Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 202 Progress of M3 Tanks and Pickup Trucks
After returning from Mu Us, Ren Zhong handed over the construction of the base to Professor Wu's team. After all, he gave the entire design to Professor Wu. According to his information, Professor Wu and his team understood and completed it, and the big killer weapon had a clue.

It doesn't take much time to build a test reactor. The more difficult part is the supporting equipment such as heavy water and uranium enrichment. Now that all these are available, the construction of the reactor alone can be done quickly.

In fact, the construction of the first atomic reactor had begun at John Bull in December 1941, but it was soon abandoned. Mr. Fermi, who was in charge of this project, was absorbed by Rogue Eagle into the Manhattan Project and rebuilt the world's first uranium-graphite atomic reactor at the University of Chicago. At 12:1942 on December 12, 2, the world's first atomic reactor was officially put into operation, experimentally proving the chain reaction theory, which marked the beginning of the atomic energy age.

Although Professor Wu and his team did not know that they were already more than a year behind the Manhattan Project, Ren Zhong did not intend to tell them the news. On the one hand, it was difficult to reveal the source of this top-secret information, and on the other hand, Ren Zhong felt that there was no need to provoke Professor Wu and his team.

Actually, they have been working very hard. This is the only team in Ren Zhong's hands. Any loss will be basically irreparable. If they have to wait until the next batch of core forces are trained, it may take another 20 years.

Therefore, Ren Zhong cannot take this risk, because according to the current process, our own Peace Egg will be born in four or five years at most. Although it is a little later than the Rogue Eagle, it is developed entirely by independent strength. At that time, it will definitely cause an absolute huge shock in the world. For China, this is certainly the best tool to exert its influence.

Ren Zhong is looking forward to that day coming soon.

After returning to the Liming Research Institute, Ren Zhong called Chief of Staff Ye in the border area and explicitly requested General Shi to provide two sets of SCR-268 fire control radars as air defense warning shields for the border area, and then high-strength aviation tire production technology.

In terms of ground weapons, tanks are about to be released, although they are light and low-end products like the M3.

Then came the truck, the two that were the core of the true mechanized steel torrent.

Ren Zhong took stock of what he had in his hands. The 105mm howitzer had already produced samples, and the next step was mass production.

Now the artillery research team has turned to the 88mm anti-aircraft gun with higher technical content. This powerful weapon, combined with the air defense fire control radar, is not only very useful for air defense. Next, it seems possible to put this 34mm anti-aircraft gun on the T-76 heavy tank in addition to the original 88mm tank gun of the first generation. After all, there is already an 85mm high-end plan. If it is changed to 88mm, wouldn't it become a super heavy tank that can destroy anyone it meets?

However, it seems a bit of a waste to put such a powerful weapon on the domestic battlefield. The Japanese have not yet had a real heavy tank. For the Type 57 main battle tank with a small 97mm barrel, the T-76 or M34 with a large 3mm barrel can already defeat it.

However, thinking of the wide range of uses of this 88mm anti-aircraft gun in the German III, even if it is simply used as a suppressive heavy artillery, it is also extremely powerful. Ren Zhong feels that it would be a good idea to put it on the M3 as a self-propelled artillery. After all, the range is there, and it can be a dimensionality reduction attack against any cannon of the Japanese.

After all, a range of nearly 15 kilometers is something the Japanese cannot achieve at all. Even if the range is reduced after research and development in the border area, the starting range should be more than 12/13 kilometers, which is farther than the range of the M2 105mm howitzer.

把88毫米大炮和105毫米大炮装在M3身上变成自行火炮，这个主意似乎也很有必要，M3的底盘还是很不错的，对于现在黎明研究所的火炮从75毫米到105毫米简直百搭。

A combination of 75mm mountain guns, 88mm anti-aircraft guns, 105mm howitzers and 107 rocket launchers should be enough to defeat the Japanese army.

75毫米山炮的机动灵活，88毫米高炮起步12公里，最远差不多15公里的超远射程，105毫米榴弹炮强悍火力和107毫米火箭炮灵活和强大的火力兼顾，可以全面将小鬼子75毫米野炮到150毫米重榴弹炮都压服。

After all, the Japanese now have the longest-range Type 150 11900mm field gun with a maximum range of 88 meters. Although it is more powerful, its range is still three points inferior to the mm anti-aircraft gun.

When it comes to ground-cleaning firepower coverage, who can compare with the earth-shaking ground-cleaning function of the 107mm rocket launcher?

After thinking for a while, Ren Zhong felt that the army had basically reached its limit and no further effort was needed.

Now the institute's resources should be invested as much as possible in the development of Peace Eggs and aerospace.

Since aerospace is a system engineering, although there has been some progress now, there is still a long way to go before a breakthrough.

For example, the Mustang fighter jet that is being copied has basically solved the engine problem, but the manufacturing process of the entire fuselage requires some special forging equipment, such as a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, which has not yet been developed.

Of course, judging from the current progress, we are almost successful.

Another aspect is that there are also big problems with the supply of raw materials.

