Time: The twenty-eighth day of the rest period, 3:25 in the afternoon.
Location: Quancheng, the capital of Lu Province, a place known as the ‘153rd Research Institute’ in the logistics sequence (the author is just talking nonsense, please don’t take it seriously).
This is a Guojia-level place specializing in bulletproof materials and products such as bulletproof vests, bulletproof chest plates, vehicle bulletproof plates, bulletproof shields, bulletproof ceramic plates and other products.
At this moment, in a high-end laboratory, Zhao Gang, the chief engineer of the institute, took off his glasses with thick lenses on the bridge of his nose.
The fingers of both hands rubbed the temples vigorously, which looked very painful.
There is no way! In view of the current environment, the rumors are becoming more and more tense.
Recently, higher authorities hope that they can make further breakthroughs in the field of individual bulletproof materials.
Specifically, it needs to meet requirements such as lighter weight, better protective effect, and the price cannot be outrageous.
It's just that it's easy for superiors to make requests, but it's quite difficult for the research institutes below to meet the relevant requirements.
So much so that Zhao Gang led a group of elite soldiers from the institute to work overtime and stay up late every day. After fighting continuously for half a month, there has been no significant progress.
It was also at this time that a young researcher came over holding an open cardboard box.
She said to him: "General Manager Zhao, the Security Department sent a courier for you. Judging from the address, it should be sent from X University in Mongolia Province.
The inside has been checked and there are no dangerous or suspicious items."
After hearing such a statement, Zhao Gang's head was a little confused and he finally came to his senses.
Li Yun, an old friend of mine who works at X University in Mongolia Province, called him about three or four days ago, saying that he had accidentally synthesized a new material in the laboratory.
Such a new material should be good in bulletproof capabilities.
It should be good, because they are just an ordinary industrial university after all, and it is difficult to even conduct an experiment of firing a small pistol.
Not to mention, you can use stronger equipment such as long guns and short cannons to keep firing at them.
Because even Li Yun himself doesn't know the upper limit of the bulletproof effect of such a new material.
He made this call with the purpose of asking Zhao Gang to help test it; after all, here in 153 Institute, there are all kinds of mainstream firearms and almost all individual anti-armor weapons, which can be used for experiments.
Zhao Ganggong firmly agreed to this request.
Although this so-called new material, he did not place high expectations on it.
It's not that he looks down upon the research abilities of his old friend Li Yun, but that he knows the astonishing difficulty involved in developing a brand new material.
They have such a large institute, so many personnel, and so much funding every year.
In essence, they are trying to cross the river by following Uncle Sam and catching up with the other party's latest technologies; in fact, there are really not many new materials that have been produced.
To say that a university doctoral supervisor, with some hard-working students, can produce a new high-quality bulletproof material is not to say that it is impossible at all, but the probability is extremely low.
After thinking about the above situation, Zhao Gang took the small express box casually.
Just taking a look at the contents, he didn't have much expectations at first, to the point where he had almost no expectations at all.
Why? There are a total of five coats inside, and the poor sewing skills are not the point.
The key point is that it is too thin. It can be described as thin as a cicada's wings. It is estimated that if the entire jacket is pinched together, it will be only about the size of an egg.
If Zhao Gang hadn't received a call from his old friend Li Yun a few days in advance, he might have thought that this thing was a long-sleeved sun protection garment for summer, or an ultra-thin one.
According to Zhao Gang's knowledge, to say that this thin thing is bulletproof is completely insulting his professional knowledge.
I just thought about my old friend Li Yun's usual conduct and attainments in materials science. If his personality hadn't been too strong, his current reputation and position might be even higher than his own.
Since everyone agreed to help, and since my head was now a mess, I just took the opportunity to relax.
After Zhao Gang stood up, he said to the young researchers in the laboratory: "Xiao Wei, Xiao Jiang, take the box and follow me to the shooting range..."
Twenty-one minutes later, Zhao Gang pinched the tender flesh of his thigh with his thumb and index finger and twisted it hard. The instant pain caused him to twist his mouth.
But even so, there was still a smile on Zhao Gang's face.
It's amazing that such a smile, combined with his painfully crooked mouth, makes outsiders look extremely weird.
It's just that the people No. 7 and 8 at the scene didn't care about this at all, because the scene that happened in front of them was really too shocking.
It is not an exaggeration to say that it has somewhat subverted their understanding of materials science.
I saw a humanoid target equipped with a sensor, wearing a thin coat, and after receiving three rounds of 9 mm caliber bullets from an M9 Beretta pistol,
There is not even a single hole in the jacket that looks like it could be torn with a finger.
More importantly, a huge LCD screen on the shooting range displayed some almost impossible data: 127.3N, 131.6N, 125.5N.
The above data represents the impact force the target endures after being shot.
Among them, N also means Newton.
Perhaps this data is not obvious to outsiders, but Zhao Gang and others are very clear about it: a normal adult will only suffer fractures and other conditions if he withstands an impact force exceeding 600N in an instant.
