Chapter 796: Ammonium nitrate explosives

During World War II, various science and technology developed rapidly, and some people once counted that the progress of science and technology was promoted during World War II more than in a hundred years in peacetime.

Look at the early days of World War II, it was a small tank like a pee, and by the end of World War II, there were already more than 100 tons of rats in the test.

Among them, Germany's military science and technology are developing quite rapidly, and all kinds of new weapons are emerging one after another, and if we don't go the wrong way, maybe we can get nuclear weapons.

However, after all, due to the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany could not develop for a long time after World War I, and one of Germany's shortcomings was the industrial production of ammonium nitrate explosives!

If it were filled, the German war potential would have increased by at least 15%!

Ammonium nitrate explosives, also known as Ammonite, are a kind of explosives that are simple to produce, very practical, and powerful, and another that everyone can think of is TNT, but TNT extraction is complex, and Ammonite is extremely simple to produce, suitable for large-scale production in wartime.

In World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States mixed ammonium nitrate explosives with TNT at a ratio of 8:2 to use them for explosives of artillery shells above medium caliber and aircraft bombs, which became a high-quality and inexpensive product.

However, the industrial preparation of Amonet is not easy.

During World War II, only a few countries, such as the Soviet Union and the United States, succeeded in industrializing Armonite with a strong chemical base.

Historically, Germany, which is also strong in chemical science and technology, is also ready to follow the example of the Soviet Union after comparative analysis to make up for the huge war attrition, but the production process is not successful because of bottlenecks in formula and process.

In desperation, the Germans could only follow the old method of mixing TNT with ammonium nitrate, which was not only much weaker than the similar ammunition of the Soviet Union and the United States, but also had high production costs, which objectively weakened Germany's war potential and accelerated its eventual destruction.

It is said that Ciric's crossing should be an unpredictable prophet, and this process can be developed in advance to make a suitable one, but Ciric did not do this.

After all, the production process of ammonium nitrate explosives looks simple, but it is more complicated to produce.

Just like making firecrackers in a small workshop, a simple mixture of one nitrate, two sulfonate and three charcoals is dangerous, and in the process of drying, it is even more dangerous, and explosions often occur.

And this ammonium nitrate explosive is also on schedule, the most important of which is the drying process, many countries can not break through, after all, several chemical substances with explosive active properties, mixed together is extremely dangerous.

In particular, the amount of passivator must be controlled so precisely that one less part will explode, and one more point of the entire mixture may be scrapped.

Similarly, the temperature during the drying process must be precisely controlled and precisely adjusted. Otherwise, if there is a slight mistake, it will definitely be a bang, it will be completely finished, the entire production line will be blown up, and the workers will go to the west.

It is definitely not easy, because the United States has deep pockets and strong scientific and technological strength, it can slowly introduce the preparation method of Ammonite under experimental conditions. (Just like building an atomic bomb, because the United States doesn't know which method works, it uses all kinds of methods, and that's the advantage of having deep pockets.) )

The Soviet Union did not have such conditions, but fortunately, the Soviet Union had another advantage, that is, there were people!

Especially during the Great Purge, the Soviet Union purged out a large number of people, as long as these people were not shot, almost all of them continued to engage in their research in prison, such as the father of rocketry in the Soviet Union, Korolev, almost always worked in prison during World War II, while developing rockets.

And in order to master the preparation method of Ammonite, the Soviet Union handed over this task directly to the prison scientific research department, and if the development was wrong, it didn't matter, that is, the people were gone, and it could be regarded as a contribution to the Soviets.

Pile up human lives one by one, test all kinds of ratios and schemes, and always find the correct plan, which is how the Soviet Union came out, and it can be regarded as an absolute Soviet characteristic.

Molotov had also heard of such a horrific plan, and at what cost did the Soviets pay for mastering such a thing? And now the Germans actually want to give them the process of producing this ammonium nitrate explosive? It's a joke!

No, of course not!

This was Molotov's knee-jerk reaction.

"If you can give us this technology, then we will be very grateful, and you can offer any price." Ciric continued: "Grain, cars, whatever, by the way, our Krupp factory, should be able to cast naval guns for you next month." ”

Hearing this, Molotov felt that a mouthful of his old blood was about to spit out.

The original cooperation agreement with the Germans was really too pitiful, and the Soviets exported a large amount of iron ore, and the result? The weapons were long gone, and the Germans had all sorts of excuses.

Moreover, when needed, he took it out to bluff the Soviet Union, what happened to him in the first place, his brain was in water, and he actually patted his chest to Comrade Stalin, saying that Germany's affairs were on him!

Now, Shirek is talking about naval guns again, which makes Molotov's heart uncomfortable for a while, but he can't help but pay attention to it, you know, the Soviet battleship, which has been symbolically built since last year, has no main guns, which is absolutely inappropriate.

Suddenly, Molotov remembered something, and suddenly secretly screamed that something was wrong, he actually fell into the trap of the Germans!

I came because of the secret agreement with Britain, and the important task was to appease Germany, and before I conquered Finland, there would be a conquest of Germany, and now it was to paralyze Germany.

But, on the other hand, he also came with a protest, and in Finland, a lot of weapons of the rule of law appeared, what is going on? Don't try to fool the USSR, the inside story of it, the USSR also knows!

In other words, the Soviet Union and Germany, half a pound and eight taels, no one is well-intentioned.

Now, he was actually taken all the way to the ditch by Ciric, as if the Soviet Union had really done something wrong.

"Führer Ciric, when we signed the non-aggression pact, there was a supplementary agreement on our borders, and in that agreement, you fully respected our rights and interests in the north-western direction." Molotov said: "Now that we have a conflict with Finland, but suddenly there are a lot of legal weapons in the Finnish army, what is going on? ”