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Chapter 202 Crosshair System

All current FPS games are derived from a "target system" produced in the late 1960s and 1970s. This system was originally used on US military tanks...

——20xx "Blizzard Game Weekly-The Historical Origin of FPS Games"

The U.S. Army Department and generals are discussing the application of Pip-Boy.

pip-boy1008 is indeed a very new thing, and it works very well.

In the original version of the m48a3 that did not use the Pip Boy 1008 system, the original fire control system was used.

The original version is equipped with a mechanical ballistic computer - a mechanical computer that performs some simple calculations through the meshing of precision gears. It uses a main body rangefinder for imaging. The data is displayed on the indicator and input into the ballistic computer for calculation -

The gunner selects the type of projectile to be fired by hand. Each type of ammunition has a different muzzle velocity, so the mechanical computer assigns a different cam to each type. After the computer obtains the target distance data, it combines it with the turret position data to calculate

The firing angle of the artillery - of course, this is all manual.

The m48a3 equipped with Catherine's Pip-Boy's new fire control uses a laser rangefinder and a fully digital computer. In this way, the work of the crew has actually been greatly reduced.

The gunner only needs to press a button on the handle and issue a command to have the tank automatically load ammunition.

After loading the ammunition, the system will enter the next step. The gunner observes the precise distance through the laser rangefinder, and then inputs it through the small keyboard. The muzzle will be automatically adjusted, and the gunner only needs to make fine adjustments through the cross keys of the handle.

That’s it.

The most important thing is that after adopting the digital interface of Pip-Boy 1008, soldiers can get started faster and the time required for training is greatly reduced.

The original m48a3 is fully manual, so mechanical computer calculations are very troublesome. If you are not careful, you may lose the best attack opportunity.

A tank artilleryman must spend a lot of brainpower on calculations, and this calculation may very well take more than ten seconds - and by that time, the opponent has already escaped.

Catherine's fully automatic digital computer can complete a series of complex calculations in a few seconds or even less.

The gunner only needs to judge whether to shoot, when to shoot, and correct parameters that may contain errors. The rest only needs to be left to the computer to automatically complete it.

"With the adoption of a new fire control system, the hit rate of the m48a3 has been greatly improved, and the increased cost is relatively small. However, at the beginning of the design of the m48a3, the use of such digital equipment was never considered.

"

After modification, the performance of m48a3 has increased significantly, which is undoubtedly good news for the military.

"Maybe we should put it on the M60?" someone asked.

"Perhaps it can also be used in other ways. Pip Boy can turn all instrument panels into digital displays. In this way, we can save more space for our weapons..."

"Maybe we need to let Ark talk about this matter. Maybe they will have some updated ideas..."

…

On the other side, Catherine was still designing "The Age of Discovery" at this time.

In Catherine's mind, some of the criticized systems in the original system also need to be improved.

For example, Catherine refers to "Age of Discovery 4" and can enter the cabin and transform the cabin. She can also convert some food and wine cargo into food when there is no water and food.

In addition, Catherine also developed and created the canal system, allowing players to develop the legendary Suez Canal, Panama Canal, etc.

Originally, Catherine wanted to set up some special content, such as lemons can prevent sepsis, etc. However, in Catherine's view, this seemed a bit too complicated, and in the end she had to abandon it.

Although it was temporarily abandoned, Catherine did not give up and planned to wait until the second part to be developed.

In fact, "historically" Europeans and Americans like freer games, mainly due to trpg, which emphasizes role-playing and world experience; while Japanese games, like the other two juxtaposed acg, are developed through games

This medium is used to tell stories to consumers.

One is to experience another world, and the other is to observe a story.

As far as Catherine is concerned, she prefers the former.

Just when Catherine was busy with the game, the call from the Quality Supervision and Management Office came again.

——The Pentagon hopes to meet with Catherine on April 1 and have some discussions on the Pip-Boy issue, preferably with some technical personnel.

Catherine did not know about the exercise conducted by the US military, but it was obvious that this was an opportunity

Can't let it go

With one month left, Catherine immediately integrated people from all departments and began to gather superior forces to overcome the Pip-Boy problem.

Fortunately, before this, the company had made breakthrough progress in the research of Pip-Boy. The use of 16-bit CPU had long been considered. At this time, Catherine happened to be using the FC CPU in Pip-Boy.

above.

