Academician Zhao explained to Qi Yiming with a smile: "As you can see, the bombardment of cruise missiles with large warheads cannot penetrate the Iron Curtain at all, this kind of defense mechanism using a special force field, its anti-damage and anti-penetration capabilities are extremely impressive, in fact, not to mention the cruise missiles of high-explosive warheads, even if they are bombarded with tactical nuclear weapons, they will not penetrate the Iron Curtain, well, but it cannot be defended by radiation and laser energy weapons and associated effects, because after all, it is a force field shield, not a real shield." ”

Even if you can't protect against radiation, you can't protect against energy weapons, but waiting for the idle chemical energy weapon to not be able to penetrate it is already quite a remarkable achievement, Qi Yiming continued to ask: "The volume of this thing, I'm afraid it will be very large, that's why you installed it in such a large hull, isn't the energy consumption quite high?" ”

Sun Jingnu said: "That's right, if you want to use ordinary diesel-fired power as the energy source of the Iron Curtain device, it is almost impossible, because the combustion of a shipload of oil will not necessarily produce enough energy to supply the force field shield of the Iron Curtain device. Only a large weapon platform equipped with a nuclear reactor can move this thing. ”

"So, aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines will be able to use this Iron Curtain device? Oh, and arsenal ships will do. Qi Yiming asked.

Academician Zhao said: "Theoretically, these types of ships can be equipped with the Iron Curtain, but the tonnage of nuclear submarines, especially attack nuclear submarines, is still smaller, if you want to install an Iron Curtain generator, at least the tonnage will be increased by 10,000 tons. It is not cost-effective to equip the existing ships with the Iron Curtain, and I suggest developing a new large platform to use it. ”

Sun Jingnu also interjected: "Nuclear submarines are not practical weapons like the Iron Curtain, they are already hidden in the ocean, and there are relatively few opportunities to be attacked by the enemy, if they really want to fight, what they think about is definitely not to prevent the enemy's attack, but how to attack the enemy first, so there is no need."

And large aircraft carriers are likely to become the target of the enemy's fire, so it is necessary to equip the Iron Curtain. It's just that we calculated that it would take almost 100,000 tons of nuclear aircraft carriers similar to the Nimitz class to ensure the attack capability of the current Type 002. If it is raised to the Nimitz class carrier, I am afraid that it will be at least 110,000 to 120,000 tons.

Relatively speaking, I think it is most necessary for the arsenal ship to be equipped with the Iron Curtain, as a mobile arsenal at sea, the risk of being attacked by the enemy is too high, in fact, it is somewhat similar to the battleships of World War I and World War II, and the pursuit of defense capabilities can better hit the enemy, so the role of the Iron Curtain for the arsenal ship is huge. ”

Academician Zhao also said: "Although the Iron Curtain is easy to use, it is not always able to be used, the large volume and energy consumption of this device are put aside first, and the time it can last at a time is about five minutes, so when the commander opens the Iron Curtain, they are more particular, which still needs to be explored by themselves." On the other hand, after the Iron Curtain is opened, it takes at least three hours for a round of cooldown before it can be activated again, so the Iron Curtain does not mean complete invincibility. ”

Qi Yiming is not surprised by this, any weapon has its advantages and disadvantages, and the advantage of the Iron Curtain is extremely obvious, that is, invulnerability, but the disadvantages are also obvious, and the durability is not enough.

He asked, "With such a complex piece of equipment, I'm afraid it would be necessary to leave a large maintenance team on board, right?" ”

Sun Jingnu nodded and said, "This is inevitable." The Iron Curtain device is the product of our advanced development technology, and instability exists, and only by keeping an eye on it can we ensure its reliability. ”

This is not surprising to Qi Yiming, because the Iron Curtain is a super weapon in the Red Alert, and the Black Technology Research Center has turned it into a specific combat auxiliary weapon, which is too far ahead. This technique is different from other advanced and unstable techniques, even if there is instability and reliability, but once it works, the effect is so outstanding that no one wants to give up this hole card, even if it may not work.

In naval battles, I often kill you if you don't kill me, and damage management is also a very important operation, as long as the ship does not sink, I still have hope of killing the other party, so as long as the Iron Curtain is launched, it will be very popular with the naval faction.

In fact, there is still a small flaw in the Iron Curtain, that is, when the force field shield is opened, not only the outside shells and missiles cannot be hit, but the inside shells and missiles cannot be hit, completely isolating the inside and outside, which will inevitably affect the operation, but equipment such as aircraft carriers itself has no combat capability, as long as it protects itself, it provides the ability for carrier-based aircraft to continue fighting.

