Chapter 444: The cost of maintaining a spaceship is too high

"Master, Sister Xiaolan said that we are the creator gods, and now the origin of human beings is all created by Nuwa's laboratory. We call it the God of Creation, this pull. Xiao Ju said.

"Okay, let's call it the God of Creation! I also said a little bit about Xiaolan, the ancient immortals were all made by her. Xiang Ming also agreed, anyway, no matter what it was called, the three of them knew it, and the people outside didn't know the existence of Xiaolan and Xiaoju, two intelligent light brains.

"Master, my sister has made a great contribution to mankind, she has silently guarded the earth for hundreds of millions of years, I admire her very much, I want to learn from her, and also be a person who contributes to mankind. Master, I have sorted out some Atlanta technology that can be used now, or we will set up a high-paying technology company, produce them, benefit mankind, and improve the scientific and technological level of mankind, we can also make money, master, don't look at you now have a lot of money, once you can use it, the money will not be spent! Only by opening up the financial resources can we widen the financial resources!"

"I also think so, to establish a heavenly army, at least 200,000 warriors must be trained, where does the Han Empire need 100,000, the Dragon Kingdom here to cultivate 100,000, the heavenly army is a money-burning army, and now those aviation troops are simply weak compared to the heavenly army. This still doesn't let them produce spaceships, produce mecha and other equipment, just use equipment, just maintaining these equipment and training space soldiers is an astronomical amount. The Dragon Kingdom has trained 100,000 elite soldiers, that is, 100,000 senior pilots and 100,000 instructors, to prepare for the expansion of the army in the future! There are too many spaceships, and the Dragon Kingdom cannot afford it. A small transport ship is equivalent to the cost of three aircraft carriers, and if you give them five spaceships, can the Dragon Kingdom raise 15 aircraft carriers now? The answer is very reluctant, unless these spaceships are lying still, the cost of flying to the moon once is enough for them!" Xiang Ming was telling the truth, raising a mechanized group army burned money, and now the dragon country has made 20 years of hard work to put together several mechanized group armies. The Air Force is not high, and it must also be guaranteed by strong economic strength. The Air Force has pulled out only 500 fighters of more than three and a half generations. Two aircraft carrier formations and hundreds of advanced warships. It is these relatively advanced equipment that have been saved by more than 20 years of hard work. That is, it was smashed out of money.

More than half of the $200 billion a year in military spending is spent on equipment purchase and maintenance. After 20 years of accumulation, you can imagine how much money was spent.

To complete a space army, 100,000 people is already the limit, and this is an additional expenditure in the original military budget.

Not to mention the other 5 spaceships given to the military, Xiang Ming plans to convert all the restricted area troops into a space force, using Xuantian 1 as a mothership. Even if it's the cost of use and training.

Most of the weapons of the Atlanta era were energy weapons. It takes a lot of energy to support. A small laser gun carries a base amount of ammunition, which is 1 energy block, and the energy contained in this 1 energy block the size of a fingernail can provide the laser gun with 300 full-power shots. One calorie of energy is one cubic centimeter square.

This energy block is the most basic standard energy block. It is also the smallest number in the unit of measurement. In Atlanta, a small block of energy is called a card.

How much energy does it take to purify this one-card energy block? The energy of 1 ton of gasoline. If a fighter is training, he can hit 1 card a day.

It's just like training like an ordinary * weapon, and now the Sword Special Combat Team has an average of hundreds of rounds of ammunition every day. As you can imagine, the consumption of energy blocks is quite powerful.

Not to mention the energy-consuming guns, particle cannons, laser cannons and other weapons that are much more powerful than laser guns, that is the consumption of a few calories.

The mecha's 3-hour training a day is more than 10 calories, and this is only for maneuvering flight training.