The electrolytic aluminum facilities have not yet been fully put into formal use. Although the principle verification has been passed, there are still some problems in large-scale mass production. Not only is the energy consumption too high, but the quality of the aluminum produced is still unstable and there are too many impurities. Not only is the research team making comprehensive adjustments in this regard, Ren Zhong has also given Hu Rentao, a steelmaking expert in the main world, a new task to analyze and find solutions based on current conditions.

The two worlds working together is equivalent to double the krypton gold to solve the problem.

Ren Zhong is not worried about not being able to solve the problem.

So he has already started the large-scale production of other parts of the Mustang fighter.

First of all, the airborne weapons and equipment are already very mature and have been mass-produced for a long time. The performance of the G20 cannon is very stable. The aviation version of the automatic firing device and automatic loader have been tested on the full-scale model of the Mustang fighter simulated on the ground, and the effect is good. Secondly, in the avionics part, most components, including communication components, have also completed the airborne customization work because they use the Red Star walkie-talkie and Red Star radio.

The Type 71 walkie-talkie has very stable performance and has been proven in use on the ground. It has no obstructions in the sky and can fully realize instant voice calls in the air within dozens of kilometers on the front line.

For longer distances, the Red Star Radio is required to receive simple Morse code commands agreed in advance. The aircraft is powered by a 1.5KW diesel generator, which can work for 6 hours with 12 liters of fuel, which is enough to drive the onboard electrical appliances.

It can be said that most of the scattered parts in the machine are ready and mass-produced.

Now there are several core key load-bearing structures, such as landing gear, frame, and high-strength tires, which cannot be produced without large forging machines.

While Ren Zhong was organizing his own research, he was also looking for the possibility of obtaining technology from Rogue Eagle.

By achieving the goal of walking on two legs and supplementing it with technical information extracted from the main world, Ren Zhong is not worried about not being able to develop these key equipment. It is just a matter of time. If there are ready-made ones, it will of course be faster.

I have raised the demand, but I don’t know if General Shi can handle it.

However, Ren Zhong did not completely rely on others, but still relied on himself and insisted on independent research and development. With penicillin and his own silver dollars, the funding of the Liming Research Institute is now quite sufficient. In addition, the border area has solved the problem of food supply, so Ren Zhong can now expand his scientific research and production team without limit.

As for machine tools, we have completed no less than twenty types of finalized production models, covering almost all categories of current mechanical processing.

The basic coverage of gun and artillery processing, equipment for five small factories such as thermal power, hydropower, and mechanical processing such as automobiles and tanks has been completed, and production capacity has begun to increase continuously.

With the released electricity supply, the five small factories began to choose suitable locations for continuous expansion. In addition to military products, civilian transportation and farming-related machinery and equipment are now also beginning to be mass-produced.

When the production of diesel engines exploded on a large scale, the production of Daliwang and Red Star I also increased significantly. Although they are still used for both military and civilian purposes, after the mass production of Chevrolet G506, these two models like Laotoule will gradually withdraw from the main models of the army.

Not only a truck, Ren Zhong also gave the G506 a pickup truck design, with tough lines without any curves, and its main feature is simple production and reliable performance.

With the experience of the Red Star I chassis and the reference of the main world chassis, the new generation of Red Star F1 pickup truck came out amid the hammering of workers. Ren Zhong test drove this car with 4 manual gears. This was the car that was closest to the car in the main world that he had come into contact with in the Bright Sword world.

However, Ren Zhong was wrong. This car was extremely tough to drive. On the bumpy roads in the border area, once the speed exceeded 50, it felt like it was ready to take off at any time!

There are no sofas, but seats are padded with wood boards, which can straighten the lumbar disc herniation while driving.

The comfort experience is almost zero!

After driving a few kilometers, I felt a bit overwhelmed.

"Professor Zhao, the chassis of this car is still not good enough." After returning to the testing point, Ren Zhong got out of the car and said to Professor Zhao Yiming, who was waiting on the side and was in charge of the automobile project of the Mechanical Research Center.

"This chassis has almost no shock absorption, and the shock absorber spring is not functioning at all. Let's go back and study what's going on."

This shock-absorbing design is almost non-existent. Ren Zhong decided to go back and find a pickup truck chassis disassembly drawing to design it and teach the car designers in the world of Bright Sword. Ren Zhong initially thought that the chassis was a very simple matter and that it could be simply modified from the previous Red Star I agricultural vehicle so that it could run.

But after the actual experience, Ren Zhong felt that in the main world, even Uncle Hei Fei would not want such a car.

"Mr. Ren, none of us have any experience in car design. Our current designs are based on the first two models you provided, with some simple improvements compared to the G506 model." Professor Zhao Yiming said with some embarrassment. This thing was a little beyond his ability.

"It's okay, Professor Zhao, there's no need to rush. We have the materials for shock-absorbing springs, and there's no problem with the alloy steel for making springs. I think this chassis design will be solved sooner or later. I'll ask the organization to see what the world's advanced suspension systems are like. We can just use them as a reference and make improvements." Ren Zhong comforted.

Now he knew that these people didn't even have a concept of suspension systems, so Ren Zhong couldn't ask for too much. This kind of thing probably had to be copied from the main world.

After returning to the main world, Ren Zhong did some research and found that the suspension system itself was indeed a system with relatively high technical content.

3350, the first update of the big chapter

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