When the group walked into the workshop, they saw two technicians assembling a cylindrical object on the workbench.
This cylindrical object is more than one meter long and has a caliber of about 80mm. Liu Yi, Lu Xiufeng and other senior officers were a little dumbfounded when they saw it. They thought, is this a fucking weapon? Is it just an iron pipe? The only difference
There is a vertical handle installed on one side of the iron pipe. How does it look like a large cigarette?
However, Yue Weihan was shocked after seeing it.
As a time traveler, Yue Weihan recognized it at a glance. This thing was simply a man-portable rocket launcher!
After the outbreak of World War II, rocket launchers quickly replaced anti-tank artillery as the first choice of infantry anti-armor weapons, but now, it seems that this thing has not yet come out.
In Yue Weihan's memory, rocket launchers should have appeared long ago. Even several field heavy artillery brigades of the Japanese Kwantung Army were equipped with heavy rocket launchers. However, the world's first man-portable rocket launcher should have been made by the Americans in 1942.
It was invented in 2010, which is almost four years away from now.
It seems that Yue Weihan's time travel has triggered a butterfly effect.
Pi Xiaocheng didn't know that Yue Weihan knew this thing, so he introduced it proudly: "General seat, outside Xinjing, I have seen Japan's heavy rocket launcher. The principle of that thing is actually very simple, but it is very powerful.
"Later, I saw that when brothers encountered Japanese chariots on the battlefield, they usually had to rely on anti-tank artillery to stop them."
"Once the anti-tank artillery fails to arrive in time, the brothers can only rush up with explosive bags. Sometimes, even sacrificing more than a dozen brave officers and soldiers in succession may not be able to blow up a Japanese tank and let
It’s not fun to be a stranger, so I thought, why can’t we design a man-portable anti-tank gun for our brothers?”
"What are you talking about?" Chi Chengfeng's eyes widened and he didn't believe it. "His grandma's is just an iron pipe. I can squeeze it into a ball and use it to fight tank guns?"
"Brigadier Chi, don't believe it." Pi Xiaocheng said, "I have seen the power of the Jaap heavy rocket launcher. The range is as far as seven or eight kilometers. The power is really incredible. One explosion will destroy a large area. Then
The scene was like a volcanic eruption, but the heavy rocket launchers fired grenades, but I think it would be OK to switch to armor-piercing projectiles."
"What did you say? Seven or eight kilometers?" Chi Chengfeng became more and more disbelieving, "Just brag."
"Seven or eight kilometers is the range of a heavy rocket launcher." Pi Xiaocheng said with a wry smile, "I am called a man-portable rocket launcher. The caliber is only 80mm, and it fires armor-piercing projectiles. The range must be much closer than that of grenades, but I think,
Hitting a target a hundred meters away shouldn’t be a problem.”
"A hundred meters away?" Chi Chengfeng still shook his head and said, "I don't believe it."
Liu Yi, Lu Xiufeng, Cao Xinglong and others also shook their heads, expressing disbelief.
But Yue Weihan knew that Pi Xiaocheng was definitely not talking nonsense. The range of the rocket launcher was only between 100 meters and 200 meters. He immediately suggested: "Mr. Pi, since these bumpkins don't believe it, let them see it."
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"This..." Pi Xiaocheng was a little embarrassed. He had just completed the design of this thing, and he had only produced two test rounds of armor-piercing bombs. If the test failed, would it affect Yue Weihan of the Research Institute?
Status? If the funding of the scientific research institute is cut off by Yue Weihan in the future, it will really kick the bucket.
"Let's go, Mr. Pi, don't tell me you don't have a shooting range here!" Yue Weihan knew that it was almost impossible to fail the test launch.
The principle of the rocket launcher is actually very simple. The launch tube is just an iron pipe. It has no technical content at all. It can even be replaced by a bamboo tube or a wooden tube.
To put it bluntly, the most core rocket is a two-stage rocket. The first stage rocket is a booster. The academic name is quite mysterious. What is it called a rocket engine? In fact, it uses the airflow generated by the combustion of gunpowder to eject the reverse thrust generated by the tail.
Pushing the rocket out is, to put it bluntly, just like a firecracker, it's that simple.
As for the second stage rocket, it is actually the warhead of the artillery shell.
As a Ph.D. in electromechanical and chemical engineering, Pi Xiaocheng designed such a rocket launcher with no technical content at all. Isn’t it a piece of cake? The only limiting factor may be the original inspiration. Some things are simple, but in
Designers can’t design anything until their inspiration is triggered.
But now, the design inspiration has been triggered, and nothing else is a problem.
Yue Weihan had already talked about this, and Pi Xiaocheng could no longer shirk it. He immediately asked two technicians to bring the launchers, and he solemnly took out two rockets from the safe, and then took Yue Weihan with him
The others went straight to the shooting range. The shooting range of Taihang Arsenal is located deep in Cangyan Mountain. It is surrounded by cliffs on three sides and has only one canyon for entry. It is very secret.
As soon as they entered the shooting range, Chi Chengfeng and others discovered that a scrapped Japanese Type 95 light tank had been parked on the shooting range.
"His grandma, I didn't expect that you two devils were already prepared." Chi Chengfeng curled his lips, but his expression was still unbelievable.
