Chapter 459: It's not just about shipbuilding
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"When you stand in an open area, if you feel the hairs on your body suddenly stand up, your skin feels a slight tingling, or even you hear a slight popping sound, making a chirping sound, this is a sign that lightning is about to hit you. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" Ye Kai said, "In this case, you should immediately squat down, lean forward, put your hands on your knees, bend them into a ball, and go not to lie flat on the ground." ā
"So you can avoid being struck by lightning?" Xie Junyu asked with some curiosity.
"Of course not." Ye Kai replied solemnly, "If you lie flat, after being struck by lightning, it will turn into a piece of coke, sticking to the road surface, and it is not easy to clean." ā
"Cut ......" Xie Junyu rolled his eyes, obviously expressing disdain for Ye Kai's words.
However, here in the middle of the river, there are indeed more thunderstorms in a year, but after leaving the mountainous area, the place is relatively empty, so the lightning strikes mentioned by Ye Kai always occur dozens or even hundreds of cases every year, sometimes they damage buildings, and sometimes they damage people's lives.
Ye Kai and Xie Junyu accompanied Uncle Li to the East China Shen Yun Base, made an appointment with the boss Zhong Liyu, and talked about the possibility that the base might be infiltrated by spies.
"In fact, in ancient times, lightning strikes hurt people more, and there are many stories that have been handed down." When Ye Kai talked about this topic, he couldn't help but think of something, "In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, there was a minister named Li Linfu. He is very bad, he does all kinds of evil, and the idiom of honey belly sword is what he says. The common people cursed that he would not die well, but God did not obey people's wishes, and this big villain lived longer than anyone else. But after he died, he was reincarnated, but he was repeatedly struck by thunder from the sky. During the Tang Dynasty, in Huizhou, there was a heavy thunderstorm one day. A prostitute happened to be killed by thunder, and her whole body was scorched, but the three red characters of Li Linfu next to her arm were still legible. During Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty, the daughter of the Cai family in Hanyang was killed by thunder, and there were also three red characters of Li Linfu on her body. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, in the place of Wushan, there was a family that was ready to kill chickens, only to find that there were three words Li Linfu on the back of the chicken. It turned out that he was reborn as a human being, and he did not know how to do good deeds and repented, and in his third rebirth, he was already suffering in the path of animals. ā
"It's all made up by those monks to deceive people, I've seen a lot of this kind of thing before." Xie Junyu said with some disdain, "Nowadays, many people who believe in Buddhism in society have printed some pamphlets to promote feudal superstition, karma or something. ā
"Hey, you know that." Ye Kai laughed, these things were really seen from those private publications.
Some of the stories are made up in a clear way, and even use ancient celebrities as references, which is very interesting.
"If there is a cycle of cause and effect, the first ones who should go to hell are those monks, who eat fat and have big ears, use better mobile phones than mine, travel by car, and occasionally go to the song hall to find a young lady, do you say this is a monk?" Xie Junyu said, "I think the current monks have basically become religious officials. ā
"Hehe, this can't be avoided." Ye Kai said with a smile, "Things in officialdom have never been white and black, more gray, no one is really clean and spotless, even if some people are not greedy or greedy, but their family members and relatives may not be willing to be poor, there are some problems, there has never been a real clean official." ā
"Ahem......" Uncle Li, who was sitting on the side, expressed his dissatisfaction.
Ye Kai immediately smiled, "The scope of the attack is too wide, I forgot that Uncle Li is a clean official who doesn't take a stitch from the masses." ā
When Uncle Li heard him say this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, "If you have the energy, think more about spies, don't talk about those useful things, none of them are true." ā
The thing that bothers Uncle Li the most now is, of course, to deal with the aftermath for national security, to find out the possible spy organization, and to solve the huge crisis faced by East China Shen Yun.
It took the three of them more than two hours to arrive at the East China Shen Yun base.
Zhong Liyu had been waiting here for a long time, and after seeing Uncle Li, he politely welcomed him.
As for their intentions, they had already communicated on the phone before, so after they came, Zhong Liyu took them to the office, and then closed the door to discuss some of the situation at the base.
"When did you start working on missile cold launch?" Ye Kai was always a little hesitant about this matter, and after seeing Zhong Liyu, he asked her.
"Ershao, you usually don't care about us, and it's normal that you don't know." Zhong Liyu blamed him in turn, and Ye Kai didn't care about the development of the base.
It turned out that since Ye Kai intended to make the East China Shenyun Base into a comprehensive military base, the high-level had similar ideas, but they did not have a direct dialogue with Ye Kai, but found Zhong Liyu and asked her to use the existing human and material resources to undertake some convenient military scientific research projects.
