The Executor of the Heavens: Beginning with the Watch Dogs

Chapter 846: The Bolt Gun No One Wants

The bolter is a characteristic weapon of the Warhammer universe. It comes from the same universe as the Astartes, Curze and Angron.

But what is different from power armor, Astartes or Space Marines, primarchs like Coze, Angron, and even high-power directed energy weapons like deflagration guns, plasma weapons, power weapons and force field weapons. , the reputation of weapons such as bolt guns or bolt guns in this universe is not very good and is quite sluggish.

Compared with bolt guns, these things mentioned earlier have attracted the attention of many forces in this universe. Many forces are secretly capturing these weapons and lone Space Marines, preparing for imitation and in-depth research. Among the orders received by the Shadow Brokers, there were even offers on the black market of large sums of money to capture Coze and Angron... but basically no one had a chance to get the bonus.

Only bolt guns really have no appeal in this universe. Explosive weapons, power weapons and force field weapons have even triggered a new wave of reverse engineering and improvement.

But bolters are a backwater. After an average of 10,000 orders for deflagration weapons are made, there are only about a dozen orders for single bolters and corresponding ammunition - basically the bolters are kept in Qingyang for their own use.

Of course, this has something to do with the characteristics of the weapons here.

Simply put, the bolter is the standard weapon of the Astartes. It is a live ammunition weapon with ammunition calibers ranging from 0.5-0.75 inches (12.5mm-19.05mm). It can launch a self-propelled "explosive bomb" that penetrates the target and produces a devastating explosion inside it.

The bomb is essentially more like a miniature rocket, with its own integrated solid fuel propellant that propels the bomb at high speeds, and the propellant itself is shaped to stabilize the direction and speed of the bomb.

However, in theory, this firing method will cause the body pressure to bend the barrel. So the bolter actually uses a two-stage method to prevent this from happening.

That is, the bolt shell in the bolt gun uses a small conventional charge in addition to the built-in rocket propellant. This charge is enough to cause the explosive bomb to rush out of the gun barrel with significant muzzle velocity. At the moment the explosive bomb leaves the gun chamber, the built-in rocket propellant will ignite and continue to push the explosive bomb forward, thereby reducing the pressure of the barrel when firing the explosive bomb. The pressure the bullet bears.

In order to complete this two-stage firing method, a standard explosive ammunition has three more parts than a normal firearm bullet in addition to propellant, primer, warhead, and cartridge case: a gyro stabilizer, which has micro-intelligent quality. Reactive fuze and dense metal core.

Of course, based on the current analysis, these seven components all show that they contain very advanced and incredible technology. However, in the eyes of many scientific and technological workers in this universe: this is equivalent to using modern advanced materials to make cold swords. Weapons are equally inefficient and backward.

Explosive bombs are not as backward as swords, but compared to the technology of using cutting metal debris and then using mass accelerators to quickly accelerate the debris to the point where it can cause huge damage, it is quite backward.

Moreover, the previously mentioned weapon technologies such as deflagration, power, plasma and force fields, the scientific and technical personnel of this universe prefer to transform them into functional integration, achieving the effect of only requiring heat sinks or automatic heat dissipation.

This is where the biggest shortcoming of the bolt gun is exposed - its biggest feature is the explosive bombs, but the weapons in this universe use metal debris to kill, and do not need or accept magazines at all.

If you want to vigorously promote bolt guns, you need to vigorously expand the bolt bomb production line - but Xie Yuan has passed several experiments and found that no matter what kind of cost reduction measures are used, it is very difficult.

From the hardened diamond warheads, solid fuel rocket propellant bases, micro gyroscopes, mass reaction fuzes and dense metal cores it requires, these things are doomed to the Star Alliance Navy. It is impossible for Pan Asia or even Cerberus to promote this high-speed A single ammunition made from cost materials.

It can even be said that with a slight modification, this thing can even be used as an inferior multi-warhead missile launcher.

But as an individual self-defense weapon... To be honest, even Coze and Angron gave up on promoting it for a while. The existing ammunition production line can supply a small army for a long time, but it is impossible to supply a large army.

And this has not yet mentioned the second shortcoming of the bolt gun, which is that the recoil is too large. The weapon with the same power level is the M-100 grenade launcher, but the recoil of the grenade launcher is not as terrifying as this weapon.

The weapon with the same recoil as a bolt gun is a 25mm caliber machine cannon - except for Xie Yuan who dared to grab the machine gun by the handle and attack it from the ground, no one dared to do this.

Therefore, in addition to the Space Marines and Krogans, even the Batarians, who have slightly stronger endurance than humans, will suffer arm fractures due to excessive recoil during testing - this is still the case between human combat elites and Batarian combat elites. Tested while wearing heavy armor.

And heavy armor is not much worse than power armor in terms of providing assistance. In other words, if you want to reduce the recoil to a level that can be used by normal human elite warriors, you have to reduce the charge and add more buffer devices - but you still can't install a gun stock, because this is equivalent to firing one shot and giving it to yourself. A power hammer blow to the left shoulder.

It is right to hurt yourself before hurting others.

But once the charge is reduced and the buffer device is added, the gun will not only increase in weight, but also reduce in power, the price-performance ratio will be even lower, and no one will be willing to use it.

