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At dawn at 5 o'clock in the morning, the special operations team used cars to carry the oil drums and burned the destroyed buildings again. The three buildings that the bombers did not drop bombs also planted explosives and blew them up one by one.
The Kalimpong training base was wiped off the map just like that. Seven CIA agents, 7 key rebels and 21 rebels trained here failed to escape. Only one rebel rolled to the ground when the building collapsed. He escaped the burning of gasoline, and got out of the ground three days later, becoming the only survivor of Kalimpong.
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Kuala Lumpur.
Boss Chen seemed to kill the conversation with one sentence, and Herter had an unbelievable expression on his face at first, but he couldn't continue the conversation.
In the last phone call with the White House before entering the conference room, neither the President, the Secretary of Defense, nor the Director of the CIA mentioned that "Kalimpong was taken away."
Now the Chinese foreign minister said that the Kalimpong training base was destroyed. Is it true or false?have no idea.You can't trust the other party's unilateral message to you at the negotiating table, especially when the message itself is very powerful.Herter had to wait for his own news channel to deliver reliable information to him.
So, let's close the meeting and talk about it tomorrow.
Back at the hotel, Herter immediately asked the accompanying confidential secretary to connect to Washington's phone.
"Mr. Dulles, at the negotiating table today, the Chinese foreign minister told me that they destroyed Kalimpong 16 hours ago. You must tell me the truth."
"We just confirmed 3 hours ago that we have lost contact with Kalimpong." The weary voice of CIA Director Allen Dulles came from the intercom.
"When will it be confirmed that Kalimpong has really been destroyed, or is it just a technical disconnect?"
Allen Dulles: "..."
In fact, Allen Dulles already knew roughly what happened in Kalimpong.After being unable to reach Kalimpong for several hours, the CIA's intelligence station in Dhaka, East Pakistan, chartered a plane and flew over Kalimpong and saw the burning buildings below.
Herter: "Mr. Dulles, the lag of the CIA's information made my negotiation with the Chinese Foreign Minister very passive today."
Allen Dulles: "Mr. Secretary of State, the card of Kalimpong, you can say, doesn't exist anymore."
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"Mr. President, Allen told me that the training base near Tibet may no longer exist. Should our negotiations bypass these topics and directly address the core issues?"
Herter contacted Eisenhower directly.
"Yes, talk directly to the Chinese side about the core issues."
Eisenhower had also just learned of the news of the Kalimpong accident.
Herter's visit to India achieved quite good results. Of course, the Indian side will not refuse the assistance handed over by the United States.The United Printing was completed, but Tibet was not used as an excuse. The first thing the newly appointed Secretary of State did abroad was that there were gains and losses.
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5 month 16 day.
The meeting between Boss Chen and Herter the day before did not discuss anything. On the morning of the 16th, the two sat at the negotiating table in Kuala Lumpur again.
On this morning, the Baikonur Cosmodrome was like a celebration scene, with triumphant smiles on everyone's faces.
This morning, the first return module of the Tianyan-59 reconnaissance satellite landed successfully in Kazakhstan, [-] kilometers away from the scheduled landing point. Now the return module has been found and is being transported back by helicopter. It will soon arrive at Baikonur The launch center is up.
On May 5, Tianyan-10 was successfully launched into space.After two days of ground positioning and tracking, the precise orbital parameters of Tianyan-[-] were determined, and then the Baikonur Ground Center sent control instructions to the satellite to point the lens at the earth.
The orbital perigee of Tianyan-300 is 6000 kilometers, and the apogee is as high as 6000 kilometers. The lens of Tianyan-[-] is not a high-magnification spy lens, but a slightly wide-angle lens group. The orbit is also high. After Liov calculated, he simply changed it to [-] kilometers, so that he could take a standard full-body photo of the earth.
After the satellite lens direction was adjusted, it began to take pictures. It only flew once at the apogee, and 80 films were shot.This roll of film was automatically sent into the No. [-] return module. When the satellite made another revolution, the return module popped up, the rocket ignited, and fell back to the earth like the test return satellite last month.
The hall of the ground center of Baikonur was arranged as a celebration site.On the wall in the background, there are huge national flags of the Soviet Union, China, and East Germany.
In front of the national flag, Korolev and his assistant Vasily Mishin; Wang Xiji, the deputy chief designer of Tianyan-[-], and Tu Shancheng, an expert in the control system; Ebel Dürer, a special engineer for the optical lens group of Zeiss Jena, Agfa's chief engineer, Hans Dupler, six people first stood in a row for a group photo, and then at the request of the photographer, the six people stood in a semicircle with six hands stretched out and stacked together, and then took a group photo.
The return capsule-A of Tianyan No. [-] was delivered, loaded on a trolley, and pushed to the center of the venue. Now not only the group photo was taken, but the documentary film crew also started.
