Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

However, Kong Hao is not prepared to invest resources to research the raw materials of sulfa tablets, mainly because sulfa tablets have great side effects and are far less effective than penicillin in reducing inflammation.

As long as a period of time passes, the arsenal will be able to carry out industrial production of penicillin, and by that time it will be able to completely replace sulfonamides. There is no need to do such useless work.

During this period, the raw materials for the production of sulfa drugs can be fully exchanged using the system, which can also ensure the quality and efficacy of the finished drugs.

"Director He, if the current production line is running, how many tablets and powders can be produced in a month?"

"Chief Consultant, if the entire production line reaches its peak capacity, it will be able to produce about ten tons of tablets and powders per month. The production quantity of tablets and powders can be freely switched according to demand."

"We are just in the initial stage of adaptation. We can produce about three tons per month now. But please rest assured that it will take at most two months for us to increase our production capacity to the maximum."

Kong Hao nodded with satisfaction and issued the latest order. The sulfa tablets produced next would be transported to the Logistics Department through special channels and military trucks as soon as possible and handed over to Minister Zhang for distribution.

At this critical moment, time is life. The sooner this life-saving medicine can be delivered to the field hospital, the more seriously injured soldiers can be saved.

After finishing all this, Kong Hao left the secret base and headed to the southeast of the arsenal, where an experiment was being carried out. It was quite important and required Kong Hao to be in charge in person.

The location for this experiment is relatively dangerous, so the factory building was rebuilt on a vacant lot, away from the core area of the arsenal.

"Chief Consultant, we are ready for the eighth test. We have replaced a lot of raw materials in the previous tests, but we still couldn't achieve satisfactory results."

"We refer to the relevant manufacturing process you provided. First, we extract the silver metal from the silver coins, prepare silver nitrate, and carry out the corresponding chemical reaction. After washing, we finally dry it to obtain the corresponding thunder silver."

"We failed seven times in the first seven attempts with this process, but we have learned a lot of relevant experience. After each experiment, we would gather all the staff for review. Now we have basically solved the problems we encountered in the process before."

"Okay, very good, let's begin the experiment."

In fact, Kong Hao knew a lot of things, but he only proposed a general direction, and the specific operations were all perfected by the technical personnel.

Many times, failure is also a valuable experience and an indispensable part of any large-scale industrial production.

Only in this way can we lay a solid foundation and take steady steps, so that our path to industrialization will not become a castle on the beach that will shatter at the slightest touch.

Of course, things have to be prioritized. For life-saving drugs like sulfa, there is no need for technicians to study them step by step.

Kong Hao directly put the correct answer in the hands of the technicians, and also clearly required them to follow the process and not allow any mistakes.

The main thing is that saving lives is like putting out a fire. The sooner we can produce qualified medicines, the more wounded soldiers can be saved. This is no joke.

In addition, sulfa drugs will be replaced by penicillin in no time, and there is no good experience to accumulate, so just skip it.

But this thunder silver is different. It is the core of the arsenal and needs to be done step by step. We also have time for engineers and technicians to grow.

Following a middle-aged technician, he carefully poured two tubes of chemical reagents together and waited for a slow reaction. He then poured the reacted silver chloride into a thin rubber tube and slowly rinsed it with water. The final result was placed on cardboard to dry.

After drying, the obtained substance is carefully placed in a paper detonator, then sealed to make a detonator for detonating explosives.

(There is very little information on these steps, and many of them are based on my own imagination. The general meaning is similar, so don't take them seriously!)

The whole process took about three hours, and everyone only breathed a sigh of relief after the detonator was processed.

Director He said excitedly, "Chief Consultant, it seems that you are really a lucky star. You just casually mentioned a few things to pay attention to, but I didn't expect that we would succeed. It's great."

Upon hearing that a new detonator had been developed, all the technicians and engineers present cheered.

During this period, they conducted seven experiments, all of which failed. Not only was there a large loss of materials, but one technician also lost an arm in an accident during the synthesis process. If it hadn't been for the timely rescue by people nearby, he would have probably lost his life.

Military research and development, especially the research and development of explosives, is so cruel that if you are not careful, safety accidents are likely to occur. This is unavoidable.

Kong Hao just scanned the system and proposed some improvement measures based on the actual situation, which allowed the test to proceed smoothly. Otherwise, each subsequent step would require a lot of time and cost to figure out in order to succeed.

During this test, there were at least a dozen technicians standing by, using paper and pen to record every step of the operator's movements, the amount of reagent added each time, including the angle at which the glass was poured, the speed of the water flow, and so on.

This is also what Kong Hao specifically required in the document "Experimental Data Recording Specifications". Every piece of data must be recorded in detail, and both successes and failures must be recorded clearly to provide a basis for future technical improvements.

After a period of implementation, all research laboratories have responded well. It can be said that there are breakthroughs every few days. Many new inventions and new technologies are quickly researched and tested samples are produced immediately. China's industrial foundation is also being consolidated bit by bit, and one day in the future there will be a technological explosion.

The next step is to conduct a detonation test on the new detonator, which we use quite frequently. In the end, our new detonator is almost as effective as the traditional mercury detonator.

It was not until this moment that we overcame this difficulty, and the next step is to increase production capacity.

For example, the hand grenades that our front-line combat troops like to use the most were previously limited by the supply of mercury. The arsenal's grenade production was about 60,000 per month. Now the detonator problem has been solved.

In addition, the arsenal also developed a casting factory specifically for making grenade bodies in advance. Although the performance of the products produced is average, the products are cheap and can be mass-produced. They are most suitable for the production of weapons with low technical content such as grenades, grenade launchers and mortar shells.

Now the problems of detonators, explosives and projectile materials have been perfectly solved, and there is no shortage of machine tools and equipment for processing important parts. The next step is to increase production capacity. Kong Hao expects that in a very short period of time, the production capacity of grenades can be increased to 250,000 per month, which is enough for the troops to use for a period of time.