Chapter 50 Modular Design
Seeing Tang Yun take out the mechanical arm in front of the mecha, Shi Xiao hurriedly shouted on the roof of the land chariot.
"Put it down! Put it down! ”
When he climbed down the ladder from the roof of the land tank, Shi Xiao had to pout his fat ass in order not to rub his shy stomach in front of him, looking indescribably funny.
"I really don't understand, how can the old 'division' still eat so fat in a poor place like the Iron Helmet Regiment?" Tang Yun placed the forearm of the mecha and deliberately joked.
Shi Xiao is relatively old, everyone likes to call him Lao Shi, because of the identity of the person in charge of the machine repair group, this call to call to become a teacher, he also likes this title.
The more adversity he faced, the more reluctant Tang Yun was to show his anxiety and despair, and if he let that emotion affect others, it would naturally be bad.
What's more, Tang Yun has something to do now, no matter what kind of desperate situation he is in, as long as he can make him move, don't blindly wait for death, he can control his emotions very well, Tang Yun himself doesn't know whether such a kind of mind is good or not.
"We have spare parts to support two mechs, and I think we can try to save one whole." Tang Yun wiped the oil stain on his chin with his sleeve, but the more he wiped it, the dirtier it became, and he painted himself on his face. "If we can save a mecha, we can think of it as having the capital to try a raid to the east."
Shi Xiao shook the fat head that was obviously larger than normal, and said dissatisfiedly, "We don't have mecha engineers, and we don't have mecha warriors now, how can we repair them?" Who can drive it after it's repaired? ”
Shi Xiao is most taboo about other people's things that are not organized by others, whether it is tools or accessories, he likes to stack them neatly, and enjoys the feeling that everything is under control, and he can drag it over when he needs anything. If it weren't for Tang Yun's heroic actions last night, it is estimated that he would have cursed at this time.
Tang Yun smiled, and a mouthful of white teeth appeared on his face blackened by engine oil.
"I'm a mech! And I know a little bit about repairing mechas, and I have to rely on the 'teacher' to advise! ”
Indeed, as Shi Xiao said, the Iron Helmet Regiment has a small complete machine repair team, but there is no mecha engineer, otherwise how could they leave a large pile of mecha wreckage in the mecha graveyard alone?
In the Federation, the Mecha Engineer is a very special profession.
It was okay before the 47th year of the new calendar, but at that time there was no neuronal mechanical connection interface, and they were all manually operated mechas. But now it's different, a person who doesn't have an implanted interface can't be a mecha engineer, just like a person who can't drive how to repair a car?
The 4th battalion is an interstellar marine battalion, and the combat mode of the interstellar marine battalion is mainly based on space landing, so to speak, mecha combat is their most fundamental combat method, how can there not be enough mecha engineers in the battalion?
Before Baiyo and the Federation encircled and suppressed them, the Changping Mecha Academy invited all 14 mecha engineers and several mechanic engineers of the 4th Battalion to give a symposium on the theme of "modular design" in the academy for a week on the grounds that "practical talents are needed to participate in research".
When the 4th Battalion received the mission and returned to the hidden stargate that they had just discovered, the Changping Mecha Academy handed over the 14 mecha engineers to the local S2214 troop transport team, and they escorted these engineers back to the camp, but the convoy and 14 mecha engineers disappeared into the vast universe at the same time.
It was a conspiracy, maybe it was a coincidence, but it just happened, and at the same time brought huge losses to the 4 battalion. So Shi Xiao is not only unwilling to let others touch the things of his own machine repair team, but also unwilling to think of those partners and comrades-in-arms because of things that he can't do at all.
After some tossing and turning between Shi Xiao and Tang Yun, the mechanic team basically came over and began to discuss gossip.
It's a crazy, but extremely tempting plan.
Even in the K388 with a harsh environment, several engineers in the mechanic team did not stop learning, if it weren't for the fact that the Iron Helmet Regiment was too poor, they would have implanted the interface long ago and easily obtained the title of mecha engineer.
What's more, they had already fought the idea of that pile of mecha wreckage, if it weren't for the fact that the mecha men in the Iron Helmet Regiment were too "ignorant" and so rough that they had no desire to learn, maybe they would have successfully repaired a few of them.
"When designing a mecha, why would designers rather make maintenance more difficult and bury the light energy transmission system deep in the deepest part of the mech? Or even attached to a mechanical skeleton? A mechanic threw such a sentence at Tang Yun for no reason, and the others, including Shi Xiao, stopped talking at the same time.
Tang Yun touched his head, and said in his heart, is this going to test me?
During his three months on the Iron Helmet, he had such an excellent teacher as Nan Guoxin, and he had the internal mechanic materials of Shadowmare, although he had no practical experience, but such a basic topic still couldn't stop him.
"In order to fully feedback the tactile sensation of the surface of the mecha to the mecha, a considerable number of bonding receptors are placed on the surface of the mecha. Since the neural mechanical connection circuit relies on low-frequency light energy to transmit signals, and the interference of light energy is relatively strong, since one is placed on the surface of the mecha, the other can only be embedded in the internal skeleton. ”
The mechanic nodded, looking at Shi Xiao with more expectation in his eyes. Shi Xiao still shook his head, and glanced at the other mechanic, who immediately understood, and muttered for a while before speaking.
"Now the mainstream mecha research direction is modular, different manufacturers produce different brands, different performance products, such as mecha arms, radar systems, etc., but these products all use universal standard control interfaces and mechanical buckles, so that according to the operation style of the mecha, physique and other reasons to assemble a more compliant mecha."
The person who spoke rubbed his chin and frowned again, "But for the army that needs to standardize everything and deploy it in a unified manner, modularization has become a soy sauce bottle that drags its feet, do you think we should follow the trend of modular design or maintain the existing standardized style of the army?" ”
As soon as these words came out, all the members of the mechanic team were dazzled, and they secretly gave a thumbs up to the person who asked the question, and even began to hold their breath and wait for Tang Yun's answer.
Tang Yun was stunned, what kind of problem is this? Don't you just want to test whether I can repair mecha by connecting interfaces? What does this question of politicians and military experts have to do with the current situation?
But Tang Yun is a good man after all, and he doesn't like to dismiss other people's face too much, so he can only sigh and prevaricate, "I've also heard of modular design, but it's ...... for the army."
"There may be some inconveniences......"
"Modular ......"
Tang Yun lowered his head slightly, repeatedly recalled the relevant content in the Shadow Nightmare's mechanical repair data in his mind, and couldn't find any answer for a long time, and finally held back a sentence.
"You can change it casually, it's easy to repair the module!"
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Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Shi Xiao laughed, "Haha! That's what you want! ”
"Before the advent of that bullshit modular design, our mechanics in the 4th battalion had already thought of this plan, but I didn't think about it so much at the time, I just wanted to make the various parts relatively independent, and then connect them with standard interfaces and mechanical tenon joints, so that it is convenient to repair and replace parts during the battle."
"Especially in this state, if you want to make the pile of scrap metal on K388 move again, modularization is the most reasonable way!"
The same concept suddenly brought the relationship between Tang Yun and the machine repair team closer, and just when everyone was eager to start construction, Shi Xiao coldly threw out a sentence, "Let's study the machine repair well, only the young man with both wisdom and courage is worthy of the water goose in our battalion!" Blindly brute boy, stunned green route, our mechanic team can't pass this level......"
Another burst of laughter rang out.