Munitions Empire

"In other words, if we aim for the very center of the Dahua Empire's capital, there's a high probability that this missile would land within the city of the Dahua Empire's capital."

When such abysmal attack accuracy was laid out in front of Tang Mo, he even considered canceling this unreliable attack plan.

In his recollection, the attack accuracy of the DF-3 missile was roughly between 1 and 2 kilometers, hitting a city-sized target was still pretty easy.

Anyway, he didn't want to kill Zhao Kai outright, so he didn't see a problem with the attack accuracy being between 1 and 2 kilometers, even without a nuclear warhead.

But the attack accuracy calculation results provided by his scientists, engineers, and technicians were an absurd "ten kilometers" that left him not knowing whether to laugh or cry!

Such accuracy meant that even if the target was a large city with a population of hundreds of thousands or millions, it could still miss its mark...

Tang Mo thought of that man with a tuft of Little Mustache between his lip and nostril, and he felt that his missile plan was nothing compared to Germany Three's V2 rocket festivity.

In World War II, more than 18,000 V-type missiles were launched by Germany Three, achieving the "glorious" success of killing over 30,000 people... It was beyond painful to watch, the sheer genius of killing a hundred enemies at the cost of three thousand of oneself.

Tang Mo felt that if he were to employ the DF missiles currently being developed to attack the Dahua capital, he would be no different from Mister Adolf.

However, in the recent days, the plan he had abandoned was seeing a glimmer of hope again: previously Tang Mo wasn't prepared to use this secret weapon in the war against the Dahua Empire, but now Tang Mo planned to use it to scare Zhao Kai and push for a swift end to this war.

Plainly put, it was just a bluff, to make Zhao Kai feel the pressure of an attack on the capital, and decisively push him to surrender and seek peace.

A large-scale launch was definitely unaffordable, but launching one or two wouldn't pose any problem. Hence, Tang Mo began exploring every possible way to help his engineers improve the missile's attack accuracy.

Regrettably, the manual missile creation method in the lab could barely produce technologically updated missiles, but couldn't guarantee their quality.

The previous prototype units, pure copies of V2, practically provided no useful experimental data for Tang Mo's engineering team.

Some missiles crashed after flying more than a hundred kilometers, others had a staggering attack deviation of ten kilometers; it was terrible to witness.

These data were almost random; occasionally, a missile would meet the design requirements perfectly, executing orders impeccably, and landing near the targeted area.

Yet, experimentals that were identical in every way could also appear with a five-kilometer error, completely missing the target!

Keep in mind, this was just a trial model with a range of only 300 kilometers, but the missiles intended to be fired into Dahua Empire territory had a range of a whopping 1700 kilometers!

No one could guarantee that a combat-type missile could carry 1500 kilograms of explosives to fly 1700 kilometers and precisely land on the roof of some unlucky individual in the Dahua Imperial Capital.

Therefore, to be cautious, engineers and technicians from the Great Tang Group split into two completely different teams, producing two identical DF-3 missiles in the factories of Tongcheng and Nanye.

As for why the first combat-ready missile was named DF-3, that was due to the King's bizarre weapon naming convention. Everyone was accustomed to those strange and baseless weapon names.

So the world's first ballistic missile to be ready for combat wasn't called West Wind or South Wind, nor North Wind—it was oddly named East Wind, starting straight off with the third generation…

"The next round of testing is for the second generation, the DF-2, with a range of 1000 kilometers, and we will conduct three trials. If the experimental data prove our inertial guidance system is reliable, we might consider continuing to the next steps…" The two of them talked as they walked towards a massive missile body covered by a tarpaulin.

"I really can't believe it. If someone told me ten years ago that we'd have something like this, I might have laughed and said they were crazy," murmured an engineer who was involved in the development of such cutting-edge technology as he touched the canvas covering the missile.

This might be the first time in the world that we have the means to attack targets over a thousand kilometers away. With such weapons, the Imperial City, over a thousand kilometers away from the border, would no longer be safe.

And at this very moment, the original inhabitants of this world still didn't know that, in Tang Mo's mind, the ultimate form of this weapon was actually meant to be used in conjunction with a brand new super weapon.

Once the two combined, they could open a new chapter.

"Isn't that the truth? Even as I stand here looking at this big fellow right in front of me, I can hardly believe it could fly 1700 kilometers and hit a target in the Dahua Imperial Capital," another engineer exclaimed excitedly.

…

The cold sea water slapped against the deck as a U-type submarine bobbed up and down in the churning waves.

Leaning against the frost-covered railing, the submarine's captain peered through his binoculars, meticulously searching for any potential targets on the sea surface.

"Captain! I think we've been had! There's no way there are any enemy warships in this godforsaken place!" a sailor on the submarine, wearing a thick woolen coat, shouted to the captain beside him over the noise of the waves.