Looking at Nankulu's letter, Upfapu could only see helplessness in his eyes.
In fact, when Nankulu first sent information about the magic gun, Upfapu had already completed its imitation in private.
But the effect is very poor. Not to mention hitting the target with 100 shots, just hitting one out of three shots from a hundred meters away is considered good.
Not to mention the outrageous cost, the hit rate is problematic no matter how you look at it.
Although he was not favored by the Sixth Generation, he was still a prince after all. After he made the imitation gun, the palace's black guards came to help him. Within a few days of taking the imitation gun away, they sent him a lot of spy information and returned it to him. A sum of money.
It's obvious that Sixth Generation also cares about it, but he just doesn't want to say it face to face.
But after reading the information, he found the problem even more difficult to solve.
To put it simply, Fatel's spies almost used the elimination method to target two gun barrel suppliers, the Manufacturing Bureau and Metro Heavy Industries. Since Metro Heavy Industries is mainly responsible for providing production equipment to the society, while the Manufacturing Bureau has almost no products flowing out, The suspicion is greater.
When security companies already have the right to bear arms, no factory has ever received a commission to manufacture gun barrels. This is a very strange thing in itself.
In particular, Fatel estimated the production capabilities of Xincheng Heavy Industry and the Manufacturing Bureau, and believed that the production of gun barrels occupied a large amount of production capacity. Under the mechanism of the Phoenix Kingdom, it should be natural to subcontract part of the work to outsiders. .
A possible explanation is that there is a secret in their gun barrels, a secret that the spies and the former Fourth Legion subconsciously ignored when they were prisoners.
what is it then?
Upfapu had a deep obsession with the magic weapon to win. He once again gathered the information compiled by the people he had sent out, as well as the royal family information, and then found some people who had been captured in the past to interrogate and make a record.
Install the latest version. 】
Refer to these things and then observe the magic gun you copied.
The gap may be machining.
How does a machine bend magical steel blanks into tubes? Isn't hot forging similar to that of a blacksmith?
Is it possible that it is some unknown machining method?
There may also be differences in steel material.
Write these two points in and entrust the black guard who was helping guard the door to send them to the palace.
The sixth generation is a king, and the power he can use cannot be compared to that of a young general who is not even a crown prince. As long as there is a direction, many secrets and patiently roundabout ways to collect information, there will be results.
About half a year later, I got the key word - seamless steel pipe.
It is a transcribed version of a spy letter. The content and sources are mainly the memories of Xincheng Heavy Industry by several retired old guys. For Xincheng Heavy Industry, which was founded not long ago, researching seamless steel pipe processing technology is a big project. .
But the part about materials is not mentioned, because in the eyes of workers, the only difference between materials can be processed and cannot be processed. Whether the tool knife will explode is the only indicator, and they do not care about the specific ingredients at all. If you go to the steel factory and ask, there will be too much information on classified models. Even a retired person can't remember it, and the risk of being reported if you talk about it is too high.
At this point, it is actually a bit troublesome.
The Phoenix Kingdom's production chain is too complex. Even if seamless steel pipes can be overcome, the steel problem is still unsolvable.
No matter what, always try it first.
It wasn't long before the seamless steel pipe was resolved until this time when I received a letter from Nankuru explaining the matter of civilian use of artificial gemstones.
The difficulties were countless. In this process, Uppfapp also truly realized the concept of "production chain".
The possibility of replicating a technology is not small as long as you are willing to put in the effort and continue to invest human and financial resources. However, it is impossible to replicate the entire production chain of the Phoenix Kingdom with the current Fatel.
Without the support of a complex production chain, that pile of military equipment system would be impossible to talk about. Even if there is an opportunity for the civilian use of artificial gemstones, it is already the limit to equip one or two of the Royal Legion with a certain proportion of magic guns.
What limits the scale of equipment here is money, not money.
The lathe used to reproduce seamless steel pipes was modified by hired technicians. The prototype was a replica steam lathe, which was later changed to a single-cylinder diesel engine powered by a belt transmission.
Some Problems.
The single-cylinder engine with a belt vibrates too much for a seamless steel pipe with an inner diameter of more than ten millimeters, and the effect is not even as good as the early connecting rod transmission machine tool set of Heavy Industry.
Secondly, it imitates the power of a single cylinder, which is not very interesting when used on a lathe. There is also a problem with the material of the tool knife. You can only use a diamond knife. The diamond knife is strong enough but not heat-resistant. The combination of the two results in poor feed speed of the boring machine.
The combination of feed speed and vibration leads to low processing efficiency and high defective rate... Although in Uppfapp's eyes, defective products can also be used, the guy who invited him just felt that it couldn't be done.
The actual test of the imitation magic gun also proved that the technician was right, and the hit rate of the defective product was indeed far worse.
In other words, it is actually the accuracy of the barrel and bullet that determines the stability of the ballistics.
It's even more of a headache when it comes to bullets.
After receiving Nankulu's letter, Upfapu sent the news to the palace. King VI was overjoyed and asked him to organize the production of the Royal Legion's standard magic gun.
But when I went back and talked with the technicians on the imitation team, I felt that there were many difficulties and there was too little money.
The Royal Legion has a strength of 120,000, but it is actually only 50,000. After the floating island, a few unknown soldiers lost their heads, and the number was reduced to 70,000, but the actual number is still less than 60,000.
Regardless of what is behind it, half of the equipment for a 60,000-strong legion requires 30,000 guns. Based on the monthly training quota of ten bullets per person, 300,000 rounds are needed, and at least 30 rounds are needed for each person to fight. Calculating, it is easy to consume 5 million rounds a year.
If we look at the enemy's standards when the Fourth Army hit the wall in the Phoenix Kingdom back then, five million rounds would probably have to add a zero!
This amount is enough to send chills down the back, and Uppfapp, who understands the concept of "industrial chain", is even more aware that there are still production barriers.
The imitation processing equipment has certain flaws in the speed and accuracy of batch processing of projectiles. Different equipment must be used to supply the same regiment, at least a dozen sets. There must be accuracy differences here, resulting in the accuracy of each bullet and barrel. The matching degree is not the same!
The only solution to these problems is to burn money.
But the Sixth Generation promised...the money has not been given directly. It is estimated that it can only form a production line with an annual output of 500 finished guns and 100,000 rounds of ammunition.
The reason why the scale is so small is due to the above reasons. The processing speed of a single machine is not enough, so we can only make up the quantity, which requires more money to achieve roughly the same productivity.
Upfapu tried hard and asked for more money, but it was still not enough.
As a general, he has realized that even if there is the Phoenix Kingdom blocking the movement of the demons, the battle between Fatel and the demons in the southeastern battlefield and the northwest battlefield will be unavoidable in the long run.
Hundreds of thousands of magic guns are produced every year, and accounting for a certain annual attrition rate, it would probably take forty or fifty years to equip a legion with half of the equipment.
However, his unpopular upbringing made him mature enough to know that there is no need to rush things. He first gathered a small rifle team and achieved results on the battlefield before he could get more money from the Sixth Generation.
During this time, I hope the Phoenix Kingdom can withstand it.
