Chapter 49: The Positive Electron Cannon
After leaving the galaxy, Tempest took the same route as WQ2 that it had left a few months ago, but took a shortcut and returned to headquarters at full speed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In Taifei WH encountered such a grand battle, Fengyu had a bad premonition in his heart. Knowing that the Earth Federation fleet has low combat power and cannot threaten itself at all, he still uses so much strength to convince the Earth Federation, which must have paid a lot of human costs.
With the consistent style of の, it is impossible to do a thankless job, there must be a conspiracy.
One of the conspiracies that can be imagined is the desire to provoke a conflict between Awa-ker and the Earth Federation. This is due to the fact that Chairman Edward had expected this, and repeatedly explained to him before leaving, otherwise with the impulse of the young pilots of the "quasi-ace team", he would have committed a lot of bloody crimes.
If the main conspiracy of の is this, they have completely failed. Although the Tempest's trip to the galaxy was vigorous, it really didn't kill the Federation soldiers.
However, Feng Yu has been dealing with no for so long and has suffered so many losses, he knows very well that this cunning opponent is by no means so easy to dismiss. Their every move has a tendency to maximize profits. If they make such a big move, they will definitely not have only one goal, and there must be other interests to pursue.
Feng Yu knew that he would definitely not be able to think of the conspiracy planned by a group of people from the NO think tank with his own head, so he could only choose to rush back to the headquarters as soon as possible and report the situation to Chairman Edward, so that Awa-ker's think tank could analyze the problem.
A week later, the Tempest arrived at headquarters, a scene of waiting for the end of the day, showing the tension of the approaching war. At this time, Fengyu doesn't need to guess, NO's purpose is already very obvious, it is hoped to delay the return of the "Storm" through the Earth Federation, so as to take advantage of the great opportunity of Fengyu's lack of high-end combat power in Awa-ker to achieve the crushing of the "Storm Blue" fleet.
However, MacArthur's fleet fared far worse than the President of the New African System had expected, and only ten hours later than he did, the Tempest passed through the wormhole, while NO's fleet searched for Awa-Ker's headquarters in the zone.
Because of Fengyu's absence, the commander of the "Storm Blue" fleet, Groningen, chose a conservative strategy and did not send high-speed ships to attack and harass the opponent's reconnaissance ships as in the first Barrier Battle of the AN. This also has something to do with the fact that the top awakened pilots in the fleet have all been transferred away by the "quasi-ace team", and the other pilots lack the ability to take charge on their own.
The return of the "Tempest" has given great encouragement to the headquarters, and as long as Fengyu is around, they feel that they can win this battle, not to mention that this super ace now has a super model commensurate with his ability.
Edward immediately convened an enlarged meeting of the Board of Directors, which was attended by all the directors currently in the headquarters, as well as the main heads of relevant departments, to discuss how to face the impending war.
The first big news at the meeting was thrown out by the chairman of the board of directors Edward himself, as the chief of intelligence, he has all the news of NO, "The fleet that NO's battle this time has changed significantly!" Perhaps realizing that ordinary ace pilots could no longer contain Fengyu's strong rise, they put some effort into improving the strength of their warships. The capital ships they fought this time were all equipped with the newly developed positive electron cannons! ”
With Edward's introduction, a 3D deconstructed image of a capital ship is projected on a 3D projector in the conference room. I saw that two launch ports appeared in the bow part of this capital ship, the upper one was still the main gun port of the particle beam, and the lower one had an additional positive electron cannon launcher.
Due to the change in the structure and function of the fire department, the original 1200mm particle beam main gun of the capital ship can no longer maintain such a large power, but has been changed to the same 800mm as the destroyer. Judging from the recent period of fighting, particle beam naval guns have slowly become an ornament, and after the warships of the two fleets are more than 10,000 kilometers away, even if they are fired, the damage caused is still very limited.
Therefore, the 1200mm particle beam main gun does not bring much firepower to the capital ship, and the only advantage of the capital ship is that it can carry more mobile squads. Therefore, NO boldly downgraded the main gun of the capital ship to free up enough space in the bow for the use of the positive electronic cannon.
Perhaps considering that Feng Yu is still very unfamiliar with the concept of positive electron cannon, as the minister of logistics, Clegg, who is in charge of Awa-ker's scientific research, explained this weapon in detail, "The positive electron is the positron, and I believe that as long as the basic education course has passed the test, everyone knows that as an elementary particle, the electron carries a negative charge, and its antiparticle is the positron." When the positrons and negatives meet, annihilation occurs, releasing a large amount of energy. This is the basic principle of action of the positive electron cannon. ”
The Positive Electron Cannon is a heavy energy weapon that was conceived from the old days. Because positrons are very easy to obtain, positive electron cannons are usually more powerful. Moreover, the two gamma photons produced during the annihilation of positrons and electrons, that is, the kind of gamma rays produced when the atom-bomb explodes, have extremely strong penetrating power, so the positive electron cannon is extremely powerful.