A space fighter flies once, and it also takes a few cards. If you take an ordinary fuel fighter, it will take several tons to fly 2,000 kilometers, isn't it? Not to mention that if a space fighter flies in the atmosphere, it consumes energy blocks at the same distance, which is equal to the value of fuel consumed. It was also quite terrifying, because the mechanical equipment of a Xuantian warship, including mechas, warplanes, and land combat vehicles, was quite a lot. The number of fighters alone is equal to the number of fighters on the front line of the Dragon Country. There are hundreds of them. The consumption of mecha fighters on a Xuantian battleship is comparable to all the consumption of the current air force.

Playing Space Battleship is all about burning money.

Do you know how much the Xuantian battleship's ion engine consumes? The Xuantian battleship is equipped with one nuclear-counter-reactor, and one reactor is equivalent to the capacity of one Three Gorges generator assembly machine. It is equivalent to 5 times that of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant. The Xuantian battleship also has a set of argon fuel units, a set of energy harvesting systems that are all over the armor shell.

If you fly in the atmosphere, starting the nuclear-fusion-change reactor is the same as starting all the generating units of the Three Gorges, the Three Gorges does not claim to generate 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, so if the Xuantian warship is floating in the air 365 days a year without landing, it will need at least tens of billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity. If you are flying, hundreds of billions of kilowatt-hours of electricity are not enough! Cruising in outer space to turn on a nuclear fusion reactor is just enough if you are flying normally, and if you are not accelerating fast, if you are engaged in combat maneuvers, it is necessary to accelerate rapidly, and you must add an argon engine.

The Xuantian battleship flew from the earth to the moon, and when it got rid of the shackles of the earth's gravity, it needed to add an argon generator set, that is, it would open for about 10 seconds, and as soon as it entered space, it could accelerate to 20,000 kilometers per second with the nuclear fusion reactor alone. However, because the distance between the Earth and the Moon is too close, that is, less than 400,000 kilometers, it will not be accelerated to 20,000 kilometers per second, and it will have to slow down if it accelerates to 800 kilometers per second at most. The next step is to turn off the engines and let the ship fly using inertia. In the state of the relative vacuum of space, the Xuantian battleship has been able to maintain acceleration to the highest speed and move forward in a straight line.

The distance from the Earth to the Moon consumes 10,000 calories of energy for the Xuantian Battleship. That's 1 cubic of energy. Equivalent to 10,000 tons of fuel oil.

This is due to the fact that spaceflight is more energy-intensive than in the atmosphere, mainly because it consumes more energy when accelerating.

One of the largest Long March series carrier rockets requires hundreds of tons of fuel much better than gasoline, with a take-off weight of 700 tons, which shows that the Xuantian battleship is 400,000 tons of energy, and only 3,000 tons of ordinary gasoline is used, which is really economical.

That's it, raising a Xuantian battleship is also a heavy burden for the Dragon Kingdom. Why, Xiang Ming leased 5 relatively small spaceships to the Dragon Kingdom military, and the cost of leasing them for a year was 10 billion US dollars each, and the use of energy was charged at half price, because the faces of those bigwigs were black.

The rent is so expensive, and the consumption of energy is more expensive, unless it is leased back, the spacecraft is parked on the ground for a long time, does not fly, and the aircraft in the spaceship does not fly. Like the current Air Force, if you can not go to the sky for training, try not to do it, train on the ground with a simulator, and if you really need to go to the sky, you should also try to reduce the time spent in the air, that is to say, every pilot in the United States can easily reach a senior pilot with a flight time of 2,000 hours at a young age. And our pilots who have reached 2,000 flight hours are really old flyers, because they are all 40 years old. This is the gap, Lao Mei is not bad for money, as long as you want to fly, you can do it for 2 hours a day. More than 200 hours of flight time throughout the year. Our pilots in the 80s of the last century were only 30 hours. Even if it is now 08 years, although it is improved, but it is about 100 hours, mainly because of the lack of training aircraft, most of which are trained with J-7 masters, and the time for training on the new fighter is only a handful, after all, the life of a J-11 (Su-27) engine is very short and only 1000 hours.

If you can afford to buy a car, you can't afford to buy it, and it's also a problem to be able to afford it.

