Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

"The idea of ​​dual machine guns is indeed feasible, but it is not practical." After receiving the report from Jiang Juan, Chen Xin gave an evaluation after reviewing that it was not practical.

"Academician, why do you think it's not practical? Isn't the design of the dual machine cannon can double the firepower delivery?" Jiang Juan, who was called to the office by Chen Xin, was a little unconvinced.

The idea she put forward was based on her actual experience on the battlefield, and it was obviously unacceptable for her to be directly denied by Chen Xin like this.

Chen Xin shook his head, and asked her: "Since you are a Titan pilot and have used machine guns...then let me ask you, what kind of machine gun does the public officer use?"

"The cannon equipped by the official type is a 23-1 aviation cannon with a caliber of 23mm. It uses 23mm standard cannon shells and is a single-tube sliding movement cannon." The Titans and supporting equipment are still very familiar.

Chen Xin nodded slightly, and was quite satisfied with her professional ability, so he continued to ask: "Not to mention the technical difficulty of the double-mounted transformation, I just ask you, how to connect two cannons in parallel to make a double-mounted cannon?" For the joint-mounted cannon, what is the distance between the two gun ports, have you calculated it?"

"This..." Jiang Juan hesitated for a moment, but quickly replied loudly: "Report, no!"

"It won't exceed 20 centimeters." Chen Xin announced the answer to Jiang Juan, and explained: "It's not that I haven't thought about the design of dual-mounted cannons, and it's not even that there are no double-barreled cannons that can be used, but in the end we still have The choice of a single-barreled cannon is not because you can’t afford to use a double-barreled cannon or you don’t want to use a double-barreled cannon, but because a double-barreled cannon has twice as much firepower as a single-barreled cannon, and it can’t perform well on the battlefield. Effect."

"Why? With one more barrel, wouldn't it be possible to fire one more shell and cause more damage?" Jiang Juan asked strangely.

Chen Xin shook his head, obviously a little disappointed that Jiang Juan could ask such a question, but he still explained: "If it is used to hit targets such as planes or tanks, then doubling the firepower can really solve the problem. But the problem is that we are fighting alien creatures now.

One round of 23mm general-purpose machine gun ammunition is enough to penetrate the shell of alien creatures and cause effective damage. One more round will still hit the same position to a large extent. It cannot effectively improve the damage efficiency of alien creatures. "

Adding a barrel can indeed increase the amount of ammunition delivered, which can indeed increase the probability of effective kills when dealing with armored targets such as tanks and aircraft.

After all, you can't just destroy a tank or an aircraft with one shell, but firing one more shell can increase your chances of destroying the target.

However, when the target is changed to an alien creature that can be killed by a single shell, adding a barrel and doubling the ammunition delivery is just a waste of ammunition.

A target that can be killed by one shot does not need to be killed by two shots. The two barrels are so close together that the two shells will basically only hit one target. It is more fragmented, and there will be no such thing as two barrels that can hit two different targets.

In fact, the multi-barreled cannon is just a way to increase the rate of fire when the rate of fire of the machine gun was not enough in the past.

But for modern military industry, it is already possible to achieve extremely high rates of fire, and the ammunition delivery can even reach thousands of rounds per minute. At this time, multi-barreled machine guns seem tasteless and impractical.

And this is why there are fewer and fewer gun barrels on modern warships. Except for the Gatling-style rotary tube design, multi-barrel designs are rarely seen.

Because with the blessing of modern technology, one barrel is enough to ensure a sufficient rate of fire and smash enough shells at the enemy.

After listening to Chen Xin's explanation, Jiang Juan couldn't help feeling depressed. Although she still felt a little unconvinced, she also understood that her thoughts were not so realistic.

"But you don't need to be depressed. Although it is redundant to make a dual-mounted cannon, it does not mean that it is completely useless." Chen Xin comforted Jiang Juan.

However, what he said is not simply comforting people, but it does have a certain reference value.

"To fight against alien creatures, we really need to increase the amount of firepower delivered." Seeing Jiang Juan's puzzled expression, Chen Xin explained to her: "Is there any way to simply increase the rate of fire or add an extra barrel?" What's the point, because doing so will just drop a lot of ammunition on the same target, which is a very inefficient approach for this war.

What we want is to drop more ammo on the enemy's head per unit of time, but we also want to avoid putting too much ammo on the same target.

To achieve these two goals at the same time is the key to designing the public officer into three weapon positions, because in this way, the three weapons can project ammunition to three different targets at the same time, effectively improving the firepower projection. At the same time, it also improves the killing efficiency. "

"In that case, isn't my thinking meaningless?" Jiang Juan also understood Chen Xin's thinking at this time. He obviously didn't want to waste a lot of ammunition on the same target.

"It's really meaningless to a Titan, but it has a different meaning to an ordinary weapon." For Jiang Juan's idea, Chen Xin is not trying to comfort her, but it does have a certain reference value.

"Ordinary weapons? Academician, do you mean individual weapons?" Although she is a Titan driver, Jiang Juan still knows the weapons equipped by ordinary soldiers: "They are using heavy machine guns now? Are you going to make that into a weapon?" Double pack?"

"Yes, for a 23mm machine gun, one shell is enough to kill an alien creature, but for a 12.7mm heavy machine gun, it can barely penetrate the shell of an alien creature." Chen Xin In fact, there have been plans to increase the lethality of individual weapons, but there have been no good ideas.

Coupled with the busyness of various things, he has no time to design new weapons.

But now Jiang Juan's idea of ​​this kind of double installation gave him a new inspiration, and this is just adding the existing weapons together. It doesn't need too many redesigned parts. It is simple and easy to operate. A very practical idea.

"Your idea is very meaningful, and there will be a formal reward for you later." Chen Xin looked at Jiang Juan and said to her with a smile.

But Jiang Juan bit her lip, but asked Chen Xin: "Academician, can I not give the reward? I still want to replace my Titan with a dual-mounted cannon."

About the weapon design is my nonsense