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What matters now is still in the garrison.
About a month had passed since the garrison returned to the defense to rest and strengthen fortifications, and the Magic Weapon Research Institute finally came up with a big killer weapon.
Anti-aircraft guns!
Perhaps because the researcher is shy, this cannon does not have a personal name and is called Heavy Rain Type 1.
It makes no sense to use a single tube for anti-aircraft guns, because a single tube needs to be equipped with a proximity fuze, and requires dense deployment in actual air defense missions, making it unsuitable for mobile air defense operations. And now it seems that the combat goal is to hit various creatures, and there is no need to project several kilograms of shells to hit them.
If it is used to kill birdmen, an anti-aircraft machine gun is enough. However, Wang Qi's people have a very abstract understanding of demons. I don't know how powerful they will appear in the future. Considering the influence of protective magic, the applicability of machine guns is also Not high enough.
All that remains are multi-barreled anti-aircraft guns, with calibers ranging from 20 to 30 mm.
The Heavy Rain Type 1 is a 20mm quadruple gun, and its selection was also determined by its processing capabilities.
In the entire system, the manufacturer with the highest processing accuracy is Xincheng Heavy Industries, but its positioning is not to make medals, receivers and other messy things, but to obtain the manufacturing and installation capabilities of high-precision processing machines through self-replacement.
Military weapons involve a higher level of confidentiality. Except for the gun barrels, which are temporarily manufactured by Xincheng Heavy Industries, the rest can only be produced by manufacturing bureaus with weaker physical processing capabilities.
If the processing capacity is lower, the reliability of parts with a slightly more complex mechanical structure such as the ammunition supply system will drop a lot.
The manufacturing bureau affiliated with the research institute has not yet been able to produce a mass-produced fast ammunition-feeding receiver with sufficient reliability, so it can only increase the number of barrels to balance the strike efficiency.
The rate of fire of the Rainstorm Type 1 is relatively slow. The four tubes combined can only project nearly 300 warheads per minute.
However, there are also some excellent features that researchers have put great effort into designing.
When part of the barrel of this machine gun is damaged, the magic flow can be limited by a manual switch to ensure that the total number of bombs dropped will not be affected. It also has two detachable parts, which can be used to remove two single-barreled rapid-fire cannons for situations where there are not so many air units to deal with.
To be honest, although the detachability looks beautiful, it is a function that comes at the expense of reliability.
Military weapons are ranked first in reliability, second in adaptability to existing transportation systems, third in ease of use, and fourth in portability. Reliability is the basis for the existence of weapons.
Fortunately, there is no system for vehicle-mounted weapons. Cannons are mainly used on positions. Magic guns do not need to consider the impact of gunpowder explosions during shooting. A slight decrease in reliability is not unacceptable. It can be improved in the future.
In terms of battery life, this gun is equipped with two magic modules.
The largest one, fifty kilograms, can support the launch of eight hundred warheads. The small one, five kilograms, is the energy source of the single-barreled cannon after disassembly. It can support the firing of one hundred rounds. It is usually placed on the cannon as a battery. It can also be used for emergency shooting when replacing the large module.
It is not difficult to make the density of magic power higher. If you get a large piece of artificial gemstone, it will be no problem even if it has 8,000 rounds. However, pure magic power may also be detonated by certain magics, so you have to guard against it. Therefore, 80% of the weight of the large module is used for explosion protection, and the weight ratio of gemstones is less than 1%. On the contrary, the total amount of magic power of small modules is low, not so dangerous, and the proportion of gems is larger.
The Heavy Rain Type 1 first got five units for trial use in the garrison, and asked Li Xiang to take a look.
"The sound is so weird, everyone, everyone is like this." Li Xiang came back and simulated the sound of cannons.
It was a bit strange, but Wang Qi didn't care about the sound, as long as the hissing didn't cause people to urinate. He asked: "How high can the cannonball hit?"
"It's too small for me to see clearly. Anyway, it's still flying upward at a height of three or four thousand meters."
