How powerful is my country’s Wanfa Cannon? This scene in the movie " Operation Red Sea " is the best embodiment!
The 10,000-round cannon mounted on this battleship directly shattered the incoming rocket into high altitudes in just a few seconds.
What is even more shocking is that our country has developed the world's first 10,000-round cannon. This weapon can fire tens of thousands of shells a minute, and the money burned is comparable to a house in a first-tier city!
The official name of this weapon is called 130 close-range anti-gun .
So, what is a close-range defense gun?
For a long time, the navies of various countries have been facing a very headache problem: how to protect valuable warships from infringement? On this basis, close-in defense artillery specifically designed to intercept the anti-ship missile came into being.
This kind of artillery uses radar to detect incoming missiles , and then fires shells quickly and in large numbers to form a barrage fire network to intercept the missiles.
On the surface, doesn't it look like an enhanced version of machine gun ?
However, in fact, the technology is not simple: there are three barriers that need to be overcome, including radar accuracy, cannon response speed, and cannon firepower intensity.
Without these three technologies, it is impossible for close-in defense artillery to intercept attacks.
Therefore, it was not until the 1970s that the world's first real close-in defense gun AK630 was born from the Soviet Union.
This weapon has 6 barrels, 30 means the caliber is 30 mm. The firing rate of AK-630 can reach up to 5,000 rounds per minute. It not only has superior firepower, but also follows the tradition of the AK series and is durable.
As we all know, a large part of our country's military weapons and systems are inherited from the former Soviet Union, and the same is true for close-in defense artillery.
Based on the AK630, my country has copied the AK630M and improved some technologies, such as internal energy drive.
However, the domestic 630 series are just imitations after all. The key technology is always in the hands of Mao Xiong, and the adaptability problem has not been effectively solved. If you want to improve your national defense capabilities, you still have to develop your own close-in defense artillery.
In the 1990s, our country had a pretty good relationship with NATO headed by the United States. At that time, they sold us the "Samos" close-in defense system that they had eliminated but was still relatively advanced. .
After nearly 20 years of unremitting efforts by scientific researchers, from imitating the Western naval gun to developing it by ourselves, the world-shaking 1130 close-range anti-gun was finally born!
is the same as Russian weapons, and the number 130 has a specific meaning.
Among them, 11 means that the gun has 11 barrels, and 30 means that it uses a 30mm caliber Gatling shell.
For ordinary people, these basic data may not tell much, but as long as they list the three major advantages these data bring to them, they can understand how powerful 1130 is.
is the first one, because his shooting speed is the best in the world.
Compared with the predecessor 630 close-in defense gun, the 1130 has an unprecedented 11 gun barrels, doubling the rate of fire. Some people may say that it is not so difficult to just add a few more gun barrels. However, in fact, adding more gun barrels is not as simple as imagined.
On the one hand, after adding the cannon tube, the key fire control problem must be solved to prevent the launched cannon shells from colliding and exploding before they hit the enemy.
On the other hand, after adding a barrel to increase the rate of fire, the heat dissipation and durability of the barrel material must also be considered. Otherwise, the close-in defense gun will explode before one round of shells is fired.
After overcoming the above two main problems, the 1130 close-in defense gun has passed the paper design. After many years of actual combat testing, 1130 was finally installed on Chinese warships. The efforts of
researchers finally paid off. After increasing the number of barrels to 11, the rate of fire of the 1130 reached an astonishing 11,000 rounds per minute, which is about 166 rounds per second. It is a true "10,000-round gun"!
You must know that the same type of Russian AK630M2 close-in defense gun is equipped with 12 barrels and has a maximum rate of fire of only 10,000 rounds.Our country's close-in defense artillery was developed from the initial model of the Russian close-in defense artillery, and it actually surpassed them.
As for the United States, which is known as the number one in the world, their close-in defense artillery has a maximum rate of fire of only 4,500 rounds, while our country's 10,000-round artillery is three times that of theirs.
It can be said that my country's 11.3 million-round gun, as the world's first 30mm close-in defense gun equipped with 11 barrels, has a greatly increased rate of fire, which also means that the ammunition supply system must also be improved accordingly.
In fact, the 1130 is equipped with two large magazines, each containing 1,280 rounds of artillery shells. Together with the ammunition supply chain, it is enough to support its organizational firepower network. The improved model of 1130 also adds two additional magazines, and its battery life is undoubtedly greatly enhanced.
Secondly, the second advantage of 1130 is that fire control system is at the forefront of the world.
This weapon uses large closed-loop fire control technology. How powerful is this technology? That is, even if the target suddenly shifts direction, our shells will change direction accordingly.
Under the continuous correction of the fire control system, the cannon uses a large amount of data collected to increase the hit rate to an astonishing level. Therefore, no matter how advanced the enemy's missiles are, there is no way to escape. The real-time calculation of
requires extremely precise dynamic capture technology and powerful brain analysis capabilities. It is precisely because of breakthroughs in these two technologies that the 1130's fire control system is at the forefront of the world.