"This space launch is a model of cooperation between the socialist camp. The Soviet Union manufactured the Luna launch vehicle, China manufactured the reconnaissance satellite, and the GDR manufactured high-precision optical lens sets and aerospace-specific film," Korolev said, " In space, international cooperation will allow us to move faster and more efficiently."
"I hope that such cooperation can continue in the future." Bell Dürer said.
Wang Xiji: "The three backup stars of Tianyan-[-] will be refitted on the spot in Baikonur, and the wide-angle lens group will be converted into a high-magnification lens group. I hope our work will go smoothly."
Korolev: "Actually, Qian Xuesen and Tang Hua are missing from today's celebration. If the two of them can appear here, then the group photo will be perfect."
Wang Xiji: "It's really a pity, but Director Qian and Minister Tang are working intensely now. After more than a month, our own new rocket and new satellite will also fly into the sky."
Chapter 220 We have a good business reputation
When the return capsule of Tianyan-3 was successfully retrieved, Qian Xuesen was at the missile test base, and what he launched was not a satellite, but a high-ballistic test missile of Dongfeng-[-].
This is the heaviest ballistic missile/rocket ever made in China. The weight of the fired missile is 83 tons, and the thrust of the first-stage engine is 120 tons.Under normal conditions, Dongfeng-3 carries a 2.5-ton warhead with a maximum range of 5500 kilometers. This range is a bit embarrassing. It can only hit Alaska in the east, and it can hit Paris in the west if it is deployed in Xinjiang.
To directly attack the mainland of the United States, Dongfeng-5 must come out.
Therefore, when the Dongfeng-3 project was established, it was confirmed that this missile would not be equipped too much, and a few were produced symbolically. The main purpose was to create a cheap launch vehicle for launching small and medium-sized satellites under 1.4 tons, followed by this 120 tons of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine-nitrogen tetroxide rocket engine.
The design of this engine is very perfect, and the specific impulse is not bad. If the reliability is high, then using it as a booster with a diameter of 2.25 meters will be easy to design in the future for bundled launch vehicles.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1, launch!"
Dongfeng-3 rises vertically from the launch pad and continues to rise.It is almost vertical when flying to a height of 30 kilometers, and it does not deflect much at a height of 60 kilometers.
——This test firing is a high ballistic test firing.
The missile is completely manufactured according to the range of 5500 kilometers, but the parabola is drawn as high as possible when launching, and the final warhead landing point is only 2200 kilometers away from the launch base.
The advantage of the high-trajectory test is that you don’t need to find a 5500-kilometer test site to do it, and the detection of the rocket’s range is also basically reliable. The only difference is that when the warhead re-enters the atmosphere, because it is straight down, the flying distance in the atmosphere The missile with a range of 5500 kilometers is relatively short, and the heat of the warhead will be more intense when it passes through the atmosphere.
Twenty-eight minutes later, a meteor fell from the sky in the Aksu region of western Xinjiang, dragging flames in the high school, slowing down slightly when reaching an altitude of 28 meters, and then hitting the desert.
"Dongfeng-3's first high-ballistic flight test was successful. The rocket's two-stage engine works normally, the flight trajectory is normal, and the warhead re-enters the atmosphere normally."
Qian Xuesen reported the results of this test to Beijing, "The deviation of the warhead landing point from the planned impact point is 1550 meters. This may be the reason why the parameters were not fully calibrated for the first high-trajectory test firing. We will have another high-trajectory test firing next time." Opportunity to adjust..."
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Beijing.
Nie Shuai had read Qian Xuesen's report from Wuliang Suhai, but Tang Hua hadn't.
On this day, Tang Hua was in a large temporary hangar at an airport in the western suburbs, studying the U-2 reconnaissance plane that was basically assembled.
The skin of the U-2 fuselage that fell into the cornfield was not only broken into pieces, but the surface was also uneven. However, the assemblers tried not to flatten the skin again, but let it sit after finding out where the pieces should be. Leave it as it is there.
In a corner of the hangar, several comrades from the Bureau of Electronics and Information Industry and the Communication Department of the General Staff gathered around a long table on which were placed U-2's communication equipment and electronic countermeasure equipment.
Tang Hua was at the other corner of the hangar, observing the U-2 engine with Lu Xiaopeng, Huang Zhiqian, Tu Jida, Wu Daguan and others.
"It's really unexpected," Lu Xiaopeng said, "I thought before that the U-2 can fly to more than 4000 meters, and its engine must be extremely powerful. It must be one or two generations more advanced than ours. But look at this engine It's not like that."
"This... Pratt & Whitney's J75 engine, right? It's an axial-flow turbojet engine. Looking at its turbo combination, the compression ratio is not so high that we can't understand it," Tu Jida said. The Bass 102 is at the same level of technology, it is not much more advanced than the Olympus 102, at most it has improved a little.”