I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

The first steel-bodied prototype adopting the design ideas of the Elven race was successfully manufactured, proving that the use of metal was still feasible.

Alliance scientists began to cooperate with the elves, adding some basic inscriptions and trying to simplify parts.

Due to its small size and insufficient power, you can either increase the power or reduce the weight of other accessories. But in most cases, the defense is not enough so you have to increase the defense, the load capacity is not enough so you have to increase the load capacity, and then the power source cannot support the weight.

If the power source can't hold the weight, it has to be replaced with a larger one, and the weight goes up again. Then it's the same thing again, adding one thing and then another, until the machine body and the power itself reach a relative balance point.

Therefore, if possible, it would be best if the aircraft itself can achieve a certain degree of self-sustaining ability when it is unpowered. This is very important and can reduce part of the power source consumption.

Medea thought of exoskeletons

Looking left and right, it is still the exoskeleton that can be used without power, and then in turn add outer armor and energy source to become a mechanical body, that is, a dual-purpose set.

First, we can create a non-powered exoskeleton with space reserved for adding the outer armor and power pack, and then integrate a set of outer armor on the exoskeleton for normal use, that is, use the exoskeleton as a supporting frame for the outer armor. This method seems feasible, right?

No matter whether it works or not, you have to try it to know.

The biggest achievement so far is the discovery of molybdenum, which represents the foundation for manufacturing high-alloy chromium-molybdenum steel. Chromium-molybdenum has very good properties and can be used to manufacture engines, gun barrels and gun barrels.

Engines made of better materials can withstand stronger power, so the next Type 2 medium tank can also be put into production. The larger main gun also means that the manufacturing tonnage of the battleship can increase again.

Now, after witnessing the destruction of the Vatican's Invincible Fleet, the countries surrounding the Seris Alliance are terrified and are frantically trying to build steel battleships. A large number of spies and detectives are being thrown to the Alliance as if they were free.

The battleship was there, they could look at it if they wanted. Medea was happy to see it, and she even deliberately leaked some of the cruiser's manufacturing technology.

One sentence can describe her purpose.

A little masturbation can bring joy, but excessive masturbation can harm your body, and excessive masturbation will lead to your entire body being wiped out.

This is also very applicable to the manufacture of warships. How do you think a strong steel warship is made? It is made by spending money!

How much high-quality steel is needed for a high-strength ship? Can the main gun be built just by talking? What about fire control and range finding? How to solve the power problem? A lot of problems are waiting for them!

To put it bluntly, even if I were given the blueprint and asked to copy it, I wouldn't be able to make it.

No matter how simple a warship is, it cannot be made by hand. The Zhiyuan-class cruiser requires not only 8000 supporting manufacturers, but also hundreds of related industrial factories to provide parts.

So what if you can’t make it yourself? Buy it, the Seris Alliance welcomes your purchase!

Even the Alliance Shipyard supports customization. We can build ships completely according to your ideas. If you like, you can even install 30 main guns on one ship.

If you don't want to buy guns, you have to buy a power boiler, right? Otherwise, how can you expect to pull this iron ship with sails?

How much do you ask? Sorry, the power boiler is very difficult to manufacture, so the price is the most expensive.

I bought the boiler, but why can't I use it? Sorry, the propeller shaft is sold separately. If you don't want to buy it, you can build it yourself and send it to me and I'll install it for you. I have no objection anyway.

How much does the main gun cost? Sorry, the main gun is very difficult to manufacture, so it is the second most expensive.

Send someone to learn? You're dreaming... I'd be lucky if I could teach your crew how to move the ship.

Bought it? Wait, you can't just buy one ship?

So it’s not that Medea looks down on them. Even if the Empire wants to build one, then that’s fine. But how many ships can several kingdoms build with their national strength?

Even if you are really rich and can get a lot, but I use your money to build better ships, thus forever suppressing our combat power. Do you dare to stop investing?

You get to decide when the naval race begins, but I get to decide when it ends.

She was not worried that these kingdoms would achieve anything through self-reliance. If technological barriers could be broken through so easily, world peace would have been achieved long ago.

After being bullied for thirty years, the situation has changed. "Don't bully the poor young people" is an exception after all. Most of the time, it is about not bullying the poor middle-aged people or the poor old people. The dead are the greatest.

Chapter 144 AK47?

In addition, the Surya Kingdom can purchase the M-type Zhiyuan-class cruiser with the fire control system removed by paying a higher price.

The orders imported from other kingdoms will be the H-type monkey version with the power system changed to a non-expansion steam turbine, and the fire control, optical aiming and ranging, and magic package removed.

There is no need to tamper with the armor belt and main gun. These two things are too obvious and easy to be criticized. If you want to cut them, cut them at the right points.

Battleship bombardment is all about statistics and probability, with a little faith bonus. Without ranging and fire control, the probability will only be erratic.

