Jiang Chen liked the more than 20-meter-long cannon barrel the more he looked at it.
Although the actual value of this pure kinetic energy weapon in space wars of tens of thousands of kilometers is still uncertain, it is true that giant ships and cannons are men's romance!
The scene of thousands of cannons firing at the same time is very exciting just thinking about it.
Now that the cannons are already available, will the giant ship still be far away?
Can I test the shot?Jiang Chen looked at Ling Tao and asked.
sure!Show you how powerful it is now.As he said that, Ling Tao took off the walkie-talkie on his shoulder and gave a few instructions to the engineers at the institute. Soon, the gun barrel that was more than 20 meters long slowly escaped from the ground half a meter under the suspension of the robotic arm.
Ling Tao raised his hand, stretched out his finger and connected the points on the touchpad. Soon, the door of the warehouse where the electromagnetic turret was stored was closed and locked. The nozzle embedded on the top of the ceiling began to throw dry ice into the warehouse inside the protective wall.
At the same time, more than a dozen large vacuum pumps in the laboratory began to work.
Accompanied by the enchanting smoke screen, the warehouse where the turret is located is soon vacuumed.
Steel plates several centimeters thick were slowly placed in the slot 500 meters in front of the electromagnetic turret under the migration of the mechanical cantilever, and were stacked upright into a steel wall.
However, this is not over. When the steel plates were stacked to a thickness of more than five meters, a concrete wall more than ten meters thick rose immediately behind the row of steel plates.
After all, the scale of the entire vacuum laboratory is limited, and the maximum test can only be 500 meters.
However, for weapons used in space, there is actually no big difference between 500 meters and 5 kilometers. After all, there is no air resistance in the universe, so kinetic energy attenuation is not necessary to consider.
The gun barrel shook and pointed at the five-meter-thick steel plate. The capacitors in the turret began to charge, and even the leaking blue arc could be faintly seen at the mouth of the gun barrel.
When everything was ready, Ling Tao looked at Jiang Chen and smiled, respectfully made a gesture to the trackpad, and said.
Just press the red launch button.
According to Ling Tao's suggestion, Jiang Chen took two steps forward, looked at the turret inside the isolation wall, and pressed the red button.
There is no sign of premonition.
The blue arc suddenly flashed, and the dazzling white light flashed away. The fifty kilogram mass bomb hit the steel plate at the same time, accompanied by the tremor of the earth and the roar from the soles of the feet.
……
Simple words can no longer describe the shock in Jiang Chen's heart.
Almost as soon as he came to his senses, a broken mouth as thick as his thigh was engraved on the steel plate, and this steel wall composed of dozens of steel plates had been completely blasted into a V-shaped shape with the opening on the side.
As for the concrete behind the steel, it was shattered halfway...
Because I have watched it many times, Ling Tao did not react much.
The barrel can fire a maximum of 50 kg mass bombs, and the theoretical rate of fire can reach nine rounds per minute. Do you still need to test the next round?
No, I've seen the power.Jiang Chen shook his head and said.
OK
Nodding, Ling Tao stepped forward and tapped the trackpad a few times. After the overflowing power in the turret's high-energy capacitor was slowly released, he immediately turned off the turret's power.
The dark blue arc also dimmed and eventually disappeared.
After a long time, Jiang Chen ended his silence and said with emotion: ...I am thinking now that if this thing is placed in the Pacific Ocean, which warship can resist it.
No warship can carry such a turret.Ling Tao thought his boss really had this plan, so he quickly explained to him that the electromagnetic cannon at the guard level is now strong enough, and no warship armor can take a shot and is safe.
I know.Jiang Chen waved his hand, and I just said, how could he really use cannons to kill mosquitoes?
Looking at the turret, Jiang Chen paused for a moment and continued to ask, How much is the cost of such a turret?
If you ignore the R&D costs, the cost of this prototype will be about S$1 billion.
S$1 billion!
