African Nationhood

Chapter 490 Shaped Weapons
The "Monroe Effect" was discovered by an American, Charles Monroe, after he conducted an explosive experiment in 1888.

He found in experiments that when an explosive explodes, the explosion products basically fly outward along the normal line of the explosive surface under high temperature and high pressure.

In this way, if you dig a conical hole in a cylindrical explosive and then ignite the explosive.

Then after the explosive explodes, there will be a strong explosive airflow in the direction of the cone hole, which can concentrate the energy of the explosive explosion.

This is the energy gathering effect, also known as the "Monroe effect".

After Munro published this discovery publicly in 1888, it did not attract the attention of the world.
In 1930, another American scientist, Wood, further improved his experiment. He added a metal cover to the cavity of the conical hole. This change could greatly improve the armor-piercing efficiency.

This discovery was obtained by the Swiss, who launched a series of anti-tank explosive tests in 1938.

The Swiss, who had successfully experimented, felt that this new discovery would bring huge benefits, so they invited the British ambassador to Switzerland to watch it and offered a high price, intending to make a lot of money.

After seeing it once, the British took this anti-tank explosive very seriously.

He immediately summoned arms experts from home to inspect it again. British arms experts quickly figured out the secret and soon began to develop this technology in their own country.

"This is the son of a high-ranking official. You should be careful and don't let him get hurt."

Xu Huange nodded, then pulled Ren Ping to the corner.

After Ren Ping finished speaking, "Director, I have accepted the new employee."

"This is Xiao An. He just arrived today. He will be your new team member from now on."

Then there are armor-piercing bullets, the German "Iron Fist" and the Japanese "Showa Boy Happy Stick", and then there are individual rocket launcher weapons such as the American "Bazooka" and Red Goose's "RPG series" .

When Ren Ping of the experimental team saw Director Xu coming, he smiled and nodded, "Well, we have successfully tested a new armor-piercing projectile here. This time it fully penetrated a 10mm thick steel plate."

Ren Ping turned to look at Shi Xu, nodded in agreement: "Don't worry."

Shi Xu smiled suddenly, then straightened up and shouted to Ren Ping: "Report, newcomer James An is here to report."

Ren Ping looked at the tall young man in military uniform and said with a smile: "You are quite tall, I will pay more attention to you in the future."

After sending Director Xu off, Ren Ping thought for a while, and then shouted to an elderly researcher in the R&D team: "Old Wu, come here."

Shi Xu looked confused, but Xu Huange laughed, "Old Ren, I'm just kidding you. He has a bad neck and often feels dizzy. This is caused by working with his head down at his desk for a long time. The doctor asked him to move his neck frequently."

Wu Minghe is 53 years old and has a kind face.

……

Before the two of them entered the workshop, they heard a "bang" sound, and then a burst of cheers came from inside.

Xu Huange smiled and opened the door.

And developed the world's first anti-tank weapon using the hollow-charge armor-breaking principle-the hollow-charge anti-tank grenade.

After speaking, Xu Huange turned around and waved to Shi Xu, who walked over quickly.

Ren Ping still welcomed the arrival of the newcomers, "Well, you are very energetic. We must maintain this high-spirited momentum in the future. It will be very useful for our work."

Xu Huange nodded after hearing the good news, "Yes, yes, your progress is worthy of encouragement.

"Old Ren, have you achieved another experimental success?"

By the way, I brought a new person here to report for you. "

He is an old researcher and one of the first Chinese immigrants to come from the United States.

In his early years, he worked as a ammunition engineer at the Anhai Town Military Factory. Later, when Factory 621 was established, he was transferred here.

Over the years, he has been engaged in odd jobs, and he has not been able to get involved in key scientific research projects.

"Team leader, are you looking for me?"

Ren Ping looked at Wu Minghe who was smiling, then pointed at Shi Xu and said: "He is a new member of the team. Let him follow you first and keep an eye on him."

Wu Minghe heard the last sentence clearly, and he immediately nodded with a sensible smile, "Don't worry, you will never make a mistake."