The new device was named "pip-boy1016" by Catherine.

For a whole month, Catherine tested the system.

Soon, it was finally time for the meeting. Catherine took a plane from the west coast back to the east coast, and then came to the Pentagon again.

As soon as she arrived, Catherine was greeted by a video.

In the video, there are 5 m48a3s fighting against 3 m60a1s.

Catherine's heart suddenly lifted.

——Obviously, these 5 m48a3s are modified models equipped with Pip Boy 1008.

Soon, the situation changed from 5v3 to 1v1.

The two sides were running and then shooting at each other.

However, in two consecutive shootings, no tank hit.

"Three guns...three guns..."

Catherine murmured.

"boom"

With the firing of the third gun, the m48a3 finally hit the m60a1 and was judged to have destroyed the opponent, which made Catherine breathe a sigh of relief.

"Ms. Edson, I think I should have already understood the capabilities of your device. I have to say that pip-boy is really a magical thing."

"Yes, and this time, I brought a better system."

Catherine took the opportunity to promote her semi-finished product.

April 1st...anyway, today is April Fool's Day.

"oh?"

Originally, the generals just wanted to discuss the improvements of Pip-Boy, but they did not realize that Catherine had already "suppressed" a new version of Pip-Boy.

Catherine Price displays were brought out.

"We have learned from the shortcomings of Pip-Boy 1008. In the new system, we can use the data bus to allow the tank crew to obtain data on all subsystems of the tank. For example, the commander can know the contents of the fuel tank as easily as the driver.

How much fuel is left? He can also immediately know the number of rounds left in the automatic loader and where the tank is currently. The work and testing of each component in the vehicle system are also controlled by a multi-microprocessor system.

manage."

After hearing Catherine's words, the generals nodded repeatedly.

Catherine continued: "Another advantage of this system structure is that it can improve the reliability of the system. When a microprocessor fails, the system can reorganize the structure, and a working microprocessor can replace the faulty microprocessor.

Machine work.”

The eight-core processor is indeed very powerful, but once there is a problem with one of the cores, the trouble will be big.

Therefore, Pip-Boy's team has been working on this method of using the remaining cores.

According to the plan, in the final product, even if part of the integrated circuit's electrical board is damaged, the computer can be modified internally so that normal operation is not affected.

Of course, in the end, this is just an idea. Catherine can only do it for the time being. Even if some of the cores have problems, the tank can still work normally.

For military industrial enterprises, performance is not the most important thing, stability is.

Of course, when stability is sufficient, it is also necessary to improve performance as much as possible.

"In our company's vision, future wars should be fully automatic and digital. We envision that in future wars, only one or two people will be needed to operate a tank."

Then, comes Catherine’s trump card.

"So, we have adopted a 'cross sight system', please see."

Catherine asked the technicians to open the new Pip-Boy.

"This screen is connected to a camera. Please pay attention to this crosshair. This should actually be the indicator position of the tank's impact point."

Catherine pointed the green crosshair on the small screen to the generals.

"This is the automatic aiming system we designed. Wherever the crosshair appears in the pattern, it will become the impact point, and the tank will automatically adjust the muzzle to aim at the target."

This inspiration comes from future CS and WoT games, so Catherine calls it the "crosshair system".

In fact, this is the reverse calculation.

Normally, two shooting angles are calculated based on the target position, and conversely, the projectile point is calculated based on the current gun angle. The principle is very simple.

But after the automatic locking, this function seemed a bit redundant, so Catherine thought of another use.

——For use with machine guns.

After all, if the gunner needs to operate it manually, it means that the automatic ballistic calculation has been inaccurate.

However, considering that automatic locking is still in its infancy, Catherine estimates that there may still be some market for her system.

Of course, Catherine divided this system into two, one part was used on the main gun, and the other part was used on the machine gun.

As for remote-controlled machine guns, they were used as early as the Nazis, but the machine gunner used a periscope-like thing inside the machine to observe the outside world. The equipment was huge and took up a lot of space. Catherine used cameras and

The way the display is used can save a lot of space.

Such an electronic remote-controlled machine gun system is definitely Catherine's first.

Both of these sight systems are operated by Catherine handles, so they are quite convenient...