Because of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet Union's weapons and equipment should first consider the convenience of mass production during the war, which is the most important thing, and in order to save man-hours, it is impossible to pursue zero-casualty operations like the United States. However, this does not mean that the Soviet Union will not study some things that seem lofty, and even many weapons programs are closer to deployment than the United States. For example, the tank mentioned by Ustinov, the prototype of the Prism tank in reality is actually a Soviet product.

In later generations, the prototype of the ace tank in the Western world in a famous game, the Prism tank was actually the first to be created by the Soviet Union for experiments, but in the game, for example, to highlight the barbarism and backwardness of the Soviet Union, this more technical weapon, of course, is more suitable for use on behalf of the advanced Western camp.

Back in the seventies, the entire Western world was happily immersed in the dream of all sorts of space warships, laser weapons in the Hollywood science fiction film "Star Wars". On the other side of the Iron Curtain, the Soviet Union's military-industrial research department is seriously developing spacecraft, space stations and laser tanks.

If Serov is not mistaken, at that time, the Soviet Union's plans were all gathered together, and the Soviet Union's response to the American Star Wars program was widely rumored on the Internet in later generations, and the name of these plans was called the Red Star Wars, which was different from the deception plan of the United States, whether it was the late Brezhnev period or the Andropov and Chernenko periods, the Red Star Operation Plan has not been relaxed, and the Soviet Union began to try to seek a breakthrough in the space field again in the eighties, and all kinds of monster weapons began to leak out. Unlike the rumors that the Third Reich only had drawings, the Soviet Union's black technology was more or less left in kind.

In the early 80s, the Soviet Union's various industrial indicators all climbed to new highs, and in nearly 30 major production indicators, it reached the first place in the world.

At that time, all countries in the world believed that the Soviet Union had reached its peak, and even China thought that the Soviet Union was already a more powerful country than the United States, so it had no choice but to seek reconciliation with the United States.

At the beginning, although the development of the Soviet Union was not as rapid as in the sixties and seventies, it was only a slowdown. But China certainly did not calculate at the time that there could be traitors in a socialist country. The State Security Committee of the USSR spent decades purging traitors in all aspects, but it did not occur that the traitors were the general secretary.

Thinking a little far, Serov came back to his senses and thought about the Prism Tank, which will be called a Concept Tank first. From the perspective of common sense, Serov can conclude that unless the technology of this tank developed by Ustinov's son is fully mature, he can only know that the prototype is wrong, because it is not known how much electricity will be consumed to achieve the ideal deployment scale for operations.

But it is not impossible to revise it, Serov moved in his heart to ask Ustinov about the concept of laser weapons, and received a comprehensive answer, Ustinov is different from many front-line commanders in the Soviet Union who have gone through the Great Patriotic War and have been promoted to marshals, he is more engaged in the production and research of Soviet weapons and equipment, and is a military engineering cadre, so he knows everything about the weapons developed by major research institutes in the Soviet Union, and even laser weapons are very detailed.

"There are two aspects to the laser destroying the target: one is the perforation, and the other is the lamination cracking. The so-called perforation is that the laser beam with high power density causes the surface of the target to melt sharply, and then vaporizes and evaporates, the vaporized material is sprayed outward, and the recoil force forms a shock wave to pierce a hole in the target material. The so-called laminar splitting is that after the surface of the target absorbs the laser energy, the atoms are ionized to form an isoplasmic "cloud". The "cloud" expands outwards and ejects to form a stress wave that propagates deeply. "Under normal circumstances, Ustinov would not introduce this conceptual weapon, which is still under research and immature, in such detail, on the one hand, because the Soviet Union has just begun to study, and on the other hand, it is secret.

But Serov in front of him is obviously not in the ordinary situation, he is the chairman of the National Security Council, and if things cannot be kept secret from him, then there is no place to keep them secret.

