Chapter 472: Energy crystal

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 A technology has invested a lot of resources in research, but it is found that the results have become out of date.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 ~EbookFREE.me~ 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.