Chapter 921: New product·Electromagnetic sniper rifle!
Testing of artillery shells prepared from active damage element materials is still in progress.
Whether it is the size and specification of the artillery shells, the magnetic field energy level strength of the electromagnetic railgun, or the target materials for targeted testing, the strength is steadily and orderly improving.
Fortunately, the test site is large enough to complete all experiments.
As time passed by, the second round of testing ended in an orderly manner.
Different pieces of data are reported by various sensors or manually, and are presented to everyone in the control room.
These are raw data, which will be subsequently processed by the supercomputing center.
In particular, the first round of impact damage intensity and the second round of explosion damage caused by active damage element shells and conventional metal shells are very critical indicator data.
You must know that the active destructive element materials in active destructive element shells have different amounts.
Different types of shells have different weights of active destructive cores, causing different secondary damage.
Including the degree of damage they cause to different target materials, etc., these experimental data need to be recorded one by one for further analysis.
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While waiting for the supercomputing center to analyze and process the experimental data, the group came to the test site again.
The test site that had been bombarded with active damage element shells looked even messier than the first round of pure metal shells.
Especially close to the target, more fragments of the target material are torn due to the secondary explosion of the active damage element's inner core.
After sizing up the target stone wall in front of him, Xu Chuan leaned over and looked inside through the hole punched by the electromagnetic railgun, then reached out and pulled out a piece of silver-white material from the wall.
"Is this the kind of active destructive element material?"
Holding the fragment in his hand, Xu Chuan looked at it curiously. The silver-white material looked like metal, but he could clearly tell that it was probably not a metal material, but more of a ceramic material or a high polymer material.
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Standing next to him, Academician Wang Enge nodded and said, "Well, part of it, part of the inner core."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan asked with interest: "Speaking of which, what exactly is this active damage element material?"
Although he knows a little about materials science, he doesn't know everything.
For example, he didn't know what the current active damage element material was that could cause secondary damage through electromagnetic rail guns.
After all, he had never been exposed to this type of technology and related theories before.
Taking this silver-white fragment of material from Xu Chuan's hand, Academician Wang Enge looked at it and said, "I have read Professor Wang Haifu's paper."
"This active material damage element material is an energy-containing warhead. It has mechanical strength similar to metal, chemical energy equivalent to high-energy explosives, and safety similar to inert materials. It can only hit the target at high speed.
Only the combined materials that explode will occur.”
"Its manufacturing process should be by filling high molecular polymer with energy-containing powders such as metals and alloy intermetallic compounds, and then preparing it through a special process, which can be directly machined."
"So the whole has good mechanical strength. This piece of material should be the polymer composite metal material in the inner core of the active material damage element."
"After it hits the target at high speed, it will explode from the inside out like a fragmentation grenade, forming various fragments with high kinetic energy."
"These fragments can be extremely lethal to personnel and electronic equipment inside the armor."
"Previous inert metal damage units could only damage targets through pure kinetic energy, but this new material damage unit has the dual damage capabilities of kinetic energy armor-piercing and explosive effects, and its power will be doubled."
"However, compared with traditional high-performance explosives, two conditions are required to exert the end-point power of this active fragment."
Xu Chuan looked over curiously and asked, "What two conditions?"
Academician Wang Enge smiled and said: "The first one is to have enough kinetic energy or speed to effectively penetrate the target shell or skin."
"The second one is to detonate reliably after penetrating the target shell."
"So on traditional missiles or weapons, its adaptability is not very high."
Hearing this, Xu Chuan's eyes lit up and he quickly added: "But the electromagnetic rail gun can perfectly make up for these two conditions!"
Academician Wang Enge smiled and nodded: "Yes."
"The electromagnetic railgun can first bring extremely high speed and kinetic energy, and armor-piercing projectiles can also effectively penetrate the protective target shell."
"The active damage element material inside it can also be effectively detonated under high-speed impact, further causing greater damage."
"So it is simply a material created for electromagnetic rail guns."
"It's just that we have never been able to solve the problems of orbital ablation and magnetic field control of electromagnetic railguns before, so this technology was buried in the past."
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After checking the damage degree of various target materials in the test site, and returning to the laboratory with some of the data recorded with a pen, some of the data processed by the supercomputing center for the experimental data also came out.
The data transmitted through the intranet was distributed to several people. Looking at the analyzed data on the tablet, Academician Wang Yong's pupils shrank violently.
4.18MJ,6.25MJ,8.35MJ......
Several key figures caught his eye. These data were exactly the energy after the secondary explosion of the active-destruction element cores inside different active-destruction element shells.
The number was not surprising, and he had even known for a long time that the energy intensity of the secondary explosion of these shells was almost this number.
What shocked him was that there were actually people in this world who were able to accurately calculate these values with just a little bit of raw observation data.
This simply refreshed his understanding.
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After reviewing the experimental analysis data in his hand, Academician Wang Yong suddenly remembered something, put down the tablet in his hand, looked at Xu Chuan, and said with a smile.
"Academician Xu, the experimental analysis data of the electromagnetic rail gun will probably have to wait for a while, but we have some other research on the electromagnetic rail gun technology. Do you want to take a look?"
With such a top leader in academia here, there is no need to use it in vain.
Xu Chuan didn't care about this. He glanced at Academician Wang with some curiosity and surprise, and asked in surprise: "Besides the Thor, are there other products?"
He thought that the Thor electromagnetic railgun was the research result of the National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Energy Technology during this period, but he did not expect that there was actually one.
Academician Wang Yong said with a smile: "There is indeed another one, but it is not mature enough and has a lot of problems. Come over and have a look together? Can you guide our research?"
Xu Chuan didn't think much, nodded and said, "What new things have you researched?"
"Let's go, you'll know when we get there."