Therefore, except for the krogan and space warriors, basically no one is willing to use the bolt gun, and even the krogan have some objections to this gun - although it is powerful and has good recoil, it requires a magazine The supply of ammunition, and more importantly, there is no opportunity to replenish it elsewhere.

This means that the logistics of squad operations are very limited. Once caught in a long battle, the bolter is very likely to become scrap due to lack of ammunition.

As for this shortcoming, Xie Yuan has no solution, and if this problem is not solved, Xie Yuan guesses that in the near future, even localized space warriors will give up the use of this weapon. Generally speaking, the bolt gun is a very unique weapon in this universe. It has many advantages, such as high power, simple structure, and good plasticity. It is very cost-effective when enlarged into a heavy weapon. However, it has many disadvantages. The rear seat of the individual weapon is too large. After being transformed into a heavy weapon, a stable ammunition supply line is needed.

But in this universe that pursues the ultimate in generalization, explosive bomb technology seems very outdated.

Therefore, Xie Yuan looked at the grenade launcher in the hand of "Xie Yuan" in the video, clenched his teeth, and felt very embarrassed.

The bolt gun itself should be Cerberus white, which is a standard bolt gun with a customized shell made of engineering plastic. It is a work carefully made by Xie Yuan. It uses 0.75 caliber ammunition and uses 20 rounds of curved ammunition. The magazine supports single-shot and four-shot modes, and has a bullpup structure.

But to be honest, Xie Yuan didn't use this gun much after it was built, because Xie Yuan only had a small ammunition production system here. It takes ten minutes to make an explosive bomb from material aggregation to component assembly, and Xie Yuan needs at least eight magazines and 160 explosive bombs in a battle.

看着制作160枚爆弹也就1600分钟即近乎30个小时，可是谢元用别的枪甚至不需要分心生产子弹和装填弹匣的时间。而且一场正规行动所需要弹药补给实际上最少要五个基数也就是800枚爆弹，也就是133个小时才能完成一轮。

This efficiency is too low. You must know that it only takes ten minutes to produce a universal energy supply battery dedicated to manufacturing heavy weapons in this universe, and it is universally used in all parts of the galaxy.

And now this weapon that had been placed in the armory as soon as it was manufactured actually appeared in the hands of "Xie Yuan" today, and was modified in such a cool way that Xie Yuan had some guesses about the identity of the visitor.

Xie Yuan has not met many people or monsters with powerful psychic abilities. If they are elders from the UFO world, things will not develop so quietly; the black monsters in Anna's world do not have the ability to take over his own body. The same goes for the puppets in the cyberpunk world and the radiation world, which are equally unlikely.

After eliminating all impossible factors, Xie Yuan was faced with two possibilities: the creator of the Reapers. Xie Yuan knew who the creator of the Reapers was by observing the Overlord's memories, and there were still orphans alive in the world.

But Xie Yuan never knew the creators of the Reapers, and he never knew where there were clues about them, so the possibility was too small.

But if you add the option of liking gold, then there is indeed an existence that matches the identity of this intruder - more importantly, although the two have no intersection, they are somewhat related.

This man is the biological father, creator, and even master of Xie Yuan's godson Curze and Angron - the largest and most powerful human being in the Warhammer universe: the Lord of Humanity, the Emperor.

Xie Yuan seemed to have prayed for him, but it was not clear whether the Emperor accepted his prayer. However, Coze and Angron firmly believed that the Emperor did project some of his power and gave the brothers some knowledge about certain technologies. memory.

Xie Yuan analyzed from the brothers that the emperor had a hobby of gold. He gave his imperial guards and even everyone uniform personal armor that was as gold as gold.

Xie Yuan himself prefers cool colors such as navy blue, army green or gray and black, but the advanced customized armor does have the function of changing the painting anytime and anywhere.

It's just that no one would be painted in gilt gold - this habit fully illustrates the emperor's weird aesthetics. Fortunately, this guy controlled the cognition of people on the ship, otherwise Xie Yuan, who is dressed in gold, would really become the most famous person in the galaxy. The first big joke.

Xie Yuan is not afraid of the Emperor. In this place where psykers have to lose 90% of their strength, even though he is strong, he cannot kill himself all at once.

Not to mention that he actually needed to steal his own puppet as an anchor to the physical world. This proved that the Emperor did not come in person, but was most likely transmitted by a thought.

Of course, this does not mean that the Emperor is not dangerous, and he is worried that the Emperor has even entertained the idea of ​​punishing the universe.

The reason is that, including weapons and armor, the technologies created by him here include Astartes, Primarchs and Bolters.

The first two are products of cooperation. Although he contributes the most, he plays a coordinating role. But the latter is different. This is his exclusive technology. In the imperial army, the bolt gun is the most produced weapon in the human empire besides laser guns and automatic guns. From a certain perspective, this is a recognized achievement in his universe. It should be representative of him.

But this technology cannot be said to be meaningless or almost useless here. It can only be said that it is just like tasteless food, and it is a pity to discard it.

As an emperor, what would you think when you see this kind of feedback? When the results of his painstaking efforts were completely denied.

Xie Yuan is about to go to Ada's office to see him, but is very pessimistic about this view.

(End of this chapter)