The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 194: Electromagnetic Gun Problem [Please order the full version! 】

The electric catapult device designed by Zhang Zhipeng no longer uses medium-voltage DC, but a high-voltage DC electromagnetic catapult system.

This system is mainly divided into the following parts:

First, a power generation device is specially equipped for the electric bomb device.

The second is the energy storage device.

The electricity generated by the power generation device is stored by the energy storage device.

The third part is the ejection device.

The fourth part is the control system.

When an electric bomb device is used to eject an aircraft, the electricity stored in the energy storage device is instantly released, forming a high-intensity electromagnetic field that accelerates the aircraft to more than 250 kilometers per hour, and the aircraft can take off in a very short time.

In mid-November, Zhang Zhipeng led the team to manufacture this high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection system.

Later, he had the system installed at the aviation test site.

After the system was installed, he couldn't wait to do the first test.

The test used a small iron car weighing 30 tons.

Under the command of Zhang Zhipeng, the staff placed the small iron car on the ejection device.

Before Zhang Zhipeng did the first ejection test, he made a final inspection.

While checking, he was thinking silently: Lao Mo should have developed the medium-voltage AC electromagnetic ejection system by now, right?

In his previous life, the first aircraft carrier that Lao Mo used electromagnetic ejection to launch was the Ford.

The aircraft carrier began construction in 2005, was completed and launched in 2013, and was officially put into service in July 2017.

However, until 2023, it has not actually been able to form a truly effective combat force!
This is mainly because they clicked on the wrong technology tree!

What they ultimately developed was medium-voltage AC electromagnetic ejection technology.

Alternating current is relatively easy to develop and the cost of research and development is also low.

Therefore, the private military-industrial complex must of course use cheap and easy-to-use technology.

In the end, this so-called most advanced aircraft carrier took more than 8 years to build and served for five or six years before it could achieve combat effectiveness.

It can only be said that the greedy profit-seeking habit of private capital has caused misery to Lao Fu.

Electromagnetic ejection is indeed more advanced than steam ejection.

If there are no bugs, electromagnetic ejection can theoretically be used indefinitely, ejecting hundreds of combat aircraft of all types into the air in a very short period of time.

Steam catapult is limited by steam. After the steam is exhausted, the steam catapult becomes useless.

Moreover, using steam ejection will slow down the aircraft carrier's speed.

What a pity! The medium-voltage AC electromagnetic catapult system developed by Lao Mo has natural flaws and a high failure rate. No matter how it is debugged, the electromagnetic catapult cannot be used well, which also greatly affects the Ford's combat effectiveness.

Zhang Zhipeng feels that he should learn a lesson from the USS Ford aircraft carrier incident.

The high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection system that I developed must maintain stable performance.

Before it is confirmed that this device has extremely high stability, it cannot be used on the aircraft carrier.

After Zhang Zhipeng checked it over, he found no problems.

He smiled and said to Zheng Jingzhi who was standing next to him: "Teacher, do you think our device can be successful?"

Zheng Jingzhi said: "Theoretically, I think it can definitely succeed!"

"Zhipeng, your design ideas are very clever. This supercapacitor device is great."

"However, it still depends on whether it can work stably and continuously."

"If this device is not stable enough and has serious defects, it is very likely to cause heavy losses to the country's valuable property and talents."

Zhang Zhipeng nodded and said, "You are absolutely right."

"That's why we can't be careless!"

"We need to test the performance of this device and adjust it to its best condition."

Zheng Jingzhi smiled and said: "Yes! If you want to do it, do your best!"

"Then let's start testing!"

Zhang Zhipeng personally pressed the ejection button.

The high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device starts instantly.

"call!"

The small iron car weighing 30 tons was driven by the ejection device, and it was ejected like a loaded bullet.

The 30-ton small iron cart was ejected more than a hundred meters away before falling, creating a big hole in the soft ground!
The first ejection was successful!

The onlookers nearby raised their arms and cheered.

"beautiful!"

"It's so fast!"

"If it was a real plane, it would have flown into the sky by now, right?"

Zheng Jingzhi smiled and nodded at Zhang Zhipeng and said, "It's a good start!"

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "But it's really not time for us to relax yet."

"Next, we will continue to test this device and try to test it one or two hundred times today."

The failure rate of Lao Miao's electromagnetic ejection seemed to be that it failed once every two to three hundred times.

Later, after painstaking improvements, the failure rate was still one failure every 400 times.

The original failure design index of Lao Miao and others was 1/4166. In other words, they are thinking of an average of 4166 ejections before allowing one failure.

Such a high failure rate resulted in the Ford aircraft carrier not being able to serve normally for twenty years.

