Blue Mercury.

27 February, 004 in the Bright Calendar.

If you count the time, it's been almost a year and a half since I came from the south to the north.

The darkest days have passed, the daylight hours have dragged on, the temperature has slowly risen, and the Arctic ice sheet has stopped stretching and is beginning to shrink.

Now that the ice sheet is completely stable, some time ago, Tianming ordered the fleet to move to a nearby large bay, and prepare to stay in this bay for three months until the ice sheet basically melts, and then move to the south en masse.

There is a command center on the bridge of the Xia.

Lin Zhenxing said excitedly: "Commander, we have recently discovered a very surprising phenomenon, the pyramid-shaped building on the God King Continent has a huge crack in its waist, because the waves that hit that pyramid are on average hundreds of meters high, and this crack is constantly expanding. ”

Tianming looked at the satellite pictures, and there was indeed a horizontal crack that appeared at the waist of the pyramid hundreds of meters from the top, and in the high-definition pictures, tens of thousands of dense human heads could be seen, desperately repairing the crack, but how could natural disasters be countered by manpower?

A big wave hit, and hundreds of people were swept away by the wave each time.

Lin Zhenxing continued: "I don't know what's going on recently, the average height of the waves near the equator has increased from 500 meters to thousands of meters, and the Divine King Continent is near 45 degrees north latitude, and the big waves there are hundreds of meters high casually, and this kind of wave is constantly beating on that pyramid, in my opinion, it won't be long before this pyramid will definitely be washed away by floods!" ”

Astronomers have said it before. The orbits of the barren star and the blue mercury are getting closer and closer, and the straight-line distance between the two is less than 4 million kilometers at present.

It is now the fourth year of the apocalypse, and there are only a few months left before the five years of the apocalypse when the flood is the most turbulent, and then the huge waves on the sea will become bigger and bigger, and the waves more than ten meters high will want to play as if they were playing. Nothing. Even in the Arctic ice cap area, there were large waves twenty or thirty meters high.

The reason why Tianming transferred the fleet from the first-line bay to the new bay was that the waves were too big.

"It's best to overwhelm them, and I can't help but find a way to deal with them. But you still have to keep an eye on it. If that God-King Tower really falls. Sue me right away! ”

Lin Zhenxing nodded and said, "I know." ”

……

Waited a few days. The base finally transported all the equipment needed for Tianming.

These are electronic devices to be installed on new warships, as well as a number of weapon systems.

This includes a large number of sensors, controllers, and fiber optic cables.

In order for a warship to be able to command quickly and use it flexibly, an advanced control center is indispensable.

It's like the human brain. Only under the command of the "brain" can people complete various actions such as eating, walking, studying, etc., and make correct judgments.

Warships also need a "brain", which can make judgments through the information transmitted from the eyes (radar, photoelectric instrument), transmit the signal to the hands and feet (naval guns, missile systems), and then make defensive and offensive actions, such as using arms and fingers, both offensive and defensive.

If the "brain" of a warship is advanced enough, just like a person with an IQ of up to 200, it is easy to defeat some people with an IQ of 60, 80, or 100.

Sensors are nerve endings, optical fibers are nerve fibers, controllers are reflex terminals, and with a central command system, the entire warship can become a kind of frightening information-based weapon.

It is said that the Aegis system installed on the Ticonderoga-class destroyers of the United States uses a total length of more than 100 kilometers of optical fiber, countless sensors, and the complexity of construction is far greater than that of ordinary warships.

After bringing thousands of tons of equipment from the base, Tianming also encountered the problem of construction difficulties.

The high-tech warship he wants to build can be built at any time without any problems with the hardware. However, the software system is too complex, even similar to the new aerospace aircraft carrier, thousands of sets of equipment in the warship have to be merged into a network to achieve flexible control, programmers must take into account all aspects of the problem, and ensure that there is no slightest error, the difficulty can be imagined.

Programmers also brought, there are thousands of people, all of whom are engineers specializing in the research and development of warship command and control systems and digital chain systems, and listening to Secretary He, the Aegis system used on the Type 055 destroyer that the country is about to launch was developed by them, and their professional ability is beyond doubt.

The warships manufactured by Tianming are nothing more than the addition of nuclear power and electromagnetic guns, and there are no problems with integrating them into the Aegis system.

"In that case, let's hope they live up to their expectations."

These people, all settled in the cities of the sea.

……

Someone has solved the software problem, and that day Ming only needs to make the hardware.

The entire construction of the warship was still carried out in the ability factory in the ability space, and about 5,000 earthling engineers and 500 blue star liaison officers were invested.

