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Chapter 255 The foundation for rocket refinement and theorization

The conference room of Molai Town Rocket Factory is actually a large straw shed.

Building a straw shed can not only ventilate and dissipate heat, but also provide a timely understanding of the external situation. After all, the water source here belongs to all living creatures nearby.

The gate guard cannot monitor the entire factory 24 hours a day and 360 degrees without blind spots.

It is common to encounter lions and leopards wandering around the factory.

Lions and leopards are better off, but the most scary thing is meeting rhinos and elephants. These two animals are the most difficult to deal with.

It is difficult to kill an elephant immediately if it does not hit its vital points.

Rhinos, on the other hand, are stubborn and like to attack people relentlessly.

When the rocket factory was established, Zeng worked here to clean up.

But there were so many animals that it was impossible to clean them all.

Moreover, the factory's construction schedule was tight, so this matter was slowly delayed, and now they had no choice but to dance with the beast.

During the artillery battalion's meeting, there will also be guards here to guard.

Once there is a situation, the guards will report it as soon as possible to put everyone on alert.

When Shi Jintang hosted a rocket research and development orientation meeting, he found that there were guards with guns and ammunition here. He thought it was the rocket factory that cared too much about his safety.

So he said to Qilin: "There is no need to arrange guards here. The security company is here too. I will not be in danger."

Qi Lin smiled awkwardly after hearing this: "Well, Mr. Shi, it's like this. These guards are used to guard against wild animals and prepare for surprise attacks."

After hearing Qi Lin's words, Shi Jintang laughed, "Oh, that's it, then it's okay.

But this matter should be resolved. Later you tell Ding He to arrange for a battalion of soldiers to come over and clean it up. They must ensure the safety of the rocket factory. "

Qi Lin nodded, "Yes, Captain."

……

Shi Jintang sat down and cleared his throat: "Let me talk about the research and development direction of our factory. I only had a brief understanding with you, Battalion Commander Qi, before coming here.

But after seeing the test results of the new rocket in our factory, I was very pleased that everyone's results were good.

But at this stage, this research and development direction is not suitable for the company's needs.

Therefore, I ask everyone to suspend the current research and change the research direction to better serve the company's current needs. "

After listening to Boss Shi's words, the expressions of many researchers below immediately changed.

I thought Boss Shi would praise everyone and award a few medals when he came. How beautiful that would be.

Who knew that Boss Shi would announce a change in research and development direction as soon as he arrived, so all the previous research would be in vain?
  ……

Seeing the silence below, Shi Jintang smiled and said, "This change in research and development direction is only temporary for everyone. We will restart the direction of large-scale rocket research and development in the future. We are just putting it down temporarily."

After Qi Lin raised his hand to ask for a speech and received Boss Shi's permission, he said to everyone: "Listen to me, everyone, this new rocket projectile has been finalized as the Wanhu-88 type. Those who have contributed to the development of the Wanhu-88 type There are still rewards, but they won’t be given at this meeting.”

After listening to Qi Lin's words, everyone's mood improved a lot.

Developing rockets is not easy. In addition to carefully considering the parameters of the charge and missile body, you also have to guard against attacks by wild animals.

In such an extremely dangerous environment, it is unjustifiable not to give him some reward.

"Mr. Shi has also ordered that soldiers from our defense regiment come here to help clean up the wild beasts. Everyone's life will be safer in the future."

At this point, everyone's enthusiasm was finally raised, and they all looked at Shi Jintang, "Thank you, Shi Zong Concept Subordinate!"

……

"Okay, let's not say much else, let's talk about business first.

I thought about it and found that we have two research and development directions for rockets, one is precision and the other is miniaturization.

What is "precision" is to transform into precision strike under the current situation of our research and development.

Today, our rocket launchers are very crude and cannot guide the launch direction of rockets very well.

There is a rule in rifles that the same bullet will shoot more accurately when used in a long barrel than in a short barrel.

Therefore, I wonder if we can make our rocket launcher larger and longer, and make it a guide rail type.

In this way, the rocket can move along the direction of the guide rail at the moment of launch. Can the hit rate be improved? "

The reason why Shi Jintang said this is because the BM-13 and "Katyusha" rocket launchers of later generations of Red Goose were developed along this line of thinking.

The lightweight rocket is equipped with a large launcher, and two rockets are fixed on one launcher.

Of course, to develop into a "Katyusha", it must be equipped with a large load-bearing truck as a carrier and a launcher stabilizer.

“The other one is miniaturization and lightweighting.

According to the artillery rifling principle, can we also use rifling for our rockets?

Make a rifled launch tube to trigger a subsequent salvo and cause a precise range strike? "

The prototype of this idea comes from Red Goose's M-14 multiple rocket launcher. This rocket launcher adopts a tailless design and has rifling engraved in the launch tube, allowing the rocket tube to be launched in a spiral form to attack the target area.