"Nikolaye's project? We, the KGB, would like to show our support. After thinking about it for a long time, Serov said to Ustinov very solemnly, "As long as the laser weapon is mature, it will have an irreplaceable role, and from the aspect of secrecy, the KGB must be involved in it, and the funding problem will be solved by us, which can be regarded as helping the military save a sum of money." ”

"Yura, are you optimistic about the future of laser weapons?" Brezhnev asked, "Is there any idea?" ”

"The idea is there, laser weapons require a huge amount of energy, and miniaturization will definitely take a long time, but I came up with a project that was carried out at the same time as the research on laser tanks!" Serov said without hesitation, "Compared to the project of the laser tank, the project I envisaged is only a sub-project, but it is much easier to implement." ”

"What's that? Serov, you will not be interested in something of no value, since you have an idea, you must have your own reasons! Andropov was also very curious about this issue, and the two had worked together in Hungary, and with his knowledge of Serov, he must have a certain certainty.

"If the target is to destroy the opponent's tank, it may take decades of research, but we have to understand that the tank needs people to operate, if we can be blind as the enemy's tank driver, can the enemy use autopilot to fight us?" Serov sneered, "The eyes are a relatively fragile part of the human body, and it is not easy for laser weapons to penetrate steel armor, but it is easy to burn a person's retina." We KGB are not very good at anything else, but if you want to say where in a person's body is threatened, it is easy to give in, and there is no one more expert than us......"

As long as the device can continuously emit a blue-green laser with a power of about 100 megajoules, its power is enough to burn the retina of an enemy soldier two kilometers away, or directly cause damage to the opponent's optoelectronic equipment.

The laser suppression observation system has two working states: passive and active. When the system is in passive mode, it mainly relies on the warning equipment to sense the enemy's position, and the jammer shoots a weak laser beam to calibrate the target position. After being confirmed by the computer, the power of the laser beam suddenly increases, resulting in a hard kill to the target. If active mode is activated, the system first scans the suspicious area with the help of low-energy pulses, and once it detects the faint light reflected back from the lens of the opponent's sighting instrument, it automatically fires to destroy it. In other words, search and destroy is the simplest summary of its combat mission.

Serov knew about the existence of this weapon, and later generations of China's ace tanks had this thing on it, although he was just an ordinary person, although he said that he didn't know the exact data, but he still understood the basic common sense, if it didn't work, would it be installed on the tank. Since China in the 21st century can install it, if the Soviet Union in the 60s put this thing on its tank, it will definitely scare a group of opponents. The Soviet Union was not without this thing, but it appeared on some experimental T80 tanks in the eighties, and it was not produced in a structured manner like China.

It was not early, Serov said goodbye to Andropov and Ustinov and prepared to go home, and only when they came together did he feel a little dizzy, and his alcohol consumption was still as bad as ever. But now I'm a little smarter, a glass of vodka is drunk slowly for an hour, usually with braggart instead of drinking, the effect is not bad, otherwise drinking with Ustinov, the drunkard, would have been lying on the ground a long time ago.

For a while, the famous Ustinov rule was not willing to let Ustinov use it on himself.

"Yura drank too much, he seems to be the worst drinker I know!" Ustinov laughed and shook his head at Serov's back.

"Why do you drink so much wine?" Brezhnev said to the two, looked at Serov's back and said, "Well, I'll go back first, and send Yura home by the way." ”

Brezhnev asked Chernenko to do a favor and get Serov into his car for the driver to drive, while Serov next to him kept burping and had an inexplicable smile on the corner of his mouth, which made Brezhnev have a question mark in his stomach. In fact, this smile is nothing special, but the feeling of dizziness is very refreshing......

After a short time at Serov's house, the three of them got out of the car, and Serov invited Brezhnev and Chernenko to come in and sit down, anyway, his bold wife was not at home, so he didn't worry about being taken advantage of.

"Our KGB chairman's house looks really good!" As soon as he came in, Brezhnev exclaimed, this is his first time coming, Serov is a thief company, no, he is the chairman of the KGB, of course, he is interested in many new products, and unlike the general security cadres who are only interested in military and political intelligence, he is a military and civilian general, in fact, he also likes to steal civilian technology, whether it is an induction cooker or a juicer, Serov will not refuse to come.

"The most modern house in the world is my home, and when the time comes, I will promote the good things collected here all over the world to all the Soviets, and then I will see who dares to say that the Soviets live in broken houses!" Putting the keys back in his pocket, Serov invited Brezhnev and Chernenko to sit down, while he went to the bathroom to wash his face and sober up. (To be continued.) )