Chapter 1638

Many times people will fall into a very strange closed loop of thinking, it seems that as long as it is bigger and stronger, it must be good.

Like now.

The fact that Ankirk's chief tank designer didn't speak didn't mean Lynch couldn't read his mind, he was actually calculating something.

Lynch doesn't quite understand what those numbers represent, but he understands people's hearts and human nature.

In his opinion, perhaps what bothered the chief tank designer was not how difficult certain techniques were, but that he didn't know how to speak.

In this era, people always naively think that "big" must be "strong".

For example, the caliber. During the First World War, countries continued to improve the caliber of their various main guns, and even Gefra made those old soldiers play a little role in order to gain an advantage in ground combat.

They specially developed a train gun called "Battleship on the Ground", which is an enlarged and widened train, and at the same time, the train is filled with various large-caliber artillery.

And the caliber of these large-caliber artillery is still getting bigger!

It has to be said that their design has indeed shocked some people. According to their description, this train gun will become the absolute firepower that will dominate ground warfare in the future!

However, it was turned into a pile of scrap iron by a group of anti-government militants who had not received military training during military operations in the Ameria region.

They just easily dug up the rails, separated it, and covered it up a little less obviously.

Then after this heavy monster derailed, it never got up again. It didn't even have a glorious past, and its era came to an end.

But certain traits left over from that era have remained.

big…

It is strong!

Just like the tank design of the Penteio Empire, it simply relies on a wider body, thicker armor, and a larger caliber to make it stand out on the battlefield!

The shells of the Federation's tanks either slid or jumped away due to angle problems, or because they were holding the thick armor and had no choice but to leave only a hit mark.

Although the tanks of the Penteio Empire are a bit slow to turn, although the speed is a bit slow, although the terrain adaptability is a bit poor...

But it is still an excellent tank, and it has too many advantages in the competition of similar equipment.

Lynch felt that the chief designer of Ankirk might also be thinking about developing in a stupid way.

So he terminated the stupid discussion early.

Ankirk's chief designer raised his head and looked at Lynch in a daze for a while. Soon he seemed to have thought of something, put down the pen in his hand, and began to take it seriously.

In fact, Lynch was the first designer of the tank.

At present, Ankerk Industrial's finished tank design drawings, at least in terms of appearance, refer to Lynch's appearance design.

Lynch also described some internal structures. Although he did not specifically describe the content of the technology, the researchers still completed the research on these technologies.

The chief engineer felt that, as the true father of tanks, he must have thought differently.

All eyes were on Lynch. Lynch was calm, calm, and with a calm smile on his face. He spread his hands and asked, "When we face a challenger whose parameters are obviously stronger than ours, The first thing we will think of is to beat the opponent in terms of parameters."

"Maybe sometimes its concept is correct, but sometimes, it may not be correct..."

The officials of the Ministry of Defense frowned after hearing this, especially a general of the navy.

Cannonism has always existed, and even now some countries naively believe that human beings can finally break through the limit to design and manufacture war weapons that can destroy a country with one shot!

In the navy, this kind of thinking has always existed, especially in the past, the navy, which used battleships as the core of its tactics and strategy, agreed with the idea that "big guns can bring peace" more than any other service.

Bi Da is not only a boring pastime for men in the toilet, but also the most romantic fantasy of soldiers.

But Lynch's statement obviously made people a little uncomfortable. The lieutenant general of the navy asked, "What do you mean?"

Lynch smiled slightly, "We don't necessarily have to be tougher or bigger than the tanks they shoot, we only need tanks that can destroy them."

In a word, the conference room fell into a brief silence, everyone was at a loss, only the chief designer of Ankirk thought of something hazy, but he couldn't confirm it, it was just a hazy, vague concept!

He was in a state of excitement at this moment, and he realized that Lynch had opened a door for him, and even for the world's armaments!

Yes, we don't need to engage in an arms race on parameters, it's stupid.

There are many weapons that are of no practical use until now, such as those cannons from World War I.

If it can get out of this weird closed loop, then the Federation will have a comprehensive breakthrough and development in armament design.

At this time, no one stood up to express objection, Lynch continued, "Their tanks have thick skins, so let's design a shell for our tanks that can destroy their armor. I believe it is not difficult..."

