Chapter 1088 Technology Transformation

...The technical problems of Linghe Armor cannot be solved overnight...

Fan Wubing did not expect that the technical department could come up with sheath solutions in a short period of time, but at this time, within the scope of the entire Fan Investment Group, there was already a materials application research institute that specialized in the application of various materials. Research has already made some progress.

In fact. As an important part of the composite armor in modern armored combat vehicles, many materials are not metals. It is some synthetic materials or a combination of non-metallic elements or ceramics. To sum up, the reason is naturally because the impact resistance of metal materials has limited its development prospects, while some non-metallic materials are processed by various means. It can perform better than metal materials.

But after Fan Wubing entered the research room at the core level and met with several electric shock technology application experts from the military and Southeast Heavy Industry Group, he saw the most promising achievement of Southeast Heavy Industry. Electric shock armor.

"Electromagnetic armor?" Fan Wubing didn't know much about these things. I was a little surprised when I heard the name, and I didn't know exactly how this worked.

In fact, the concept of electromagnetic armor was proposed in the 1970s.

The principle of electric impact armor is to install the charged spacer armor plate in front of the tank armor. When the high metal jet of the armor-piercing projectile contacts the electromagnetic armor, it will form a path with the charged spacer armor and generate a powerful electric current. The collision field rotates, deflects, breaks or disperses the metal jet.

"Then it's almost the same as the principle of electromagnetic gun, but in this case. The power load should be very large, right?" Fan Wubing seemed to have some understanding after hearing this, and asked.

"The issue that Mr. Fan is concerned about is actually an issue raised by most people." The expert explained, "Let's take an example. The electromagnetic armor is used to resist the electrical energy required when attacking Rib 7 rockets. It is better than the cold winter morning. The electric energy required to start the motor is still small, and the improved electrical system and battery pack can provide electric energy for the electromagnetic armor.

"Oh, in this case, there is still something to do." Fan Wubing nodded.

Protection capability is the most basic and critical factor in the survivability of a weapon system. Due to the rapid development of high technology, the development of anti-armor weapons is changing rapidly, which has formed a comprehensive impact on the armor protection of tanks in terms of type, firing range and spatial range. Directional attack.

With the continuous development of intelligent anti-armor weapons and the possibility of electromagnetic guns being used on the battlefield in the future, the threats to armored vehicles on the battlefield will become increasingly serious. Therefore, only with sufficient protection against modern anti-armor weapons can armored vehicles have survivability on modern battlefields.

“The main weapons currently used to attack tanks and armored vehicles are kinetic energy rounds and armor-piercing rounds.

Kinetic energy bullets are also called armor-piercing bullets, which gain huge kinetic energy during anti-aircraft fire. When it hits the protective armor, its kinetic energy is quickly released in a small area to achieve the purpose of penetrating the armor. The armor-piercing projectile uses a high-metal jet to penetrate the armor to destroy the protective armor. As the penetration capabilities of armor-piercing and armor-piercing projectiles continue to increase, it is unrealistic to simply increase the thickness of armor to improve its protection... An expert explained to Fan Wubing, "First, the thickness of the armor The increase will inevitably increase the size and weight of the tank, which will relatively reduce the maneuverability and flexibility of the vehicle. Secondly, the current kinetic energy of the projectile is greater than 1,800 meters per second, and the armor-piercing energy is greater than 900,000 joules. With such powerful power, traditional armor is difficult to protect. It is obvious that a very effective new protection technology is needed to make most threats ineffective before endangering the target. Therefore, a new armor protection technology, electromagnetic armor, is adopted. conceived and born.”

In fact, electromagnetic armor technology is not a difficult technology to master. The difficulty is that the electrical energy required for electromagnetic armor must be provided by a huge battery pack and capacitor pack. In terms of the technology at the time, it is difficult to master the technology. The size of the tank is smaller than the battery pack, so the problem of the battery pack cannot be solved, so the development of electromagnetic armor has encountered a technical bottleneck, but with the advancement of technology. Electromagnetic armor technology that consumes less power is now available.

