In short, the design of the Magellan Modification was temporarily abandoned, and now the work of the development team is focused on the development of new ships, and the existing Magellan modernization program has been taken over by another group.

"Gravitational radar, it's finally completed...... "In November, Ian finally reproduced the gravitational radar." So that the cruiser could be officially finalized, the Minovsky particle...... The Battle of Rum probably won't be a fiassco. ”

"Factory area, it's me, Ian Vasti, I'd like to pre-produce a device, well, a new radar for cruisers, in a week? Okay, I'll send the lab-made parts tomorrow. Ian contacted the factory at the base to pilot a graviton radar using some special parts that can only be produced on a small scale in the laboratory.

"Colonel Edward, the last piece of the puzzle is complete, let's find a place to install this radar, so that this ship can also search for enemies from a long distance in the Minovsky particle environment."

"Did you develop the legendary Minovsky particle radar? I basically couldn't read the radar at all. "Colonel Edward received the blueprints that Ian had sent him.

"Why do we have to add the prefix of the Minovsky particle to everything, now we are too dependent on the Minofsky particle." Ian slipped in his chair and slid next to Colonel Edward. "Graviton radar directly detects faint gravitational waves around objects, so that they won't be interfered with by Minovsky particles without electromagnetic waves. Send me the complete data after the integration, I've been working on the radar, and I haven't seen the results of other people. ”

"Then you have to talk to them for themselves, they have been holding back good things in the past few months." Colonel Edward had already begun work on integrating graviton radar into the bridge's electronics array. "Having said that, all the officers were transferred to the CIC in the center of the hull during the battle, the tall outer bridge was only used for navigation, and the armor of the CIC was simply breathtaking, even if Magellan's main gun had to be hit twice directly at close range to break through, the CIC could even be used as an escape compartment to get out alone, and those captains above would think you were using them as a turtle with a shrunken head."

"What can you say, this ship should only be used as a fleet flagship in the early days, and it is more reliable for those generals to stay in the armored box, in case the bridge is hit by a stray bullet and loses the command system, won't the fleet be finished."

"Yes, but if you can't see the route with the naked eye, will the captains feel insecure."

"I don't feel safe if I only have a layer of glass with the universe, and if it weren't for the need for electronic equipment on the bridge, I would like to change the bridge to a completely built-in one. The bridge projection of the Magellan class is larger than the hull projection. ”

"Haha, that's not it, the Magellan-class and Salamis-class hull projection is less than half the bridge projection. At that time, I wanted to thicken the armor of the bridge, but I was dismissed, saying that the center of gravity was too high and it was not conducive to the handling of the hull. If the center of gravity changes, change the attitude to control the spout, what is it to cut the armor. The current Magellan class, the average soldier is in the thick hull, and the officer is running naked on the bridge, what do you think......"

"......" Ian silently opened the design of the Magellan class, the bridge armor is a uniform 300 mm composite armor, and then the inside of the armor is the composite layer of the bridge for radiation protection and sealing, this layer is so fragile that a 9 mm pistol can be damaged.

And the hull has an average of 1 meter thick armor...... The ammunition depot location was also protected by 500 mm armored boxes. The armor directly in front of the ship is 2 meters thick. However, the main gun was more awkward, with only 700 mm of armor on the front.

"In such a comparison, it's really running naked...... Haven't there been any accidents for so many years? ”

"Two years ago, the bridge glass of a Magellan-class ship was shattered by shards, and all the bridge personnel were destroyed, and later the bridge glass of all space ships was designed with emergency sealing gates. This prevented another tragedy on the ship, and later the glass of the Salamis-class bridge was broken, but the gate was sealed, and the people were fine. "Colonel Edward's work has never stopped.

"Let's talk about the fully built-in bridge in a while, and leave a viewing platform on the outside. Monitors all over the ship and fixed-point drones deployed at a distance of 500 meters around the hull are no better than the naked eye. ”

"Fixed-point drone?" Edward's mouse stopped. Looking up at the ceiling, he thought about those five words and Ian's previous description. "That makes sense, in this case, there is no problem of being attacked."

