Although Su Xiaomei was a little worried that the accuracy of the rocket artillery projectile could not be controlled to the extent that she was satisfied, Liu Lang slapped Zhao Ergou's expectant eyes, and finalized the "Storm" rocket launcher.

He knew very well in his heart that it would take decades for the future republic to improve the accuracy of rockets, and these future scientific and technological elites may be strong enough, but they also need enough time. However, Liu Lang did not have much time, and China did not have time to wait any longer, and war was imminent.

Now the work of the research project team is to assist the production department to start producing rockets in full force and to store enough ammunition for the upcoming war.

Since rocket artillery is a classified weapon, the Qinglong Machinery Factory, which is part of the Independent Regiment, will carefully select 30 skilled workers to form a production team and be stationed in a production workshop specially opened for them in the cave to produce ordinary and extended-range rockets.

All the workers were veteran workers who had spent more than five years in Liu's small machinery factory, and not only did the security department investigate their families again after the candidates were decided, but all those with immediate family members who had left Sichuan were excluded, and until the outbreak of the war, all workers were not allowed to go home to visit their relatives, and they were granted one day off every month, and their families could go to the camp to visit relatives inside the base for one day.

Of course, the management is very strict, but the pay is also very high. The families of all the selected workers can have a free house in the "Shuguang" town, and the monthly salary is also three times that of the average skilled worker, and the children who want to join the army are also the priority objects, and those who want to go to school can also coordinate with the provincial government to study in the best schools in Rongcheng, and they can afford the salary that is now comparable to that of the officers of the independent regiment.

The workers are very well paid, not to mention the scientific research project team led by Su Xiaomei, who developed the main artillery of the independent regiment, not to mention the whole scientific research team of ten people, not to mention the 10,000 yuan of the ocean, and all of them won the silver "fearless" medal of the independent regiment, and Qian Wei, the deputy leader of the project team who risked great danger to test the ignition test of the experimental rocket artillery alone, was awarded the pure gold "hero" medal and a bonus of 2000 oceans, which was an honor that Su Xiaomei, the head of the project team, did not get.

However, judging from Su Xiaomei's sweet smile, Qian Wei won this award, not only was she not dissatisfied, but on the contrary, she was happier than she won the award.

Just like in the past time and space, no matter how amazing she is, she is still a woman, a woman with new science and Chinese tradition in her chest, her dream is just to accompany the people she loves deeply, spread her wings and fly together, and contribute her own strength to her country and nation.

Qian Wei is also worthy of being the greatest scientific and technological master of the future republic who can make "Chinese Marie Curie" fall in love, or perhaps the successful development of rockets gave him inspiration, less than a month after the Storm rocket launcher was finalized, with the assistance of Captain Skinnah, who was hired by Liu Lang with heavy money, it was almost a complete imitation of the bazooka that the American genius rocket expert Dr. Goddard had successfully tested in 1918.

However, this bazooka is not amazing when it comes out, but it has been disliked by all the school officials who tested it except Liu Lang.

A rather simple individual bazooka, which is different from the feeling that his subordinates dislike, Liu Lang, who has regained the feeling of carrying 40 fires, has shown enough interest.

Liu Tuanzuo was expressionless and secretly happy, but Zhao Ergou and the others who accompanied Liu Lang to the experiment were difficult to laugh.

This rudimentary bazooka is not to say that it is completely scum, and if you hit two consecutive shots within an effective range of 150 meters, you can still destroy a sandbag fortification. Three years ago, they would have been fools.

It's just that it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, and it's hard to go from luxury to frugality, and the officers, who already have semi-automatic rifles, a large number of mortars, and rocket artillery, a secret weapon, have become more and more dizzy about the choice of weapon tastes.

If they could, they would rather their soldiers push 200-kilogram infantry guns or 37mm anti-aircraft guns to fight the tanks and fortifications of the little devils, rather than carry this humble thing with an effective range of only 150 meters to fight the machine guns of the little devils with bayonets.

Of course, he has his reasons, but this kind of individual bazooka has a short range and insufficient power. The bazooka of Qian Wei's project team could not even penetrate the sandbag-covered field fortifications at a distance of 200 meters, and even missed the target. At 100 to 150 meters, the threat to soldiers increases dramatically.

In fact, this is one of the important reasons why the US military circles do not attach importance to bazookas.

The technical essence of the bazooka is also in the rocket. The elastic performance of the rocket designed by Qian Wei is actually better than that of Dr. Goddard, the father of rocketry in the United States. It also relied on rocket fuel to generate thrust, although the fuel was almost the same as the 18 kg class of the Tempest, but the weight of the projectile was reduced to 3 kg because it was easier for soldiers to carry. More than a kilogram of fuel is required, and with the weight of the projectile body, the warhead has less than a kilogram of explosives.

However, it is clear that bazooka rockets and rocket artillery, which are used as individual weapons to break the fortification, are different from those that rely on concentrated fire to form a storm of bombs and cause damage to people and objects on the ground.

Rocket fuel obviously cannot be as powerful as the propellant of a conventional artillery shell, capable of producing a huge propulsion. So the muzzle velocity of a rocket is much less than that of a conventional artillery shell. The power of the shell has a lot to do with its speed, and the faster the discharge, the more powerful it is. If the muzzle velocity of the rocket is so low, the penetration will naturally be low.

