Chapter 817: Golden Eagle
The armed transport ship is the one with the lowest gold content in the next batch of projects to be harvested.
The prototype of the armed transport ship was designed by Sun Cheng himself, and later modified by his Decepticon engineers to test the Hope spaceship.
He piloted the ship and successfully sent his first Decepticons to Mars, where he established a new base.
After returning from Mars, Hope was pulled over by Sun Cheng's Decepticon engineers to collect all kinds of data.
After all, it was the first spaceship that could be used for space navigation produced by the base itself, and although the ship was smaller, the Decepticon engineers under his command had already been trained to design the Hope for a second time, so as to develop more new models.
Eventually, on the basis of the Hope, a prototype of an armed transport ship was born.
Sun Cheng came to a low mountain located more than 20 kilometers away from the control center of Base 2, and in the huge parking field that had almost been hollowed out, there were more than a dozen spaceships that had almost completely lost the appearance of Hope.
Looking up at the top of the mountain, I subconsciously glanced at the huge alloy plate instead of the top of the mountain, and once these ships with vertical take-off and landing capabilities were turned on, they could take off directly from the parking field located in the mountain at will.
As if receiving the news that he was coming over in advance, a young Decepticon engineer hurried over.
His name is Magnifying Glass, and you can see by looking at this strange name, it was not from Sun Cheng, but from his teacher's Hephaestus.
"Commander, welcome to the airport inspection!"
Magnifying Glass is one of the assistants of Hephaestus, who is now a senior engineer, and when he was just a sapper, he followed Hephaestus and participated in the transformation and manufacture of many warships and submarines.
Because of these experiences, after obtaining the construction technology of the Explorer-class cargo spacecraft, Sun Cheng transferred Hephaestus, who has experience in the design and construction of large ships, to be the main responsibility for the production project of the Explorer-class cargo spacecraft.
Magnifier, as his assistant, also followed Hephaestus to participate in the construction of the Explorer-class cargo ship for a while.
It wasn't until Sun Cheng proposed the project of the Hope test spacecraft that Magnifier was sent by Hephaestus to help him optimize the design and build the Hope.
After that, the magnifying glass did not return to Hephaestus' team.
The young Decepticon engineer was also ambitious, and he seemed to see great potential in the Hope test spacecraft.
After the completion of the construction of the Hope test spacecraft, Sun Cheng was still in a good mood and took the initiative to propose to him to establish a separate project to continue to improve the Hope.
At that time, he was about to go to Mars, and he did not refuse the proposal of a magnifying glass.
Unexpectedly, this guy used the resources obtained from the project to build the first batch of three, equipped with weapon systems, and fully optimized the transport compartment.
When the Replica Warriors invaded Trindaddy Island a few months ago, three armed transports arrived at the Black Market for support, albeit at the last minute.
But the special shape of the transport ship and a series of improvement plans really moved Sun Cheng's heart.
As a result, he was originally required to apply for resources with the base under the banner of the perfect hope, and was officially appointed as the head of the 'armed transport ship' project.
With the assistance of a group of Decepticon engineers and technical officers, this guy used the past nearly half a year to carry out a series of comprehensive transformations and upgrades of the 'armed transport ship' from beginning to end.
Only then did they have a new weapon that was parked at the airport, and these dozen or so ships could no longer see the shadow of the Hope at all.
In the end, the finished product of the 'armed transport ship' program officially received the name of 'Golden Eagle'.
Imitation of the old United States military transport aircraft developed armed transport aircraft and ordinary transport aircraft scheme, there are two different models: I and II.
The Type I, officially known as the 'Golden Eagle Destroyer', was completely transformed into a combat ship.
It is 27.7 meters long, with a wingspan of 33.4 meters and a height of 16.4 meters, and the spacecraft has an empty weight of 94.2 tons and a maximum take-off weight of about 179 tons.
An ordinary Decepticon warrior can fly one of these destroyers very well, but in the case of outer space flight, two Decepticon warriors are required to operate at the same time.
It carries a 120mm caliber plasma cannon, two sets of rocket launchers, and eight groups of missile launchers, which can carry up to more than 90 tons of missiles and other ammunition.
On the premise of possessing nuclear weapons in the future, the Golden Eagle Fighter can even be used as a launch vehicle for nuclear warheads.
When designing this destroyer, the magnifying glass conspicuously refers to the design concepts of fighters, fighter-bombers and bombers on Earth.
However, unlike those military aircraft on Earth that cannot break through the atmosphere, it can operate in outer space.
It is designed to be a short-range escort unit for future transport fleets, at least from Earth to Mars is no problem, and the power system will have to be further upgraded.
The official name of Type II should be the 'Golden Eagle Armed Transport Ship', with a greater focus on transport.
It is 55.3 meters long, with a wingspan of 59.6 meters and a height of 21.8 meters, and the spacecraft has an empty weight of 196.2 tons and a maximum take-off weight of about 579 tons.
The weapon system on the spacecraft has been streamlined into two sets of rocket launchers and four sets of missile launchers, which can minimize the ability to ensure that it does not have any ability to return fire in the event of an emergency.
Because it is more complex than the Golden Eagle Destroyer, the Golden Eagle Armed Transport requires a minimum of two ordinary Decepticon fighters to be piloted, and in the case of outer space flights, at least three Decepticon fighters are required.
The final shape of this 'Golden Eagle armed transport ship' can transport up to 60 Decepticon fighters or more than 300 tons of supplies at the same time in the internal space of the engine room.
Compared with the three prototype ships that appeared on Trindadi Island, there is no doubt that the current Golden Eagle II can really be called an armed transport ship.
"Pretty good design!"
Two blue lights shot out from his eyes, and after carefully scanning the two types of golden eagle spacecraft in the parked airport for a while, Sun Cheng nodded with satisfaction.
His gaze lingered for a while on the Type I Golden Eagle Destroyer, whose current deformed form had not yet been determined after the new airframe.
The Golden Eagle Destroyer is in line with Sun Cheng's aesthetics, and after the Cybertrons are transformed, they will fully master the full capabilities of a certain military weapon or transportation equipment.
Therefore, he had not yet easily decided to scan the Golden Eagle Destroyer and use it as his current transformation form.
After all, although the Golden Eagle Destroyer will bring an astonishing transformation to his speed, even he himself will be able to fly across planets more easily after transformation in the future.
But according to Sun Cheng's research on the Cybertrons in the past few years, it is estimated that the fire in his body in the form of a golden eagle is difficult to complicate the consumption of interplanetary flight.
It is conservatively estimated that he will not be able to fly to Mars at all in the form of a golden eagle, and he will go down because the energy in the fire in his body is exhausted.
However, it is estimated that there will not be much time left for Sun Cheng to consider.
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