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Chapter 223 Tanks, power problems

The weapons testing ground is in the same place as the training camp outside the city, but the training ground faces west and the barracks faces east. There is an obvious longitude fence separating the two areas.

In addition to being used for weapon testing, the test field is also used for training. However, when new weapons need to be tested today, it was temporarily requisitioned to clear the field.

In the artillery field, three experimental vehicles are currently parked in the bunker of the artillery field.

Before Gudeen arrived here, the Military Research Institute and related troops had already started preliminary experimental tasks here.

A team of more than [-] people was testing and recording data for the three vehicles. Gudn stood aside as he just watched the tests of each vehicle quietly, and no one came to accompany him to explain.

The development of heavy vehicles such as armored vehicles or tanks is guaranteed by previous experience in manufacturing and developing magic cars, but the development process is almost entirely from scratch.

Even with Gooden's 'technical' support, it took a lot of manpower and material resources to build these three original models. When there was no production line to build, nearly [-] to [-] parts were all hammered by craftsmen bit by bit. made.

The cost of steel is no less than hundreds of tons. Such a luxurious investment was unimaginable in Qingyuan before, but now the nearby mines have been connected to the rails, and the finished steel smelted every day can reach More than [-] tons started, and this number will not be a problem to break through the [-] mark when the infrastructure construction tasks in various places are completed.

Different vehicles were testing and calibrating their cannons in the test field. The huge roaring sound of firing and the sound of hitting explosions satisfied Gudeen who was watching from the sidelines.

The bodies of each of the three chariots are roughly similar, but they are still slightly different, with a length of about seven to eight meters. Two chariot chassis are crawler-type, and one is 8X8 wheel-type structure.

Among them, the tracked car body is divided into two structures, one is a rear turret filled with a larger caliber howitzer, as a vehicle support vehicle, and the other is set as a middle turret structure. The body is more like a tank but the structure is lighter and not so heavy.

The three different car bodies also correspond to different purposes. The rear-mounted turret model is used as an upgraded motorized artillery, which can provide support artillery for the front line more quickly and conveniently. The intermediate tracked car body is used as a flat-firing artillery. Units that can charge into battle at any time to provide effective cover protection for infantry.

The assault vehicle with a wheeled structure can also be equipped with a turret to install artillery. Its function is to quickly deploy maneuvers, and to replace the turret with other multi-functional turrets to adapt to different tasks according to subsequent needs.

The design of the military research institute is not just to study all the tanks in this way, each vehicle body has different turret structure upgrades.

For example, a wheeled combat vehicle can not only be equipped with a 25-up upgrade artillery, but also can be replaced with a multi-barreled [-]mm cannon that has not yet been used. The artillery occupies a huge space, and the wheeled chariot can even adjust a carrying space for transporting troops.

Different models will be upgraded and manufactured later depending on the needs, and the current three are just an initial template. Except for the new howitzer mounted on the rear turret, the other two are equipped with [-] upgraded artillery turrets for mission testing.

This 75 upgraded artillery was also designed and developed in accordance with Gudern's requirements. The entire artillery structure uses a combination of magic artillery and field artillery. Unlike the above two [-]mm calibers, the upgraded artillery caliber directly reaches one One hundred and five millimeters, comparable to the caliber of a howitzer.

Using the combination of the two firing methods at the same time, the [-]-upgrade artillery can not only fire magic shells, but can even fire charged shells.

However, if two different types of shells are stored in the turret, although it can carry a lot, it will also reduce part of the ammunition storage capacity. The currently designed storage magazine can only carry three sets of base shells at most.

If you carry half of each of the two types of shells, and you have to use expensive magic shells when you encounter some cheap targets, you have to use expensive magic shells, and the storage capacity is relatively small. With a complete supply chain, the more shells a bicycle can carry, the better.

For this reason, the newly upgraded artillery uses new shells. Unlike the previous one-piece shells, the shells fired are now divided into two parts. This separate shell is also the most critical place to integrate the two firing methods. .

