Danxin Mountain Training Camp.

At a time when the aviation port is vigorously experimenting with new products, it is naturally impossible for the army to be idle. China is now widely regarded as the number one air power in the world, but many people ignore the fact that China is also an army power. In fact, among China's three branches of the armed forces, the investment in army equipment has always accounted for the largest share.

"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......" bursts of cannon fire continued to sound on the shooting range.

Five or six self-propelled armored destroyers were firing at targets at different distances, half of which were prototypes that had not been shown in public, and one of them had a tube that was noticeably thicker than its counterpart.

When the shelling stopped, someone quickly took the targets back to see the effect. Those targets made of ordinary homogeneous steel plates were pierced, but those made with new armor were different, and many of them did not penetrate.

Most of the targets fired by the Mountain Lion 105mm armored destroyer were pitted, and only two of them indicated that the 100-meter and 50-meter targets had been punched. As for those 90 and 75 mm, needless to say, not a single one of them was penetrated, at most they left some holes in the target.

Looking at this situation, Major General Yang Ning, commander of the Ninth Mechanized Infantry Division, couldn't help but be speechless: "My God, what is this armor made of? Even the mountain lion uses gold coin bullets to be within 100 meters to barely penetrate it, which is already the distance of fighting bayonets...... Although the exercise in the morning was lost, there is nothing to say about losing to the "aliens".

A colonel next to him said: "Division Commander Yang, the mountain lion's cannon is a rifled cannon, and it can't fully play the role of gold coin shells. You see, the Hyena with a smoothbore gun of the same caliber has a very different result, and it can effectively penetrate at 400 meters. The Giant Hyena with a 125-mm smoothbore gun is even stronger, with an effective penetration range of up to 1000 meters. ”

The next few targets are completely different, they are all effectively penetrated, and the red-hot tungsten alloy bullet core melts the metal at the breach.

Yang Ning glanced at the tall major general beside him and said, "Brother Song, what do you think?"

"I'm wondering when this armor will be used in our vehicles. According to the performance of the manual, the penetration depth of this 125-mm smoothbore gun was 750 mm homogeneous steel plates, and the results are now seen by us. The defensive power of this new type of armor is at least five times that of ordinary steel plates......" the other party thought about it, and said angrily.

This old brother Song is called Song Xuewu, the current commander of the 12th Infantry Division, a native of Yunyang, Hubei, 1.98 meters tall, born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he is a fierce general at first glance. Standing with the relatively thin Yang Ning, the contrast is very obvious, he also led the team to participate in the exercises and tests this time.

This Song general is also an old revolutionary, his parents were forced to kill by the local tyrant when he was young, both died, and when he was wandering, he was favored by a Taoist priest from Wudang Mountain, and took him up the mountain to learn martial arts. It wasn't until he was 17 years old that he went out of the mountain to take revenge, but he didn't kill the enemy, but he accidentally killed the county magistrate who was a guest at Haoqiang's house at that time, so he fled up the mountain. It is difficult for the gods to hide from the smoke, no matter how good the kung fu is in front of the guns, Song Xuewu had to be a wild man in the Shennongjia Mountains for more than a year. It wasn't until the Socialist Party (Kyodo) swept through Hubei that he was able to appear in a bright and bright way, and later he joined the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and was selected as a scout with his good kung fu that he could fight bears and tigers, and later went all the way to the present.

Yang Ning turned to a young man with glasses and asked, "Well, that, Zuo Gong, when will you test this armor? When will it be officially adopted?"

Zuo Jiamian lifted his glasses and smiled: "General Yang, the current test of the new type of armor has entered the advanced stage, and it will soon be equipped with a large number of our army." I'm sure you'll soon be able to use weapons equipped with this new type of armor. This Zuo Gong is the head of the test team from Henan Heavy Truck.

At this time, a smiling major general squeezed over and said to Yang Ning: "Old Yang, Brother Song, who of you will go up tomorrow?" Well, he is the "Gedemis Director Zaki" who beat the Red Army just now, no, it is Yin Luhang, the commander of the Blue Army.

"......" Yang Ning and Song Xuewu looked at each other, but they didn't squeak. Aliens are not easy to fight, no one wants to rub their face on the floor back and forth, forget it once, it's really uncomfortable to come a few more times.

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Half a month later, Luoyang Tractor General Factory.

