Great Country Academician

Chapter 919 Chapter 922: Guns without the feeling of guns~

For Xu Chuan, the defects and problems mentioned by Academician Wang Yong are not a problem at this time.

The electromagnetic sniper rifle in front of him can be used, which is what he is most interested in at the moment.

Looking at Wang Yong, he asked with interest on his face: "Shall I try it? This electromagnetic sniper rifle."

Academician Wang Yong nodded and said: "This is no problem, but it does have many defects at present, and its power may not be as strong as you think."

"It's okay, these are all fine."

Xu Chuan waved his hand, with a hint of excitement on his face, he walked towards the white ceramic experimental table.

This is an electromagnetic sniper rifle, the real one!

When he went to St. Petersburg, Russia to attend the last International Congress of Mathematicians a few years ago, he went to the army for training for a period of time and learned how to shoot, use conventional weapons and other knowledge.

Although he has never touched a gun since then, it does not hinder his interest in electromagnetic sniper rifles.

Xu Chuan's face changed slightly when he 'lifted' the electromagnetic sniper rifle from the experimental table.

Although the weight of more than 60 catties, or 30 kilograms, is not a big deal for a normal adult man, most people can lift it normally.

But this weight is indeed not light.

Especially for a weapon that is defined as a single-soldier combat equipment, this weight is indeed a bit heavy.

And more importantly, the length of this electromagnetic sniper rifle reaches a full two meters and a half, which is also over the standard for a single-soldier weapon.

Take the same traditional sniper rifle, the world's most famous Barrett M95 anti-material rifle, which is 1.143 meters long.

Even the longest sniper rifle, the 'SOP super-long-range sniper rifle', has a total length of only 2.3 meters.

For a single-soldier weapon, the larger the size, the more inconvenient it is to carry and transfer, and the less survivability on the battlefield.

"Do you need my help, Professor?"

In the laboratory, Zheng Hai walked over quickly and looked at Xu Chuan and asked.

"Okay. Then you help me carry it over." Xu Chuan handed over the electromagnetic sniper rifle in his hand.

Zheng Hai nodded, stretched out a hand, grabbed the electromagnetic sniper rifle, and then carried it away directly like a stick.

Xu Chuan: "????"

He had a hard time holding the electromagnetic sniper rifle weighing more than 60 kilograms with both hands, but this guy carried it away easily with one hand?

What Stallone? He doesn't look strong either?

Following the laboratory workers to the test site, Zheng Hai had already placed the electromagnetic sniper rifle in his hand on the test platform.

Xu Chuan followed and looked at him with a strange and curious look in his eyes.

"What's wrong, professor?"

Being stared at by Xu Chuan with curious and strange eyes, Zheng Hai couldn't help but ask a question.

Xu Chuan asked: "Have you measured your arm strength? How heavy can you lift?"

Hearing this question, Zheng Hai was slightly stunned.

"Why do you suddenly ask this question?"

"No, I'm just a little curious." Xu Chuan shook his head.

Zheng Hai thought about it and replied: "I haven't tested these things, but it should be no problem to lift something weighing 300 or 400 kilograms?"

He did not specifically test the things Xu Chuan asked, after all, these data did not mean much to him.

The number of 300 or 400 kilograms was roughly calculated according to some data when he was still training in the army.

For them, carrying dozens of kilograms for cross-country training is a common thing.

One of the standards for special forces training in China is: "Carrying a weight of 60 kilograms for 5 kilometers of cross-country, and the project passing time is 20 minutes."

20 minutes is already the time for soldiers in most modern countries to cross-country with light equipment for 5 kilometers, but they have to carry a weight of 60 kilograms. Obviously, it is impossible to complete the task by walking.

But for the unit where he was born, this data has to be raised.

"Tsk tsk, a humanoid Tyrannosaurus."

Xu Chuan sighed twice, looked at Zheng Hai twice, and suddenly remembered another thing, and asked curiously: "Then what you said last time that you beat ten of me alone, is it true?"

