readx;? War is ultimately a game of control of firepower, where the ancestors of the Savage Age chased their prey and other tribes with sticks and stone spears, their strong muscles burning carbohydrates and surging chemical energy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

All the peoples of the world have the worship of Hercules in the classical era, whether it is the Mediterranean civilization or the Chinese civilization, the fascination of human beings with power in ancient legends is unreserved.

The release of this chemical energy is actually a controllable form of combustion, so it seems that it is not impossible to call the output of primitive man's combat power firepower.

Later, humans became more and more intelligent, and began to use the elasticity of animal tendons and plants to store energy, and create various long-range strike weapons such as bows and crossbows, which also belonged to the category of firepower output.

Until the birth of gunpowder weapons, human beings can finally find controllable firepower output materials from nature, and from that moment on, human beings finally got rid of the limits of muscles, and the victory of the weak over the strong was finally normalized.

Human beings are becoming more and more intelligent, new technologies are emerging in an endless stream, and the first industrial revolution is just a precipitation period of human rational thought, until the second industrial revolution, electrification and the popularization of the oil industry, science and technology will show an explosive blowout.

Xiao Letian understands this general trend, he knows that in the future, the word 'firepower' will become the only core of human warfare, and any plan is ridiculous in the face of the firepower of one force and ten meetings.

Steel warships replaced wooden-hulled sail ships, steam engines replaced sail power, and the caliber of artillery became larger and larger, so large that in the end it was impossible to use the ancient two-sided divisions, but only to adopt the central axis arrangement.

In fact, in the eyes of engineers, the emergence of dreadnought-class warships, the design process of this central axis arrangement of guns, is not only to consider the 180-degree free rotation angle of fire, another very important reason is that the firepower of the main gun is too large, because of the arms race, the caliber of the main gun is getting larger and stronger, and the recoil is getting stronger and stronger.

At this time, the main gun can only be placed on the central axis, so that the main keel of the hull can directly bear the recoil, and this force can be safely transmitted into the sea.

In fact, this is also an inevitable transformation of the ship in order to adapt to the new firepower.

In the pre-dreadnought era, you can find a variety of fresh battleship designs, and the representative battleships at that time were the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships of the Qing Dynasty, and the main guns were still distributed on both sides of the battleship at that time.

In the post-dreadnought era, navies around the world collectively adopted the design style of central axis arrangement, and the performance of the main guns began to climb rapidly.

The caliber is constantly thickened, the diameter is constantly improved, and some national warships are still half being built in the shipyard, and more powerful warships of other countries have begun to be put into production.

The battleship that countless designers have been shouting for 50 years has become a second-line battleship within three years of launching, and the shipbuilding frenzy in the post-dreadnought era can be called a miracle in the history of human naval development.

But this same wave of shipbuilding has also drained the pockets of countless countries, and many second-rate powers are almost on the verge of bankruptcy.

It is worth mentioning that the Washington Naval Limitation Treaty of 1922 was born based on this background of the times, when the naval arms race was so cruel that the empire could not bear the sunset, and the major maritime powers that were about to go bankrupt in the conference unanimously decided to limit the size of the main warships of each country.

The epiphany cannot exceed 30,000 thousand tons, and the caliber of the main gun cannot exceed 16 inches, that is, 406 mm caliber. Well, how wide is the diameter of forty centimeters, you can measure it yourself with a ruler, and then imagine how powerful such a thick barrel is, and how wide and thick the shell is.

Not only the navy, but also the army is constantly exploring the problem of increasing firepower output, the caliber of field guns is getting larger and larger, and the power of shells is becoming more and more sufficient, and even finally there is a train rail gun, a perverted weapon with a caliber approaching 300 mm.

The more perverted ones are still to come, in World War II, Germany once produced a Gustav railgun, commonly known as the Dora cannon, with a caliber of an astonishing 800 mm, a howitzer shell weighing 4.8 tons, and a shell designed to destroy bunkers weighed 7 tons.

Such an artillery range can reach an incredible range of more than 40 kilometers, and it is a well-deserved artillery king in the world.

The story of the Navy and the Army is not all, there is still an air force in the future, because the aircraft can hang the bomb without relying on the kinetic energy of the gunpowder explosion to propel the bomb to fly, and the power of the aircraft itself has provided enough power to the bomb, so that the aerial bomb can only be loaded with warhead gunpowder, without considering the launch department.

In this way, the power of aerial bombs can be reflected, the killing efficiency is much higher than that of artillery, the scream of the Stuka dive bomber in World War II is a nightmare for the entire Allied army, and the gasoline bombs of the B52 strategic bomber in the late stage of World War II can burn the whole of Tokyo.

Firepower! Human beings are infinitely pursuing the power of firepower, and even if the god of war is reborn, he will tremble in the face of absolute power.

Xiao Lotian will never take a detour, he is even developing by leaps and bounds, the Chinese nation missed the first industrial revolution, then it must not miss the second industrial revolution, in this game of firepower chase, he must walk in front of the world.

This is not Xiao Letian's arrogant fantasy, this is really possible!

This is because Xiao Letian understands that it is not all smooth sailing for the world powers in developing armaments! At present, many Western military strategists and theoreticians are also thinking about the situation and limits of the future development of firepower.

But they can only grope little by little in the laboratory, in mathematical formulas, in the weapon testing ground, and then move forward step by step.

For example, the caliber of artillery, only when the technology of 88 mm is mature, he will study 120 mm, and they will definitely not develop by leaps and bounds like Xiao Letian, doubling from 100 mm to 210 at once, which is actually against the process of Western scientific research.

According to martial arts, for example, Western engineers think that Xiao Letian's evil trick is a gambler's behavior, and if he succeeds in fortune-telling, if he fails, it will be a waste of countless resources.

Not only that, but those military strategists in the West who put firepower first also have to face resistance in many aspects, for example, engineers, you can't say that you will build a 500-caliber artillery, and others will build it for you, and scientists and engineers will also oppose your unrealistic fantasies.

There is also the problem of national finances, no matter how much money the British Empire has, it cannot be wasted excessively, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer also has his strategic considerations.

Even the military has its own small calculations, and the army is more willing to procure mature and reliable weapons than to use the lives of soldiers as experimenters with new weapons.