Building a Technological Power Starting with the Type 59 missile and Going Astray in Technological Development

Everyone held their breath, anxiously waiting for the smoke to dissipate, eager to know whether the armor-piercing bullet had penetrated the special steel plate or the special steel plate had successfully resisted this round of attack.

As time passed, the smoke and dust finally dissipated gradually. Everyone couldn’t wait to pick up the telescope and look at the steel plate in the distance with all their might.

Due to the huge heat generated by the explosion, people were unable to get close to the steel plate to observe the situation for a short period of time.

Therefore, they could only observe through telescopes.

As time went on, everyone’s expressions gradually became ecstatic and bright smiles appeared on their faces.

Immediately afterwards, thunderous applause broke out in the audience.

What is surprising is that the armor-piercing projectile fired by the Type 59 tank at a distance of 80 meters failed to penetrate the special steel plate with a thickness of only mm!
A careful observation revealed that only traces of the exploded gunpowder remained on the special steel, with the warhead of the armor-piercing projectile not far away.

This small attempt greatly encouraged the senior executives of the 077 Mechanical Arsenal. Their faces flushed with excitement, and their eyes were shining with excitement.

This is the first special steel they designed and developed themselves!
Although it was only at a distance of two hundred meters, it was enough to prove the powerful strength of this new special steel.

Lin Chenran was delighted to see everyone so excited.

He struck while the iron was hot and said to Hu Xiaofan beside him, ”Engineer Hu, you can arrange for the tester to drive the Type 59 tank and fire an armor-piercing projectile at a distance of meters from another special steel plate.”

Upon hearing this, Hu Xiaofan immediately arranged for the Type 59 tank to go to the designated location and prepared armor-piercing shells.

With an order, the Type 59 tank opened fire again, and the armor-piercing shells flew towards the target like lightning.

The result was shocking - the armor-piercing bullet once again left traces of explosion on the special steel plate and did not penetrate it.

Then, the testers fired armor-piercing shells at distances of 100 meters, 50 meters, and 20 meters.

With every shot, the special steel plate showed amazing defensive power, and armor-piercing bullets could not cause any substantial damage to it.

Only when the armor-piercing projectile was fired at a distance of 20 meters did it get ”stuck” on the special steel plate, but it did not penetrate through it.

This remarkable result shocked everyone present.

”This……”

”hiss……”

Suddenly, thunderous applause broke out again.

This is really cool!!!

……

Half an hour later, the temperature around the special steel plate dropped to normal temperature. Lin Chenran couldn’t wait to walk forward and look at the 80mm special steel plate.

Other top executives of the 077 Mechanical Arsenal followed closely behind, as they also wanted to take a look at the special steel plate that had just performed so well.