A big country of aerospace with black technology

Northwest desert, weapons testing ground.

A huge pure white mushroom cloud slowly rises from the yellow Gobi!

Even tens of kilometers away, it can still be seen clearly.

However, after tens of kilometers of weakening, the shock wave reached the position where everyone was, and only felt a gust of breeze blowing on their faces.

"This is what you said is slightly more powerful than the current TNT?"

Looking at the scene in the distance comparable to the scene of a nuclear explosion, the chief took off the sunglasses he was wearing and asked in disbelief.

Originally, Zhang Xingyang said that the Rocket Research Institute had developed a new explosive with a slightly higher energy density than the conventionally used TNT.

The old chief didn't pay much attention to it. After all, new explosives are developed by a lot of scientific research units every year.

Although the main research direction of the Rocket Research Institute is now on aerospace, in fact, solid rocket fuel is also an important development direction for them.

And solid fuel is largely a pile of high-energy explosives!

Therefore, there is nothing unusual about the rocket research institute developing explosives.

When Zhang Xingyang asked the old chief to find a larger and more secretive testing ground.

The old chief was still a little dissatisfied. After all, ordinary explosives are not mushroom eggs, so how much space can they be used for.

Especially when Zhang Xingyang suggested that it is best to find a nuclear bomb test site, the old chief's expression changed on the spot.

We must know that nuclear tests these years are basically placed underground. If nuclear tests are conducted on the ground, it is easy to be discovered by others.

In particular, the country completed its last nuclear test last year.

And announced a moratorium on nuclear testing!

Now if you want to use the test field, you must have a justifiable reason!

"What exactly did you do?" Before looking for a test site for the experiment, the old chief asked Zhang Xingyang very seriously.

In fact, what Zhang Xingyang made is a total nitrogen anion salt that will be frequently used in future wars.

"I wonder if you have heard of triazole explosives?"

Although the total nitrogen anion salt has been studied at this point in time, people still don't know much about it.

"What is that?" Although the old chief has been in charge of the work in this area, he is not very clear about the specific scientific research content.

Especially these are almost academic frontier content.

"Sir, you should also understand that explosives are still chemical reactions after all."

"Although today's new explosives have made progress in many aspects, there is one limit that cannot be broken through, and that is the speed of chemical reactions."

"Although the energy release rate of explosive explosion far exceeds the heat release rate of fuel combustion, no matter how fast the chemical reaction is, it is impossible to be faster than the movement of molecules!"

Zhang Xingyang paused for a while when he said this, and looked at the chief's reaction.

At this time, the old chief was still frowning, and now he still didn't understand what Zhang Xingyang was trying to express.

"Since there is no way to break through the chemical reaction rate limit, in order to increase the explosive power of explosives, we can solve the problem of difficult power improvement by synthesizing molecules that release extremely high energy!"

At this time, the old chief had a little understanding of what Zhang Xingyang had done.

"And the enthalpy of formation of nitrogen is very large, so if we produce a total nitrogen explosive, then its power will be extremely powerful!"

"The total nitrogen explosives currently used in the world are basically azide ions, that is, dextrin lead azide. This thing is too expensive and cannot be used in conventional warfare at all."

At this time, the old chief basically understood what Zhang Xingyang had researched, and asked:

"So you synthesized nitrogen explosives that are cheap enough to mass-produce equipment?"

Zhang Xingyang nodded, smiled and said: "Since it is prepared for conventional warfare, the production cost will naturally not be too high. Of course, it is still higher than traditional TNT explosives."

"About twice as much as TNT!"

The old chief didn't feel much about the price, but asked about the power of nitrogen explosives:

"What kind of power can it achieve?"

"Theoretically, the total nitrogen explosive can be 100 times that of the TNT explosive."

The theoretical value given by Zhang Xingyang shocked the old chief and almost pulled his beard off.

"A hundred times?!!"

"The actual value is not that high. According to our trace test results in the laboratory, it can be about eighty-five times."

"That's scary too. That is to say, the power of a 122mm high-explosive bomb with a TNT charge of about 4 kilograms will directly increase to 340 kilograms of TNT power after being replaced with nitrogen explosives?"

The old chief, who is very familiar with various equipment, thought of the 122mm howitzer he had used before, and after a little conversion, he got an unbelievable answer!

You must know that the TNT equivalent of 340 kg is basically equivalent to the charge of some missiles!

A shell with the power of 340 kg of TNT is enough to destroy all unprotected targets within a diameter of 200 meters!

Even if it is a reinforced concrete building, it can cause structural damage if it goes down!

"However, even if it is such a powerful total nitrogen explosive, it seems that it can't be used in the nuclear bomb test site?"

The old chief came back to his senses from the power of the nitrogen explosive, and asked a little puzzled.

"Old chief, there is actually another thing involved here, that is, we have a relatively large amount of experiments!"

Zhang Xingyang was a little embarrassed, after all, the equivalent of the experiment he had to conduct was really not small!

"We plan to test at multiple yield levels, starting at 10g and stacking at five times the yield."

"Tested until the explosive power of 10 tons!"

At this time, the old chief still has no specific concept of the future of 10 tons of nitrogen explosives. After all, he has seen thermonuclear mushroom bombs with the equivalent of one million tons of TNT, so he is afraid of this?

Until during the experiment, I saw a mushroom cloud tens of kilometers away and nearly 200 meters high.

The old chief took off his sunglasses and was a little stunned and asked Zhang Xingyang:

"Is this just a little bit bigger?"

"Is this little bit of the Himalayas?!"

It's no wonder that the old chief was so shocked. The power of 10 tons of nitrogen explosives is almost equivalent to the explosive power of a thousand tons of TNT.

Generally speaking, the power of 300 tons of TNT goes up, and it has already touched the field of nuclear bombs!

In other words, with such cheap high-power explosives, the country is equivalent to having a non-polluting nuclear bomb that can be used indefinitely!

"Uh, a little bit."

"It's just that our experimental explosives are too large!"

"After all, in actual use, there is no platform capable of throwing 10 tons of nitrogen explosives."

Zhang Xingyang justified himself weakly.

But the old chief who was present didn't really want to question him, he was just frightened for a while.

This power has gone beyond the scope of conventional weapons!