Chapter 324: Electrostatic Proximity Fuze

If in the previous life, a certain senior officer did not know the relationship between antiaircraft artillery and antiaircraft artillery systems, then he could definitely be killed with tofu, but now, the Chinese army has not even achieved basic modernization, and many technical equipment are not clear at all, and Jiang Zhenhai is one of the representatives.

Wise, conscientious, tireless, and experienced, they are all good at both the front line and logistics, but in addition to the most basic artillery, modern high-tech arms such as armored troops, engineering troops, anti-chemical warfare troops, and air defense troops are very unfamiliar, and there is no way, because the limitations of the times have covered the eyes of such an outstanding officer as Jiang Zhenhai.

However, the Korean War made them see clearly what real modernization is, and because of this, they were like a civil war, learning about war in war, understanding high-tech weapons in war, and experiencing real modernization, and Jiang Zhenhai at this moment.

In his previous impression, the anti-aircraft artillery unit was just like the name, using anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, no matter what system was not systematic, anyway, the cannon barrel was rushing towards the sky, until he listened to Bai Yi's explanation of the so-called anti-aircraft artillery system, he found that the original anti-aircraft artillery was not as simple as a sudden breakthrough towards the sky, and the doorway behind it was not as easy as directing operations on the front line.

"I really didn't expect that there are really a lot of ways here, don't you say it, I really saw a few iron boxes pressed in the semi-bunker, and there was a long iron pipe on it, and I heard the comrades of the anti-aircraft artillery unit say that that guy is the commander, I didn't think anything at the time, today I heard you say this, this thing has such a big effect!"

Jiang Zhenhai nodded thoughtfully, but the next moment he shook his head: "But you just said that you can guarantee that you can hit a target in about a hundred rounds, could it be your one...... What's it called? ”

"Electrostatic proximity fuse!"

Bai Yi reminded him, and Jiang Zhenhai slapped his thigh: "Yes, it's this electrostatic proximity fuse, can it really save half of the original ammunition?" ”

Bai Yi couldn't help but sigh secretly, Jiang Zhenhai is worthy of being engaged in logistics, and after understanding what an antiaircraft artillery system is, the object of his attention is not the radar, command instrument, and optical rangefinder he just mentioned, but the close-to-explosive fuse that can reduce the amount of ammunition fired.

However, it is relieved to think about it, the most effective way for anti-aircraft guns to carry out air defense combat missions is to form a dense barrage, so that the incoming enemy planes cannot avoid it at all, but how to increase the density of the barrage? Before the advent of proximity fuses, there were only two methods, the first was to increase the rate of fire of anti-aircraft guns; The second is to increase the number of anti-aircraft guns when setting up anti-aircraft positions.

Because of this, every time an antiaircraft artillery unit conducts an air defense operation, the amount of ammunition consumed is a rather terrifying figure, and Jiang Zhenhai, as a senior officer in charge of logistics, may not understand what an antiaircraft artillery system is, but he personally understands the pressure brought by the antiaircraft artillery unit to logistics.

Jiang Zhenhai could not help but tremble as long as he thought about it, and he wanted to save money so that he could free up more resources to support the front-line combat units, but he could lose the air defense cover of the key points of the antiaircraft artillery units, and the strategic points such as transportation hubs, communication centers, command centers, and storage warehouses in the rear would lose their protective barriers, and the air force planes alone would not be able to cope with them.

Because of this, the ammunition supply of the antiaircraft artillery units not only cannot be saved, but also has to be given as much as they want, which makes Jiang Zhenhai, who comprehensively controls the supply of materials between various services and arms, very troublesome, and now hears that the air defense ammunition equipped with electrostatic proximity fuses can save nearly half of the ammunition, how can he, who is in charge of logistics, not be ecstatic.

Bai Yi initially decided to improve the air defense ammunition fuse, just to make the accompanying air defense of logistics transportation more effective with half the effort, but he didn't expect to indirectly reduce the pressure on logistics, but when he figured out the joints, he couldn't help but be happy: "That's right, it is true that the amount of ammunition can be reduced by half, you must know that according to the statistics of the US military during World War II, when using traditional fuses for air defense operations, the average bomb consumption of the next aircraft is 546 rounds;

However, the shells that use radio proximity fuses consume only 57 rounds of ammunition to get down to the next plane, and our electrostatic proximity fuses are not as efficient as radio proximity fuses, and they cannot reach the reduction index of nearly ten times, but it is still no problem to drop by half! ”

"Having said so much, these few sentences are still to the point, saving ammunition, reducing the burden of logistics, and improving assembly efficiency, this is the focus of our logistics work, hey, by the way, why don't you get the more efficient radio proximity fuse? That's ten times the amount of ammunition, ten times the amount of ammunition, ......."

Jiang Zhenhai's surprise can be said to be one after another, but Bai Yi was full of black lines when he heard it, and he dared to say that he didn't get to the point about so many things that accompanied air defense, but the fuse that can save ammunition has become the top priority, but if the problem radio proximity fuse could be made, he would have made it out a long time ago.

It's just that today's domestic can't manufacture the sophisticated and complex circuit board in the radio proximity fuze, otherwise he doesn't have to give up the good radio proximity fuze, and choose the electrostatic proximity fuze that is a little out of the door, to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than the principle and structure of the electrostatic proximity fuze are extremely simple:

Only two dry cell batteries, a spark arrestor, an electric igniter, and an electrical stage insulated by the fuze housing are required. The electromotive force of the battery is selected to be slightly less than the discharge voltage of the spark arrester, so no current passes through the electric igniter before approaching the target.

When the shell approaches the target, a potential difference is generated between the electrode and the fuze housing, and in the feedback circuit, due to the existence of the potential difference, the voltage added to the spark arrester lead will increase, and increase proportionally with the approach of the target, until a certain distance is reached, the high-intensity electrostatic load released by the target makes the total voltage of the spark arrester reach a sufficient value of the electrical spark discharge, and finally triggers the electric igniter and ignites the explosives in the warhead.

The principle of electrostatic electricity that can be seen everywhere, the ordinary electrostatic receiving circuit, can be a lethal electrostatic proximity fuse for a long time, for the aircraft that will produce thousands of electrostatic loads at any time, the electrostatic proximity fuze is just what it uses, not to mention that this mature and effective proximity fuse was used by Germany as early as World War II, but at that time Germany regarded it as a treasure, not the top precision-guided munitions, and would never install such a fuse.

Because of this, although Germany has a lot of anti-aircraft artillery, it is not as sharp as the air defense forces of Britain and the United States and other allies, but all this has completely changed because of Bai Yi, because he has instructed Chen Yaoyang and others to apply it to anti-aircraft shells with the help of German experts such as Stuttberg...... 1

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