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IonCannon is a sci-fi weapon that fires an ion beam to attack in a sci-fi setting, and there are certain differences in the specific principles and details of different works. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBecause ion cannons and other directed energy weapons will have serious energy losses in the atmospheric environment, they are only common in science fiction works set in space, and they are also mostly used as space-based directed energy weapons in other works. It has appeared in many works including Star Wars, Home, Command & Conquer, StarCraft, and many others.

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Chinese name

Ion cannons

Foreign language name

IonCannon

type

Directed energy weapons

ammunition

ion beams

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IonCannon is a sci-fi weapon that fires an ion beam or ion cluster to attack, and there are certain differences in the specific principles and details of different works. Due to the severe energy loss of ion cannons and other directed energy weapons in the atmospheric environment, ion cannons are only commonly seen in science fiction works set in space, and are mostly used as space-based directed energy weapons in other works. It has appeared in many excellent film and television works including Star Wars, Home, Command and Conquer, StarCraft and so on.

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Ion cannon from the Tiberium series of the famous RTS game Command & Conquer

It is a space-based weapon, and by deploying ion cannon satellites in space as a launch platform to strike at objects on the ground or even in space, ion cannons have always been the super weapon of the GDI (Global Defense Organization).

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The Ion Cannon in Homestead is a very destructive weapon, and according to the Homestead 2 plot, it is a product of various clans' imitation of the weapon of the Great Progenitor warship, the "PhaseCannonArray", usually as a naval gun and anti-ship weapon, and the units equipped with the ion cannon in the game are marked as "anti-capital ships". In addition, the color of the in-game Ion Cannon beam is used to mark the factions.

Although the Ion Cannon of the Higra faction controlled by the player is powerful, the equipment is also so large that there is no room for other weapons to be installed on frigate-level ships equipped with Ion Cannons, and only large capital ships such as Heavy Cruisers or Battlecruisers in Homestead 2 can carry multiple Ion Cannons; At the same time, this kind of ion cannon can only last a few seconds at a time, and the interval between shots is long, presumably due to energy supply and heat dissipation.

The more technologically advanced Bentusi and Kadesh factions have made some improvements to the ion cannon, and the Kadesh have miniaturized the ion cannon and reduced its power consumption, so that one frigate can carry four ion cannons; The Bentusi have done a better job in miniaturization, and even built a fighter that can carry two light ion cannons, and a small team of this super fighter can pose a huge threat to the capital ship, and at the same time, they have also improved the aiming mechanism of the shipborne ion cannon, even a nimble and high-speed fighter cannot escape the lock of the Bentusi ion cannon.

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The ammunition of the ion cannon is a large number of electronless hydrogen ions in the universe. These hydrogen ions

Derived from solar radiation, the high-energy particles produced by solar radiation will collect hydrogen ions when they pass around the ion cannon, and the high-energy hydrogen ions will be emitted through the emitting device. The Ion Cannon first fires a large number of electron beams to "soften" the atmosphere in preparation for the next attack, and also causes stormy weather in the firing area (as seen in Command & Conquer: Rebel), after which it fires high-energy, positively charged hydrogen ion balls, causing massive destruction.

Folding energy

The source of power for the Ion Cannon is the solar panels, and in fact, there are huge solar panels on the Ion Cannon satellites all the time to prepare for the Ion Cannon attack.

In the Command & Conquer Tiberium series, the power of the ion cannon grew from small to large, and by the third generation it had become a generation of artifacts.

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In the Chinese traditional Chinese version of "Command & Conquer: General" and the expansion film, although the US superweapon shows the ion cannon, it is actually a particle cannon, which is a translation error, the particle cannon English is ParticleUplinkCannon (particle uplink cannon, but the game voice is ParticleCannon), the ion cannon and the particle cannon are completely different weapons, and the ion cannon is more powerful than the particle cannon.

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Since the "space age", which began in the sixties of the twentieth century, orbital weapons were

It has always been a military dream. As a result of the ongoing efforts of the United States and the Soviet Union to promote peace, a treaty banning the realization of this weapon was enacted. However, this does not stop the technologists from dreaming and planning about it. Years later, when it became clear that Nod was a clear worldwide threat, the United Nations Security Council issued a special, secret resolution to remedy the ban on orbital space weapons, giving GDI the privilege to develop the weapon. Suddenly, military technologists are given the opportunity to work covertly on orbital weapons, which will allow GDI to counter the nod's often elusive superiority and blast the Nod's forces as soon as they appear.

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One of the main donors of GDI - the United States - has been interested in space weapons for a long time (albeit only for defense and not for offense). U.S. military research institutes have made the results of their work on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) available to all contract contractors developing new orbital weapons. As a result, most designs either prefer to launch multiple space cannons that can rain down large fires and use Gaussian accelerator tubes (also known as railguns), or build a huge space station to feed a single laser cannon, and then rely on special mirrors on multiple satellites to reflect the laser light to any location on Earth. The first set of designs was rejected because they were too difficult to maintain – expensive and dangerous space missions were needed to supply weapons with ammunition. The second group was rejected for being too fragile – large laser stations were easy targets for enemy forces, and those small orbital mirrors were too unreliable. After the failure of these programs, only one succeeded: an exceptionally efficient weapon that integrated a revolutionary particle accelerator, the GXE Ion Cannon.