As we all know, Ukraine ’s military industry is very developed, most of which are inherited from the former Soviet Union, but the relevant technical performance is not lagging behind today. It has also exported a large amount of equipment and technology to China. From the Varyag aircraft carrier to the IL-78 tanker to the European Bison air-cushion landing ship, it can be said that there is no reservation. And just recently, Ukraine once again provided a big treasure to China. Even if this treasure is Neither does Russia.
This treasure is the manned lunar module . In the 1960s and 1970s of the last century, the former Soviet Union confidently launched a huge moon landing plan . The early stage of the lunar landing activity mainly included two steps. The first step It means "orbiting", flying around the moon and observing the moon. The former Soviet Union completed this step in 1959. At that time, "Lunar 1" had already flown near the moon, but it was delayed in the second step. Failure to break through finally allowed the Apollo to land first. Although the former Soviet Union did not achieve the moon landing in the end, it conducted extensive and complete research on various technical equipment for the moon landing, including the lunar landing module.
Military experts said that the former Soviet Union’s technical research on the lunar module has been quite complete. Although this technology has been forty years old, it is still not backward in terms of scientific research level. After the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, related The technical achievements of Ukraine were inherited by the Southern Design Bureau of Ukraine. This design bureau not only mastered the technology of the lunar module but also mastered the development and manufacturing of the launch vehicle . However, as far as Ukraine itself is concerned, it does not have the ambition to develop aerospace and aerospace. Financial support is needed, so simply transfer the relevant technology to China, which can not only obtain financial support, but also make the best use of this valuable technological achievement without wasting it.
The manned lunar landing project is extremely expensive and technically difficult, which mainly includes two difficulties. One is high-thrust launch vehicle technology. The N1 launch vehicle developed by the former Soviet Union for the manned lunar landing project weighs nearly 2,800 tons. , with a height of more than 100 meters and a thrust of up to 4,600 tons. The thrust of low-Earth orbit reaches 95 tons. The thrust of lunar orbit is 23 tons. However, our country currently does not have a super-large launch vehicle of the same level. It can be seen that the technological gap is huge, but N1 However, the launch vehicle failed in all 4 launches, which directly led to the failure of the plan.
The second difficulty is the lunar module. Since China does not have any relevant experience and technology accumulation on this equipment, and does not even have an object to refer to, so if it is developed and designed from scratch, it will not only take a long time and be technically difficult, but also It may not be successful, but Ukraine's transfer of the complete set of blueprints and technology of the lunar module is undoubtedly a timely help, which has greatly reduced China's research and development cycle and related preliminary demonstration costs. This alone will save at least Billions of dollars.
The lunar module-related technologies and research results mastered by Ukraine are closely related to Russia. As a traditional aerospace power, Russia has not given up its exploration of aerospace, but its overall technological level is not as good as that of the former Soviet Union. Russia has also considered Ukraine wanted to return the technical achievements of the lunar module, but ultimately gave up due to a series of issues such as price. The Russian media was very dissatisfied with this and accused Ukraine of selling off its ancestral property. But in response, Ukrainian media retorted: They would rather give relevant technology to China for free than sell it to Russia.
