The group headed north again and picked up a lot of new things along the way.
First there was the Tornado Type 1, which was discontinued after a few units, and then after more than ten days of promotion, the first wave of mass-produced real grenades arrived.
This batch of grenades is made from the previously introduced nitroglycerin and fulminate. Both of these are chemicals with very limited safety. In order to match the size of the blade and take into account the effective annihilation of demons, they are made larger. The charge is comparable to For 105mm shells, even if a latch mechanism is added to give enough space to the trigger point, it is still not so reassuring.
The main reason is that the sharp blades are big and strong. Just by pinching them with your hands, you can put pressure on the charge through the iron shell. Therefore, the grenades are not required to be carried with you, but are transported by vehicles. When it is time to fire, they are distributed in boxes. Team, grab and go.
The two major skills of human science and technology, boiling water and throwing stones, had already formed a basic system by the time grenades appeared. In terms of basic knowledge, Wang Qi could not come up with anything more advanced, and subsequent development would have to rely on the gradual accumulation of talents from generation to generation.
Needless to say, when it comes to boiling water, the energy conversion rate of steam power generation cannot be replaced for a long time. Its critical thermoelectric conversion efficiency will exceed 50%. Even if the level is not that high, it can be stable at 35% to 40%. between. As long as it is a means of generating heat, it will eventually be converted into electricity through a steam system.
Throwing stones includes bows and arrows, bullets, artillery shells, mortars, and grenades. They include all ballistic types of throwing stones. Even if ballistic missiles are developed in the future, they will not be able to escape these ballistic methods.
Of course, no one stipulates that grenades are ballistic types, but as the last resort before close combat, it is of great significance to soldiers, and it is necessary to get a position.
With the help of flying units and grenades, the operation went relatively smoothly. It took more than a month to bring the southern half of the northern district back to its pre-war cleanliness. Each camp only needed one or two hits a day. Only the level of the demon clan.
The location where the 1st Regiment was stationed again, the regiment headquarters was moved back nearly 100 kilometers compared to before, and was located at the original 9th Battalion 1st Company garrison. It was replanted with sacred tree seeds and transformed into a fortress.
The positional relationship between this point and Jinhong and Bei Pass forms an approximate equilateral triangle, and the straight-line distance is 120 kilometers.
The entire triangle is surrounded by mountainous areas and is very difficult to access.
Among them, the more important mountain road has a "thirty" shape in the bird's eye view. The east-west corridor in the middle can lead to Jinhong. However, it is not a straight line on the ground. It needs to pass through many intersecting valleys and it is easy to get lost.
The north-south corridors on the east side do not lead directly to the North Pass. The three main north-south corridors all lead directly up to the volcano. Although the volcano is not a good attack direction, the demons can use a large number of little demons, and it is necessary to guard important nodes.
"This star really wants to retire"
After the 1st Regiment Headquarters was relocated, the 1st Company of the 9th Battalion handed over the machine guns directly to the 1st Regiment Headquarters, and together with other companies of the 9th Battalion, they withdrew to the headquarters to rest and prepare for the use of more powerful guys.
Now that grenades are out, it makes sense to get a real mortar.
Although the technical threshold of mortars is relatively low, low threshold does not mean weak. On the contrary, in mountainous battles, mortars are much stronger than cannons and howitzers. High-throw missiles can easily attack enemies on the back of the mountain.
The 9th Battalion's withdrawal this time is to go back and conduct relevant equipment training.
The Styx mortar will also be revised accordingly and changed to a form of firing with a regular barrel. This will only add one type of ammunition and can also reduce the pressure on the manufacturing bureau.
By reducing the number of magic personnel invested by the Manufacturing Bureau in producing consumable weapons, the pace of mass production of the Tornado II can be accelerated.
The Tornado II propels very quickly.
When Yi Tuan first started pushing back, it finalized the plan. Now, more than a month later, it has completed the experimental process and the prototype has been delivered to the garrison headquarters for testing.
It was so different from the Guangfeng Type 1 that the headquarters staff placed an order for 100 aircraft within two days of trial use.
Tornado II is a two-seat monoplane. In order to facilitate reconnaissance, the floor under the rear seat is directly replaced with glass.
Of course it is not ordinary glass, but double-layer special glass with 55% aluminum oxide content and embedded steel mesh and resin layer. This thing is very strong. As long as it has a metal frame, it can be hit by a 15mm bullet from a distance of 500 meters. Will crack. If the glass hadn't been a bit brittle and not easy to make thin, the research institute even had the idea of making the entire fuselage vitrified.
There are two pieces of glass at the foot of the rear seat, one is used to match the external curvature of the fuselage, and the other is the floor, with a certain degree of wide-angle deformation.
There are tricks between flat glass and curved glass. There is a set of battery-powered adjustable cluster lighting groups. They will hit the light on the glass to form a mesh, and the density can be adjusted.
For example, at an altitude of two thousand meters, the rear seat passenger directly adjusts the density level to the level corresponding to two thousand meters. If you look below, one grid of light is one square kilometer.
This way of observation immediately made the test pilots fall in love with it, so it was immediately launched into mass production.
In fact, the Tornado II is also good in other aspects. Even if it is regarded as a real aircraft, it is still practical.
It has a length of 9 meters, a wingspan of 12 meters, and a gliding ratio of 20 to 1 per 100 kilometers per hour. That is, for every one kilometer of altitude dropped, it can fly 20 kilometers away. If the speed is controlled within 100 kilometers per hour, the ratio will be even greater. .
Its theoretical stall speed is 50 kilometers per hour. In fact, it will not stall at all, because this speed is converted into meters and seconds, which is less than 14 meters per second. If the speed is even close, it will naturally drop to a height of less than two meters. After making up for this gap, even if it fell directly to the ground, it would only hold up heavily.
The standard magic modules it matches include the aircraft's dead weight of just over two tons, and it can also carry one ton of people and objects, providing a total ceiling of 20,000 meters.
Equivalent to a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, it can provide a flight distance of 400 kilometers, enough for people to watch in the sky.
If that's not enough, it also comes with an additional underwing interface for two external magic modules.
But flying for 12 hours is too outrageous. These two modules are mainly used to supply energy for subsequent weapons to be mounted.
These loading capabilities all come from a titanium alloy beam that runs between the wings and the two seats. The existence of this beam allows almost unlimited loading under the wings. Of course, in order to maintain the gliding performance, it cannot be hung up blindly. There are only four hanging points under the wings. In order not to block the reconnaissance window, there are no hanging points under the belly.
There are even stronger ones. Because it relies on magic to lift off, the Tornado II itself does not need to take off from an airport. Even though the first version does not have a rappel function, its ultra-low speed allows it to land on only a 100-meter dirt runway. Brake, loosen up and smooth out a 150-meter runway, and you can take off and land in batches.
What can barely be considered a shortcoming is that its top speed is not as high as expected. After all, wind resistance is proportional to the square of the speed, and even the vertical downward speed limit is not high.
The maximum vertical downward speed reached by the institute is 70 meters per second, which is a top speed of 252 kilometers.
When not descending vertically, the maximum speed of horizontal flight is even slower. When flying in a relatively stable attitude with a negative angle of attack, the maximum speed can only reach 170 kilometers.
However, these flight values are not stable. By increasing the counterweight, especially by stuffing iron blocks into the belly of the aircraft, the maximum speed can be effectively increased by increasing the average density, which will naturally reduce the total ascent height.
As the first mass-produced magic aircraft, the Tornado II had a relatively perfect start.
