Alien Arms Empire

  Chapter 963 964 Another ordinary day begins

Comparing to the treacherous situation abroad, the interior of the Tang Empire was peaceful. Let alone military expansion and war preparations, there seemed to be very little tension here.

Except for the fact that trains full of dwarf or goblin soldiers often pass by along the east-west railway, there is no longer any sign that the country is in a storm.

  Qin and Shu are already at war frantically, and the battle near Fengjiang is also going on intensely. However, many businessmen in the Tang Empire are now paying attention to the construction of the Zangjian Gorge Bridge.

 The Zangjianxia Bridge, which uses the latest technology, overcomes the problem of being unable to build bridge piers in the Zangjianxia Gorge, which directly makes it possible to transform the natural chasm into a thoroughfare.

 Once this bridge is built, the connection between the Tang State and the Fengjiang rebels will no longer be severed.

 For Tang Mo, good news has been coming one after another recently. There is no bad news either. Overall, it can be said to be a mixed bag.

 The GDP of the Tang Empire is increasing rapidly, and large-scale equipment export projects are increasing, almost all of which are high value-added products.

 When the international situation is unstable, all countries hope to purchase some production equipment as soon as possible before the outbreak of war and deploy it in relatively safe core areas to avoid their own equipment production being affected during the war.

However, all countries have actually tightened the export amount of strategic materials, and the export volume of steel, copper and other metals has dropped sharply. It can be seen that everyone is aware of the danger and is trying to hoard strategic materials in preparation for the subsequent war.

 So the Tang Empire had to activate several of its own sealed mines to make up for the sharp decline in the amount of imported metals.

 Another good news is that the food production of the Tang Empire once again achieved a bumper harvest, because the river flooding problem in the upper reaches of the Chu Kingdom has been effectively curbed, so the overall irrigation environment of the Tang Empire has been improved.

Hence, the agricultural production of the Tang Empire has been in a bumper state in the past two days, and the country's total food production has increased, and the hunger problem has been curbed.

　　Despite the need to feed hundreds of millions of people and hundreds of thousands of slaves to feed, the Tang Empire was still under no pressure. This was not possible in the past and only a combination of industry and agriculture could feed such a large population.

This requires the support of a series of technologies such as improvement of irrigation efficiency, popularization of scientific cultivation, advancement of fertilizer technology, and research and development of new seeds. It is an overall leap supported by a series of scientific and technological projects.

 For the office workers of the Tang Dynasty, this day is another ordinary day, and this morning is still an ordinary morning.

 A staff member picked up the hot tea he had just made and walked back to his desk. He is a technician who is currently developing a new armor technology.

It is a bit incredible to say that his boss actually received a research project on tank armor protection. The content of the project was to use explosives as armor for tanks.

This is definitely an amazing technology. Its purpose is to install something called explosive reactive armor on the tank to increase the tank's defense.

  In fact, what is increased is not the true comprehensive protection, but the increase in the tank's defense against armor-piercing projectiles.

The theoretical basis is that once the armor is penetrated, the energy generated by the explosion of the internal charge can offset or disrupt the jet formed by the explosion of the armor-piercing projectile, thereby reducing the penetration ability of the armor-breaking projectile.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of armor combined with spaced armor can effectively withstand armor-piercing and armor-piercing projectiles, and can greatly improve the tank's defensive capabilities without increasing the weight of the tank much.

 Although this is still just a theory, repeated experiments are needed to verify its effectiveness. In the Tang Empire, this kind of verification was actually a process of reverse learning.

Within the Tang Empire, the emergence of many advanced technologies was the result of His Majesty’s inspiration. Although His Majesty’s ideas were later proven to be correct, after all, technical personnel were still needed to test their rationality.

On the other hand, it is not enough to just have a design. The technicians of the Datang Empire need to understand these technologies themselves so that they can have their own ideas more often.

This kind of reverse learning is very important. In fact, similar learning processes are very complicated. The speed at which technicians in the Tang Empire come into contact with new technologies is not much faster than that of technicians in other countries.

To put it bluntly, even the technical personnel of the Datang Empire were not able to quickly understand the new technological developments. The overall development direction still required the guidance of the Emperor of the Datang Empire again and again.

However, the technical personnel of the Tang Empire had an obvious advantage over other empires. They were exposed to new technologies and understood the technical direction the fastest.