There are two main types of electromagnetic armor. One is active electromagnetic armor, which is a new active protection concept that uses electromagnetic energy emission technology combined with armored vehicles. It uses electromagnetic energy to protect the outer layer of the vehicle body. Actively intercept the trajectory of incoming weapons to eliminate threats outside the tank.

This active electric armor is composed of a detection system, an identification system, a computer and control system, a power supply system and a launcher. Once there is an incoming weapon within a certain range of the detection system, it will transmit the signal to the well computer control system to judge and identify the target. When the ballistic trajectory poses a threat to the tank, it will immediately send out a signal to connect The power switch transmits high pulse current to the launcher, causing the capacitor bank to discharge to the flat coil of the launcher with outer protective armor, generating a strong collision field, ejecting the outer protective armor, and intercepting incoming missiles at a safe distance. To destroy or change its trajectory to achieve the purpose of active protection.

Another type of passive electric sea armor can be divided into two types: contact electromagnetic armor and long-range electromagnetic armor according to its interaction with incoming weapons.

"Contact type and long-range type?" Fan Wubing asked, "Does one work after a collision, and the other uses a magnetic field to directly remove the cannonball?"

"That's pretty much it," the expert replied.

When an incoming missile attacks an armored vehicle, when the missile contacts the electromagnetic armor, the electromagnetic armor will directly pass a huge current to the incoming missile, destroying or interfering with the incoming missile with electromagnetic energy. This type of armor is located outside the basic armor of the vehicle body, and consists of two steel plates and a high-voltage capacitor at a certain distance, in which the outer steel plate is grounded and the inner steel plate is connected to the high-voltage capacitor.

When attacked by a rocket such as the 7-type rocket, when the high-metal jet of the conical charge passes through the two steel plates, a current path will be formed, causing the high-voltage capacitor to discharge instantly. Hundreds of thousands of amperes of current flow through this path, generating a huge electromagnetic field, rotating, deflecting, breaking or dispersing the metal jet, preventing the main armor from being penetrated, thereby providing protection.

The experimental results show that when the electromagnetic armor is passed with a current of 500,000 amperes, the high-metal jet of the conical charge is almost consumed, and the remaining jet no longer poses a threat to the basic armor of the tank body. The basic armor of the vehicle body will easily eat the remaining jet as a snack.

"This kind of electric armor is different from the others." The system is composed of anti-bullet metal plates, insulating layers, coil layers and capacitors. Although it weighs only more than three tons, the protective capacity it forms is equivalent to adding 20 tons of homogeneous armor. "The expert asked Fan Wubing to take a look at the experimental model and said that this kind of armor is currently being trial-produced.

There is also a long-range electromagnetic armor under design. This electromagnetic armor does not rely on any mechanical device to contact the incoming missile, but acts on the incoming missile body through a strong electromagnetic field at a long distance, causing it to generate electromagnetic eddy currents, and then generating a magnetic field opposite to the original magnetic field, so that the metal missile body is subjected to a repulsive resistance and slows down or deviates from the trajectory, achieving the purpose of protecting the armored vehicle body. The working principle of this electromagnetic armor is similar to that of active electromagnetic armor, but no armor is required to intercept the incoming missile body.

"It seems that this kind of long-range electric collision armor seems to be more advanced." Fan Wubing thinks it is safer not to let the missile body act on the tank.

The expert also said that these types of electromagnetic armor are all additional electromagnetic equipment. Armor, its role is to destroy, interfere with or consume the energy of the incoming projectile. To achieve the role of protecting the main armor of the vehicle body. Among these types of electromagnetic armor, contact electromagnetic armor developed earlier and is easier to break through technically, while long-range electromagnetic armor is still in the research stage due to the large electromagnetic field strength required and the limitation of the effective action distance of the electromagnetic field, and no examples have been put forward.

Overall. The electromagnetic armor protection system is a new concept of defense with a good development prospect. Compared with the reactive armor currently in use, electromagnetic armor has better operational safety and no worries about personnel safety before the current is turned on.

