Deng Daliang, Deng Erxian and others saw that the president was coming in person, and came out to greet all the technicians of the Military Industry Administration.

Kinnige is mainly responsible for theory, not the chief engineer.

The chief engineer is Deng Erxian, a woman.

Deng Erxian actually played a good role model for the women in the area ruled by the Heaven and Earth Society.

A Deng Erxian and a Fan Xiaolin are both people who are often seen in the newspapers.

It is very good for women compatriots to grow face.

In fact, it is said that men and women are equal, and cultural revision will definitely take a long time.

This is a very long-term slow change, it is impossible to be fast, and the area under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society is still serious about the idea of male superiority and inferiority.

Regardless of the industry, the speed at which women get involved is still very slow.

The factories are slightly better, especially in a predominantly women-dominated industry like the textile industry.

Others, such as the public service system, like the technology system, women really have to be much stronger than men if they want to integrate.

Fan Xiaolin is also not as representative as Deng Erxian because of her different relationship with the president.

Deng Erxian is a model who completely relies on her own ability to surpass most men, she fled from Liaodong with her brother, and now both brothers and sisters are the main scientific research leaders, which is completely done by their own ability.

Deng Erxian originally didn't know a few words, but after coming to Weijiazhuang, he not only quickly completed all the educational content that the Tiandihui education system can currently formulate, but also actively participated in the compilation of tutorials!

He is not only a leader in the military industry, but also one of the very important leaders in science education.

Therefore, Deng Erxian is particularly famous in the area under the rule of the Heaven and Earth Society.

"Did you say don't engage in these false things, just work, you don't have to accompany me." Wei Bao Road.

"President, occasionally, and the craftsmen are all doing things, and they don't let everyone come out. These senior technicians are afraid that the president will ask about any specific projects, and then go to someone to ask. Deng Erxian explained.

Wei Bao nodded, "How's the torpedo boat doing now?" ”

"We have figured out the principle of torpedo boats, and we have tested them with wood, but there are no problems, mainly because the requirements for steel are too high, the requirements for airtightness are too high, and it is difficult to meet the technical requirements, and I am a little discouraged." Deng Erxian replied truthfully.

Wei Bao nodded, "Take your time, I didn't ask for a long time to get it out, ten years, twenty years, no problem, as long as you work hard." Don't be discouraged, you must believe that it will be successful! ”

There is no physical object as an imitation, and there must be such a problem.

Before something comes out, during the research and development process, the R&D personnel will often face a lot of psychological pressure, and will doubt whether an all-steel submarine can really be built?

Can a ship of steel float freely in the water?

In fact, with the president's cannon, with the iron-hulled ship, and with the addition of steam engine power, the advantage of the Baojun Coast Guard at sea is already very great.

Then there are melee patrols, aces for sneak attacks, submarines and torpedo boats, and any kind of ship of this era is like stepping on ants.

Torpedo boat, also known as torpedo boat, is a small combat ship, with torpedoes as the main weapon, used in offshore operations of small high-speed combat ships, mainly used in offshore operations.

In addition to carrying out attack missions, it can also undertake other tasks such as patrol, vigilance, anti-submarine, and mine laying.

Although the Baojun did not develop a torpedo boat, the school of speedboat torpedo boats had already been established, with a small number of personnel, about 100 people.

These people not only follow the research and development, but also insist on training, and they are all key personnel selected from the Coast Guard.

Wei Bao said that it could be developed in ten or twenty years, but Wei Bao fantasized that within three or five years, it should be possible.

It's not particularly difficult to solve the problem of airtightness!

Steel and welding problems.

The performance of several generator sets brought by Wei Bao from Hyundai is very good, and it has never been a problem for more than a year.

There are three types of modern torpedo boats: planing boats, semi-planing boats, and hydrofoils.

"Torpedo boats and submarines can slow down, torpedoes, you have to try to get them!" Wei Bao said to Deng Erxian.

"I've been experimenting, I've been testing thousands of times, and I'm confident that the consumption is too great, and I'm a little reluctant, and most of the funds are spent on testing torpedoes." Deng Erxian said.

"Don't be reluctant to give up money, this technology has an epoch-making effect." Wei Bao decisively made an instruction: "Remember, at all costs!" Torpedoes must be developed at all costs, which also plays an important role for ironclad ships. ”

Because the ships of the treasure army were all equipped with steam engines, they were far faster than any other ship of the era.