According to the experience of manufacturing the last aerospace aircraft carrier, this time Tianming did not manufacture the hull of the warship at one time, but adopted the method of "modular" assembly; according to the function, the warship was first divided into several modules, such as power, radar, missile, anti-submarine, and naval gun, and then the modules were produced one by one by the method of "building blocks" and then assembled together, and the efficiency was improved very quickly.

Not only that, the construction method of "module first and then whole" ensures the high cohesion of each module, and when integrating, as long as the interface is aligned with the control system, which reduces the coupling between the modules, and greatly improves the stability and reliability of the system.

The more complex the structure, the more clear the division of labor, it is convenient to form at one time, but there are always places that are not well considered. When something goes wrong, sometimes you can't find it.

The module assembly method may seem slower in terms of speed, but once there is a problem, it is easy to know where it is occurring, and it is very easy to troubleshoot, and in general, this method is far more efficient than one-time molding.

Tianming sighed: "High-tech is not as simple as imagined, I alone can't make a super battleship, in terms of science and technology." I need tens of thousands of people to work for me. ”

……

Ten days later. The new warship was successfully launched.

The approximate number is as follows-

Warship model: not yet named

Length: 192.8 meters

Breadth: 26.8 meters

Full load displacement: 18,400 tons

Endurance: Over 100,000 nautical miles

Speed: 38 knots

Draft: 9.8 m

The other is the armament on the new warship

The general information is as follows:

(1) Electromagnetic gun system

On the foredeck of the hull there are two tandem 155mm caliber electromagnetic guns, with an accelerated barrel length of 30 meters and a power of 60 megawatts, which can fire a projectile weighing 30kg at a speed of 2.6km/s. The maximum firing range is 220 km. The turret is rotatable. The barrel is adjustable. The angle of fire is -5 ° -90 °, and there are almost no dead angles.

In addition to the two electromagnetic guns on the foredeck, there is also a 155mm caliber electromagnetic gun on the rear deck hangar platform. Compensated for the fire gap.

(2) Laser weapons

This is an active strike platform, for the sake of stealth performance, it does not appear on the deck in peacetime, once it is to be put into use, the deck next to the electromagnetic gun will automatically open, the laser weapon platform will rise, and it can be put into operation in 1 minute, and the power of the high-energy killing beam is up to 50 megawatts, with a range of nearly 30 kilometers.

Similarly, there is one on the fore and one on the fore and one on the fore deck of the laser launch platform, a total of two, and there are no dead spots to hit.

(3) Missile systems

It is mainly a comprehensive vertical missile launch system that can accommodate four different missiles of air defense, anti-ship, ground-to-air, and the number of launch boxes is 128, all of which are located on the front deck of the hull, and under the guidance of the eight-sided active phased array radar on the wall of the superstructure of the warship, it can strike targets from various places without dead ends, and within a range of 300 kilometers, it can monitor 1,000 targets, and lock on 100 of them, and can attack these targets at a speed of 8 missiles per second, and has a strong ability to carry saturation attacks.

(4) Carrier-based helicopters with anti-submarine systems

There is a 26×40-meter helicopter take-off and landing platform at the rear of the hull, which can take off and land up to two small and medium-sized helicopters at the same time, and inside the building, there is a large hangar of 26×36 meters, which is larger than two basketball courts, and can accommodate up to 2-4 helicopters when the helicopter wings are folded.

The hull is deep into the underwater part, there are 8 submarine-launched torpedo launchers on each side of the hull, and under the detection of two high-precision sonar instruments in the bow and stern, any latent target within 80 kilometers of the water will be detected by the sonar. The ship is equipped with a total of 36 guided torpedoes with a range of 120 kilometers, as well as 120 depth charges (which can be increased or decreased), which is more than enough to deal with the threat lurking underwater.

(5) Power system and operating system

Small nuclear reactor, rated power generation of 300 megawatts, 1.5 times that of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 100,000 tons, under special circumstances, the reactor power can be increased to 600 megawatts, which is completely sufficient, and the nuclear fuel is Nuclear Energy No. 1, which can be used by warships for 50 years at a time.

The all-electric operating system, including motor propulsion, network communication, detection and navigation, etc., consumes more than 50 megawatts of power at full load, which can be described as a power-hungry monster.

The warship has been assembled, but it still needs to be debugged for a long time, and the control system has not yet been developed, so if you want to see this warship galloping freely on the sea, it will take at least two or three months.

Tianming's work is almost completed, and all that remains to do is to wait, and wait for those software engineers to develop a good control system so that the warships can be fully used, then he will build a few warships if he wants to build them in the future.

The naval personnel stationed on the warship to assist the engineers in testing various systems have also been determined, that is, the naval sailors on the Navy's two 054C-class warships, the Wenchang and the Huangzhou.

…… (To be continued......)