815. New Hope
As for the research on the third generation of high-energy incendiary bombs, the progress is actually quite smooth.
After all, the things you need are not strange things, the materials you need can basically be found on the side of the road, the key is to concentrate, compress, and then seal and confine.
In order for the third-generation incendiary bomb to have the explosive effect of a "cloud burst bomb", the detonator becomes the key.
It must be safe, but also more powerful than TNT, so that the high-energy fuel in the incendiary bomb can be burned at the same time at the moment of the explosion of the bomb.
The "safe explosive" that Bai Shujie is looking for is the most common chemical raw material - ammonium nitrate!
Ammonium nitrate is the least explosive susceptible explosive and is more blunt than the safety explosive C4. The C4, which is known as "safety explosives", can be detonated just by using a 6# detonator. However, an industrial 8# detonator cannot detonate ammonium nitrate mixed with sensitizer.
Ammonium nitrate is the most difficult nitric acid explosive to detonate, and the impact sensitivity is: 50 kg hammer, falling from a height of 50cm, the explosion probability of ammonium nitrate is 0.
The explosion sensitivity of the famous explosive nitroglycerin is 0.2 kg of iron hammer, falling from a height of 20 cm, and the sensitivity of 100% explosion, you can see the blunt sensitivity of ammonium nitrate. Moreover, once ammonium nitrate is dissolved in water, the detonation sensitivity is greatly reduced, and it is impossible for human power to hit and detonate.
However, the more difficult the explosive to detonate, the more powerful it is. Bai Shujie's Institute of Physical Chemistry has already refined ammonium nitrate and accumulated 7 tons.
For Bai Shujie, such a production speed is enough. In the aerial bomb, he used 2 kilograms at a time as the core of the explosion, which played the role of igniting napalm, and 1 ton of ammonium nitrate could produce 500 aerial bombs.
As for the ammunition medicine, there is not much ammunition, 1 kg can be loaded with shells for 3 105mm cannons, and 1 ton can produce 3000 shells.
The problem now is that if a single bomb can be used to destroy Ronan Fortress, Bai Shujie estimates that the weight of the incendiary agent in this bomb will reach at least 800 kilograms. Together with the bomb body and detonation device, it has reached 900 kg, and with the pylon, it is 1 ton.
Now there are bombers that simply have no way to mount. Although the Type 97 heavy bomber claims to be able to carry 1,000 kg of bombs, there is no hope until all the weapons inside are removed.
But Bai Shujie thinks that it is not safe, because the strength of the fuselage material of the Type 97 heavy bomber of the little devil is not enough, and the pylon mounted on the belly cannot bear such a weight.
Of course, if there are cruise missiles, it will solve the problem, but cruise missiles will have to wait for decades. Bai Shujie doesn't have missiles now, and at most he can only make trouble.
Large doses of aerial bombs could not be produced for the time being, so Bai Shujie began to deliberate on the possibility of the 82 recoilless gun.
The original first and second generation napalm have produced a small number of recoilless artillery shells, and the use effect is very good. Now in the third generation of napalm, Bai Shujie decided to produce infantry ammunition first.
With its own glass factory, optical sights have been produced in-house. Now DW82L (company-level support firepower) and DW82Y (battalion-level support firepower) are equipped with optical sights, and the effective strike range has been greatly increased.
On the reticle board in the scope, there are gauge reticles, ranging reticles, direction correction and reticulation of the advance measurement of transverse moving targets, and tachymeters. The magnification of the scope is 5.5x, the field of view is 28 Β°, the maximum firing range of the gauge is 800m, and the practical strike distance is 600.
The DW12.7 general-purpose machine gun used by the troops now uses an armor-piercing incendiary bomb as a heavy sniper, and the optical sight used has a magnification of 15 times, a field of view of 28 Β°, a maximum range of 3,600 meters, an effective strike distance of 2,400 meters, and an optimal strike distance of 1,500 meters for anti-armor.
"Report, Basket Celery is calling!"