The reason why no one produced an anotron cannon in the old era was because this weapon had a fatal drawback, that is, the positron would annihilate with the electrons in all molecules.
You can imagine that in the old days on the surface of the Earth, the atmosphere enveloped the entire planet, and gas molecules were everywhere. Therefore, the moment the positive electron cannon is fired, the ejected positron begins to annihilate with the gas molecules around the muzzle, releasing a large amount of gamma rays and energy.
In this way, not to mention attacking the target, how to reduce the temperature in the area in front of the muzzle is a problem, and the high-power positive electron cannon will first burn itself. Moreover, even if someone can solve the problem of annihilation in the muzzle area, surface shooting is still an unreliable behavior, not to mention how much energy will be lost along the way, in the annihilation effect along the way, the positron itself receives a strong influence from the earth's magnetic field, resulting in a large shooting error.
Therefore, just staying in the theoretical stage, human beings in the old era put the positive electron cannon on the shelf and turned to the development of electromagnetic railguns and Gauss guns.
However, this is the space age, and the biggest advantage of space is that there are no atoms and molecules, which are the largest individuals in the microscopic world, and at most there are some dark matter, dark energy, and elementary particles contained in cosmic rays. So the electron cannon came alive again.
The reason why countries did not use the positive electron cannon before was because the particle beam weapon designed by R particles was very practical, and it was not inferior to the positive electron cannon in terms of effect and power, and in the case that the R particle generator was installed on every warship, the particle beam weapon was naturally the first choice.
But R particles also have drawbacks. This is because the r particle is not an elementary particle, but a heavy particle similar to a neutron or proton. We know that no matter what the weapon is, the larger the size of the individual in the kill unit, the worse the penetration. In the microcosm, the smallest neutrino can penetrate everything, but the neutrino cannon is too far away from human technology.
In contrast, the positron, which belongs to the leptonic category like neutrinos, is excellent, easy to obtain, and highly penetrating. But the positive electron cannon does not rely on the penetration of positrons to kill, but is stronger than it!
Speaking of which, the R particle shield really does not penetrate by positrons, which is the most commendable thing about R particles. However, the R-particle shield is still afraid of the positive electron cannon because the R-particles are negatively charged.
Occasionally, one or two positrons escaping in space hit the r-particle shield, and the little bit of energy produced was completely negligible. However, when the high-power anotron cannon bombards the shield, the annihilation of the positron and R particles is terrifying, and a large amount of gamma rays will be released.
As mentioned earlier, gamma rays, or gamma photons, are one of the main means of killing nuclear weapons. As a type of light quanta, gamma rays naturally have much stronger penetrating power than positrons. Basically, as long as one high-power positive electron cannon is fired in the R particle shield, the gamma rays generated by annihilation at the shield are enough to kill the entire battleship.
Previously, this weapon was also banned as a weapon of mass destruction by various countries because it was so lethal. But in such a thing as a war, who will really abide by the rules. When the battleship particle beam main cannon no longer has the power of the past, the switch to the positive electron cannon becomes an inevitable trend. It's just that in the early days, countries will still be secretive and try not to expose their secret use of yang electron cannons.
And for NO, who has never been rumored, he doesn't even need to consider international public opinion, and now he can use it directly.
After listening to so many explanations about the Yang Electron Cannon, Feng Yu also realized that this weapon was a bit excessive, "Then how are we going to deal with it?" ”
Clegg pulled up another document from the 3D projector, "Use this, lead armor. Lead absorbs gamma rays well, and as long as the thickness is sufficient, the gamma rays that eventually penetrate into the inside of the battleship are basically within the range of the human body. Although it is still possible to suffer from radiation sickness, it can still be cured with the medicine of this era. ”
If the positive electron cannon can be resisted with lead armor, then no will sacrifice the power of the main army's particle beam main gun and install an additional positive electron cannon.
Clegg continued, "However, the annihilation of the positive electron cannon produces not only gamma rays, but also a lot of energy. A 600mm positive electron cannon is enough to destroy more than 50% of the strength of the R-particle shield, and the gamma rays generated, even if absorbed by the lead armor on the front of the shelling, will generate a lot of heat, melting the battleship into a hole. ”
Speaking of which, Feng Yu also understood that it was already the limit for a battleship to be hit by one yang electronic cannon, and the consequence of the second hit was still the death of all members.