Zheng Hai coughed lightly, did not answer, and asked instead: "Speaking of which, why are you suddenly curious about these things?"

Xu Chuan shook his head and said: "Nothing, just asking."

In the test site, the staff of the National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Energy Technology have arranged targets at different distances and prepared bullets for electromagnetic sniper rifles for Xu Chuan.

"Academician Xu, there are two types of bullets, one is an ordinary steel bullet, and the other is a bullet made of active damage element material. Which one do you want to test first?"

In front of the test bench, a young staff member trotted over, holding two magazines in his arms, and asked with a hint of admiration and nervousness.

Xu Chuan thought for a moment and said, "Let's try with ordinary steel bullets first. Thank you for your help."

"No, no."

The young staff member smiled and quickly helped install the magazine of ordinary steel bullets.

"Okay, Academician Xu."

After finishing the work in hand, the young staff member quickly and concisely introduced it.

"Its usage is not much different from ordinary firearms. Just aim at the target and pull the trigger. The only difference is that you need to wait for the indicator light for determining the track magnetic field strength to turn from red to green."

"In addition, this button corresponds to the power output, that is, the adjustment of the magnetic field strength. Pushing it forward increases the magnetic field strength, and pushing it backward reduces the track magnetic field strength."

After patiently listening to the staff's introduction, Xu Chuan nodded with a smile and said, "Thank you, I understand."

"Please pay attention to safety when using it."

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, I have used many types of firearms, including sniper rifles, and there will be no problem."

On the test bench, the staff gave a few instructions and stepped aside.

According to his memory, Xu Chuan placed the electromagnetic sniper rifle on the platform like a sniper rifle.

I immediately turned on the switch on the tail of the gun according to the instructions for use that he had taught before.

This is the key switch that connects the tail battery and the entire gun body. After pressing this, the electric energy in the lithium-sulfur battery can be input into the small booster in the electromagnetic sniper rifle, and then supplied to the electromagnetic acceleration track.

When the electric energy in the large-capacity lithium-sulfur battery quickly flows to the track made of room-temperature superconducting materials, the indicator light at the tail lights up and soon turns from light red to light green.

Aiming at the target a hundred meters away through the scope, Xu Chuan pulled the trigger.

Unlike traditional firearms, the electromagnetic sniper rifle does not require much force to pull the trigger. It is as simple and casual as pressing a light switch.

The switch is pressed, and the high-speed rotating bullet is fired. In less than a blink of an eye, the target made of alloy material on the opposite side of the playground is directly penetrated.

The target made of steel material seems to have suffered a huge impact, and a hole larger than a fist appears directly.

What made Xu Chuan curious was that during the firing process, there was no loud noise, and there was no flame at the muzzle like the Thor electromagnetic sniper cannon.

It seemed that this electromagnetic sniper rifle had been specially treated with silencers and flame suppressors.

But compared to these, he was more curious about the power of this electromagnetic sniper rifle.

Of course, the more important thing now was to have some fun first.

Xu Chuan had fired all the twenty bullets in a magazine.

After replacing the bullets made of active damage element materials, the electromagnetic sniper rifle in his hand showed a different power.

When the first active damage element bullet hit the target a hundred meters away, a group of shining explosion sparks came into everyone's eyes.

This was a completely different phenomenon from ordinary steel bullets. It was like launching a time bomb. After the first round of impact, the entire target was torn apart again by the impact of the explosion.

Zheng Hai, who was standing behind Xu Chuan and paying attention to the situation here, also moved his eyes with a hint of surprise.

It was not that he was surprised by the power of this electromagnetic sniper rifle, but that the second bullet could also achieve the effect of two-stage explosion damage.

Obviously, he was also a little surprised by the damage caused by the bullet made of the second active damage element material.

After all, he had been with Xu Chuan for several years and had experienced too many technological changes.

The new technology of electromagnetic sniper rifle is indeed very shocking, but compared with the darker black technologies in the past, it may not be enough.

However, this two-stage explosion bullet material, combined with the ultra-high firing rate of the electromagnetic sniper rifle, if it is really used in military equipment, this firearm can be said to directly break the upper limit of the existing anti-material sniper rifle.