That means that as long as our soldiers wear such a bulletproof vest, it will be no big deal if they are hit by a pistol bullet.
Zhao Gang is worthy of being the chief engineer of Institute 153, but he is more calm than the researchers around him.
Based on the unscientific scene in front of him, even if he realizes his old friend, he has really researched something incredible, something good that will definitely satisfy his superiors.
He still knew that now was not the time to be happy.
I quickly came to a computer nearby and started typing on the keyboard.
This is to mobilize the images captured by high-speed cameras to try to find out why there is such an unscientific, almost miraculous bulletproof effect.
After watching it several times, the picture has been slowed down and then slowed down several times.
After inspecting the bulletproof vest, they finally felt the characteristics of such a bulletproof material.
Because the moment the bullet's warhead hits the clothes, it seems that the molecular structure of the entire clothes has changed and turned into a super-hard armor.
Not only does it block the warhead from further penetrating, but all the impact force carried by the warhead is also dispersed and transmitted to the entire piece of clothing, which is why the above-mentioned almost impossible data appears.
In the end, it was the incredible result that we have now.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Gang issued some brand new orders to his researchers:
"Don't be stunned, Xiao Wei immediately notified the security department to raise the institute's defense level to the highest level.
In particular, relevant personnel should immediately learn more about the confidentiality system.
Xiao Jiang, immediately ask the warehouse to move M16A2, A3, A4 assault rifles, MK3A2 offensive grenades, and Barrett sniper rifles as quickly as possible.
We also brought weapons such as M2 heavy machine guns, AT4 rocket launchers, and M9E1-7 flamethrowers.
Today, we are just testing to see what the limits and shortcomings of this material are.”
"Yes~" Xiao Wei and Xiao Jiang immediately agreed loudly after hearing the words; although the others did not speak, their faces were also excited.
Because they know that often the birth of an excellent material can not only be used for individual bulletproof purposes.
As long as it can be used on other vehicles, tanks, and warships after some relevant research and improvements, it will represent our army and have a strong shield from now on.
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The time was early three o'clock the next morning.
The location is on Wanshou Road in Beijing, in a large courtyard with quite tight security.
After the phone rang rapidly, a person in charge of equipment in our army quickly walked into the study and picked up the red phone that was ringing continuously.
Then, a sentence full of shocking content rang out in his mouth:
"What? After wearing it, a 5.56-caliber bullet can block ten rounds before material fatigue occurs, causing some injuries to personnel; a 12.7-mm caliber bullet can only be injured after the third round, but it will not kill you.
Can it withstand high temperatures of 1300 to 1500 degrees, and is there the possibility of further improvement?
Comrade Zhao Gang, don’t joke with me, you need to be responsible for saying such things."
"Okay, okay, that's good. I will send relevant experts to Quancheng tomorrow to verify such a material. Once it passes the inspection, I, Lao Gao, will personally take credit for you?"
What? It’s not something you didn’t research, it was something experimented by Li Yun from University X?”
"Don't wait for the civil aviation flight to leave tomorrow. You rush to Zhangzhuang Airport immediately. I will have someone arrange a transport plane for you to fly to Hohhot overnight.
At the same time, I will also contact the local security department to fully cooperate with you to ensure that nothing goes wrong."
In this way, after conducting continuous experiments for almost ten hours and obtaining a series of amazing data, Zhao Gang and others boarded an IL-76 transport plane at around four o'clock in the morning.
It was originally said to be on the 20th, but because he still had to wait for more than an hour to be transferred, Zhao Gang had to give up taking a ride on this proud model of his own.
It was also at this point that they realized that they were a little too excited.
To this day, I haven't eaten any food.
But when I think about those amazing experimental data, they are eating self-heating food on the plane and chewing compressed biscuits, which feels more delicious than eating a big meal.
Finally, when the sky was getting bright, Zhao Gang, led by the local security department personnel, came to Li Yun, an old friend, in front of a not too big house in the family building of University X.
After a knock on the door, the door to the room was opened.
After looking at the familiar figure in front of me, I thought of my own amazing mood swings in the past ten hours.
Zhao Gang couldn't help but use his fist to lightly punch the opponent on the shoulder, and shouted: "Old Li, you are really yours, this time I really released a super satellite."
But that’s okay! Those who excluded you back then may not have an easy life in the future.”
After seeing the movement in front of him, Li Yun, who was considered the instigator of this incident, didn't know what the reason was.
However, in the following time, Zhao Gang was invited into the room alone.
After closing the door to the room and asking others to guard the door, Li Yun said something that almost made Zhao Gang stunned:
"You may not believe it, but the source of these technologies is not what I said on the phone.
In fact, it is the scientific research result of one of my first-year graduate students named Feng Xiao; he said that he discovered the result by coincidence during the experiment.
But he must give me the results, at least let me be the first signatory."
After hearing this sentence, Zhao Gang took a sip of the mat in his mouth.
