In the war of the first generation, attacking space targets was not a strange thing. Long before military powers such as the Republic, the United States, Russia and other military powers successively established the Heavenly Soldiers and Sky Army, the "space warfare" was popular among military strategists. Many people even believe that space will be the new commanding heights of war. Whoever controls space will have the initiative in the war. Although theoretically speaking, this understanding is not wrong, the difficulties in implementing it in practical actions are beyond imagination.

After the establishment of the Heavenly Soldiers, the Republic began to explore space operations.

After initial theoretical and tactical research, the pioneers of the Republic's heavenly soldiers realized a very serious problem, that is, under the existing technical conditions, the cost of space combat is too high and exceeds the country's ability to bear. In this way, the Republic has transformed into developing defensive space military forces and only conducted theoretical research in the offensive field. Like the Republic, after theoretical and tactical research, the United States and other major military powers have put defensive space military forces first, and then studied offensive space military forces after technological progress.

There is a conceptual issue involved here, that is, "defense" and "offensive"

In the military field of space, the concept of "defense" includes deploying military forces in space, protecting one's own space forces, and attacking enemy space targets; "offensive" refers to strike operations targeting various targets within the enemy's atmosphere, including the ground, sea, air, and under the sea.

This definition is significantly different from other military fields.

From this definition, it can be seen that the main question of space combat is not how to attack the enemy, but how to project strike force. "Defensive" space combat has relatively low requirements for power delivery and is easier to achieve; "Occurrence" space combat has relatively high requirements for power delivery and is difficult to achieve.

The key to "power delivery" is cost.

In fact, military power delivery is very similar to the transportation of materials in the civilian field. Regardless of the means and what kind of goods are transported, the essence is the same, that is, to deliver specific goods to the destination in some way.

If power is dropped into space by conventional means, the cost will be higher than any pound that the country cannot afford.

Taking the launch vehicle as an example, even if the low-cost hydrogen and oxygen liquid fire engine is used, the production cost of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen is greatly reduced. The cost of hydrogen and oxygen rocket engines is lower than that of medium oxygen rocket engines. The cost of a military reconnaissance satellite with a mass of about old tons is more than 100 million yuan. Including the manufacturing cost of reconnaissance satellites, its value is more than 800 million yuan. The average service life of reconnaissance satellites is about 3 to 2 years, which is equivalent to BNY per year according to remote calculations. To form a complete reconnaissance satellite network, at least an interface radar phase satellite, an optical phase satellite is needed, plus

There are 4 supplementary satellites on each, with a total of five satellites, with an average annual cost of high. The complete military satellite network also includes navigation and positioning satellite constellations, communication satellite networks, strategic alert satellite systems, etc. Take the Republic as an example. At the beginning of previous years, a total of military satellites have been in orbit. The average annual budget for military satellites is as high as 100 million yuan. During the same period, the United States spent nearly 400 million US dollars on military satellites. Including the development, design, and various basic investments related to military satellites, the Republic invested more than 100 million yuan in annual cost for military satellites, and the United States spent about US dollars on military satellites every year.

Such a huge cost is just an open public

If the space delivery force is developed according to the standards of air transport force, its cost will be even more incalculable.

In this case, the launch vehicle will definitely not be able to bear the heavy responsibility. Only the space shuttle that can be used repeatedly can become a qualified space transport force. Perhaps many people think that the space shuttle can be used repeatedly, and the delivery cost is definitely much lower than that of the launch vehicle, but in fact it is not. The United States is the only country with experience in using the Aeroplane. After the old year, it gave up all the space shuttles and turned to the development of giant launch vehicles. The "return to the moon" in the United States

In your hand, the space shuttle is not used to transport cargo to the moon, but the "God of War" launch vehicle with a low-Earth orbit carrying capacity exceeding old tons. According to the NASA, the "God of War" can be used to transport the lunar module directly to the moon. In the future operation to land on Mars, the "God of War" will form a transit station in low-Earth orbit and then set off towards Mars. It can be seen that in the eyes of Americans who are proficient in calculations, aerospace is not an ideal vehicle.

Around the old year, the Republic also conducted conceptual research on the space shuttle, and the final conclusions were not much different.

Because the cost of daily maintenance and maintenance is extremely high, although the US space shuttle can only recover the booster rocket by recycling the booster rocket, and burning the external fuel chamber in the atmosphere can reduce the single launch cost, but the total cost of use is still higher than that of the launch vehicle.

Of course, the future development potential of space shuttles exceeds that of launch vehicles.

The United States has not completely given up on the space shuttle, and the Republic is also making related efforts.

