After two new element bombs exploded in the air, they released an extraordinarily violent flash of light.
At the same time, there was a strong wind from far to near caused by the shock wave.
And a huge mushroom cloud slowly rising into the sky.
The monarchs and important ministers of the Ottoman, Austrian, and French countries have all seen various mushroom clouds.
Know that this mushroom cloud is caused by a large-scale explosion.
But they had never seen one so huge.
It was like a huge fist that punched directly through the sky from the ground, and a huge arm directly supported between the sky and the earth.
If the images, sounds, and physical sensations weren't all real, they might even think they were dreaming.
I don't know how long it took, but their spirits slowly recovered from the shock and their basic sanity was restored, and then they instinctively looked at the people around them.
Those Ming soldiers and craftsmen who released this weapon.
The craftsmen in charge of this operation also introduced them very conscientiously in accordance with the requirements and instructions given by the Military Aircraft Department.
“This is the latest bomb that Ming Dynasty put into service only two years ago.
“Currently, it can use a warhead weight of less than one ton to release energy equivalent to 100,000 tons of traditional explosives.
“The two bombs dropped in this test were equivalent to 50,000 tons of traditional explosives.
"That's why we get to see such a spectacular sight."
The monarchs and representatives of the three kingdoms were all shocked by this equivalent ratio of one to one hundred thousand and its huge practical effect.
Everyone's eyes widened, and it was difficult for them to accept this fact rationally.
However, the two bombs just now were released in front of their eyes, allowing them to watch the explosion.
The huge mushroom cloud produced by the unforgettable explosion just now is still not far away between the sky and the earth, indicating that what they said is true.
Archduke Karl of Austria was still muttering in a daze:
"This one is equivalent to tens of thousands of tons of explosives. In fact, one is enough to directly destroy a medium-sized city, and one is enough to turn a large fortress into ashes?
"If it is used to directly kill the urban population, wouldn't it be counted directly in units of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands?"
The French general Davout's thinking went to another aspect:
“The key is that they can use this small unmanned aircraft to deliver directly dozens of kilometers away...
“If the Ming Dynasty had a lot of these weapons, there would be no need for direct close combat with the enemy in the future.
"When launched dozens of kilometers away, the enemy's legions can be directly wiped out."
The craftsmen of Ming Dynasty added very proudly:
"Nowadays, missiles with a range of dozens of kilometers are used just to make it easier for you to see the explosion effect directly on site.
"The maximum range of our strategic missiles has actually reached thousands of kilometers.
“The combination of missiles that do not require a driver and this new type of bomb constitute the most powerful strategic weapon in the world.
"In the future, our soldiers will indeed not need to go to the battlefield to engage the enemy in close combat, or even go to the battlefield.
"If hundreds or even thousands of these strategic missiles are directly fired from the base in the rear of our battlefield, the enemy country can be directly wiped off the earth."
Louis XVII once again thought of the words of his best friend, and at this time he boldly asked:
"Thousands? Now the Ming Dynasty has thousands of such weapons?"
The craftsman replied naturally:
"According to His Majesty's wishes, in order to avoid excessive production and waste, we currently control the production to one hundred and twenty pieces per month."
At this time, a group of people around them shouted directly again:
"One hundred and twenty coins per month!"
"That's one thousand, four hundred and forty a year!"
"It's really crazy that such a powerful weapon can reach this scale in quantity..."
"If there were tens of thousands of these weapons, wouldn't it be possible to destroy the entire world?"
The officials of the Ming Dynasty who accompanied them waited for their consternation to subside a little, and then they warned and reminded them:
“We, the Ming Dynasty, are the kingdom of heaven and have the obligation to educate and save people all over the world.
"However, if you Westerners are really stubborn, then Ming will not hesitate to punish you.
“But you don’t have to worry, your country is gone anyway.
“You have not violated Ming’s warnings and rules.
"You probably won't have the chance to taste these new bombs directly in the future."
This understatement caused a group of high-ranking officials from the Western and Western countries at the scene to be completely silent.
The fear of the threat of this weapon is due to the grief of losing the home country, plus the chill of being directly exposed and ridiculed.
All kinds of negative emotions were mixed together, making their bodies and mouths completely stiff, and they could no longer make a sound for a long time.
Until late in the evening, when we returned to the temporary camp, many people still seemed completely lost.
Two days later, they boarded the train again and headed to the coastal port of Tiannan Continent, where they transferred to a ship to reach their final destination in the Ming Dynasty.
The French headed east across the Atlantic and through the Panama Canal to Canada.
The Austrians and Ottomans headed west across the Little Western Ocean and around southern Mexico to their colonies in Mexico.