Zuo Jiamian's team, which completed the test, returned to Henan Heavy Vehicle Group Company with a large amount of data. Henan Heavy Truck, the company's main product is a variety of armored vehicles, and it is one of the six largest combat vehicle production bases in China. Luoyang Tractor General Factory is one of its direct subsidiaries, mainly producing tracked tractors, as well as tanks......

As soon as Zuo Jiamian walked into the door of the office building, he heard a stiff Mandarin with a Henan flavor: "Oh, dear Zuo, what are the results of this test?"

Zuo Jiamian looked back, but it was a Caucasian old man with a big bald head, he was wearing a set of factory overalls, which were stained with some oil, and he was holding a large file in his hand.

"Oh, it's Sabi......" Zuo Jiamian saw that it was a colleague, so he greeted him: "The result is not bad this time, and the test has been successfully completed." You are ......" Zuo Jiamian looked at the big file in his opponent's hand, and his heart was a little tight.

"Oh, there is something wrong with the model of our export version of the Red Wolf chariot, I just went to fix it......" Sabi smiled and shook his file: "Okay, I'm going to go to the workshop to have a look, and I'll come to drink in the evening......"

This bald foreigner is called Sergei Burkatov, Belarusian, and familiar people call him by the nickname "Sabi". Sabi was originally a mechanical engineer in Minsk. During World War I, his family was blown up by Erdezi's plane and became scum, and since then he has hated the Germans and the Tsar who has been defeated repeatedly. Later, he joined the anti-tsarist coalition to participate in the Russian Revolution, but after Hongmaozi gained power, he turned around and confiscated his factory, and killed his assistant as a counter-revolutionary. At that time, China happened to be recruiting people there, and I really felt that Sabi, who was desperate, came to China. Now Luoyang Tractor General Factory is the chief designer of export combat vehicles, and is particularly good at cutting the performance of combat vehicles. Although everyone knows that the export version will definitely cut performance, this guy sometimes cuts too much, and even the company can't stand it, which has to make people suspect that he has British ancestry.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zuo Jiamian participated in the test report meeting of the heavy truck company.

"Leaders, colleagues, our tungsten mesh armor has successfully passed the test, and the relevant information has been sent to everyone......" Zuo Jiamian pointed to the comparison photos on the big screen and introduced: "Everyone, please see, this is a live-fire test comparison of 100 mm tungsten mesh armor and 600 mm ordinary armor steel plates, which are all ......caused by the latest 125 mm smoothbore gun using high-speed tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing shells at a distance of 2,000 meters."

I saw that the test target of the ordinary armor steel plate was punched a big hole, while the test target of the tungsten mesh armor only had some deformation.

“...... Let's take a look at the effect of armor-piercing bullets, which are also 125mm armor-piercing shells. Zuo Jiamian changed a photo. "Look, 1200 mm of ordinary armor steel plates are completely penetrated by metal jets, and tungsten mesh armor is just a pit melted down on the surface. ”

Next, I watched the photos of the destruction test of the armor fragmentation bullet, which is even more exaggerated, the tungsten mesh armor does not eat the armor fragmentation shell at all, and the armor fragmentation bullet has no effect at all except for blowing up a black mark on the surface.

“...... After several live-fire tests, our 100 mm tungsten mesh armor is equivalent to 800 mm thick homogeneous steel armor against tail stabilized deshelling armor-piercing shells, and anti-aircore charge armor-piercing shells are equivalent to 1,500 mm thick homogeneous steel armor. Its bulletproof ability also far exceeds the glass fiber composite armor and ceramic composite armor we used before, which is equivalent to 4 times that of the former and 3 times that of the latter, respectively. After many comparisons, tungsten mesh armor is the most bulletproof composite armor in the world. ”

Everyone nodded their heads, the performance of this armor was obviously beyond their expectations.

Composite armor is only a conceptual thing, and China started working on it before World War I. In the history of the original plane, it also appeared after World War II, and various countries engaged in various kinds of composite armor. By the end of the 80s, the United States had developed a completely new type of composite armor - depleted uranium armor.

The so-called "depleted uranium" is actually the "depleted uranium" burned in the nuclear power plant, well, that is, spent fuel, and the main component is uranium-238, which cannot be used as fissile material. After the Yankees used this kind of thing, part of it was made into depleted uranium armor-piercing shells, and part of it was used to make depleted uranium armor. Of course, this is not to say that armor plates are made directly from spent fuel. The process is to add other components to the depleted uranium to make a depleted uranium alloy, and then make the depleted uranium alloy into a network structure, which is embedded in the steel matrix to make sandwich biscuit-like armor. This is the depleted uranium armor, in which the depleted uranium alloy mesh plays the role of restraining and fastening the ceramic blocks wrapped in each of the grids.

