Chapter 474 of 835
Chapter 474: Energy crystal
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Train artillery may indeed be a very powerful battlefield support weapon
during World War II, but after nearly a century of vigorous development of
science and technology after World War II, the technology that mankind
mastered has already undergone earth-shaking changes.
In front of the missiles, rockets, bombers, and even more sci-fi space-based
weapons equipped by the modern army, the local train artillery is almost like
a large target.
Taking the military equipment in the hands of the modern army, if you want to
dismantle a train gun that was considered a weapon during World War II, you
only need two armed helicopters to do it.
So although the Suvia’s land cruiser looks really powerful and terrifying, in
fact this thing has been eliminated in history.
In fact, after this thing was actually made, Suvia's senior management
realized that it was not practical, so the Suvia senior management quickly
gave up the idea of mass production.
Otherwise, with the madness of Suvia and the Federation during the Cold War,
after the successful development of this big killer carrying two 305 thick
tubes, the Suvias have no reason not to equip them on a large scale.
As for the fact that Suvia did not build so many man-made tanks, imagine that
their tank production plan was in units of 10,000 units, and a little
production plan was taken out of it to build a hundred and eighty land
cruisers of this type. In terms of industrial strength, there is no problem at
all.
However, the Suvias did not choose to mass-produce the land cruiser. They even
built two experimental aircraft and one mass-produced model and sealed these
things in a secret military base in Siberia, and did not use them again.
It takes a lot of resources and time investment to manufacture the final
product, but directly seal it up, which is really a wasteful practice.
However, in the Cold War era, this is not unimaginable. A technology has
invested a lot of resources in research, but it is found that the results have
become out of date. It is a very common thing in armaments research.
Especially after World War II, the rapid development of military science and
technology caused many military equipment to become obsolete.
It's just that some can make do with it, and some can only be discarded and
sealed.
Moreover, it is not that the Suvias have not considered using these three land
cruisers. When the relationship between Yan Country and Suvia was the worst,
and even the border conflict broke out, the Suvias had considered using the
one that had just been sealed up at the time. Three monsters participated in
the border conflict.
However, because of the long distance, these three land cruisers could not be
transported by train. They had to rely on their own power to travel to the
conflict area, which took too long.
And it was just a border conflict at the time. Although the two sides used
force, they still maintained restraint, and no full-scale conflict broke out.
Although the Suvia did consider using this thing, they finally gave up such an
idea.
This incident has become a dusty archive, which no one knows for half a
century.
It was not until this time that the Lucias took out all their sealed homes in
order to obtain aid from the Yan Nation, and found the record of this incident
from a dusty filing cabinet in Suvia.
It also let Yan Guo know that in the border conflict that year, the Suvia
actually planned to use such a big killer.
Fortunately, this is a thing of the past, and Suvia has been disintegrated for
more than 30 years, and this matter is not meant to be turned out now, but it
only made Yan Country interested in these three land cruisers.
As for why the three land cruisers should be brought back, it is indeed not as
simple as the document said to transform them into all-terrain vehicles.
Although the top management does plan to transport the three land cruisers
back and transform them into all-terrain vehicles, in addition, there are
deeper goals.
The three land cruisers used nuclear reactors as a source of electricity. With
Suvia’s nuclear technology at the time, this was indeed achievable. After all,
they had built something like a mobile nuclear power plant at the time, but
later It was abandoned because of the cut city incident.
However, through the unsealed top-secret information, Chen Xin learned that at
that time the Suvias only used nuclear reactors on the second test machine and
the mass production model. As for the power source for the first prototype,
the Suvias did not Use nuclear reactors.
Instead, they used an energy crystal accidentally obtained by the Suvias, and
this was the real purpose of Chen Xin and their trip to Siberia this time.
You can get the three land cruisers if you can get them back. If you can’t get
them back to do surveying and mapping, you can make new ones when you get the
drawings. But the energy crystal used on the prototype is really interesting
and wanted by the seniors. thing.
It is precisely because of this that the senior management will send such a
team to Siberia in order to get back this energy crystal comparable to a
nuclear reactor.
After all, according to the record in another top-secret information provided
by Lucia, this energy crystal is only the size of a fist, but it can stably
output the energy equivalent to a small nuclear reactor of that era.
If it hadn't been for the scientists of Suvia that they had exhausted all
means to replicate this thing, and even if they didn't understand the
principle and material structure of this thing, they wouldn't have been wasted
by using it to build land cruisers.
This also made Chen Xin very interested in this thing, because it is recorded
in the research materials of Suvia that ~www.mtlnovel.com~ Although this
crystal continuously releases energy, its mass has not been reduced. Even if
the Suvia people used the most sophisticated instruments for measurement and
long-term observation, they did not find any change in the quality of this
thing.
This is very counterintuitive, because in the process of converting matter
into energy, the greater the energy released, the more the mass of the matter
will be reduced. If energy is continuously released, the mass should also be
reduced in theory. .
However, this crystal has been studied in the hands of the Suvia for a long
time, and it has been releasing energy continuously, but there has not been
any reduction in mass, which obviously does not conform to the laws of
physics.
There are two possibilities for this situation. Either the crystal absorbs new
substances to supplement itself in the process of releasing energy, forming a
cycle; or it is actually a very high-density energy crystal that has been The
"low-power" method is releasing energy. Although the energy is released, the
mass reduction is too small to be found by the observation methods of the
Suvia people at that time.
As for what the situation is, Chen Xin can't be sure now. Only after he has
really gotten started with this thing can he be able to judge what it is.
And because of the appearance of this thing, Chen Xin finally became
interested in this journey.