Chapter 434 Laser Blinding Weapon
Due to the reasons for the Patriotic War, the Soviet Union's weapons and equipment must first consider the convenience of mass production during the war. This is the most important point. In order to save working hours, it cannot pursue zero casualties like the United States. However, this does not mean that the Soviet Union will not study some things that seem high-end, and even many weapon projects are closer to deployment than the United States. For example, the tank mentioned by Ustinov, and the prototype of the light-lipped tank in reality is actually Soviet goods.
In a famous game in later generations, the prototype of the Western World ace tank, the light-lipped tank was actually first created by the Soviet Union. However, in the game, for example, it is necessary to highlight the barbarity and backwardness of the Soviet Union. Therefore, this more technical weapon is of course more suitable for use on behalf of advanced Western camps.
As early as the 1970s, the entire Western world was happily immersed in the dream of various space warships and laser weapons in the Hollywood science fiction movie "Star Wars". On the other side of the iron curtain, the former Soviet military research department was seriously developing spacecraft, space station and laser tanks.
If Selov remembered correctly, all these plans of the Soviet Union were gathered together at that time. It was rumored on the Internet in later generations that the Soviet Union responded to the American Star Wars plan. The name of these plans was the Red Star Wars War. It was different from the deception plan that was mostly spoken by the United States. Whether in the late Brezhnev or Andropov or Chernenko period, the Red Star Wars plan had never been relaxed. In the 1980s, the Soviet Union began to try to seek breakthroughs in the space field again. Various monster weapons began to leak out. Unlike the black technology that was rumored that the Third Reich had only drawings, the black technology of the Soviet Union left more or less physical objects.
After learning about this history, it is actually easy to be confused about the history of the Soviet Union between the 1980s and 1990s. In the early 1980s, all various industrial indicators of the Soviet Union reached new highs, and nearly thirty major production indicators reached the world's first place. If compared with a single country, it would be evenly matched with the United States. The allies were a little different. There were no imperialist powers such as Britain, France, Germany and Japan as helpers, but they were far from the end of the road.
At that time, countries around the world believed that the Soviet Union reached its peak. Even China believed that the Soviet Union was already a country stronger than the United States, so it had to seek reconciliation with the United States. China itself is a socialist country. It is of course aware of the efficiency advantages of socialist countries in terms of execution and decision-making. In other words, as long as the Soviet Union does not make mistakes, no one can do anything about the Soviet Union itself. The Soviet Union produced more nuclear bombs than the whole world. Who dares to come to try to fight with the Soviet Union?
Although the Soviet Union's development was not as fast as in the 1960s and 1970s, it only slowed down. But China certainly did not calculate that there could be traitors in a socialist country. The Soviet National Security Committee spent decades to eliminate traitors in all aspects, but did not expect that the traitor was the General Secretary.
I thought a little far away. Selov came back to his senses and thought about the light-lipped tank. This thing is called a concept tank for the first time. From common sense, Selov can make a judgment that the tank developed by Ustinov's son, unless the technology is fully mature, can only be used to make a prototype vehicle because it is necessary to achieve the ideal deployment scale for combat, and it is not known how much electricity it will consume.
But it is not impossible to modify it. Selov asked Ustinov's concept of laser weapons in his heart and received a comprehensive answer. Unlike many Soviet commanders who were promoted to marshals after the Patriotic War, Ustinov was more engaged in the production and research of Soviet weapons and equipment. He was a military engineering cadre, so he knew the weapons developed by major Soviet research institutes, and even laser weapons were very detailed.
"There are two aspects of laser destruction targets: one is perforation and the other is layer cracking. The so-called perforation means that a high-power density laser beam causes the surface of the target to melt sharply, and then vaporizes and evaporates. The vaporized substances are sprayed outwards, and the recoil force forms a shock wave, and a hole is penetrated on the target. The so-called layer cracking means that the target surface absorbs laser energy, and the atoms are ionized to form a plasma "cloud". The "cloud" expands outward and sprays to form a stress wave propagating deep into the ground." Under normal circumstances, Ustinov will not introduce such a concept weapon that is still immature under study in such detail. On the one hand, the Soviet Union has just begun researching, and on the other hand, it is confidential.