There are three main ways to increase the efficiency and cost ratio of the space shuttle: First, develop new materials, improve the maintenance and repeated use of the space shuttle, and reduce the cost of single use; second, increase the launch altitude and launch speed, and reduce the time to induce the "in the atmosphere, thereby reducing the amount of fuel consumption; second, develop new fuels, reduce the cost price and thrust-weight ratio, and improve economics.

Relatively speaking, the key to reducing costs is the last point.

Improving the performance of space shuttles is not difficult. Major countries around the world are doing related research. For example, Western countries such as the United States, France, Germany, etc. have been studying in this field for decades and have proposed various development plans. With the advent of a large number of new materials, it is not difficult to improve the reliability and maintainability of space shuttles. It is not difficult to improve the launch altitude and launch speed. The most effective solution is to launch the space shuttle at high altitudes above the thugs.

;With the emergence of various large electric transport aircraft, the solution to rely on electric transport aircraft as the space shuttle launch platform has long been proposed, and the cost is within an acceptable range. Only the last point is that the development is very difficult; although aerospace propellants with catalytic metal hydrogen as the main component have been successful in the laboratory, they are still a long way from mass production, and the cost is still scary. If the problem of propellants cannot be solved, the cost of space transportation will never reach the air transport level.

The transportation costs cannot be reduced, and the price of deploying military forces in space cannot be afforded.

Tian Nian, Tian Bing submitted a report on the "Lian Nian Long-term Development Regulations" to the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense." It clearly mentioned that the development speed of new aerospace propellants must be accelerated, the production of catalytic metal hydrogen must be expanded, and the cost of space power delivery should be reduced to the old times of air transport after Tian Nian. Even based on this calculation, the cost of transporting kilograms of cargo to low-Earth orbit is still as high as 10,000 li yuan. For military power delivery that is tens of thousands of tons or hundreds of thousands of tons, this cost still exceeds the country's ability to withstand it.

Of course, this cost is within acceptable limits for military operations to strike key targets.

More importantly, in terms of the national strategic defense system, the unit delivery cost of Choukouyuan is the minimum threshold.

According to the "National Strategic Defense System" in the "Far-term Development Plan Report". Part of the content, in the fourth stage of force construction, the outer space defense system will be the key force of the entire national strategic defense system, and it is also the basic force for dealing with supernuclear powers, including the United States. Only by establishing an outer space defense system and the Republic with real strategic defense capabilities can it gain the lead in direct confrontation with the United States.

But the content of the plan is too large.

The "outer space defense system" contains a subsystem, namely "early early warning system." "target detection, identification and tracking and locking system real-time information exchange system thugs. Kinetic energy weapon interception system" and "energy weapon interception system". The defense system covering the world contains a total of military satellites in order, namely blades, strong famous particles, must-have old particles. Among them, the ones after the 10th are spare satellites, with the total delivery quality exceeding string power. If calculated based on the single delivery cost of Choukou Yuan, it takes 100 million yuan to launch a satellite alone, plus the cost of manufacturing satellites, the total cost exceeds Zuozhou Yiyuan. Because the average working time of the entire system is only years, the average annual investment of persuasion 100 million yuan is required. If the development and pen expenses are not small.

Obviously, the "outer space defense system" is still a defensive space military concubine.

From the plan of the Heavenly Warrior, it can be seen that the "energy weapon interception system" accounts for the majority. It is precisely because the "energy weapon interception system" has a higher efficiency ratio that causes this situation. For example, under the same quality, although the manufacturing cost of a defensive satellite using a high-energy laser interceptor is about twice that of a defensive satellite using a kinetic energy interceptor warhead, the service life in orbit in the former is three times that of the latter, and the interception capacity is twice that of the latter. According to the full-life service cost, the former is obviously much cheaper than the latter.

Compared with offensive space military forces, the delivery quality of defensive space military forces can only be considered a drizzle.

Before the old year, the United States conducted theoretical research on offensive space military forces, such as deploying military satellites carrying kinetic warheads in space, using kinetic energy warheads to destroy high-value strategic goals on the ground. In the theoretical research stage, the US military even proposed the idea that kinetic energy warheads sent by satellites can deal with all targets. The problem is that after the theoretical research, the US military terminated the R&D plan on the grounds of "insufficient technical reserves."

The real reason is not the lack of technical reserves, but the high cost.

After the emergence of new attack means, new defense means will appear. Even if the destruction ability of the kinetic warhead is enough to meet the needs of military strikes, in a war, there are hundreds of thousands, or even tens of thousands of high-value targets that need to be attacked. When all attacks are made with offensive space military forces, the mass of ammunition delivered at one time is 100 tons, or even more than 100 tons. Calculated by the 0-year delivery cost of force thugs requires tens of billions of dollars. According to a single cost, the delivery cost of offensive space military forces is dozens of times that of air force, which is not a magnitude at all. Even if according to the development rules of the Republic's heavenly soldiers, the delivery cost of offensive space military forces is reduced to about the old times of air force around the Tiannian period, and the strike cost of offensive space military forces is still ridiculously high. It is still far from large-scale use.