If it is said that the first to play tricks on shells, it must be the navy. The generals of the navy were slightly taken aback, and they realized something. Even a lieutenant general of the navy blurted out——

"Special bomb!"

Lynch clapped his hands and smiled, "Yes, special bullets, armor-piercing bullets that can penetrate thick armor."

"We don't need to surpass them in terms of design and caliber. As long as the damage of our shells exceeds the defense of their armor, then for us, this is a victory."

"Even we don't have to insist that this kind of weapon that can destroy heavy armor must be launched by tanks or artillery. For example, if it is based on individual soldiers..."

"There are too many possibilities here, gentlemen, and its development, its future, is far more meaningful than we pile up some worthless data on the parameters!"

People began to discuss heatedly, and Lynch opened a window for them.

Ankirk's chief designer's hazy eyes, which he could barely grasp, were completely opened by him, and he saw the blazing sunlight outside the window!

The whole person seems to be bathed in the sunshine, and the soul has been sublimated!

Yes, we don't need to pile up data, we just need to destroy their data!

At this time, Lynch drew a picture casually, and on the manuscript paper he drew, a strange-looking cannonball appeared.

Judging from the general parameters, it is longer than ordinary shells, with a sharper head, which looks very weird.

He also made some descriptions, and then he asked someone to pass on the manuscript, "This is an armor-piercing projectile I imagined. Its name is just like its name, a projectile that can penetrate armor."

"We all know that there are some angles in current tank designs that can ricochet, but this kind of pointed shell is not so easy to use the angle to make it ricochet."

"As long as its warhead hits the target at a relatively small angle, it will definitely not slip away."

"The material of the warhead, the internal structure..."

What Lynch said was not that complicated, it was very common, even generals and officers who hadn't studied these things could quickly understand what Lynch meant.

They looked at the paper and the design on it in amazement. After discussing for a while, their eyes fell on the chief engineer of Ankirk again.

Currently here, only he is the most professional.

"Is it possible for Mr. Lynch's idea to come true?" asked one of the generals.

The chief designer nodded again and again, "There is no problem in theory, and I believe there is a great possibility, but we have to do experiments..."

Compared to a new tank design and a full refit, it is obviously cheaper to shoot a dedicated special ammunition.

Regardless of Mr. Truman's support now, the military's budget basically has no upper limit, but this does not mean that they can really spend money recklessly.

After the war is over, Congress, which lost most of its power during the war, will certainly not honestly pretend that nothing happened after it regains its power.

Besides, the current situation is special, and the Federation has issued a lot of bonds. If you save a little now, it will be easier when you pay back the money in the future.

In short, the Ministry of National Defense adopted Lynch's proposal and asked Ankerk Industries to produce a mature armor-piercing projectile as soon as possible to deal with the situation on the front line.

At the same time, the military's own research institutions also began to speed up their research.

Congress is like a sieve, nothing can survive, and neither can the military.

The collusion between the military industrial group and the military is not a day or two. The content that the military and Ankerk Industries are researching is spread out every two days.

Soon all major industrial groups began to study the armor-piercing projectile.

All the military-industrial complexes are well aware of the concept that they sell a rifle and it can bring them a few bucks in profit—

At present, the mainstream standard rifles in the Federation do not cost more than 35 yuan, and the profit generally does not exceed 15%. This is no longer a profiteering industry.

But it's lucrative again!

Because a semi-automatic weapon with a profit of only a few dollars ~lightnovelpub.net~ can bring at least dozens of dollars, hundreds of dollars or even more profit to the military industry group in terms of ammunition!

The Federation's current standard rifle bullets only cost twenty-five cents a piece. If they were loaded into a semi-automatic weapon, it might only last for a blink of an eye on the battlefield!

According to the statistics of the military industrial group, in an ordinary battle, the ammunition consumption of a soldier is more than hundreds of bullets, and in a large-scale battle, the number of ammunition consumed is already innumerable.

There may be hundreds of millions or billions!

And a complete world war may have to destroy tens of billions or even tens of billions of bullets from the beginning to the end!

This is where the most **** money is made!

The same principle applies to shells!

Expensive necessary consumables are the source of core profits!