Chapter 774 Freak
Today’s TV is not what George is familiar with. It is a large square box over one meter high, with a screen only the size of a palm. The key is that there are no supporting TV programs. If you want to enter thousands of households, There is still a long way to go.
Amur Electric Company has purchased Zworykin’s invention patent and formed a professional team with Zworykin as the main body to conduct research and improvement on related technologies.
Relatively speaking, George still pays more attention to the Rockets.
Before cooperating with the Germans, Russia had accumulated considerable experience through rocket launchers. After continuous improvements, the range of rocket launchers has also increased from 8.5 meters during the World War to the current 20 meters. km.
After cooperation with Germany, the accuracy of rocket launchers has been greatly improved.
Compared with the heavy field artillery equipped by the military, the range and accuracy of rocket launchers are insufficient, and quantity can only make up for quality.
Compared with the large-volume and well-managed Russian equipment, the outstanding features of German equipment are well-made and reliable performance. Although the technical level is similar, German equipment is obviously more sophisticated and feels more sophisticated than Russian equipment. upscale.
This is determined by the actual situation of the two countries.
Russia is rich in resources. No matter how expensive the equipment is, it can become consumables in Russia and can only be remanufactured.
Germany has limited resources, and every piece of good steel must be used on the blade, which requires the Germans to work hard on product quality.
Georg Siemens has a particularly profound experience of this.
In 1914, George Siemens proposed the theory of flying torpedoes. However, due to the situation in Germany at the time, George Siemens only conducted some theoretical research and did not carry out actual operations.
Germany has a very cautious attitude towards military equipment. After perfecting the theory, it entered the laboratory stage. After multiple batches of product improvements, it finally determined the plan and entered the production stage. At the beginning, it did not dare to build too many. Improve while producing.
Russia’s method of researching military equipment is simple and crude. Whether the theory is perfect or not is not important. Skip the laboratory stage if you can. Whether it is useful or not, let’s make a batch and try it first.
If German technology research and development is called slow work, careful work is achieved.
Russia is a standard that produces miracles with great force.
Georg Siemens initially did not have much hope for cooperation with Russia. After all, in Georg Siemens’ view, it was unlikely that the Russians would demonstrate Russian core technologies to Georg Siemens.
The frankness of the Russian engineer allowed George Siemens to completely subvert his long-standing impression of the Russians.
In the minds of most Germans, the Russians are barbaric, difficult to communicate with, and unreasonable. The nobles live in drunkenness, the common people are serfs, and the soldiers are gray animals. They are rotten from top to bottom.
This is definitely prejudice. If Russia is really so bad, the German royal family will not frequently intermarry with the Russian royal family.
Russian engineers did not exclude George Siemens from the core team because of his identity. On the first day that George Siemens arrived in Amur, Russian engineers took George Siemens to the Yuriev, deep inland.
If Vladivostok is described as the face of Amur, Yuriev is the brain of Amur.
Russian aircraft, submarine, radio, armor steel and other research institutions are all in Yuriev.
The city of Yuriev cannot be found on the map at all, and the train George Siemens took had no windows. Prior to this, George Siemens did not even know the existence of Yuriev.
Yuriev has a large area but a small population. There are less than 50,000 people in the entire city.
There are more than 6,000 military researchers in this city, and even Mario, the governor of Amur, doesn’t know about some of the team’s research projects.
After learning about the actual performance parameters of Russian rocket launchers, Georg Siemens was filled with worry.
The Russians opened up their core data to Georg Siemens, either because they had no sense of confidentiality or because they were not worried about Georg Siemens leaking the secrets at all.
The leader of the Russian technical team is named Ferdo, and the chief engineer is rocket launcher expert Zabulov.
After getting the research information from George Siemens, Zabrov took only one month to produce the samples, with unprecedented efficiency.
“One of our engineers once proposed a similar idea, but due to the technical conditions at the time, he did not conduct in-depth research. Your design is not complicated. We have many semi-finished products in our warehouse and only need to make some modifications. , you can conduct experiments.”
Zabulov’s words made George Siemens tremble with fear, and he suddenly felt like he was playing a big knife in front of the public.
Georg Siemens only conducted theoretical research, but Russian engineers have done a lot of experiments and accumulated considerable experience. There are even more than ten types of rocket tail fins. Simply in the research of rocket launchers, Russia Far ahead.
Compared with rocket launchers, the technical difficulty of flying torpedoes lies in flight control. The solution proposed by George Siemens is wire control, while Zabulov prefers to use radio remote control.