In addition, Qi Yiming is also stepping up the development of light prism weapons, such as after the arsenal ship is equipped with the iron curtain device, although it can no longer fire shells and missiles, but the use of light prism cannons can also destroy enemies at a relatively close range.

Qi Yiming then negotiated with Academician Zhao and them to redesign a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with an iron curtain device, and the arsenal ship is now a thing that the country does not have the ability to build itself, Qi Yiming plans to bring the iron curtain device, get the light prism gun, and hand it over to the Red Alert base and Red Alert engineers to integrate and build the arsenal ship 2. Version 0.

The Iron Curtain can not only be used on large naval vessels, but also can protect some important land bases, heads of state organs, and the like, such as some very important nuclear facilities, which are very suitable for the protection of an Iron Curtain, and once the other side attacks its own civilian nuclear facilities without benevolence in war, it can be regarded as being able to take precautions.

Dividing Line****

When Qi Yiming was observing the Iron Curtain, the Navy was also inspecting a new piece of equipment, which also came from the Red Alert base, but because it was somewhat non-mainstream, it had not entered the Navy's sight for a long time. Recently, the navy has been busy developing overseas bases, and its requirements for coastal operations have become more demanding, and new improvements are needed, so it has tendered for some relatively new and special weapons.

The Thundering Submarine they observed was obviously one of them.

The Thundering Submarine is the only naval combat unit used by Yuri's faction in Red Alert 2, and it is a small submarine with a displacement of less than 300 tons. The submarine is very different from ordinary submarines, not in the shape of a drop or a whale, but in the shape of a shark. This shark shape is a literal shark shape, and at first glance the submarine really looks like a huge shark floating on the water.

The shape of this submarine is highly bionic, and it uses a lot of advanced technology, extremely quiet, and what is even more rare is that its underwater maneuverability is not comparable to ordinary submarines. The boat is capable of reaching a maximum submersible speed of 50 knots, and can perform very complex directional maneuvers underwater, with excellent handling. In addition, because of its small size, this submarine can operate in extremely shallow waters, and even in order to operate in shallow waters, this submarine also has the ability to design wheeled maneuvers, theoretically able to wash directly onto the beach from a dive with a small slope, so that she is not afraid of running aground at all.

It is also because of its beach-rushing characteristics that the Thundering submarine can be used as equipment for special combat forces to carry out landing and infiltration, and can unwittingly send special combat personnel to the enemy's land.

In terms of weapons, the Thundering submarine is small in size, so it is naturally not equipped with anything particularly strong, she has a pair of light torpedo tubes, which can attack ships with relatively small tonnage, and she also has four small vertical launch units, which can launch light anti-ship missiles, and even this vertical launch system can also launch a medium and short-range submarine-launched anti-aircraft missile. The missile, called the Thorn-6, has a range of 30 kilometers, but it can be launched from underwater, making it impossible for ordinary aircraft to predict in advance where they will be attacked on the surface.

Small size is bound to have poor endurance, and it is impossible to obtain a relatively large shallow depth, and even the underwater sonar detection ability is not as good as a relatively large submarine, but if a large submarine encounters a thundering submarine at close range, it is a disaster, the thundering submarine is more than twice as fast as an ordinary large submarine, and is good at hiding, and can hide in shallow water, if the enemy submarine is active in the offshore water, only hunted by a group of thundering submarines.

Because the PLA Navy has a large number of landing ships, as well as a large number of nuclear submarines and conventionally powered submarines, the demand for near-shore activities such as Thundering, which is mainly responsible for base defense and landing and infiltration weapons, is not urgent, but with more and more overseas bases of the Navy, they are not like operating too many large-scale coastal defense forces.

A base is equipped with 6-8 such submarines, and with the forces of 056 corvettes and helicopters, it can defend the base like an iron barrel.

However, the manufacturing process of the thundering submarine is still somewhat complicated, although the technology has been transferred to the military ship, but the military ship cannot be manufactured for a while, so the navy has currently handed over an order for 12 ships to Qi Yiming, ready to get experimental training, and then equip the naval bases in Gwadar and Hambantota ports.

Qi Yiming's global strategy has already begun to take shape, and at the same time, China's overseas bases are mainly in the Indian Ocean, which may gradually spread to the Atlantic region. In addition, there are Chinese naval bases and air bases in Romania in the Mediterranean, and in Yugoslavia, China is also interested in building an army camp to house thousands of Chinese soldiers.

After about two months of preparations, the U.S. fleet of three aircraft carrier battle groups set off from the U.S. Naval Base San Diego and headed south, crossed the equator to the southern hemisphere, and began their combat mission off the coast of Peru.