This research and development direction also has reference, China’s 107 rocket launcher. These two research and development directions of Shi Jintang are naturally correct, but for the researchers below, they will not be able to understand them for a while, and they still need time to digest them.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Qi Lin was afraid of being left out, so he hurriedly spoke: "Mr. Shi, we all need time to digest and sort out the direction you proposed. Is this the end of this meeting?"

Shi Jintang shook his head, "I have another request, which is that everyone should not just record data during the research and development process. Everyone should try to extract the professional knowledge contained in it and form a theory."

This requirement is not difficult for the artillery battalion R&D team at this stage, because when Boss Shi selected these people to join the artillery battalion, he had already focused on the physical and chemical qualities of these people.

It has been five or six years since the artillery company period of the advance battalion. These people have usually taught themselves mathematics, physics and chemistry.

In the early days of the establishment of the artillery company, Shi Jintang went to the battlefield to give lectures to them. Therefore, in terms of mathematical, physical and chemical knowledge, they were no worse than regular college students of this era.

Shi Jintang's level of knowledge in physics and chemistry before time travel was enough to defeat the top physical and chemical scientists of this era.

And Shi Jintang's attainments in mathematics are not much worse than the top mathematicians of this era.

Therefore, the quality of the apprentices brought out by this famous teacher, Boss Shi, cannot be bad, but these people may be a little unaware.

That's why Boss Shi would remind them emphatically at this meeting to make them realize that they are extraordinary.

Qi Lin became a little anxious when he heard this, "Mr. Shi, you selected us from the mud. It's okay to do research and development according to your professor, but we really haven't discovered much in terms of theory."

Shi Jintang chuckled, "Then let me ask you, based on the current Wanhu-88 type, what is the charge, the high and low firing range, the muzzle velocity of the rocket, and the directional firing range?"

Qi Lin was stunned for a moment, "Ah, this?"

"This is your theoretical basis. Why did you set the charge, the high and low range of fire, and the muzzle velocity? They were all found out through experiments. The best ratio of propellants. How did you get this ratio?
  As long as you think patiently, you will dig out the theory. This matter is more important than the two research and development directions I just proposed.

Only if you extract theoretical knowledge from personal research can you cultivate more latecomers for the company who are as professional as you and can quickly enter the research and development state. This is the essence and connotation of education.

When I chose you, the lessons I taught you were all obtained in this way.

Therefore, for the development and growth of the company, you have a very heavy responsibility. "

After listening to Shi Jintang's words, everyone present felt a passion surge in their hearts. This passion was something they had never thought of before.

It turns out that I can also be a teacher, and I can also use my experience to teach those who come after me.

Everyone's hearts were excited and their minds were getting more and more excited.

During the previous development, the thickness of the clay was repeatedly adjusted. When the launch distance of the rocket increased by one meter, they would be happy and think that this might be an accident.

When the range is increased by ten meters, they will get excited and think that this attempt is effective.

When the range is increased by 100 meters, they will jump with excitement. This time they really got it right.

……

Now that they have received instructions from Mr. Shi, they understand that the insights extracted from past research are knowledge.

Understanding the cause-and-effect relationships of various details in the R&D process is also knowledge.

Once all the causal relationships are clear, your theory will be ready.

It turns out that extraction theory is so simple and clear.

Thank you Mr. Shi!
  ……

Seeing the excited expressions of everyone in the conference room, Shi Jintang sighed.

During this time, research on rockets has also begun in European and American countries.

Comparing the two, I hope that my side will not lag too far behind.

A few years later (1895) an engineer in South America would design a physical rocket engine.

In 1903, Russian mathematicians proposed the possibility of interstellar travel and how to design the fuel ratio of rockets.

In 1923, a German professor proposed the concept of "interstellar rocket". Although many of his noun concepts came from previous Russian mathematicians, he integrated them all into his own theory.

At this point, the German scientific community's enthusiasm for "interstellar travel" has also been stimulated.

They soon became the Rocket Research Society, publishing regular publications and discussing them together.

Von Braun was just the most outstanding of these enthusiastic fans of German rocketry.

Later, Mustache came to power and the Rocket Research Society was forced to disband. However, the German Army Ministry did not give up research on rockets, and everyone knew about it later.

We have to admit that the Germans' scientific ideas are very advanced and they thought of interstellar travel decades in advance.

Had it not been for the failure of Mustache, the Germans' achievements in the field of aerospace would never have been lower than those of the Americans.

……

"By the way, the international students sent out by the company in the past few years will come back collectively in the second half of the year. At that time, I will send you a few international students to enrich your R&D team."

Hearing Boss Shi say this, Qi Lin was even more happy, "Thank you, Boss Shi, for understanding the difficulties of our low level of knowledge."

Shi Jintang couldn't help but chuckle after hearing Qi Lin's words. I hope you won't be disappointed then.

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