Of course, in order to control firepower, in addition to improving the accuracy of the cannon shells themselves, it is equally important to sense the position and direction of enemy missiles. The radar detection system installed in 1130 has exactly this capability. The 349 centimeter-wave tracking radar equipped with the
1130 close-in defense gun, coupled with the independently developed photoelectric infrared detection ball, enables it to detect up to 48 targets at the same time within a range of 20 kilometers, far exceeding the 4,000 targets of the close-in defense gun itself. meter range.
As long as the enemy does not launch a dense missile swarm attack, 1130 will definitely be able to intercept them one by one, and automatically select the optimal interception route based on its intelligence.
Not only that, this fire control system also has strong anti-interference capabilities. In the face of enemy electromagnetic interference , although the radar may be affected, the 1130 can rely on the photoelectric system to detect and intercept.
In this way, the 1130 close-in defense gun is equivalent to having all-weather combat capabilities, and can accurately intercept anti-ship missiles at night with limited vision or in relatively chaotic battlefields.
The 1130 close-in defense gun is also equipped with the latest phased array radar to replace the original 349 centimeter wave tracking radar.
We can imagine a scene like this: a warship is sailing on the sea, and a batch of rockets are flying rapidly from the sky in the distance. As a result, before they get close, they are shattered by the dense barrage of flames on the warship.
Finally, the third and biggest advantage of the 1130 is that it has unparalleled firepower.
As mentioned before, the 1130 close-in anti-cannon uses 30mm cannon shells. What is the concept of this caliber?
In one sentence, it is enough to penetrate any military light armor.
You must know that the "cannon" Barrett sniper rifle that shoots through the bulletproof plate is like shooting a piece of paper, and its caliber is only 12.7 mm.
Not only that, the 1130 close-in defense gun uses the tail-stabilized sabot-piercing projectile , with a total length of 165 mm. The lengthened barrel means that more gunpowder is loaded, and the power generated by its propulsion is of course stronger.
At the same time, when the artillery shell is launched and is about to contact the target, the slender tungsten carbide projectile will automatically break away from the shell and quickly pierce the target with the propulsion force generated by the secondary explosion of gunpowder.
And its four tail fins can reduce wind interference, allowing the shell-piercing projectile to remain stable during the attack, thus greatly improving the hit accuracy.
Based on the maximum range of 5,000 meters, this artillery shell can intercept the Mach 3 supersonic anti-ship missile . The current terminal speed of mainstream sea-skimming anti-ship missiles is only Mach 3.
Of course, the powerful armor-piercing projectiles are being equipped and used by all major powers, especially the United States. The Oshkosh shells they use are 8 mm longer than those used by our country.
But in terms of firepower intensity, the American machine guns and shells are still not as good as ours. Because intercepting high-speed targets requires high-precision technology, the United States is powerless.
The two most critical points are, on the one hand, the rate of fire mentioned before, and on the other hand, accuracy. In both aspects, my country's 10,000-shot cannon has an advantage.
In addition, Wanfa Gun also has a relatively obvious advantage in terms of firepower, that is, it can integrate the fire control system and short-range air defense missiles into the entire close-in defense system.
In other words, our country can equip other missiles to make up for the lack of long-range interception capabilities of close-in defense artillery. Such a powerful firepower network, even the Tomahawk cruise missile anti-ship model that the US military is proud of, cannot break through. In the 1980s, the US military developed the AGM-84 "Harpoon" anti-ship missile, which was used to target naval vessels of other countries.
However, due to the lack of attention to the anti-ship aspect, the Harpoon missile has not been updated for a long time, with a range of only 280 kilometers, and the internal system is also very backward.
Therefore, they wanted to get close to our warship , but they were probably crushed before they even saw our warship.
After that, in the 1990s, the U.S. military put the upgrade of the Tomahawk cruise missile into an anti-ship model and put it on the agenda. However, after years of development, the United States found that the improved Tomahawk anti-ship missile did not work because of the upgrading speed of our navy. It's too fast.
With the firepower of 11,000 rounds per minute of our country's 1130 close-in anti-ship missiles, the Tomahawk anti-ship missile will be torn up within 3 seconds after entering the range, and it will not pose a threat to our warships at all!
You must know that every anti-ship missile launched by the US military has been accurately calculated by the advanced "Aegis" combat system. However, even so, the Tomahawk anti-ship missile still cannot break through the 1130 firepower network.
After that, the United States, unwilling to fail, suspended the further transformation and development of the Tomahawk anti-ship missile and decided to re-develop an anti-ship missile that could pose a threat to our military.
The U.S. Pentagon stated that the AGM-158C long-range anti-ship missile they developed is the world's first intelligent anti-ship missile that can independently analyze and attack.
However, it is not yet known whether the AGM-158C can have an advantage compared to my country's 1130 close-range anti-cannon. This missile has not yet been officially installed in the U.S. Navy, and it is impossible to counter my country's tens of thousands of artillery.
Therefore, our country's 11.3 million artillery guns have strong advantages in three aspects: rate of fire, fire control, and firepower. Not only do they comprehensively surpass the close-in defense systems of the United States, but they are also helpless against anti-ship missiles.
my country's ten thousand-fire cannon has since been known as the "deadly dagger" on the aircraft carrier and the "golden bell" of the naval ship. It can be said that it is well deserved!
