Chapter 265: The Weapon to Deal with the Beholder
The island arsenal off the coast of Yangfan Port has undergone several large-scale expansions and now has an astonishing scale.
However, this scale can only be compared with the natives of Azeroth.
If placed on earth, this place would be considered a large industrial park at most.
But the wizarding world is amazing!
It cannot be evaluated by simple size.
There are not many dwarf and goblin engineers in the arsenal.
But they can build quite high-end robots through purely manual methods.
Except for large metal parts, all parts including chips can be rubbed by hand.
Each dwarf or goblin engineer can create a few robots as helpers in a relatively short period of time.
As long as resources are provided in place, they can build a complete industrial system.
Of course, that wasn't enough for gnomes and goblins to dominate the world through engineering.
What really allowed these two technological races to gain a foothold in Azeroth was actually the abundance of spellcasters in the race.
In fact, even those engineers are spellcasters themselves.
Otherwise, how could it be possible to manufacture something that requires ultra-high precision like chips by rubbing them by hand?
As for engineers using magic power to rub chips.
When Herard first started, he felt very speechless.
But regardless of whether they are gnomes or goblins, their population numbers are pitiful.
But a seemingly small chip requires a huge industrial system to support it!
If a formal chip industry chain were to be established, it would not be enough to recruit the entire race of labor!
Therefore, they have been in an irregular mode of rubbing chips by hand.
This irregular model still continues even in the island arsenal supported by powerful magical energy.
Building a formal chip industry chain requires investing too much manpower and material resources!
It is impossible to quickly complete chip industrialization.
However, as the number of talents absorbed increases, the chip industrialization speed of the island arsenal is accelerating.
Although engineers still hold chips in their hands, many tasks can be done by equipment.
It is now possible to use equipment to produce qualified basic materials, making it easier for engineers to hold chips in their hands.
In the chip design bureau of the island arsenal, several dwarf and goblin engineers gathered together to discuss the missile design principles provided by Herad.
The previous design of the individual rocket launcher made their eyes shine.
But that design isn't very special.
Or is it an improvement on the technical level of existing rockets.
Missiles, rockets that can automatically track targets, are not a simple improvement.
This is definitely a qualitative sublimation!
Rockets can only be used to hit fixed targets or slow-moving targets.
Facing fast-moving targets, rockets need to be accurately controlled in advance.
If the target makes a snake-skin move, whether it can successfully hit the target depends on whether the prediction is accurate or not.
Only a master can play rockets smoothly.
The missile only needs to be launched roughly towards the target area.
While flying towards the target, it will adjust the tail angle according to the movement of the target, and finally hit the target accurately.
Those rockets that could only hit fixed targets were instantly disliked by the dwarfs and goblin engineers!
They soon devoted all their energy to the research topic of missiles.
In fact, once you know the relevant principles of missiles, research is not difficult.
After all, they are professionals who can rub robots with their hands.
Compared with missiles and robots, the principles of the two are actually very close.
In fact, missiles are greatly simplified robots.
Since it is a one-time consumable, it does not require as much computing power as a robot.
It only needs to adjust its flight angle based on the detected information to ensure that its head can hit the target and detonate the loaded explosives.
Because the missiles are used against the demons of the Burning Legion.
Tracking methods like hot tracking are not easy to use. The tracking method used by Herard was a very simple and crude TV guidance mode.
This only requires inputting a picture of the target into the database so that the missile has a clear reference.
The missile found a target that matched the content of the picture and then hit it head-on.
The initiation attack of anti-tank missiles on tanks is achieved through this simple and crude method.
Take a picture of the tank's turret cover and enter it into the database of anti-tank missiles.
Then the anti-tank missile stared at the tank's turret cover and exploded.
No matter how thick the turret cover is, how thick can it be?
The same can be done when using it to deal with demons.
Take a full picture of the demon, then prioritize the head.
The user observes the demon's traces and fires individual missiles from a few kilometers away.
Next, you can watch the individual missiles kill the devil in the head.
However, the cost of individual missiles will be much more expensive than rockets.
It's a bit of a waste to use it to fight ordinary demons.
If you can't defeat ordinary demons, individual missiles really can't kill them.
In fact, even large intercontinental missiles may not be able to kill them.
After all, for those powerful demons, catching heavy aerial bombs with their faces is a basic operation.
If you want to kill them with missiles, it would be more appropriate to install nuclear warheads.
The main targets of the individual missiles developed by Herad are the beholders suspended in the sky.
If the Draenei want to cause trouble in Argus, they first need to have strong strength.
But while possessing great strength, one must also defeat those beholders who provide information.
Otherwise, as soon as they prepare to cause trouble, the encirclement and suppression army will come over in minutes.
It’s really difficult to shoot down a beholder suspended thousands of meters in the air with magic!
The caster's regular spell attacks don't have a very long range.
Their mental power can lock onto the target, and the spells they cast can hit the target.
The extension distance of mental power is usually only two to three hundred meters.
This distance can be gradually increased as the mental power becomes stronger.
But the speed of improvement is very slow.
The range of most spellcasters' spells is only a few hundred meters.
Very few spells have a range of one thousand meters.
This poor range is not as far as a large-caliber rifle.
Only with the assistance of certain magic props or powerful secret skills can ultra-long-range spell attacks be performed.
But it is impossible for a spellcaster with this ability to take risks in Argus.
If the beholder finds out when he is doing it, and then informs the legion boss to kill him, wouldn't he die miserably?
Even if he kills the beholder before being killed by the legion boss, it is still a losing business.
The most suitable candidate to go to Argus to hunt beholders is the Broken One who is always invisible no matter whether he eats, drinks or sleeps.
But they are all types of thieves.
Even if there are broken ones who are both magic and martial arts masters, they are not very good at casting spells.
For example, Akama is a part-time shaman.
Even if Draenor's elemental blockade was unlocked, he would still be slashing at the enemy with two scythes.
These guys are suitable for using launch-and-forget individual air defense missiles.
As for whether the individual anti-aircraft missiles can kill the beholder, Herard is not worried at all.
Most of the beholder's abilities lie in their large eyes, which are dozens of inches tall.
The surface of those guys' bodies is relatively tough and hard-skinned.
It is estimated that large caliber bullets can penetrate them.
And Herard was going to put something special in the warhead.
There is absolutely no problem in killing the beholder!
(End of chapter)