Chapter Ninety-Four: Video Games

Li Guang climbed the highest mountain on Shixiang Island early in the morning, where a group of Air Force soldiers played video games.

These fighters all passed three months of air force training, but because some conditions were not up to standard, they were not assigned to fighter squadrons. In fact, the quality of these people is already quite good, but the fighters have not yet arrived, and there are only a dozen, so there are not so many pilots. But these people have gone through several months of Air Force training courses and are relatively familiar with aircraft. Li Guang organized these fighters and began bombing training.

This training process is very similar to playing video games, in fact, the idea itself is based on the shooting game by Li Guang. The telescope is the computer screen, and the button is the keyboard.

On the highest mountain of the Stone Statue Island, a shelf was erected, on which the warriors dropped bombs down the cliff. Whether the game is cleared or not depends on whether the bomb can be dropped into the red circle under the mountain.

After groping, the bombing team now has a set of equipment. A lot of facilities have also been improved during the training, and it has already achieved some results.

The bomb was made by Li Guang's artillery shell factory, and due to the immaturity of the technology, the pre-fragmentation process was not used, and it was simply an iron lump cast of gray iron. Inside the explosive, the front end is a trigger fuse, and the tail is specially made of an electromagnet device controlled by radio signals to control the movement of the bomb's tail fin.

When dropping the bomb, the crew controls the large-aperture telescope with one hand, adjusts the focal length, tracks the bomb that lands quickly, and controls the radio button with the other hand to control the action of the bomb's tail, so that the bomb can change the glide direction and ensure that the bomb can land accurately.

To say that the control part actually had only two action units, which controlled two pairs of tail fins of the bomb. It's much simpler than the remote-controlled toys that kids play with in the 21st century. But in this day and age, it is very difficult.

First the radio signal must have enough power so that the receiving coil on the bomb can get enough electrical energy, and then this electrical energy is controlled by the miniature relay, and then it is expanded one level at a time, and finally the electromagnet is controlled.

After testing, the current technical capability actually requires a kilowatt radio transmission signal to control this simple action within 10 kilometers. And in these years, a kilowatt radio station is already a big guy, and the weight of the power supply has reached 300 kilograms. The large-aperture telescope, which is a video game screen, must be able to move flexibly from front to back, left and right, so as to easily track the trajectory of the bomb, and the weight of a set of structures has reached more than 100 kilograms.

Moreover, there are no mature products for this large-aperture telescope, and suitable lenses are purely purchased from the United States, as well as spare parts and assembled by themselves. However, the lens is large enough that the bomb can be clearly seen even from a distance of 10 kilometers. However, it is not so simple, and if the telescope is slightly unstable, the target will be lost. In the usual training, it is still on the top of a stable mountain, and if it is on a bumpy transport plane, the difficulty will be greatly increased.

In order to make this dexterous bomb practical, the fighters also had a number of innovations in the training process, one of which was simple, but very effective. The fighters installed a red spotlight on the tail of the bomb, which greatly improved the telescope's ability to capture at once.

If in the 21st century, practicing the left-handed telescope and the right-hand button is simply simple, and the computer is easy to simulate, but in this era, it costs too much to practice from an airplane, and Li Guang can't afford to spend this money.

Now the fighters carry bombs up the mountain every day, and the intensity of training is very high. And even then only wooden bombs of less than twenty kilograms were used, and it was a huge undertaking to get the bombs up the hill, and the steep peak of nearly 300 meters was not so easy to climb.

Li Guang's ultimate goal was to control two hundred and fifty kilograms, or five hundred kilograms, or even one ton of bombs. According to the estimates of several engineers at the ship design institute, a 250-kilogram bomb that hits a destroyer can make it scrapped. And a five-hundred-kilogram bomb had no problem against a cruiser, and a one-ton bomb should have the ability to deal with a battleship. You must know that this bomb charge and torpedo are not the same concept, almost half of the full weight, and the power is extremely high.

Li Guang was very excited about this conclusion of the engineers, this is a real big killer. During the training, the fighters also found some problems, such as relying only on the movement of the tail fin, the bomb correction effect is not very good, and if the throw is too far away from the target, it is difficult to correct.