"But now the endurance of the drone is too poor, and there is no way to follow the hull to maneuver, but you can release one every once in a while to deal with it." Ian has a ready-made drone on hand, but the performance is really not good, it is estimated that it will run out of fuel for 1 hour with the battleship and be destroyed by stray bullets in 15 minutes.

"You don't need drones, and when the fleet is maneuvering, the detection equipment of each ship is linked, and the results of the detection are summarized to generate a three-dimensional model of the surrounding environment, which is similar to the effect of using drones. It's better to use drones when a single ship is moving. Edward continued his work. The new optical equipment developed by Major Yang has a recognition distance of more than 1,000 kilometers even if the other party is in the shadow of a planet. ”

"Not only that, but I'm now developing a new recognition algorithm, where the computer will recognize the images taken by the high-precision camera pixel by pixel, lock on and recognize objects in motion." Major Yang Pengcheng also slid over.

"Wow, that's a good feeling, then the graviton radar and the data collected by your optical equipment can verify each other."

"Moreover, the set of equipment I developed, in addition to being used for hull navigation and enemy observation, is also integrated into the main gun and anti-aircraft artillery. The shelling accuracy of the new turret should be much higher, after all, the more observation points, the higher the observation accuracy. ”

"Hmm...... However, the cost of the turret will be too high, and it will not be good to exceed the budget in the end. ”

"No, no, the cost of these optical devices is not high after mass production, so we should add an extra main gun."

“…… In other words, the price of the newly added optical equipment is as expensive as the main gun? "The main guns of the Magellan class are not cheap, more than half of the cost of the Magellan class is two Mega particle main guns and five Mega particle secondary guns, one-third is electronic equipment, and the remaining point is the cost of thermonuclear engines and hulls.

And the 356-mm twin-mounted Miga particle main gun costs more than twice as much as the 280-mm secondary gun. In other words, the price of a twin Miga particle cannon is about one-eighth of the Magellan class.

However, the new cruiser is equipped with 12 new 3-pack guns, and the cost of adding one more should not matter...... bar. But also to increase the armor, configure the gnaku, new types of electronic equipment.

In other words, the price per ship of the new cruiser may be more than three times that of Magellan......

Ian then realized that maybe the new ship was a bit expensive.

"What's wrong?" Edward finished what he was doing.

"I have a feeling that maybe the price of this ship is a bit overpriced." Ian, no matter how you calculate, the price of this ship is a bit expensive.

"That's not something you should think about." Edward turned to Ian. "Controlling costs is the job of the purchasing department and the production plant. And, didn't you notice that there was no budget requirement on the order letter given to you? This ship, most likely, does not have a budget ceiling. Moreover, with the performance of this ship, it is the flagship of the fleet on a 100-point basis, and it is completely unnecessary to save funds for the flagship. Moreover, Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka invented a device that can resist the beam of Miga particles. Both! ”

"Huh?" Ian's gaze instantly locked on the East Asian man in the corner of the research room. "Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka! Excuse me. Drag a chair over here. ”

4 people sit in a circle.

"Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka, did you make something that can fight the beam?"

"Well, it's not just me, Major Kobayashi has also found a way to fight the beam."

"Major Kobayashi, come here. Forget it, Colonel Edward has finished integrating, and everyone comes over to talk about their respective achievements. Ian thought about it and called everyone in the research room.

"Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka starts first, his invention can be said to be epoch-making." Edward projected a 3D model and drawings of the new cruiser onto the wall.

"I found information about the Minovsky particle flying device through some personal connections." Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka put some of the technical information on the screen: "The Minovsky particle flying device is a device that builds an I-Field under the hull of a ship, and then walks a large number of Minovsky particles under the hull to form an air cushion effect to make the hull fly. Needless to say, the restriction device of the Mega particle cannon is all I-Field. At that time, I thought, since the Minovsky particle cannot pass through the I-Field, and the I-Field can contain the Mega particles, then the I-Field should also be able to block the Mega particles. This is the result of the subsequent experiments. ”