Then without any hesitation, he called the person in charge of a local security department and said: "I want all the information on a student named Feng Xiao who is under Professor Li's research group. The sooner the better~"
The person on the other end of the phone immediately reassured in a tone of voice without hesitation:
"Okay, Mr. Zhao, before X University officially starts class today, you will see all the information, including how many girlfriends this little classmate has had, and whether he secretly went to the hospital and had his penis cut off."
After hanging up the phone, Zhao Gang was very nervous and asked what he was most concerned about along the way:
"Old Li, tell me the truth.
In the synthesis of this new material, what are the most critical raw materials, is the process complicated, and what is the approximate cost of one kilogram?"
No wonder Zhao Gang is so nervous. As a professional, he knows that there is actually quite a lot of excellent material that has been discovered.
But currently, they only exist in various Guo Jia's laboratories.
There are only two fundamental reasons why it cannot be popularized and applied on a large scale:
Either because the manufacturing cost is too high, such an astonishing cost, often even Guo Jia can only apply it in a small amount in very few aspects regardless of the cost.
Or, the manufacturing process is too complicated and there is no way to mass-produce it.
If this is really the case, then the discovery of such excellent materials, although it is also a huge achievement, is completely meaningless.
As a result, after hearing such a statement, Li Yun's expression immediately became extremely exciting; such a scene made Zhao Gang feel even more uneasy.
After a half-minute pause, Li Yuncai gave an astonishing answer:
“This new material, the key material that accounts for the absolute majority is straw.
Don't have such a damn expression! It's the kind of thing that in recent years, people in northern rural areas are not allowed to burn at will, otherwise they will be arrested, fined, and the farmer brothers will be scolded.
The specific synthesis steps involve the addition of several key but very common compounds in the redox process, and others are quite simple.
In this way, how high do you think the cost of this thing will eventually be?
I did a little calculation, which means that compared to acrylic fiber, it is slightly more expensive by 20 to 30%."
It was obviously great good news, but after hearing about that magical raw material, Zhao Gang, a cultural man and an honest elder in the eyes of his subordinates.
He couldn't help but cursed harshly in his mouth: "Fuck~"
But I became more and more interested in the student named Feng Xiao...
About two hours later, Feng Xiao, the singer, was already quite familiar with Li Yun's office because he often came here to catch the autumn breeze.
It's just that the person the singer is facing now has turned into Zhao Gang, who has a strong scholar's temperament.
Twenty minutes ago, he received a call from his tutor Li Yun and hurried to the office without even brushing his teeth and with some eye mucus.
Then, I saw the middle-aged and elderly man in front of me.
Based on the singer's understanding of his mentor, he naturally knew that the nanomaterial technical information he had copied to the other party would be completed step by step once the finished product was made, and he would see the extraordinary features of it.
I will definitely hand over samples and related technologies.
Eventually, it attracted the attention of interested people and relevant departments, and the current scene emerged.
Therefore, he had been mentally prepared for a long time, and he was in a stable position, without any surprise or panic at all.
On the other hand, Zhao Gang sighed when he looked at the childish little brother in front of him.
It has to be said that the work efficiency of the local security department comrades is quite good; Zhao Gang had read a large amount of the singer's information half an hour ago.
Therefore, we also know that this guy is just a young man from an ordinary family.
But he has excellent riding and archery skills. In the past few months, he shot and killed several wild wolves and saved some tourists from the south. He also became an internet celebrity for a while.
That is to say, he has not cooperated with some promoter companies. Now that the popularity has gone down, otherwise he would be able to carry out live broadcasts to bring goods.
Of course, none of this is important to Zhao Gang.
Mainly because after an emergency investigation by the security department, it was found that the environment where the child grew up was very clean, eliminating the possibility that the material technology came from anyone else.
It should be based on his good personal talent, and most importantly, the amazing coincidence, that he achieved this scientific research result.
To this end, after organizing some speeches, he solemnly issued an invitation:
"Hello, classmate Feng, I am here to thank you on behalf of Guo Jia; the materials you have researched will play a huge role in military construction.
However, after our analysis, this material also has good application prospects in many aspects such as aerospace and aviation, but it requires certain in-depth research and optimization.
As the actual developers of this achievement, we invite you to join our 153 Research Institute and contribute our share to the rejuvenation of this nation."
After hearing this, the singer just asked: "I heard, where do you send your wife~"
"Nonsense, we are a serious research institute." Zhao Gang, who saw that the other party was joking, laughed and cursed: "But if necessary, the organization will come forward to help you connect, but everything is based on the girl's volition."
After making a joke, the atmosphere relaxed a little.
The singer solemnly asked: "My mentor, Professor Li Yun, how will he be arranged?"
"He decided to stay in school and also conduct related research; but because he also made a huge contribution in research and development, he will be guaranteed follow-up funding and equipment, and he should be rated as a 'Yangtze River Expert' this year~"
Zhao Yun answered with such certainty.
After listening to it, the singer gave his answer without hesitation: "I choose to stay at X University and study with Professor Li; because where the mentor is, I will be there..."
