The more than 20-meter-long barrel, the more Jiang Chen looked at it, the more he liked it. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although the actual combat value of this pure kinetic energy weapon in space warfare on the scale of tens of thousands of kilometers has not yet been determined, it is indeed the romance of a man with a giant ship and cannon! The scene of 10,000 cannons firing at the same time is touching just thinking about it.

Now that the cannon is available, will the giant ship be far away?

"Can you test shoot it?" Jiang Chen looked at Ling Tao and asked.

"Absolutely! As he spoke, Ling Tao took off the walkie-talkie on his shoulder and gave a few instructions to the engineers of the research institute, and soon the barrel of more than 20 meters long slowly detached half a meter from the ground under the suspension of the mechanical arm.

Ling Tao raised his hand, stretched out his finger and counted the dots on the trackpad, and soon the door of the warehouse where the electromagnetic turret was stored was closed and locked, and the sprinkler head embedded in 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 "whining".

Accompanied by a bewitching smoke screen, soon the warehouse where the turret was located was vacuumed.

Under the movement of the mechanical cantilever arm, the "steel plates" with a thickness of several centimeters were slowly placed in the card slot 500 meters in front of the electromagnetic turret, and stacked upright to form a wall of steel. However, this is not the end, when the steel plates are stacked to a thickness of more than five meters, and then behind the row of steel plates, a concrete wall more than ten meters thick rises.

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 not much difference between 500 meters and 5 kilometers, after all, there is no air resistance in the universe, and there is no need to consider kinetic energy attenuation.

The barrel shook and pointed at the five-meter-thick "steel plate", and the capacitors in the turret began to charge, and even faintly visible blue arcs could be seen at the mouth of the 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. ”

Following Ling Tao's suggestion, Jiang Chen took two steps forward, looked at the turret inside the separation wall, and pressed the red button.

There was no warning.

The blue arc flickered suddenly, the blinding white light flashed away, and 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 could no longer describe the shock in Jiang Chen's heart.

Almost as soon as he came back to his senses, a thigh-thick fracture was engraved on the steel plate, and this steel wall made of dozens of steel plates had been blasted into a "V" shape with side openings.

As for the concrete behind the steel, it was shattered in half......

Because he had seen it many times, Ling Tao didn't have much reaction.

"The barrel can fire a maximum of 50 kilograms of mass bullets, and the theoretical rate of fire can reach nine rounds a 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 clicked a few times on the trackpad, and after the overflowing power in the turret's high-energy capacitor was slowly released, he immediately turned off the turret's power. The faint blue arc of light also dimmed, and finally disappeared.

After a long time, Jiang Chen ended his silence and said with emotion: "...... I'm now wondering if I put this thing in the Pacific, what other warship can resist it. ”

"No warship can carry this kind of turret," Ling Tao thought that his boss really had this intention, so he hurriedly explained to him, "Now the electromagnetic cannon on the guardian class is strong enough, and the armor of any kind of warship can eat a single cannon and be unharmed-"

"I know," Jiang Chen waved his hand, "I'm just saying, how can you really use a cannon to fight mosquitoes." ”

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

"If you ignore the R&D costs, the prototype will cost about S$1 billion. ”

S$1 billion!

Hearing this figure, even Jiang Chen, who is a major shareholder of the New Federal Reserve, couldn't help but be speechless.

Even if large-scale production could cut the cost in half, it would be S$500 million. If you want to install hundreds of electromagnetic naval guns on your warships, you can't bankrupt the Earth Defense Alliance?

Seeing that the expression on Jiang Chen's face was not very good, Ling Tao, who had vaguely guessed something, hurriedly explained.

"The reason why it is so expensive is mainly because of the problems in the manufacturing process, many parts cannot be produced at all with the current processing technology, and can only be produced with industrial-grade 3D printers. When the production technology is upgraded, this turret will definitely not be so expensive. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Chen finally felt better.

In a few days, the Earth Defense Alliance Committee will start again, and the next meeting will discuss which type of ship to use for the first megaton starship.

In fact, no way is the type of ship, and conventional weapons such as electromagnetic guns are indispensable, so no matter what the final result of the discussion is, the orders of the military industry in the future will not be able to run. After all, the technical advantages of the Future People Group in electromagnetic guns are obvious to all over the world.

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

Jiang Chen asked himself, if he was a member of the committee, I am afraid that he would not be easy to relax in terms of budget.

After all, the Earth Defense Alliance was not set up by himself, but the member states are contributing money according to the percentage of GDP and the weight of the population, and China alone has taken out 3 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 the right to veto, vote, and approve the budget.

As soon as he thought of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but have a headache.

How to fool those commissioners?

It seems that it is really hard to fool......

……

As August draws closer, the expectation of the 19-year Asia-Pacific joint military exercise is gradually heating up, but the reaction of Transwarp Trade is quite calm, as if it has not taken the aircraft carrier battle group parked at the door to heart at all.

At an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, shuttle-shaped aircraft travel between steel skeletons about several kilometers long, like silver needles that lead wires, weaving the future of the earth's civilization in the ghostly electric sparks.

There is the second shipyard of Transwarp, and the current progress of the project is only 15 percent.

Covering an area of hundreds of acres and costing nearly S$20 billion, the new shipyard is like a satellite city suspended on the side of Star Ring City, connected by a graphene orbit and a space elevator.

Six main axes, about three kilometers long, are suspended in parallel in a synchronous orbit and are connected by a titanium skeleton, like a long, narrow and hollow hexagonal prism, which already outlines the entire shipyard.

With the help of neural access technology, nearly 1,000 engineering robots that have participated in the construction of space elevators are remotely controlled by human engineers to weld alloy steel plates to the skeleton. Shuttle-shaped aircraft travel through the construction site, delivering materials and construction equipment to the hands of construction robots.

In the future, all warships of more than 500,000 tons in the 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 meetings within the Earth Defense Alliance, but there is still no reason for it. Some people propose to develop missile ships, while others propose to give priority to the development of aircraft carriers and unmanned carrier-based aircraft......

In the end, the argument was ended by a representative of China named Lu Wei.

At the 17th meeting, he put forward the "functional ship theory," which was endorsed by the majority of committee members.

"It is undoubtedly ridiculous to use 19th-century guns to fight 20th-century battleships, but 19th-century battleships can still be used on the battlefield after being modified with 20th-century artillery systems. Rather than arguing about whether to arm our ship with bows and arrows or spears, we should build our ships first and then think about what weapons to put on them. ”

Leave the choice of weapons to be used for later, and first produce bare ships that have room for modification. Even if this bare ship is finally eliminated with the innovation of shipbuilding technology in the future, it can be converted into an engineering ship at a lower cost and exert its residual heat in the field of infrastructure.

Lu Wei's proposal also made Jiang Chen breathe a sigh of relief.

At least for now, he doesn't have to bother with how to convince the committee to buy a billion-dollar cannon. (To be continued.) )