Chapter 936 The "small rib" of joint research and development
Although Su Xiaomei was a little resentful of the accuracy of the rocket shells that she could not control to the extent of her satisfaction, Liu Lang slapped Zhao Ergou's expectant eyes and then set the "Storm" rocket launcher.
He knew very well that it would take decades for the future principality to improve the accuracy of rockets. These future technological elites may be strong enough, but they also need enough time. However, Liu Lang has no time and the kingdom has no time to wait any longer. The war is coming soon.
The work of the scientific research project team is to assist the production department in starting to produce rockets with all their might and store enough ammunition for the upcoming war.
Since rocket launchers are confidential weapons, Qinglong Machinery Factory, which belongs to the independent regiment, will carefully select 30 technical workers to form a production team to set up a production workshop specially designed for them to produce ordinary and extended-range rockets.
All workers are old workers who have been in the small machinery factory in Liu's family for more than five years. Not only will the security department investigate their families again after the candidates are determined, but any immediate relatives who have left Qiu Tongzhou will be excluded. Moreover, until the war breaks out, all workers are not allowed to go home to visit relatives. They will be given one day off every month, and their families can reunite at the base for a day of reunion.
Of course, the management is very strict, but the treatment is also high. All the families of selected workers can own a free house in "Shuguang" town, and their monthly salary is three times that of ordinary skilled workers. Those whose children want to join the army are also given priority. Those who want to go to school can also coordinate with the state government to attend the best school-level school-level officers in Mocheng. They are now comparable to the salary of independent regiment school-level officers, and are also affordable.
The workers were treated very well, not to mention the scientific research project team led by Su Xiaomei, who developed the main artillery of the independent regiment. Not to mention the ten-member team of the entire scientific research team, the silver coin of 10,000 yuan, but they were all awarded the silver "Fearless" medal of the independent regiment. Song Wenjian, deputy leader of the project team who risked a huge risk to ignite the experimental rocket launcher alone, was awarded the pure gold "Hero" medal and the prize of 2,000 silver coins. This was an honor that Su Xiaomei, the head of the project team, did not receive.
However, judging from Su Xiaomei's sweet smile, Song Wenjian won this honor, not only did she not feel dissatisfied at all, but on the contrary, she was happier than her own award.
Just like in the play, no matter how amazing she is, she is still a woman, a woman with new science and kingdom traditions in her heart. Her dream is just to accompany the people she loves deeply, spread her wings and fly together, and contribute her own strength to her country and nation.
Song Wenjian is worthy of being the greatest technological master in the future principality that can make "Madame Curie of Kingdom" devoted to it. Perhaps the successful development of the rocket gave him inspiration. With the help of Captain Schennai, Liu Lang hired a lot of money, he almost completely imitated the rocket launcher, which had been successfully tested in 1918 by the genius rocket expert Dr. Goddard, was born.
However, this rocket launcher is not amazing when it comes out, but is disliked by all the school officials who tested the shooting except Liu Lang.
A very simple single-soldier rocket launcher is different from the feelings that his subordinates dislike. Liu Lang, who regains the feeling of carrying 40 fires, showed enough interest.
Captain Liu was secretly happy with expressionless face, but Zhao Ergou and others who accompanied Liu Lang to experiment were hard to laugh.
This kind of simple single-soldier bazooka is not just a slag. If it hits two consecutive shots within an effective range of 150 meters, it can still destroy a sandbag fortification. Three years ago, they might have become fools.
However, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance to frugality. The officers who already have semi-automatic rifles, a large number of mortars and secret weapons and rocket launchers have become increasingly clever in their choice of weapon tastes.
If possible, they would rather push 200 kilogram infantry cannons or 37mm war defense cannons to fight the Blackhawk Empire's tanks and fortifications, rather than carrying this simple thing with only 150 meters effective range to fight bayonets with the Blackhawk Empire's machine guns.
Of course he had his reason. In fact, this kind of single-soldier bazooka was short-range and not powerful enough. The bazooka of Song Wenjian project team could not even penetrate field fortifications covered with sandbags 200 meters away, and even off-target occurred. When it approached 100 to 150 meters, the threats to soldiers increased dramatically.
This is actually one of the important reasons why the military does not pay attention to the rocket launcher.
The essence of the technology of the rocket launcher is also lies in the rocket. The performance of the rocket designed by Song Wenjian is actually better than that of Dr. Goddard, the father of the White Eagle Kingdom. It also relies on rocket fuel to generate thrust. Although the fuel is almost the same as the 18 kg class of the Storm Rocket Launch, it is just that it is easy for soldiers to carry it, and the weight of the bullet body is reduced to 3 kg. The fuel requires more than one kg, plus the weight of the bullet body, and the explosives in the warhead are less than one kg.
But it is obvious that the rocket launcher rockets and rocket launchers, which are used as single-arm weapons to break the fire, cause damage to people and objects on the ground by raising fire.
It is obviously impossible for rocket fuel to be as powerful as the launching drugs of traditional shells, and can produce huge driving force. Therefore, the initial velocity of a rocket is far less than that of a traditional shell. The power of a shell is closely related to its speed. The faster the borehole speed, the greater the power. The initial velocity of a rocket is so low, the penetration power will naturally be lower.