After Wu Minghe replied, he walked to Shi Xu and said, "Follow me, and we will sort out the technical documents."

Shi Xu didn't know what the newcomer should do. Since someone was commanding him, he would just obey the order.

Wu Minghe led Shi Xu through the R&D workshop and headed outside. Shi Xu quickly scanned the experimental scene, including a recoilless force cannon and a large piece of steel plate with a large hole drilled out. But he saw no sign of the armor-piercing projectiles. "Isn't there an experiment on armor-breaking projectiles here? Why didn't I see any armor-breaking projectiles?"

"Oh, the armor-piercing projectiles will be gone after they are fired. Such experiments are all done on the spot, so there is no inventory.

Unless it is finalized, it will not be mass-produced. "

"Ah, that's it.

I thought everyone would make dozens of them first and experiment one by one. "

Wu Minghe laughed, "That's such a waste of money.

We here always do technical discussions first, and only when everyone feels that the discussion is almost complete, we will make real objects for experiments, so our work is very important. "

Shi Xu couldn't help but laugh. This colleague was very good at chatting.

When the two of them walked to the corner, the short Yuan Asheng saw Wu Minghe and said hello with a smile.

"Old Wu, are you leading the newcomer again?"

Wu Minghe nodded and laughed at himself: "Yeah, I am the only one suitable for this job."

Yuan Asheng has now become a senior technician at Factory 621, and he has several apprentices under him.

He smiled, nodded to Shi Xu and said, "Young man, follow Old Wu well. When you become a main researcher, remember to support you as a master."

Wu Minghe glared at Yuan Asheng, "What nonsense are you talking about!"

This is not to blame Yuan Asheng for fighting Wu Minghe's injustice. Even after his apprenticeship, he was very respectful to him.

However, Wu Minghe brought many apprentices, but each apprentice took the initiative to cut off contact with Wu Minghe.

Because strength is valued here, everyone looks down on Wu Minghe, who has low academic qualifications and even lower R&D capabilities.

In addition to being afraid of people's opinions, his disciples also did not want to have anything to do with Wu Minghe, for fear that Wu Minghe's offer to join their R&D team would hinder them.

As a result, Wu Minghe has always been at the bottom of the military rank in the R&D team, which also resulted in Wu Minghe's income being the lowest in the R&D team.

He does all the hard work, but it is none of his business to confer honors and awards.

Although he has lived a comfortable life for so many years, it would be a lie to not be jealous when he sees others being promoted one by one.

But Wu Minghe is also satisfied. After all, the wages here are high and the work is leisurely. Other places may not be as good as here.

……

After arriving in the room next to the R&D workshop, Wu Minghe whispered to Shi Xu: "Don't listen to that little man's nonsense. Every newcomer here starts by sorting out technical documents.

I can't be your master either, we are all colleagues. "

Shi Xu nodded, "How do we start?"

Wu Minghe pointed to a pile of documents and said: "This is the research and development log of shaped energy weapons. You should sort out this research and development log first."

Shi Xu nodded, then sat on his seat and started to tidy up.

Through the R&D log, Shi Xu clearly saw the development progress of the R&D team on shaped energy weapons.
These researchers have gone from studying the original "Monroe effect" by simply using a cavity grain column, to adding a metal cover in front of the grain column.

From cylindrical metal covers to conical metal covers,

Someone is giving instructions and guidance every step of the way, and the person who gives instructions and guidance is none other than his father.

Seeing this, Shi Xu couldn't help but admire his father's extensive knowledge, and secretly vowed to surpass his father in weapons research and development.

Just as Shi Xu was looking at it, a hand as white as jade stretched out in front of him and shook it.

He couldn't help but look up and saw a girl with fair skin and a face like a silver basin standing in front of him.

Suddenly seeing a beautiful girl standing in front of him, Shi Xu was frightened and couldn't help but breathe quickly, "You, you..."

The girl raised her eyebrows slightly and put her hands on her hips, "What are you doing? Do you want to have lunch?"

(End of this chapter)