Chapter 639: Affordable Artifact
The top and bottom are divided into three rows, each row of 4 gun barrels is mounted on a two-wheeled chassis, dragging a long tow bar, this is the image presented in front of Comrade Lao Ye and the three future scientific and technological elites.
Unheard of, this was the first impression that came to the minds of the four people, but it seemed a little familiar.
"This is, a swarm of bees from the Shenji Battalion?" After staring at the drawings for a long time, Xiong Zhen looked at Liu Lang hesitantly.
Liu Lang couldn't help but give this a thumbs up, worthy of being a future red military industry expert, and saw through the essence of rocket artillery at a glance.
Indeed, the Katyusha developed by the polar bear applies the principle of the war artifact ---- the magic arrow developed by the Chinese ancestors 600 years ago.
As early as the early Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the Chinese nation had begun to equip the most powerful gunpowder weapon on the earth at that time---- the magic arrow, don't look at its structure is very simple, almost similar to the modern fireworks monkey, that is, an arrow is tied to gunpowder that can provide thrust, relying on the thrust of gunpowder to kill and injure the enemy.
However, even in the future, the various rockets developed by human countries that have left the earth and entered the universe are no different from the magic arrows, and the only change may be that the gunpowder that boosts the boost has become a more advanced fuel.
And the swarm of bees that Xiong Zhen said is the proof that the Chinese ancestors developed the war artifact and the concept of war to the pinnacle of the earth in that era.
Because of technical limitations, the magic arrow, like the rockets developed by humans 600 years later, has enough lethality but lacks accuracy under the help of gunpowder. If the accuracy is not enough, then make up for it with quantity. The accuracy of a single shot is not good, so firing a group at the same time to hit one side can make up for this shortcoming! The wisdom of the ancestors makes many modern people only worship.
"A swarm of bees" came into being, a box of 40 arrows, lined up in front of the array, ten boxes can cover hundreds of zhang square, that is probably also China's earliest artillery tactics, but also for the first time put forward the concept of covering strikes.
Liu Lang still remembers the admiration in his eyes when the old professor of the Nanjing Command College told the class about the world-leading equipment and tactical concepts created by the Chinese ancestors 600 years ago.
The rocket launcher painted by Liu Lang is a gun developed by the Republic thirty years later, which was dominant at that time and even in the next few decades---- Type 63 107 rocket launcher.
The caliber of 107 mm is 385 kg in the marching state, the total weight in the combat state is 613 kg, the weight of a single ammunition is 18.8 kg, and the Type 63 107 rocket launcher with a maximum range of 8.5 kilometers is listed as the three most famous conventional weapons in the world.
Whether it was in the Vietnam War or Afu Khan, the 107 rocket launcher was a weapon and equipment that the opponent heard of.
Let's take a look at the power of the 107 gun, which has 12 launch tubes and can complete a salvo in less than ten seconds, which is equivalent to the effect of a 12-gun salvo of a howitzer battalion. The 18.8-kilogram rocket has a kill radius of up to 12 meters.
If you just say that it is powerful, it is really underestimating the military industry of the future republic.
The principle of rocket artillery and howitzer firing is different, the rocket launched by rocket artillery flies by the thrust of its own engine, and does not require a complex anti-recoil device, so the structure of the launcher is simple and lightweight. To put it bluntly, this cannon body is the box used by the ancestors to install divine arrows 600 years ago.
The volume of the entire 107 rocket launcher, plus the tow bar, is no more than 2.6 meters long, 1.4 meters wide, 1.1 meters high, and less than 400 kilograms without loading.
But this alone is not enough to describe the excellence of this gun, the most bullish design of the military industry of the Republic is that this gun can be disassembled and fired. What do you mean? It's twelve barrels, you can disassemble four to fire separately, or you can disassemble two to fire, and even if you disassemble one barrel, the design of a 20-kilogram barrel plus an 18.8-kilogram rocket is enough for a strong soldier to burden and give your enemy an 18.8-kilogram rocket from several kilometers away.
You say your enemies will not be "surprised". Properly frightened! In fact, in the North Vietnamese battlefield, those guys did this, 6 107 rocket launchers were dismantled by a special battalion and quietly transported to 6 kilometers outside the US GI airfield, and then 6 rocket artillery 72 rockets covered the airport within ten seconds, the entire airport was in flames, and the final casualty statistics All the planes were destroyed is still a trivial matter, and the casualties of thousands of officers and soldiers are the pain in the hearts of American cowboys.
Why does the US psychological warfare department call the three major conventional weapons, led by the 107 rocket artillery, "low-tech, low-price, and low-quality personnel"? That's because, since the advent of the three famous light weapons produced by the military industry of the Republic, which account for two-thirds of them, the army of that country has not suffered more from these three weapons, which claim to be the world's policemen. Whether it was the Vietnam War or later Ilak and Afu Khan, the shadow of the 107 rocket artillery has always shrouded the American GIs who were armed to the teeth.
Even, it wasn't until those pious desert warriors wrapped in white cannons opened the back cover of the rocket and fired a 107 rocket at the enemy's base with two batteries and a piece of wire, that everyone knew what it meant that the Chinese had to draw a ruler on the rocket.
The American GIs who had run five or six kilometers to look for the enemy who had already fled had already cursed in their hearts for being "paralyzed." How could anyone carry a shell and launch it on their own? However, the 107 artillery really did it, the design of the Republic Military Industry and the old cannon of decades ago, even before Liu Lang crossed, not only active in major battlefields around the world, but even the Republic Army, which has become more and more modernized, has a small number of 107 artillery pieces in service in special forces.
Produced by the military industry of the Republic, it is absolutely trustworthy, how could Liu Lang not think of this cannon? Moreover, the best explanation is that this kind of thing called rocket artillery was not something that Liu Lang came up with by himself, whether it was the ancestors 600 years ago, or the red polar bear that already had the concept of rockets at this time, they all had the prototype of rocket artillery. Although the red polar bear did not create the world-famous Katyusha rocket launcher until after the start of the war.
"That's right, this is the main artillery of my future independent regiment, how about a few of them?" Liu Lang asked with a smile.
"Shouldn't this be the inspiration I got from our ancestors' divine arrows! It should also not be the design of the Europeans, who made artillery with an emphasis on accuracy, and where did this come from? If you don't get permission to design weapons, I'm afraid you'll be in trouble, but this thing is not a light weapon like a machine gun. After a short period of surprise, Ye Qisun looked at Liu Lang with a smile on his face.
"Hehe, if you want to talk about copycats, foreign hairy people have copied our Chinese gunpowder for hundreds of years, and they haven't looked at the patent royalties that give us. Don't worry, Professor Ye, they are still experimenting, to be honest, I don't even bother to use their black and thick design that only pursues firepower coverage. Liu Lang pointed to the north and laughed.
"Although I don't know where you came from to dig up such a secret design over there, I have to warn you that this is extremely taboo for all countries, and if you are caught, it will be 。。。。。 Let the people over there be careful, those who can get these treasures can also be talents. Ye Qisun reminded Liu Lang solemnly, and looked at the fire paper in front of him with a smile.
Needless to say, the concept of rocket artillery is definitely an epoch-making work of this time period.
Liu Lang smiled slightly, the kind-hearted old Comrade Ye was worried in vain, the "spy" of the bull fork has always been in his head, if it weren't for the fact that China's current industrial base is too poor, whether it is metal smelting or sending power, he even wants to build a 99 tank out, and the future main battle tank of the Republic can beat the little devil's little bean Ding out.
Unfortunately, that's just a thought.
At present, it is the truth that this affordable artifact is developed first.