Chapter 2731 Far East Wing Cavalry (Ⅱ)

"Your Majesty, I will do my best."

Qiao An had known for a long time that Roland brought him to the Academy of Military Sciences today to play the role of "quality inspector", and he himself was also very interested in the new generation of air combat mechanical armor designed and developed by the Academy of Military Sciences of the Far East, so he thought Curiosity followed the crowd into the gate of the Academy of Military Sciences.

Jack opened the door of the laboratory, and a tall humanoid construct was displayed in the spacious hall, covered from head to toe by a dust cover, and the details could not be seen clearly.

Nearly a hundred staff members in the laboratory lined up at the door to welcome His Majesty to inspect.

Roland waved his hand, signaling to everyone that they don't need to be polite and continue to work on their own affairs.

The staff all breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly took their positions, and got busy.

Kafta performed a trick, tearing off the dust cover, and the new mechanical armor was completely exposed to the visitors.

Joan looked up and found that the height and shape of this construct were similar to the "Steel Cavalry", but it also had obvious characteristics.

First of all, the most eye-catching thing is that the new mechanical armor is crystal clear, like ice crystals, obviously not made of steel.

Secondly, the magic booster engine installed on the back of the new mechanical armor has a more complex structure than that of the "Steel Cavalry". The exposed part is hemispherical, and many holes are evenly distributed on the spherical surface.

This ingeniously designed device can achieve the effect of adjusting the flight angle and speed of the airframe by precisely adjusting the air flow of each nozzle.

Joan had seen similar structures on beholders before.

The body of the beholder is a hard bone ball, and the surface of the sphere is covered with dense air holes. Its function is the same as that of the vector booster engine, except that the power of the engine comes from the magic crystal turbine, and the beholder uses the air holes to spray through the mouth. Inhales the air in the body to gain flight power.

The last outstanding feature of the new mechanical armor is the pair of flying wings installed on both sides of the booster engine on the back, which can be stretched and folded, fully unfolded like swallow wings, and the well-designed aerodynamic layout can assist flight. No wonder this mechanical armor is code-named "wing cavalry".

Jack picked up the magic pointer, walked to the apron, and introduced the hussar prototype to the visitors.

A straight beam of magic shot out from the end of the pointer, focusing on the nearly transparent chest armor of the hussars.

"Your Majesty, as you can see, the wing cavalry is a new model that has been gradually transformed from the steel cavalry."

"The full load weight of the steel cavalry is as high as 20 tons, which is normal for land combat mechanical armor, but it is too heavy for a mechanical armor that aims to fly in the wind, and it is too difficult to send it to the sky. high, we had to find ways to significantly reduce the weight of the new model.”

"Then is there a material that is similar in hardness, toughness and plasticity to steel, but much lower in density than steel, suitable for casting aircraft armor?"

Mr. Jack asked and answered himself.

"We spent a lot of time thinking, and finally found a new material that perfectly meets our needs!"

"This composite material made of green ice and quartz is called 'Crystal Steel'!"

Having said that, Jack turned to look at Joan with a smile on his face.

"Dr. Vader, it just so happens that when we looked up Crystal Steel's academic materials, we saw a related paper you published in an old journal, and we were very inspired."

"You are too kind, Mr. Jack, that was an immature paper published by me and two Midgard University classmates many years ago, and I was only the second author of that paper, and I did some trivial work in the research group work." Joan said shyly.

"Compared with steel, will the cost of using crystal steel to cast mechanical armor increase a lot?" Roland asked.

"It's more expensive, but it's not as exaggerated as you think. The purchase price per ton of crystal steel is only eight times that of the special-grade steel used to make land combat mechanical armor."

"Your Majesty, crystal steel is a compound of blue ice and quartz. Its hardness and ductility are similar to steel, and its density is only one-fifth that of steel. From this, it can be seen that only 4 tons of crystal steel are needed to make the embryonic body of a mechanical armor. The price is equivalent to 32 tons of special-grade steel, and the cost of the embryo body material has only increased by 60%, which is really not much.”

Kafta makes timely additions.

"In our Far East, do we have the resource conditions and industrial foundation for large-scale mining and smelting of crystal steel?" Roland continued to ask.

"The process of smelting crystal steel is not more complicated than smelting ordinary iron alloys." Kafta explained, "As for mineral resources... Needless to say, quartz sand is cheap minerals that can be seen everywhere. The ancient glaciers with mutated radiation were mostly produced in the severe cold regions at high latitudes."

"Hey! Do you think it's a coincidence? The northern mountainous area of ​​the Far East has been a backcountry since ancient times, where trees don't bloom and birds don't shit. There's nothing you want, except for the glaciers and snowy mountains that don't melt all year round!"

Jack grinned and chimed in.

"In Icewind Dale and Lucia Plateau in our far east, there are rich blue ice deposits. We have already inquired with the dwarf lord Bratu of Icewind Dale and Lord Beowulf of Kirtland. There are many blue ice mines all over the world, and Icewind Valley and Kitland City are the two major iron and steel industry bases in our country. There are no technical problems in mining and smelting blue ice ore. With enough blue ice Supply, smelting crystal steel will be a matter of course."

After listening to Jack and Kafta's introduction, Roland paced around the mechanical armor made of crystal steel with his hands behind his back, his eyes flashing with strange brilliance.

Joan noticed the change in His Majesty's eyes, and thought he was casting an identification spell at first, but soon realized that it was a power higher than magic, either mythical ability or the detection function of the artifact .

No one knows what mystery His Majesty saw from the Hussar Prototype, but when he stopped, the faint smile on his lips made Jack, Kafta and everyone involved in the "Hussar Project" The researchers all secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that the idea of ​​using crystal steel instead of steel to cast hussars has been approved by His Majesty the Emperor, and the first pass of acceptance is considered a smooth pass.

"Using crystal steel to cast hussars can reduce the weight to about four tons. This is indeed a remarkable improvement! Dr. Vader, what do you think?" Roland turned and looked at Joan.

"Indeed, as you said, Your Majesty, crystal steel is not a particularly expensive material, so the main cost of the hussars should be spent on other places, such as enchanting."

Joan performed a "myth analysis technique" on the Hussar prototype, and analyzed all the magic attached to the mechanical armor, and checked them one by one.