And the characteristics of the individual bazooka also lead to a weakening of power. Because the advantage of rockets is that they can continue to ignite and burn, providing continuous propulsion, even after flying out of the rocket launcher, it can still continue to burn for a long time. The rocket's ejection velocity may not be too high, but it can continue to accelerate so that it should be very high until it hits the target.

Unfortunately, as an infantry bazooka could not do this. Because once the rocket flies out of the steel tube and continues to burn, the resulting rear tail flame will inevitably burn the rocket launcher.

If it is on a stationary platform like rocket artillery, because there is no one nearby, the burn will be burned, and it will not affect at all. But it is impossible for a single rocket launcher to do this. Infantry uses rocket fuel, which must be burned before the rocket leaves the steel pipe. This means that there is no sustained thrust, and the muzzle velocity of the rocket is naturally slow, and the range cannot be very long.

Finally, since this kind of bazooka needs to be carried by individual soldiers, it means that the caliber cannot be very large, and the larger the caliber, the thicker the steel pipe and the heavier the weight.

In fact, the bazooka itself has no scientific and technological content, just like the artillery mount of rocket artillery, in fact, it is just a seamless steel tube, providing aiming and firing direction for the rocket that is about to be launched.

As a "super fan" who is extremely obsessed with individual bazookas, Skinnay has a complete soft spot for the 51-caliber bazooka originally set by Dr. "Goddard", and the bazooka designed by the bazooka project team is also a 51-caliber bazooka.

The rate of fire of a rocket is much less than that of an artillery shell, and the armor against a tank cannot rely on speed to produce large penetration, but only on the power of the warhead. According to the 51 mm caliber, even if the rocket warhead is equipped with high-energy yellow explosives that can be produced by the military industry of the independent regiment, its armor-piercing power can only reach about 10 mm.

Obviously, this individual bazooka learned by the Americans has high expectations, but the actual effect is average, and it requires at least a two-person group, one with a bazooka, and the other with rockets, which increases a lot of manpower expenditure, and is far from being more practical than a 37-millimeter anti-aircraft gun or a twin-mounted machine gun, which is really a bit of a chicken rib.

In this regard, Captain Skinner was also very helpless and disappointed, thinking that when he came to China, he would have a leap forward in the technology of his individual rocket launcher project under the great investment of this Chinese "warlord", but he did not expect that there was still no big breakthrough, and the power of the bazooka abandoned by the old stubborn generals was about the same, even if the trajectory of the rocket was straighter and more accurate than the design of the genius Dr. Goddard, it was the same as an anti-tank gun, and the power was still insufficient.

You must know that now the thickness of the armor of the main battle tanks of various countries has reached 50 mm or even more.

After the officers of the Independent Regiment shook their heads and expressed their disappointment with the "advanced" technology he had brought from the United States, Captain Skinnay resigned from Liu Lang and flew to Nanjing three days later via a passenger plane from Chengdu Airport and then transferred to Shanghai, from which he returned to the United States.

Everyone, including several developers, didn't know that Liu Tuanzuo, who had been secretly having fun, laughed alone in the regiment headquarters several times.

According to the power of his test launch at the test site, although the individual bazooka that Qian Wei conspired up was far from being able to break through the 100 mm armor of the US army's "Bazooka" rocket launcher that could break through 100 mm of armor five years later, which was patented by Swiss immigrant Mohaupt, and at most could penetrate 6 to 8 mm of armor, this had already reached Liu Lang's expectations.

Liu Lang, who is familiar with the history of the development of the "Bazooka" bazooka, had already quietly ordered Fan Dashao, who was in the United States, to find the immigrant Mohaupt to buy a patent for conical explosives, but he did not tell Qian Wei about this and apply it to the rockets of the bazooka.

Very simply, the development of individual rocket launchers has the presence of American Skinnay, and Liu Lang cannot let him return to the United States with the technology that can penetrate 100 mm of armor. If the Bazooka had been launched before 1939, it remains to be seen whether the tanks of the Third Reich would have been able to sweep across France.

If the Third Reich can't beat the whole of Europe to the ground, the Great Powers may look to the East, the continent where they once made countless riches, after cleaning up the mustaches of the Third Reich.

If it weren't for the fact that Japan had completely turned its face with them because of the oil resources in Southeast Asia, the European powers, which also needed to expand their own interests after cleaning up the powerful enemy, might have set their sights on the rich land of China to a group of greedy wolves.

China has tried its best to resist the wolf of Japan, and if such a group of tigers and leopards who want to get a piece of the pie are added, the end may be much more tragic than in the time and space of the past. Semi-colonial societies may have to endure even longer, as the countries of Southeast Asia and India have proven in time and space that the consequences of colonization are the source of incomplete stability for the country, whether it is a large number of parties or a chaotic religious and cultural belief.

And if this kind of result happens in China, the warlords in the early years of the Republic of China are the end of China in the future, and Western countries will never care how many people will die in China because of the war, they will just support one side of the force, and then lie on the rich land of China like a group of vampires to absorb all the essence of the land, all kinds of material raw materials, and all kinds of rare mineral deposits, until the resources on this land are clean.

In Liu Lang's view, China only needs one ruling party, and that is the Red Party. Although he also has shortcomings of one kind or another, they have succeeded in making the order of such a country with a large population and a huge area stable, gradually increasing its national strength, and allowing the Chinese nation to make its voice heard on the world stage.

Therefore, Liu Lang has never interfered in the technical research and development of individual rocket launchers, but handed them over to the chief technical adviser and Qian Wei's scientific research team to carry out independently.

Actually, they have done a good enough job of copycats that are better than the originals that the Americans already have.