Hua Feng noticed that today's weather was exceptionally calm, not at all like when the autumn wind rose. It was as if everything had stopped and waited for something to come, calm enough to make people feel palpitating, but at the moment he didn't have time to speculate about these unwarranted things, and finish his studies as soon as possible to end all the bad results.

Hua Feng slowly learned that the energy system is the power source of each component of the particle beam weapon, and it provides power to the weapon system, which can be regarded as the "ammunition depot" of the particle beam weapon.

For particle beam weapons that work in the form of pulses, ordinary generators, and ordinary power supply methods cannot meet the needs. To accelerate a large number of charged particles to near the speed of light and gather into a dense beam, a powerful pulsed power supply is required. According to some information, to use a particle beam to melt a small hole in the ** body, the pulse power of the particle beam when it reaches the target is 10^13 watts, and the pulse energy is 10^7 joules.

According to this calculation, if the efficiency of the accelerator can reach 30%, the power of the pulse power supply is required to be at least 3×10^13 watts, even without considering the loss in transmission. This power is equivalent to the total power of 30,000 1 million kilowatt power stations. That is, at the same moment (let's say 10^(-5) seconds), these 30,000 power stations are required to simultaneously supply power to this weapon system. Of course, this is impossible.

As of 2013, the pulse power of the special generator can only reach 10^7 watts, which is far from the requirements. It seems that with the current level of power supply, it is simply not possible to meet such high power requirements. Therefore, it is necessary to find a new way to supply electricity. The new power supply method stores energy before the weapon is working, and once used, it can release a huge amount of energy in a very short period of time, destroying and destroying the target. Countries are stepping up the development of new energy storage equipment and new pulse power supplies.

Charged particle beams in the atmosphere, which are characterized by electron beams rather than neutral beams. In the atmosphere, although it is attenuated, it can be conducted and suitable for use. In the vacuum state outside the atmosphere, the charged particle beam will be dissipated in a short time due to the repulsion between the charged particles, so the neutral particle (neutron) beam is more suitable for use in outer space.

Particle beam weapons generally consist of a particle accelerator, a high-energy pulse power supply, a target recognition and tracking system, a particle beam precision targeting and positioning system, and a command and control system.

Accelerators are the core of particle beam weapons and are used to produce high-energy particles that are gathered into dense beams that accelerate to the point where they can destroy targets. The target recognition and tracking system is mainly composed of search and tracking radar, infrared detection device and microwave camera. After the detection system discovers the target, the target signal is processed by the data processing device and the ultra-high-speed computer, and then enters the command and control system, and according to the instructions, the positioning system tracks and aims at the target, and at the same time corrects the influence of the earth's magnetic field, so that the particle beam is aimed at the position where the target will be destroyed, and then the accelerator is started to launch the particle beam.

Linear ferrite field-induced accelerators are typically used to generate high-speed electron beams with an absolute speed of 300,000 kilometers per second. The ground-based particle accelerators developed by Russia and the United States are all proton accelerators, and their basic principles are: first, the electrons generated by the electron beam generator are accelerated, and then they vibrate on the high-frequency oscillation device, and then the incoming protons are surrounded by electrons on the ion generator device, so that they enter the ion accelerator device for acceleration, and the protons are accelerated by receiving energy. As it approaches the exit, the electrons are removed, and the magnetic field is used to turn them into sharp, high-energy directional beams, which are then emitted into space.

Atoms are accelerated to create neutral particles, which are then gathered into sharp, high-energy directional beams that are emitted at nearly the speed of light to destroy or disable targets.

The scheme of the United States research to produce neutral particles is to accelerate and aggregate negative ions in the accelerator, remove the excess electrons at the exit of the accelerator, and emit them into a neutral hydrogen beam, and require this process to ensure the mass and energy of the hydrogen atom beam.

In order for neutral particle beam weapons to enter combat use, a certain number of satellites must be used for early warning and detection. Early warning satellites send data on detected targets to ground stations, requiring a specific satellite network and an inertial navigation system to determine the position of satellites and targets in real time, as well as an attitude control system that can aim at targets in any direction of the satellite.

The destruction mechanism of particle beam weapons is kinetic energy killing and γ and X-ray destruction. The particle beam is not affected by the natural environment such as clouds, fog, smoke and the reflection of the target, and will not fail due to the target being obscured or disturbed, and its all-weather and anti-interference performance is good. The particle beam directly penetrates into the depth of the target and does not need to be irradiated for a certain period of time, which is conducive to continuous attack on multiple targets. Even if the particle beam does not directly hit the target, it will generate γ and X-rays around the target, causing a second type of damage and destruction.