Of course, the old USS Ford aircraft carrier uses several advanced technologies, such as the electromagnetic arresting system, and the failure rate is frighteningly high.

It originally designed the failure rate of this electromagnetic arresting system to be 1/16500.

However, in reality, its failure rate is 1/41. Practicing three times a day is not enough.

Why do you want to use so many so-called advanced but unstable technologies on the Ford aircraft carrier?

This is mainly because: it wants to ensure that it is two to three generations ahead of all its opponents in the world!

This means: it must suppress all countries in terms of military hegemony.

Therefore, as long as it has some new technology, it will definitely show it off immediately and be eager to use it in its own weapon system.

This is done to create a strong deterrent effect.

such a pity! They got a little too crazy and ended up being punished by technology.

On this day, witnessed by Zhang Zhipeng, this high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection system was tested more than 120 times.

A high-power crane was specially prepared to quickly place the small iron car for testing back on the electromagnetic ejection device for testing.

A test only takes about five minutes.

Tested so many times with success every time.

Zheng Jingzhi was very satisfied with this. He smiled and said: "I feel that this device should be considered a success."

Zhang Zhipeng looked at the time and saw that it was already past 8 pm. In addition to eating, everyone had already worked for more than ten hours.

He smiled and said to Zheng Jingzhi: "Teacher, let's test it about a thousand times before drawing a conclusion. We must be more rigorous and more careful, and more careful!"

Zheng Jingzhi smiled and nodded and said: "Zhipeng, you are right. However, I infer based on my intuition that I have been engaged in scientific research for so many years. This high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device should be considered a great success."

"But testing still needs to be done."

Zhang Zhipeng nodded appreciatively and said with a smile: "I think your intuition may be right."

"We should be successful this time, haha!"

"Well! I have another idea. Maybe, we can also use this high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device to develop our electromagnetic gun!"

After hearing this, Zheng Jingzhi's eyes lit up and he said with a smile, "What a great idea!"

"I have long heard that those Western countries are desperately researching and developing electromagnetic guns, and it is said that they have already achieved a lot of results."

"If the electromagnetic gun can be successfully used, it will be awesome!"

The so-called electromagnetic gun refers to a kinetic energy killing weapon developed using electromagnetic launch technology.

Traditional artillery uses gunpowder gas pressure to propel projectiles into flight. The electromagnetic gun uses the Abe force generated by the electromagnetic field to accelerate metal projectiles.

Compared with traditional gunpowder cannons, electromagnetic guns can greatly increase the speed and range of projectiles.

However, current international research on electromagnetic guns is actually facing many bottlenecks.

The main bottlenecks are as follows:

First, the electromagnetic gun consumes a lot of energy and can only be effective if it is installed on large equipment. It is simply impossible to install electromagnetic guns on aircraft, tanks and other equipment.

Second, the electromagnetic gun needs to store energy when it is launched. This makes its firing rate far inferior to traditional artillery.

Third, the electromagnetic gun has a flat trajectory and is almost unable to deal with low-altitude targets.

Fourth, the electromagnetic gun shells are too fast, and no electronic components can withstand such a high overload. Therefore, the electromagnetic gun shells cannot be guided.

Fifth, the electromagnetic gun's killing area is too small and cannot kill the enemy on a large scale.

The above-mentioned weaknesses of the electromagnetic gun limit its development.

The lizard country has invested heavily in the research and development of electromagnetic guns since the 1950s and 1960s.

As a result, we had to give up because we could not solve the above problems.

Even Lao Mo was once ambitious and vowed to completely replace ordinary artillery with electromagnetic guns.

Unfortunately, in his previous life until the 21s, Lao Mo made little progress in electromagnetic gun research.

On the contrary, China, under the leadership of the Electromagnetic God, has made rapid progress in the area of ​​electromagnetic gun electromagnetic projectile launches.

The biggest achievement made by Electromagnetic Tianzun is actually the development of high-voltage DC electromagnetic system.

This high-voltage DC electromagnetic system can not only build high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection systems.

It can also make a better electromagnetic gun.

The high-voltage DC electromagnetic system solves the problem of electromagnetic energy storage very well and can increase the launch rate of the electromagnetic gun. In this case, the power of the electromagnetic gun can be greatly improved.

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "Maybe we can give it a try! If we can build a better electromagnetic gun and solve the problem of electromagnetic gun shells at the same time, then when installed on our giant ship, it will definitely be able to exert huge power."

The electromagnetic gun may have weaknesses of one kind or another.

However, as long as the problems of energy storage and continuous firing can be solved, and the problem of cannonballs is solved, it can really become a big killer.