Hearing this number, even Jiang Chen, who is the major shareholder of the new Fed, couldn't help but be shocked.
Even if large-scale production can cut costs by half, it will be S$500 million.If hundreds of electromagnetic naval guns were installed on the warships, wouldn’t the Earth Defense Alliance be bankrupt?
Seeing that Jiang Chen's expression was not very good, Ling Tao vaguely guessed something, and quickly explained.
The reason why it is so expensive is mainly due to the manufacturing process problems. Many parts cannot be produced with current processing technology and can only be used with industrial-grade 3D printers.When the production technology is improved, this turret will definitely not be so expensive.
Hearing this sentence, Jiang Chen finally felt a little better.
In a few days, the Earth Defense Alliance Committee will start again, and the content of the discussion at the next meeting is about which type of ship to use for the first million-ton interstellar warship.
In fact, the type of ship that no way is, and conventional weapons such as electromagnetic guns are indispensable. Therefore, no matter what the final result is, the orders for military industry in the future will not be eliminated.
After all, the technological advantages of Future Ren Group in electromagnetic guns are obvious to all over the world.
But the cost of nearly 1 billion is really too expensive.
Jiang Chen asked himself that if he had been a member of the committee, he would probably not have let go of his budget easily.
After all, the Earth Defense Alliance was not run by him. The member states paid for the percentage of GDP and population weight, and China alone took out three trillion yuan in a year!
How could this money be easily earned by companies in other countries?
As an executive, he has the power to make decisions, but the committee also has the power to veto, voting and budget review.
When Jiang Chen thought of this, he couldn't help but have a headache.
How to fool those committee members?
It seems that it's really hard to fool...
……
As August approaches, expectations for joint military exercises in 2019 gradually heat up, but the reaction of Star Ring Trade is quite calm, as if the aircraft carrier battle group parked at the door is not at all taken seriously.
Above a height of 36,000 kilometers, shuttle-type aircraft travels between steel skeletons about thousands of meters long, like silver needles that lead wires, weaving the future of Earth civilization in the jumping sparks.
There is Starring Second Shipyard, and the project progress has only reached 15%.
The new shipyard covering an area of over 100 acres and spends nearly 20 billion S$ is like a satellite city suspended beside the Star Ring City, connected to a space elevator by graphene orbit.
Six main shafts about three kilometers long are suspended parallel in the synchronous track and connected by a titanium alloy skeleton. They are like a bottle of narrow and hollow hexagrams, which has outlined the outline of the entire shipyard.
Nearly a thousand engineering robots that have participated in the construction of space elevators are remotely controlled by human engineers with the help of neural access technology to weld pieces of alloy steel plates onto the skeleton.
Shuttle-type aircraft travels through the construction site, delivering materials and construction equipment to the hands of engineering robots.
In the future, all warships above 500,000 tons will be produced by this new shipyard.
Regarding the first order of this shipyard, the Earth Defense League has held more than a dozen consecutive meetings, but there is still no discussion.
Some people have proposed to develop missile ships, while others have proposed to give priority to the development of aircraft carriers and unmanned carrier-based aircraft...
The final conclusion of the debate was a representative of China named Lu Wei.
At the 17th meeting, the function ship theory he proposed was approved by most committee members.
It is undoubtedly ridiculous to use 19th-century artillery to attack 20th-century battleships, but 19th-century warships can still exert their remaining energy on the battlefield after being modified with the 20th-century artillery system.Rather than arguing whether to arm our ship with bows and arrows or spears, it is better to build the ship first and then consider what weapons to install on it.
Leave the choice of weapons to use for future consideration, and first produce the naked ship with room for modification.
Even if the naked ship will eventually be eliminated with the innovation of shipbuilding technology in the future, it can be converted into a engineering ship at a lower cost and make use of its remaining energy in the field of infrastructure.
Lu Wei's proposal also made Jiang Chen feel relieved.
At least for now, he doesn't have to worry about how to convince the committee to buy a billion dollar cannon.
