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On April 23, 2019, when the new nuclear submarine appeared like a dragon in the deep blue sea, countless people in front of the screen were filled with excitement.
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China's nuclear submarines have grown from scratch, from weak to strong, and after half a century of struggle, they have finally made their way to the sea.
No one will forget the difficult journey of China’s first independently developed nuclear submarine. There is no information, no drawings, no equipment, no experience, and we have never even seen a physical nuclear submarine. Coupled with the technological blockade of other countries, the difficulty is evident.
Everything is not available, only scientists who are full of enthusiasm to serve the country can just walk out of the muddy mountain road to a broad road.
What is surprising is that China actually confirmed the correctness of our country's nuclear submarine research with a toy from the United States.
After the United States learned about it, they immediately angrily investigated the toy manufacturers.
What is going on? What toys helped us so much? Will the U.S.’s rigorous investigation reveal anything?
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Chairman Mao
In 1953, Chairman Mao took a warship to inspect the Yangtze River . The small warship was like a drop in the ocean on the majestic Yangtze River, which caused Chairman Mao to be deeply worried about the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains in the motherland.
In modern times, China has been plundered from the sea by Western powers many times. What caused this situation was the weakness of our country's naval power.
Chairman Mao deeply understood that today's international situation is turbulent and turbulent, and it is urgent to build a strong navy. If we want to achieve this long-cherished wish, nuclear submarines are indispensable.
Because of the super concealment and endurance of nuclear submarines, they have been hidden deep in the ocean for a long time. Once a large-scale war occurs or the country suffers a nuclear attack, nuclear submarines can carry out nuclear counterattacks at any time.
Chairman Mao
The existence of nuclear submarines will also deter aggressors, thereby acting as a deterrent.
In 1958, China's nuclear submarine research and development project was officially launched, but was temporarily stranded due to various reasons.
In August 1965, my country's first-generation nuclear submarine officially began development following the footsteps of the United States and the Soviet Union.
The first batch of nuclear submarine R&D personnel gathered experts in submarines and ships across the country, a total of 129 people. But when it comes to nuclear submarines, these experts are no longer “specialized”.
At that time, not to mention building nuclear submarines, there were not many people in China who had seen what a nuclear submarine looked like. It really had to start from scratch.
At that time, the Soviet Union was still China’s big brother and provided a lot of help to China. China planned to develop nuclear submarines and originally wanted to learn from them.
Khrushchev
Unexpectedly, when Chairman Mao asked Khrushchev for help, he was rejected. He said arrogantly: "Nuclear submarines are technically complex and expensive. You can't build them, and you don't need to build them. The Soviet Navy has such weapons, which can also protect you."
It's obviously not feasible to expect others to protect you. If so, where will the dignity of a country be put? How can I, a huge country, be a bystander in the vast ocean?
Chairman Mao immediately waved his hand: " Then we will build a nuclear submarine ourselves. It will take ten thousand years to build it."
Chairman Mao's toughness and determination made Khrushchev dissatisfied, and he immediately withdrew all the Soviet experts who had aided China. There was also a lot of military industry information, which was burned and taken away.
Khrushchev
As a result, our country's experts were blinded, and they only relied on the two blurry photos of nuclear submarines in their hands to make trouble.At that time, almost all foreign media collectively badmouthed China and declared that China would not be able to build a nuclear submarine even if it took a hundred years.
Indeed, you need money but no money, you need people but no one, you need skills but no skills, all you have is a fiery heart. Just wanting to build the most sophisticated weapons in the world is purely whimsical.
But it is the most important weapon of the country. Since you love it and since you have chosen it, no matter how bumpy the road ahead is, experts will fly against the wind.
Riding a tiger is difficult and it is difficult to reach a deadlock
Faced with such a predicament, experts turned pressure into motivation. They looked for information about nuclear submarines from various foreign channels and newspapers. Even if it was just a few words, the experts would not let it go.
Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated
just to get a little bit of useful data or even inspiration. The world is so big that there are countless newspapers and magazines. Looking for clues about this cutting-edge weapon such as nuclear submarines is undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But it is the experts' tenacious struggle and unwillingness to give up that have allowed them to filter out and classify the vast amounts of newspaper and periodical materials to build an effective database. They call it the " overall layout of US nuclear submarines", which is also the prototype of my country's first nuclear submarine material.
Due to the lack of advanced calculation methods and testing methods, experts use abacus and slide rule to calculate various complex data on nuclear submarines.
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In order to avoid errors caused by manual calculations, two groups of people worked all night to calculate. If the results on both sides are consistent, the data will be adopted.
If the results of the two groups of people are inconsistent, a third group of people will be arranged for accounting. After the calculation, whichever side of the data is consistent with the data will be used. If it is still inconsistent, the three groups of people will start the calculation from scratch.
Such a huge and complex calculation project is all allocated one by one by abacus . One has to admire the experts' practical spirit and rigorous work style. China is fortunate to have them.
How credible is it that a nuclear submarine can be designed based on information found in newspapers and periodicals?
If we rush to build it in the wrong direction, the manpower and material resources spent will undoubtedly make China's poverty and poverty worse.
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Later, the experts unanimously agreed and decided to use cheap wood to build a wooden nuclear submarine at a one to one ratio. Only with the actual object can there be a specific direction.
just started making wooden submarines by carefully selected and trained carpenters at the Yangzonghai Lake in Yunnan. After the outline was released, experts stayed on the wooden boat day and night to refine various technologies and details.
More than a thousand holes were drilled on the boat, 46,000 items were made, more than 90 kilometers of cables and more than 30 kilometers of pipes were made.
With the breakthrough of seven key technologies, the internal and external structure of the wooden boat began to approach the nuclear submarine in the data.
But for experts, they have never seen a real nuclear submarine. If this wooden nuclear submarine independently designed by China is built, everyone will be unsure.
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The construction was at a deadlock, and when the experts were at a loss, the emperor paid off, and a toy from the United States brought an opportunity.
The God behind the United States assists
There is a saying in China that nothing can be written without a coincidence. It is this "coincidence" that breaks the situation where experts are riding a tiger.
In 1959, the U.S. ballistic missile strategic nuclear submarine was launched. It marked that the United States had a global deterrent force because of this nuclear submarine. It immediately attracted and shocked the world's attention.
At this time, the boss of a toy company in the United States called Renval, Grexi , made his own calculations with a businessman's sense of smell.
Such an exquisite and popular weapon, if you make it into a toy, you will definitely make a lot of money.So he did everything possible to obtain relevant data on nuclear submarines, and then copied the entire structure of a ballistic missile strategic nuclear submarine at a scale of 1:200 to create a simulation toy.
黄 Xuhua
Coincidentally, when a Chinese diplomat was waiting for his flight back home, he suddenly wanted to bring a gift to his son. So I randomly walked into a supermarket and happened to see this strange toy among the dazzling array of toys, so I bought one and took it home to give to my son.
By chance, nuclear submarine chief designer Huang Xuhua heard that the diplomat had brought back a nuclear submarine toy from the United States. He was helpless, so he came to visit out of curiosity.
When he saw the toy, Huang Xuhua was very excited. This was really a timely help, God bless China.
This nuclear submarine toy is made of iron. The structure and internal details are designed just like a real small nuclear submarine. The key point is that various accessories can be disassembled and can be carefully studied by experts.
What surprised the experts even more was that after comprehensive mapping and comparison of this toy, they found that the proportions and internal structure design of China's independently designed nuclear submarine were almost exactly the same as it.
黄 Xuhua
In this way, after several years of cold and heat, on December 26, 1970, China's first torpedo attack nuclear submarine was successfully launched and successfully completed the testing of more than 200 projects in various stages.
Experts broke through the difficulties time and time again, and finally succeeded in developing the first nuclear submarine by themselves. Because of the whim of a diplomat, this toy produced on the other side of the ocean allowed China to produce its first nuclear submarine several years ahead of schedule, and since then it has realized a nuclear strike force of land, sea and air.
Since then, China has had the ability to fight in oceans. China has become the fifth country to own nuclear submarines after Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The significance is self-evident.
