin stressed that in order to fundamentally change the situation, the Military Industrial Commission under the government of the Russian Federation will pay the closest, we can say, daily attention to the development of hypersonic technologies. This question was recently raised by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Nizhny Tagil.
Research in the development of advanced hypersonic weapon systems on the orders of the Russian Ministry of Defense has resumed since 2009.
“We expect,” Rogozin said with confidence at the meeting, “that carrying out a complex of such works will lay the foundation for the creation in the near future of domestic competitive models of hypersonic weapons.
However, the current technological level of our “defense industry” is not enough for this. Without conducting research on the key areas of development of supersonic technologies to create a combat model, the transition to the practical development of OCD may not be feasible. It is necessary to immediately implement a number of organizational and practical measures. To accomplish this task, the meeting outlined a plan for priority activities. The stages of reaching concrete results by years, cooperation and personal responsibility of those who will be engaged in it are defined. The reports of the state customer were heard - the Ministry of Defense of Russia and the main performers of the work being done.
New conceptual policy documents on the military use of promising developments will be required. In practical terms, research is needed on the main key areas of hypersonic technology development. In short, the emergence of prototypes and final samples of hypersonic aircraft requires the efforts of various departments.
It is important to raise this topic to the highest state level, to provide for the preparation of relevant regulatory legal acts. There is a huge amount of work related to the study of new materials, the creation of a poster base, the cooperation of surviving enterprises that are successfully increasing their labor productivity today. Relevant proposals will be reported to the President of the Russian Federation.
Whether the new task of creating a modern hypersonic rocket armament can be met in the Raduga GosMKB is a matter of time. So far, one thing is clear: it will not be possible to resolve this issue without eliminating the primary "sore" of our military-industrial complex - a personnel problem.
May 11 Dmitry Rogozin visited the Raduga State Machine-Building Design Bureau named after A.Ya. Bereznyak, the parent company manufacturing air, sea and land-based cruise missiles. The next working trip to Dubna outside Moscow, the acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, was devoted to solving one of the most important problems of rocket and aircraft construction - the development of hypersonic aircraft.
Hypersound is a speed five times the Mach number (M, let me remind you that this figure is 1230 kilometers per hour). To create an aircraft capable of not moving, but truly rushing at such a speed, it is necessary to use new technologies and materials, to install super-power engines on it. Blowdowns in the wind tunnel showed that the flow of such a product by the air flow follows physical laws different from those that guide the design of subsonic and supersonic airplanes. Accordingly, a different design of the wing, the bow.
Mastering a long flight in the atmosphere with hypersonic speeds is a qualitative leap in aircraft and rocket production, the opportunity to acquire highly efficient weapon systems with fundamentally new properties. Hypersonic weapon will significantly increase the effectiveness of military equipment due to the increase in speed, ensuring invulnerability with modern means of interception, expanding the range of applications in range and height, as well as increasing the kinetic energy of the striking elements.
But the main thing is not even that.
Boomerang hit
The presence and potential use of hypersonic weapons, as well as the level of development that allows them to create technologies, will have a significant impact on the military-political situation on the planet in the twenty-first century, and will determine the status of the country possessing it in the world community. In the near future, hypersonic guided missiles (GZUR), along with ICBM-equipped nuclear warheads, will prove to be a powerful means of defending the strategic interests of the state in the international arena.
In the Soviet Union, the development of hypersonic rocket and artillery systems with a ramjet (ramjet engine) was carried out since the 60-s. Thanks to the considerable scientific, technical and technological reserve accumulated at that time, our state significantly outstripped advanced foreign countries in this area. Unfortunately, now there is a reverse trend, in connection with which Dmitry Rogozin spoke out very harshly:- We were convinced that this is the result of not only the dramatic processes that influenced the collapse of the USSR and which affected the state of industry, defense and security of the country in general, but also subjective decisions. Today it makes sense to analyze what happened in terms of compliance with the current moment, the current interests of the country. This is a decision of the political leadership of the end of 80-ies to artificially stop the most advanced development of hypersound. Otherwise, as a betrayal of national interests, I can not call it.