These two things are also almost impossible for other countries to imitate, because the equipment is one aspect, but more importantly, it represents the generation gap in education in mathematical calculations and other aspects.

In the past, old-style artillery relied on the operators to aim and shoot, but the use of new main guns requires an entire team, and in the future, more technologies will be used to assist in calculations.

The century-old navy is not only describing the difficulty of shipbuilding, but more of a sigh for the lack of a knowledge education system.

From compiling and organizing several sets of teaching plans for use to accumulating knowledge reserves for more than two generations of officers and soldiers, it may take more than a hundred years to build a complete navy from scratch, from learning and training to practical operations, and finally a navy that can be used on the battlefield.

The decentralization of cruiser technology also indicates that Seris will begin to manufacture larger warships to continue its sea suppression strategy.

The superior level of the cruiser is naturally the battleship, not the so-called sailing battleship of the Vatican, but the dreadnought-class battleship with a full load displacement of nearly 20,000 tons.

The caliber of the main gun was increased from 210 mm to 305 mm, with a total of four triple-mounted 2 mm main turrets, two in the front and two in the rear. At the same time, all secondary guns were cancelled, leaving a base for large-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the ship.

A large amount of thick protective armor was added to the command tower, ammunition depot and turret, especially the main turret, whose armor thickness was the most outrageous.

Not only does the turret itself need protection, but the new shell loading crane pipes also need heavy armor protection, because the bottom level of the turret is the ammunition depot.

The indicators are fully met, the design drawings are also available, and it is also very simple to build.

Starting from the laying of the keel, to the double bottom of the steel plate, the longitudinal and transverse wall baffles of the main compartments, the hoisting of the bow and stern, the installation of the steam turbine turbine, and the installation of the side ribs.

Then there are the turbine generators, decks, internal cabins, boilers, main armor plates, gun stacks, etc., a total of more than twenty processes.

After the bottom construction is completed, it can be launched from the dry dock and enter the wet dock for welding of the superstructure and outfitting of the four main turrets.

This process is actually very fast. How fast can it be? It only takes two Kun years. However, this speed requires nearly 10,000 factories, more than 100,000 processes, and the hard work of talented and skilled workers in this shipbuilding system day and night.

The possible all-out war with the Demetria Church ultimately came to nothing due to the mediation of the two empires. The Seris Alliance would not pay any compensation. It was either fight or lose; money was more important than life.

The Demetrian Church does not want to escalate the war for the time being, because they have no fleet. In fact, if a war really breaks out now, they will be at a great disadvantage. The bombardment of coastal warships alone is enough to cause them a lot of trouble.

Instead of this, it is better to accept it for the time being and wait until the new fleet is launched and the navy's strength is restored before making other plans.

After weighing the pros and cons, the Holy See returned to the negotiating table with the Seris Alliance. Although this war involving the Kingdom of Palia had no winner or loser on the surface, the Holy See privately granted the Seris Alliance a large number of preferential trade policies.

At the same time, the two sides formally established diplomatic relations, returning their war-torn relationship to normal trade.

After being struck by lightning from the Goddess of Light herself, Medea knew that the fight between the two sides would not end there. The temporary retreat of the Holy See was only for greater ambitions in the future, but it didn't matter.

Even if the Demetria Church really doesn't want to fight anymore, the Seris Alliance will not give up. The two sides shook hands and made peace, but in fact they each had their own ulterior motives and their own little calculations.

The alliance needs a period of stability in exchange for internal smooth development and time for large-scale naval construction. The Holy See also needs to mobilize domestic resources to focus on naval construction. Peace itself has a foundation.

If we really want to compete in the speed of producing naval warships, Seris can not only build them by itself, but also help the Holy See build some as well, so that the other side won't fail to follow because they can't see the taillights of the car.

In fact, if the arms race is put at the naval level, the Seris Alliance will be more relaxed. Now the Alliance Army is temporarily in some chaos.

First, a large number of troops from other kingdoms must be re-screened. Through investigation and questioning, those who do not want to be soldiers must be cleared out and sent back to farming, and those who do not meet the quality standards must be eliminated. At the same time, the remaining soldiers must be subject to political and ideological review, and then the army can be expanded again.

Then, a large number of obsolete weapons were retired and handed over to local steel mills for re-refining. A large number of old-fashioned matchlock rifles, flintlock rifles and other weapons that had long been eliminated were kept just to take up space.

At the same time, various old-fashioned cannons and other antiques are no longer useful.

However, when replacing the new weapons, Medea was cautious. She did not produce new bolt-action rifles, but distributed the equipment in the inventory and did not replenish the missing guns.

Because the new alloy is very suitable for making gun barrels, the assault rifles that used to use intermediate-power bullets now have a basis for large-scale manufacturing and use.

The emergence of assault rifles was a gradual process. In the beginning, when there were only tracked vehicles, the battle lines on both sides actually relied on long-range bursts of fire.

Using a single-shot, high-precision, high-powered bolt-action rifle has a very good battlefield effect.

