Chapter 202: Military Competition

The most hated by all religions are atheists, because all religions are fools, and the boss should not laugh at the second one, but atheists often use evidence to speak, and cruelly deny the dogmas that all religions are enshrined. Originally, Egypt was not under the control of the Ottoman Empire, but now a huge and powerful state has emerged in the center, completely cutting Egypt off from its suzerainty.

Egypt and the Ottomans were both opposed to Israel, and even less liked its unequivocal atheist assertions, but the Windsor Emperor brought the prestige of the French Mediterranean fleet to annihilate the French, and the two countries could only let go of their mouths and did not dare to act rashly, especially the Egyptian government, Cairo is too close to the port of Windsor, the distance in a straight line is only about 100 kilometers, and the Great Bitter Lake of the Suez Canal is less than 100 kilometers. The troops of the East India Company, carried by large military trucks, could threaten the Cairo defense line in less than two hours.

NATO countries are trying their best to win over Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa, including Egypt and Ottoman, in the hope that they will join NATO, in order to take advantage of the fact that the internal affairs of this emerging country are not yet in charge of the military encirclement of Israel. Even American economists theoretically attacked the first Israeli government ruled by the Workers' Party, saying that the Workers' Party, which had no ability to govern the country and do business, would destroy the already fragile desert economy of the Arabian Peninsula.

Egypt would have liked to join NATO, but after thinking about the fate of Granada, it backed down. I don't know if the East India Company's army has never been powerful, but there is no doubt that Israel can keep the Egyptians west of the Suez Canal with the least of its navy.

To coincide with the establishment of the world's first atheist state, the journal Nature also published an article by a joint team of physics and biology from the Global Polytechnic University, which uses scientific methods to reveal a lie. In the Cathedral of Turin, Italy, there is a sackcloth with a human face, measuring about 4 years long. 4 meters, width 1. 1 meter, known as the "Shroud of Turin". The human face image has a beard and shoulder-length hair. There is a theory that when Jesus was crucified and died, he was wrapped in this sackcloth because his blood clearly recorded the face of Jesus.

What the joint team had to do was to determine the age of the linen, using the principle of radioactive attenuation. The last time was to identify radioactive uranium in "100 million years" of geological time, with an accuracy of only one million years, this time using the radioactive carbon element, that is, carbon-14.

The carbon-14 method can identify organic matter within 50,000 years, and some witty people may immediately think that if carbon-14 decays so quickly, wouldn't carbon-14 on Earth have completely disappeared or become undetectable for hundreds of millions of years?

That's a good question. Carbon-14 decays radioactively, with a fixed probability, to nitrogen-14. But the magic is that nitrogen-14 turns back into carbon-14, because high-energy rays from space release a large number of neutrons when they collide with atmospheric molecules, and neutrons continue to produce new carbon-14 when they encounter nitrogen-14 in the atmosphere.

In this way, the level of carbon-14 in nature is maintained at a relatively stable level, which means that the ratio of carbon-14 to ordinary carbon (carbon-12) is fixed. This ratio is now 1 trillion carbon-12 atoms corresponding to 1 carbon-14 atom.

Whether it is an animal or a plant, it will exchange carbon in the air before death, and plants will convert carbon dioxide into sugar and other organic characteristics, and animals eat plants to indirectly obtain organic matter, and the proportion of carbon 14 in their bodies is consistent with that in the atmosphere, but when organisms die, their carbon exchange stops, and the proportion of carbon 14 will decrease year by year. This is the mystery of the carbon-14 method.

Universal Polytechnic University's instruments can detect 1,000 proportional changes with maximum accuracy, and it takes 60,000 years for carbon-14 to decay to 1,000th of the original level, which is the limit of detection, and for more accuracy, more than 50,000 years does not count.

After research by the joint team, the sackcloth, known as the Shroud of Jesus, was an item between 1260 and 1390, more than 1,000 years after the time of Jesus' death, and was apparently a fake artifact created by the gods for far-fetched purposes.

