Super military empire

Chapter 229 Depleted Uranium Armor and Depleted Uranium Projectile

The engine has always been the fault of the Republic, and no one can change it.

In the early 1960s, after several five-year construction plans, the Republic initially completed domestic industrialization. Then, it began a decade-long turmoil, which lasted more than a year. It can be said that the Republic’s defense technology system, It's just started in this era.

In the initial stage, how can it be?

Everything has to be done by yourself, any kind of equipment involves many related industries.Just as Liu Yijiu wanted to improve tank and gun steel, a series of problems such as materials, smelting, and mining had to be solved.

Who can think of such a thing without a headache?

Zheng Hao has a more headache, because these all need money.

In their Ninth Academy, they now only have 57 million on hand, which is a huge sum of money in this era, but the things they want to get are just a drop in the bucket.But now, if you want to develop, the other supporting factories must have new products that can adapt to the market and have very good sales. To get new products, you must carry out technical research and development and carry out necessary equipment transformations!

Therefore, they don't want to count on the 30 million allocated by the superiors.

If you can't get money in a short period of time, everything will have to stop after the Ninth Court runs out of the 27 million yuan, and the staff's salary will not be paid.

"Xiao Liu, our base now puts everything under your plan!" Zheng Hao said to Liu Yijiu with a sad expression as he walked into the base.

Liu Yijiu shrugged and spread his hands.

He is not omnipotent.

This situation was something he didn't expect.

Now, the only thing they can do is to try their best to change this situation.

"By the way, Uncle Wang, when I first arrived at the base, I heard that we had turbocharged engines from France in it. Where are those things now? That we can measure, at least, for us in the engine There is a clear direction for the development of …" The engine is a big problem, and you must start working now.

Whether he wants a motorcycle, a car, or even a military vehicle, he must start with the engine.Even if they want to build a helicopter, they have to match the engine.Dismounting straight -7 has a great relationship with engine instability.

Infantry fighting vehicles and tank chassis can be temporarily slowed down, as long as the engine is set up, other things will be easier.

"That? I'm still studying there in District One. These engines are just for civilian cars, we don't really need them..." Wang Shunyi didn't expect Liu Yijiu to remember the engine he had made at the moment.

Most of the engines were sent to the underground floor inside the base.

"That's OK, I'll still discuss the improvement plan of the 59th tank with the fifth district first. I just don't know how this thing can do the monkey t72..." Liu Yijiu had a headache.To get rid of the monkey's t72, no matter how to change it, it is a very headache.

"If the Fifty-Nine engine is not replaced, the armor cannot be heavier too much, unless we can make a more advanced and more defensive armor. In addition, we can only increase the attack power. The 100mm caliber gun is not of the same type. It's small, but it's obviously not enough for the new generation of tanks in the Soviet Union and the United States..." Wang Shunyi reminded Liu Yijiu.

Liu Yijiu nodded.

"In other words, do we have to get more powerful shells?" Zheng Hao let out a miserable cry when he heard this.

There must be a new project again!

Ammunition is a huge pit, and how much money to fill it in is not necessarily fruitful.

"Ammunition must be improved, especially armor-piercing bullets..." Liu Yijiu nodded."Are there any uranium mines in the base that have refined nuclear materials?"

The tail wing stable shelling armor-piercing projectile must be produced. If there is no other way, you can only get the depleted uranium projectile first.

This kind of thing is the nemesis of the early third-generation tanks and is basically impossible to defend.

"Uranium 238?" Wang Shunyi asked Liu Yijiu in surprise.

This is what remains after the extraction of uranium 235, and now I don’t know what it is for.Only seven out of every thousand uranium atoms are uranium-235, and the rest are uranium-238.

Containing about 99.27% ​​of uranium-238 is depleted uranium, which is waste from the extraction of nuclear materials.

There is no domestic research on this kind of depleted uranium.

"Yes, it is this kind of waste. If there is the best purification, we use it to make depleted uranium alloys, and then make depleted uranium armor-piercing bullets..." Liu Yijiu's words scared Wang Shunyi.

When Zheng Hao heard this, his eyes were shining, individual nuclear weapons!

He couldn't tell the difference between uranium 235 and uranium 238, and did not know that uranium 238 had very little reflectivity.

