I Have a Mansion in the Post-apocalyptic World Chapter 1118: “Satellite City”

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Jiang Chen liked the gun barrel more than 20 meters long.

Although the actual combat value of this pure kinetic energy weapon in space wars with a scale of tens of thousands of kilometers is still inconclusive, it turns out that the giant ship cannon is the romance of men! The scenes of the tens of thousands of artillery bursts with emotion.

Now that the artillery is in place, will the giant ship be far behind?

"Can it be tested?" Jiang Chen asked Ling Tao.

"Of course! I will show you its power now." Then, Ling Tao took off the intercom on his shoulder and gave a few words to the engineers of the research institute. Suspended by the mechanical arm, it slowly separated from the ground by half a meter.

Ling Tao raised his hand, stretched out his finger on the touchpad, and then the door of the storeroom where the electromagnetic turret was stored was closed and locked. The nozzle mounted on the top of the ceiling began to throw dry ice at the storehouse inside the protective wall . At the same time, dozens of large vacuum pumps in the laboratory began to work.

With the enchanting smoke screen, the warehouse where the turret was located was quickly evacuated.

Several centimeters of "steel plates", placed under the movement of the mechanical cantilever, were slowly placed in a 500-meter slot in front of the electromagnetic turret, and stacked upright to form a wall of steel. However, this is not over yet. When the steel plates were stacked to a thickness of more than five meters, a concrete wall of more than ten meters thick was raised behind the row of steel plates.

The scale of the entire vacuum laboratory is limited, after all, it can only test 500 meters. But for weapons used in space, 500 meters and 5 kilometers are actually not much different. After all, there is no air resistance in the universe, and there is no need to consider kinetic energy attenuation.

The barrel was pointed at the five-meter-thick "steel plate", the capacitor in the turret began to charge, and even a faint blue arc leaked from the barrel mouth.

When everything was ready, Ling Tao smiled at Jiang Chen, made a gesture of respectfully to the touchpad, and said.

"Press the red launch button."

According to Ling Tao's suggestion, Jiang Chen stepped forward, looked at the turret inside the wall, and pressed the red button.

There is no sign.

The blue arc flashed suddenly, and the dazzling white light flashed away. A 50-kilogram mass bombardment hit the steel plate at the same time, accompanied by the tremor of the earth and the roar from the bottom of the feet.

"..."

Just words can't describe the shock in Jiang Chen's heart.

Almost as soon as he recovered, a thigh-like fracture was inscribed on the steel plate, and this steel wall made of dozens of steel plates has been completely blown into the side opening. " "V" font.

As for the concrete behind the steel, the whole was shattered by half ...

Because I have watched it many times, Ling Tao did not respond much.

"The gun barrel can fire a mass of 50 kilograms at maximum. Theoretically, the rate of fire can reach nine rounds per minute. Do I need to test the next round?"

"No need, I have seen the power." Jiang Chen shook his head.

"OK"

Nodded, Ling Tao stepped forward to make a few clicks on the touchpad. After the overflow of the turret high-energy capacitor was slowly released, he immediately turned off the turret power. The faint blue arc also dimmed, and eventually disappeared.

After a long time, Jiang Chen ended his silence and said with emotion: "... I am now thinking, if this thing is placed on 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 hurriedly explained to him, "Now the electromagnetic gun on the guard level is strong enough, there is no one The armor of a kind of warship can eat a cannon without any damage — "

"I know," Jiang Chen waved his hand, "I mean, how could it be possible to use a cannon to fight mosquitoes."

Looking at the turret, Jiang Chen paused for a moment and continued to ask, "How much does it cost to build such a turret?"

"Ignoring the cost of R & D, this prototype will cost about S $ 1 billion."

S $ 1 billion!

Hearing this number, even Jiang Chen, who is a major shareholder of the new Fed, couldn't help but stun.