In 1898, American inventor Nikola Tesla applied for patent No. 613809, which included radio control technology; in the same year, Tesla publicly demonstrated a remote-controlled submarine that could dive at the Electrical Exposition held in Madison Garden, New York. .
Tesla’s patent protection expired in 1912. Since Tesla did not renew it, the remote control patent is currently in the public domain.
Amur Military Industrial Group did not use Tesla’s patent to produce remote control toys, but used it for military research.
Although the first experiment did not meet Zablov's expectations, it still far exceeded George Siemens' expectations.
After fully realizing the strength of Russian military industry technicians, George Siemens devoted himself wholeheartedly. After more than two years of research, he had this rocket with real combat capabilities.
The disadvantage of this rocket is that it requires controllers to fly on a plane to remotely control the rocket, and it cannot truly leave it alone after launch.
The emergence of television technology laid the technical foundation for remote control rockets. If it were anyone else, they wouldn't be able to connect these two seemingly unrelated technologies for a while.
This is George’s biggest golden finger.
“Think about it, if one day the rocket range can exceed 1,000 kilometers, no matter how powerful the fleet is, it will be wiped out in front of the rocket.”
George's description made Peter and Vasily's blood boil.
Compared with European and American scientific researchers who pursue economic benefits, Russian scientific researchers are indeed a bit shaky and can easily go astray.
This is also determined by the system. No matter how capable the scientific researchers are, they will always have to eat. Nikola Tesla, for example, went bankrupt and fell into poverty. He eventually died in a hotel in New York. How did he die? It’s hard to say.
Russian researchers have no worries. In addition to Mario not giving wives to Yuriev's researchers, all life, old age, sickness and death are covered. Money is meaningless to many Yuriev researchers. This gang People are gradually degenerating into Russian giant babies who have no concept of money like Nikolai.
When God closes a door for you, he will definitely open a window.
A technological giant with severely degraded survival skills and very strong scientific research capabilities. Coupled with Russia's institutional advantages, it is easy to enter a blowout state once a breakthrough is made in a certain technology.
“Can we install flying torpedoes on warships?”
Peter’s biggest concern is the navy.
"There are no flying torpedoes at all, this is a rocket launcher belonging to the army."
Vasili's attitude was firm. If the navy takes one more bite, the army will take one less bite.
Peter is not angry, the Navy also has its own technical research institute.
If we were to study flying torpedoes from scratch, the Naval Institute of Technology would indeed not have the capability.
But if you just combine flying torpedoes and warships, the Naval Technology Institute can still do it.
George's mind was no longer on flying torpedoes, but on jets.
Compared with during the world wars, the performance and safety of aircraft are constantly improving, civil airlines are springing up, and Amur Airlines has become the biggest beneficiary.
Civil aircraft do not have high technical requirements, and transport aircraft can be used in civil aviation by modifying them at will.
George dislikes the casualness of the Russians. In many fields, Russia actually has a first-mover advantage, but it was inadvertently abandoned because of its "casualness".
George has only one requirement for industrial products: excellence.
The reason why George cooperated with the Germans was mainly because of the Germans’ rigorous attitude towards industry.
If you combine Germany's rigor with Russia's resources, it's hard to say whether World War II will be fought or not, and there will definitely be no more Cold War.
Military aircraft pursue performance, while civilian aircraft pursue comfort. Both aspects are endless.
The development of propeller aircraft has not yet reached a bottleneck and there is still room for development.
But George knew clearly that jets were the future.
Based on the development concept of equipment generation, development generation, pre-research generation, and exploration generation, George assigned tasks to military technicians and began research on jet aircraft.
It turns out that George still doesn’t know enough about the Russians.
In other words, Russia's technological accumulation level far exceeded George's expectations.
George thought that no matter how good the military technicians were, it would take at least three to five years for jet aircraft to appear.
On June 2, just two months after George arranged the mission, good news came from Amur. The first jet aircraft successfully tested.
This——
When George saw the report, his first reaction was that Andre was bragging.
After reading the report, George suddenly realized.
Strictly speaking, the aircraft that successfully flew was not a jet aircraft, but a monster that combined a rocket engine and a glider. It only flew in the air for 30 seconds.
The purpose of this experiment is just to verify the feasibility of the jet aircraft and to confirm that the aircraft will not disintegrate after the rocket engine is ignited.
Since there is no disintegration, the next task is to continue to improve the technical level of jet aircraft.
(End of this chapter)