I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 774 Freak
Today's televisions are not the ones George is familiar with. They are large cube boxes more than one meter high, with a palm-sized screen and, most importantly, no matching TV programs. There is still a long way to go before they can enter thousands of households.

Amur Electric Company has purchased Zworykin's invention patent and formed a professional team with Zworykin as the main person to research and improve related technologies.

Relatively speaking, George still pays more attention to the Rockets.

Before cooperating with the Germans, Russia had accumulated considerable experience through rocket launchers. After continuous improvements, the range of rocket launchers has increased from 8.5 meters during the World War to the current 20 kilometers.

After cooperating with Germany, the accuracy of rocket launchers has been greatly improved.

Compared with the heavy field artillery equipped by the military, rocket launchers are insufficient in range and accuracy, and can only make up for quality by quantity.

Compared with the large-scale and sufficient Russian equipment, the outstanding features of German equipment are its excellent workmanship and reliable performance. Although the technical levels are similar, German equipment is obviously more sophisticated and gives people the feeling of being more upscale than Russian equipment.

This is determined by the actual conditions of the two countries.

Russia is rich in resources. No matter how expensive the equipment is, it will become consumables in Russia and can be remade if it is gone.

Germany has limited resources, and every bit of good steel must be used where it counts, which requires the Germans to work hard on product quality.

George Siemens has a profound understanding of this.

In 1914, Georg Siemens proposed the theory of flying torpedo, but due to the situation in Germany at the time, Georg Siemens only conducted some theoretical research and did not carry out any practical operations.

Germany is very cautious about its military equipment. After perfecting the theory, it enters the laboratory stage. After several batches of product improvements, the plan is finally determined and enters the production stage. At the beginning, they dare not produce too much and improve them while producing.

Russia's approach to researching military equipment is simple and crude. It doesn't matter whether the theory is perfect or not. They will skip the laboratory stage if possible. As for whether it works well or not, they will just make a batch and try it out first.

If German technological research and development can be called slow work and fine work.

Russia is a typical example of how great power can bring about miracles.

George Siemens initially did not have much hope for cooperation with Russia. After all, in George Siemens' view, it was unlikely that the Russians would show him Russia's core technology.

The frankness of the Russian engineers completely overturned George Siemens's inherent impression of Russians.

In the minds of most Germans, Russians are barbaric, difficult to communicate with, and unreasonable. The nobles live a life of debauchery, the common people are serfs, the soldiers are gray animals, and they are rotten from top to bottom.

This is definitely prejudice. If Russia was really that bad, the German royal family would not have frequently intermarried with the Russian royal family.

Russian engineers did not exclude George Siemens from the core team because of his identity. On the first day George Siemens arrived in Amur, Russian engineers took George Siemens to Yuriev, deep inland.

If Vladivostok can be described as Amur's face, Yuriev is Amur's brain.

Russia's aircraft, submarine, radio, armored steel and other research institutes are all in Yuriev.

The city of Yuriev could not be found on the map at all, and the train that George Siemens took had no windows. Before that, George Siemens didn't even know that Yuriev existed.

Yuriev is large in area but has a small population, with less than 5 people in the entire city.

There are more than 6000 military scientific researchers in this city, and even Mario, the governor of Amur, is not aware of some of the teams' research projects.

After learning about the actual performance parameters of Russian rocket launchers, George Siemens was filled with worry.

The Russians opened up their core data to George Siemens, either because they had no sense of confidentiality or because they were not worried at all that George Siemens might leak the information.

The head of the Russian technical team is Ferdo, and the chief engineer is rocket launcher expert Zablov.

After obtaining George Siemens' research data, Zablov produced a sample in just one month, with unprecedented efficiency.

"One of our engineers once proposed a similar idea, but due to the technical conditions at the time, we did not conduct in-depth research. Your design is not complicated. We have a lot of semi-finished products in our warehouse. We only need to make some modifications before we can conduct the experiment."

Zablov's words frightened George Siemens, and he suddenly felt like he was waving a sword in front of Guan Gong.

While George Siemens only conducted theoretical research, Russian engineers have done a large number of experiments and accumulated considerable experience. They even have more than ten types of rocket tail fins. In terms of rocket launcher research alone, Russia is far ahead.

Compared with rocket launchers, the technical difficulty of flying torpedoes lies in flight control. The solution proposed by George Siemens is wire control, while Zablov prefers to use radio remote control.