Even if mass production can cut costs in half, it is S $ 500 million. If you want to install hundreds of electromagnetic naval guns on the battleship, will this still cause the Earth Defense Alliance to go bankrupt?

Looking at Jiang Chen ’s face, Ling Tao, who vaguely guessed something, quickly explained.

"The reason why it is so expensive is mainly because of the manufacturing process. Many parts cannot be produced with the current processing technology, and only industrial-grade 3D printers can be used. When the production technology rises, this turret will definitely not be like this Expensive. "

After hearing this sentence, Jiang Chen finally felt better.

The Earth Defense League Committee will start again in a few days, and the next meeting will discuss what kind of ship should be used for the first million-ton starship.

In fact, what kind of ship is the roadless, the conventional weapon such as the electromagnetic gun is indispensable, so no matter what the final discussion is, the future orders of the military industry will not run away. After all, the technical advantages of the Future Group on electromagnetic guns are obvious to all over the world.

It's just that the cost of nearly 1 billion yuan is really too expensive.

Jiang Chen asked himself if he changed to be a member of the committee, I am afraid he would not easily relax on the budget.

After all, the Earth Defense League was not opened by him. The member countries are paying according to the percentage of GDP and the weight of the population. China alone has made three trillion yuan a year! How can this money be easily earned by companies in other countries?

As an executive officer, he has decision-making power, but the committee also has veto power, voting power, and budget review power.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but get a headache.

How to foole those committee members?

It seems that it ’s really bad ...

......

As August gets closer and closer, the expectation of the 19th Asia-Pacific joint military exercise gradually heats up, but the response of the Star Ring trade is quite calm, as if it did not care about the aircraft carrier battle group parked at the door. on.

At a height of more than 36,000 kilometers, a shuttle-shaped aircraft travels through a steel skeleton about several kilometers long, such as a silver needle with a wire drawn, and weaving in a sparkling electric spark belongs to the civilization of the earth. the future of.

There is Xinghuan No. 2 Shipyard, and the current project progress is only 15%.

The new shipyard, which covers hundreds of acres and costs nearly S $ 20 billion, is like a satellite city suspended on the side of the Star Ring City, connected by a graphene orbit and a space elevator.

Six main shafts with a length of about three kilometers are suspended in parallel on a synchronous orbit, connected by a titanium alloy skeleton, just like a bottle of narrow, long and hollow prisms, which has outlined the outline of the entire shipyard.

Almost a thousand engineering robots that have participated in the construction of space elevators, with the help of neural access technology, are remotely controlled by human engineers to weld a block of alloy steel plates to the skeleton. The shuttle-type aircraft travels through the construction site, sending materials and construction equipment to the hands of engineering robots.

In the future, all the battleships above 500 thousand tons in Star Ring Trade and Earth Defense Alliance will be produced by this new shipyard.

As for the first order of this shipyard, there have been more than a dozen consecutive meetings within the Earth Defense League, but there is still no reason to discuss it. Some people have proposed the development of missile ships, and others have given priority to the development of aircraft carriers and unmanned carrier aircraft ...

The final conclusion of the debate was a representative of Hua Guo named Lu Wei.

At the 17th meeting, his "Functional Ship Theory" was approved by most members.

"Using 19th-century artillery to fight 20th-century battleships is undoubtedly ridiculous, but 19th-century battleships can still play the heat on the battlefield after the 20th-century artillery system is modified. It is debated whether they are armed with bows and arrows Our ship is better to build the ship first, and then think about what weapon to put on it. "

Will choose which weapon to use for future consideration, and first produce the bare ship with the modified space. Even with the innovation of shipbuilding technology in the future, this bare ship will eventually be eliminated, and it can be converted into an engineering ship at a lower cost to play the waste heat in the field of infrastructure.

Lu Wei's proposal also relieved Jiang Chen.

At least for now, he does n’t have to worry about how to persuade the committee to buy a S $ 1 billion cannon. (To be continued.)