Today, after so many years, this decision boomeranged our interests. In many areas in the framework of this work we were ahead of the United States of America, other powers. Now we have to look for technological solutions that will allow us to cut the corner, to reach a serious result in the near future. But what means and human energy it will require!
Of particular danger from the point of view of ensuring the defense capability of our country is the work carried out now in the United States under the programs X-51, Falcon, HiFire, HyFly, and a number of others. Proven breakthrough innovations provide Americans with the prospect of moving from demonstration prototypes to building a long-range multi-function hypersonic missile in 2015 – 2018.
With the help of such hypersonic cruise missiles, the United States is building a new strategy to influence world politics. In the next five to seven years, the city will acquire the ability to deliver lightning, precise strikes to the command and control points of the armed forces, nuclear submarine bases and the mine installations of intercontinental ballistic missiles, long-range bomber locations on the territory of the enemy. And he, even possessing the SNF, simply does not have time to answer.
Jet start
The creation of cruise missiles in the USSR was carried out by the machine-building design bureau Raduga. Founded in 1951 in the city of Dubna, the design bureau developed and produced the first domestic samples of guided missile weapons - the KR, which at that time were called projectiles of air-to-surface, ship-to-ship, and ground-to-ground classes.
Over the 60 years of its existence, the GosMKB Raduga - today the leading enterprise of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation - has transferred over fifty such systems to our military, including high-precision missiles for long-range and front-line aircraft aviation, warships. 20 developments were awarded the Lenin and State Prizes. The first product was the unique anti-ship complex "Comet", which was equipped with a Tu-4 bomber. The prototype of this projectile was created in OKB-155. The development of serial production was entrusted to the aircraft factory number 1.
1 November 1951 began work on fine-tuning “Comet”, and at the beginning of 1953, the team coped with the task entrusted to it. The first independent development of the design bureau in Dubna was the B-15 rocket. It was put into service in the 1960 year, and a few years later it successfully passed the baptism of fire in the Middle East. The next achievements are also 70 – 80-s.
The unique "Mosquito"
Today, the Rainbow missile systems, having received high marks in many countries, are shipped abroad. In particular, the company offers a new generation of high-precision long-range weapons:
- the OVOD-ME complex with the X-59М2Е rocket;
- X-59MK long-range air-to-surface missile;
- X-59МКХNUMX aviation guided missile;
- anti-radar missile X-58USHKE;
- Moskit-MBE missile system with an anti-ship missile 3М-80МВЕ.
The Ovod-ME rocket weapons complex with X-59МЕ and Х-59М2Э missiles is designed to destroy ground and surface targets visually visible by the operator. There are no analogues. Rocket X-59МE equipped with a navigation system and automatic control. Television command guidance system ensures accuracy of reaching up to two or three meters at distances up to 115 kilometers. KR can fly around the terrain at a height of up to seven meters (above the sea). There are missiles of increased range - up to 285 kilometers.
Until now, the 3M-80E Moskit anti-ship missile system has not been surpassed by anyone. More than 30 inventions and discoveries have found application in this unique product. He is in the arsenal of our army and fleet (imported version of Moskit-E and Moskit-MVE) and is designed to destroy surface ships and transports from naval strike groups, amphibious assault forces, convoys, single ships with a speed of up to 100 knots at a distance of up to 240 kilometers. It is almost impossible to detect such a supersonic missile, changing the flight path, with air defense systems.
“The Americans tried, but they could not create something similar,” says the general director of the public corporation “Raduga” machine-building plant named after them. A. Ya. Bereznyak "Vladimir Trusov. - The Mosquito anti-ship missile has a speed above 2,5 M and practically flushes the ship even without a warhead. Sold abroad, in particular in China. Now it is being upgraded.
To this day, the aerodynamic configuration of the X-22 rocket, proposed by the designer Rafail Khaykin, remains unchanged. Its upgraded version of the X-58 has a higher TTX. The same can be said about the Rubezh coastal missile system, which was adopted in October 1978 of the year and is still part of the fleet's combat assets. A lot of ingenious technical solutions required the creation of radio transparent fairings for the D-2 product.
