Doomsday Bunker Upgrade Chapter 596: The idea of a double installation
"The idea of dual cannons is indeed feasible, but not practical." After receiving the report from Jiang Juan, Chen Xin's evaluation after reviewing it was not practical.
"Academician, why do you think it's not practical? Isn't the design of the dual cannons able to double the amount of firepower?" Jiang Juan, who was called to the office by Chen Xin, was a little unconvinced.
The idea she put forward was based on her actual experience on the battlefield. It was obviously unacceptable for her to be directly denied by Chen Xin.
Chen Xin shook his head and asked her: "Since you are a Titan pilot and have used cannons... Then let me ask you, what cannons do you use for the gentleman?"
"The cannon of the Gongshi type is a 23-1 type aviation cannon with a caliber of 23mm. It uses a 23mm standard cannon shell, which is a single-barreled sliding movement type cannon." As the driver, Jiang Juan He is still very familiar with the Titans he drives and the supporting equipment.
Chen Xin nodded slightly, feeling very satisfied with her business ability, so she continued to ask: "Let's not talk about the technical difficulty of the dual-mount transformation, I just ask you, connecting two cannons in parallel, What is the distance between the two cannons, have you calculated?"
"This..." Jiang Juan hesitated for a moment, but still answered loudly: "Report, no!"
"It will not exceed 20 cm." Chen Xin announced the answer to Jiang Juan, and explained: "It's not that I haven't thought about the design of the double-mounted cannon, and it is not even that there is no double-barreled cannon that can be used, but In the end, we still chose the single-barreled cannon. This is not because the double-barreled cannon cannot be used or because the double-barreled cannon is unwilling to use it, but the double-barreled cannon has twice the firepower compared with the single-barrel cannon, and cannot be used on the battlefield. Works great."
"Why? With one more barrel, wouldn't it be possible to fire one more shell and cause greater damage?" Jiang Juan asked strangely.
Chen Xin shook his head, obviously a little disappointed that Jiang Juan could ask such a question, but he still explained: "If it is used for targets such as planes or tanks, then double the firepower delivery is indeed very effective. Solved the problem, but the problem is we're fighting aliens now.
A single round of 23mm general-purpose cannon ammunition is enough to penetrate the outer shell of alien creatures and cause effective damage. An additional round of cannonballs is largely shot at the same location, which not only blows the target even more shattered In addition, it cannot effectively improve the damage efficiency of alien creatures. "
Adding a gun barrel can indeed increase the amount of ammunition delivered, which can indeed increase the probability of effective kills when dealing with armored targets such as tanks and aircraft.
After all, you can't just knock out a tank or a plane with one shot, but firing an extra shot can increase your chances of knocking out a target.
However, when the target is replaced by an alien creature that can be killed by a single shell, adding a barrel and doubling the amount of ammunition delivered is just a waste of ammunition.
A target that can be killed with one shot does not need two shots to kill. The two barrels are so close together that two shells will basically only hit one target. Blast the target even more, and there's no such thing as two barrels hitting two different targets.
In fact, the multi-barreled machine gun is just a way to increase the rate of fire when the rate of fire of the machine gun was not enough in the past.
But for modern military industry, it is already possible to achieve a very high rate of fire, and the amount of ammunition delivered in one minute can even reach thousands of rounds. At this time, the multi-barrel machine gun seems to be tasteless and impractical.
And this is why there are fewer and fewer gun barrels on modern warships. Except for the Gatling-style rotary tube design, the multi-barreled design has rarely been seen.
Because with the blessing of modern technology, one barrel is enough, which can ensure enough rate of fire and smash enough shells to the enemy.
After listening to Chen Xin's explanation, Jiang Juan couldn't help but feel depressed. Although she still felt a little unconvinced, at this time she also understood that her thoughts were not so realistic.
"But you don't have to be discouraged. Although it is a bit redundant to be a double-mounted machine gun, it is not to say that it is completely useless." Chen Xin comforted Jiang Juan.
However, his words are not simply to comfort people, but they do have a certain reference value.
"To fight alien creatures, we really need to increase the amount of firepower delivered." Seeing Jiang Juan's puzzled expression, Chen Xin explained to her: "Simply increase the rate of fire or add an extra barrel. , is meaningless, because doing so would just throw a lot of ammo on the same target, which is inefficient for this war.
What we really want is to smash more ammo on the enemy's head per unit time, but also avoid putting too much ammo on the same target.
To achieve these two goals at the same time is the key to my design of the Gongshi type as three weapon positions, because in this way, the three weapons can project ammunition to three different targets at the same time, effectively improving the While increasing the amount of firepower, it also improves the killing efficiency. "
"Aren't my thoughts meaningless in this case?" Jiang Juan also understood Chen Xin's thoughts at this time. He obviously didn't want to waste a lot of ammunition on the same target.
"It really doesn't make any sense to Titans, but for ordinary weapons, it has a different meaning." Regarding Jiang Juan's idea, Chen Xin is not trying to comfort her, but it does have a certain reference value~ IndoMTL.com ~ Ordinary weapons? Academician, do you mean individual weapons? "Although he is a Titan driver, Jiang Juan still knows about the weapons that ordinary soldiers are equipped with: "They are using heavy machine guns now, right?" Are you going to make that a double pack? "
"Yes, for a 23mm machine gun, a single shot is enough to kill aliens, but for a heavy machine gun, it's only enough to penetrate the outer shell of aliens." Chen In fact, Xin has long planned to improve the lethality of individual weapons, but there has been no good idea.
Combined with his busy schedule, he doesn't have time to design new weapons.
But now Jiang Juan's idea of this dual-armor has given him new inspiration, and it's just adding existing weapons together, it doesn't require much redesign, it's simple and easy Operation is a very practical idea.
"Your idea is very meaningful, and there will be a formal award for you later." Chen Xin looked at Jiang Juan and said to her with a smile.
However, Jiang Juan bit her lip, but asked Chen Xin, "Academician, can I not give the reward? I still want to replace my Titan with a dual-mounted cannon."