50,000 years is the era of the great development of human civilization, a large number of cultural relics produced during this time, after the publication of this method in the journal "Nature", it has caused a huge response in the cultural relics world, which is really an artifact for identifying cultural relics. Some collectors immediately set about appraising artifacts of their own undoubted age to test the reliability of the method. The result, of course, was pleasantly surprising to them.

This is, of course, another heavy right hook to the biblical theory of creation. The last time the clergy used human intuition to scoff at the technology that determined the Earth's age to be more than 4 billion yuan, this time there are a plethora of artifacts as footnotes, and the rather embarrassing chain of evidence that the church is enveloping their flawed theological system.

At the end of the article, there is a handwritten text that I don't know which mending knife is: "Those Christian presidents who put their hands on the Bible full of lies and take the oath of presidency of the United States must have felt a strong sense of amusement in their hearts if they could understand the reliability of carbon-14." Hail to Israel, the great godless kingdom! ”

This passage sparked a strong resentment in Christendom, and even some well-known scientists criticized Nature, as the world's top academic journal, for not being so mean and ridiculing the religious practices of ordinary people.

The reason why Ma Entang dared to establish an atheistic state in the greater Arabian Peninsula is, of course, a strong base of public opinion, if you remember, the Suez Canal recruitment criteria are to be able to understand the scientific evidence of the denial of religion, at least to have a secularist attitude, so all the settlements of the Canal Company are atheist-friendly.

Jerusalem is the religious holy city of the Jews, so slowly the Jews gathered, but they now come here mainly to enjoy not being racially discriminated against, and not yet to be conscious and unite against the atheist government. The government has no intention of oppressing them.

The concept of high-energy rays in the universe is mentioned in this article, which is considered a brain-opening conjecture, and Downing's next scientific action is to prove its existence. To this end, he set up the Space Exploration Laboratory, planning to use ten times more helium than the Beluga Airship to lift the Taikong balloon to an altitude of tens of kilometers, and humans will use a radio-controlled camera to capture the outline of the Earth's arc for the first time, and use various equipment to record high-energy rays from outer space.

However, with the improvement of technology, it is necessary to consider recycling, and the initial consideration is to make the balloon have the ability to lift and fall, and to detect the wind direction to find a suitable channel, and predict the landing site, and when it arrives near the fall point, the balloon will hover at a height of hundreds of meters and wait for the staff to arrive.

The desert environment of the Arabian Peninsula was ideal for recovering large balloons and enhancing Israel's national image, so Downing decided to place the Twin Chambers in Windsor Harbour. He likes to do things that make the new territory happier, such as putting the Continental GT production line in Milan after the unification of Italy, and so on.

There is no longer a time when the other side is still happily engaged in flashy scientific practice when the war is in full swing, and the leaders of NATO countries are all indignant. The French emperor thought that Downing would restrain some domineering after losing a King-class heavy cruiser, but Downing disappointed him.

By now, Downing's industrial and military science and technology research and development team has already thrown countries 500 streets away, even if Napoleon the Great resurrected and unified all of Europe and led an army of 1 million to attack him, he was sure of victory. The little submarine just wants to change the whole situation of the war, hum, it's too naïve.

In fact, the French submarine is in a very early stage, and the submarine torpedo needs to surface before it can be released, as long as the opponent pays a little attention and immediately changes course after seeing the opponent surface, the submarine is almost impossible to hit the opponent, so the French submarine needs the cover of as many as 42 warships of the US Navy for the first time to fight. It's not that they don't want to expand the results of the war, but they really don't have enough strength.

Downing really didn't expect France to build a submarine that could threaten the survival of the King-class cruisers, so anti-submarine technology had to be urgently developed. Nature has long evolved this scheme for detecting objects in water - echolocation.

Dolphins and bats rely on echoes to locate their prey, and in the case of dolphins, one part is used to make sounds and the other part receives echoes. When vocalizing, the forehead concentrates sound waves into bundles of parallel lines. When listening, the bone tissue of the jaw concentrates scattered sound waves to the inner ear, which is located at the back of the jaw. Based on the strength of the echo, the dolphin judges the distance and size of the obstacle in front of it. The echolocation function gives dolphins the ability to hunt in the dark environment of the deep sea, and can also bring the greatest weapon to the anti-submarine cause.