The cost issue has limited the most important space warlords.

When the technology to develop offensive space military forces is still immature, the Republic and the United States and other major powers have concentrated their efforts to develop defensive space military forces, and give priority to the development of strategic defense forces. The Japanese war has proved that when the strategic defense forces reach a certain level, strategic offensive forces will become a decoration. Whether it is the Republic that actively promotes comprehensive nuclear disarmament or the United States that secretly cause trouble, they all recognize the impact of defensive space military forces on strategic nuclear forces, and also realize that strategic nuclear forces will be eliminated sooner or later.

Because the space-based strategic defense system is naturally able to deal with space targets, except for a few energy weapon defense systems that intercept in the ballistic missile boost section, that is, the active section, most space-based defense systems intercept in the middle section of the ballistic missile, that is, the inertia section, so the space-based strategic defense system has taken on the mission of attacking enemy military satellites from the day it was launched.

In the "space demilitarization negotiation", the most debated standard is the "militarization".

In fact, no one can restrict some major powers from using space-based defense systems to deal with enemy space targets, and no technical means can limit them. As long as major powers insist on developing strategic defense systems, it will be no difficulty to use strategic defense systems to deal with military satellites. In this way, what "demilitarization of space" can limit is only offensive space military power, not defensive space military power.

Ultimately, the temptation to strike the enemy's military satellites is too great.

As early as the Fourth India-Pakistan War, the Republic attacked India's military satellites. Although India did not have many military satellites at that time and the impact of the strike operation was not very large, during the Japanese War, the Republic's operation to attack Japan's military satellites was greatly successful and had a huge impact on the war. From then on, attacking military satellites became the real "commandering heights of war."

After the Japanese War, led by the Republic, the United States and Russia, major space powers around the world signed an agreement that is not legally binding, namely the "Outer Space International Blatant". The treaty clearly stipulates that no country shall actively attack space targets of third parties and neutral countries. The reason why this agreement is not legally binding is that it does not clearly define the meaning of "third party". For example, in the Indian War, the United States provided the intelligence collected by military satellites to India, is it considered a third party to the war?

Of course, in a broader sense, "militarization of space" once again raises the threshold for modern warfare.

The technology and cost of war have been greatly improved. Only the powerful and advanced technology-based powers have the ability to occupy the commanding heights of the war. Not to mention third-rate countries, such as second-rate powers such as Britain, France, and Germany, do not have enough national strength to support the huge space military force and cannot occupy the commanding heights of the war, thus losing the strength to compete with first-class powers in military competition and confront global confrontation.

This result has had a decisive impact on the evolution of the global situation.

For those second-rate countries that want to become first-class powers, there are only three ways out. First, improve the country's economic and technical strength as soon as possible and keep up with the pace of first-class powers; countries that can take this path must have vast territory, rich resources and sufficient labor. The most representative ones are Russia, followed by Brazil and India.

Second, it forms a political and military alliance with a first-class power. Relying on the protection of a first-class power, the typical representatives of embarking on this path are Britain and Pakistan. Third, it forms a political and military alliance with several second-class powers, so that the overall strength of the alliance reaches the level of a first-class power, and the most representative one is the EU led by France, Germany and Italy.

This shows how much impact the Japanese war had on the world pattern.

Everyone knows that the next large-scale regional war will not only change the world pattern again, but will also make "regionalization" the main development abandonment of the future world.

As a soldier, Pei Chengyi was not considering future development, but how to win this war.

Although India's space military power is not strong, it is impossible for India to develop from a third-rate country that has just been defeated in the past year to a first-class power. Although the assistance provided by Western countries led by the United States has helped India to achieve the modernization of military power to a great extent, in terms of space military power involving the commanding heights of the war, no matter the United States or other Western countries, it is impossible for India to sincerely help India. From the perspective of the country's comprehensive strength, India does not have the ability to develop space military power. From the perspective of national security, India cannot give priority to the development of space military power without guarantees in land, sea and air.

There are not many targets that need to be attacked, and it is undoubtedly the best opportunity for practical training for the heavenly soldiers of the Republic.

To a large extent, it can even be regarded as an initial inspection of the "Fourth-stage National Strategic Defense System Construction Project".

For this war, the heavenly soldiers concentrated on launching Lido military satellites in June and formed a set of small energy weapons to intercept satellites.

It is worth it to have these "backbone" forces used to form national strategic defense systems to deal with the enemy's military satellites before dealing with ballistic missiles.

For Pei Chengyi, what he has to do is still waiting.
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