Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 986 987 Victims

"After all, we still have to sell something to them. If we don't let them have radars and signal towers...then what targets will our missiles hit?" Tang Mo said to Roger while tasting the delicious food in front of him. .

 The more modern weapons are, the more emphasis is placed on strike accuracy. The weapons and equipment of the Tang Empire are becoming more and more modern, so the enemy should at least make some progress as well.

As mentioned before, the Tang Empire's air-to-air combat missiles can only be used when the enemy also has jet fighters.

 Otherwise, how could those modern weapons with high price and powerful performance be put into service? Do you want to use missiles worth millions to fight a plane that costs less than 20,000? Let’s leave aside whether we can hit it or not. What if we lose money even if we hit it?

Roger, who was left to dine together, nodded. He had also kindly reminded Tang Mo not to sell too core technologies, so as not to give the enemy the strength to resist.

Tang Mo is not worried about this. The radar system he sells is basically still at the level of the World War II era. That thing requires accuracy but not precision, and performance but not performance, so it can only solve the problem.

Without any decent electromagnetic interference, bad weather can greatly reduce the effectiveness of these radars. In order to improve the basic performance of these radars, these countries that have purchased radars must at least start researching related technologies from picture tubes.

"When these countries have deployed radars, we will at least have several ways to make these radars a display...you can rest assured about this." Tang Mo stuffed a piece of beef into his mouth. The soft texture full of intermuscular fat made people laugh. It is full of comfort and enjoyment when chewing.

 Seeing Tang Mo so relaxed, Roger was completely relieved. Hear Tang Mo talking to him about the experimental results of the Styx missile.

The Tang Empire was only equipped with two Bismarck improved battleships, which made the Navy of the Datang Empire far behind the navies of other countries in terms of battleship tonnage.

Especially in terms of single-ship combat effectiveness, in addition to the advantage of radar, the naval destroyers of the Tang Empire could only use torpedoes to support the scene.

 In view of this, Tang Mo is planning to give priority to equipping the navy with anti-ship missiles to enhance the single-ship combat effectiveness of naval vessels. Therefore, the development and deployment speed of the Styx missile is quite fast, much faster than the Air Force's Thunderbolt 2 air-to-air combat missile.

  Why were the battleships of the World War II era completely eliminated? In fact, in addition to the threats from aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, the increasingly worrying protection efficiency of battleships is also part of the reason.

  Battleships during World War II generally had heavy armor installed on important parts to ensure their defense capabilities. However, due to the characteristics of buoyancy, it is impossible to deploy defenses all over the body.

Therefore, battleships still need to deploy a large number of watertight cabins outside the armored defense zone to increase buoyancy. These cabins do not have corresponding heavy armor defense.

Therefore, sinking a battleship sometimes does not require penetrating the opponent's heavy armor protective belt. It only needs to cause enough damage to the watertight cabin. The armor inside the opponent's battleship can drag the battleship into the deep sea by its own weight.

 Another reason is that armor-piercing technology began to advance rapidly at the end of World War II, and the heavy armor of battleships was actually not as easy to use as it was in the past.

 In past naval battles and duels between battleships, both sides could only rely on large-caliber naval guns to destroy enemy ships. Due to technical limitations, the artillery shells on both sides are armor-piercing projectiles with small charges and thick shells. The projectile angle of the artillery shells is also limited, so the armor-piercing ability is not high.

The thickness of the main armor on battleships of various countries is generally only the same value as the caliber of their own guns. For example, the battleship Yamato has a main gun caliber of 460 mm and a main armor of only 460 mm.

  Does it sound thick? Isn't that an exaggeration? In fact, this value is really very average. Under normal circumstances, the shaped armor-breaking charge of an anti-tank missile manufactured with modern technology can easily penetrate homogeneous steel with a thickness of more than 600 mm.

In fact, the warhead of an anti-ship missile with a charge of more than 500 kilograms is really made of a shaped armor-piercing charge, and it is very easy to penetrate one meter of homogeneous steel. The reason why this type of design is not adopted is mainly because the armor of modern warships is not thick, and the speed of anti-ship missiles is getting faster and faster. I am really afraid that they will be too powerful to directly penetrate...

 But the enemies that the Tang Empire faced now were completely different. The current main maritime opponents of the Tang Empire are equipped with a large number of battleships and artillery cruisers.

 The armor of these battleships is very thick, most of the armor exceeds 200 mm, and some even approach 400 mm.

To penetrate these warships, the Styx anti-ship missiles that the Tang Empire began to equip its troops must use shaped energy-piercing charge warheads.

