Aowei, a naval officer, carefully examined the loitering missile's specifications and spotted a problem. He quickly pointed it out:
"Boss, isn't this missile a little too slow?"
According to the design plan, the loitering missile would fly at around 500 to 700 kilometers per hour.
This wasn't a design flaw. The civilian piston engines used among its components could only reach that speed.
To increase its speed, they would have to use a jet engine or a solid-fuel engine, but that would inevitably drive up production costs.
Besides, jet engines and solid fuel weren't easy to obtain. With Luzon's current industrial capacity, mass production wasn't feasible.
Even if they could produce them in quantity, the cost would prevent them from making enough.
The loitering missile was meant to overwhelm the enemy with sheer numbers, so they couldn't greatly increase its cost just to improve some of its performance.
"Speed is certainly a weakness, but it can be compensated for." Li Qingye brought up another file.
It outlined ways to improve the loitering missile.
Since its speed was limited by its engine, they could make up for it with other approaches.
Plan One: an ultra-low-altitude penetration model.
By leveraging Homo sapiens Company's advantages in biological computer technology, they could equip the loitering missile with an exceptionally powerful intelligent control system, allowing it to fly just above the ground or the sea.
Radar had unavoidable blind spots when monitoring at ultra-low altitudes, since terrain, obstacles, and waves could easily interfere with it.
As long as the missile remained undetected by radar, its speed wouldn't matter.
After all, modern interception and defense systems relied on radar, sonar, and satellites, with radar serving as a key detection method. If radar couldn't lock onto an incoming target, the interception missiles and systems would be blind.