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Starting from scratch 128_ Volume XX Chapter 128 Iron and Steel Empire with incomplete technical system Chapter XX Volume 128 Iron and Steel Empire with incomplete technical system

"Don't you say that this thing can lose weight? Why am I so heavy in my hand?"

"The air magic stone can only produce upward lift when you input energy. Of course, you just do n’t respond when you hold a magic stone.

"So it is." I nodded and asked, "Is this thing energy-intensive?"

"It should be said that it is very low, anyway, it saves energy than the flying methods we used before, and the most important thing is that flying props made with magic stones are very safe, because even if you stop energy input, it will not lose buoyancy immediately, Instead, it will slowly reduce buoyancy. We had a single-player reconnaissance flight kit that once flew in the sky, and suddenly the magic crystal burst, and then the flying props that lost their power did not fall directly, but they slowly slid to the ground and tried to fly. Nothing farts. "

It ’s good to hear what this muscular guy says, but I ’m not a layman, so it ’s not confusing. "You said that this thing will slowly lose buoyancy under the condition of losing energy supply, that is to say, there are incomplete signs of energy circulation inside this thing. Can I understand that this thing is also slow to start?"

The muscular man immediately admitted to me and said, "But it is. The biggest disadvantage of this air magic stone is that it takes a little time to start up. Generally, it needs to start charging seven or eight minutes in advance before flying up, and the lift is not reached instantly. Maximum, but it will increase slowly, little by little. "

"It's quite smooth!"

"Unfortunately, it is too stable, so it is not very useful for military purposes."

"Who said that?" I shook him in front of him holding the air demonic stone. "You have mistaken how to use the air demonic stone from the beginning."

The old man who hadn't talked before before retorted after hearing my accusation that they were used improperly: "Who said our method was improper? Can we rely on the buoyancy of air magic stones to make the props fly? Isn't that how to use it? Can you use other methods? "

"No, since the air magic stone can generate buoyancy, it is a matter of course to use this buoyancy. But you also know that this thing is too slow to be charged or released, so the air flexibility must be poor. Such It cannot be used for military purposes at all, otherwise it will only become a living target flying in the air. But why don't you want to use other power to provide motive power? Adjust the weight of the aircraft to the same as the buoyancy of the air magic stone Size, so that the aircraft as a whole has entered a state of false weightlessness. At this time, if you can rely on the propeller to adjust the forward direction and flight height, don't you need to control the air magic stone? "

"Huh? This is also a way! Why didn't we think about it?" The old man was choked by me, and the muscular man next to him also thought about it, obviously they were also considering the feasibility of this method. Of course, this method itself is very feasible, so they soon want to understand. Use air magic stones to counter gravity, and the rest depends on other propulsion methods to provide power. In that case, the technical difficulty is not very high, and the most important point is that this type of aircraft will get unmatched by pure air magic stone powered aircraft. Mobility, and this is the biggest drawback of the air magic stone powered aircraft.

The old man who got a new method of use almost excitedly ran to experiment on the spot. Fortunately, he was pulled by the muscular man. Later, he was persuaded by his assistant and the muscular man and the fat man to cancel the plan of experimenting first. .

After looking at the air magic stone, I looked at the other equipment in the equipment library with the muscular man, and found that the equipment of the steel empire seemed to rely on the magic crystal quite high, just like modern war cannot be separated from various Explosives are just like gasoline, iron empire weapons are a pile of scrap iron without the magic spar.

After visiting the equipment library, we went on to visit the living facilities in the city and the legendary Empire Library, but it felt like the city construction was okay, but the Empire Library was a bit disappointing. Although this Imperial Library sounds quite atmospheric, but after being shocked by Isinger ’s library, the library here is, in my opinion, just the scale of the township library, which is basically the same as Isinger ’s large library. No way.

"How's it? Our iron empire library is amazing, right?" The old man, as the head of the technology department, looked very proud of the library in front of him, but he didn't notice that my expression was obviously not shocked. .

I probably saw that I was disdainful of the library. The fat man who had kept a low profile before suddenly said, "It's enough to take a look at the library. If you look at all the books in the library, you don't have to leave for a few years to get President Ziri. Now, I don't think we can go to the port and take a look at our steel empire's spaceship first, or have a lunch on the way. "

Because the proposal looked at the military department in charge of the muscular man, the muscular man immediately began to support the suggestion of the fat man. The knowledgeable old man looked quite depressed and obviously not very happy, but two of the three guides present were supportive. He I had to agree.

I heard that I was going to visit the spacecraft, and I immediately got excited. Speaking of steel empire, the technology is actually not very special. I just compared the technology of this guild to roughly determine that the technology level of the steel empire is not much higher than ours. There are only a few basic technologies that I value. They are all focused on energy conversion. Apart from energy conversion technology, the only thing that interests me in the Iron Empire is the use of air magic stones. Although the muscular man briefly introduced the mining and utilization of this air magic stone before, such an important technology cannot be completed by just listening to it. It is not countless without actually looking at it or even experiencing it for yourself.

