Extraordinary Voyage Chapter 594: Sea trials and missiles
Wow, la la la...
A long, narrow black figure split the blue waves like a sharp arrow, and flew towards the depths of the Black Sea, leaving a long white line behind the waves surging.
Despite the assistance of witchcraft, the outfitting of the battleship still took nearly a month from the "living chemistry school" with Aiwen and Anqi as the main force. At this time, the time has come to July, and it is also the third day when this warship has officially entered the sea trial phase.
The location is the depths of the Black Sea where storms, huge waves and hurricanes are frequent after the rainy season. Sailing at full speed to test the power system, they have traveled nearly half of the route between the old and new continents.
Although the waves in the sea are not small, the battleship is still as stable as a mountain.
Located at the forefront of the top of the tower, in the bridge containing the command room and the bridge.
Ivan sat in his exclusive command position, watching the rows of navigation parameters projected on the light curtain in front of him, the state of the battleship, the speed, the course, the latitude and longitude... Through a gold inlaid with emeralds in his hand The quality amulet can be controlled at any time. This is the "key" of the warship representing the highest control authority.
Because all designs are carried out around the "Ship Spirit", there is almost no key position for the human crew. With the current "Ship Spirit" temporarily missing, it is equivalent to one person taking on the workload of hundreds of people on a normal warship. .
At this time, except for Ivan and Nymph, who are both high-level wizards, there is no third person on the ship who has this ability. But as long as the ship spirit can be awakened, even a child who doesn't know how to read can easily control it.
The more advanced the technology, the more "dumb" the operation.
After this sea trial is successful, we will make slight adjustments to make this warship in its best condition, and then it will come to the time when the [Activating Ship Spirit Art] will show its power.
So no one dared to be sloppy.
"Ivan, I didn't expect that the bronze blades, which are so different in size compared to the sails, can really easily drive such a large battleship to sail at high speed. Do you think the "Steam Fortress" will use it? This kind of propeller?"
Olivia, wearing a capable military uniform, is standing next to Ivan. Even though she has been out to sea for several days, she still feels that the power of such ordinary things is more magical than witchcraft.
"Probably, although I have not personally visited the'Legendary Warship', the technical reserves of the alchemy school really should not be underestimated. In addition, the propeller is of course important, and the power system powered by the'Frog God Golden Crown' is the power system. The key."
Ivan smiled, the technical route is clear to him, don't use it too happily.
After deciding to build an abandoned sail of a modern warship, he directly used a propeller made of nickel-aluminum-bronze alloy enchantment in one step, and the heavy "paddle wheel" jumped directly over it.
Because the propeller is a key component that allows a certain degree of deformation, but it is not allowed to break. So there is no need for too strong hardness, but toughness is more needed.
Moreover, the force change itself is very complicated. The use of steel and other materials with too high rigidity can easily cause stress concentration and cause fracture. Bronze alloy is the best choice.
Copper ions also have a killing effect on marine microorganisms. Even if they are soaked in sea water for a long time, it is not easy to grow barnacles and diatoms.
In addition.
In the shipbuilding industry, what kind of ship is equipped with what kind of propeller is an extremely complicated subject. Airfoil profile, pitch, trim, roll, diameter, disk surface ratio (the sum of the area contained in the extension profile of each propeller blade/propeller disk area) and other factors are all related to it.
However, even if Ivan has not systematically studied related subjects at all, with the help of the upper wizard’s brain that is now comparable to a supercomputer, coupled with the "data-based vision", he can reshape the propeller at any time during the sea trial. .
In other words, he has the capital to try thousands of times.
Relying on scattered memories in the mind: thrust is proportional to the product of mass and acceleration in the water; ship speed also depends on the combination of thrust and various resistance provided by the propeller; the fewer the blades, the propeller The higher the efficiency....
The fewer the blades, the higher the material requirements. In order to balance reliability and efficiency, Ivan initially chose a four-blade propeller.
After many experiments, I finally adjusted a close to perfect product, because any parameter change at this time will reduce the speed.
Single blade weight: 3500kg; hub weight: 6500kg; propeller weight: 10000kg; propeller diameter: 4 meters. It adopts a dual-shaft and double-propeller mode design, which is stronger than a single propeller and is also a common choice for modern cruisers.
On the back side of the propeller is the rudder pointing vertically downwards, which changes direction by controlling the direction of the water flow agitated by the propeller.
As for the core power system of a battleship, Ivan’s best energy source has always been "magnetite", which can transform the sun’s brilliance into infinite energy, which can be used for production or into thunder. Destroy the enemy.
It can also convert between light energy, heat energy, electrical energy, mechanical energy and other energy sources at will, which can be said to be a force that can change the world.
But because of the most cutting-edge achievements of "Magnetite" so far, it is only an "extraordinary battery" replaced by aquamarine. If extraordinary energy sources such as alchemy stones and aquamarine are used instead, energy efficiency will inevitably be reduced and the combat effectiveness of the battleship will be further reduced.
However, in the fourth volume of the complete harvest, one of a series of witchcraft recorded in the [Activating Ship Spiritualism]-[Energy Core·Touch of the Tree of Life] has provided Aiwen with new ideas.
Because this is exactly the technology applied by the extraordinary energy supply system in the super-giant rock golem "Mountain Giant", which uses the rituals containing ten primary qualities to draw the power of extraordinary treasures.
Theoretically, the stronger the treasure, the stronger the output of the "Mountain Giant".