Although the actual value of this pure kinetic energy weapon in space wars of tens of thousands of kilometers is still uncertain, it is true that giant ships and cannons are men's romance!
The scene of thousands of cannons firing at the same time is very exciting just thinking about it.
Now that the cannons are already available, will the giant ship still be far away?
Can I test the shot?Jiang Chen looked at Ling Tao and asked.
sure!Show you how powerful it is now.As he said that, Ling Tao took off the walkie-talkie on his shoulder and gave a few instructions to the engineers at the institute. Soon, the gun barrel that was more than 20 meters long slowly escaped from the ground half a meter under the suspension of the robotic arm.
Ling Tao raised his hand, stretched out his finger and connected the points on the touchpad. Soon, the door of the warehouse where the electromagnetic turret was stored was closed and locked. The nozzle embedded on the top of the ceiling began to throw dry ice into the warehouse inside the protective wall.
At the same time, more than a dozen large vacuum pumps in the laboratory began to work.
Accompanied by the enchanting smoke screen, the warehouse where the turret is located is soon vacuumed.
Steel plates several centimeters thick were slowly placed in the slot 500 meters in front of the electromagnetic turret under the migration of the mechanical cantilever, and were stacked upright into a steel wall.
However, this is not over. When the steel plates were stacked to a thickness of more than five meters, a concrete wall more than ten meters thick rose immediately behind the row of steel plates.
After all, the scale of the entire vacuum laboratory is limited, and the maximum test can only be 500 meters.
However, for weapons used in space, there is actually no big difference between 500 meters and 5 kilometers. After all, there is no air resistance in the universe, so kinetic energy attenuation is not necessary to consider.
The gun barrel shook and pointed at the five-meter-thick steel plate. The capacitors in the turret began to charge, and even the leaking blue arc could be faintly seen at the mouth of the gun barrel.
When everything was ready, Ling Tao looked at Jiang Chen and smiled, respectfully made a gesture to the trackpad, and said.
Just press the red launch button.
According to Ling Tao's suggestion, Jiang Chen took two steps forward, looked at the turret inside the isolation wall, and pressed the red button.
There is no sign of premonition.
The blue arc suddenly flashed, and the dazzling white light flashed away. The fifty kilogram mass bomb hit the steel plate at the same time, accompanied by the tremor of the earth and the roar from the soles of the feet.
……
Simple words can no longer describe the shock in Jiang Chen's heart.
Almost as soon as he came to his senses, a broken mouth as thick as his thigh was engraved on the steel plate, and this steel wall composed of dozens of steel plates had been completely blasted into a V-shaped shape with the opening on the side.
As for the concrete behind the steel, it was shattered halfway...
Because I have watched it many times, Ling Tao did not react much.
The barrel can fire a maximum of 50 kg mass bombs, and the theoretical rate of fire can reach nine rounds per minute. Do you still need to test the next round?
No, I've seen the power.Jiang Chen shook his head and said.
OK
Nodding, Ling Tao stepped forward and tapped the trackpad a few times. After the overflowing power in the turret's high-energy capacitor was slowly released, he immediately turned off the turret's power.
The dark blue arc also dimmed and eventually disappeared.
After a long time, Jiang Chen ended his silence and said with emotion: ...I am thinking now that if this thing is placed in the Pacific Ocean, which warship can resist it.
No warship can carry such a turret.Ling Tao thought his boss really had this plan, so he quickly explained to him that the electromagnetic cannon at the guard level is now strong enough, and no warship armor can take a shot and is safe.
I know.Jiang Chen waved his hand, and I just said, how could he really use cannons to kill mosquitoes?
Looking at the turret, Jiang Chen paused for a moment and continued to ask, How much is the cost of such a turret?
If you ignore the R&D costs, the cost of this prototype will be about S$1 billion.
S$1 billion!
Hearing this number, even Jiang Chen, who is the major shareholder of the new Fed, couldn't help but be shocked.
