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Chapter 84
With a firing range of 5,000 km, can it still be called artillery?
Wang Guowei's question is also the question of everyone who came to visit.
Liu Guodong, the commander-in-chief of the White Tiger, asked.
"The Rob Po I mentioned on the radio just now, is that Rob Po in the Northwest?"
Liu Guodong's tone was full of suspicion, wondering if Robpo on the radio was a place with the same name.
"It should be there, apart from that, where is there a second Robpo in the Dragon Kingdom who can be used as a shooting range?" Wang Guowei said.
Hearing this, everyone was silent.
If that's the case, then this electromagnetic cannon is too terrifying.
"All units are ready and about to start launching!!"
"Adjust the shooting angle!!"
The radio rang out again.
Hearing the voice on the radio, Wang Guowei and others came to the glass porthole of the command center.
Jiang Yuanzhou and the staff controlled the electromagnetic cannon in a separate control room, and guests like Wang Guowei could move freely in the command center, as long as they did not enter the control room.
Through the glass window, Wang Guowei saw the giant electromagnetic cannon called "Junzi".
Yesterday, Wang Guowei was too close, and it was night, so he couldn't see it really.
Now that the distance is far away, Wang Guowei can clearly see the whole picture of the electromagnetic cannon.
"It's amazing."
"If someone wants to say that this thing is a cannon, I'm the first to believe it."
A few exclamations came from Wang Guowei's side.
Those battle-hardened Dragon Kingdom generals couldn't help but sigh when they saw such a magnificent cannon.
Wang Guowei's thoughts are similar to theirs, and from here, you can really feel the physique of that electromagnetic cannon.
The current gentleman electromagnetic cannon, the barrel is still on the ground.
Like a creeping dragon.
"Attention units, the Junzi Cannon is beginning to adjust the firing angle."
On the radio, Wang Guowei's familiar voice of Jiang Guoshi came.
And as Jiang Yuanzhou's voice fell.
The creeping dragon slowly lifted its head.
I saw that the barrel of the gun began to slowly rise from the ground.
Then the barrel of the gun began to rotate, along with the barrel.
Originally, the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the sea, but after a 120-degree rotation, the direction of the muzzle pointed to the northwest of the Dragon Kingdom.
Noticing the direction of the muzzle, the generals who were observing also had no doubts about the range.
In that direction, there is no doubt Robpo, that nuclear test site Robpo.
30 Then the new question comes.
Can this superconducting electromagnetic cannon really hit Robpo 5,000 kilometers away?
In the expectant gaze of all, the superconducting electromagnetic cannon locked the horizontal angle of rotation.
Then the muzzle angle was raised upwards again.
The dragon raised its head high to the sky.
In the control room, the staff member in charge of adjusting the angle reported.
"It is reported that the current angle of fire is 50 degrees, and the target angle has been reached."
"Lock the firing angle and get ready to charge." Jiang Yuanzhou commanded.
With Jiang Yuanzhou's order.
The surging current from the power grid began to pour into the transformer module of the electromagnetic gun.
"Voltage modulation complete." Staff reported.
The high-voltage voltage from the grid is 30,000 volts.
Such a high voltage needs to be stepped down to reach 220 volts in the homes of ordinary users.
For superconducting electromagnetic guns.
Thirty thousand volts is not enough.
To fire thousands of tons of tungsten alloy shells, the voltage required is at least one million volts, or even tens of millions of volts.
Now, after the modulation of the transformer module, the current has reached the standard required for transmission, three million volts.
Everything is ready to go.
Jiang Yuanzhou pressed the big red button in front of him.
"Rail link activated, launch!!"
With the push of a button, a modulated ultra-high voltage current instantly fills the entire acceleration guide.
If it is an ordinary conductor material, after receiving an ultra-high voltage current of one million volts, it will be melted by the current in a few seconds.
But the barrel of the Junzi cannon, that is, the acceleration guide, is made of room temperature superconducting materials.
The most important characteristic of superconducting materials is that they have zero resistance, and without resistance, no matter how much current flows through, the accelerator rail will not heat up.
After the ultra-high voltage current enters the acceleration rail.
An invisible accelerating magnetic field is created between the two rails.
And the tungsten alloy shell is sliding along the guide rail towards the muzzle in the magnetic field.
Under the action of a super-intense accelerating magnetic field.
The 1,000-ton tungsten alloy shell is constantly accelerating on a 150-meter-long acceleration guide.
From the beginning of the superconducting acceleration guide to the end of the guide, the shell took a total of ten seconds.
After ten seconds of acceleration with the blessing of furious electricity, the speed of tungsten alloy soared from 0 to Mach 20!
The tungsten alloy shell, which had completed the acceleration, flew out of the muzzle of the cannon, and at a top speed of up to Mach 20, it quickly slashed through the air and flew into the distant high air.
The launch of this cannonball consumes the same amount of electricity as the entire province of Donghai Province in one day.
If it weren't for the docking with the power grid in advance and a special line was pulled, this shot would have caused a power outage in half of the Dragon Country.
