"The dehumidification barrel is filled with calcium chloride provided by the alkali production plant, which can absorb water vapor in the air," Qi Krylong said: "Once ammonium nitrate gets wet, it may harden and become very troublesome, so the workshop must be well controlled.
Humidity. Look over there—"
The conveyor belt is lined with warhead casings brought by horses. Although they are the latest 75mm breech-loaded artillery shells. The appearance of these black iron bumps has been turned and polished, and shines with dark reflections. Of course, it is not as attractive as the bright golden color on the gun and bullet assembly line.
Moreover, in order to save costs, the commander changed the ammunition belt from copper to lead alloy, which looked black and gray. Ruibao followed Qi Krypton's direction and saw the female workers putting a bag on the open end of the top of the shell.
A funnel-like thing was sent to a machine. It stretched out a threaded metal rod downwards and penetrated deep into the body of the projectile through the funnel. When the motor sounded, the threaded rod began to spin. Ruibao approached curiously.
, I saw that the spiral pipe on the machine continuously discharged light yellow powder particles to the mouth of the funnel. They first accumulated at the mouth of the funnel, and soon sank into the shell shell as the threaded rod rotated, and disappeared.
"Is this gunpowder?" Mai Ruibao stared at the small particles that were white and yellow, shaped like crumbs. He couldn't associate this kind of broken rice flour with gunpowder, explosives and the like.
"It's 80/20 Amato." Seeing Mai Ruibao's confusion, Qi Krypton continued to explain: "A mixture of ammonium nitrate and TNT. Ammonium nitrate accounts for 80% of the mass. It is an explosive close to zero oxygen balance. So.
The explosion is so violent, compared to black powder," Qi Krylong blinked his eyes mischievously: "It's just a ground rat."
Before he finished speaking, the screw began to buzz and rotate in the opposite direction, gradually pulling out of the projectile upwards, and the spiral tube-shaped delivery port no longer discharged explosive particles. "Comrade reporter, this is a spiral charger.
The automatic charging can simultaneously compress the explosives, increase the charge density and thereby increase the explosive power of the shells." The loaded shells were transferred into the anti-explosion room. Through the glass Ruibao saw some workers operating on the heads of the shells with knives, and then used
The brush is dipped in some kind of liquid and applied on it. "The mouth of the drug surface needs to be scraped flat, and a hole to accommodate the explosive tube needs to be drilled. After everything is completed, a layer of asphalt paint must be painted on the drug surface to isolate water vapor, because ammonium nitrate is too easy to
It’s absorbing moisture.”
Sun Shangxiang suddenly spoke to Qi Krypton: "Comrade, have you been working here?" Mai Ruibao suddenly remembered that this was Miss Sun's first visit to a naturalized staff member since Xiacheng Railway: "Excuse me, do you love
Is this a job?”
"How could I not love it? Teacher Qi taught me all his knowledge and led me on the path of studying chemical engineering. How could I not love everything that Teacher Qi taught me and the work where I can apply this knowledge?"
Qi Krylong's little face turned red again: "Comrade reporter, if you know about explosives, you will know that they are very interesting and cute." She raised her finger and pointed to the conveyor belt that came out of the explosion-proof room, and disappeared with the shells.
At the end of the factory: "As long as they pass the quality inspection and are equipped with fuses, it is equivalent to the child you gave birth to finally reaching adulthood, and you can wait for him to show his talents one day."
Miss Sun frowned and put her pen down on the interview notebook but didn't write down a single word. She obviously didn't understand Qi Krylong's answer at all. The interview couldn't go on any longer. In order to ease the embarrassing situation, Mai Ruibao had no choice but to talk.
Open the topic: "This automated loading of artillery shells is highly efficient and fast, but can the production of new explosives keep up? Will black powder be used again?"
"Teacher Qi said that the productivity of specialization is currently only a small test. Even according to the current chemical production, the 80/20 Amato produced in one year can load at least 10,000 rounds of 75mm shells. After Danzhou's chemical industry is completed,
, it can load more than 200,000 rounds of 75 artillery shells every year. In fact, it doesn't use that many at all, because half of the artillery shells are shrapnel shells, and that one only uses black powder." Qi Krylong talked about it in excitement, leading Mai Ruibao and
Sun Shangxiang walked into the adjacent factory building: "Come and take a look here, the charging process is simpler."
What is transported on the conveyor belt in this workshop is wooden sockets, and the sockets are neatly arranged with small shiny steel columns. Ruibao learned from Qi Krylong that this is the grenade body of the Type 34 machine gun, with the head opening.
There was also a funnel for charging the medicine. Gradually, the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became: the workers pushed the flatbed trolleys one after another, opened the "insulation buckets" on them, scooped out a yellow "oil" and divided them into
When he arrived at several buckets, he poured them into the funnel one by one. He looked closer: there were scales painted on the inner walls of the buckets to facilitate quantitative operations by workers, and the "butter" remaining at the bottom of the buckets was still steaming, as if it had melted.
Soap. Chairman Wang on the side was very interested and asked Chief Qi: "What kind of explosive is poured in?"
"Tip Black 70/30, 30% RDX."