The shell is divided into two parts: the warhead and the launching portion. The normal charge shell is slender overall, but more than 70.00% of the shell is used for launching propellant, which takes up a lot of space.

Magic shells do not have this problem, so with the unremitting efforts of the staff of the research institute, they developed a magic launch unit that can be directly loaded behind the killing part of the charged shell, directly saving a lot of space.

And it can keep fighting. More importantly, the cost is calculated to be cheaper than gunpowder. After all, it is a one-time use item, and it can be burned with wood, but iron is chosen for stability.

Now the most indispensable thing in Qingyuan is iron, so the cost of a launch unit is probably less than ten copper coins. The most important thing is that the space for storing shells in one shell can be filled with enough space for a hundred shells. Launch unit module.

In this way, a lot of space is saved, but the magic launch alone is not enough, and the charge launch is also necessary. For this reason, everyone in the design and research institute lived up to expectations after some research, and came up with a launch unit. Compared with the previous structure, it was directly cut in half.

In the case of subtracting the charge, the range will inevitably be weakened, but in the performance on the test field, even with the halved structure, the maximum range of the shell is still up to four kilometers.

Compared with the distance of more than ten kilometers for artillery, this distance seems a little insufficient, but you must know that the new weapon does not increase the price, the range is cut, but the power has not changed, but it has been upgraded a lot. At the same time, the distance of four kilometers is in this era. There are still ten insurmountable distances.

And with the help of the fusion of magic artillery, even when encountering Chaofan, under the situation of first-hand suppression, and when the opponent is careless, the outcome of the two sides can be divided [-]-[-].

After all, the electromagnetic armor-piercing projectile has been recognized by Qingyuan's supernatural beings. With an attack that exceeds the speed of sound, and only a rudimentary level of magic fluctuations, if a careless shot is shot directly, it is possible to save it unless the gods show up.

At the same time, the [-]-upgrade artillery also inherited the automatic loading advantages of the Magic Cannon. Although it cannot reach the speed of one shot per second, it can also reach one shot per three seconds, and it supports charging shells.

Under various upgrades, a 66-upgrade artillery turret can directly carry five and a half base shells, and can reach [-] shells when fully loaded. It is not an exaggeration to say that a vehicle is an artillery position.

In addition to the upgrade of weapons, the three types of vehicles are all dual-engine systems. The diesel engine is used as a backup power pack, which can support the vehicle to travel [-] kilometers, and the speed is not lower than [-] kilometers per hour. Quickly withdraw from the magic area.

And with the help of magic technology, battery technology has also been born. Although the stored power is not much, it can also support the action of the chariot for about 5 minutes.

Under such a triple guarantee, the fault tolerance of the chariot has been greatly improved, but it is precisely because of the addition of various power equipment, even with the addition of magic technology, even the lightest wheeled chariot, the full load weight More than nineteen tons.

The figure of [-] tons is already an out-and-out steel behemoth in the current world.

And like a tank, the weight of the full load is more than 23 tons, such as the body of the rear-mounted artillery site. If the 155mm howitzer, the heaviest test model at present, is installed, the weight of the whole vehicle can reach 35 tons, even if the caliber is reduced to 122mm. The weight must also be more than 25 tons.

This kind of heavy-duty monster support weapon will not directly participate in the battle and enter the battlefield, but can be safely output from the rear, so it only needs the power movement speed of the march to reach the standard.

In addition to weapon and power upgrades, the three vehicles have added many magical functions, such as higher-level barrier magic, camouflage magic, and other auxiliary magic help.

Moreover, the most important wheeled chariot can even go into the water and cross the river because of its weight, which is an amphibious type of vehicle.

Nearly an hour after the three tanks roared in the test field, the tanks and wheeled tanks stopped shooting and correcting. With the driver of the vehicle crew started, the two vehicles entered the stage of cross-country mobile testing .

The other self-propelled artillery is mainly to test the effect of precision attack, so today's test is just firing to correct these two tasks.

Gudn's tasks today are basically completed, and he watched the entire test in the field with great interest, and got the data of each vehicle and the places that need to be changed in the first place.

