The Age of the 21st Century Magazine

First Cao Byungchang, Utah, United States

Unlike most of the ammunition required by the Korean Armed Forces from Hanwha or Dongshan, some conventional ammunition is produced directly in the United States by Jo Byungchang under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Armed Forces Military Command.

This is where such a large facility is located.

Some special ammunition, such as large-calibre ammunition and guided missiles, from fire extinguishers to artillery shells, are being manufactured and stored in Ottawa with tungsten carbide powder imported from Navis Technology Italy and sintered in an electro-pressure frame to create a warhead for the 30 millimeter bush master machine gun of an Apache helicopter.

Tungsten is the most perfect metal, except for the disadvantage that it weighs as heavily as atomic number 74, the hardest and highest melting point found by mankind.

However, a melting point of 3410 degrees means that it cannot melt in a typical furnace.

Therefore, when making objects with tungsten, most of the powder, such as tungsten carbide, is placed in an electric pressure frame and instantaneously flows a strong current to sinter it with heat from the metal resistance.

When the powder is nano-units, it has the advantage that some important points of melting are much lower than when the powder is in the form of a common mass. Unlike a furnace, the powder and the powder can be combined into a mass by instantaneously applying high pressure and heat in a pressure frame.

The tungsten warhead for the armor piercing of the apache helicopter that we are making is also a form of placing powder in an electropressure frame and flowing a high pressure current to form it. The process is called sintering.

It is often the same way as baking rice powder in a pressure cooker.

It is different that tungsten carbide metal powder enters the pressure frame instead of just rice powder.

With so much electrical pressure inside, one watches the scene of tungsten powder turning into a warhead of an Apache helicopter 30 times in advance, so he is the Secretary of State of the United States, Rodman.

“Hmm, it's going as planned, how far have you progressed? ”

Simon, the military officer in charge of producing the Cho Byungchang fire extinguishers, replied to the minister.

“With raw materials purchased from Navis, we now have over 20% progress in making 30 milliliter ammunition for Apache helicopters. Cobra and Bradley and ammunition for stages A10 and F15 will begin as soon as the Apache dose is over. ”

“Very well. And I have a new long-term contract with the Military Command to import 100 tons each month from the homonymous mines in Korea.”

“Yes, it is. I saw a public statement from the Munitions Command regarding the supply of tungsten from Korea. ”

Simon explained to the minister the public documents that came down from the munitions command.

The U.S. Military Command is the unit responsible for the supply of the U.S. Army with four stars in command, and is responsible for almost all of the U.S. Army's supplies, with the exception of some items for which civilian warheads are responsible.

The raw materials such as tungsten powder or pyrogenic uranium powder supplied to Cao Cao Chang, Utah are also responsible for the purchase, so a public inquiry has been sent to Simon, who is in charge of the production of fire-fighting ammunition, regarding the raw materials imported from Korea.

“100 tons.... It costs 250 grams per 30-millimeter warhead, so you can take 500,000 rounds of Bush Master Bronze ammunition and 9000 rounds of Abrams ammunition, but you don't have the jaws to replace all the ammunition from Army flagship neutralizers like Bradley's 40-millimeter artillery and 50-caliber. We also need to increase the tungsten reserves for aircraft engines and military parts companies like Flat and Whitney.“

Donald muttered to himself as he calculated the amount of ammunition that could be made in the Cao Byungchang with tungsten coming from the Myeongsang Mine in Korea.

The required neutralizer ammunition for the U.S. Army is a minimum of hundreds of thousands of tons of ammunition to be supplied to Apache helicopters, Cobra helicopters, MH60,53,47 tactical helicopters, A10 assailants, F15161822 flagship fighters, Bradley armoured vehicles, Marine AAV armoured vehicles, Striker traffickers, M1 Abrams tanks, Humvees, and MRAP.

Bush master ammunition from Apache Helicopters, which is the key to defending monsters with choice and focus strategies, is now being produced from the Cavalry to deal with such enormous demands.

