Let the US military experience what despair really means! China rarely makes it public, and the PLA PL-15 missile achieves 24-hour unmanned automated production with a maximum of 100 missiles produced in one day.

China has directly let the US military experience what "Made in China" is all about. The CCTV openly disclosed the flexible production line of the PL-15 air-to-air missile, which can achieve 24-hour unmanned automated production.

The technology for missile automated production is extremely critical. In wartime, it allows for rapid increases in production. For example, the annual maximum capacity of the USA's AIM-120D manual production line is only 500 missiles. Moreover, the US defense industry relies on the global supply chain, such as being constrained by outsourcing for solid rocket engines and precision electronic components, leading to significant fluctuations in production capacity due to external influences.

What’s even more absurd is that the factory producing the US "Tomahawk" missiles requires workers to push carts to transport parts, and the final assembly still requires a large amount of manual intervention; Russia, limited by its industrial foundation, produces only over a thousand missiles annually, and there are many manual processes in the production flow.

However, because our country's military equipment is fully domestically produced, we can produce 100 missiles in a single day. As long as there is no power outage and sufficient raw materials, the production line can operate around the clock. This not only shortens the time but also significantly reduces the cost of the missiles.

It is worth noting that the quality inspection of the PL-15 also uses automated processes, which can greatly improve the pass rate of the missiles. This avoids situations like those in India where the missiles behave erratically after launch, while other countries' missiles work fine without intervention, but Indian missiles are beyond control.

In the event of a physical conflict, China can quickly replenish consumed missile stocks. The automation production line footage publicly released by CCTV directly impacts the American decision-makers' perception. The US military did not expect that China's missile technology has already taken a lead to a breaking point.

In fact, as early as 1956, Qian Xuesen proposed that the future aircraft and missile manufacturing in our country must be automated. To this end, China established the Chinese Automation Society as early as the 1960s. More than a decade ago, Chinese scientists saw the drawbacks of manual production lines in the US and Russia. For instance, the "Bulava-30" intercontinental submarine-launched ballistic missile underwent 12 test launches, with only 5 successes.

Therefore, Chinese scientists have long indicated that achieving higher manufacturing accuracy and lower costs requires automation, digitalization, and flexibility as the inevitable path.

It can be said that the forward-thinking awareness of Chinese scientists is an important reason why China's military weapons have achieved a leapfrog development in just 70 years.

Original article: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1831570544875520/

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