At the strongest, reaching the fourth-order extraordinary attack power is also completely no problem, at least when it was strong against Kraken, the king of the sea monster, the main body attack of the son of the sea **** "White Skeleton" was enough.
Moreover, there are no restrictions on the types of treasures. For example, the "Misty Silver Lamps" and "Blue Orbs" that were originally preserved in the crypt can be used as extraordinary energy sources.
And Ivan happens to have a powerful treasure "Golden Crown of Frog God" that I don't know how to use for the time being. It emits strong energy radiation at any time, and it is enclosed in a hollow rune copper ball. It is not a waste to become a temporary substitute for the power core of a battleship.
Wait later to make a "magnetite" and then replace it.
After that, it couldn't be easier to convert the extraordinary energy into the kinetic energy that makes the propeller rotate by [Energy Core·Touch of the Tree of Life].
So also.
When the "Steam Fortress" was powered by a magically modified steam engine, combined with alchemy, the regular speed could reach 20 knots.
Ivan’s semi-finished warship has a top speed of 32 knots. It takes at least 2 months for others to cross the Black Sea, while it only takes six days.
In addition to the propeller and the power core, there is another contribution to the realization of this horrible speed, which is the excellent aspect ratio of this warship.
The flying shear ship with the fastest speed of 14 knots in the sailing era generally has a length-to-width ratio of more than 6:1, but the ratio of this warship with a length of 132 meters and a width of 16 meters has exceeded 8:1. The most wooden battleship.
I didn't dare to practice the transformation of the "Venus", but there was no such problem in building a new battleship that did not require side cannons.
The main resistance of the surface hull is divided into: friction resistance, vortex resistance, wave resistance, protrusion resistance and air resistance. These five resistances increase with the increase of speed.
Reducing the area of the hull contacting water, as well as the lateral length of this part, or reducing the weight of the hull can increase the speed. The correct way to build a high-speed boat is to increase the aspect ratio, increase the sail area (power), and sharpen the bow (reduce resistance).
The underwater part of the bow of the new warship is based on the "bulb-nosed bow ship" of modern ships, which can make the wave crests and troughs formed by the hull and bulbous nose meet and cancel each other out, overcoming wave resistance.
Ivan also integrated the improved "Song of the Sea Monster", which not only has the ability to kill sea monsters when the "Infrasound" is activated, but can also be transformed into "ultrasonic waves" to act as [sonar] and discover reefs. , Sea monsters and other underwater targets.
Effect: The passive detection range is about 20 kilometers, and the active detection range is about 50 kilometers.
Originally [sonar] is a technology for navigation and ranging through electroacoustic conversion and information processing. The key point is not ultrasound, but electroacoustic conversion and information processing. But as long as the ship spirit is awakened, there is no need for electro-acoustic conversion at all, and it can be handled directly by the ship spirit.
As for now, I need to activate his mental field "manually" control.
While explaining the principles of these devices to Olivia, Nymph, Milan, Angie and a group of students, Ivan suddenly felt a heart move.
"Hey, we seem to have found the target of the experimental weapon system."
Through the [sonar], I found that there was a huge, fast-moving creature about forty kilometers in the direction of eleven o'clock. It suddenly came out of the deep sea with a giant squid in its mouth, and was rushing toward the sea at a very high speed.
The next moment, the Seagull "Mind Network" as a reconnaissance system also found a huge black shadow under the water from high above, and quickly locked the two characteristics of its carapace and tentacles.
The sea monster whose body is supposed to be the lanceolata is 320 meters long, and it has surpassed the limit of the large species and ran all the way toward the 500-meter giant species.
There is no doubt that this is a family member of the "Mother of Sea Monsters", and this is also the first opponent that he has encountered in the first three days of going to sea.
"Come on, Hessie, apart from the fixed target, I will give you the task of launching the first [Hurricane Missile]."
"Yes, the captain! I promise to complete the mission!"
In the enviable gaze of everyone on the side, Olivia saluted the military salute seriously, and reached out to take the "key" of the battleship that Ivan handed over.
Immediately holding the gold talisman inlaid with emeralds, it is connected to the weapon system after the outfitting of the battleship is completed, and the spiritual light is lightly tapped on the [Extraordinary Arms·Missile Silo].
Slap——
The smoothly curved front deck of the battleship is located between the turret and the tower of the double-barreled naval gun at the forefront. Two circular manhole covers bounce off at the same time.
There are emerald green runes on the wall of the well.
Immediately ~IndoMTL.com~ Whoosh! Whoosh!
When the wind was blowing suddenly on the deck.
The metal warhead pulled by a high-speed rotating low-pressure cyclone (temporarily energized element spirit) soars into the sky at a speed of close to 340 meters per second.
After lift-off, two warheads with a payload of 10 kilograms spread out a pair of small metal wings to assist in flight, and flew towards 11 o'clock under the positioning of the "mental network".
The currently installed "Hurricane Missile" is strictly classified as a low-speed (less than Mach 1) cruise missile. Within the signal coverage of the "Mind Network", it can hit targets up to 1,300 kilometers away.
At this time.
Everyone on the bridge accesses the "psychic network" at the same time, watching nervously the first actual combat of this ultra-long-range weapon. If it succeeds, it means that the conventional strikes beyond the visual range from now on will completely win the dominance of naval battles for one's own side.
It is possible to choose ten, one hundred, and even completely ignore the number of ordinary warships!