"At present, major tank manufacturers in the world are studying electromagnetic armor. Among them, the United States is conducting research on adding electromagnetic armor to Bradley fighting vehicles. It can be seen that electromagnetic armor will be the next generation of armor protection technology in the future. However, it will take some time to convert these extremely complex related technologies into usable products. The electromagnetic armor currently developed by the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries is mainly used to counter the threat of rockets such as fat, but in the future, after overcoming key technologies. Naturally, it can also improve the protection of electromagnetic armor against anti-tank missiles. "The head of the laboratory said to Fan Wubing.

After listening to this, Fan Wubing could not help but sigh with emotion.

From mechanization to electrification, it is the future development trend of main battle tanks, including propulsion systems, weapon systems and protection systems, etc. In the future, they will all develop towards electrification. Among them, the development of electromagnetic armor is the core of the electrification of the protection system. The main battle tanks using electromagnetic armor have a survivability far greater than that of ordinary main battle tanks by five or six times.

"In fact, since the advent of tanks. The form of war has undergone major changes, and various types of anti-armor weapons have been continuously innovated. The last century can be said to be an era of pursuit between armor and anti-armor, and a competition between spears and shields has begun. With the continuous improvement of the performance of anti-armor weapons, armor protection has evolved from early homogeneous armor to the currently used reactive armor and various types of composite armor, showing that traditional armor technology has come to an end, forcing countries around the world to think about new protection technologies, and the concept of electric collision armor came into being. "The head of the laboratory said to Fan Wubing, "The concept of electromagnetic armor appeared in the 1970s, but the technological capabilities at that time could not solve the problem of huge capacitors. Until today, thanks to high technology, the concept of electromagnetic armor has finally been implemented. Electromagnetic armor has a good development prospect, and the active electromagnetic armor protection system is a new defensive thinking. Although the technology of electromagnetic armor has shown a good development prospect. But it is still a long way from the practical stage. But I think that with the rapid development of electronic technology, I believe that electromagnetic armor technology will soon make a breakthrough. "

Fan Wubing looked at the models in the experiment and felt that in fact, many weapons in science fiction novels at that time had already entered the battlefield, and the fantasies written by Verne had already been realized one by one, just like electromagnetic guns and electromagnetic armor. They were just thoughts before, but now they have practical models. It can be said that people's ideas will never feel too absurd.

There is also a saying that the bolder the people are, the more productive the land is. Although this saying is a little worth pondering when used in agricultural production, it is really not used in weapons and equipment.

Before leaving, the laboratory specially arranged a combat drill for Fan Wubing to defend against rockets with electromagnetic armor. After the electric armor installed on the shooting range was prepared, people here used domestically produced Red Arrow rockets and Bi-7 rockets to conduct live ammunition shooting.

When the dust settled, Fan Wubing and others went to inspect the results in person and found that the electromagnetic armor was intact and the rockets were basically eaten by the electromagnetic armor.

The weight of the battery pack currently planned to be installed on the tank to power the electromagnetic armor is still acceptable, and the laboratory has also come up with a good idea in terms of energy charging and storage. For example, if fighting in a strong sunshine area, solar energy can be used for electricity storage, which is very convenient.

In order to improve the continuous anti-strike capability, timely charging is very important. Although the energy consumed at one time is not much, in order to prevent any accidents, the laboratory still considers designing a dual power supply system to prevent continuous anti-tank rocket attacks and being unable to respond.

Fan Wubing praised it after seeing it. Through this inspection, he also found a problem, that is, the combination of various disciplines has become very important. Although Fan's Investment Group has now achieved the best in many industries, there are too few examples that can be used in combination.

On the contrary, through the creation of this military-industrial enterprise, many high-tech results in various industries have been combined together, showing the important role of technology transformation into results.

No wonder it is said that all high-tech is first applied on the battlefield. At this time, Fan Wubing also felt the same way. He also made a decision, that is, no matter how much investment is made, this military-industrial enterprise must be carried out, even if a small part of it is converted into civilian use, it is enough to make up for the price.

Not to mention, when these technical products are used in the military, they will generate huge commercial value.

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