Upon completion of this task, we will enter the production of new 30 milliliter ammunition for the next emergency replacement, the A10 assailant.

In fact, the supply of tungsten as a result of the increased demand for land defense caused by new ammunition versus necropsy has caused some volume of tungsten coming from homogenized mines in South Korea to burst into breath, but in fact, there have been too many places where tungsten is used in munitions besides ammunition.

Almost all military weapons require tungsten.

A minimum of 150,000 tons of tungsten is required in the United States right now for replacement parts of military specialty parts such as M1 Abrams trolleys and Bradley armoured vehicles, 20-million Vulcan and 30-million bush master rifle spare parts, tungsten bearings for actuators and precision machinery to be deployed for defense in major U.S. cities, even though the minimum required to maintain the U.S. Army is minimal.

Moreover, all the 150,000 tons of tungsten required by the United States were the minimum required consumption required by the military and the civilian requirement was separate.

Just as the military company's private sector lacks tungsten, so too is the Boeing Aircraft Manufacturer's 767 Dreamliner Factory, which can stop operating at any time due to a shortage of tungsten.

Apple's iMac and McPro mould factories in the United States have already spent $1 billion securing tungsten and tantalum to make aluminum CNC machining spare parts, etc., to detect this rare metal supply crisis.

During this upheaval, the U.S. Army's Logistics Supply Command has pre-contracted the amount of tungsten exported from the Chinese Metal Exchange as an additional defense emergency budget component and put laughter on the six month futures contract in addition to the January tungsten sales of Italy and Korea, which recently emerged as the strongest trading partner for rare metals such as tungsten.

He also scouted all the countries around the world and even laughed and sprung up a kilogram parcel from the retail dealer's warehouse, but still failed to fill the 100,000 tons of tungsten required to acquire military weapons/ammunition.

Meanwhile, one of the major tungsten exporters, Russia and Ukraine, is also experiencing a similar situation with domestic tungsten demand. China's largest exporter, the Metal Exchange, has unilaterally notified the United States of the urgent export volume restrictions that will be triggered next month and the temporary upward tariff of 60% on tungsten exports.

So, in fact, key high-level government figures around the world - the United States, Russia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom - predicted confusion caused by the rare metals of colostrum in history.

Tungsten and Edo beryllium, tantalum, hafnium and cobalt were also exported, which led to an enormous increase in demand, because supply was such a highly dependent market.

I wonder if we can get tungsten for $300 or $400 a kilo from next month or next week on the international market, since the war between the United States, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, which has been going on in the commodity market today, has largely revealed the bottom of the world's inventory of distributors.

Now, the enormous confusion that started with the tungsten wave could come about was accepted as an irregular fact, and there was only a difference of view among policymakers in the great countries as to whether the period of confusion would take weeks or months.

That's why major oil companies and grain companies in the United States, who had been notified in advance by the government, were crazily collecting a small amount of tungsten that was left on the market to produce replacement spare parts such as drills for oil drilling equipment and gear parts and agricultural machinery.

However, in such a vortex, Korea, which is most prone to damage by cars, ships, various steel and mechanical industries, is calm, so I did not understand Donald as Secretary of State.

“Well, Korea is an unknown country, and things are going really fast, and it's crazy to sell it even though we have tungsten, the most important underground resource in the world. Well, I'm not Alba, but...”

The same is true of Donald, the Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who has been suffering for weeks due to the Tungsten problem, with wrinkles and white hair.

Donald, desperate to figure out where to get 100,000 tons of tungsten that the U.S. Army needs right away, began worrying about ways to secure scarce tungsten, a strange phenomenon that is occurring in a small country in Asia.

The United States is seriously troubled by the tungsten depletion, a disaster that the United States military and civilian corporations will be facing right now, with no time to think about neighboring countries due to urgent circumstances.

Whether the world was plunged into an invisible war of resources in such an urgent situation, South Korea, located on the path of the storm, was in a tranquil night without knowing anything.