Lieutenant Commander Tanaka pointed to a device scattered throughout the hull. "Large I-Field generators can only be used in a way that allows multiple parts to be deployed separately to wrap around the hull due to insufficient output range. In addition, according to experiments, a single generator can withstand two consecutive Magellan-class shelling, and the third time it will overheat and fail. It takes 15 seconds after overheating to force heat dissipation. In order to cope with this situation, I made this based on the principle of smoke grenades and chaff, and the beam disrupts the curtain. Loaded with a large number of minovsky particles of negative rank, it can neutralize 5 Magellan-class shelling in 30 seconds. ”

“…… It seems that the beam resistance of the new cruiser will be higher. ”

"More than that, Director Vasti. Major Kobayashi's invention is also cross-generational. ”

Ian looked at Major Kobayashi Yao, an expert in armor materials, who can be called a cross-era invention, what did this person invent, could it be that he got the Gundam Nim alloy γ out in advance?

"Look here." Major Kobayashi enlarged the hull armor. "Considering that the killing of the Mega particle cannon is mainly kinetic energy and thermal energy, I designed a new stacked armor. It can effectively resist the beam, and after the beam hits the armor, the heat is dispersed to the whole ship at a constant speed through the heat dissipation equipment in the armor. In addition, due to the multi-layer stacking structure, there is more space inside, and the effect is stronger than that of ordinary composite armor when fighting shells and explosions. ”

"Stacked armor...... There was a ...... here," Ian could only think about in his heart.

"Major Kobayashi, Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka, I am afraid that your invention will once again change the way of warfare in the future. Colonel Edward, please go ahead. ”

"The powertrain doesn't have anything too impressive, it's just optimized on the Magellan level. The reactor has space for the Minovsky particle flying device in terms of output. The thrust is also enough to push the hull out of the atmosphere, and there is no need for rocket boosters. Lieutenant Colonel Perry, who was in charge of the power system, spoke directly. The only difference is that the engine is actually outside of the hull armor, and there is also strong enough armor that can be separated by detonating the explosion bolt when the engine is damaged and may explode, preventing one engine from exploding and blowing up the battleship. ”

"The electronics are fully designed to operate in an environment with high concentrations of Minovsky particles, and all that is now used in the ship is optical conduction. Minovsky particles will no longer interfere with the transmission of electrical signals.

Now Lieutenant Colonel Ji is developing a fiber optic cable for the replacement of the old hull, but the old hull does not take into account the conduction of the optical path for the reloading, and it is still difficult to develop.

In addition, the ship is equipped with a newly designed fleet laser communication system, which can ensure that communication is not interfered with in an environment with a high concentration of Minovsky particles. ”

"The fire system was completed according to the scheduled plan, with 12 3-pack live-ammunition, Miga particle dual-purpose main guns, 12 laser-to-air guns, and 10 twin-mounted 4-barreled 80mm Gatling guns. 3 64-pack universal missile launchers, 8 large anti-ship missile launchers, and 8 anti-missile laser cannons. I think it is likely that Zeon will use nuclear weapons in the early stages of the war. "Lieutenant Colonel Ben, who is in charge of the design of the fire system, also marked his own work." The new main guns designed by Lieutenant Colonel Deakin, Lieutenant Colonel Nolan and Major Niu had excellent performance, but now it seems that the barrel life is insufficient when using live ammunition. Now the speed of the gun discharge has reached 1100 meters per second, and there will be serious accuracy problems after firing 100 rounds of the barrel with a full charge, and in order to increase the muzzle velocity of the shell as much as possible, the life of the barrel is sacrificed, and there is no way. ”

"Barrel life...... There should be fewer opportunities to use live ammunition in the universe, unless there is a long-range artillery battle, or it is better not to use a full medicine pack to shoot. "Ian can't help this, the disadvantage of the cannon, the muzzle velocity is high, and the barrel life is too low." It doesn't affect the use of the beam. ”

"No, the 406 mm barrel is nearly 30 percent more powerful than the 356 mm, the effective range is 20 percent higher, and the rate of fire is nearly 120 percent higher thanks to the new energy line and large turret. Now the sustained rate of fire is 15 rounds per minute, and the burst rate of fire can reach 20 rounds, but after a minute, it needs to dissipate heat. Lieutenant Colonel Nolan took over.

"It's very strong, and then I'll wait for the colleagues in the development teams everywhere to arrange a large armament."