Chapter 943 Chicken ribs jointly developed by China and the United States
Although Su Xiaomei was a little bit upset that the impact accuracy of the rocket shells could not be controlled to a level that she was satisfied with, Liu Lang slapped Zhao Ergou's expectant eyes and finalized the "Storm" rocket launcher.
He knew very well that it would take decades for the future republic to improve the accuracy of rockets. These future technological elites may be strong enough, but they also need enough time. However, Liu Lang no longer has much
Time, China has no time to wait anymore, the war is coming soon.
The current job of the scientific research project team is to assist the production department to start producing rockets at full capacity and store enough ammunition for the upcoming war.
Since rocket launchers are classified weapons, the Qinglong Machinery Factory, which is affiliated with the independent regiment, will carefully select 30 skilled workers to form a production team and station in a production workshop specially opened for them in the cave to produce ordinary and extended-range rockets.
All the workers were veteran workers who had worked in the Liu family's small machinery factory for more than five years. Not only did the Security Office conduct an investigation on their families again after the candidates were determined, but all those who had immediate family members who had traveled to Sichuan were excluded.
Until the outbreak of the war, all workers were not allowed to go home to visit relatives. They were granted one day off each month, and their families could spend one day together at the base's internal visiting camp.
Of course, the management is very strict, but the benefits are also very high. All the families of the selected workers can have a free house in the "Shuguang" town, and the monthly salary is three times that of ordinary skilled workers. Those whose children want to join the army can also
They are priority targets for inspection. Those who want to go to school, the Independent Regiment can also coordinate with the provincial government to study in the schools with the best conditions in Chengdu. With their current salary comparable to that of independent regiment school-level officers, it is affordable.
The workers are treated very well, not to mention the scientific research project team led by Su Xiaomei, who developed the main artillery of the Independent Regiment. The entire scientific research team of ten people was awarded a grand prize of 10,000 yuan, and all of them were awarded the Silver "Fearless" Medal of the Independent Regiment.
Qian Wei, the deputy team leader of the project team who took great risks to conduct the ignition test of the experimental rocket launcher alone, was awarded the solid gold "Hero" Medal and a bonus of 2,000 oceans. This was an honor that the project team leader Su Xiaomei did not receive.
However, judging from Su Xiaomei's sweet smile, Qian Wei won this honor. Not only was she not dissatisfied at all, but she was even happier than herself.
Just like in the past, no matter how amazing she is, she is still a woman, a woman with new science and Chinese tradition in her heart. Her dream is just to spread her wings and fly with the one she loves deeply.
, Contribute your own strength to your country and nation.
Qian Wei is worthy of being the greatest scientific master of the future Republic who can make "China Marie Curie" fall in love. Perhaps the successful development of rockets inspired him. Not even a month after the Baofeng rocket launcher was finalized, Liu Lang spent a lot of money on it.
With the help of the hired Captain Skinner, the rocket launcher was almost completely copied from the rocket launcher that had been successfully tested by the genius American rocket expert Dr. Goddard in 1918.
However, this rocket launcher did not amaze people when it was taken out. Instead, it was unspokenly disliked by all the school officers who tested it except Liu Lang.
It was a rather simple individual rocket launcher, and unlike his subordinates who felt disgusted with it, Liu Lang, who had regained the feeling of carrying a 40-gun, showed enough interest.
Liu Tuanzuo was smiling secretly with an expressionless face, but Zhao Ergou and others who accompanied Liu Lang in the experiment found it difficult to laugh.
This kind of simple individual rocket launcher is not to say that it is completely rubbish. Two consecutive hits within the effective range of 150 meters can still destroy a sandbag fortification. Three years ago, they would have turned into fools.
However, it is easier to move from frugality to luxury than from luxury to frugality. Officers who already own semi-automatic rifles, a large number of mortars and secret weapons rocket launchers are becoming more and more cunning in their choice of weapons.
If possible, they would rather their soldiers push a 200-kilogram infantry gun or a 37mm anti-tank gun to fight against the Japanese tanks and fortifications, instead of carrying this crude thing with an effective range of only 150 meters to fight against the Japanese soldiers.
Machine gun and bayonet.
Of course he has his reasons. In fact, this kind of individual rocket launcher has a short range and insufficient power. The rocket launcher of Qian Wei's project team could not even penetrate the field fortifications covered with sandbags 200 meters away, and even missed the target.
As close as 100 to 150 meters, the threat to soldiers increases dramatically.
This is actually one of the important reasons why the US military does not pay attention to rocket launchers.
The technical essence of the bazooka is also the rocket. The rocket designed by Qian Wei is actually better than the father of American rockets, Dr. Goddard. It also relies on rocket fuel to generate thrust, although the fuel is almost the same as the 18-kilogram Baofeng rocket launcher.
Almost the same, just to make it easier for soldiers to carry, the weight of the projectile is reduced to 3 kilograms. The fuel requires more than one kilogram. Adding the weight of the projectile, the explosives in the warhead are less than one kilogram.
But obviously, there is a difference between rocket launchers and rocket launchers, which are used as individual weapons to break barriers, and rocket launchers, which rely on concentrated fire to form a bomb storm, causing damage to people and objects on the ground.
Rocket fuel obviously cannot be as powerful as the propellant of traditional artillery shells and can produce huge propulsion. Therefore, the muzzle velocity of rocket shells is far less than that of traditional artillery shells. The power of artillery shells is closely related to its speed. The faster the exit speed,
The greater the power. The muzzle velocity of the rocket is so low, and the penetration power is naturally low.
The characteristics of the individual rocket launcher also lead to the weakening of the power. Because the advantage of the rocket is that it can continue to ignite and burn, providing continuous propulsion, it can continue to burn for a long time even after flying out of the rocket launcher. The speed of the rocket ejection from the chamber may not be high.
