202: Developing deep-sea submarines

Good heavens, the cost of this deep-sea submarine isn't low. Four billion dragon currency probably isn't quite enough, right?

Our R&D expenses should be enough, right?

We don't need to worry about funding. Just focus on R&D.

That's true. This R&D is definitely going to keep us extremely busy for a while again.

Many high-end metal materials might be hard to find.

Maybe Boss has already prepared the materials.

Stop guessing wildly for now. Let's just go to the workshop and take a look.

Ah? The workshop is already set up? What incredible speed is this?

Of course. As long as Engineer Niu raises an issue, it will naturally be resolved immediately.

Let's go, let's go, let's go see the new workshop.

This new workshop is too high-end! It seems there are already many high-end raw materials. It looks like our earlier worries were unnecessary.

Mm, the experimental equipment here is also the best. It seems we can roll up our sleeves and work hard.

Niu De, seeing that the new workshop was fully equipped with all sorts of equipment and the experimental instruments were the most advanced, immediately entered work mode.

Everyone, quiet down. Not all of us can participate in the deep-sea submarine R&D. We still need to keep fifty to sixty people continuously monitoring the data and safety performance of wanderer one. Therefore, I will select fifty to sixty people to continue their original work, and the remaining R&D personnel will be divided into groups for R&D.

Good heavens, please don't make me go back to that work.

Yeah, I want to stay and work here.

Let's just obey the orders. Our company's orders must be followed. Every position is important.

What this colleague just said is right. Every position in our company is important and should be taken seriously.

Then he selected sixty people who were the most experienced in the R&D of wanderer one: "You few, go back to the wanderer one R&D Department, continue to monitor the situation there, and report any problems to me promptly."

Although these sixty people felt a bit regretful, upon remembering that wanderer one was also very important, they still obeyed the order and turned around and left directly.

Everyone just saw the design blueprints. Our deep-sea submarine is divided into several major parts: the hull, power system, operating system, defense system, communication system, navigation system, underwater decompression system, and various life support facilities, etc.

In this situation, we will form groups, with each group responsible for the R&D of one system. After tackling each one individually and then combining them, we will have achieved great success.

Niu De believed that letting the R&D personnel form their own teams would be more conducive to pleasant cooperation among them, which is why he came up with this idea.

These R&D personnel had worked together for many years and understood each other very well. So they started whispering among themselves, and before long, these R&D personnel quickly formed eight R&D teams, each with over thirty people, and elected eight team leaders.

Niu De divided the thick design blueprints that had just been copied into eight copies according to their R&D directions and distributed them to everyone. He kept the original design blueprints himself because as the chief engineer, he needed to hold all the design blueprints to control the overall situation.

Soon, each R&D team started to get into the swing of things. Now, whatever they needed was available in the workshop; they didn't have to worry about raw materials or parts at all. This was also the key to accelerating the R&D speed.

After gaining a deep understanding of the multiple design blueprints, the hull R&D team determined the raw materials to be used for the inner and outer hulls of the submarine. The inner hull would use pressure-resistant steel to increase pressure resistance, while the outer hull would use non-pressure-resistant steel to relieve the seawater pressure. Between the inner and outer hulls, ballast tanks and energy compartments would be installed, and then based on the space inside the inner hull, it would be divided into the cockpit, living quarters, and storage compartments.

Our difficulty is that the installation of the ballast tanks and energy compartments must not affect the inner and outer hulls.

Yes, if the space between the inner and outer hulls is too large, it will compress the volume of the inner hull. Can we make the shape of the ballast tanks and energy compartments match the curvature of the inner and outer hulls? That way we can save space.

Good idea, let's do it!

Over there, the power system team chose compressed air as the power source, and reserve batteries would store the energy converted from the compressed air, allowing for deep-sea navigation. However, when the reserve batteries have insufficient energy, the submarine would need to surface and extend a snorkel to draw a large amount of air into the power system for energy compression.

I was wondering if the snorkel could extend to the surface from the seabed? That way, we could save a lot of time and energy.

That's a good idea. We can make the snorkel retractable so it can replenish air and convert it into energy at any time.

Okay, then let's continue.

Every team was full of confidence, every team was working overtime, and every team was brainstorming ideas and solutions.

A month later, a huge deep-sea submarine appeared on the wooden track.

The Captain of this deep-sea submarine is 160 meters long and 18 meters wide, looking like a behemoth.

This deep-sea submarine has an astonishing displacement of 100,000 tons, a submerged speed of 60 knots, a diving depth of 1500 meters, and can travel for 120 days and nights when its energy reserves are sufficient.

To reduce noise, only one air compression converter is installed on this deep-sea submarine, but it will not have any adverse effects on the energy catalyst.

These figures are more than double those of ordinary submarines.

Liu Xiaolin was very happy looking at the behemoth in front of him. For the past month or so, he hadn't gone anywhere else; he had just worked alongside everyone in the new workshop. Whenever materials or equipment were needed, he would immediately appear to solve the problems for everyone, and they affectionately called him "Magician Boss." Nobody knew that the real magician was the Strongest Production System, which could provide all the materials and equipment from the balanced world of the different dimension.

Liu Xiaolin simply performed the process of taking them out.

Now, the deep-sea submarine on the wooden track is ready to go, and everyone's eyes are filled with eager anticipation.

This is the result of everyone's hard work in R&D for a month, and they all hope it can be successfully launched and operate smoothly!

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