According to America's own experiments, its performance far exceeds that of ceramic composite armor. At that time, the M-1 tank of the US army relied on depleted uranium armor, and not a single one was penetrated by the Iraqi army in the Gulf War, and it was in the limelight, which really proved that this kind of thing is very powerful.

But we all know that uranium is radioactive, even if it's depleted uranium. Although the performance of this armor is not to be said, the side effects are too great. Depleted uranium shells are much safer, and they can be locked in a lead box that shields radiation when not in use, but the armor of this tank cannot be shielded. So later, China replaced the dangerous depleted uranium with tungsten and developed its own tungsten mesh armor.

However, Wen Desi's tungsten mesh armor goes one step further, and it is a new process that only appeared in the mid-to-late 21st century. This layer of tungsten mesh is not directly made of tungsten metal, but tungsten metal whiskers.

Under certain conditions, some metals will develop "whiskers", which are extremely fine filaments, and their crystalline structure is completely free of defects, so the strength is dozens of times that of the base metal, and the performance is very amazing. However, naturally growing whiskers are very short, only a few millimeters, and difficult to use. After a long period of unremitting money burning and slow experiments, we finally found the catalytic substances and the best environmental conditions for the growth of tungsten whiskers, which can grow several centimeters long whiskers at a faster rate.

After long-term and unremitting research, we have found the catalytic substances and the optimal environmental conditions for the growth of iron whiskers, which can grow several centimeters long whiskers at a fast rate. The whiskers are then plated with silver to prevent oxidation, and then woven into a mesh and placed in a vacuum into two heated armor plates, forming a super-high-strength armor with tungsten whiskers as the skeleton.

After testing, it is found that the bulletproof effect of two layers of whisker net sandwiched between the three armor steel plates is the best, and it can play the role of ultra-high tensile strength best when hit by armor-piercing bullets. The ultra-high temperature metal flow of shaped armor-piercing projectiles loses its effect after being blocked by high-temperature-resistant, high-specific gravity tungsten whiskers, and the effect is much better than that of ceramic interlayers. As for the armor splinters, it is completely useless, and it can only be heard. Its armor-piercing ability far exceeds that of depleted uranium armor because the specific gravity of tungsten is greater than that of depleted uranium alloys, and the strength of tungsten whiskers is much greater than that of depleted uranium alloys.

Most importantly, tungsten mesh armor is completely free of the problem of radiation contamination of depleted uranium armor, and the manufacturing cost is much lower than that of the latter. There is no way, from the smelting of depleted uranium metal to the production, a production line is enough to drink a pot of various protective devices alone.

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Presidential palace.

The news that the tungsten mesh armor had passed the live-fire test was soon reported to Wen Desi.

Wen Deji smiled reservedly: "Hehe, it's finally successful." It is only in the past few years that I have the opportunity to play my old job......"

That's right, including this tungsten mesh armor and several new alloy materials that have appeared so far, were all made under his direct guidance. There is basically no shortcut in the material industry, except for the small probability event of character outbreak, it is all about relying on the exhaustive method to try slowly, a formula to try, a process to try, what is needed is a lot of money, and a long accumulation. But at the same time, it is also equivalent to that as long as the process level is reached, then as long as the formula and process of a certain material are known, it can be perfectly reproduced.

The science of metal materials is Mr. Wen's old business, but the threshold for his industry is too high, and in the first few years, there are no conditions at all. The level of craftsmanship is not up to it, and he can't get out of his stomach full of goods. It wasn't until the last few years, when the tech tree had reached a certain level, that the professional expertise in his head could come into play.

"At present, at present, they have only made tungsten mesh armor in armor steel and porcelain steel versions, right?" Wen Desi asked Gu Xiaoyuan, the military secretary.

"Yes, that's all there ......"

Wen Deji smiled: "Then remind them that the tungsten whisker mesh can also be embedded in the magnesium-sodium alloy armor plate or titanium alloy armor plate, so that the defense power of our aircraft can also be greatly improved......"

At this time, Gu Xiaofei, who was in charge of science and technology, ran in again: "Mr. Wen, Mr. Wen, the report of the 3315 Institute, the [Tongtianqiao] project has made a major breakthrough, and they have put a 1,000-kilogram unmanned spacecraft into orbit......"

"What, did it work?" Wen Desi stood up at once.