"The launch was successful, and it is expected to hit the range in twenty minutes."
In the control room, the observer reported.
Hearing this, Jiang Yuanzhou nodded and continued.
"Check the status of the railgun."
"Connect the range communications."
The voice fell, and the large screen in the control room turned on, showing the picture of Robpo's shooting range.
In the picture, Robopo's desert wasteland is as calm as ever.
Outside the atmosphere, a tungsten alloy shell weighing 1,000 tons is moving at a high speed towards the Roboper range.
In this test launch, the attack method was a high-angle projectile.
The shell flew out of the atmosphere soon after it was fired.
The speed of Mach 20 is a little different from the speed of the first universe of 24 Hz, so this shell will not fly out of the Earth's orbit into space.
Instead, it will fly out of the atmosphere and then return to the ground.
The entire trajectory of the shell is a giant parabola.
Most of the flight path of the shells is outside the atmosphere.
In this way, friction with the air is avoided and the kinetic energy and mass are intact.
Glass portholes.
Several generals of the Dragon Kingdom who came to visit, after hearing Jiang Yuanzhou's order to fire, all widened their eyes and looked intently at the muzzle of the electromagnetic cannon.
For fear of missing the grand occasion of the first launch of the superconducting electromagnetic gun.
However, what they didn't expect was that the launch of the electromagnetic cannon did not produce much movement.
The muzzle of the cannon flashed for a moment, and then there was no response.
"Launch successful."
Hearing the sound of successful launch on the radio, Wang Guowei woke up like a dream.
"That's it??"
Several military generals, you look at me, I look at you, but they are a little unresponsive.
They originally thought that the superconducting electromagnetic cannon with a caliber of 10 meters must be very alarming.
Not to mention earth-shattering, at least it should shake the Quartet.
As a result, they saw only a vague flash of light, and nothing else.
"That's fine." Zheng Qingshan, commander-in-chief of the navy, said, "The concealment of the electromagnetic cannon is a big advantage. "
The fire and sound of traditional artillery when fired often become a clue for the enemy to lock on to the target.
The electromagnetic cannon is so quiet to use, but it reduces the possibility of detection.
"I wonder how powerful this electromagnetic cannon is?" Someone asked.
This question is a question that Wang Guowei asked yesterday, and it is also a common question for others.
The answer to this question will take twenty minutes to get it.
Shortly after the cannon was fired, the large screen in the command center was also turned on, showing the image of Rob Pop at the shooting range.
At this point, Robpo in the picture is silent.
Because the environment is too harsh, it is not only a no-man's land, but also a forbidden area for life, and even birds are extremely rare.
In the lower right corner of the large screen, a countdown is displayed. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!) ）
The current time is 19:35.
Nineteen minutes and thirty-five seconds, after this time, the blow from the East China Sea will descend on the Robpo range.
Watching the time pass minute by minute, Wang Guowei only felt that these twenty minutes were too long.
But the thought that it was 5,000 kilometers away made him feel much less anxious in an instant.
Twenty minutes to fly five thousand kilometers and strike at the target. []
It's so fast, it's a lot faster than an intercontinental missile.
"Lao Wang, let's make a bet, how about it?"
Liu Guodong, the commander-in-chief of the White Tiger beside him, spoke.
"Bet? What to bet on? Wang Guowei also became interested.
Twenty minutes of waiting time is definitely not a short time.
No matter how anxious Wang Guowei was, he couldn't let that cannonball arrive at Robpo early.
So instead of waiting, find something to do.
"Just bet on the power of this cannonball, I'll take two bottles of 30-year-old Xifeng." Liu Guodong said.
"Thirty years? You're willing to pay for it. Wang Guowei said with some surprise.
Xifeng was also one of the four major national liquors back then, but later there was a problem with management, and the brand plummeted.
Now Xifeng is not very good, but thirty years ago, it was when Xifeng was in full swing.
Thirty years of Xifeng, put in the market are priceless treasures.
"How's it going, do you want to come?" Liu Guodong asked.
"Of course I have to come, I'll take 20 years of Moutai, this is not bad, right?" Wang Guowei raised his eyebrows and made a bet.
"Yes, I bet on the power of this shell, which can reach 5,000 tons of TNT." Liu Guodong expressed his conjecture.
For high-powered bombs, tons of TNT are usually used as a measure of the bomb's power.
For example, the little boy who blew up the notebook was as powerful as 15,000 tons of TNT explosives.
Five thousand tons?
Hearing this, Wang Guowei said not to be outdone.
"I'm betting on 20,000 tons of equivalent."
"Lao Wang, are you exaggerating?" Liu Guodong said, "You have surpassed the little boy with the atomic bomb and caught up with the fat man." "
The Fat Man was also one of the two atomic bombs that Benzi suffered, with a yield of 21,000 tons of TNT.
"I'll just guess the number, don't worry." Wang Guowei said.
Don't ask, asking is confidence in Jiang Guoshi.
"Ahem."
A cough came from behind the two who were betting.