Only torpedoes can show the characteristics of high speed and high protection.

Artillery can't do this.

Because it is difficult for artillery to guarantee the accuracy of strikes.

If you are far away, you can't shoot accurately, and if you are close, you can't shoot.

The torpedo is different, rushing up, a distance of several hundred meters, as soon as it is released, it will explode next to each other, and it will dig a big hole directly in the bottom of the boat.

This is fatal for naval warfare.

Ships of this era, one shot of artillery are not necessarily sunk.

If you hit a torpedo, you will inevitably die at the bottom of the sea.

That's really a place to die.

Torpedo boats were born during the American Civil War, and by 1865 they were ready for combat duty.

At that time, there were no torpedoes, and a long pole protruded from the bow of the mine boat, which slammed into the enemy ship and blew it up.

In 1864, the Northern Army's mine boats relied on this method to blow up and sink the Southern Army's armored ship "Albimar".

A small high-speed surface combat ship with torpedoes as its main weapon.

In 1866, R. Whitehead, a British engineer working in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, invented the world's first mine capable of autonomous navigation.

Because of its ability to move through the water like a fish, it is called a torpedo.

Later, ships built specifically for firing torpedoes were torpedo boats.

In 1869, British engineer Whitehead invented the underwater weapon torpedo, which was propelled by compressed air and could sail 276 meters at a speed of 6 knots underwater, with 8.2 kg of explosives in its head.

The explosive power of the torpedo is high and can be used to attack surface ships.

Initially, torpedoes were only mounted on flexible boats and used to attack enemy ships.

In 1877, the British built the torpedo boat "Lightning", which specialized in firing torpedoes, and named it the "No. 1 torpedo boat" of the Navy.

The boat has a speed of 19 knots on calm seas, and its torpedoes can travel 584 meters at a speed of 18 knots.

Thus the torpedo boat was introduced.

Since then, the navies of Austria, Greece, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Nordic countries have had torpedo boats.

On January 26, 1878, Russian torpedo boats successfully used the "Bald-headed" torpedo for the first time, sinking the Turkish gunboat "Intiba" with a displacement of 2,000 tons at a distance of 70 meters.

Torpedo boats have created the miracle of small boats hitting large ships, making torpedo boats attract people's attention.

Since then, the navies of various European countries have successively built and equipped torpedo boats, and the performance of torpedo boats has been continuously improved.

At the end of the nineteenth century, it took five to ten years for torpedo boats to go from appearance to combat power.

At that time, there was a background condition, that is, the country that had the ability to develop torpedoes already had a very good scientific and technological foundation.

Weijiazhuang's military industry is lagging behind the foundation, so even if Wei Bao can come up with a plan and give a direction for the people under him to do it, Wei Bao has no way to estimate how long it will take to get it out.

On January 13, 1887, Russian ships fired a torpedo at the Turkish 2,000-ton communication ship "Intibach", 60 meters away, sinking it. This was the first time in the history of naval warfare that an enemy ship was sunk with a torpedo.

In 1899, Ludge Aubrey, a naval cartographer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, installed a gyroscope on a torpedo and used it to control the direct course of the torpedo, making the world's first torpedo in a controlled direction, which greatly improved the accuracy of the torpedo's hit.

In 1904, the American E. The first thermodynamic torpedo (also known as the steam gas torpedo) was invented by W. Bliss to replace the compressed air engine, which increased the torpedo to about 65 km/h and reached a range of 2,740 meters.

At the beginning of World War I, torpedoes were already recognized as the main weapon of ships after artillery.

During the First World War, 11.53 million tons of transport ships were torpedoed, accounting for 89% of the total tonnage of sunken transport ships; 162 ships, accounting for 49% of the total number of sunken ships.

During the Second World War, the total tonnage of transport ships sunk by torpedoes reached 13.66 million tons, accounting for 68% of the total tonnage of sunken transport ships; The number of ships reached 369, accounting for 38.5% of the total number of sunken ships.

In 1938, Germany was the first to equip submarines with electric torpedoes without tracks, which overcame the shortcomings of thermal torpedoes that were easy to detect due to the formation of tracks by discharging gases during navigation.

In 1943, Germany first developed a single-plane passive acoustic self-guided torpedo, which could receive the noise of water and ships and automatically guided the torpedo, which improved the hit rate.

