Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 986 987 Victims

"After all, we still have to sell them something. If we don't let them have radar, don't let them have signal towers... Then what targets will our missiles bomb?" Tang Mo said to Roger while tasting the food in front of him. Said.

The more modern weapons are, the more emphasis is placed on the accuracy of strikes. The more the weapons and equipment of the Tang Empire are modernized, the enemy should at least also have a little progress.

Just like what I said before, the Tang Empire's air-to-air combat missiles will only be useful when the enemy also has jet fighters.

Otherwise, how could those modern weapons with high prices and powerful performance be installed?Do you want to use missiles worth millions to fight an aircraft worth less than [-]?Can it be put aside for the time being, what should I do if I lose money if I hit it?
Roger, who was left to eat together, nodded. He also kindly reminded Tang Mo not to sell too core technology, lest the enemy have the strength to resist.

Tang Mo is not worried about this. The radar system he sells is basically at the level of the World War II era. Those things require accuracy but not precision, and performance but not performance, so they can only solve the problem of whether or not.

There is no need for any decent electromagnetic interference, and bad weather can greatly reduce the effectiveness of these radars.In order to improve the basic performance of these radars, these countries that have purchased radars must at least start researching related technologies from the picture tube.

"When these countries have set up their radars, we have at least several ways to make these radars a decoration...you can rest assured." Tang Mo stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth, and the soft taste full of intermuscular fat was impressive. Full of comfort and enjoyment while chewing.

Seeing Tang Mo so relaxed, Roger was completely relieved.I heard Tang Mo talk to him about the experimental results of the Styx missile.

The Datang Empire only equipped two Bismarck-improved battleships, which made the Datang Empire's navy far behind the navies of other countries in terms of battleship tonnage.

Especially in terms of single-ship combat effectiveness, apart from the radar advantage, the naval destroyers of the Datang Empire can barely use torpedoes to support the situation.

In view of this, Tang Mo is going to give priority to equipping the navy with anti-ship missiles to improve the single-ship combat effectiveness of naval ships.Therefore, the development and deployment of the Styx missile is quite fast, much faster than the Air Force's Thunderbolt 2 air-to-air combat missile.

Why were the battleships of the World War II era completely eliminated?In fact, in addition to the threat of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, the increasingly worrying protection efficiency of battleships is also part of the reason.

Battleships in the World War II era generally laid heavy armor on important parts to ensure their own defense capabilities.However, due to the characteristics of buoyancy, it is impossible to deploy defenses all over the body.

Therefore, battleships still have to arrange a large number of watertight cabins outside the armored defense belt to increase buoyancy. These cabins do not have corresponding heavy armor defense.

Therefore, sometimes sinking a battleship does not need to penetrate the opponent's heavy armor protection belt. It only needs to create enough damage to the watertight compartment, and the internal armor of the opponent's battleship can drag the battleship into the deep sea by its own weight.

Another reason is that armor-piercing technology began to advance by leaps and bounds at the end of World War II, and the heavy armor of battleships was actually not as easy to use as it used to be.

In the past naval battles and duels between battleships, both sides could only rely on large-caliber naval guns to destroy enemy ships.Due to technical limitations, the shells of both sides are armor-piercing shells with small charges and thick shells, and the projectile angle of the shells is also limited, so the armor-piercing ability is not high.

The thickness of the main armor on the battleships of various countries is generally only the same value as the caliber of their own artillery.For example, the battleship Yamato has a main gun with a caliber of 460 mm and a main armor of only 460 mm.

Does that sound thick?Is it an exaggeration?In fact, this value is really very general.Under normal circumstances, the shaped armor-piercing charge of an anti-tank missile manufactured by modern technology can easily penetrate homogeneous steel with a thickness of more than 600 mm.

In fact, the warheads of anti-ship missiles with a charge of more than 500 kilograms are really made into shaped energy armor-piercing charges, which can easily penetrate a one-meter-thick homogeneous steel.The reason why this kind of design is not used is mainly because the armor of modern warships is not thick, and the speed of anti-ship missiles is getting faster and faster.

But the enemy that the Tang Empire is facing now is completely different.The current main naval opponents of the Datang Empire are all equipped with a large number of battleships and artillery cruisers.

The armor of these warships is very thick, most of the armor is more than 200 mm, and some are even close to 400 mm.

In order to penetrate these battleships, the Styx anti-ship missiles that the Datang Empire began to equip troops must use the armor-piercing warheads of the concentrated energy.

