Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 963 Another Ordinary Day Begins 964

Compared with the treacherous situation abroad, the interior of the Tang Empire is peaceful. Not to mention military expansion and preparations for war, there seems to be little tension here.

Except for the trains full of dwarves or goblin soldiers passing along the east-west railway, it is no longer obvious that the country is on the verge of a storm.

The state of Qin and the state of Shu are already at war crazily, and the battle near the Fengjiang River is also going on intensely. However, many businessmen in the Tang Empire are now concerned about the construction of the Zangjianxia Bridge.

The Zangjianxia Bridge, which adopts the latest technology, overcomes the problem that the bridge piers cannot be built in Zangjianxia, ​​which directly makes it possible to change the way of Tianzhu.

Once this bridge is built, the connection between Tang State and Fengjiang rebels will never be cut off.

For Tang Mo, the recent good news really came one after another.There was bad news, too.Overall, it can be said to be mixed.

The domestic GDP of the Datang Empire is increasing rapidly, and large-scale equipment export projects are increasing, almost all of which are high value-added products.

Under the unstable international situation, all countries hope to purchase some production equipment as soon as possible before the outbreak of war, and deploy them in relatively safe core areas, so as to avoid their own equipment production being affected in the war.

However, all countries have actually tightened the export amount of strategic materials, and the export volume of metals such as steel and copper has dropped sharply. It can be seen that everyone has a premonition of danger and is trying to hoard strategic materials to prepare for the subsequent war.

Therefore, the Tang Empire had to activate several mines that it had sealed up to make up for the sharp drop in the amount of imported metals.

Another good news is that the grain production of the Datang Empire has once again achieved a bumper harvest, because the flood problem of the upper reaches of the Chu State has been effectively curbed, so the overall environment for the irrigation of the Datang Empire has been improved.

Therefore, the agricultural production of the Tang Empire in the past two days has been in a state of bumper harvests, and the country's total grain production has increased, so the problem of hunger has been curbed.

Although hundreds of millions of people need to be fed, and there are hundreds of thousands of slaves who need to eat, the Tang Empire still has no pressure.This was not possible in the past, and only a combination of industry and agriculture could feed such a large population.

This requires the support of a series of technologies such as the improvement of irrigation efficiency, the popularization of scientific cultivation, the advancement of fertilizer technology, and the research and development of new seeds. It is an overall leap supported by a series of scientific and technological projects.

For the office workers of the Tang Empire, this day is another ordinary day, and this morning is still an ordinary morning.

A staff member picked up the hot tea he had just made and walked back to his desk.He is a technician and is currently developing a new armor technology.

It's a bit unbelievable to say that his boss actually received a research project on tank armor protection. The content of the project was to use explosives as armor for tanks.

This is definitely an amazing technology. Its purpose is to install something called explosive reactive armor on the tank to increase the tank's defense.

In fact, what is added is not the real comprehensive protection, but the tank's defense against armor-piercing shells.

The theoretical basis is that once the armor is penetrated, the energy formed by the explosion of the internal charge can offset or disrupt the jet flow formed by the explosion of the armor-piercing bomb, thereby reducing the penetration ability of the armor-piercing bomb.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of armor combined with spaced armor can effectively resist armor-piercing and armor-piercing projectiles, and can greatly improve the tank's defense capability without increasing the weight of the tank much.

Regardless of all this is just a theory, repeated experiments are needed to verify its effectiveness.In the Tang Empire, this kind of verification is actually a process of reverse learning.

Within the Tang Empire, many advanced technologies appeared as a flash of inspiration from His Majesty the Emperor. Although it was proved afterwards that His Majesty's assumptions were correct, technical personnel were still needed to test their rationality.

Conversely, just having a design is far from enough. The technicians of Datang Empire need to understand these technologies by themselves, so that they can have their own ideas more often.

This kind of reverse learning is very important. In fact, the similar learning process is very complicated, and the technical personnel of the Tang Empire are not much faster than the technical personnel of other countries to get in touch with new technologies.

To put it bluntly, the technicians of the Tang Empire could not quickly understand the development of new technologies, and the general direction of development still needed to be instructed again and again by the Emperor of the Tang Empire.

However, the technicians of Datang Empire have an obvious advantage over other empires. They have the fastest time to get in touch with new technology and understand the direction of technology.

What the engineers of other empires see is often the technology that the technicians of the Tang Empire have studied for more than two years, and they lack systematic research and have not gone through higher-intensity learning, so their foresight is weaker. Not even on the stage.