"Cold launch technology is one of them, and we are also responsible for the development of new depleted uranium bombs." Zhong Liyu naturally had nothing to hide from Ye Kai, and she reported some of the techniques she had recently had in the experiment to Ye Kai.
"Depleted uranium shells?" After Ye Kai listened, he really asked with some concern, "Is that the depleted uranium ammunition that the Americans used when they fought Iraq?" That thing seems to be radiating, right? ā
"yes, I didn't think you even knew about it." When Zhong Liyu heard this, he couldn't help but look at Ye Kai twice, a little surprised.
Depleted uranium shells refer to bombs, artillery shells or bullets made of depleted uranium as the main raw material, which are extremely penetrating.
Depleted uranium is a by-product of uranium-235 extracted from uranium metal, and its main component is uranium-238 with low levels of radioactivity, so it is called depleted uranium.
The hardness and strength of pure depleted uranium are not high, other components must be added to make depleted uranium alloy, the strength of the alloy will increase exponentially, the ammunition made of this alloy as a bullet core hits the target, its explosive force and the high temperature produced far exceed the general ammunition, can penetrate very thick armor, is the best weapon against the existing composite armor and reaction armor.
During the 1991 Gulf War, the US A-10 attack planes used such depleted uranium shells, causing a devastating blow to Iraq's tank forces in a short period of time.
The depleted uranium shells currently produced by the U.S. military can have a maximum armor-piercing thickness of 800 to 900 mm.
There are four main types of such depleted uranium shells, one specifically for buildings, up to 6 meters in length, each containing 100 kilograms of uranium material; One is an anti-tank depleted uranium bomb containing 3.2 kilograms of uranium each, a uranium-containing cluster bomb designed to destroy an airfield runway, with a total weight of 600 kilograms each, and a half-kilogram depleted uranium bomb that is as long as a ruler.
"The current tanks are all composite armor, and ordinary armor-piercing shells can no longer deal with them, so they must rely on depleted uranium shells." Zhong Liyu is still relatively clear about this, because she is now in contact with these military aspects every day, "The main thing is that the United States fought Iraq last year, and depleted uranium bombs are very useful, so not only are we interested in this content, but this time our Ukrainian technicians also have more research on this content." ā
"Hey, I didn't expect to get so many useful talents back." Ye Kai said with some emotion.
However, the base is also very cautious about the research of depleted uranium bombs.
"Depleted uranium munitions are mainly made from a large amount of leftovers produced after separating enriched uranium, and the main component is low-radioactive uranium-238. Since uranium is a high-density substance, its combustion products are radioactive and toxic. Zhong Liyu said, "When the warhead of a depleted uranium bomb explodes, it produces high temperatures, and the uranium oxide smoke generated by combustion can be transmitted to 40 kilometers away. ā
"The powder produced by this explosion may fall to the ground, seep into the ground, or spread to the surrounding area through the air and rivers, and once these powders are breathed into the body or enter the human body through small wounds, it will cause serious harm to the body, and can easily cause many cancers including leukemia and some liver and nervous system diseases, and even cause miscarriages and neonatal malformations in pregnant women."
"Skin lesions can appear within 80 hours of bare hands touching depleted uranium material."
"In addition, the radioactive particles produced by the detonation of depleted uranium bombs will also contaminate water and soil, and ultimately harm the drinking and food chains, which will last for a very long time due to the half-life of radioactive materials that can be tens or even hundreds of years."
"Therefore, we are also very careful about the development of depleted uranium bombs, and once the news leaks out, it will always cause a lot of disturbing controversies."
"It doesn't matter." Ye Kai waved his hand and said, "We are just R&D, but the Americans have already applied it to the battlefield, how to say that they are also in front, this thing is the same as nuclear weapons, when you don't have it, people keep shouting to hit you, once you also master this technology, then the other party will have to throw a mouse trap, so we still have to engage in depleted uranium bombs." ā
Uncle Li nodded and said, "That's the case." ā
As they spoke, several people walked over to the dockyard where the Varyag aircraft carrier was being repaired.
"What a big ship...... Xie Junyu and Uncle Li, both saw the Varyag for the first time, and they were immediately shocked by this big ship.
If you just look at the picture, you don't feel how big the ship is, but when you look up at it immersively, you will feel the majesty of the steel giant that is overwhelming.
"Strive to complete the installation of all equipment before next year's Army Day." Zhong Liyu said.
"Don't worry, this thing has to be slow, it's too fast, and it will affect my other plans." Ye Kai looked at this giant ship on the sea, but said so to Zhong Liyu.
"Do you have any other ideas?" Everyone was very interested in Ye Kai's other plans.
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