Even if large-scale production can cut costs by half, it will be S$500 million.If hundreds of electromagnetic naval guns were installed on the warships, wouldn’t the Earth Defense Alliance be bankrupt?
Seeing that Jiang Chen's expression was not very good, Ling Tao vaguely guessed something, and quickly explained.
The reason why it is so expensive is mainly due to the manufacturing process problems. Many parts cannot be produced with current processing technology and can only be used with industrial-grade 3D printers.When the production technology is improved, this turret will definitely not be so expensive.
Hearing this sentence, Jiang Chen finally felt a little better.
In a few days, the Earth Defense Alliance Committee will start again, and the content of the discussion at the next meeting is about which type of ship to use for the first million-ton interstellar warship.
In fact, the type of ship that no way is, and conventional weapons such as electromagnetic guns are indispensable. Therefore, no matter what the final result is, the orders for military industry in the future will not be eliminated.
After all, the technological advantages of Future Ren Group in electromagnetic guns are obvious to all over the world.
But the cost of nearly 1 billion is really too expensive.
Jiang Chen asked himself that if he had been a member of the committee, he would probably not have let go of his budget easily.
After all, the Earth Defense Alliance was not run by him. The member states paid for the percentage of GDP and population weight, and China alone took out three trillion yuan in a year!
How could this money be easily earned by companies in other countries?
As an executive, he has the power to make decisions, but the committee also has the power to veto, voting and budget review.
When Jiang Chen thought of this, he couldn't help but have a headache.
How to fool those committee members?
It seems that it's really hard to fool...
……
As August approaches, expectations for joint military exercises in 2019 gradually heat up, but the reaction of Star Ring Trade is quite calm, as if the aircraft carrier battle group parked at the door is not at all taken seriously.
Above a height of 36,000 kilometers, shuttle-type aircraft travels between steel skeletons about thousands of meters long, like silver needles that lead wires, weaving the future of Earth civilization in the jumping sparks.
There is Starring Second Shipyard, and the project progress has only reached 15%.
The new shipyard covering an area of over 100 acres and spends nearly 20 billion S$ is like a satellite city suspended beside the Star Ring City, connected to a space elevator by graphene orbit.
Six main shafts about three kilometers long are suspended parallel in the synchronous track and connected by a titanium alloy skeleton. They are like a bottle of narrow and hollow hexagrams, which has outlined the outline of the entire shipyard.
Nearly a thousand engineering robots that have participated in the construction of space elevators are remotely controlled by human engineers with the help of neural access technology to weld pieces of alloy steel plates onto the skeleton.
Shuttle-type aircraft travels through the construction site, delivering materials and construction equipment to the hands of engineering robots.
In the future, all warships above 500,000 tons will be produced by this new shipyard.
Regarding the first order of this shipyard, the Earth Defense League has held more than a dozen consecutive meetings, but there is still no discussion.
Some people have proposed to develop missile ships, while others have proposed to give priority to the development of aircraft carriers and unmanned carrier-based aircraft...
The final conclusion of the debate was a representative of China named Lu Wei.
At the 17th meeting, the function ship theory he proposed was approved by most committee members.
It is undoubtedly ridiculous to use 19th-century artillery to attack 20th-century battleships, but 19th-century warships can still exert their remaining energy on the battlefield after being modified with the 20th-century artillery system.Rather than arguing whether to arm our ship with bows and arrows or spears, it is better to build the ship first and then consider what weapons to install on it.
Leave the choice of weapons to use for future consideration, and first produce the naked ship with room for modification.
Even if the naked ship will eventually be eliminated with the innovation of shipbuilding technology in the future, it can be converted into a engineering ship at a lower cost and make use of its remaining energy in the field of infrastructure.
Lu Wei's proposal also made Jiang Chen feel relieved.
At least for now, he doesn't have to worry about how to convince the committee to buy a billion dollar cannon.
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