Chapter 851: 851 has technology, but not much
Chapter 851 851 has technology, but not much
As time goes by, the powerful and huge Cyric consortium in the past no longer exists. Countries around the world also have their own technology research and development departments, which are used to develop or copy new technologies that emerged in the Tang Dynasty.
These countries are spending heavily to support their own national technology, trying to achieve technological self-sufficiency to a certain extent.
They did nothing wrong. After all, no one is willing to let one country master all the technology. Everyone hopes to get a share of the technology field and get their own benefits.
But for most people in this era, even if they directly disassemble and study the equipment produced in the Tang Dynasty, they would not be able to understand such incredible design ideas.
In the Technology Research Institute of the Ice Empire, a dwarf engineer held his chin and looked at the dismantled Tang engine in front of him, with a look of shock on his face: "How did they come up with such a design?"
This engine was ripped from a Rolls-Royce car, and for the dwarves, it was a flawless piece of craftsmanship.
Dwarves have always felt that their technology is the most advanced in the world. Even if they were stuck in a technical bottleneck by the Cyric Consortium before, they never thought there was anything shocking about those technologies.
But now, the little self-esteem the dwarves had has been completely shattered. They have recognized Tang's technology and worshiped these technologies, which in their opinion were like miracles.
Another dwarf engineer shook his head, stroking the smooth and flawless parts, and sincerely praised: "I don't know, but this design is much better than our previous ideas. Their craftsmanship is too strong, if It’s impossible to imitate it without their equipment.”
"You can't imitate it even after using it. The formula of the metal is kept secret, and the core components can only be imported from the Tang Dynasty..." After sighing, the poor dwarf engineer continued.
This is not the first time that they want to imitate the Tang Dynasty's engine, but before the former engine has been fully understood, another more advanced engine appears.
The people of the Tang Dynasty seemed to be competing with themselves, coming up with generation after generation of advanced technologies, leaving engineers all over the world far behind.
Speak without fear of others laughing. Even the word engineer comes from the Tang Dynasty. Before, they were just more capable craftsmen.
Nowadays, the word craftsman is less common. You either directly change your job and become a worker in a factory, or you show your talent and become a respected engineer.
In every country, engineers are a very valued profession. If you can have some innovations of your own, or have a certain understanding of Tang's equipment products, it will be like a treasure.
Those truly gifted and talented engineers have now gone to Tang State: there they have everything they dream of and can fully display their talents.
In fact, everyone knows very well that only those who are not too high-end and have some ability will stay in various empires and make a living here.
Because with their abilities, if they really go to Tang State, they may not be able to get the position they want most, nor may they enjoy better treatment.
It’s not that those who remain are really inferior, but that there are not many truly outstanding talents left.
In the end, it was neither systematic nor accumulated. In the end, we still had to import a large amount of special steel from the Tang State, and we still had to purchase the corresponding designs from the Tang State.
That's right, they just purchased the I-16 fighter jet from the Tang Dynasty. I don't know why it's called the Yak. Anyway, it's a very good aircraft.
This thing is much better than the aircraft that Ice Empire researched before. At least it gives Ice Empire a mature and combat-effective aircraft.
The performance is close to that of the P-36 fighter jet sold to Qin State. Tang State also added a closed cockpit to the I-16, allowing it to achieve a ceiling of about 10,000 meters, which slightly improved the pilot's working environment.
Because it is equipped with a new type of engine, the I-16 fighter jet exported by Tang State has much more advanced performance than similar I-16 fighter jets produced by other countries. At least it can fly at a speed of nearly 500 kilometers per hour. Fighters from other countries are far from that fast.
As for the name Jacques, of course it was Tang Mo’s bad taste. He hopes to sell Yak 1 and subsequent models to the Ice Empire in the future. Anyway, the Ice Empire has been transformed by him into a different world version of Tsarist Russia.
The soldiers of the Ice Empire use Mosin-Nagant rifles. When they charge, they will shout the slogan "Ula" inexplicably.
Tang Mo even designed a submachine gun called Bobosha for the Ice Empire, equipped with a very distinctive 71-round super large drum. The dwarves liked this new submachine gun very much, purchased it immediately and installed it on a large scale. Their neighbor to the south, the Yangmu Empire, purchased another weapon promoted by Tang Mo: the MP-40 submachine gun.
