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Such a company that manufactures parts and components does not even have the qualifications to research and produce weapons. This sudden cross-border development of artillery still makes outsiders feel unreliable no matter how they look at it.

But this is only the opinion of ordinary outsiders, and the officials of the Army Ordnance Department do not see it that way!

Dangtu Special Machinery Company seems to be ordinary, but his boss and chief engineer is not ordinary. He is a resigned professor from the Royal Institute of Technology.

And this professor used to be a mechanic at the Royal Institute of Technology, and presided over the research and development of many large-scale equipment.

Later, due to personal reasons, I left and started my own business. Well, I have to say that in recent years, there have been many students from the Royal Institute of Technology or simply professors who came out to start their own businesses. This professor of mechanics is just one of them. .

As for the company's weapon production qualifications, there is no problem at all, because they are not saying that they are going to develop new types of artillery or the like. They only provide technical solutions for the production of new artillery.

It is actually another company that is really preparing to develop and produce new artillery, that is, Dangtu Artillery Factory, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jiangnan Weapons Company.

They are jointly developed with Dangtu Artillery Factory, a subsidiary of Jiangnan Weapons Company. Dangtu Special Company provides production technical solutions, develops and produces artillery, or Dangtu Artillery Factory. Therefore, strictly speaking, the winning bid is not Dangtu Special Machinery Company. But when the painted artillery factory.

As for why Jiangnan Arms Company has two artillery factories participating in the bidding at the same time, and even competing with each other, it is not surprising.

The many subsidiaries within the three major arms companies have never been a whole. Although in terms of equity, they are all wholly owned by the headquarters of the three major arms companies, but the internal subsidiaries are basically independent of each other. For example Jiangnan Artillery Factory and Dangtu Artillery Factory, except that the equity is wholly owned by Jiangnan Weapons Company, have no relationship with the others. Even because they are both manufacturers of large-caliber artillery, they compete with each other, especially in In the field of heavy artillery such as 24 catties or even 48 catties, they are still direct competitors.

Although the three major arms companies are all wholly-owned and directly owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, and their subsidiaries are all state-owned enterprises, but the enterprises affiliated to the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises of Datang also pursue commercial management. In addition to controlling major strategic issues, he basically does not interfere much in the management and business strategies of its subsidiaries, and basically ignores the competition between subsidiaries, and even encourages mutual competition.

Therefore, it is not the head offices of the three major weapons companies that participate in the bidding of the army's new artillery and artillery shells, but the subsidiaries below.

In order to improve its competitiveness, Dangtu Artillery Factory directly seeks Dangtu Special Company for technical cooperation, which is also normal.

And these are still not the key!

The reason why the officials of the Ordnance Department made an exception to let Dangtu Special Machinery Company participate in the research and development of the new type of artillery was because of a setup plan they submitted.

This design plan is not an artillery design plan, but a technical implementation plan!

Dangtu Special Machinery Company proposed a series of ideas, and finally established a production line capable of casting and producing larger diameters!

If it can be built, then this production line can produce artillery with a caliber of 200 mm and a barrel length of 25 times the caliber!

It's not that there are no large-caliber artillery in the Tang Dynasty. There are also artillery with a caliber of 200 mm. For example, a 48-pound short-barreled howitzer actually has a caliber of 200 mm.

However, the point is not here, the point is that its barrel diameter can reach twenty-five times!

Among the cannons currently equipped by the Datang military, basically, the barrel diameter exceeds 25 times or more, which is considered a long gun, and the typical one should be 27 times the 14-jin cannon.

However, the larger-caliber 18-jin and 24-jin artillery can't reach this barrel diameter.

There is no other reason, the larger the caliber, the longer the body tube, and the higher the technical difficulty!

Even if it is reluctantly made, it is still a very thick barrel, and the overall weight of the artillery is unacceptable.

Therefore, it is a large-caliber long-barreled artillery that can be practical and can be industrially produced on a large scale. At present, it is still a blank.

But now, Dangtu Special Machinery Company has launched a set of technical solutions, saying that it can solve the production problem of large-caliber long-barreled artillery, and people in the military will naturally not let it go.

Just throw away a R&D contract and talk about it.

The best thing to do is to succeed. If it doesn't work, it's nothing. Anyway, whether the Army or the Navy has to throw out a lot of R&D contracts every year, and throw out a lot of research funds, in the end, most of them are actually lost.

The only typical successful case is estimated to be the steam engine research and development project supported by the Navy.

But more failed projects are unknown to outsiders.