"You said that this gadget can really block the new weapons that the 707 Institute is making? I heard that when the Leopard tank was used for testing, the new weapons of the 707 Institute broke down the upper armor of the Leopard tank. Already." Holding hot tea in his hand, he looked at the drawings and technical documents on his desk, and asked his friends.

The friend was eating a pie, which he brought from home in the morning, and it was not cold at work, so it was ready to eat.

Hearing his question, he swallowed the pie in his mouth, and the friend replied: "I heard about it, and the 707 Institute was happy for a while, and then His Majesty's side exploded. The relevant information has been sent to our office.”

"If you told me to use explosives for defense two months ago, I might have laughed and thrown the relevant technical information into the trash can." The technician with hot tea said with a smile.

"Hahahaha! It's a good thing you didn't, who knew that this technology was also released from His Majesty." The technician who ate the cake laughed and joked.

They have sent the design samples to the weapons testing ground a few days ago, and the personnel of Institute 707 once again used their so-called individual anti-tank weapon system to attack the Leopard tank with explosive reactive armor.

The result was quite unexpected. The tank equipped with explosive reactive armor easily prevented the jet impact of the armor-piercing warhead, which made the tank's protection power surpass that of anti-tank weapons again.

Facts have proved that thicker armor is not the only way for tanks to improve their defenses. The Tang Empire has found a shortcut to reduce the weight of tanks.

This also means that the path of other countries to continuously increase the thickness of tank armor is completely wrong. Only using technology to improve the protection level of tanks is the truly correct path!

However, the height of the magic is one foot high, and the 707 Institute of the Datang Empire has not given up on the development of its own anti-tank weapons, because except for the Datang Empire, other countries in the world do not have the so-called explosive reactive armor.

Moreover, the 707 Institute also received technical guidance from His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and they immediately thought of using serial warheads to solve the problem.

It only needs to use a small shaped warhead to detonate the explosive reactive armor in advance, and then use the core warhead to penetrate the main armor of the tank.

In a sense, the competition between anti-tank weapons and armor protection, from the perspective of anti-tank weapons, isn't it another way that the height of the road is one foot and the height of the devil is one foot?

What they didn't know was that in the world before Tang Mo crossed over, anti-tank weapons had completely gained the upper hand. Before the technology of laser defense weapons was fully mature, and before the emergence of new defense concepts such as energy shields, tanks had already gained the upper hand. Unable to resist the devastation of anti-tank weapons.

In that era, individual anti-tank weapons could intelligently use vertical strikes to avoid the thick horizontal protection of the tank, and focus the attack on the fragile top armor of the tank.

At the same time, whether it is precision-guided rocket shells or loitering bombs, or even cheap suicide drones, they have become a deadly threat to tanks.

Therefore, the battlefield has become a dangerous existence for tanks, and tank members no longer have the sense of security they used to have.In fact, although they have an extra layer of 30 mm thick top armor than the soldiers, they are also ten times larger than ordinary infantry as targets.

Because of the appearance of Tang Mo, this kind of anti-tank concept also appeared earlier. Anti-tank missiles have now become a secret weapon of the Tang State, and facing this weapon, it is the 59 tanks, which are the number one after the war. generation main battle tank.

Even other countries do not have such advanced tanks as the 59, their tanks do not even have a gun stabilization system, and their tank armor just meets the defense level of 100mm homogeneous steel.

Therefore, their tanks are extremely vulnerable to the future weapon systems of the infantry of the Tang Empire, and there is no guarantee for the safety of combat at normal distances.

"Hurry up and sort out the information. I heard that there will be an experiment. First equip a teacher and test the effect." The bell for work rang, and the technician who drank his own hot tea sat back in his chair and started his day's work.

The pie-eating technician who was chatting just now stuffed the leftover pie into his mouth two or three times, and spread out the documents in front of him before he could speak.

The work that is not too busy but also very fulfilling has begun, and they feel that their work is very meaningful.As long as they can keep one more tank crew of their own country alive on the battlefield, their work will not be in vain.

Outside their office window is the unit's parking lot, and in the middle of the parking lot, there is a towering flagpole.On the flagpole, the iron-blooded dragon flag symbolizing the Tang Empire is fluttering in the wind.

The office bell echoing in the corridor stopped abruptly after ringing for a while, and another ordinary day began.

(End of this chapter)