It was the commander of the Dragon Navy, Zheng Qingshan Zheng Lao.
"Elder Zheng, are we bothering you?" Wang Guowei said with some restraint.
Zheng Lao has absolute prestige in the Dragon Army.
Like Wang Guowei, they are all at the level of Zheng Lao's students.
In front of the teacher, students will always be nervous involuntarily.
"I'm betting on 10,000 tons." Zheng Qingshan said.
Hearing Zheng Lao's words, Wang Guowei and Liu Guodong were both stunned.
Originally, they thought that Zheng Lao was going to criticize them for messing around, but they never thought that Zheng Lao was here to join them?
Seeing the reactions of the two, Zheng Qingshan thought that it was the reason why he didn't say the bet, so he spoke.
"I have a bottle of 50-year-old flower carving, the trophies of that year, it should be qualified, right?"
"Of course." Wang Guowei hurriedly responded, "You are much stronger than us. "
Zheng Lao participated in the bet, and other military generals also joined in the speculation about the power of this cannon.
Among the many speculations, the highest is Wang Guowei's guess, 20,000 tons equivalent.
After all, 20,000 tons is already the power of an atomic bomb.
No matter how exaggerated this superconducting electromagnetic cannon is, it can't surpass the power of an atomic bomb, right?
After they made such a fuss
Twenty minutes of waiting time has already passed.
"Three minutes to go." Elder Zheng reminded.
Hearing Zheng Lao's reminder, everyone stopped chatting and turned their eyes to the big screen in the middle of the command center.
The picture on the screen is divided into several frames according to the shooting angle.
When the countdown comes to one minute.
In the upper left corner of the screen, the shot aimed at the sky, there are some changes.
I saw that in Robpo's originally calm sky, a star suddenly fell.
The star was extremely fast, and in an instant, it flew from the top of the picture to the very middle.
It was that tungsten alloy shell.
Because of the friction with the air, the temperature of the tungsten alloy shell is gradually increasing, and the brightness is also increasing.
Behind the stars, there is a trail.
"It's coming!" Zheng Lao said in a deep voice.
Such a star suddenly appeared in the picture, and everyone had already realized that it was 947, and they all cheered up and stared at the star in the picture.
Soon, in the main screen, there were also traces of shells.
In the center of the main screen is the projected landing point of the shell.
The countdown is getting less and less, and the distance between the stars and the ground is getting closer and closer.
When the countdown was over for the last second, the cannonball hit the ground.
This was followed by a violent flash of light, bursting out from where the shells landed.
The flash was so dazzling that the whole picture was filled with white flash noise.
Then the main screen switches.
The camera was replaced with a camera that was farther away from the point of explosion at a distance of 50 km.
Through this camera farther away, the crowd saw the full extent of the impact
A thousand-ton tungsten alloy shell hit the ground at a top speed of Mach 20
The moment it touched the ground, the alloy shell disintegrated
The terrifying kinetic energy it carries is also completely released in the form of an explosion!
That flash of light was the prelude to the first wave of explosions!
The flash did not last long, only three seconds.
After the flash, a huge hemispherical fireball appeared where the shell landed.
From the picture, there is no reference, and it is difficult for them to see the size of the fireball.
However, the report from Observer Roboper rang out in due course.
"Report, observed the appearance of a fireball at the center of the explosion at an altitude of 4,300 meters and a fireball with a diameter of 5,200 meters."
After the fireball appeared, the shock wave caused by the explosion of the cannonball also spread outward from the center point.
The picture on the big screen suddenly shook violently.
That's the result of being affected by the shock wave.
The footage switched again, to a camera 500 kilometers away.
After the shock wave spread, a huge mushroom cloud rose from the ground where the shells landed.
Looking at the mushroom cloud that covered the sky, everyone finally realized that their previous guesses about power were all wrong.
At this time, the impact report from the Roboper range was also sent to the test launch command center.
"Report, the 10-kilometer target has been completely destroyed!"
"Report, the 100-kilometer target has been determined to be destroyed!"
"Report, 300 km target is seriously damaged!"
"Report, 1000 km observation point hit!"
Listening to the reports that kept sounding on the radio, there was silence in the command room
Even the observation point a thousand kilometers away can be impacted, so powerful that everyone fell into deep consternation
At that time, the impact range of the shock wave was only 20 kilometers, and the killing radius was only 12 kilometers.
In the history of mankind, there has been only one hydrogen bomb, which has reached a range of 1,000 kilometers.
Zheng Qingshan and Zheng Lao slowly said the name of the super hydrogen bomb.
"Big Ivan."
Big Ivan, also known as the Tsar Bomba, is the largest hydrogen bomb in human history and the largest man-made explosive in history.
The explosive yield is 50 million tons of TNT
Big Ivan was a super hydrogen bomb designed by Mao Xiong back then, and it was only tested once, which caused panic throughout the Western world.
And the superconducting electromagnetic cannon developed by Jiang Yuanzhou has achieved the lethality of the big Ivan level with one shot! .