　To put it bluntly, it is a super huge armor-piercing warhead! This kind of warhead can easily penetrate homogeneous steel armor with a thickness of more than 1,300 mm, and the damage effect is quite amazing.

This situation in the Tang Empire also shows that there will no longer be heavily armored warships in modern warfare: for the dozen or so warships you have worked so hard to build, others only need to purchase a few hundred armor-piercing warheads to replace them. , and this is a **** good value for money.

Just one day ago, a Styx anti-ship missile conducted a practical test at the naval experimental base on Long Island. The missile launch site deployed on the shore of Styx directly hit a moving target 15 kilometers away and blew the target to pieces. The admiral who was quite satisfied with the experimental results immediately approved the subsequent development plan. On the one hand, it will produce at least 400 Styx anti-ship missiles, and on the other hand, it will simultaneously transform 10 guided missile destroyers.

 Unknown to a few people, the world's first guided missile destroyer has begun modification and construction.

The 10 brand-new torpedo destroyers will remove the torpedoes and some other equipment on the hull and replace them with triple missile launchers to gain missile attack capabilities.

Theoretically, the Styx missile has an attack range of more than 30 kilometers, a maximum range of 35 kilometers, and a speed close to the speed of sound. On the premise that there is no electronic interference from the opponent, the hit accuracy of this missile is also quite high.

The greatest significance of anti-ship missiles is to give small warships the ability to challenge large warships. Its existence directly blurs the gap between warship tonnage and completely shakes the status of artillery-based warships.

 It will not be until the future, with the emergence of anti-aircraft missiles and the maturation of the concept of missile interception missiles, that new large-tonnage warships will regain the initiative in the offensive and defensive fields.

On Earth, from the 1960s to the 1970s, unless there was a hard need for ocean deployment, the price/performance ratio of large warships was indeed lower than that of small warships.

This state lasted until the popularization of the Aegis system was alleviated. In order to deploy large-tonnage guided missile destroyers that can provide regional air defense, vertical missile launch systems, and to power large phased array radars, it really makes sense.

 Actually, Tang Mo was not in a good mood today. He stayed with Roger to eat because he wanted to talk to Roger about other things.

"Four engineers were injured at work..." After Tang Mo finished talking about anti-ship missiles, he talked to Roger about a seemingly trivial matter.

He put down the eating utensils, wiped his mouth with a white napkin, and looked at Roger who was looking at him: "They are the first testers to participate in the research of sound waves and radio signals."

Roger was stunned. He knew that these people might be some old people who had worked in Bunas during its development. These people were valuable wherever they were, and they had also made outstanding contributions to the rise of the Tang Empire.

 “Is it serious?” Roger asked.

"Their ears have been damaged to varying degrees. Now they have tinnitus and deafness. I believe that in a few years, they will not be able to hear anything." Tang Mo did not hide anything.

　　When they were assigned jobs, they had already been given subsidies for this. In order to ensure their health, Tang Mo even limited the working hours of this kind of work.

For example, painters, sonic debugging workers, chemical workers, etc... These jobs must be forcibly transferred to second-line offices within five years at most... But even so, there are still a large number of work-related injuries.

 The working environment at that time was indeed too harsh. Many times, for the sake of efficiency and convenience, workers would not wear protective clothing or take protective measures such as masks, even when the temperature was unbearable.

Deafness is actually a minor problem. Some people get the disease directly due to long-term exposure to chemicals, and some people get sick due to overwork in a polluted environment for a long time. Datang Group's industry has been advancing along the way, and its rapid progress is not without cost. .

It can be said that there are bones everywhere under Datang Group’s industrial throne, and the compacted foundation is actually made of human flesh and blood.

There is no shortcut in this world. It's just that some people use their bodies as ladders to allow others to climb faster and walk more steadily.

In fact, there were still a dozen engineers who were seriously ill. Tang Mo could not tell Roger that some people in the Nuclear Industry Research Institute of the Tang Empire had already died due to radiation.

These people contributed their lives to the technological development of the Tang Empire, and everything they gave will make the empire more powerful and glorious.

"We should remember them and treat them well..." Roger said with some emotion, remembering the familiar names and faces in the blacksmith shop.

The people who were in the blacksmith shop back then, now there are dozens of them who will never appear again. Some of these people died at work due to illness, some disappeared into the vast sea of ​​people because they were rich and retired, and some were even executed for being depraved and corrupt...

If such a group were enlarged to the entire Tang Empire, then how many people disappeared and how many people left during the rise of the Tang Empire?

 (End of this chapter)