Shortly after the delegation of the three countries left Tiannan Continent, on May 30th in the third year of the Grand Duke.
The new element test site manufacturers within Tiannan Continent have once again gathered a large number of related engineering and military personnel.
An important experiment is to be conducted here - a principle experiment of fusion bombs.
Similar to the historical "Hurricane One".
In order to confirm whether the design of the bomb itself is correct, see whether the thing produced in this way can detonate normally.
After more than two years of continuous optimization, the weight of Ming's smallest atomic bomb has been reduced to 700 kilograms.
Even an atomic bomb with a yield of 100,000 tons can still weigh less than one ton.
The design of Ming Dynasty's hydrogen bomb itself followed a mature route, and the total weight of the experimental bomb produced was only a little over one ton.
The degree of miniaturization has exceeded that of Zhu Jingyuan's country's first official hydrogen bomb in his previous life.
It has reached the level of the previous life in the United States in the 1960s.
Because the Ming Dynasty's current industrial base and technological level have far exceeded those of Zhu Jingyuan's previous life in the 1960s.
However, since this fusion bomb is an experimental bomb, its main task is to verify the theory.
Therefore, the body is strapped with various facilities that have nothing to do with actual combat, mainly various detection, recording and transmission equipment.
Ensure that during the period before it explodes, it can transmit various information back to the rear.
In the end, the entire experimental device weighed two tons.
According to the experimental plan, it will be dropped by the latest four-engine medium jet bomber.
On the morning of June 1, all preparations for the experiment were ready.
Relevant personnel called the Ming Emperor for instructions, and after obtaining permission, the experiment was officially launched.
The bomber responsible for dropping the experimental device took off from the airport with the test bomb, flew straight over the predetermined experimental site, and then turned around and flew back.
During the return journey, adjust the height and speed, prepare the throwing procedures, and drop the bomb at the predetermined target point.
Recorded by a camera in the bomber's cargo bay, the experimental device quickly opened its parachute after falling and slowly fell to the ground like a dandelion.
The personnel on the plane continued to observe the images returned by the camera on the explosive device through the special display screen, and looked at the data returned by various sensors.
According to the signal feedback from the explosive device, the device automatically triggered the detonation device when it reached a predetermined height of 1,500 meters above the ground.
In a few breaths, an unusually bright ball of light quickly filled the entire sky.
Compared with pure atomic bombs that have been tested many times before, the photothermal effect produced by this explosion is obviously improved by an order of magnitude.
The various information feedbacks on the explosive device quickly lost contact at this moment.
They were obviously completely vaporized by the bomb.
From the time the detonation signal was sent to the complete interruption of the signal, it only took a moment in the senses.
But in fact, there are several stages including detonation signal triggering, chemical explosive explosion, nuclear fission triggering, and fusion triggering.
The structures that can be destroyed in these stages are also different, and the signals that can be fed back are also different.
This relevant information will be recorded directly in the computer.
for subsequent analysis and research.
There are more workers on site, and what they are more concerned about and paying attention to at this time is the sensor readings around the test site.
Waiting to use these readings to directly calculate the relatively accurate yield of this explosion.
Whether the fusion is actually triggered or not, after the internal signals are analyzed and the on-site survey is conducted after the explosion, the most direct way to verify is to look at the yield.
The core atomic bomb used as an explosive device for experiments has a theoretical yield of less than 10,000 tons when it explodes by itself.
If the final explosion yield of the entire experimental device can be dozens of times higher than that of a basic atomic bomb, and the experimental device itself has a fusion-level design, then there is a high probability that a fusion reaction will occur.
At the scene, when the huge mushroom cloud appeared again between the sky and the earth, the relevant craftsmen's preliminary assessment results of the equivalent were already out.
Because the shock wave, which is the main reference standard, is much faster than the speed of the mushroom cloud.
The energy is released almost instantly.
"Preliminary calculations show that the explosion yield should be no less than 500,000 tons!"
After the news was announced at the experiment site, enthusiastic cheers immediately erupted from the surrounding area.
After the aftermath of the explosion basically subsided, more sensor information was gathered, and more accurate figures were calculated.
The explosion yield of this experimental device is 650,000 tons.
The craftsmen at the scene were sorting and gathering the information and immediately sent the news directly to the emperor's office in Yingtian Mansion.
Zhu Jingyuan breathed a sigh of relief after receiving this simple report:
"Okay! Start preparing for the production and test explosion of the official bomb immediately!"
Zhu Jingyuan issued the order, and the relevant personnel immediately started taking action.
More than five months have passed in the blink of an eye.
On November 5, the third year of the Era, the official fusion bomb experiment was conducted at the same test site.
