The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 119: Chief Master Zhu? (First Order)
"Heroes emerge young, and Liu Chang's name has long been known!"

Zhu Yusheng couldn't help but sigh as he looked at Liu Tao, who was a little too young, full of vigor and energy.

Now there is almost no one in the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building who doesn’t know Liu Tao.

He developed several advanced firearms on his own, which were deeply loved by the soldiers.

The successful development of these firearms has at least saved the country billions in scientific research funds.

Previously, the country intended to develop another automatic rifle to replace the Type 63 automatic rifle. After all, no soldiers wanted the Type 63 automatic rifle. The soldiers would rather have the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle than the Type 63 automatic rifle.

The Type 78 automatic rifle developed by Liu Tao directly saved the country a large amount of research and development funds, and more importantly, saved a lot of development time.

There is also the Type 78 pistol, which has now become popular among school-level commanders and is a favorite of all commanders.

In time, it will surely become more popular.

The Type 78 machine gun is very popular among the troops for its superior performance.

The Type 78 heavy machine gun can be said to have filled the gap in China's domestically produced heavy machine guns, giving China its first domestically produced heavy machine gun.

The Type 78 heavy sniper rifle also filled the gap in China's heavy sniper rifles. From then on, China had its own heavy sniper rifle, which was a powerful weapon on the battlefield. This has been fully demonstrated in the past year.

Previously, the anti-aircraft machine gun successfully developed by Liu Tao greatly enhanced China's low-altitude defense capabilities in the future, and no longer had to rely on previous anti-aircraft machine guns.

Now, Liu Tao has developed an anti-aircraft weapon like the 'Cheetah' self-propelled anti-aircraft gun. Zhu Yusheng and others were called together. After being informed, their first reaction was that it was impossible, absolutely impossible!
As people in the industry, they can be said to be the domestic authorities in this field, and they know very well how difficult it is to develop such a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun.

When we were conducting technical research before, we felt that it would take at least 20 years to develop it.

Because there are too many technical difficulties to overcome!

Anti-aircraft gun technology, armor material technology, engine technology, radar technology.
But in the end, everyone was skeptical, because Liu Tao was a young man who was good at creating miracles!
There is never a shortage of geniuses in this world.

It is said that three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, but in fact everyone knows that it is impossible. Even three thousand or thirty thousand cobblers are not as good as one Zhuge Liang.

Wang Baoguo continued to introduce other people. The expert group, together with other personnel from the Fifth Ministry of Machine Building, totaled nearly a hundred people.

Liu Tao didn't know most of them and had never heard of them.

But there is no doubt that they are all China's talents in the fields of armor and artillery, and they have all passed the test and are reliable.

After all, as an acceptance expert group, what they have to deal with are state secrets.

Once the information is leaked, the loss will be huge.

Everyone boarded the plane, and the entire plane was full.

Zhu Yusheng and Liu Tao were sitting next to each other, and he was constantly discussing technology with Liu Tao. At first, Zhu was just tentative, but soon the technical attainments Liu Tao displayed made Zhu change his mind. He knew very well that Liu Tao was able to answer his questions, and that his attainments in armor were very deep.

"Director Liu, how do you think we can improve the tank's defense?" said Mr. Zhu.

With the emergence of anti-tank weapons, the survivability of tanks faces huge challenges, which prompts people to improve the armor performance of tanks and armored vehicles.

Usually, the easiest way to improve the protection performance of tanks and armored vehicles is to increase the thickness of metal armor. After all, the thicker the metal armor, the higher the protection performance of tanks and armored vehicles. Anti-tank weapons can penetrate 600mm armor thickness, so the armor thickness can be thickened to 700mm or even 800mm. Anti-tank weapons can penetrate 800mm armor thickness, so the armor thickness can be thickened to 1000mm!

As long as the armor thickness is greater than the penetration thickness of anti-tank weapons, the tank is not afraid of the attack of anti-tank weapons!
However, you have to know that the power of a tank's diesel engine is limited. You cannot thicken the armor just because you want to. This will reduce the speed of the tank. If it is too heavy, the engine of the tank or armored vehicle will not be able to tow it.

The flexibility and maneuverability of tanks and armored vehicles is an important indicator of their performance.

"Kevlar bulletproof lining is a good solution!" Liu Tao said: "Composite armor will definitely be an important direction for future development!"

Kevlar material is an aramid fiber material product developed by DuPont. The original name of the material is "polyparaphenylene terephthalamide", commonly known as fire-resistant fiber.

It is a high-strength, lightweight fiber with high temperature resistance, good toughness, no smoke, no toxicity when burning, abrasion resistance, and non-slip characteristics. The mesh bags and high-temperature cloth made of this material have greatly improved the temperature resistance and strength compared with traditional glass fiber substrates.

Because this new material has low density, high strength, good toughness, high temperature resistance, and is easy to process and shape, its strength is five times that of steel of the same quality, but its density is only one-fifth of that of steel. It can be said that this material is tough and wear-resistant, hard and soft, and has the special ability of being invulnerable to swords and guns, making it a very good material for making bulletproof vests.

Similarly, using it can also bring the protective performance of tanks and armored vehicles to a new level.

Compared with fiberglass, under the same protection conditions, the weight can be reduced by half when using 'Kevlar' material, and the toughness of 'Kevlar' laminated sheet is 3 times that of steel and can withstand repeated impacts.

The combination of Kevlar sheets and steel is extremely powerful.

For example, the use of "steel-date-aramid-date-steel" composite materials can defend against anti-tank missiles with an armor-piercing thickness of 700 mm, and can also defend against neutron bombs.

Of course, there are not only this type of composite armor, but many other types.

With the continuous development of anti-tank weapons, research on armor will continue to deepen in order to improve the protective performance of armor.

Anti-tank weapons and tank armor are like spears and shields.

"'Kevlar' material?" Mr. Zhu looked confused.

Liu Tao sighed in his heart. China does not have this kind of material now, and it cannot even be imported.

Even if we know about this material in the future and want to import it from DuPont, they probably won't allow DuPont to export it.

Of course, now that he has obtained the material, China can produce it on its own.

Anyway, when it comes to weapons and equipment, it doesn’t matter whether they are patented or not.

Even if it is a patent, China does not have a patent law now. We will wait until the patent law comes out and then make slight changes to apply for a patent.

After all, the composite armor of Kevlar laminated sheets, steel and aluminum plates can be widely used not only in tanks, armored vehicles, and bulletproof vests, but also in aircraft carriers and missile destroyers.

Likewise, it is an ideal material for the production of bulletproof vests.

In the civilian field, the transmission optical fiber can also be covered with a protective film made of Kevlar material. This protective film has good flexibility and can protect the optical fiber from damage.

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