At the end of World War II, Germany invented wire-guided torpedoes, and the launching ships were guided by wires connected to the tail of the torpedoes, which were not easy to be interfered with.

By the mid-50s, the United States made a two-plane active acoustic homing torpedo, also known as an anti-submarine torpedo, which can search in three-dimensional space in the water and attack submarines.

In 1960, the United States was the first to develop the "Asrock" rocket-assisted torpedo, also known as the anti-submarine missile, which automatically searched, tracked, and attacked submarines from the rocket carrying and flying to a predetermined point into the water.

In the 21 st century, there are many countries in the world that are equipped with and use torpedoes, but only a handful of countries can develop and produce torpedoes, and only a few countries such as the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, and China are able to develop and produce torpedoes.

Among them, the United States has always been in the leading position in the world in the level of torpedo development, and in the fierce competition with the United States, Russia has developed its torpedoes in a unique way, and is the only major torpedo producer that can compete with the United States.

Wei Bao would not be arrogant enough to ask Deng Erxian to make a torpedo with a rocket-launching device.

As long as it is possible to mount the gyroscope on the torpedo, it is enough to use it to control the direct course of the torpedo.

Therefore, in Wei Bao's view, the consumption of research and development is nothing more than the gyroscope, which is less than the consumption of research and development of artillery.

Deng Erxian nodded and said: "Our gyroscopes and torpedoes have been able to steadily lurk two meters below the surface of the water and push horizontally, the main problem now is that after being equipped on the ship, there is no way to adjust the direction, and it is necessary to rely on the ship as a whole to adjust the direction, which is very difficult, and the torpedo launcher also needs to be improved, and it is still very unstable, and it will explode under the water at any time." Quite a few people have died for this. It's better to test on the shore, if the actual combat equipment is on the ship, if there is a problem with the launch, not only will it not be able to hit the other party, but all the people in the boat will die first. Therefore, if we do not achieve 100% technical stability, we dare not put it into actual combat. ”

"Can I watch a live-fire drill now?" Wei Bao listened with great interest, avoiding the topic of dead people in the experiment.

In fact, talent is the biggest consumption, and the future generations are better, like this kind of science and technology is still very weak, in the very beginning stage of thermal weapons, and the formation of each technology is piled up with hundreds of corpses behind it.

"Yes." Deng Erxian nodded, and then suddenly said embarrassedly: "At a distance of three hundred meters, it has not been successful, and a distance of one hundred meters and a distance of two hundred meters can reach a hit rate of three to two percent." ”

Wei Bao said disapprerovingly: "Three hundred meters, I'll take a look." ”

In fact, a hundred meters can be hit, and it already has a high combat value! Torpedoes plus artillery, coupled with the thickness of the iron armor and the speed of the steam engine, within a hundred meters, the warships of the treasure army were invincible.

Deng Er rarely saw that the president insisted on seeing it, so he could only ask his assistant to arrange it.

"Can the seventy-five-millimeter guns be tested together?" Wei Bao added.

"Yes!" This time, Deng Erxian replied very resolutely, "The accuracy is difficult to guarantee, and the sealing device of the breech is still being improved, there will occasionally explode, and the rifling is also being improved, but I am confident that it can be used in actual combat within a year." Can be fully equipped for ironclad ships. ”

The treasure army is still equipped with breech guns with increased shell power.

The accuracy and launch range are already much better than in this era, in fact, there is already a great advantage, but because of traffic problems, there is no way to load it for the army.

Seventy-five mm caliber cannons are loaded for the navy, which is too small, real ironclad ships, which are not one hundred and fifty caliber, or three hundred and five, and exaggerated four hundred, five hundred caliber.

But for this era, as long as it is blown far enough and accurate enough.

In addition, the shells of the treasure army are all added with incendiary and poisonous gas substances, and they are all smokeless fire, and the power is enough.

With a word from the president, the people below have to prepare desperately.

"The process technology is not mature, if you make a fool of yourself in front of the president, how much will it hurt the president's face? It will also hurt everyone's morale. You shouldn't have just said 300 meters away, just test fire a shot at a distance of 100 meters. Deng Daliang complained.

"Brother, the president is involved in research and development, what is not clear? Besides, the president doesn't like to take the formality and pretend, and the president wants to see our current progress. Deng Erxian ignored Deng Daliang.