In 1898, American inventor Nikola Tesla applied for Patent No. 613809, which included radio control technology; in the same year, Tesla publicly displayed a submersible remote-controlled submarine at the Electrical Exposition held at Madison Garden in New York.

Tesla's patent protection expired in 1912, and since Tesla did not renew it, the remote control patent is currently public.

The Amur Military Industrial Group did not use Tesla's patent to produce remote-controlled toys, but for military research.

Although the first experiment did not meet Zablov's expectations, it still far exceeded George Siemens' expectations.

After fully realizing the strength of Russian military technical personnel, George Siemens devoted himself to the research for more than two years, and finally he created this rocket with real combat capabilities.

The disadvantage of this rocket is that it requires a controller to ride on an airplane to remotely control the rocket, and it cannot truly be launched and then left alone.

The emergence of television technology laid the technical foundation for remote-controlled rockets. If it were someone else, it would be difficult for them to connect these two seemingly unrelated technologies.

This is George's biggest golden finger.

"Just think about it. If one day the range of a rocket can exceed 1000 kilometers, no matter how powerful a fleet is, it will be wiped out by the rocket."

George's description made Peter and Vasily's blood boil.

Compared with European and American researchers who pursue economic benefits, Russian researchers are indeed a bit stubborn and can easily go down the wrong path.

This is also determined by the system. No matter how capable scientific researchers are, they still have to eat. Even someone as amazing as Nikola Tesla became penniless after bankruptcy and eventually died in a hotel in New York. It is hard to say how he died.

The Russian researchers have no worries. Mario does not give Yuriev's researchers wives, and takes care of all their needs, including birth, old age, sickness and death. Money is meaningless to many of Yuriev's researchers. These people are gradually degenerating into Russian giant babies like Nikolai who have no concept of money.

When God closes a door for you, he will definitely open a window.

This technological giant whose survival skills have seriously deteriorated has very strong scientific research capabilities. Coupled with Russia's institutional advantages, once a breakthrough is made in a certain technology, it is easy for it to enter a blowout state.

"Can we put flying torpedoes on warships?"

Peter's main concern was the navy.

"There is no such thing as a flying torpedo. This is an army rocket launcher."

Vasily was firm in his attitude. If the navy ate more, the army would have to eat less.

Peter was not angry, the Navy also had its own technical research institute.

If the Naval Institute of Technology were to research flying torpedoes from scratch, it certainly wouldn't have the capabilities to do so.

But if it is just about combining the flying torpedo and the warship together, the Naval Technical Research Institute can still do it.

George's mind was no longer on the flying torpedo, but on the jet.

Compared with the world war period, the performance and safety of aircraft have been continuously improved, civil aviation companies have sprung up like mushrooms, and Amur Airlines has become the biggest beneficiary.

The technical requirements for civil aircraft are not high, and transport aircraft can be used for civil aviation by simply modifying them.

George really doesn't like the Russians' casualness. In many fields, Russia actually has the first-mover advantage, but it was inadvertently given up because of its "casualness".

George has only one requirement for industrial products: excellence.

The reason why George cooperated with the Germans was mainly because of the Germans' rigorous attitude towards industry.

If Germany's rigor were combined with Russia's resources, it is hard to say whether World War II would have been fought, but there would definitely not have been another Cold War.

Military aircraft pursue performance, while civilian aircraft pursue comfort. Both aspects are endless.

The development of propeller aircraft has not yet reached a bottleneck and there is still room for development.

But George knew clearly that jet aircraft were the future.

Based on the development concept of equipping one generation, developing one generation, pre-researching one generation, and exploring one generation, George assigned tasks to military technicians and began to study jet aircraft.

It turns out that George still doesn't know enough about the Russians.

In other words, Russia's level of technological accumulation far exceeded George's expectations.

George originally thought that no matter how powerful the military technicians were, it would take at least three to five years for jet aircraft to appear.

On June 6, just two months after George assigned the task, good news came from Amur that the first jet test flight was successful.

this--

When George saw the report, his first reaction was that Andre was bragging.

After reading the report, George suddenly realized.

The aircraft that successfully completed the test flight was not strictly speaking a jet aircraft, but a freak that combined a rocket engine and a glider. It only flew in the air for 30 seconds.

The purpose of this experiment is only to verify the feasibility of the jet aircraft and to ensure that the aircraft will not disintegrate after the rocket engine is ignited.

Since it did not disintegrate, the next task is to continue to improve the technical level of the jet.

(End of this chapter)