Because the initial launch speed of the electromagnetic gun is too fast, which can reach several kilometers per second, the charge fuse of ordinary artillery shells cannot withstand such a huge acceleration.

If you insist on loading an ordinary cannonball, it will probably explode as soon as it comes out of the barrel.

Therefore, electromagnetic gun shells are made of solid metal materials.

It can only rely on kinetic energy to destroy targets, but cannot destroy enemies on a large scale through explosive effects.

This makes the electromagnetic gun gradually become useless in the eyes of the lizard country.

In fact, the biggest problem in electromagnetic gun research today is the shell!

Zheng Jingzhi smiled and said: "Actually, I think if the electromagnetic gun can be miniaturized and installed on our 052D destroyer, even if it uses solid metal bullets, it will be pretty good!"

"The electromagnetic gun has a fast muzzle velocity, a long range, and strong kinetic energy. It has huge lethality against both fixed targets and large moving targets."

What Zheng Jingzhi said is actually very reasonable.

In addition to energy storage and shells, the current bottleneck of electromagnetic gun research is that the entire device system is very bulky and takes up too much area.

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "Maybe, I can solve all these problems!"

Zheng Jingzhi said with a smile: "Zhipeng, if you can solve all these problems, you will have made a great contribution to the country!"

"As for the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection system research project you are leading now, if it is verified, the failure rate can reach one in thousands, which is also a world-class breakthrough achievement!"

On this day, after Zhang Zhipeng returned home, he began to think about the problem of the electromagnetic gun firing shells.

After thinking about it for a long time, he felt that he had to develop a new type of ammunition material. This material must be highly inert, have the mechanical strength of metal, and have the chemical energy of high explosives.

Only in this way can it be ensured that it can withstand the terrifying initial velocity of the electromagnetic gun, and finally explode with a bang after hitting the target at high speed!
In this way, electromagnetic artillery shells have the dual destructive capabilities of terrifying kinetic energy and terrifying explosion damage.

It may not be that easy to come up with this new type of ammunition material.

Zhang Zhipeng feels that it is better to complete the test of the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device first, and then talk about the electromagnetic gun.

In the next few days, the team led by Zhang Zhipeng continued to test the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device.

Maintain high-intensity testing every day.

Testing takes at least twelve hours a day and ejects more than 140 times a day.

After a full week of testing, the ejection test was carried out more than a thousand times, and all were successful.

Some members of Zhang Zhipeng's team felt that this was already a guaranteed success.

You can apply to your superior for settlement.

But Zhang Zhipeng is not in a hurry.

He wants to continue testing, and even increase the intensity, testing 200 times a day to see how it goes.

Zhang Zhipeng asked other members of the team to continue testing the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device.

He himself plunged into the laboratory again, and he began to study new ammunition materials specially used for electromagnetic artillery shells.

This kind of ammunition has very high requirements. If you want to break through from scratch and produce results, it is not an ordinary difficulty.

Therefore, Zhang Zhipeng conducted rapid trial and error in the laboratory from the beginning.

After more than ten days of trial and error, I couldn't achieve much results.

At this time, the time has entered December 1997.

The high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device developed by Zhang Zhipeng has been continuously tested for more than half a month. It has been tested more than 3100 times, and all ejections were successful without a single malfunction.

This success rate is already much better than Lao Miao's medium-voltage AC electromagnetic ejection.

Zhang Zhipeng then called Guo Zaijie and told Guo Zaijie the news that the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device he had developed had been successfully tested more than 3100 times.

Guo Zaijie was overjoyed when he heard the news.

Of course he knows what an advanced electromagnetic ejection technology means for an aircraft carrier!
That means: when you meet on a narrow road, you can launch more fighters faster than your opponent!
This way you can seize the opportunity and hold victory in your own hands!

Theoretically, if the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device developed by Zhang Zhipeng is really powerful, then only two high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection devices can launch all the fighters into the air in just ten minutes.

Guo Zaijie laughed and said: "Comrade Zhipeng, I really didn't expect you to actually go work on the electromagnetic ejection device."

"If your electromagnetic ejection device is really very mature, I'm wondering if we should modify our Leonin ship and directly replace it with an electromagnetic ejection device?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "Comrade Zaijie, I think we should not forcibly modify the Leonin ship again."

"Because if you want to modify it, you need to modify many, many places. Just the modification, I estimate, will take at least a few months."

"It would be better if we just start building a second aircraft carrier."

Guo Zaijie thought about it and said, "What you said makes sense."

"I'll rush to Chang'an right away to see this high-tech device you built."