If it is too high, it can continue to accelerate, so that by the time it hits the target, its speed should be very high.
Unfortunately, as an infantry rocket launcher, you cannot do this. Because once the rocket flies out of the steel tube and continues to burn, the rear spray tail flame produced will inevitably burn the rocket launcher shooter.
If it is on a fixed platform like a rocket launcher, because there is no one nearby, it will burn and there will be no impact at all. But it is impossible for an individual rocket launcher to do this. When infantry uses rocket fuel, it must wait until the rocket leaves the steel tube.
It is all burned out before. This means that it cannot produce sustained thrust, and the muzzle velocity of the rocket will naturally be slow, and the range cannot be very far.
Finally, since this kind of rocket launcher needs to be carried by a single soldier, it means that the caliber cannot be very large. The larger the caliber, the thicker the steel pipe and the heavier the weight.
In fact, the rocket launcher itself has no technological content. It is just like the gun mount of the rocket launcher. It is actually just a seamless steel pipe that provides the aiming and shooting direction for the rocket to be launched.
As a "super fan" who is extremely obsessed with individual rocket launchers, Skinner has a soft spot for the 51-caliber rocket launcher originally set by Dr. Goddard. The rocket launcher designed by the rocket launcher project team is also a 51-caliber rocket launcher.
caliber.
The rate of fire of rockets is far less than that of artillery shells. The armor of tanks cannot rely on speed to produce large penetration, but can only rely on the power of the warhead. According to the 51 mm caliber, even if the rocket warhead is equipped with an independent regiment military industry
The high-energy yellow explosives that can be produced can only have an armor-breaking power of about 10 mm.
Obviously, this individual rocket launcher learned from the Americans has high expectations, but the actual effect is average. It requires at least a two-person team, one with the rocket launcher and the other with the rocket, which increases the manpower expenditure a lot.
Far from being more practical than a 37mm anti-tank gun or a twin-mounted machine gun, it is really a bit useless.
In this regard, Captain Skinny was also very helpless and disappointed. He thought that when he came to China, with the heavy investment from this Chinese "warlord", his individual rocket launcher project technology would make a leap forward, but he didn't expect that there would still be no progress.
What a big breakthrough, it is about as powerful as the rocket launcher abandoned by those stubborn generals. Even if the trajectory of the rocket is straighter and more accurate than the design of the genius Dr. Goddard, it is still the same as an anti-tank gun.
It's the same as a gun, but it's still not powerful enough.
You must know that the armor thickness of main battle tanks in various countries has reached 50 mm or more.
After the officers of the Independent Regiment shook their heads and expressed their disappointment with the "advanced" technology he brought from the United States, Captain Skinner bid farewell to Liu Lang and flew to Nanjing via a passenger plane from Chengdu Airport three days later and then transferred to Shanghai.
, returned to the United States from Shanghai.
Everyone, including several developers, didn't know that Liu Tuanzuo, who had been enjoying himself secretly, laughed several times alone in the group headquarters.
Based on the power of his test firing at the test site, the individual rocket launcher tinkered by Qian Wei was far inferior to the cone-shaped explosive launcher tinkered with by Swiss immigrant Mohaupt five years later that could break 100 mm of armor.
The US military's "Bazooka" rocket launcher can only penetrate 6 to 8 millimeters of armor at most, but this has already reached Liu Lang's expectations.
Liu Lang, who was familiar with the development history of the "Bazooka" rocket launcher, had already quietly ordered Mr. Fan in the United States to find the immigrant Mohaupt to buy the cone-shaped explosive patent, but he did not tell Qian Wei and apply it to Qian Wei.
On the rocket launcher.
It's very simple. The American Skinny was involved in the research and development of the individual rocket launcher. Liu Lang could not let him return to the United States with technology that could penetrate 100 mm armor. If the bazooka rocket launcher had come out before 1939, the Third Reich would have
It remains to be seen whether the tank group can sweep across France.
If the Third Reich could not beat the whole of Europe to pieces, the great powers might turn their attention to the East, the continent from which they had gained countless wealth, after tidying up the mustache of the Third Reich.
Liu Lang never thought how noble the so-called allies who were allied with the Chinese government were. If Japan hadn't completely turned against them because of the oil resources in Southeast Asia, the European powers who also needed to expand their own interests after finishing dealing with powerful enemies might have
A pack of greedy wolves set their sights on the prosperous land of China.
China is already trying its best to resist the wolf of Japan. If there is such a group of tigers and leopards who want to get a share of the pie, the outcome may be much more tragic than in the past. Semi-colonial society may continue to be more
For a long time, Southeast Asian countries and India have proven the negative consequences of colonization in the past. Whether it is numerous parties or chaotic religious and cultural beliefs, they are the source of the country's inability to be completely stable.
And if this kind of result happened in China, the warlords in the early years of the Republic of China would be the outcome of China in the future. Western countries would never care how many people died in China because of the war. They would just support one force and then lie down like a group of vampires.
In China's rich land, absorb all the essence of the earth, various material raw materials, and various rare mineral deposits, until the resources on this land are completely harvested.
In Liu Lang's view, China only needs one ruling party, and that is the Red Party. Although it also has shortcomings of one kind or another, they have stabilized the order of such a country with a large population and a large area, and gradually strengthened its national power, so that the Chinese nation can
Making your voice heard on the world stage is a success based on this alone.
Therefore, Liu Lang never intervened in the technical research and development of individual rocket launchers, and left it to the chief technical advisor and Qian Wei's scientific research team to carry out independently.
In fact, they have done a good enough job that the copycat is better than the original version that Americans already have.