What engineers from other empires see are often technologies that the Tang Empire's technicians have studied for more than two years. Moreover, they lack systematic research and have not undergone higher-intensity study, so their foresight is even weaker. It can't be put on the table anymore. "Do you think this gadget can really block the new weapons being developed by the 707 Research Institute? I heard that when the Panther tank was used for testing before, the new weapons of the 707 Research Institute penetrated the front armor of the Panther tank. ” He asked his friends next to him while holding hot tea and looking at the drawings and technical information on his desk.

That friend was eating a pie, which he brought from home in the morning. It was still cold when it arrived at work, so it was just right to eat.

Hearing his question, he swallowed the pie in his mouth, and the friend replied: "I heard about this. The people in the 707 Institute were happy for a while, and then His Majesty's side turned against him. The relevant information has been sent to our office.”

“If you told me two months ago to use explosives for defense, I might have smiled and thrown the relevant technical information into the trash can.” The technician holding hot tea said with a smile.

"Hahahaha! Fortunately you didn't. Who knew that this technology was also released by His Majesty." The technician eating the cake laughed and joked.

Their institute has sent the design samples to the weapons testing site a few days ago. The personnel of the 707th Institute once again used their so-called individual anti-tank weapon system to attack the Panther tank with explosive reactive armor.

The result was unexpected. A tank equipped with explosive reactive armor could easily withstand the jet impact of an armor-piercing warhead. This once again allowed the tank's protective power to surpass that of anti-tank weapons.

It turns out that thicker armor is not the only way to improve the defense of tanks. The Tang Empire found a shortcut to lighten tanks.

This also means that the way other countries continue to increase the thickness of tank armor is completely wrong. Only by using technology to improve the protection level of tanks is the truly correct path!

However, the 707 Institute of the Tang Empire has not given up on the development of its own anti-tank weapons, because apart from the Tang Empire, no country in the world has so-called explosive reactive armor.

  Furthermore, Institute 707 also received technical guidance from His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire, and they immediately thought of using a tandem warhead to solve the problem.

 Just use a small shaped energy warhead to detonate the explosive reactive armor in advance, and then use the core warhead to penetrate the main armor of the tank.

 In a sense, the competition between anti-tank weapons and armored protection, from the perspective of anti-tank weapons, isn’t it another kind of competition where one foot is higher than the other?

What they didn't know was that in the world before Tang Mo traveled through, anti-tank weapons had completely gained the upper hand. Before laser defense weapon technology was fully mature, and before new defense concepts such as energy shields emerged, tanks had already Unable to withstand the destruction of anti-tank weapons.

At that time, individual anti-tank weapons could intelligently use vertical strikes to avoid the tank's thick horizontal protection, focusing the attack on the tank's fragile top armor.

At the same time, whether it is precision-guided rocket shells, loitering bombs, or even cheap suicide drones, they have become fatal threats to tanks.

 Hence, the battlefield has become a dangerous place for tanks, and tank members no longer have the sense of security they had in the past. In fact, although they have an extra layer of 30 mm thick top armor than soldiers, their target size is also ten times larger than that of ordinary infantry.

Because of the emergence of Tang Mo, this type of anti-tank concept also appeared earlier. Anti-tank missiles have now become a secret weapon of the Tang State. Facing this weapon, it turned out to be the first post-war weapon such as the 59 tank. Main battle tank.

Even other countries do not have such advanced tanks as the 59. Their tanks do not even have artillery stabilization systems, and the armor of their tanks just meets the defense level of 100 mm homogeneous steel.

So their tanks are extremely vulnerable to the future weapon systems of the Tang Empire infantry, and there is no guarantee for the safety of fighting at normal distances.

"Hurry up and sort out the information. I heard that there is an experiment. Let's equip a division first and test the effect." The bell rang, and the technician who drank his hot tea sat back in his chair and started the day's work.

The pie-eating technician who was chatting just now stuffed the remaining pie in his hand into his mouth three or two times, and spread out the materials in front of him before he could speak.

 The work that is not too busy but also very fulfilling begins, and they feel that their work is very meaningful. As long as one more tank crew member of their country can survive on the battlefield, their work is not in vain.

Outside their office window is the unit’s parking lot. In the middle of the parking lot, there is a towering flagpole. On the flagpole, the iron-blooded dragon flag symbolizing the Tang Empire is fluttering in the wind.

　　The work bell that echoed in the corridor stopped suddenly after ringing for a while, and another ordinary day began.

 (End of this chapter)