boyutpedia Chapter 128 White Phosphorus Bomb
Chapter 128 White Phosphorus Bomb
After handing over the manufacturing method of the rocket launcher and the propellant formula to the deputy chief of staff, Zhao Tianyang came to the bullet factory which had been built not long ago.
What he boasted to the deputy chief of staff earlier, about flares, chemical bombs, smoke bombs, and armor-piercing bombs, have not even started research yet!
"Comrade Liu Guifu, what are you doing?"
As soon as Zhao Tianyang entered the bullet factory, he saw Liu Guifu bending over to assemble a new stamping machine.
"It's the Section Chief!"
Liu Guifu explained: "Our bullet factory is responsible for manufacturing both small bullets and large shells!"
“So we troubled Comrade Shen Hong to get us a new stamping machine.”
"Oh, oh, where is Comrade Liu Ding?"
Zhao Tianyang looked up and didn't see Liu Ding in the factory.
"In the inner office, designing new shells!"
Hearing this, Zhao Tianyang walked into the bullet factory, opened the wooden door and entered the compartment.
I saw Liu Ding lying among a pile of drawings, constantly drawing and calculating data.
Zhao Tianyang was not surprised by this. They were very different from him.
When designing weapons, a lot of calculations and drawings are required, and the paper mills have to send them hundreds or thousands of sheets of white paper every month.
"What are you drawing? You're so focused!"
Zhao Tianyang waited for a long time, but seeing that Liu Ding hadn't noticed him coming in, he could only walk over to take a look. He discovered that he was designing armor-piercing bullets, so he interrupted him.
"It's the Section Chief!"
Liu Ding reacted and looked up at Zhao Tianyang: "Look, you are fulfilling the boast you made to the deputy chief of staff!"
"Armor-piercing bullets? Has it come to that?"
Zhao Tianyang asked.
"It's almost there. It uses the principle of a hard core armor-piercing bullet, with an ordinary steel head wrapped around the outside and a tungsten alloy bullet inside."
"A 45x356mm armor-piercing projectile can reach an initial velocity of 870 meters per second."
"It can penetrate 22mm thick steel plates within 500 meters, 31mm thick steel plates within 100 meters, and 64mm thick steel plates within meters."
"6!"
Zhao Tianyang gave a thumbs up. Based on this data, they won’t have to invent new armor-piercing shells in the future. This model can be used until the end of World War II.
"What about flares, chemical bombs, and smoke bombs?"
"You think I am you!"
Liu Ding rolled his eyes.
In just a few days, he was able to develop the hard-core armor-piercing bullet. This was the result of him and Liu Guifu working overtime every day. How could he have the energy to develop other types of bullets?
"Okay, today I'll show you my design speed!"
Zhao Tianyang came to the desk next to him and started drawing the blueprint.
"Flare?"
Liu Ding came behind Zhao Tianyang and watched with great interest.
"Well, let's start with the simple ones. Flares are very simple to make. Generally, you only need magnesium powder, aluminum powder, oxide and adhesive."
Zhao Tianyang replied as he drew a picture: "But aluminum powder is a bit expensive, so I decided to change the formula to sodium nitrate, magnesium powder, and polyester resin."
"As for the appearance, we chose the parachute type and added a steel parachute rope to the flare."
"After launching the flare, straighten the parachute cord to inflate and open the parachute, which will slow down your fall."
After saying that, Zhao Tianyang put down his pen and handed the blueprint to Liu Ding: "It's done, give it a try and see if it works!"
Looking at the drawings with complete data and graphics in his hand, Liu Ding was a little dazed. Is this the difference between a genius and an ordinary person?
If he were to come, it would take two or three days before the flares could be finalized.
After Liu Ding left in disbelief, Zhao Tianyang took out another piece of white paper and continued to design. This time he wanted to design a smoke bomb.
Smoke bombs are also called smoke bombs and smoke screen bombs. They are filled with smoke agents. After the projectile explodes, a large amount of smoke is generated to interfere with the enemy's vision.
At the same time, smoke bombs will attenuate electromagnetic waves, which can reduce the hit rate of precision-guided weapons.
Of course, this weapon is also very simple to make. You only need to mix yellow phosphorus, sulfur trioxide, and zinc oxide to make a smoke agent.
Because it is fired from a mortar, we also need to prepare the projectile body and detonator tube.
After the mortar shell is fired, the detonator tube explodes and ignites the smoke agent, which is basically the process of launching a smoke bomb.
Soon Zhao Tianyang completed the design of the smoke bomb.
"call....."
Putting down the pen and stretching, Zhao Tianyang took out a piece of white paper and began to design the chemical bomb when he saw that Liu Ding had not returned yet.
When talking about this thing, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is definitely the Japanese's poison gas bomb.
But due to mysterious factors, Zhao Tianyang couldn't follow suit. He could only design a conventional white phosphorus bomb just to show his worth.
The manufacture of white phosphorus bombs is also very simple. You just need to replace the mortar's explosives with white phosphorus.
The main difficulty lies in how to extract white phosphorus on a large scale.
Thinking of this, Zhao Tianyang took out another piece of white paper and began to design the equipment needed to extract white phosphorus.
Generally speaking, white phosphorus is extracted by mixing phosphate rock, quartz sand and coke and heating them at high temperature.
The phosphorus in the phosphate rock is reduced to phosphorus vapor, which is then passed through cold water to condense into liquid phosphorus.
The liquid phosphorus is then purified and finally converted into solid phosphorus.
The difficulty lies in how to convert liquid phosphorus into solid phosphorus.
The conventional method is to lower the temperature of liquid phosphorus to minus 44 degrees, so now Zhao Tianyang needs a refrigerator.
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In the next few days, Zhao Tianyang stayed in the arsenal, asking the workers there to help manufacture compressors and heat exchangers.
The principle here is similar to that of a refrigerator, so I won’t explain it here.
A week later, Zhao Tianyang came to the sulfuric acid plant with the equipment he had made in the past few days.
The production of white phosphorus is relatively dangerous, so Zhao Tianyang decided to entrust the production to the sulfuric acid plant. After all, the workers here are experienced.
"What is this, Chief?"
Wang Er walked over and looked at the machine being installed in confusion.
“Compressors, heat exchangers, and distillation columns!”
Zhao Tianyang looked at Wang Er and said with a smile: "I am going to give you more responsibilities and add a project to produce white phosphorus!"
"Fine!"
The corner of Wang Er's mouth twitched. He is not the same person he used to be. After being the factory director for such a long time, he is still constantly learning.
He knew exactly what white phosphorus was, but he couldn't refuse, so he had to agree to it.
Soon, under the command of Zhao Tianyang, several machines were connected together with steel pipes.
"Start it!"
At Zhao Tianyang's command, the generator charged the compressor and the blades began to rotate.
The water system starts circulating and air is drawn into the compressor, where it is filtered and the temperature is lowered.
The air, which has been cooled, then passes through pipes and enters the heat exchanger.
Based on the laws of thermodynamics, as the air from the compressor and the air from the heat exchanger circulate continuously, the air temperature will continue to drop until it liquefies.
The final liquefied liquid will enter the distillation tower, which will utilize the difference in boiling points of the gases.
The liquid will be separated in the distillation tower, while the nitrogen, which has a boiling point of minus 196 degrees, will gather at the top of the tower.