Three reports were in front of him, and Gudern was very satisfied after reading them.

The degree of autonomy of the military research institute can be said to be the most independent of the three major research institutes. They can arrange and optimize many small things by themselves, and there is no need for him to worry about the arrangement.

"Master, the adjustment and modification tasks are expected to be completed within a week, and the production task is expected to produce the first car within half a month. The estimated production capacity is about two cars a day."

"In addition, the research on other weapon modules is also continuing. According to your plan, it is expected to be completed before April and enter the testing stage."

Eden, who was in charge of the military project, made a final summary to Gooden.

As Eden, who was later transferred to the blacksmith shop, he is now the main person in charge of the Military Research Institute after the revision of entries and promotion of qualifications.

And his half master, Buck, served as the dean of the Academy of Science and Technology, and Pan Xi went to the Academy of Magic to study magic, and was also responsible for some tasks in the Academy of Magic.

After Gudeen learned about it here, he didn't make adjustments, but arranged for the next task.

"This part of the mission has also entered the later stage of development. At that time, a group of suitable personnel will be selected to participate in the research mission of the aircraft. This part of the mission is also an important part of Qingyuan's follow-up development."

"The next focus of development, in addition to upgrading weapons, needs to be all on aircraft."

"Okay... but young master..." Eden nodded slightly, and then continued with a slight headache.

"Because the power of the chariot is not so harsh, it is enough to drive it to run, but the aircraft is not good. According to the calculations of the personnel in the research institute, with the most advanced power engine in Qingyuan, even the lightest armed weapon can be developed. The version of the aircraft cannot meet the use standards of the aircraft, and if you want to develop a new engine, according to the current progress, it will take at least half a year to achieve the performance you need."

Facing this question, Gudn thought for a while and asked.

"Is it a problem with the mechanical engine not up to standard?"

"Yes, sir."

Although Qingyuan's technology is already far ahead of other countries in Chenxi Continent, it is still far behind when it comes to benchmarking some technologies that need to be realized.

For example, the engine problem of the aircraft is directly a hindrance. With the current magic technology, overtaking on curves is very easy, but to let science and technology play a role here, it requires continuous investment of manpower and material resources in order to make a breakthrough.

Moreover, the power engine not only occupies a very large area, but also needs to carry fuel, so that the overall load will be greatly weakened and reduced.

Although the aircraft only needs a set of magic engines, it is quite sufficient, but the orc side, no, to be precise, the forbidden magic created by the gods still makes Gudeen have to guard against it.

When Gudeen was meditating, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind. If the direct power output is limited, wouldn't it be enough to just switch to electric drive?
The storage of electricity only requires batteries, and the conversion does not require the use of equipment such as engines that can easily weigh hundreds of kilograms or even tons.

And the supply of electricity can be directly stored in advance by magic, even if there is an emergency, the output source can be switched at the first time.

However, although such an idea is good, it still faces a problem. The battery energy storage in Qingyuan's hands is not that high. Even if it is made with alchemy (chemistry) knowledge and some physics knowledge, it can only be used in vehicles. a few minutes.

If it is to be used on an aircraft, it is also necessary to upgrade the battery performance.

Thinking of this, Gudn said.

"If the engine research is difficult, use batteries instead. I will contact Buck to take charge of this part of the task. The engine development will continue to retain the researchers and will not be dismissed, but the focus of research will be on the power conversion task."

Facing Gudern's arrangement, Eden agreed without thinking about it. In his opinion, with the young master's guidance and participation, this part of the problem has already been half solved.

Gu Deen, who had a development idea in his mind, went directly to the Science and Technology Research Institute to find Buck to arrange an upgrade idea after finishing the task.

What is the core of the battery upgrade?Material!

Blue Star's battery technology has been unable to break through for a long time. In the final analysis, it is a material problem. On the Chenxi Continent, with the help of magic, it can directly overtake in a curve to achieve a level that many technologies cannot achieve.

With the superposition of double knowledge and the blessing of entries, Gudeen has already formed a special overtaking plan in his mind.

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(End of this chapter)