However, as the former federal army began to equip itself with armored vehicles, all-terrain vehicles and tanks in large numbers, which brought about rapid mechanization and heavy firepower breakthroughs, the density of firepower that the bolt could provide was too low.

The Sten submachine gun was very useful when attacking trenches and clearing obstacles, but when facing a frontal breakthrough of the Vatican machine, the power of the round-nosed pistol bullet was almost dispensable.

The bolt-action rifle, which is accurate at long distances, lacks the firepower sustainability, the Sten rifle is not powerful enough and has almost no accuracy, and the machine gun is too heavy to be carried during a charge.

It is in this context that assault rifles, which are specially designed to quickly break through tanks and infantry fighting vehicles at a distance of 400-150m and can provide continuous firepower output, have ushered in their own battlefield.

The 7.62-33mm intermediate power bullet is just the right specification for a good balance of lethality and accuracy within 400m, and the barrel made of chrome-molybdenum alloy steel is also strong enough.

In addition, the large capacity of a magazine of 4 rounds far exceeds the previous five-round clip-loaded rifle. A soldier equipped with the new assault rifle can be comparable to 5- previous soldiers in terms of instantaneous firepower.

Then the second-line troops will temporarily use old-style bolt-action rifles, while the original federal elite army will wait for the distribution of new assault rifles. Only one or two bolt-action rifles with scopes will be retained for use by company-level high-precision shooters.

Chapter 145 Army Reform

However, although it is a 7.62-33㎜ bullet, after trial production, the military was not satisfied with the penetration and power of this bullet.

Although 33㎜ theoretically enhanced the power while ensuring a certain degree of accuracy, the real threat they faced was always the heavily armored soldiers wearing heavy armor and shields who rushed into their faces.

No offense, although the soldiers with submachine guns are fighting vigorously, the role of their pistol round-head bullets when the machine body is close is dispensable and can be completely eliminated.

Accuracy is not a particularly important requirement for them, but power is. Of course, it would be best if they could maintain a high rate of fire while having great power.

Therefore, the trial-produced 33mm rifle bullet was subsequently changed to 39mm, and the tail of the bullet was redesigned into a boat-tail bullet, the cartridge size was shortened, and the bullet tip was lengthened to be more streamlined.

With bullets, a new weapon that can carry them is naturally needed. The principle of the Sten submachine gun's simple and crude free-style bolt to fire bullets appeared in front of the experts.

They hope to use this principle to design a submachine gun that uses high-powered bullets.

At this time it was Medea's turn to appear. Mainly because of Sten's layout, she was really afraid that they would go astray and make the barrel of the gun have a long stroke, similar to the Shaosha machine gun, which was a fighter among rubbish. When firing, the whole body moved.

She already had a good choice for the 39mm rifle bullet, which was a gas-operated brake bolt rifle with a duct above the barrel to absorb the kinetic energy of the explosive gas and slow down the movement.

In fact, the principle of the assault rifle is not complicated. One sentence can explain the needs that the rifle needs to overcome.

[So how do you make the bolt fire automatically? ]

As long as this problem can be solved, there will be a basis for manufacturing assault rifles, such as the long-stroke pneumatic piston type, which is the configuration of the AK47.

In terms of technology, the Seris Alliance can now do it. It was not possible at the beginning, but the emergence of new alloys solved the problem of barrel service life.

After the propellant burns and stimulates the bullet to generate thrust, most of the gas pushes the bullet out of the barrel through the outer opening where the impact on the bullet is minimal, and a small amount of gas enters the upper guide tube to push the piston backward.

As the piston retreats, the fired cartridge case is pulled out, and new ammunition is pushed into the chamber again under the reaction force of the spring squeezed at the rear, and the rotary lock is triggered, and this cycle repeats.

In fact, every bullet is the same as the previous bolt-action rifle. After pulling the bolt, it rotates and locks to fire the next bullet. It's just that the gas guide structure uses the force to complete the process of pulling the bolt back and returning it.

This is why you need to pull the bolt again to advance the bullet every time you load a new magazine, because the first shot has no gas assistance, and you have to pull the bolt yourself to apply the first force.

However, because the barrel will overheat due to continuous shooting, it is necessary to install a handguard that can be gripped under the barrel to maintain shooting.

The magazine is mounted at the front and locked at the back, and the design of the trigger group is also simplified as much as possible.

However, the recoil of the 7.62-39mm rifle bullet is quite large, and the barrel will jump up when shooting, so the front barrel needs to be cut diagonally to exit.

When the bullet leaves the barrel, gas is ejected from above to suppress the vibration of the barrel, similar to the force offset of a recoilless gun.

After the assault rifle was manufactured, the submachine gun team was naturally disbanded because the positioning of the two sides had actually overlapped. At the same time, the dense firepower and increased mobility brought by the assault rifle also required the machine gun group in the original infantry squad to be replaced.