"This is good, no matter how much money, we have to do it. As expected, I am the proud student of Old Qian! Xiao Liu, you should have proposed this long ago. If one of our soldiers carries a small nuclear bomb, the whole world Will tremble! Who would dare to provoke us?" Zheng Hao looked yy yearning, "Pharaoh, do we have these materials in our base? It seems that there are researchers in this area? Quickly give it to Xiao Liu, fucking , I get excited just thinking about this..."

Hearing Zheng Hao's yy, Liu Yijiu hurriedly stepped back two steps, as if I didn't know him.

Wang Shunyi was also dumbfounded by him.

This cargo wants to mount a 155-caliber heavy artillery on the 59th tank. How much brainpower is needed to come up with such a whimsical plan?

Now it is like this again. Does he think that uranium can be used as a nuclear raw material?

Didn't he know that the extraction of weapon-grade nuclear materials is more difficult?

"Is there something wrong?" Zheng Hao saw that the faces of the two were weird, and immediately knew that there must be something wrong in the middle.

"Director Zheng, don’t you know that uranium-238 is called depleted uranium? This material is not very radioactive. Uranium-238 is the most common type of uranium, but it is not a practical nuclear fuel. Although it can also undergo fission under the action of neutrons, Only fast neutrons can do this. Those uranium 238 that split in half will produce some slow neutrons, and slow neutrons are not enough to cause further fission. Uranium 238 can be compared to wet wood: you can burn it , But it will go out in the end." Liu Yijiu said silently.

No culture, it's terrible.

This sentence was confirmed again.

"Of course, it is not to say that this thing is useless. If this thing is added to the alloy, it will make the alloy have a stronger height. This can be used as a composite armor layer for our tanks. At the same time, if we use fast neutrons Hit uranium 238. After uranium 238 absorbs this fast neutron, it will not fission, but it will change and become plutonium 239. This is another very practical nuclear raw material. This method is very easy to use. achieve……"

Zheng Hao was so confused by Liu Yijiu's words that he didn't understand what he was saying.

Anyway, he understood it, even if this kind of thing was made, it would not have the power of an atomic bomb.

"You still don't want to popularize these things for me. You are a protégé of Old Qian, and I am not a physicist who knows these things well..." Zheng Hao rolled his eyes and said, "Since it's not very useful, let's study this. What are you doing? Comrade Xiao Liu, you know our current financial constraints..."

Now it was Wang Shunyi and Liu Yijiu's turn to roll their eyes.

This product is simply a typical pragmatist. If you tell him that this thing is made, it is an atomic bomb. The equivalent is not big enough. The grenade shape is called a nuclear grenade, or even a nuclear bomb. I don’t know if he has any Agree without principle...

"This is the latest research result of Professor Qian and Professor Zhu?" Wang Shunyi asked Liu Yijiu.

He doesn't know much about this, but he also knows some basic common sense.

Liu Yijiu nodded and said nothing. Who knows these things?Anyway, this body is really good, with such a god-defying teacher as a shield for him, otherwise, he will have to be arrested by Mr. Qian and the others to study as an alien.

The alien legends in this world have never been broken.

Many of the technologies of the American Emperor are said to be derived from aliens, and they have not been decrypted until their time.

On the contrary, many senior U.S. military officials stepped up to say something ambiguous after retiring...

"Depleted uranium can greatly increase the armor penetration strength or armor resistance. The depleted uranium bomb has a high-temperature scorching effect of 3000 degrees Celsius after hitting the target..." Liu Yijiu only said the result, and did not say anything else.

Wang Shunyi thought it was because of confidentiality, so they didn't ask him anything.

If this is the case, they can let the project team at the center of the base take charge of this.

"How about depleted uranium alloy? Tell me the test method and the effect that can be achieved. I will arrange for someone to get this. Although uranium 238 is not as radioactive as uranium 235, it is still relatively strong. You should not get this. ......" Wang Shunyi cannot tell Liu Yijiu all the secrets in this base right now.

"Is it the research institution below that?" Liu Yijiu was shocked at once.

He never knew why the base was called the Ninth Institute Base. Is it really related to the Ninth Institute that conducts nuclear weapons research?

There is only one that studies nuclear weapons in the Republic, and there is no semicolon!

But that unit does not belong to the Ministry of Five Machines and the Ministry of Machine Three.Always independent!

"What's the base below, isn't there a nuclear power plant inside our base? Naturally, there is technology and technical personnel backup in this area..." Wang Shunyi quickly blocked Liu Yijiu's words.