Since the tanks were available, anti-tank weapons were used. At the beginning, anti-tank guns were used. As long as there was enough kinetic energy, they could penetrate the tank's armor. After that, the tank armor became thicker and thicker, and anti-tank
The gun finally couldn't penetrate the armor of the tank, and it began to have special anti-tank guns, and the caliber was getting bigger and bigger. Until now, the caliber of the world's mainstream anti-tank guns has long exceeded one hundred millimeters.
It is difficult to continue to increase the caliber, which will face many problems such as loading. Therefore, if you want to tap the potential of anti-tank guns, you have to find a way to make the armor-piercing bombs. You have long used ordinary steel core bullets, which were Soviets.
The helpless choice is because they pursue quantity and large-scale manufacturing during the war period. However, the core of the armor-piercing bullet made of high-quality steel has never had a good effect, so, except
In addition to the Soviet Union, the cores of armor-piercing bombs in other countries have actually eliminated steel and used special alloys.
This alloy must have a high enough strength, that is, it must be hard enough to penetrate the armor, because the working process of armor-piercing bombs is actually a head-on battle. The harder the armor-piercing ability, the stronger it will be.
After repeated research by arms experts and material experts, tungsten alloy was finally selected, which is the most suitable core material for armor-piercing bombs.
However, the world's largest tungsten ore is in the Eastern Power. The Eastern Power has this unique advantage, so other countries are gone, especially the United States. They must not watch the raw materials of their armor-piercing bombs in the hands of others.
In the meantime, they began to use the materials they had at hand to conduct new research, and thus they created depleted uranium armor-piercing bombs.
Depleted uranium is a by-product obtained after extracting the nuclear material uranium 235 from metal uranium. Its main component is uranium 238, which has weak radioactivity, so it is called depleted uranium, or depleted uranium. The United States is a super weapon development power in the world and also owns it.
A large number of nuclear weapons, of course, have a large number of by-products of raw materials for refining nuclear weapons, that is, depleted uranium.
Uranium in nature is composed of three radioactive isotopes: uranium 234, uranium 235 and uranium 238. Among them, uranium 235 in pure natural uranium is less than one percent, and most of them are uranium 238 that are not easy to fission, so it is made
The first step of nuclear weapons is to separate the uranium 235 in natural uranium. This separation is achieved through a huge centrifuge. Therefore, although the atomic bomb is simple, it is not easy to build it. Just this centrifuge
It restricts many countries.
When the centrifuge threw the heavy uranium 238 outside, the inner part was uranium 235, and the only one left was the thrown uranium 238.
In the past, these were scraps and were useless at all. For Americans, they had to spend a lot of effort to dispose of these scraps, so just use them.
Through research, it was found that the metal properties of this depleted uranium are quite good. It has physical properties such as high density, high hardness, and high toughness. Its density is comparable to tungsten, which is almost twice that of lead. Although Americans lack tungsten ore, there are more depleted uranium.
Yes, so, I simply use depleted uranium to create armor-piercing bombs.
In addition to being radioactive, depleted uranium has very good characteristics. Although its density is the same as tungsten, its armor-piercing ability is actually far greater than that of tungsten bombs. On the one hand, it is because depleted uranium has a special self-sharp characteristic.
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Ordinary kitchen knives become more blunt the more they are used. The same is true for tungsten alloy armor-piercing bombs. The tip hits the armor and quickly becomes blunt. However, depleted uranium is different. Depleted uranium has the characteristics of self-sharpness. During the armor-piercing bombs, it constantly rubs against the armor.
, constantly grinding oneself to sharpen one's tip, so the efficiency of armor piercing is naturally higher. On the other hand, the powder ground down during the armor piercing process can be burned, just like the one that is piercing the armor piercing
A fire is added to the hole, which can melt the armor and the depth of the armor piercing can be further enhanced.
It is absolutely certain to change the core of the tungsten alloy armor-piercing bomb to depleted uranium, and increase the depth of the armor-piercing by 10%.
However, it is precisely because it can burn, after using depleted uranium bombs, the burned depleted uranium dust will enter the air and then be breathed into the lungs. Although this thing is called depleted uranium, it is still radioactive.
When it reaches the lungs, it will naturally be harmful to the human body after a long period of time.
As for how much harm is, no one knows. Because before, no army had used depleted uranium bombs on a large scale on the battlefield until this war in the oil region began.
"Conservatively estimated that the Americans used more than 800,000 depleted uranium bombs in this war, totaling about 320 tons. There are also data that, with the multinational troops, a total of nearly 1 million depleted uranium bombs were released, except for the Americans' M1
In addition to tanks, the tank killer A-10 lightning attack aircraft, which was once popular at the time, also used depleted uranium bombs as weapons." Nie Qianqian said to Qin Zhenhua: "One million depleted uranium bombs, used in oil areas, produce a large amount of radioactive dust, which is enough
Pollution everything there, including air, including water.”
Now, Nie Qianqian has noticed this problem a long time ago, so now it sounds fluent: "So far, no research has shown what impact these can have. I have contacted a famous medical expert and believed that adults are
Men may have stronger physical resistance, but the elderly, women and children have less resistance, among them, especially newborns, so I want to count, one year after that war passed
Until now, how much is the probability of deformity in newborns born? Compared with the past, has it increased or decreased, especially in areas where depleted uranium bombs are used in large quantities, whether there is a significant increase? Through these comparisons, I can
Got some conclusions.”
Qin Zhenhua nodded: "If your research requires a lot of money, our machine factory can support some."
This is not just a magazine's article, but a scientific paper that can only be started by the Academy of Sciences. This kind of investigation requires a lot of time and energy, which means it costs a lot of money. However, Qin Zhenhua
Feel worth it.
"We can fully afford the funds." Nie Qianqian said: "We are not short of money, we are short of people."
Seeing that the topic was about to be mentioned again, Qin Zhenhua quickly changed: "By the way, I remember, it seems that I had read a report before. The research team of the Manhattan Project in the United States once wrote a report to the Pentagon and mentioned it a little.
Ammunition made of depleted uranium bombs and uranium 238 waste can contaminate enemy land and weaken the enemy's war potential."