Due to the distance of the airport, we did not go there. Of course, this time the other party did not let me take the flatbed again but instead gave me a pretty good auto. The shape of this car is very similar to a European-style carriage, but without horses, it runs entirely on its own power. In addition, the operation technology of this thing adheres to the consistent style of the Iron Empire, and it can be controlled with just a joystick like the previous flat car .

I found this port very interesting when I took the autonomous car outside the airport. In fact, this is not a simple airport as I imagined, but a multifunctional mixed port. Although it is located underground, the space at the port is quite huge. At the entrance of the port is a large staircase combination, which can be used to enter the upper waiting area and lower area of ​​the port floor.

The muscular man first took me to the lower area. This place is much lower than the city ground, but the space is also huge. Only one-third of the ports in the lower zone are land, and the other two-thirds are on the water, with many ships docking on them. However, these ships are obviously different from ordinary ships because their decks are very narrow and their volume is not very large. Another thing that is strange is that these ships have no masts, so they are lower than ordinary ships. Much shorter.

"Are these submarines?" I glanced at the ships in front of me and discovered their common features. Sealed cabins, no masts, high propellers, and top impact angles. If this thing is not a submarine, I really can't imagine why they have these settings.

Sure enough, the muscular man said admirably: "President Ziri really understands people. This is a diving warship that can directly attack the enemy underwater or can surface to fight."

I nodded and understood, and then asked, "But why do you build submarines out of wood?"

"Well? Is it possible to use other materials without wood?" Asked the old man, who had been unhappy because he had been pulled out of the library.

"Isn't it possible to use metal? What about the ductility and compression resistance is also the metal's properties better?"

"Using metal? What are you kidding?" The old man said disdainfully. "The structure of the sea surface ship is simple, but metal can barely make do with it. The structure of the submarine itself is very complicated. With metal, the weight will increase by at least one third. Get up? "

"But the submarines in our guild are all metal

I feel very buoyant. "

"What? You really made metal submarines?" At first the old man thought I was talking because I didn't understand, but when I heard that our guild did have metal submarines, he was not calm at once. "Do you really have metal submarines?"

I nodded and said, "Of course, there is more than one. There is also a submarine carrier, which is almost the same size as your port. Is it still floating?"

"But

How did you cast such a big hull? "

"Casting? Isn't that casting?"

The old man knew that I didn't understand, and quickly explained: "I asked you how to shape the hull. How can such a large hull be cast at once? Do you have a melting furnace larger than the port? Besides, even if the casting is completed, you How do you forge? "

"Why do you need to mold it all at once?" I asked in amazement. "It's not necessary to separate casting."

"Split separately? Is your submarine spliced?"

"Yes, is there anything wrong with this?"

"Don't your boat leak?"

"Water leaks? Why are they leaking?"

"But metal is not as soft as wood, and the structure during casting cannot be too precise. There must be gaps between the castings. What do you do with these gaps?"

"Gap? Just weld it."

"Welding ...?" The old man looked at me in surprise and asked, "What is welding?"

"Don't you understand welding technology?"

"Welding technology?" The old man shook his head and asked, "What does this welding technology do? Is it specifically plugged?"

"It's not specifically for plugging, but it can be used for plugging. To put it simply, welding technology is a technology that connects two pieces of metal into one piece. If your welding technology is good enough, the strength of the welding position can even exceed the one-time casting The parts come out. However, the technical requirements in that case are too high, and we generally can only guarantee that the welding point is slightly lower than the strength of the casting. Anyway, it will not affect the use. "

"It's incredible that there is such a technique!" The old man kept sighing after hearing my introduction of welding technology, but I felt nothing, but the welding technology itself is not a particularly exaggerated thing. In the second place, our guild has been used for a long time, and we have long been used to it.

After observing the appearance of several submarines from a long distance, I proposed to take a look inside the boat. The muscular men all knew that the purpose of this visit was to cooperate with us, so it was easy to hear my request. Just promised.

After boarding the ship, I found that these submarines were not as big as expected. Although the hull does not seem small in appearance, but because the hardness of wood cannot be compared with metal, in order to ensure the strength, the method of thickening the shell has been adopted here to meet the needs of the Iron Empire. The interior space of the hull occupies a large area. The outside looks as if the ship is very large, but after entering, you will find that the inside is actually very narrow.

After entering the boat along the ladder, we first arrived at the cabin. This design is similar to a normal submarine, but apart from this cabin, the interior of the submarine leaves little room for movement. Moving from the cab to the stern is a huge propulsion cabin. In addition to the huge mechanical body, there is only a narrow passage that can barely squeeze people. People like the Steel Empire are nothing but thin and thin. Those wearing armor like me can only look outside and think of removing the armor.