The official model of fusion bomb, codenamed "Poached Egg", still weighs just over a ton.
After adding various sensors and signal transmitters, the total weight is still just over two tons.
However, this time the "poached egg" has a very obvious difference in structure from the previous verification test bomb.
The previous verification test bomb was a "two-phase bomb," or a clean hydrogen bomb.
Through the fission reaction of the primary atomic bomb, the fusion reaction of the secondary thermonuclear charge is triggered. The main energy source is the secondary thermonuclear charge.
The current poached egg is a three-phase bomb.
On the basis of the inner and outer layers of the test bomb, a layer of uranium 238 was coated on the outer shell.
Uranium-238 itself is difficult to produce fission reactions.
However, the large number of high-energy neutrons produced by the fusion reaction during the explosion of a hydrogen bomb can stimulate the fission reaction of uranium-238.
Therefore, coating the inside of the hydrogen bomb's shell with a layer of uranium 238 will trigger a new round of fission reaction, thereby releasing more energy.
This energy can even exceed the energy released by secondary fusion reactions.
In other words, more than half of the total energy released by this "three-phase bomb" may come from fission reactions.
In this way, the entire bomb has three layers: inner, middle and outer layers, and will undergo 30% atomic level changes, releasing a large amount of energy in three times.
That's why this kind of bomb is called a three-phase bomb.
In Zhu Jingyuan's previous life, most hydrogen bombs were actually three-phase bombs.
The world's earliest hydrogen bomb was also a three-phase bomb.
Before the discovery of solid secondary charges such as lithium deuteride 6, the early giant hydrogen bombs made by the United States directly using liquid deuterium and tritium as thermonuclear charges would use uranium 238 coating on the outer shell to increase the explosive yield.
The two-phase hydrogen bomb without uranium 238 reflective coating was only studied specifically after the hydrogen bomb technology had matured.
The purpose is to pursue a "clean" hydrogen bomb.
Because the uranium 238 coating on the outer shell cannot completely react, these nuclear charge residues are the largest source of pollution in a nuclear explosion.
However, after actual experiments, people found that if the uranium 238 coating is not used, the explosive yield of a hydrogen bomb of the same weight may be directly reduced by more than half.
This level of energy loss directly led to the fact that "clean" hydrogen bombs were not ultimately produced on a large scale.
Three-phase bombs have always been the absolute mainstream among strategic nuclear weapons in various countries.
Weapons such as hydrogen bombs have already been used in combat, and the issue of nuclear contamination actually no longer needs to be considered.
However, the data recorded at the time of Zhu Jingyuan's country's first theoretical verification hydrogen bomb in his previous life showed that it had a yield of only 300,000 tons.
This is most likely due to the fact that no uranium 238 coating was used.
The first demonstration hydrogen bomb before the Ming Dynasty did not use uranium 238 coating, so it only had a yield of 650,000 tons.
In the early days, hydrogen bomb technology was immature. It was easier to make the yield larger, but more difficult to make it smaller.
The Ming Dynasty's first official hydrogen bomb was carefully installed by workers on the bomber responsible for dropping the bomb.
After directly requesting instructions from the Ming Emperor again, the experimental commander ordered the bomber pilots to start performing formal experimental missions.
The experimental process was the same as the previous principle verification test. It flew to the target area, then turned back and dropped the bomb.
The "poached egg" fell downwards with white umbrella flowers and was successfully detonated at a height of two thousand meters above the ground.
An even bigger... It should be said that it was an unprecedentedly huge bright ball of light appeared in the sky.
What followed was a terrifying shock wave visible to the naked eye that ran through the entire venue.
The craftsmen in the distant command center looked at the shock wave pressure data sent back by the sensors ahead, and quickly calculated a rough figure in their minds.
"There should be five million tons..."
All the craftsmen and soldiers who paid attention to this data were obviously in a trance for a moment when they heard this temporary explanation.
The new super bomb experiment really succeeded.
It is very difficult to make an atomic bomb of more than 100,000 tons. Now this new bomb starts with a multi-million-ton level.
The key is that most people on the scene understand that five million tons is just the beginning.
This kind of bomb theoretically has no upper yield limit.
If you don't care about cost and weight, it is not impossible to get an equivalent of 100 million tons.
Compared with conventional bombs, the increase in power of atomic bombs can be said to be extremely exaggerated. It is so exaggerated that people who do not understand the principles cannot even imagine it.
The power of the new bombs now increases again by two or three orders of magnitude.
If we say that an atomic bomb destroys a city, it is still a bit exaggerated when it comes to large cities.
Then the statement that this new weapon destroyed cities is an objective description.
