My partner in One Piece is Esdeath

Chapter 177 Crow! Use your smart brain to think of a solution!

Annan's eyes turned to the stern of the ship. There was an ejection rail on the stern of the ship, and on the rail, there was a rocket equipped with wooden wings.

"Fortunately, you reminded me, I almost forgot about this new weapon." Kuromi enlarged the tail of the Iceman.

"The Navy's active individual rocket launchers need to be aimed with a sight when launching, and even if they are aimed, they may not be able to hit the target, and the hit rate is appallingly low."

Kuromi summoned the rocket launcher equipped by the navy and said to the projection.

"So I did some research and found that there was a problem with the rocket itself, so I made some modifications to it and added wings that can stabilize flight."

"But with the addition of wings, the rocket cannot be stuffed into the launch tube. Expanding the launch tube makes it inconvenient to carry." Kuromi said with a frown.

"So what's your solution?" Annan asked.

"There is no solution." Kuromi shook his head, "I just put this problem aside."

"..."

"Why are you all silent?" Kuromi asked doubtfully.

"Although this problem has not been solved, I have conducted research and upgrades on rockets in another direction." Kuromi pointed to the rocket with double wings at the stern of the ship.

"Make the rocket as a whole larger, and change the gunpowder originally used to provide flight power from being installed in the launch tube to the tail of the rocket. In this way, the rocket does not explode out of the launch tube, but ignites itself and flies on fuel. .”

"At the same time, I modified the wings on the rocket and installed a pair of shorter wings on the tail of the rocket. Through remote control, I can control the flight direction of the launched rocket and hit the target accurately. .”

A projection of a remote control appeared in Kuromi's hand.

"Look, this is the remote control that controls the flight of rockets."

Later, Kurome simulated the entire process of launching a rocket to the two of them.

"How about it? I'm awesome." Kurome held her head high and looked proud.

"It's a novel weapon."

Esdeath looked at the rocket and touched his chin.

"Although it has no effect on strong pirates, it is of great help in naval battles."

In today's sea, the mainstream ships are still wooden. It's better to be like Roger and the Straw Hats, who can get Adam the Treasure Tree to build the ship, but worse to be like Blackbeard, who can only lie down on the raft.

The navy's warships are much better. The standard large warships of the headquarters are battleships covered with iron sheets. Although the materials used in other small and medium-sized warships are a bit worse, they are not comparable to pirate ships.

Although the navy's warships are more advanced than pirate ships, there are not as many cases of sinking enemy ships during battles as imagined. As for the reason, of course it's the weapon.

Not to mention pirates, even naval artillery is like this. The main thing about hot weapons is randomness.

Especially artillery, most of the artillery is very simple and crude.

Almost all naval guns on small and medium-sized warships are smoothbore guns. This thing has a special feature. It has no rifling, just a hollow barrel. The butt end is basically blocked to hold gunpowder, and a small hole is left to pull the fuse to ignite the gunpowder.

The firing method is to put a cannonball in it. Then the fuse is ignited to ignite the gunpowder, and the gunpowder explodes. Since the butt end is blocked, the impact of the explosion can only be released from the other end of the barrel, thus pushing the shell out.

There is no rifling, so the cannonball is extremely unstable and completely inaccurate. Moreover, it is still on the sea, so it is a completely random artillery method.

There are also artillery shells. Of course there are artillery shells that can explode. The warship used to activate the Demon Slayer Order can fire high-explosive shells. Perhaps because the cost is too high, the mainstream is still solid projectiles. Solid shells can only make a hole in the enemy ship. , and then... there is no more.

Wood can float in the sea water, but it is really very rare to be sunk by cannons.

With random artillery and ineffective shells, as long as the pirate ship is fast, it can almost 100% escape the navy's pursuit.

Nowadays, with this kind of remote-controlled rocket, it can directly blow up the pirate ship to pieces. Whether it's an artillery battle or a pursuit, there's no need to worry.

"Let me tell you, you can create this kind of weapon with wisdom that exceeds 500 years in the world, let alone 300 years."

Annan stared at the rocket, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became.

"Isn't this the V-1 missile?" Annan said in his heart.

"Of course."

Kuromi looked proud.

"It seems that you are all satisfied, but there is still a crucial issue before us, its naming."

Kurome said seriously.

"Name it..."

Esdeath thought for a moment and said.

"Guided rockets really don't sound good. It's a bit unrealistic to call a weapon like this a rocket that can hit the enemy accurately."

"Why don't we just call it 'missile'." Annan said, "It's simple and direct, and it sounds nice."

Kuromi's eyes lit up and he immediately entered data on the console.

"What a good idea. Then I'll name it after me. Let's call it: K-1 Missile."

Looking at Kuromi who was cheering on the bench, Annan smiled and said to Esdeath:

"I believe it or not, these inventions of hers will completely change the sea in the future."

"I believed it from the moment I saw the iron ship floating on the sea. This is the starting point of the future navy."

Esdeath nodded, suddenly thought of something, and burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at?" Annan asked doubtfully.

"These weapons can indeed change the world, but you and I have forgotten one extremely important thing." Esdeath said mysteriously.

"Why are you so secretive?"

When Annan was confused, Kuromi jumped off the bench and stretched out his hand towards Annan.

"What do you mean?" Annan looked at Esdeath to the left and Kuromi to the right, somewhat missing.

"What else can it mean? Of course I'm asking you for scientific research funding."

Kuromi said confidently.

"Huh? Don't you have scientific research funds from the scientific force? Aren't those enough?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Annan suddenly thought of something.

Creating something that transcends time periods must come at a price. For example: a lot of money...

"The Naval Science Class is currently working hard to develop the 'Pacifist', and expenditures in other areas are being drastically reduced. The funds allocated to the development of new warships were originally small, and now they are even less. The funds provided by the above were two months ago It was all spent, and in order to modify and upgrade the Ice and Fire Man, I also borrowed a large sum of money from the Carrera Company."

Kuromi said seriously.

"According to internal information, if the 'Pacifist' meets the expectations of the World Government, the World Government will stop the research of other war weapons. And the 'Pacifist' was developed by Dr. Vegapunk himself and cannot fail."

"So for your Ice Fire Man and the new warships in the future, it will only cost you a lot of money." Kuromi said matter-of-factly.

"Ah..." Annan's mouth twitched, "How much do you want..."

"Oh, not much." Kuromi suddenly smiled evilly, waved his hand, and the budget sheet projection appeared in front of Annan's eyes.

"It's only 100 million beli, not much." Annan rubbed his eyes, stared at the bill, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, you missed it, this is only the first page." Kuromi explained with a flick of his finger, "There are still three hundred pages left..."

"How many!?"

………………

"I didn't expect that I had traveled through time and still had to take out a loan!"

After a long time, heart-rending shouts erupted from the dock:

"Clo! Use your smart brain to think of a solution!"