The bow direction is slightly better than the stern, but it is also crowded. Ninety percent of the entire bow space is occupied by a bunch of giant compressors. Their main job is to control the submarine's ascent and descent. The remaining part of the space on the bow was the weapon compartment on the ship, but instead of fish, it was a weapon that surprised me.

"Isn't this thing a sonic cannon?" Although I didn't see the structure outside the boat, from the structural part inside the boat, I recognized at a glance what the principle of the weapon on the ship works.

The muscular man saw that I guessed it was a sonic cannon and immediately wanted to give me a detailed introduction, but he was interrupted by me before he even opened his mouth, because I didn't want to know the specific properties of this thing, and the reason was -Our guild boats are all metal.

Everything has two sides. The warships in our guilds are basically metal hulls. They are definitely stronger than the steel empire in terms of solidity and other aspects. However, metal has the advantages of metal, but wood also has Advantages of wood. This sonic weapon is okay when it is loaded on the ship of the Iron Empire, but if it is loaded on our ship, as long as the gun is fired, I do n’t know if the enemy has anything to do with it. Our own ship will definitely disperse first. Metal is hard enough, but its ability to absorb vibrations is too weak, compared to wood. The directional shock generated by the sonic cannon will cause high frequency vibration of the hull itself. The wooden boat itself is a soft connection, so the vibration will be consumed during the transmission process, but the iron boat will not work. This kind of vibration will cause the hull to Resonance and disintegration, so if we install a sonic cannon on a metal ship, we must first study how to isolate the shock, but at least so far we are still in a semi-blank state of technology, so I am a bit interested in this sonic cannon nor. Besides, the sound wave is decaying very fast, so the range is definitely not far away. Like our current naval battle, we are facing a blast of seven or eight kilometers apart. A sonic gun, such as a weapon that does not have a range of 100 meters, is basically Bauble.

After interrupting the introduction of the muscular man, I volunteered to go around the power capsule, took off the armor, and squeezed into the machinery room under the leadership of the ship's repairman, and then listened to the other person's introduction. According to the repairman's introduction, I can conclude that the propellers of the Iron Empire use completely different propelling methods than ours.

The underwater propeller of this guild uses magic array technology. It relies on the magic of the water system to **** in the water flow, then pressurize it and spray it from the stern at high speed to generate propulsion. In the process, there is no propeller or impeller in the water Running, so it is much quieter than ordinary thrusters, and it is very efficient, especially under high speed, it will not lose power because of the speed of the water flow itself. However, because the propeller from Atlantis used by our guild does not have a propeller rotation mechanism, it cannot be changed to a land engine because it has no rotating parts at all. By contrast, the thrusters of the Iron Empire are far behind. This type of propeller uses propeller propulsion, which has a large noise and complicated structure, and the rotating shaft must withstand huge torque during work, so the failure rate is quite high. However, the magic conversion furnace used by their propellers is much more advanced than ours. This is obviously a special feature of the Iron Empire. It seems that their technology will have obvious advantages as long as they are involved in magic energy conversion.

After visiting the internal structure of the submarine, we went back to the shore to visit the sea and return to the submarine. This port is actually much lower than the sea level, so it cannot be directly connected to the seawater outside, otherwise the seawater will flood back and flood the port. The Empire of Steel uses the same principle as a torpedo tube on a submarine. They repaired several large pipes between the harbour and the sea water outside. These pipes were sealed at both ends. When a ship is about to go out, first adjust the water level in the pipeline to be the same as the water level in the port, then drive the submarine into the pipeline and then close the sealing cover. After that, extract the German air from the pipeline and fill the pipeline with water. After being filled with water, open the other side's sealing cover, and the submarine can sail directly into the sea ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ When there is a submarine to return to the sea, this procedure is reversed, so that the submarine can enter and leave the port without letting The sea water poured back.

After leaving the submarine port, we returned to the height of the city ground, and then visited the surface port here. The height of this port is at the same level as the outer sea level, so no ship locks are needed to allow ships to enter and leave. Compared to the wooden hull submarines in the submarine port, the ships in the surface port seem to be more diverse. Metal ships are the mainstream ships here. Because there is no problem of water pressure, the sealing of surface ships is much simpler than that of submarines. Even if the steel empire does not have welding technology, it can be done with some earth methods. However, after the tour, I still feel that the ship technology of the Steel Empire is bad. However, it is understandable that their main activities are on land, and the islands are reef groups, even if there are ships, it is difficult to get out, so they do not attach importance to shipbuilding technology.

After visiting the surface port, we returned to the entrance. From the beginning, the spiral staircase entered the airport area on the upper level of the port. This is the area where the spacecraft I want to see is most. I do n’t know what the steel empire spacecraft is. Look, I hope their spacecraft is not just a seaship that can fly.

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