If the warships are sent to the United States, Xiang Ming estimates that even the Americans, who have always had deep pockets, do not dare to say that they want a lunar formation to play, and at most they will want 10 ships, which depends on how much money they have in their pockets, although the annual military expenditure is the largest in the world, reaching 700 billion US dollars, if the US military leases 11 spaceships to replace the aircraft carriers that are now in service, the rent alone will be 100 billion US dollars a year, and the cost of training will definitely make them tremble. I know that the construction cost of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the US military will cost 8 billion US dollars. The construction cost of 11 aircraft carriers in the United States alone cost $60 billion, and each aircraft carrier costs an average of $8 billion when you count carrier-based aircraft, self-defense weapons, ammunition, aviation fuel, and supplies. This is only the cost of construction, if you count the daily expenses, staff expenses, and after 25 years of normal service, the aircraft carrier will have to replace the nuclear fuel, which is also a big expense, after 50 years of service, an aircraft carrier will cost at least 130 billion US dollars, which can be described as a veritable "gold swallowing beast". In other words, an aircraft carrier costs an average of $2 billion a year.

However, the cost of such a tall thing as a spaceship must be several times more than that of an ordinary aircraft carrier. There are dozens of aircraft on board for an aircraft carrier, and a space destroyer of the same tonnage, 50 carrier-based aircraft, 50 mechas, and 80 space fighters are more than twice as many as aircraft carriers, and these are played in space, not hide-and-seek gadgets in the atmosphere, which consumes several times more than the cheat.

The Liaoning of the Dragon Kingdom is a medium-sized ship, and the expansion and renovation cost is about 3.5 billion US dollars, and the cost of a day of aircraft carrier travel is about the following:

1. Aircraft carrier fuel consumption: 0.13 kg/horsepower * hour * 100,000 * 8 yuan / kg, equivalent to about 100,000 yuan per hour, which is calculated according to the price of diesel engine, with a daily range of 24 * 10W = 2.4 million yuan

2. Aircraft consumption: It is estimated that it will be 10W/flight, according to 30 flights. Aircraft fuel consumption per day is about: 3 million RMB. (Only one flight per day, if you fly twice, you will need 6 million RMB.) The Dragon Kingdom has just built an aircraft carrier, and the initial personnel training needs to cost more. )

3. Food: 3,000 * 150 yuan / person day = 450,000, 450,000 personnel consumption per day, according to the minimum number of people.

Aircraft & Carrier Routine Maintenance:

1. Aircraft maintenance: 30 planes, 3 hours a day maintenance, about 1.8 million is needed.

2. Aircraft carrier maintenance: about 30,000 per motorcycle hour, about 720,000 are needed.

Cost per carrier:

240 + 300 + 45 + 180 + 72 = 8.37 million (the aircraft carrier costs about 8.3 million per day)

830 * 30 * 12 = 298800000 = 2.988 billion (the aircraft carrier spends about 3 billion a year)

30 * 10 = 30 billion (the aircraft carrier will be in service for 10 years - 30 years, it will cost 30 billion yuan according to 10 years, and nearly 100 billion will be needed in 30 years)

100 billion to raise an aircraft carrier, the average country does not have 100 billion economic income in 10 years, no wonder some small countries do not dare to build aircraft carriers. And China is increasing its horsepower and producing aircraft carriers at full speed, which also shows the strength of our country from another aspect.

If you play with 5 spaceships, hehe, the expenses are like running water, and the little funds of our Dragon Country are not enough to toss, once the equipment is carried out, unless the military budget is increased, otherwise, it is really starving and building a space force, and the funds of these space forces are saved in all the existing sea, land and air second artillery units.

The five spacecraft have an annual expenditure of at least $80 billion, and the Dragon Kingdom's military budget of $200 billion will cost almost half of its military spending at once. Those air force units should not want to add new fighters this year, and those fighters will also have to lie in the nest, and the army's old tanks will continue to exert their residual heat and tinker for another year. The third aircraft carrier of the Navy, which was completely bankrupt, now has two aircraft carriers, and it also has to be in a state of lying on its stomach. Because the Navy asked for a destroyer spaceship, one of these things would cost half of the Navy's funds.