In order to obtain large-caliber siege artillery, the army casts nets everywhere to catch fish.

As for when it will be successful, only God knows.

On the contrary, the new shell, or to use the Army's accurate description, should be the new armor-piercing shell, which is easier.

Since the current grenade penetration is not good, then increase the projectile strength of the shell!

As for the proposal to use cylindrical pointed shells to increase the amount of charge and increase the penetration power, this statement is basically ignored, because the smoothbore guns launch non-prototype irregular shells, which cannot guarantee the ballistics, let alone hits. It's a question of how far it can go.

If you don't pursue range, it's fine to use it purely as a shotgun, but it's basically impossible to use it as a shell for a field gun or even a cannon.

The current shells are all round shells. Even if a wooden support is added to the back, it seems to be cylindrical at first glance, but in fact the shell itself is still a round shell, just like a solid shell, the wooden support is only used for It is just to help the shell resist the chamber pressure and reduce air leakage. The moment the gun pops out of the chamber, the wooden support will be detached from the shell itself.

There is a technical premise to make a cylindrical pointed shell, that is, the shell must be stable, and it is best to let the shell rotate on its own, and this involves a rifled gun.

With the rifled gun, the cylindrical shell can be rotated by itself when the shell is fired to improve accuracy.

But when the rifled cannon will come out, that's not a shadow of a thing.

The Navy has been making rifled guns for a few years, but now I haven't even seen a shadow. The processing technology is not good enough. Basically, I can't make any rifled guns. I can barely make it on a horse, and I can't fire a few guns.

The issue of artillery and artillery shells, whether it is the navy or the army, attaches great importance to it, but Li Xuan does not pay much attention to it.

Anyway, after the technology is improved, it will naturally be able to come out. It is useless to think about it now. Now he is more concerned about the follow-up localization plan in Nanyang and the follow-up Indian strategy.

After winning Malacca, it is also announced that Datang has completely controlled the Malacca Strait and obtained better access to and from the Indian Ocean, instead of having to go around the Sunda Strait to enter and leave the Indian Ocean as before, which can greatly shorten domestic to India. voyage.

Likewise, with the expulsion of the Portuguese from the Nanyang region, today the Nanyang region has become a veritable back garden of the Tang Empire.

In the face of such a huge back garden, if you don't immigrate and develop it well, you can't be sorry for your ancestors.

However, it is very difficult to rely on the official force to promote large-scale immigration and development of the islands in the South China Sea. The Immigration and Reclamation Division has worked hard for so many years, and now only immigrants have developed the main island of Luzon and the western part of Banten Island. , and more places, in fact, just like the Portuguese, set up a trading station, a port and the like, not to mention large-scale immigration development.

Therefore, we have to borrow other powers, especially the power of the huge aristocratic group in the country.

After passing through the small-scale fiefdoms in the Nanyang region, Li Xuan is also preparing to confer a large-scale canonization of various nobles in the Nanyang region.

In a place as big as Nanyang, at least a hundred nobles can be arranged. At that time, these nobles can cooperate with the Immigration and Reclamation Division to carry out large-scale immigration and development of the islands in Nanyang.

Previously, after the tentative small-scale canonization in the Wandan Mansion, the results were gratifying. Several nobles spared no effort to make their fiefs more prosperous, especially the private land granted to them to develop and cultivate. They recruit immigrants from the country to their own fiefs, encircle and suppress the local indigenous people, and then develop the land.

This has also led to a considerable acceleration of immigration development in Banten and Luzon.

Immediately, Li Xuan was going to choose dozens of nobles to colonize the Nanyang Sea!

There is no need for him to worry about which people to choose. In Nanyang, there are nobles who are willing to go, and there are nobles who are unwilling to go, but it doesn't matter. Among the more than a thousand nobles, there is always a suitable one.

At the beginning of November, Li Xuan officially announced that ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ will grant fiefs to fifty-three nobles, all of which are located in Luzon and Banten!

Well, today's islands in the South China Sea are theoretically under the jurisdiction of these two overseas territories.

Most of these nobles are viscounts and barons, but there are also several high-level nobles.

For example, the founder of the country, Fang Dongquan, who was at the top of the Huangzhu Mountain period in the Tang Dynasty!

This year's bandit leader, an important general in the early Tang Dynasty, although he had been on the front line one after another during the Unification War, held an idle position in the Privy Council, and immediately retired after the Unification War.

But Li Xuan didn't treat him badly either!

This time the canonization, Li Xuan's favor to Fang Dongquan, is beyond everyone's imagination!

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