Chapter 568: Edge of War (IV)

Territory, Academy of Engineering.

This large-scale division on the coastline was formerly a territorial engineering college. After cultivating many batches of technical personnel who could participate in R&D and production work, it was officially transformed into an engineering college focusing on technology research and development.

In the naming of the system, this college is still the 'Engineering College', but its actual purpose has gradually changed from teaching to the research and development of cutting-edge technology, and it also serves as part of advanced teaching tasks.

One college cannot meet the teaching needs of 350,000 people. Ji Lin has built two new high schools in the locations reserved in the urban planning to cultivate specialized technical personnel.

Mo Qi is in charge of technology research and development, and Xu Shan is in charge of teaching.

The College of Engineering, with a permanent population of about 3,000, can be called a 'college town' in a sense.

"Sometimes I really wish that the higher-ups would assign less work." The dean sighed, holding the file signed with Ji Lin in his hand: "But fortunately, Project 058 can come to an end, ah, there are still new projects."

Project 058, the territory is named after the manned mecha improved by the steam mecha.

In order to standardize the technical projects in the territory, Ji Lin asked the dean of the college, who had just been freed from the heavy research work, to immediately invest in the "Technology Tree Project" to standardize the projects.

This series of engineering projects covering military, people's livelihood, and industry are all classified as code-named projects.

"Project 058? Mr. Dean, if you want to name it..." A researcher from the Academy of Engineering flipped through his notebook: "Project 058, the official name should be the 'Praying Mantis' medium-sized manned machine."

The project to improve the steam robot into a manned machine was named Project 058. After substantial improvement, the steam robot is no longer a manned machine.

"It's called Mantis? Haven't we discussed the application of this thing in the civilian field?" The dean of the college smiled: "But the name Mantis is quite fierce."

"Well, our engineering team feels that the new machine looks a lot like a praying mantis. The civilian application still needs to solve the problems of high cost and wear resistance of some parts... Perhaps it is better to wait for the military department to complete the investigation after the large-scale installation of the civilian application process. Let’s think about all the issues.” The researcher continued to flip through his notes and said, “There’s nothing we can do about it. If we don’t engage in actual combat, we won’t know what problems these big guys have.”

The gap between training ground testing and field testing is wider than the gap between wheat and cooked rice.

Some extremely difficult-to-use rifles came out of this situation, such as the mysterious multi-turret product of the Soviet T28, the three-car crew problem of the early T34, and the abstract stuff like the Rat King next door, as well as the dog-skin plaster brand. That light weapon was designed by a brainstorm.

Sometimes the appearance of these military weapons makes people wonder whether the people in the design bureau have ever been on the battlefield.

"That guy Chang Heng won't be too happy to hear you say that. I told him that this batch of equipment has been completely inspected..." The principal of the college smacked his lips and said: "Forget it, sooner or later they will be used as test subjects. Yes, the test site can only help them solve part of the problem. Anyway, the military is always the first to be the guinea pig. "

Mantis-type walking mecha (the picture comes from Halo 4, Mantis, just take a look at it... I originally planned to look for pictures in Steel Harvest, but after searching around I couldn't find anything that matched it. Halo is still handsome. UwU)

"Leader Ji wants us to make statistics on relatively backward technological products and submit a copy... My head hurts... We still need to find some older blueprints." The headmaster sighed, life is not easy.

If they want to trade, they can only use the old product blueprints, but fortunately, productivity has improved now, and the efficiency of producing equipment in the low era has increased exponentially.

In the past, making the barrel required slowly forging and shaping, and the rifling had to be slowly drawn out by hand. Now, after the territory's barrel is integrally formed, it can be pulled out in seconds by a steam cutting machine, which previously took several hours to pull out by hand, and the defective rate has been greatly reduced.

This gives them an absolute advantage in dumping... ah no, trade.

The cost of producing mechanical components for territories that have developed scale advantages after industrialization is much lower than that of other lords who started production from scratch. They can use their production capacity advantage to overwhelm their targets without even engaging in a price war.

The only problem is that Territory's production lines are limited. They must select the flagship product with the largest market size, and it is best to use Territory's current production line.

"After all, we still have to sell guns..." The dean of the college looked at the report given to him by the researcher: "But that's right, only when there is a sufficient market and sufficient demand for weapons."

Cannons cannot be sold because they risk threatening the territory.

Rune weapons, the production of rune weapons requires the production capacity of rune craftsmen, and the fact that the territory is not as mechanized does not mean that the rune craftsmen have entered industrialization.

Rune components are still the most basic handicraft model. Only the introduction of machinery has slightly increased the carving speed... Ji Lin has not yet found a method that can replace rune craftsmen and directly produce magic components. According to him, I know that is the technology of the seventh age.

Energy conversion, wave stabilization, filtering, voltage regulation.

Guns have great demand and market, and they pose little threat to territory.

The rifle in the Steam and Steel dungeon can be considered a good rifle among current lords, but the use of crystal ore gunpowder causes serious ablation problems, and the barrel life is far less than that of ordinary rifles.

That doesn't matter, just let them replace the barrels if they have a short lifespan, and the territory can also make a fortune in maintenance fees.

It is said to be a good rifle because there are also capable people among the lords on the ground. There are lords who have traveled through time with knowledge and have made a more modern brown bass flintlock through mutual communication.

This is much more useful than the flintlock made by the lords themselves.

The Eastern Alliance is discussing and communicating, and technological expansion has quietly appeared in this temporary alliance... This flintlock that spread to various states with the rise of the British Empire is spreading rapidly among the lords on the ground.

If the territory wants to put its own rifle on the market, it must have its own unique advantages in performance.

"Ah... It's so annoying, why do I still have work." The dean sighed.

Modifying firearms is not a troublesome thing.

The barrel of the old rifle can be used for the new rifle, just as if it is using good materials for the old rifle... The main reason is that the territory does not want to open an extra production line. Opening an extra production line will waste manpower and production capacity. The territory now only needs to reallocate the production line of old parts to resume the production of old rifles.

As for parts, some parts of new rifles can also be applied...