"Specialization can already produce RDX?"
"Pharmaceutical factories have long been supplying methenamine. The production of RDX from nitrated methenamine is not a complicated process, but the consumption of nitric acid is too large, which is not economical compared with TNT. We now mainly produce RDX.
Explosive charges. The navy requires that the machine gun must be able to blast the fire attack ship as soon as possible, so it has to give them an advantage." Qi Chuqin was talking vigorously, but suddenly a female voice interrupted him, and everyone's eyes were focused on Sun Shangxiang.
, she raised her leg and bumped into the bucket on the trolley while walking, and was burned so hard that she screamed in pain. "Hey, little girl, please pay attention, there is a steam pipe connected there." Only then did Mai Ruibao notice that there was a steam pipe standing next to the conveyor belt.
An iron pipe with a valve is connected to the joint of the "insulation bucket" - it turns out that the interlayer of the bucket is filled with high-temperature steam, "this can keep the ladder black mixture in a molten state."
Sun Shangxiang refused Mai Ruibao's offer to take a rest and limped behind the leaders. Chairman Wang commented: "This technology is very good, it relies less on professional equipment, and it is easy to expand production.
"
"In my opinion, the casting method is simple and efficient," Qi Chuqin said passionately as always: "I can completely modify Amato's formula and increase the TNT content to 40% or 50%, which will be a very suitable explosive for casting. Army Mountain
, field artillery and naval artillery shells are all converted to casting methods, and the production efficiency can be doubled several times. In short, if we need more TNT, please ask the Planning Institute to allocate more quotas for nitric acid and sulfuric acid, so that we can have enough supply with a specialized TNT continuous production line.
"
"Chief, I have a question." Sun Shangxiang suddenly asked, "Why do these, um, explosives produced by our Song Dynasty have such weird names? These names are Tien Ti, Urotropin, and RDX. They are all
How did it come about?"
"Well, these are basically the English abbreviations of the chemical formulas of these products..."
"Since they are all made by our Song Dynasty, why do we use English abbreviations?"
Sun Shangxiang's soul-piercing article caused Qi Chuqin to shut down his computer instantly.
He has taught the naming principles of compounds, such as why it is called trinitrotoluene, but no one has really asked how it got its trade name. So far, even his most capable and closest disciples have not asked.
passed this question.
Seeing that Qi, Chu and Qin were speechless, Wang Luobin immediately made up a paragraph. "This question is because English has its advantages in abbreviations, which are easy to write and remember. For a person who does not understand chemical engineering, TNT is easy to remember.
Where to live, or is trinitrotoluene easier to remember? So in Australia, many industries use English as abbreviations."
Qi Chuqin hurriedly said: "Chairman Wang is right." He thought to himself that Wang Luobin was worthy of being the chairman of the Senate. This nonsense is so good!
Sun Shangxiang opened her mouth. It seemed that the explanation just now did not completely convince her, but in the end she did not ask any more questions.
"Before I came here, I specifically learned from Comrade Wu De that the first-phase goal of the joint logistics arsenals in terms of armaments is to produce 100,000 rounds of new guns and 10,000 rounds of new explosive artillery shells per year. I was very moved during today's on-site visit. Comrades
I was assigned to a remote place in a remote country, and I was able to create such a big business and achieve the set goals in less than three years. I am really amazed and regret that I have been away from the production line for too long." At the lunch table, Chairman Wang said
He spoke eloquently: "There are indeed some comrades in the central government who are worried that investing too much resources in armament will cause waste and will affect the development of other economic sectors. Some people gave an example: The Japanese only fired 43,000 rounds of artillery shells to win the Sino-Japanese War of 1898. The Ming Dynasty did not
Huai Army, there is no Beiyang Fleet, why does the Senate have to have so many artillery shells and ammunition? I don't think so. The Japanese Army used 6 divisions and sent out a total of 170,000 troops, not counting the combined fleet. The Fubo Army can keep up with this number.
A fraction of that? If we don’t have enough people, we have to consider expanding the advantages of artillery shells and explosives.”
"I can tell everyone here clearly that according to reliable intelligence, the military threat from the Ming Dynasty court is imminent, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is also very likely to enter the country according to historical inertia. The struggle situation faced by the Senate is complex and arduous, but today I see you struggling
Achievements, we are fully guaranteed to achieve comprehensive victory at a relatively small cost..."
Mai Ruibao and other naturalized people accompanying him were sitting at another dining table. He was confused by Chairman Wang's words, but the word "Manchu" made him tremble all over. He could hardly hold his chopsticks. Thinking back
Qi Krylong just visited the quality inspection room at the ammunition factory. He pointed at a 75mm artillery shell that was sawed in half vertically, pointed out the distribution of explosives on the cross section, and continued to explain the knowledge of artillery shell charging.
By the way, I complained that the wall thickness of the projectile made of malleable cast iron material is too large, which takes up a lot of charging space and limits the power of the projectile: "Teacher Qi taught that high-strength forged steel projectiles can greatly reduce the wall thickness, and the shells of the same caliber can be loaded with
The amount of medicine can be increased by 1 to 2 times, and the killing fragments will also be greatly increased——"