Guo Zaijie arrived in Chang'an at noon that day.

After meeting Zhang Zhipeng, he immediately asked to go to the site where the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device was tested.

Zhang Zhipeng naturally met his request.

When we arrived at the test site, it happened that the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device once again threw the 30-ton small iron car high into the air.

Seeing this scene, Guo Zaijie was almost stunned.

"That car looks like it's made of solid steel?" Guo Zaijie asked.

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and nodded and said, "That's right! It's indeed like this!"

"It doesn't look too big, but it can weigh up to 30 tons."

Guo Zaijie said in surprise: "Can a 30-ton object be thrown so far quickly?"

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "Yes! In fact, it can also throw heavier objects."

"In the future, our early warning aircraft, heavy bombers, etc., can all board aircraft carriers."

Guo Zaijie stayed at the testing site for more than two hours.

Taking advantage of this time, Zhang Zhipeng reported to him various important parameters of the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device he had developed.

After Guo Zaijie listened to the report, he became even more happy.

"Comrade Zhipeng, how many times do you plan to continue testing?" Guo Zaijie asked.

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "My idea is to keep ejecting and see how long this high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device can last and how many times it can eject."

Guo Zaijie smiled and nodded: "This experiment is very meaningful."

"Then you continue to work on it and strive to develop a more perfect electromagnetic ejection device."

"In this way, we can use it on the second aircraft carrier."

"Comrade Zhipeng, you just said that we should hurry up and start building the second aircraft carrier. What I want to say is that you still need to lead the team to design it."

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "I can come up with a design idea, and then let the Ship Research Institute do the design. They are now considered experienced."

But Guo Zaijie was obviously not at ease. He said, "You should be the host."

"You take the lead so I can rest assured."

"Yeah! In addition, the ten-thousand-ton drive you have been talking about, it is best to put it on the agenda together."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "Okay! Then I will take the title of project host, and I will check them."

"Now, I have a lot of things to do here. The Army is also urging me to work now, haha!"

"In addition, since we have made a breakthrough in the technology of high-voltage DC electromagnetic devices, what I mean is: I want to conduct research on an electromagnetic gun. After the electromagnetic gun is developed, let's also develop a rail gun!"

"If some blind bastard threatens us, just give it a few electric cannons from outer space!"

When Guo Zaijie heard Zhang Zhipeng talking about the electromagnetic gun, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Electromagnetic gun? Isn't that a weapon in science fiction movies?"

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "Yes, it is indeed a weapon in science fiction movies. In the Hollywood movie, Lao Mo once used it to fight aliens and defeated them."

Guo Zaijie nodded and said, "I heard a long time ago that Lao Mo has already developed the electromagnetic gun."

"I don't know if this is true or not."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled and said: "Actually, there is no high technical threshold for this electromagnetic gun."

"I can easily build an electromagnetic gun now."

Guo Zaijie was a little unconvinced: "No way? Is this thing really that simple?"

Zhang Zhipeng said: "Let's go to the laboratory and I will demonstrate the principle of the electromagnetic gun to you as quickly as possible."

Guo Zaijie followed Zhang Zhipeng to a laboratory.

Here Zhang Zhipeng quickly built a coil electromagnetic gun using materials in the laboratory.

Then, he used this electromagnetic gun to fire a thin tungsten alloy rod. The speed was really fast and the power was impressive.

While demonstrating, Zhang Zhipeng explained to Guo Zaijie the principle of the electromagnetic gun and its advantages and disadvantages.

After hearing this, Guo Zaijie sighed very much: "I didn't expect that the principle of the electromagnetic gun that was so praised by Lao Mo was so simple."

Zhang Zhipeng smiled slightly and said: "The theory of electromagnetic guns is really not advanced."

"However, it is not that easy to build a suitable electromagnetic gun with amazing lethality."

"If Lao Mo really builds an electromagnetic gun with astonishing lethality, do you think it will be hidden?"

"It has been used to blackmail people all over the world."

"Now, I have solved one of the electromagnetic gun problems."

"As long as we can solve the problem of miniaturization and the problem of being able to fire only solid shells, the electromagnetic gun can become a huge killer weapon."

"However, for the time being, it is estimated that this thing can only be used as a fortress cannon or a naval gun on a giant ship."

Guo Zaijie laughed and said: "Haha! When you say that, I am even more looking forward to the electromagnetic gun."

"Comrade Zhipeng, then go all out to do this! Try to develop an electromagnetic gun suitable for large-scale deployment!"

PS: Here’s today’s update! Please ask for subscriptions, recommendation votes, and monthly votes from readers!

(End of this chapter)