But Serov is obviously not in normal circumstances. He is the chairman of the National Security Council. If the matter cannot be kept secret from him, there will be no place to keep it confidential.
"Nicolay's project? We, the KGB, want to express our support." After thinking for a long time, Selov solemnly said to Ustinov, "As long as laser weapons are mature, they will have an irreplaceable role. In terms of confidentiality, the KGB must participate. We will solve the funding problem, which is to help the military save a lot of money."
"Yura, are you optimistic about the future of laser weapons?" Brezhnev asked, "Do you have any ideas!"
"There is an idea. Laser weapons require huge energy and miniaturization will definitely take a long time, but I thought of a project, which will be carried out together with the research of laser tanks!" Serov said without hesitation, "Compared with the laser tank project, the project I envision is just a sub-project, but it is easier to implement."
"What is that? Serov, you won't be interested in things that are worthless. Since you have ideas, you must have your own reasons!" Andropov was also very curious about this issue. The two of them worked together in Hungary, and with his understanding of Serov, they must be sure of being sure.
"If we position the target on destroying the opponent's tank, it may take decades of research, but we must understand that tanks need to be operated by people. If we can be blind as an enemy tank driver, will the enemy use autonomous driving to fight us?" Selov sneered. "Eyes are the relatively fragile places in the human body. It is not easy for laser weapons to penetrate steel armor, but it is easy to burn a person's retina. We, the KGB, are not very good at other things, but to say where a person's body is easily surrendered when threatened, there is no one more expert than us..."
As long as the equipment can continuously emit blue-green lasers with a power of about 100 megajou, its power is enough to burn the retina of enemy soldiers two kilometers away, or directly cause damage to the optoelectronic equipment of the opponent.
The laser suppression sight system has two working states: passive and active. When the system is in passive mode, it mainly relies on the alarm equipment to sense the enemy's position, and the jammer emits a weak laser to calibrate the target position; after confirmation by the computer, the power of the laser beam suddenly increases to cause hard killing of the target. If the active mode is turned on, the system first scans the suspicious area with the help of low energy pulses. Once the glimmer reflected by the opponent's sighting instrument lens is identified, it will automatically fire and destroy it. In other words, searching and elimination is the simplest summary of its combat mission.
Selov knew the existence of this weapon. There was this thing on the ace tanks of later generations in China. He was just an ordinary person. Although he didn't know the exact data, he still knew basic common sense. If it was useless, would it be installed on the tank? Since China in the 21st century could be installed, if the Soviet Union in the 1960s installed this thing on the tank, it would definitely scare a group of opponents. The Soviet Union was not without this thing, but it appeared on some experimental T80 tanks in the 1980s, and there was no such thing as China.
It was getting late, and Selov and Andropov and Ustinov said goodbye to go home. They felt a little dizzy when they came together. His alcohol tolerance was still as bad as ever. But now they have learned to be smarter. A glass of vodka was slowly drunk for an hour, and they usually used bragging instead of drinking. The effect was pretty good. Otherwise, they would have been lying on the ground with the drunkard Ustinov.
There was a time when the famous Ustinov rule was unwilling to let Ustinov use it on himself.
"Yura is drunk too much. He seems to be the worst alcoholic among the people I know!" Ustinov laughed and shook his head as he looked at Selov's back.
"Why do you have to drink so much wine?" Brezhnev said to the two of them, looking at Selov's back and said, "Let's do this, I'll go back first, and take Yura home by the way."
Brezhnev asked Chernenko to do a favor and took Selov into his car for the driver to drive. Selov next to him kept burping, and an inexplicable smile on his lips made Brezhnev have a lot of questions. In fact, this smile is nothing special, it just feels dizzy and refreshing...
It wasn't long before the time came to Selov's house. The three of them got out of the car. Selov invited Brezhnev and Chernenko to come in and sit. Anyway, his bold wife was not at home, so she was not worried about being taken advantage of.
"Our KGB Chairman's home looks really good!" As soon as he came in, Brezhnev exclaimed. This was his first time to come. As a thief company, Selov was not right. Of course, the KGB Chairman was interested in many fresh products. Unlike security cadres who are generally interested in military and political intelligence, he is a military-civilian and actually likes to steal civilian technology even more. Whether it is an induction cooker or a juicer, Selov never refuses everyone.
Chapter completed!