Pi Xiaocheng was not angry, and asked two technicians to place steel plates on the front armor of the Japanese Type 95 light tank. The steel plates were 5mm thick, and a total of twenty steel plates were placed.
The staff stopped and Liu Yi said in confusion: "Mr. Pi, what are you doing?"
Pi Xiaocheng said: "The armor of the Japanese chariot is too thin. Let's reinforce it first."
"Damn it, you still need to reinforce it?" Even Niu Dagen didn't believe it now, "Just pretend."
Pi Xiaocheng didn't explain much. After asking the technicians to fix the steel plate, he retreated a hundred meters away with the rocket launcher.
Seeing that Pi Xiaocheng was serious, Chi Chengfeng, Niu Dagen and others also quickly retreated a hundred meters away. Although they didn't believe that the thing on Pi Xiaocheng's shoulder could really penetrate the Japanese chariot, but if it was used to penetrate their
I guess there shouldn't be any problem with my body, so it's better to retreat to a safe distance.
Pi Xiaocheng loaded the rocket, then knelt down on one knee and began to aim.
Chi Chengfeng, Niu Dagen and others immediately held their breath. The next moment, Pi Xiaocheng calmly pulled the trigger. Suddenly, a violent plume of smoke spurted out from the tail of the rocket launcher, weighing two or three kilograms.
The heavy projectile had already dragged its long tail and drew a gentle arc in the air, roaring towards the Japanese tank a hundred meters away.
Chi Chengfeng and others were shocked when they saw this, but soon they started laughing again.
Pi Xiaocheng's shot failed to hit the target. Because the armor-piercing projectile weighed two kilograms and its flight trajectory was an obvious arc. Pi Xiaocheng aimed directly without leaving any margin, so the rocket only flew forward.
After fifty meters, they all fell to the ground, leaving only a big hole in the ground. The hole looked quite scary.
However, Pi Xiaocheng was not discouraged and loaded a second rocket.
This time, Pi Xiaocheng consciously corrected the aiming angle of the rocket launcher. Another rocket roared out with a long tail flame. In the blink of an eye, it flew a hundred meters away and hit the Japanese tank head-on.
With just a bang, the Japanese chariot was swallowed up by a violent cloud of smoke.
After a while, the thick smoke cleared, and Chi Chengfeng and others rushed up as fast as possible.
After seeing the terrifying scene in front of them, Chi Chengfeng, Niu Dagen and others were all dumbfounded. They all opened their mouths wide. The caliber was enough to stuff an ostrich egg!
Pi Xiaocheng and the two technicians were also a little surprised. They did not expect such a terrible effect.
It was seen that the twenty reinforced 5mm thick steel plates had been completely penetrated. After piercing the steel plates, the armor-piercing bullet tore through the front armor of the Japanese tank, forming a huge hole with a damage diameter of more than 500mm in the wall of the vehicle.
The interior cab, commander's cabin and ammunition magazine were completely destroyed.
Yue Weihan could not help but feel shocked, and immediately began to feel uneasy again.
In fact, as early as when the 39th Army first settled in Jingxingguan, that is, before the liberation of Shanxi, he had already considered putting a simple rocket launcher production line in the arsenal. However, after careful consideration, Yue Weihan finally gave up because of this
The risk is too great!
The scale of the Taihang Arsenal is limited, and it cannot run a few production lines at full capacity.
However, the industrial base of the Japanese army is by no means comparable to that of the Nationalist government, and the Taihang Arsenal is even more difficult to match. Once the Japanese army obtains the "man-portable rocket launcher" four years in advance, the American devils on the Pacific battlefield in the future will
I'm afraid I'll have to suffer a lot, and maybe the outcome of the Battle of Nomenkan will have to be rewritten.
Some people want to say, wouldn't it be enough to strengthen confidentiality measures and prevent the little devils from mastering the manufacturing process?
Of course not, this is just a child's dream! As mentioned before, the rocket launcher actually has no technical content at all. Once the national army goes into actual combat, the little devil's military technicians can know what is going on just by looking at it. They don't need it at all.
By seizing the samples, a man-portable rocket launcher with better performance can be designed.
For the Chinese army, it doesn't matter, because the Chinese army doesn't have many armored targets for the Japanese army to shoot at. If it is used to suppress infantry firepower, rocket launchers may not be as effective as small-caliber mortars. The Tumen Fortress
Bunker fortifications may face serious threats, but this threat is not insurmountable.
However, for the American devils, especially Lao Maozi's armored forces, it would be a disaster!
You can imagine that when hundreds of Japanese infantrymen are carrying rocket launchers and ambushing in the jungle or in trenches dug in advance, a group of tanks from the American devils or old men are running over them without knowing it, and then hundreds of rounds are fired.
If the rockets are fired together, the American tank group or the tank group may be completely destroyed.
It is simply impossible for the tank clusters of the American devils or old men to withstand the saturation attack of individual rocket launchers.
Even the smallest-caliber rocket has an armor-piercing thickness of more than 100mm. However, the armor thickness of the most advanced T-34 main battle tank, which was officially equipped by the Soviet Army only 40 years ago, is only 18-60mm.