Let alone conventional military equipment such as cars, armored vehicles, and logistics vehicles. Even tanks and helicopters are probably within its killing range.

Of course, the premise is that the speed of the bullet is fast enough, at least reaching 1,500 meters per second.

In addition to the secondary explosion of the active damage unit, there is another situation that also surprised him.

That is, this electromagnetic sniper rifle can be said to have almost no high sound when firing.

You know, the sound of a conventional sniper rifle when firing can reach 100-120 decibels, which is equivalent to the sound of an airplane taking off.

Although the silencer can reduce the blasting sound when the bullet rushes out of the muzzle, it can reduce the intensity by about 30 decibels.

But this is only part of the source of the sound of sniper rifle bullets.

In addition, there are the sound of ammunition firing and the blasting sound produced by the bullet exceeding the speed of sound, and the decibels of these two sounds are also quite high.

So even in the case of silence, the sound produced by conventional sniper rifles when shooting is still very loud, and the decibels are enough to cause damage to human hearing.

Perhaps Xu Chuan, who is testing, may not feel much because he is wearing silencer earmuffs, but he can clearly feel that the sound of the bullet when firing may be only about 60 to 70 decibels.

This level may be about the same as the sound of an ordinary car horn, or even weaker.

For a sniper rifle, this is simply unscientific.

Even though this electromagnetic sniper rifle does not have the sound of bullets being fired, where do the explosion sounds when the bullets rush out of the muzzle and the sonic boom sounds produced when the speed of sound exceeds the speed of sound go?

Even if it is a silencer, it is theoretically difficult to achieve this level, right?

In the test site, although Xu Chuan also noticed these things, he was not too surprised.

After all, he didn't know much about weapons such as firearms. The sound and power of the electromagnetic sniper rifle were reasonable in his opinion.

After the bullets in the magazine were used up and he had a good time, Xu Chuan put down the electromagnetic sniper rifle in his hand and took off the earmuffs.

"How does it feel?"

Academician Wang Yong asked with a smile in the test site.

Xu Chuan nodded, gave a thumbs up, and praised: "It's great, but it lacks a little bit of the excitement of shooting."

"Excitement?" Academician Wang Yong looked over with some surprise.

Xu Chuan smiled and said: "It's the sound, vibration, recoil and other things when shooting. Without these, there is no feeling when pulling the trigger."

"If it weren't for the second-stage explosion caused by the active damage element bullet, I wouldn't even feel that I was shooting."

Compared with conventional firearms, this electromagnetic sniper rifle does not have the feeling of using a firearm.

It can be said that the almost completely imperceptible recoil, the relatively weak firing sound, and the light trigger pull are all very different from conventional firearms.

At least in terms of user experience, there is a huge gap.

Hearing this, Academician Wang Yong laughed and said, "Although the feeling of use is different from that of conventional firearms, these are all its advantages, aren't they?"

Xu Chuan thought about it, nodded and smiled, "That's true."

Although it lacks some of the experience of conventional firearms, this kind of firearm should be very good for special operations or special circumstances.

On the side, after hearing Xu Chuan's description of the experience of use, Zheng Hai's expression on his face moved and he said.

"Professor, Academician Wang, can I try this firearm?"

Hearing this request, Wang Yong glanced at Xu Chuan, and Xu Chuan smiled and said, "He is professional."

Taking the electromagnetic sniper rifle from the staff, Zheng Hai held it in his hand as if he was carrying a cannon.

The targets in the distance fell one after another. After experiencing the gun, Zheng Hai reluctantly returned it to the staff.

"How does it feel?" Xu Chuan asked curiously.

Zheng Hai thought for a while and said, "It's a different feeling from using a traditional sniper rifle. If its power is strong enough, it may be more suitable for more combat scenarios than traditional sniper rifles."

"However, its weight and length are defects. It is probably difficult to fully apply it to individual equipment. It is probably only suitable for special operations. After all, not everyone can use this weapon."