Chapter 378 New Weapons

The huge shooting range in the logistics space provides Ruger with an exclusive area for verification of various weapons.

It does not require him to look for experimental sites for live ammunition testing every time he designs a new weapon.

Once the problem of ammunition is solved, he can turn around and determine the choice of chassis.

He used a lightweight 42-type self-propelled rocket launcher with ten launchers, plus ten 40-kilogram rockets, and the total weight was barely controlled within 1 ton.

However, he also had to add sighting, fire control and remote control launch devices to this set of things, and also add the weight of his own Iron Man armor, so the entire rocket system was counted as 5 tons.

This is still a very small number.

If the combat module is light enough, there will be a lot of room for choice of chassis.

Finally, in pursuit of mobility and ease of production, Ruger chose a tracked chassis from the Cold War era that he already had but had never used.

This time, he didn't plan to transplant the 1080+ horsepower engine from the Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle, but to use the one that already existed in this chassis.

This saves modification time.

This thing is nicknamed Marder.

Weasel, or mink, are all it.

Well, it has the same nickname as the simple tank destroyer he just made for Rogge.

That's right, this is the predecessor of the Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle, the Weasel Infantry Fighting Vehicle that Ruger got from the Bloody Countess.

This vehicle originally weighed 5 tons, and the latest improved version can weigh about 38 tons. For modernization, a lot of good things have been added.

In comparison, the engine power is only 660 horsepower, which is indeed not comparable to the 1080+ horsepower engine of the next generation Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle.

But fortunately, the modern fire control observation information and other systems of this thing are of no use to Ruger, so they are directly dismantled to reduce weight.

At the same time, this thing itself is an infantry fighting vehicle, which is reserved for infantry combatants.

This part of the space and weight is useless, so continue to dismantle it.

As for the small-caliber rapid-fire gun of the main weapon, it can be dismantled.

Finally, except for its chassis frame, Ruger simply rebuilt it.

The key is to be compatible with the Iron Man armor, have good protection performance, and be light enough.

When the rocket launcher is also put on, the final weight of this thing is controlled by Ruger at about 20 tons.

In this way, the power-to-weight ratio becomes 33 horsepower per ton.

Although this number is lower than the modified Leopard driven by Tia, it is higher than two Leopard 2A4s.

It means that this car can easily reach a speed of more than 80 kilometers per hour under Ruger's control.

Because the chassis is based on the physical object, that is, things are dismantled from the finished equipment, and then the already built rocket launchers and adaptive outer armor and other parts are installed, so the whole car is made very quickly.

Basically, not long after Ruger completed the design, various industrial robots in the logistics space have completed the modification of the tank under his control.

He tested the launch of the whole vehicle's rockets at the shooting range again, and then found an opportunity to "alchemize" this thing.

The time consumed before and after was longer than putting the Pak40 on the chassis of the No. 2 tank, but not much longer.

At this time, the battlefield still did not change much.

On the Rogue Front, the group of monsters coming from the underground tomb was still controlled 300 meters away from the east side of the Andariel battlefield.

The Pak40 of the two artillery companies could still allocate a quarter to a third of the firepower to support Shalatia and the two who were fighting the poisonous demon king.

On the Andariel side, being harassed back and forth by two masters would be fine, but being harassed by some Rogues who were only small insects in her eyes with the weapons of the Lost Ones, her anger was visibly accumulating.

At this time, she also found that she seemed to be restricted by the enemy from connecting with the poisonous cloud energy in the underground cave, resulting in the inability to accumulate enough magic power to use the big move, which was very passive.

So while she was fighting with Sarah and the others, she began to consciously return to the underground cave corroded by venom.

Ruger's mind had just returned from the logistics space, and he noticed this trend after taking a look at the battlefield situation. Tia and the others had noticed it long ago.

However, they did not rush to take action, but consciously adjusted their positions to vacate the area connecting Andariel and the underground cave for the Rogues who were supporting from the rear.

The posture was obvious, that is, to let the Rogues prepare, once Andariel forcibly escaped from the three-person fighting area and returned to the underground cave, she would be covered with heavy firepower by the artillery array.

However, Andariel was not stupid.

When she found that the Rogue artillery was also a threat to her, and she could not quickly eliminate those artillery units, she used other methods.

Her poisonous monster followers.

To be honest, those monster followers were quite useful against the free Nephalem before, but they were much weaker when facing the Rogues' gun and artillery blockade.

This cannot be said to be that they are too incompetent, but that their opponents are too cunning.

Well, it should be said that their opponents are too rich.

If the Rogues still use the previous 762 rifle bullets, with the corrosive power of the poisonous monster followers and the poison cloud, they will hardly be hurt by those bullets.

Even if they change to 7x99mm caliber ordinary heavy machine gun bullets, more than half of the ammunition will be corroded by the poison cloud, losing its lethality to the poisonous monsters.

However, Ruger was rich, so he replaced the ammunition for Rogues with tungsten core armor-piercing bullets.

Tungsten cores are not completely invulnerable to poison clouds, but the corrosion efficiency is much lower.

Anyway, after being shot by these ammunition for two or three times, most of the monster followers in the poison cloud will be killed.

So now, the poison cloud around Andariel is getting thinner and thinner, and there are only a few monster followers left.

Moreover, almost all of them are the green-haired giant beasts that can be controlled by Sarah's Radam worm and turned into her mount.

In fact, if it weren't for leaving more mount materials for Sarah to change, even these monster followers would have to be killed.

From this point of view, Andariel, the highly toxic monster, as one of the seven giants of the Burning Hell, is also miserable for fighting this battle like this.

He looks like a dungeon boss besieged by a group of players.

Even though the situation was so bad, Andariel still came up with a way to break the impasse.

She was restrained by Sarah and the others, and there were only a few huge beasts left among the monster followers?

Well, just send them out.

But she didn't send them to attack Saratia to save herself, nor did she directly attack the Rogue artillery formation to destroy the long-range artillery support.

Under her command, those huge green-haired beasts actually rushed towards the underground cave.