Chapter 271: Rifling (Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a subscription)
Speaking of dwarven muskets, like the early flintlock pistols of the previous life, not only do they look very similar, but they also use gunpowder.
There has been gunpowder in this world for a long time, but I don't know why, the power of gunpowder in this world cannot be said to be small, but compared to the gunpowder in Solam's previous life, the power is really inferior, maybe this is the difference between worlds.
Therefore, gunpowder can only be used for mining, and as for being used as a weapon, the power is not satisfactory.
And the dwarven muskets powered by gunpowder are even more powerful.
As soon as the power of the dwarven musket is too small, not to mention the mage, it is a more powerful warrior, and when he puts on a suit of armor, he directly ignores it.
Second, the quasi-head is speechlessly tight, the flintlock pistol, there is no rifling like this, as soon as the projectile is discharged, it will completely depend on the sky where it hits. Like the infantry of the Napoleonic era, stupidly lined up in a phalanx and fired at each other, was it really when they were sick in the brain?
No, but there is really no way, otherwise it can't form a lethality at all, the bullet will fly everywhere as soon as it is discharged, and it can't be controlled at all, so I have to choose to line up in a phalanx to form a bullet surface and increase the lethality.
Of course, it is not all the pot of the gun, the bullet is also responsible for a large part, the bullet of the flintlock pistol, unlike the later conical shape, is a round projectile, the bullet not only does not move at a uniform speed in the barrel, but also does not maintain direction after discharge.
Thirdly, the frequency of attacks is too slow, and the flintlock pistol is first loaded with gunpowder, then compacted with a stick, and then put ammunition, and finally put the gun. It's troublesome enough to watch, let alone do. Wouldn't it be better to have this time, with a few more axes?
Because of these shortcomings, even the dwarves themselves have abandoned this weapon, only treating it as a more dangerous toy.
And the gun that Soram wants to make is not like this, if everything goes well, this rifle will become a big killer!
In Solam's plan, gunpowder was completely abandoned, and the electromagnetic principle was directly adopted, which was propelled by electromagnetic force. (I don't know much here, but I've seen some videos about this principle before, so I won't say much about the specifics, just bring it directly)
And this has an unparalleled requirement for rifling, and Solam is not capable of making such a large current, so he can only work on and off the rifling. His plan was to create countless miniature circles on both sides of the rifling to power the bullets.
At the same time, there are also many magic circles on the body of the gun that interact with each other to ensure the power of the bullet. The bullet is also designed in a conical shape, and the manufacture of the bullet is also a problem, after all, the diameter of the bullet is also subject to strict requirements.
Too small, the bullet will make irregular movements in the barrel, which will affect not only the accuracy, but also the range. It will also damage the barrel and reduce the life of the barrel. It's too big, and if you don't get it right, the bullet will get stuck, and then it'll be troublesome.
However, these are still just plans, and if they want to be implemented, they must rely on Jacqueline's efforts, just those magic circles and enchantments, they must be designed by Jacqueline first, otherwise they can't be done by Solam ghosts.
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In the following days, Solam's daily routine was to run on both sides of the villa palace.
Although Solam has recovered, it stands to reason that he should not be able to enter and leave the palace at will. But don't forget, the queen gave him compensation, he still has two months to read the Book of Ten Thousand Laws.
This time Soram has learned to be obedient, no longer greedy, every time he watches the Book of Ten Thousand Laws, he will only stay for a day, and then he will come out to rest for a few days, don't look at the ability of concentration is very useful, but it consumes his brain, and one day is enough to make Soram's head dizzy.
During the break, Soram was actually not idle, he was practicing miniature carving.
Originally, he thought that after being accurate, this kind of thing should be very simple, but in fact, this kind of thing still needs to be practiced, and these days, Solam doesn't know how many discarded barrels there are.
It also includes the barrel wasted when rifling, which is also a standard technical task.
But don't underestimate rifling. Rifling can be said to be the soul of the barrel, and the role of rifling is to give the warhead the ability to rotate, so that the bullet can still maintain a given direction after being discharged.
Rifling rifling, also known as reciprocal line, is a spiral-shaped concave and convex line in the barrel. The concave part is called the yin rifling, and the raised part is called the yang rifling. The function of rifling is to make the warhead rotate and move to maintain flight stability, improve hit accuracy and increase penetrating force.
The principle of rifling is not complicated by the principle of rifled guns. When the bullet is embedded in the rifling at high speed, it moves forward along the rifling and begins to rotate at the same time, the rotating warhead is similar to the gyroscope, the bullet axis is equivalent to the gyroscopic axis, and the tangent of the trajectory, that is, the direction of flight of the bullet after leaving the muzzle is equivalent to the vertical axis.
The speed of the warhead is up to 3,000 revolutions per second, and it not only moves in a circle around the warhead, but also the axis of the warhead always moves in a conical shape around the tangent of the trajectory, so that it can overcome the air resistance and constantly fly forward to ensure that the warhead flies forward stably and steadily.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that a small bullet can fly a distance of several thousand meters.
The number of rifling is often related to the caliber of the gun, generally between 3 ~ 12, pistols, submachine guns, rifles, etc. are often 4, and machine guns with larger calibers are 8.
However, Solam is not fired by gunpowder, but by electromagnetic drive, so the initial velocity of the bullet into the barrel is relatively low. So in order to increase the speed of the bullet and ensure its power and range, Solam's original design of rifling was increased to 10.