The characteristics of a single-soldier rocket launcher also lead to a weakening of its power. Because the advantage of a rocket is that it can continue to ignite and burn and provide continuous impetus, and it can still burn for a long time even after flying out of the rocket launcher. The rocket's blasting speed may not be too high, but it can continue to accelerate, so that its speed should also be very high until it hits the target.
Unfortunately, as an infantry bazooka, it is impossible to do this. Because once the rocket flies out of the steel pipe and continues to burn, the rear tail flame generated will inevitably burn the bazooka launcher.
If it is on a fixed platform like a rocket launcher, because there is no one nearby, it will be burned and there is no impact at all. But a single-soldier rocket launcher cannot do this. Infantry use the fuel of the rocket and must burn it all before the rocket leaves the steel pipe. This means that continuous thrust cannot be generated, and the initial velocity of the rocket will naturally be slower and the range cannot be very far.
Finally, since this kind of rocket launcher needs to be carried by individual soldiers, the diameter cannot be very large. The larger the diameter, the thicker the steel pipe, and the heavier the weight.
In fact, the rocket launcher itself has no technological content, just like the rocket launcher's gun mount. In fact, it is just a seamless steel pipe that provides aiming and shooting directions for the rocket that is about to be launched.
As a "super fan" who is extremely obsessed with individual bazooka, Schennai has a special liking for the 51-caliber bazooka originally set by Dr. Goddard. The bazooka designed by the bazooka project team is also 51-caliber.
The rocket's firing rate is far less fast than the shells. The armor used to deal with tanks cannot rely on speed to generate large penetration, but can only rely on the power of the warhead. According to the 51mm caliber, even if the rocket warhead is equipped with high-energy yellow explosives that can be produced by the independent regiment's military industry, its armor-breaking power can only reach about 10mm.
Obviously, this single-soldier rocket launcher that was learned by the Chinese people in Baiying gave people high expectations, but the actual effect was average. At least one two-person team, one with a rocket launcher and the other carrying a rocket, which increased a considerable manpower expenditure. It was far less practical than a 37mm war defense gun or a dual-mounted machine gun. It was really useless.
Captain Schennai was also helpless and disappointed. He thought that when he came to the Kingdom, his individual bazooka project technology would have a leap forward with the strong investment of the Kingdom's "warlords". Unexpectedly, there was still no big breakthrough. It was similar to the bazooka abandoned by the old stubborn generals. Even if the ballistics of the rocket were more straight and accurate than the genius Dr. Goddard's design, it was just like an anti-tank gun, and its power was still insufficient.
You should know that the armor thickness of the main battle tanks of various countries has reached 50 mm or even more.
After the officers of the Independent Regiment shook their heads and expressed their disappointment with the "advanced" technology he brought from the White Eagle Kingdom, Captain Schennai said goodbye to Liu Lang, and three days later, he flew to the capital through a passenger plane to Ancheng Airport and then transferred to Haicheng, and returned to Baicheng from Haicheng.
Everyone, including several developers, didn't know that Leader Liu, who had been secretly happy, laughed at the regiment headquarters several times alone.
According to the power of his test firing in the test field, he could at most penetrate 6 to 8 mm of armor, but this had reached Liu Lang's expected value.
Liu Lang, who is familiar with the development history of the "Bazukka" bazooka, had already quietly ordered Fan Dashao in the White Eagle Kingdom to find someone to buy a patent for cone explosives, but he did not tell Song Wenjian this and apply it to the rocket of the bazooka.
It's very simple. The development of a single-soldier rocket launcher has the existence of Schennai, a native of the White Eagle. Liu Lang cannot let him return to the White Eagle with the technology that can penetrate 100 mm armor.
If the Zhouhui Kingdom could not defeat the entire Western continent, the great powers might turn their attention to the East, which had once gained countless wealth after they had dealt with the Zhouhui Kingdom king of the Zhouhui Kingdom.
Liu Lang never thought how noble the so-called allies that formed an alliance with the kingdom government were. If the Black Hawk Empire had not completely turned against them because of overseas oil resources, the powerful Western Zhou Dynasty, who also needed to expand their interests after cleaning up the strong enemy, might have turned their attention to a group of greedy wolves to the rich kingdom land.
The kingdom has tried its best to resist the wolf, the Black Hawk Empire. If it is added to such a group of tigers and leopards who want to get a share of the pie, the ending may be much more tragic than in the play. The semi-colonial society may last longer. Overseas countries and the State of Cheng Zhao have proved the consequences of being colonized in the play. Whether it is a plethora of parties or a chaotic religious and cultural belief, it is a source of incomplete stability in the country.
If this result occurs in the Kingdom, the warlords in the early years of the Kingdom will be the end of the future Kingdom. Foreign countries will never care about how many people will die in the Kingdom due to war. They will just support one force, and then lie on the rich land of the Kingdom like a group of vampires to absorb all the essence, various material materials, and various rare minerals on the earth until the resources on this land are completely harvested.
In Liu Lang's view, the kingdom only needs a country, that is the principality. Although he has some shortcomings, they have made such a large population and a huge national order stabilize and gradually strengthened their national strength. The nation can make its own voice on the world stage. This alone is successful.
Therefore, Liu Lang never intervened in the research and development of the individual rocket launcher, but handed it over to the general technical consultant and Song Wenjian's scientific research team to carry out independently.
Chapter completed!