Of course, none of the current cruisers are adapted to anti-submarine torpedoes, and they can only be put on the next generation. The U.S. military seems to have been given a few months of respite. Singapore's super-shipyard takes only a few months to complete the process of going from design to construction of warships with anti-submarine capabilities.

Now that the French have opened the era of submarines, the Windsor consortium is not far behind, in addition to having sonar technology that the other party never imagined, there is also an advantage that the other party can think of - Downing has fuel cell technology, and the noise of the engine built with this technology is very small.

In submarine battles, once the opponent fires a torpedo first, the attacked person can always spot the opponent, so a more advanced way to strike a submarine is to use air power. The airship was too bulky to be carried by a warship at the moment. In desperation, the helicopter project had to be launched.

Helicopters are Downing's second favorite aircraft besides airships. It's reliable, it's adaptable, it's able to take off and land vertically, and it's suspended in the air, which is very much like an airship. It is a very common aircraft in later generations, but in fact, it is quite difficult to develop, mainly because of two points: first, how to balance the counter-torque force generated by the rotor. This requires a perfectly synchronized rotation of the small tail, but this is easy to see at a glance, so Downing did not plan to use this simplest design, but instead adopted a slightly more complex ducted design, in which the propellers linked by the main rotor generate wind and eject through a duct on one side of the tail to generate torque force.

2. How the rotor tilts in the required direction in order to gain forward momentum. This requires an ingenious mechanical drive design. And a key is how to change the inclination of each blade as the rotor moves in order to control the amount of lift generated by the helicopter.

How to quickly test the reliability of the rotor is the key to rapid invention, Downing's plan is to build a base composed of multiple connecting rods on the ground, which can record the force and angle of the rotor at various angles and powers, and basically the construction of the rotor can be done separately from the fuselage. Very reliable performance when assembled for the first time.

Helicopter development will also be carried out in Port Windsor, which is the Suez Canal fortress coveted by all of Europe, and must have the world's top defense capabilities, and helicopters carrying torpedo weapons will greatly enhance the armed forces of Port Windsor. If the helicopter is reloaded with machine guns, it can go to areas that need fire support at any time, and the research and development needs of machine guns are born.

The Gatling gun was already born in the United States, it had eight up to 67 units. The 3 cm barrel is rotated by hand, and every time one of the barrels rotates to the direction of 12 o'clock, it is fired, and in the process of each barrel rotating for a circle, its corresponding bolt moves in a reciprocating linear motion in the rotating body guide groove that rotates with the barrel, and completes the actions of feeding the bomb into the chamber, locking, firing, unlocking, and shelling.

The U.S. military's small fleet of Gatling guns has a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, which is faster than the 460 rounds of the Black Contractor fully automatic mode that Downing has developed but has never equipped the army, thanks to its multi-barrel design. (http://.)。 What Downing has to do is the Gatling version of the Black Contract, which uses 6 barrels plus a no-chain reload system to feed ammunition at an ultra-high speed, and increases the caliber of the bullet to 30mm, the expected rate of fire far exceeds that of the American-made Gatling, thousands of rounds per minute is normal, due to the short exchange of fire when the helicopter is passing through the air, this rate of fire is necessary, so that the bullet can be dumped on the target in a short moment.

When strafing ground targets, it has an effective range of 1500 meters and a maximum range of 4500 meters, which is enough to inflict massive destruction on the enemy while ensuring its own safety. Once the attack helicopter joins the battlefield, the fate of the enemy hiding in the trench will be rewritten.

It is said that tanks are the sworn enemy of trench warfare, but the combat flexibility of tanks is limited, which Downing does not like, so he is not ready to use tanks as a reserve for the main force of the army in the future. How good it is to get on the helicopter directly, where to fight, whether it is a naval battle, a mountain battle, or a jungle battle, the helicopter shows the style of a king. In the future, the army will only need to be equipped with armored vehicles, and the task of attacking fortified positions will be entrusted to the air force.

Two immature French submarines sparked the Downing arms race, and sonar, anti-submarine torpedoes, helicopters, and aviation guns were on the agenda.