The Army Research Department has decided not to let the President's bad habit of favoring the Navy and Air Force continue to develop. Didn't you say that the performance can be greatly improved? Let me improve it for you to see. It will be up to you to approve it.
They are afraid of being serious in everything. Once these researchers are serious and more energetic, their power will increase exponentially. First of all, they replaced the launcher, no longer using the old broken steel pipe, but specially made a special alloy steel
The launch tube is not only light in weight but also has good heat dissipation. Then they brought together ammunition experts, anti-tank gun experts, aerodynamics experts, etc. to study a new warhead design, and finally came up with a new warhead design that has better performance than before.
It's many times more powerful, and it gave rise to another kind of weapon.
Let’s talk about this new warhead first. This time the warhead is completely different from the original one. Its rear part is no longer a projectile lengthened just for loading propellant. The researchers have added a new warhead under development.
A kind of injection fuel. Its advantage is that when the projectile is pushed out of the launch tube by the propellant, the injection fuel at the rear of the projectile is ignited and sprayed backward along the nozzle at the rear of the projectile.
It improves the flight speed and direct shooting accuracy of the projectile, and also increases the armor-breaking ability of the warhead.
With the new launch tube and new projectile, the researchers discovered a new problem, that is, the increased range caused the original simple ruler and mechanical sighting device to be unable to meet long-distance aiming, so they continued to do the same.
Use it originally on a sniper rifle
The optical sight was modified, reduced in size and magnification, and then installed on the launch tube. Now, this new anti-tank individual weapon not only has a long range, it can shoot directly up to 200 meters, but also has a primary
Optical aiming equipment, shooting accuracy is very high.
When this weapon was once again applied for finalization and mass production and appeared in the demonstration, Liu Fu expressed great satisfaction and personally named the weapon rocket-propelled grenade launcher, with its full English name p. In addition, Liu Fu also specially gave it
He got a Chinese nickname called "Lamp Bomb". As for what pulling a lamp meant, the researchers didn't ask. Anyway, this is what the president is good at. He just went around naming new equipment for fun.
In addition to this kind of lamp, Army researchers also received another inspiration. Since this kind of anti-tank warhead can use jet fuel to increase the range, can ordinary artillery shells do the same? Just imagine, the current federal 120
The firing range of the mm self-propelled artillery is about 20 kilometers. If this kind of jet fuel is added to the back of the artillery shell, can it shoot to a distance of 30 kilometers or even further? In that case, the artillery of the Federal Army will definitely become a nightmare for the enemy.
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When they proposed this idea to Liu Fu, Liu Fu was stunned for a long time, and finally picked up a piece of paper and started drawing on it. What was Liu Fu drawing? He was not the kind of rocket that would be drawn in later generations.
Cheng artillery shells, that thing was so cutting-edge that Liu Fu didn’t understand its structure. However, there was another artillery weapon in later generations, at least in this era it was considered the most powerful weapon among weapons, and that was the multiple rocket launcher, also called Katyusha.
rocket launcher.
Mentioning this name, most people will know that this multi-barreled artillery, developed by the Soviets in the late World War II, has irreplaceable advantages over other artillery. First of all, its weight is low and it can be carried on a truck.
Other vehicles can be dragged around and maneuvered flexibly; secondly, it
It is not limited by the caliber of the gun barrel and can deliver a large amount of explosives to the target in a short time, forming effective fire coverage of the target area. It is especially suitable for bombing enemy troop gathering areas, trench areas, minefields and other places; finally,
Its price is low and its production difficulty is much lower than other artillery.
However, the Katyusha rocket launcher also has some shortcomings. For example, its structure is very fragile, basically just a few rows of steel frames and launch rails; in addition, its range and accuracy are not as good as traditional artillery, and it takes a long time to reload.
, belongs to the hit-and-run type.
When Liu Fu handed over the sketch he drew from memory to the Army weapons researchers and roughly explained the principle and use of this weapon, these researchers who specialized in Army weapons development immediately understood that he was the president.
What did they mean? And based on their years of experience, they immediately came to a conclusion: the half-immortal president was showing off his power again.
For things like solid rocket motors, it is not an unfathomable thing in this era. Germany and the Soviet Union had already begun research in the 1920s. The South China Sea Federation has Liu Fu, a half-immortal, who has conducted research on rocket engines and solid fuels.
The time is certainly earlier than other countries, and the investment is greater.
However, limited to navigation and radio technology, it is not possible to make major breakthroughs with Liu Fu's vague speculation. Therefore, the missile project that Liu Fu has been looking forward to is not progressing very smoothly. The missiles currently developed by the Federal Air Force Research Department are more like
An unmanned aircraft has a range of only 50 kilometers, and its accuracy is terrible. The only thing that comforts Liu Fu is that at least this missile will not go in the wrong direction, basically it will fly eastward and never westward.
If you can't make missiles, why can't you make rockets? Compared with missiles, this thing is too simple. It doesn't need a very stable flight attitude, nor any sophisticated navigation equipment, nor does it require a large thrust burning time.
A very long engine, to put it bluntly, it is a rocket
The engine drives a large cannon shell to a certain height, and then lets it fall along a parabola to a rough position. As for the flight attitude and flight stability, it all depends on the shape of the projectile and the few small fins installed on the projectile.
Just adjust it, just try it a few times and you'll get it right.
So the federal army's weapons research and development personnel took Liu Fu's handwriting and found the federal air force missile research department. The two departments formed a new research team specifically responsible for designing this new type of artillery. With the correct idea, even the prototype
Now that the diagrams are in place, the process of design and testing must
Everything went smoothly, and soon this new weapon was designed and manufactured. It was also divided into two parts. One was the launcher installed on heavy trucks and light tanks, which was made of alloy steel and similar to
The I-beam rail of the railway track, and the other is the rocket itself.
The launcher is divided into two models, one is a 24-rail transmitter installed on the chassis of a heavy-duty off-road truck, and the other is an 18-rail launcher installed on the chassis of a Bobcat light tank. They both have 80 degrees left and right and 50 degrees up and down.
The launch range is adjustable, and multiple launch vehicles can be connected in series with wires to carry out large-scale collective launches.
There is currently only one type of rocket itself, which is a 120 mm caliber rocket. Its body is 1,400 mm long, weighs 39 kg, has a maximum range of 11 kilometers, a warhead charge of 7 kg, and four fixed tail fins at the tail.
After many test firings, this multiple rocket launcher was approved by the Army and began to be finalized and mass-produced. Regarding its naming work, everyone unanimously recommended the federal president to take on this important task. Liu Fu lived up to expectations, and once again
Once upon a time, I came up with a name that no one could imagine or figure out: Saddam Cannon!
However, the Federal Army is the third-tier arm of the Federation after all. Before they set foot on the North American continent, the "Lanker" and "Sadar Cannon" were only a small amount of experimental equipment in the Army, and they were equipped with these
Troops with both weapons were also sent to Australia and did not appear on the Western battlefields of the United States.
However, as the Americans blew up the Panama Canal and forced the federal army to engage in ground warfare, the federal army finally remembered that it still had these two new gadgets that it had not used yet. Since it was now about to focus on ground warfare.
, then why not quickly change to a new one and try it out.
By June 1941, the South China Sea Federal Army had occupied three large cities on the North American continent and established a firm foothold. The Vancouver and Seattle areas were Army Group North, which had two armored divisions and one mechanized infantry division. In addition,
There are also 4 aviation wings of the Federal Air Force with a total of 400 combat aircraft, plus combat aircraft on the two heavy aircraft carriers of the Federal Navy parked in the port area. (To be continued...)