Anyway, Tang Mo’s design can be used casually. Countries all hope to have a unique weapon, so gradually there is a trend of paying Tang designers to design weapons.
It is an exception for Qin to copy the weapons and equipment of Tang troops. Dorn spent money to customize a submachine gun called Somi from Tang. The performance of this submachine gun is very good, and Dorn likes it very much.
As for the M3 submachine gun equipped by the Lions Empire, it is a famous gun: as long as there are movies and TV dramas from the War of Liberation, there must be this unique-looking submachine gun.
Anyway, the Tang State has replaced MP-5 submachine guns on a large scale, and the army has been equipped with Type 56 assault rifles, so Tang Mo began to sell the submachine gun designs he had in hand on a large scale.
Even the goblins spent a sum of money to customize their own Hundred-type submachine gun. Although they don’t know why it’s called the Hundred-type submachine gun, it sounds very domineering.
These are just the tip of the iceberg of the Tang Dynasty's arms trade. Just like the Cyric Consortium back then, Tang's technology has penetrated into almost every corner.
The tanks of those countries may be manufactured by themselves, but the engines come from the Tang Dynasty; the warships produced by those countries may be manufactured by themselves, but the steel comes from the Tang Dynasty.
The huge amount of gold coins that Tang State spent to balance the economy and trade returned to Tang Mo's pocket in an instant. The emperors of various countries were thinking hard about how to save their countries' fragile trade deficits, but in the end they had no choice but to lie down and accept the reality that they could not change anything.
What made these people who coveted the technology of the Tang Empire collapse was that while they were still worrying about the backwardness in engine technology, material technology, structural design, etc., they discovered a new field.
A field that, although not entirely new, is something they know nothing about: the field of radio wave detection technology!
Yes, to put it bluntly, it is radar technology. When the Tang Empire began to deploy a full-coverage radar network on the border near the imperial capital Chang'an, spies from various countries saw these huge devices that were basically impossible to hide.
The radar antennas of the Tang Dynasty have not been completely miniaturized. Various materials are combined with steel and iron frames. They are so eye-catching around Chang'an City that people cannot take their eyes away.
Those who were interested began to investigate the use of these devices, and then they found the secret that the planes of the Dahua Empire would be intercepted by Tang fighter jets whenever they appeared.
It turns out that it’s not because Tang’s spies are pervasive, but because Tang’s sky is really airtight…
For a time, everyone was trying their best to do two things: The first thing was to appease the previously marginalized aviation students who went to Tang to learn flying skills. These talents were previously listed as serious leakers by various countries due to the intelligence leakage of the Dahua Empire, but now facts have proved that they were wrongly accused.
So, redressing people's grievances has become a must-do: those who should be promoted, those who should be promoted to regular positions - those are all talents who have studied abroad in the Tang Dynasty. Wouldn't it be wasted if they are left alone?
The second thing is to try every means to obtain this radar detection technology: after all, this thing is a treasure. Only with it can we truly place our own eyes in the sky.
Everyone knows the value of this thing, but before the Tang Dynasty completely decrypted it, no one thought that radio waves could still be reflected in the sky, right?
Not to mention how to collect this thing and how to analyze the collected signals...technical personnel from various countries can say that they have no idea about this series of questions. In fact, radio technology researchers in many countries have not even figured out what radio waves are until today.
In the end, all countries can only turn to Tang State to buy technology again, hoping to obtain such advanced equipment from Tang State to protect their already extremely fragile airspace.
Unfortunately, the negotiations did not go smoothly: Tang State had no intention of keeping it to itself, and this technology was not for sale in the true sense.
But this price... is indeed a bit unacceptable for the various empires that are almost bankrupt. The economy they have managed to maintain with great difficulty will definitely collapse if they spend such a large amount of money again.
Although they were unwilling to do so, countries that really had no money to buy this new technology in a short period of time still gave up. After all, this was not the first time that they could not afford Tang's technology.
You know, just after the war, the navies of various countries were preparing to import new weapons and equipment such as submarines from Tang.
Tang Guo also gave a quotation: the price of one submarine can roughly build two new battleships - who can afford this?
So to this day, no one from the navies of various countries has bought Tang’s submarine technology. They're all still experimenting with their own submarines: it turns out they do have their own submarine technology, but... not much.
(End of this chapter)