Bai Shujie was drawing the shells of the new generation of recoilless guns, when Xiao Lamei suddenly came over and said, "Basket Caiqin, they have established an office in Houston according to your wishes, and they have now scattered all the students to study. β
The main thrust of her telegram was that negotiations for the B-17 bombers had progressed, and that if all payments were made in one lump sum, they would cost $175,000 each. Moreover, it was emphasized that the first batch of 6 aircraft could be delivered within three months if a lump sum payment was made. β
"It is said that this was ordered by the US Army Air Corps, and the original batch was 13 aircraft. However, after the Army Air Corps picked up the first batch of 7 aircraft, it did not pay for a year. Boeing is now in dire need of cash for raw materials, so they want to sell this batch. β
Bai Shujie did not hesitate: "Call back immediately: First, within three days after signing the agreement, pay off the full payment of $1.05 million." The prerequisite is that Boeing has to get an exit permit. Because the distance was more than 5,000 kilometers, Boeing had to find two transfer bases to allow landing and refueling to ensure that the planes could fly back. β
"Second, the nose jaw should be modified with a bubble-shaped turret, which can be equipped with a 12.7mm machine gun, or a 25mm aircraft gun. The bubble-shaped machine gun windows on both sides of the rear fuselage were changed to flat oval windows to reduce drag. The bubble-shaped machine gun mounts on the back and belly of the aircraft were changed to a rotatable metal turret, which required the ability to mount a 37mm cannon with 120 rounds of ammunition. β
"The 7.62 mm spherical machine gun mounts in the front of the fuselage were increased to five, including two on the left and right above the nose, one on the right side below, and one on each side of the porthole on each side of the nose. In addition to the adjustment of the layout of the weapons, it was necessary to add self-sealing fuel tanks and crew protection armor. The required fees will be settled separately, and the office will be supervised by a companion. β
Third, in order to avoid long nights, the office immediately rushed to find a site near Boeing to build a temporary hangar and runway to move the planes out. As soon as the Boeing-trained pilots graduate, fly the plane back. β
"Fourth, try your best to get in touch with the American Telegraph and Telephone Company and try to purchase a batch of communications equipment. The company is an outbound marketing business and has a lot of room for negotiation. In particular, transoceanic telegraph equipment and wireless telephone equipment must be obtained at any cost. As for air navigation equipment, it also needs to be patiently negotiated. β
"Fifth, we need a large number of state-of-the-art bulk electrical components, including various specifications of inductors, resistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, electrical frequency displays, spectrometers, oscilloscopes, filters, etc., as well as medical X-ray machines. All electronic products are the target of your purchase. β
"That's all for now!" Bai Shujie saw Xiao Lamei's strange face: "These are all scientific and technological knowledge, I said that you should go to the United States to study, but you said seasickness, and now when you see these terms, you are dizzy, right?" β
Xiao Lamei said embarrassedly: "People also want to go to school, but that English is really difficult to speak, much more difficult than the words of the little devil." Oh yes, that Payne also telegraphed. He said that an office had been opened in Busan, south of the country, and that the first batch of antibiotics had been sold, and asked about the quantity of the second shipment and the time to pick it up. β
"Sue sΓΉ he sent a representative here, we need his people here to communicate face-to-face. With regard to the volume of supply, it increased by 20% every month. All payments will be made to the account of the Houston office. In addition, Wang Xinlan was given electricity, and all their income over there, except for Germany, was also put into the account of the Houston office in the United States. β
Xiao Lamei nodded: "Wang Xinlan has now arrived in the UK, and the last time Horst returned, the 20,000 antibiotics he took with him were said to have not been sold in the market at all. At the same time, half of the 10,000 sticks brought to Wang Xinlan were swallowed, making it difficult for Wang Xinlan to get in the UK. β
Bai Shujie smiled and said: "Whether Horst's antibiotics are sold in the market or not has nothing to do with us, anyway, his payment is used to pay for weapons and training fees for trainees." Even if he wants to pay in the future, I won't ask for it. β
It turned out that after Wang Xinlan and their "international development team" arrived in Houston, Payne did go all out to help, and even did things like "forging passports".
However, during this period, the international management of personal passports was basically turned a blind eye. Stricter immigration control was a product of the Cold War after the end of World War II. The United States, as a country of immigrants, hardly anyone looked at any passport during this period.
Besides, the current economic crisis in the United States has just fallen to the lowest point and is at an inflection point of upward resurgence, and it is in urgent need of foreign investment to alleviate the huge pressure of domestic unemployment.
Wang Xinlan and they are all partners of the Texas Oil Company, and Payne personally leads the team, and the entry and exit inspection is basically a formality.
In addition, Wang Xinlan brought a lot of gold and yen, which were all hard currency. And according to Bai Shujie's instructions, as soon as he entered Houston, he found Citibank to convert HuΓ n into US dollars and opened a special account.
Just kidding, at the critical moment of the international economic depression, a "huge boss" with more than 32 million US dollars suddenly appeared to enter the country, which suddenly became the biggest news in Houston and a huge hope for the local middle and low classes!
Anyone who is engaged in business knows that a person who enters the country with a huge amount of money, no matter what he comes for it, must spend it. At the juncture of the economic crisis, as long as there is such a huge amount of money, any city can be brought back to life!
Especially Wang Xinlan according to Bai Shujie's secret confession, so she deliberately appeared very public, and expressed her impatience to invest anytime and anywhere.
To be honest, when he first came into contact with Bai Shujie and them, Payne just treated them as if they were the original local warlords. Later, I saw Bai Shujie's "munitions design ability" and "biomedical ability", which attracted enough attention.
Now seeing Wang Xinlan's "casual shot", which is a "huge amount of money" of more than 30 million, Payne finally feels that he has picked up a big ingot!
Speaking of which, the sales price of one of the world's top large transport planes is only 12-180,000 US dollars, what is the concept of more than 30 million US dollars?
Because of this, Wang Xinlan received a telegram from Bai Shujie, asking Payne to open an office in Houston, and the Houston authorities came to the door the next day!
During this period, Zhang Jingfu, the head of the "International Security Group" and deputy commander of the Bai Shujie Special Operations Brigade, secretly visited a person according to Bai Shujie's top-secret order, bringing a translator and 10 "flying dragon antibiotics".
This person has a lot of background, and it can be said that he is famous all over the world.
That is the "godfather" who made the whole of Chicago black and white frightened and respectful, the founder of the mafia, and now Al Capone, who is on medical parole!
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.