More powerful weapons are being prepared, but even Wang Qi feels very confused.
Limited by the current production capacity of the Magic Weapon Research Institute...or the productivity of the entire small kingdom's magic industry, there is no way to choose "artistic" weapons.
For example, the institute has trial-produced two magic bombs.
The basic materials of these two are the fire magic crystal produced in the dungeon and the alumina crystal produced in South Town.
The total weight of the aerial bomb made of magic crystal is only 60 kilograms. The explosion effect is about the same as that of a 500 kilogram TNT aerial bomb. The aerial bomb's charge is less than half of the total weight.
Aluminum oxide crystals are more energetic, their total weight is the same, but their crystal content is lower, and their destructive effect is approximately equivalent to four 500-kilogram aerial bombs.
It should be admitted that its power is considerable, but unfortunately, it is not suitable for use on the battlefield.
Due to the complexity of the magic array, it is also necessary to ensure that the energy burst of other units will not be affected when detonating. The production time of both types of aerial bombs exceeds 200 hours, which is divided into 20 processes, and each person has to do more than one working day. .
What's more serious is that the magic circle engraving needs to maintain the balance of magic power in the crystal at all times, so Muggles can only be responsible for the production of the shell, and there is no way to save time through optimization of the production chain.
For comparison, the 500-kilogram standard aerial bomb, which has now been transferred to the war reserve stage, has been able to produce twenty bombs per day after a certain period of model and process improvements, and can continue to increase if necessary.
In short, the current magic production system cannot cope with the production of large-scale consumable products.
So we still have to go back to reusable weapons.
It’s just that there are more choices in this way, and it is easy for people to fall into difficulty in choosing.
When the 105th Battalion was transferred to New Pettus, Wang Qi had five feasibility reports on his desk, which were sifted through a series of group discussions.
There are five kinds of weapons, some in the sky, some on the ground, and even some underground.
Wang Qi eliminated the underground ones first.
This underground weapon is a reusable large-scale ground stabbing magic device.
Ground Thorn itself is only a three-ring conjuration magic, but there are many variants with the same principles, including large-scale multiple ground spikes, earthquakes, etc. It has better tactical effects on the battlefield than fire magic, but it is more flexible against single targets. The enemy seems to be ineffective.
The underground weapon scheme is a thing that crawls around underground and casts spells at set times.
There is no problem with the mechanism, but Wang Qi found it difficult to use. The startup setting is too troublesome, and the movement is not fast enough, which delays the fighter's flight. It may be better to change it to a reusable trigger mine. However, the form of landmines will bring subsequent hidden dangers, which means that they will block their marching route and they will not want to use them.
There are four plans left, two in the sky and two on the ground.
The two ones on the ground are both cannons and have different development directions.
After making many ballistic weapons, the institute also tried to make some changes. One of them is a live ammunition cannon, and the other is a real magic cannon, or it can be called a magic rail gun.
Both models have their own advantages.
Let’s look at live ammunition first.
After the various industrial bases have developed to a certain level, the live-fire artillery plan on Wang Qi's desk is actually a normal howitzer.
At first, I didn't dare to make it too big. The value given in the report was 120 mm caliber, 40 times the barrel diameter, which means the barrel length is 4.8 meters.
The acceleration of the artillery shell is still based on magic, and there is no problem with propellant. The diameter multiple is mainly to fully accelerate the projectile. The report states that at 40 times the diameter of the projectile, a 16 kg projectile can be accelerated to 3 times the speed of sound.
This strength is quite outrageous, and is on par with Wang Qi's third-generation tank in his previous life. The weight of the 120mm tank gun (cannon) shells without the propellant cartridge is between 15 and 20 kilograms, and the projectile exit speed can reach more than 900 meters/second. The problem is that the tube diameter ratio of these guns is much more than 1:40. It is 1:52, and the production difficulty of the two is completely different.
But to be fair, Wang Qi's score for the 120mm live-fire magic cannon was not high.
The 120mm caliber is a bit incompatible with existing combat targets.
As we all know, the maximum caliber used to directly target humanoid attacks is only 88 mm, and the weight of anti-all-cannon shells is generally . (This chapter is not finished yet!)
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Within 10 kilograms, even without propellant, every 100,000 rounds can save 600 tons of resources compared to a 120mm gun.
Judging from the current combat experience, there are only a few people who can withstand the 88mm gun, and the 120mm gun is definitely excessive damage.
Moreover, after increasing the caliber, the rate of fire will inevitably decrease, making it difficult to directly aim at individual targets. The threat of fragments to targets with magic shields or corresponding levels of defense is not as good as direct kinetic energy strikes.
However, there is no essential difference in the fragmentation killing effect between the two. They are both at the level of cluster grenades. For example, the fragmentation killing radius of 88 mm is 15 meters, and the fragmentation killing radius of 120 mm at the same level will not be greater than 20 meters.
In a word, the caliber is neither big nor small, making the positioning a bit awkward. Either a larger one can cover the damage in a large area, or a smaller one can improve the direct-aiming hit rate.
The Magic Railgun is more accurate in combat positioning.
This thing is not a direct strike weapon, because it cannot cast destructive magic at all, and the output is magic power that has been basically reshaped.
Its direct impact is somewhat similar to that of a high-energy laser, and its energy level cannot burn through livestock instantly.
It is not like a laser, which requires continuous irradiation of the same point to heat it. As long as it is irradiated on a living thing, as long as it can irradiate any part and maintain general continuity, it will cause the target to become incapacitated due to some magical phenomena such as oversaturation of magic power. Specific incapacitation The type depends on whether the target is using magic. It may be frozen into popsicles, burned, or simply partially roasted.
It cannot be said that there is no direct strike effect, but the efficiency is very average and it is easily affected by bunkers.
The real usage is to illuminate visible magic!
Including but not limited to fireball, thunderball and other spells with physical persistence.
It can be launched by either the enemy or ourselves. As long as it is illuminated by this thing, it will quickly decelerate until it stops, and then the magic body will be charged. This is also its core combat principle.
Magic body charging is a very unique field. It is mainly used in tactical magic. Spells that require the cooperation of multiple people are a charging process in themselves. Only one person actually casts the spell, and everyone else is a battery.
The difference is that most of the tactical magic is directly charged to people, while the magic rail gun is directly charged to magic.
The charging phenomenon of the magic body will cause the magic with ballistics to stop, but it will not detonate, it will only get bigger and bigger...
What really produces destructive power is the triggering conditions when both the enemy and ourselves cast magic.
For example, if the enemy shoots a magic that looks like a fireball, it may be a fireball, or it may be a front-end carrier for casting small fireballs. The set trigger conditions include timed explosion, touch explosion, etc.
Use the magic rail gun to directly inflate it. It will either explode at the right time, or it will grow until it touches the ground at a certain point.
In fact, shooting fireball is not the best choice on the battlefield. The optimal solution is to bring a fourth-level mage, cast thunderball or whirlwind, and then shoot it. @ESSENTIAL\/SHUKEG·No mistake first release~~
The four-ring thunder ball spell simulates ball lightning. It will automatically float forward and discharge electricity at the approaching living beings. If you shine it with a magic rail gun, it will freeze and continue to discharge, as long as a target is hit one after another. It doesn't make the ball particularly big and can last for a long time.
The whirlwind is the body of the wind blade, and its shape is difficult to see visually, but the report states that they asked a visiting professor to try it, and it did absorb the external shaping magic power, thus maintaining continuity and gradually expanding the scale of destruction.
In short, this thing embodies the magic and mystery of magic better than all previous magic weapons. .
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