On August 1, 1974, China's first nuclear submarine "Long March 1" was incorporated into the Chinese Navy's North Sea Fleet and officially entered service.
Long March 1
8 years later, Hyman George Rickover, the father of the U.S. Navy, visited our country. When he heard that the nuclear submarine in front of him was helped a lot by an American toy, he realized the seriousness of the matter. After
returned to China, he immediately started investigating the matter. Soon the toy manufacturer Renval surfaced. Because the toy sold for two dollars, it leaked information about the US military's valuable nuclear submarines, which made Hyman furious.
Toy owner Gray Hill was sued in court and his toy company disappeared.
In the following ten years, my country's self-developed nuclear submarines broke many world records with their outstanding performance. Behind the success of
, American toys are just the icing on the cake, and inseparable from the success is the patriotism and selfless dedication of the experts.
Hyman George Rickover
Anonymous to achieve success
Huang Xuhua, who was awarded the title of "Top Ten People in China" in 2021, is the chief designer of China's first generation of independently developed nuclear submarines.
Back then, Huang Xuhua had just returned home from a business trip when he received a call asking him to go to Beijing. Huang Xuhua simply packed his luggage, said goodbye to his wife, children, parents and came to Beijing. He thought he would come back in a few days. Unexpectedly, it will be thirty years later when I come back.
Huang Xuhua, 32 years old at the time, was ordered to accept the top-secret task of developing nuclear submarines. Since then, he has been immersed in the southwestern mountains for thirty years. Unable to return home, unable to be filial to his parents, and unable to have children, he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the research and development of nuclear submarines.
In the thirty years since Huang Xuhua left, he was just a shadow to his family. The family has always heard about him but never seen him. The only way to contact him is through a 145 mailbox.
Huang Xuhua
It is difficult for his parents and brothers to understand his behavior and they are full of resentment towards him. His father will also return the remittance slip after receiving it.
Huang Xuhua can endure the hardship of the environment and the hardship of work, but the misunderstanding of his family is like a thorn in his heart, but even if it is bloody, he still has to endure it, because he knows that what he is carrying on his shoulders is the future of the country.
Due to his remote location and busy work, he only learned about his father's serious illness half a year later. By then, his father had left this world forever. It was Huang Xuhua's lifelong regret that he could not die for his father.
Later, a reporter mentioned this matter in an interview. Huang Xuhua said: "There is a dilemma between loyalty and filial piety. Loyalty to the country is filial piety to your parents, and my father, I believe he will forgive me."
Huang Xuhua said this, and he did the same.
黄 Xuhua
In 1983, nuclear submarines were required to conduct extremely risky extreme deep-diving tests, because the key to a nuclear submarine's combat effectiveness lies in extreme deep-diving.
The deep-diving test not only tests the structural design of nuclear submarines, but also tests the construction quality and functions of nuclear submarines.
Therefore, the perfection of every weld, every pipe, every valve and every screw plays a vital role. Any problem at any point will cause irreparable consequences.
Prior to this, the United States, which has always been at the forefront of science and technology, was in danger during a deep-diving test. None of the 129 people on the nuclear submarine survived. The failure of the American deep-diving experiment brought huge psychological pressure to the people who participated in the deep-diving.
Huang Xuhua
Some people wrote suicide notes, and some people sang loudly in the dormitory about their blood-stained style. Huang Xuhua saw all these mentality of the participants.
It is very dangerous to conduct this test in such a state. In order to give the test participants a positive attitude, 62-year-old Huang Xuhua decided to personally participate in the deep-diving test to give the test participants a reassurance. Then the deep dive test achieved great success.
Huang Xuhua’s move was the first chief designer in the world to personally participate in a high-risk test. This tradition continues to this day in the military industry.
Huang Xuhua is a human being, and he is also afraid of birth, old age, illness and death, but when the country needs him most, he uses his small body to build a fearless national backbone.
Huang Xuhua
China has developed to this day because of the sincere dedication of countless scientists like Huang Xuhua.
They have nothing to do with wealth, reputation, status, life or death. As long as the motherland is beautiful because of him, they will feel that all their efforts will be worth it.