One of the most outstanding achievements of GosMCB “Rainbow” is the cruise hypersonic rocket GELA (hypersonic experimental aircraft), nicknamed the “Shovel” for the unusual shape of the head part. It was developed with considerable difficulties - it required unique technologies that are comparable with real scientific discoveries. "Spade" passed flight tests, although not without comment. The speed reached by her exceeded 5 M. However, the work was stopped by the decision of the country's political leadership.
Recovering
Despite all the difficulties, work on new types of high-speed missiles, in particular for strategic aviation, did not stop at GosMKB Raduga. In the 2005 year, Vladimir Putin, for the first time, said about the need to create new missile systems - high-precision long-range cruise missiles and blessed the test of one of the modern models with unique characteristics. After 90-s, employees of the company again felt that their work was in demand. Today we need to take the next step.
“In 60, I came here as an intern,” says Vladimir Trusov. - Next to me worked masters of their craft. And today the most important thing is to preserve unique engineers and developers.
Alas, over the past years in our country some of the rare technologies have been lost, production cooperation and the supply of some components have been disrupted. Not spared these processes and GosMKB "Rainbow". The team has decreased significantly, there are fewer orders for the state defense order. It is urgent to restore the lost potential. Heads of enterprises like Raduga fully experience, to put it mildly, the negative result of the short-sighted, even short-sighted policy of the then leadership of our country, for which Rogozin now has to apologize. Truly, Russia is a country with an unpredictable past.
GosMKB “Raduga” has accumulated a unique scientific, technical and design potential throughout the entire cycle of development, production, operation and modernization of samples of guided missile weapons. As part of the federal program, industrial buildings are being reconstructed; in recent years, new progressive technologies and equipment have been introduced, including a robotic welding complex that provides automatic welding of complex-shaped welds on surfaces of double curvature, a CNC press, and a coordinate measuring machine. The process of stamping with heating by hydraulic press combined with heat treatment and calibration has been successfully mastered. There is a laboratory and test base that provides an almost complete range of tests needed to create new versions of mass-produced products, ground testing and testing of air and ship-based missiles, as well as an aerodynamic complex, stands for semi-natural and mathematical modeling.
Much needed
Speaking at the meeting "On the state and prospects of hypersonic aircraft and building weapons systems based on them," Dmitry Rogozin stressed that in order to fundamentally change the situation, the Military Industrial Commission under the government of the Russian Federation will pay the closest, we can say, daily attention to the development of hypersonic technologies. This question was recently raised by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Nizhny Tagil.
Research in the development of advanced hypersonic weapon systems on the orders of the Russian Ministry of Defense has resumed since 2009.
“We expect,” Rogozin said with confidence at the meeting, “that carrying out a complex of such works will lay the foundation for the creation in the near future of domestic competitive models of hypersonic weapons.
However, the current technological level of our “defense industry” is not enough for this. Without conducting research on the key areas of development of supersonic technologies to create a combat model, the transition to the practical development of OCD may not be feasible. It is necessary to immediately implement a number of organizational and practical measures. To accomplish this task, the meeting outlined a plan for priority activities. The stages of reaching concrete results by years, cooperation and personal responsibility of those who will be engaged in it are defined. The reports of the state customer were heard - the Ministry of Defense of Russia and the main performers of the work being done.
New conceptual policy documents on the military use of promising developments will be required. In practical terms, research is needed on the main key areas of hypersonic technology development. In short, the emergence of prototypes and final samples of hypersonic aircraft requires the efforts of various departments.
It is important to raise this topic to the highest state level, to provide for the preparation of relevant regulatory legal acts. There is a huge amount of work related to the study of new materials, the creation of a poster base, the cooperation of surviving enterprises that are successfully increasing their labor productivity today. Relevant proposals will be reported to the President of the Russian Federation.
Whether the new task of creating a modern hypersonic rocket armament can be met in the Raduga GosMKB is a matter of time. So far, one thing is clear: it will not be possible to resolve this issue without eliminating the primary "sore" of our military-industrial complex - a personnel problem.
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