Academician Wang Yong said with a smile and took the lead to walk outside the laboratory.
Passing through the corridor, the group entered another laboratory.
In this large laboratory, Xu Chuan saw another product related to electromagnetic rail gun technology.
It was a long and narrow product placed on a white ceramic experimental table. The overall length reached nearly two meters. The black shell and smooth curves made it look very sci-fi.
"Electromagnetic rifle?"
Seeing the products on the white ceramic experimental table, Xu Chuan glanced at Academician Wang Yong with some surprise: "Have you made this thing?"
Academician Wang Yong smiled, nodded, and said, "This is another product I'm talking about, a miniaturized electromagnetic rail gun."
"Of course, you can call it an electromagnetic rifle. But really speaking, given the length of this thing, it might be more appropriate to call it an electromagnetic sniper rifle."
Since they can solve the problems of orbital ablation and magnetic field control of the electromagnetic railgun, after developing the Thor electromagnetic railgun, they have no reason not to try to miniaturize it and reduce it to a size that can adapt to
The size of a single soldier's battle.
After all, the entire length of the Thor electromagnetic railgun reaches an astonishing 15.55 meters.
Perhaps many people may not have an idea of this number, but in fact, when it is erected, it is as high as five floors of residential buildings.
With such a huge size, not to mention individual combat, even equipment such as tanks and aircraft cannot be installed.
At present, the only platform that can carry it is probably a large warship.
For electromagnetic rail guns, the larger the size, the larger the power supply required.
Even if room-temperature superconducting materials are now available, the amount of electrical energy required to convert them into a critical magnetic field that is enough to support the high-speed launch of cannonballs is not a small amount.
After all, energy is always conserved. How high a speed you can accelerate a cannonball to and how much damage it causes requires at least the same amount of energy.
Miniaturization is the next research direction of electromagnetic railguns.
In particular, electromagnetic rifles or electromagnetic sniper rifles that are small enough to be used by individual soldiers are a key research direction.
The miniaturized electromagnetic railgun, or electromagnetic sniper rifle, with a length of 2.5 meters, is the product they created on this basis.
The same room-temperature superconducting material is used, and the 2.5-meter length contains two 2.25-meter-long room-temperature superconducting acceleration tracks.
The remaining parts are the power supply system, ammunition system, control system, aiming system, firearm structure, safety mechanism and other structures.
In the laboratory, Academician Wang Yong introduced: "This electromagnetic sniper rifle is 2.5 meters long and equipped with a microprocessor or microchip, which can be used to control the launch of ammunition and perform safety locking to prevent inadvertent triggering or ensure
The firearm is in safe condition while being maintained."
"As for the supporting power system, it is currently using a large-capacity lithium-sulfur battery with a trigger mechanism, including a 'charging area' and a 'firing area', allowing the user to have certain control in deciding whether to launch.
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Listening to Academician Wang Yong's introduction, Xu Chuan's eyes fell on the electromagnetic sniper rifle on the white ceramic experimental table and asked with interest.
"Is this electromagnetic sniper rifle completed?"
"I mean, is it available now?"
Hearing this question, Academician Wang Yong smiled and nodded, saying: "Of course."
"In terms of use, it is ready for use now. I have tried shooting before."
After a slight pause, his eyes fell on the electromagnetic sniper rifle on the experimental table, and he spoke with a sigh:
"However, if we want to actually equip it with military soldiers, compared with the electromagnetic rail gun, it still has many problems that need to be solved."
"Especially in terms of energy density, release density, etc., there are still quite a few problems."
In fact, in principle, the electromagnetic sniper rifle in front of them and the Thor electromagnetic railgun they just tested are the same thing.
Both are weapons that convert external energy (electricity) into magnetic drive, allowing physical projectiles to fly at high speeds.
The principle of electromagnetic kinetic energy weapons is not complicated. It is a basic application of the Lorentz force. The basic principle is to convert electrical energy into kinetic energy.
This basic principle was learned as early as in the physics course in middle school.
Using electromagnetic conversion, objects can be driven to accelerate flight.
Although the principle is not complicated, the weaponization process is still very troublesome. The main bottlenecks are energy density and release speed.
Electromagnetic kinetic energy weapons essentially consume electrical energy, and a very troublesome aspect of electrical energy is its storage density.
That is the amount of energy that can be stored per unit weight.
Even the current electromagnetic technology has been updated several times in the hands of the person in front of me.
Lithium-sulfur batteries with energy densities as high as 2000Wh/Kg have been developed, but for electromagnetic sniper rifles, this energy level is still not enough.
However, compared to another issue, energy release density, energy density is only a small issue.
The release of chemical energy can be very fast, and a large amount of energy can be released in milliseconds. Even general propellants have to consider reducing the release speed to have so-called slow-burning propellants.
The release of electrical energy can be a bit troublesome. The release per unit time is the so-called power limit, which is far lower than chemical energy. Otherwise, various incidental problems such as the risk of high voltage and high heat, etc. are all problems.
Why is the huge Thor electromagnetic rail gun easier to implement?
The reason is here.
The huge Thor electromagnetic rail gun can be equipped with more other power equipment and mitigation equipment to increase power and reduce various risks, etc.
The electromagnetic sniper rifle obviously does not have the ability to be equipped with these slow-release devices.
After all, it is for soldiers to use in individual combat.
The current length of 2.5 meters and the weight of more than 60 kilograms are actually far beyond the endurance of a single soldier.
If he continues to add various power equipment and slow-release equipment to it, according to his estimate, the weight may exceed one hundred kilograms.
For a soldier, this is an extremely exaggerated number.
I am afraid that even the best soldier in the army cannot carry an electromagnetic sniper rifle weighing more than fifty kilograms in combat. This is already far beyond the limits of the human body.