To put it bluntly, it is a super huge armor-piercing warhead!This kind of warhead can easily penetrate homogeneous steel armor with a thickness of more than 1300 mm, and the damage effect is quite amazing.

This situation in the Tang Empire can also show that there will be no more heavily armored warships in modern warfare: you have worked so hard to build a dozen warships, and people only need to purchase a few hundred armor-piercing warheads to replace them. , This is also a fart cost-effective.

Just one day ago, at the Naval Experimental Base on Long Island, a Styx anti-ship missile was tested in actual combat.Styx, deployed at the missile launch site on the shore, directly hit a moving target 15 kilometers away, and blew up the target to pieces.

The admiral, who was quite satisfied with the results of the experiment, immediately approved the follow-up development plan.On the one hand, at least 400 Styx anti-ship missiles will be produced, and on the other hand, 10 guided missile destroyers will be transformed at the same time.

Without the knowledge of many people, the world's first guided missile destroyer has already begun to be refitted and built.

The new 10 torpedo destroyers will remove the torpedoes and some other equipment on the hull, and replace them with triple missile launchers to obtain missile attack capabilities.

In theory, the Styx missile has an attack distance of more than 30 kilometers, a maximum range of 35 kilometers, and a speed close to the speed of sound.Under the premise that the opponent has no electronic interference, the hit accuracy of this missile is also quite high.

The greatest significance of anti-ship missiles is to give small warships the ability to challenge large warships. Its existence directly blurs the gap between the tonnage of warships and completely shakes the status of warships dominated by artillery.

Until the future, with the emergence of anti-aircraft missiles and the maturity of the concept of missile interceptor missiles, new large-tonnage warships will regain the initiative in the field of offense and defense.

On Earth, from the 60s to the 70s, unless there was a rigid demand for ocean-going deployment, the cost performance of large warships was indeed lower than that of small warships.

This state continued until the popularization of the Aegis system was relieved. In order to deploy a vertical missile launch system capable of providing regional air defense, and to supply power to large phased array radars, large-tonnage guided missile destroyers really made sense.

In fact, Tang Mo was not in a very good mood today. He stayed with Roger for dinner because he wanted to talk to Roger about other things.

"Four engineers were injured at work..." After Tang Mo finished talking about the anti-ship missiles, he talked to Roger about a seemingly insignificant matter.

He put down the eating utensils, wiped his mouth with a white napkin, and looked at Roger who was looking at him: "They are the first batch of testers involved in the research of sound waves and radio signals."

Roger was taken aback for a moment, he knew that these people might be some old people who had been working since the development of Bunas, these people are precious wherever they are placed, and they also made outstanding contributions to the rise of the Tang Empire.

"Is it serious?" Roger asked.

"Their ears have been damaged to varying degrees. Now they are suffering from tinnitus and deafness. I believe that in a few years, they will lose their hearing." Tang Mo didn't hide anything.

When they were assigned to work back then, they had already been given subsidies in this regard. To ensure their health, Tang Mo even limited the working hours of this kind of work.

For example, painters, sound wave debuggers, chemical workers, etc... These jobs must be forced to be transferred to second-line offices for up to five years... But even so, there are still a large number of work-related injuries.

The working environment at that time was indeed too harsh. Many times, for the sake of efficiency and convenience, and even the unbearable temperature, the workers did not wear protective clothing or protective measures such as masks.

Deafness is actually a small problem. Some people get sick directly because of long-term exposure to chemicals, and some people get sick because of working in a polluted environment for a long time. The industry of Datang Group has gone all the way, and the rapid progress is not without price. .

It can be said that there are bones everywhere under the industrial throne of Datang Group, and the tamped foundation is actually made of human flesh and blood.

There is no shortcut in this world, it is nothing more than some people use their own body as a ladder, so that later people can climb faster and walk more steadily.

In fact, there were more than a dozen engineers who were seriously ill. Tang Mo had no choice but to tell Roger that someone in the Nuclear Industry Research Institute of the Tang Empire had already died due to radiation.

These people contributed their lives to the technological development of the Tang Empire, and everything they gave would make this empire stronger and more brilliant.

"We should remember them and treat them kindly..." Roger recalled the familiar names and faces in the blacksmith shop, and said with some emotion.

Dozens of people who were in the smithy back then will never appear again.Some of these people died at work due to illness, some disappeared into the vast sea of ​​people because of Xiao Fu's withdrawal, and some were even executed because of corruption...

If such a group is enlarged to the entire Great Tang Empire, how many people disappeared during the rise of the Great Tang Empire, and how many people left?
(End of this chapter)