Of course, Li Guang knew, but if he added power, it would be missiles, and the engineers on the Stone Statue Island would not be able to do it for a while. The top priority is to perfect this dexterous bomb first and strive to put it into use one day sooner.

Technicians are improving, and video game masters are training diligently, but it will take time to make this weapon combat.

Another weapon of the transport aircraft is cluster bombs. The technicians took the simplest approach, adding a miniature parachute to the tail of the 60 mortar shell and loading it into a large box. During the battle, as soon as the floor of the box was drawn, two hundred bombs were dropped together. Mortar shells are cast iron, and the cost is much lower than that of aerial bombs, and for Shixiangdao, being able to manufacture it is progress, and as for the energy that is not as good as aerial bombs, it is not in Li Guang's consideration for the time being.

Given the C47's transport capacity, which is only a little more than two tons, it can only be loaded into two compartments at a time, which is really a bit unpleasant.

However, after an experiment with a simulated bomb, everyone was excited about the simple way of dropping it. In actual combat, the hatchback bomb can cover 40,000 square meters. That is, an area of about 200 meters by 200 meters, and since the bombs exploded almost simultaneously, it was simply impossible for this area to be alive. (provided there are no underground fortifications)

And this soil cluster bomb is most suitable for supporting army operations. However, the disadvantage is that it is difficult to deliver accurately, and it is best suited for large-scale delivery. If there were thirty or fifty transport planes dropped at once, it would be enough to destroy a small city.

Another recent improvement of the weapons system of the Naval Resistance Forces has been very successful. In fact, it is also inseparable from mortars.

In the afternoon, Li Guang inspected the exercise of the Baxia gunboat and the Jianwei torpedo boat at sea. Recently, Captain Lie Gang of the Jairian No. 1 has been in the limelight, and Liezhong originally served as a deputy torpedo chief on the Pixiu No. 1, and is quite familiar with submarine operations, and one of the main functions of the Jairus torpedo boat is to deal with submarines. Inspired by mortars, Liezhong made a suggestion to Li Guang to use mortars to fire depth charges, and they were fired in clusters.

This suggestion was immediately adopted, and the only weapons against submarines, whether destroyers or torpedo boats, were depth charges. However, although the depth charges are infinitely powerful, the way of throwing them is to roll the depth charges into the sea with an oblique frame.

Once the cluster delivery method of column species is adopted, then it can cover a considerable area, and it will undoubtedly be more lethal to submarines.

The development process of this depth charge projectile is very simple, and a sample was created in just over 10 days. The projectile is much like a mortar, but the requirements are low, and due to the small range requirements, there is very little propellant. It's just an ordinary three-inch seamless steel tube as a barrel. Depth charges, on the other hand, are a big change, using the simplest mortar shell style, but they are large and have an iron pipe inserted into the barrel at the back. It plays the role of controlling the direction.

As for the power of depth charges, many people in the Maritime Resistance Force have experienced. However, the technical design is quite reasonable, and it is not as large as the depth charges currently used by various countries. Instead, the class of ten kilograms of charge was chosen.

The 24 launch tubes of the projectile are precisely calculated at angles that can evenly arrange 24 depth charges at 50-meter intervals, easily covering the sea surface 300 meters wide and 400 meters long. If a warship is equipped with three of these launchers with different depth settings, the submarine will have almost no chance of escaping as long as it is found with the slightest clue. For the Maritime Resistance Army, the submarines found on the surface have no tricks, relying on observation and sonar. Underwater submarines, because it is difficult to accurately determine the location of the submarine by sonar, can not accurately strike, this kind of full-coverage three-dimensional strike has become the most ideal mode.

Li Guang often wonders, does the army still work part-time in scientific research? But in fact, all three weapons were the brains of the fighters, and the technicians only perfected them. It should be said that only those who go to the battlefield, only those who fight with their lives, will know better what kind of weapon is most suitable and effective. This is precisely the guiding ideology for the development of military science and technology.

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