In order to solve the problem of transmission distance in the atmosphere, the neutral particle beam has a low defocus, and it is necessary to produce 1020~1021J/s required to achieve the goal of destroying future reinforcement

The brightness is very difficult. Since neutral particle beams cannot travel through the atmosphere and can only be mounted on satellites, reducing the size and weight of the accelerator is another challenge. In addition, it is necessary to study the mechanism by which neutral particles destroy the equipment inside the target.

Ground-based particle beam weapons need to have sufficient range to fire particle beams from the ground. Space-based particle beam weapons are to operate in outer space, and in terms of surveillance and tracking systems, the requirements for sensors are extremely high, and they need to be suitable for the size and weight of the space to be deployed. In the 80s of the 20th century, the particle beam accelerator built by the former Soviet Union in Saryshagan, Kazakhstan, covers an area about the size of four football fields, and the particle accelerator of the United States is also the size of a building, so it is difficult to achieve space-based deployment.

The principle of particle beam weapons is not complicated, but it is very difficult to enter real combat. The first is the issue of energy. Particle beam weapons must have a powerful pulse power. To burn a small hole in the ** shell, the pulse power of the particle beam to reach the target must reach 1013W, and the energy must be 107J. Assuming that the efficiency of the particle accelerator is 30%, even without considering the energy loss of the particle beam in transmission, the power of the accelerator pulse power supply will reach at least 3×1013W, while the power of the state-of-the-art pulse power supply under development is only 107W. The most critical pulsed power technology for the practical application of neutral particle beam weapons is the continuous-wave very high frequency (VHF) radio frequency source.

With projectile velocity close to the speed of light, particle beam weapons can quickly shoot at targets, flexibly adjust the direction of fire, and intercept multiple batches of multiple targets at the same time. As long as the energy supply is sufficient, it can fight continuously. In addition, particle beam weapons are not limited by meteorological conditions, and in future wars, it is a competent guardian and a super killer.

Particle beam weapons are more difficult to develop than laser weapons, but they are more promising than laser weapons as space-based weapons. Its main advantages are:

(1) No optical devices (such as mirrors);

(2) the accelerator that generates the particle beam is very strong, and the accelerator and magnet are not affected by strong radiation;

(3) The energy transmitted by the particle beam to the target within the unit solid angle is greater than that of the laser, and it can penetrate deep into the target.

The main disadvantages of particle beam weapons are:

(1) When charged particles are transported in the atmosphere, the energy of the particle beam decays very quickly due to the continuous collision between the charged particles and air molecules;

(2) Charged particles are defocused when they are transported in the atmosphere, so the particle beam used in the air can only hit a close target, while the neutral particle beam also spreads when it is transmitted in outer space;

(3) Affected by the refraction of air in the Earth's atmosphere, the beam will be bent and deviate from its original direction.

(4) It requires a lot of energy to support the operation.

Since 1975, the MG early warning satellite has repeatedly found a large amount of tritium-laden gas hydrogen in the atmosphere, which is believed to be caused by the emission of charged particle beams. In 1976, the U.S. early warning satellite detected that the former Soviet Union had conducted a test of a nuclear fusion pulsed electromagnetic fluid engine that produced a beam of charged particles in the desert of Kazakhstan. The research on particle beam weapons began in the former Soviet Union in 1974, the United States in 1978, and began theoretical verification in the laboratory in the mid-80s of the 20th century.

Since the mid-70s of the 20 th century, the former Soviet Union has carried out eight experiments on the method of conduction of charged particle beams on a series of satellites in the ionosphere and outside the atmosphere, manned spacecraft, and the Salyut space station; in the Leningrad region, it has carried out ground tests of particle beam weapons, including linear electromagnetic induction accelerators, γ-ray instruments, X-ray instruments, magnetic memory and multi-channel ultra-high voltage switches, and has also carried out experiments on the irradiation of charged particle beams on intercontinental ballistics**, spacecraft and solid-fuel targets.

In 1978, the former Soviet Union built a 0.5 MV, 80 J, 16 layers and 7 rows of particle beam generation devices in East Germany using 1000 GeV proton acceleration technology.

In the 70s of the 20th century, the MG Navy established a rocker program for the development of particle beam weapons, studying nuclear warheads that intercept ** with charged particle beams. In 1981, they established the Bureau of Directed Energy Technology to develop particle beam weapons and laser weapons, and began a five-year development program with a budget of $315 million in fiscal 1981.

When used as a weapon, particle beams must have both high currents and high energy and several megawatts of energy, and they must increase their power by thousands or even tens of thousands of times on the existing basis. When the particle beam hits the target, it releases electrons, and the protons pass straight in, stopping when the energy is exhausted. The vertical penetration depth of a neutral tritium beam of 100 MeV to various substances is: solid propellant 9.5 cm, lead 3.3 cm, aluminum 0.8 cm.