That's almost the same as a real anti-aircraft gun, which shows that the institute really understands ballistic-related issues.
After a period of trial use of the prototype, no serious problems were found, so I placed an order for 100 units.
One hundred units are distributed in various fortified passes in the volcanic mountains. In fact, they are not enough. However, this thing is much more difficult to make than a rifle. Without large-scale orders to support a single production line, one hundred units will require two It will take several months to complete. Then we will take a look at the progress of the improved model and the changes in the north, and then decide whether to continue to increase the quantity.
The follow-up will be left to the military to coordinate, and Wang Qi is ready to promote the debut of the big killer weapon.
Steam locomotive.
Wang Qi is not an old man with an encyclopedia in his head. He only knows the principles of steam engines and what steam locomotives still operating in the information age look like. He does not know how to make the power of a train steam engine exceed six meters while controlling the total weight. Thousands of horsepower.
Now that we have experience in the use and production of steam engines, we can also achieve a certain degree of processing accuracy. There are even a few young engineers who have been exposed to steam engines for a long time. They are expected to push the power of steam engines to more than 1,000 horsepower. Such power is enough on rails. Transporting nearly a thousand tons of cargo.
Not counting some exotic ones with a curb weight of more than 500 tons and an output of 6,000 horsepower. Mass-produced locomotives of this level are the result of nearly a century of steam locomotive development. During this period, I don’t know how many people’s efforts and wisdom have been gathered, and they are purely based on trial and error. It's a bit outrageous to reach the sky in one step.
So at the beginning, as long as the entire front of the car can move and there is a certain amount of traction, it will be fine.
In order to improve development efficiency and avoid detours, Wang Qi used his existing knowledge to draw an anatomical diagram of the steam locomotive and some exploded drawings.
Even if he had visited a steam locomotive in a museum, it would be very difficult for a person to do this kind of thing alone. He was not determined enough to tackle the problem on his own, so he only focused on a few key points.
One is the combination of steam pipes and boilers, which directly affects the steam volume and steam pressure produced by the locomotive, and has the greatest impact on power. Wang Qi also knows that the steam needs to be heated twice in the furnace to improve heat utilization.
The second is the transmission structure of the power output to the power wheel. At first, it was a pure forward and backward output, but the reliability was low and the preparation work was heavy. Therefore, it was necessary to add longitudinal auxiliary output points. Of course, the actual mechanical kinetic energy provided by the steam is still front and rear. It only provides up and down assistance through special mechanical joints. Wang Qi also studied for a long time when using steam equipment in various factories before he figured out how to do it.
The third is the braking system.
In principle, trains should have unlimited right of way, which means anyone who blocks the front of the train deserves to die. However, there is magic in this world. In addition to damage caused by natural disasters, there are more acts of man-made destruction of railways.
With the existing number of departments engaged in production, building a locomotive is not an easy task. In order to reduce the risk of the locomotive being scrapped due to derailment, braking is even a more important system than transmission.
What's embarrassing is that Wang Qi himself doesn't know how to brake. He only knows that a steam locomotive needs to use air and steam for braking at the same time, and the relevant cylinder is at the front end of the locomotive.
There are only a few clues. It is impossible to deduce a sufficiently mature train braking system. We can only simplify it a little.
But even if it is simplified, it is actually more complicated than the power steam furnace currently used by Xincheng Heavy Industry, because it also involves steam-driven compressed air, a float valve hydraulic system, an airlock-related pipeline arrangement, etc., including whistles, The sand spreading mechanism is just a small part of the front air pressure system.
I spent two hours a day doing math problems and drawings, and it took me nearly three months to produce more than 40 drawings, including individual configurations of several key systems, three-dimensional views of dozens of important components, etc.
At this stage of the painting, he was still a little worried, so he asked Li Xiang: "Can you understand it?"
Li Xiangmeng shook his head: "It doesn't matter if I don't understand, as long as someone can understand."
"They are in trouble too. When you go over there, tell them, you don't have to follow the instructions, as long as it works better than manpower."