It was conceived that this should be sufficient for the electromagnetic force inside the barrel to give the bullet more power and range.
However, this also brought trouble, no matter how hard Soram tried, the rifling drawn by hand was always unsatisfactory, and according to Solam's vision, the barrel was forged with Mithril in order to ensure magic conductivity, and the strength was not ordinary.
So in the end, Solam had to give up this idea, and could only honestly choose the easier way, choosing 6 rifling, and at the same time Soram also gave up the method of manual rifling.
In the end, with Jacqueline's help, Solam actually made a manual broaching bed based on the memories of his previous life. This time the rifling is much simpler, but the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.
In this way, Solam's great cause of making guns did not even make a single barrel, and it stalled.
Until Soram inadvertently revealed his plan to Queen One. These days, Solam runs to the Silvermoon Tower from time to time, and he is very familiar with the relationship between this artificial intelligence life.
After Queen-1 learned that he was not rifling accurate enough, she proposed a way to ask him to hand over the barrel to her to pull the wire. Speaking of which, Soram had to admire the ingenuity of this Taling.
Solam briefly mentioned the principle of rifling to her, and she could understand it. And came up with a good solution, which is to use the golem to pull the line.
In this way, every time Solam came to the Silver Moon Tower, he had to hold a bunch of steel pipes.
However, the plan is very good, but in the operation, there are still many mistakes, the most serious of which is that the accuracy of the steel pipe is not enough, either it is not straight enough, or the hollow of the steel pipe is not round enough.
The Queen No. 1 is very powerful, but there is no steel pipe forging machine in the Silver Moon Tower.
In the end, this incident still alarmed Her Majesty, there was no way, Solam ran to the Silver Moon Tower every day to do experiments, and he couldn't do it without alarming Queen Xinbu. After learning of Solam's idea, Queen Hinbu was unexpectedly interested in Solam's idea.
After all, the idea of using electromagnetism to drive objects forward at high speed is really novel.
So after Queen No. 1 joined Solam's gun-making business, Queen Hinbu also took the initiative to go into the water.
Queen Hembo is Queen Hembo, after she knew Solam's problem, she actually found a group of witches and asked them to help make some high-precision steel pipes, Soram remembered the facial expressions of those witches at that time for a long time.
Queen Xinbu actually went to great lengths to ask a group of witches for help for a few steel pipes.
Finally, after several days of hard work, a group of witches actually came up with a construct that Soram had never expected. When it comes to constructs, it might as well be called a magically driven precision machine tool.......
That's right, the magic machine ......, is this going to open a new technology tree?
But the truth is that the witches all think that the queen is really childlike, and in order to mess with the children, they actually let them make such useless toys.
They didn't care at all, how useful this strange-looking constructor was, if this group of witches really continued to study in this direction, if it didn't work, the entire Faeron Continent would be able to enter the mechanical age.
However, Solam also reminded them that they might not believe it anyway. Instead, he devoted himself to the business of making the barrel, and finally, Solam expressed satisfaction with the accuracy of the barrel.
At the same time, according to this line of thinking, Queen Xinbu also personally helped Solam make a golem puller, or as it is called, a golem? Anyway, it's just to replace Solam's rough broaching machine with a construct.
With a high-precision steel pipe, and a high-precision broaching machine, Solam's barrel quickly reached the standard.
The next step is to depict the miniature carving circle, Solam made so many steel pipes, in fact, just to practice, after all, Mithril is only so little, and it is too difficult to forge, if it breaks, it will be very troublesome.
As for the magic circle, Jacqueline designed it a long time ago, according to Solam's request, she made two magic circles, one of which can discharge electricity, and the other can direct electricity.
After that, Solam began the miniature carving operation, for which Soram lived directly in the Silver Moon Tower, hiding for a few months, and even Mavis came to visit, Soram gave her a direct shut-in! For this reason, Mavis also sulked for a long time.
At the risk of being blamed by Mavis, Solam was not without gain, and with the help of the "Precision" ability, he was finally able to start microcarving inside the barrel. However, contrary to what he had thought, Soram did not carve on both sides of the rifling as originally planned.
Instead, I chose to carve on the top of the yin line, after all, the places on both sides of the yang line are too small, or the space on the yin line is slightly larger. At the same time, Solam developed a new use of "precision".
That's when Focus is on, and Precision is on. In this way, Solam enters a very subtle state of mind, which he himself calls a "mechanical mind."
After entering this state, Solam's whole person became like a compact machine, and he could depict two miniature magic circles without any difference! At the same time, when depicting the circle, you can fine-tune the circle according to the external environment at any time.
And Solam's miniature carving tools are actually very simple, that is, a number of thin iron rods of different lengths, the front end is an L miniature carving knife, because it is an iron pipe, the field of vision can not see the internal situation, when carving, it is completely by feeling, and a bad one will be wasted.
If it weren't for the Focus and Precision abilities, Soram wouldn't have dared to go under the knife.
For this craft, even Queen No. 1 is ashamed of herself. At first, Queen Simbu and Jacqueline did not suggest that the work of carving the circle should be completed by the constructor.
However, Soram refused, because the constructs did have a fight with Soram in terms of accuracy, but the adaptability was really insufficient, because they were all constructs in the final analysis, and they could not adjust the circle according to the environment as well as humans.