Qiu Tianning said it simply, and the first brother answered happily, but how could it be so easy to operate in practice?

Not to mention, the engine hanging under the short wings is equivalent to being exposed to the battleship, rather than being protected by thick armor, so that the engine becomes the most obvious and prominent bullet point of the battleship, and its safety is a very difficult problem. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In order to solve this problem, the design institute came up with several different schemes for demonstration, but the results were not satisfactory.

The first is the wing-body fusion scheme, that is, the short wings are covered with armor, so that the engine is integrated into the hull, and the armor on the engine is opened through the hydraulic device in the wing body, and the armor is re-closed after the engine is rotated 180 degrees, so as to achieve the purpose of changing the direction of engine jetting.

However, this deformed structure is complex and fragile, and it is not safer to use on warships than short-wing solutions, but will greatly increase the construction cost and maintenance cost, no matter how you look at it, it is not cost-effective.

The second option is to use a large vector nozzle on the warship, and through reasonable design, the vector nozzle placed in the stern protrudes out of the outer edge of the stern to achieve the purpose of spraying forward.

Ships using this scheme do not need to change the design of the battleship, and the existing ships can be modified by directly replacing the engine.

However, this solution is actually even more unreliable than the first one.

If you use a vector nozzle on an electromagnetic engine, the electromagnetic wave will hit the side wall of the vector nozzle, and that little propulsion will be directly canceled by the structure of the engine itself.

There is no problem with the application of jet engines, but even if the fuel consumption is not considered, the flames that erupt from the combustion chamber must first hit the outer wall of the vector sprayer, and then spray out of the engine in a 180-degree half-circle.

This requires that the material from which the vector nozzle is made must have excellent strength at high temperatures, otherwise it will inevitably fail under the impact of the flame flow.

On Earth, this problem is easy to solve, after all, the ambient temperature of the earth is there, and designers only need to consider the normal temperature and high temperature strength of the material.

However, space warships have been sailing in space for a long time, and the materials used on the warships must consider the effects of extreme low temperatures, and the engine is no exception, which greatly reduces the choice of engine materials and makes designers scratch their heads.

It's not impossible to make a battleship engine with high-temperature materials, but the ambient temperature of the universe is too low, and if the vent material becomes brittle and hard due to low temperature after the engine is cooled, there is a possibility of fragmentation with a little external force, who can not worry about such an engine?

Finally, there is the twin-engine scheme, that is, a set of propulsion equipment is placed at the head and tail of the battleship, the rear is used to advance, and the front is used to brake, which is also called a balance scheme by the designers.

The balance scheme can only be regarded as a compromise, which seems to take into account both defense and mobility, but the front engine will occupy a lot of bow space, squeeze the installation position of weapons and equipment, and greatly weaken the firepower of the warship.

Just when the design institute racked its brains but could not come up with a practical plan, the military actually issued a new design task, demanding that the design institute carry out the design of the aerospace carrier as soon as possible, and that it must come up with a design plan for three displacements: large, medium, and small.

The dean of the design institute almost didn't kill the North Capital and slapped the table with Qiu Tianning.

Are you kidding? With the existing engine propulsion, a space battleship with a displacement of 5,000 tons is already the limit, and a larger and heavier battleship is not designed to be designed, but it cannot fly at all after being designed, so what is the use of such a warship even if it is manufactured?

However, the design institute soon learned that the military was not joking, but was serious, because the military sent all the "Orion Project" materials obtained from the Americans to the design institute, and asked the design institute to thoroughly understand the materials as quickly as possible and design a practical nuclear power engine.

The design institute dropped its eyeballs again, and directly launched the nuclear power engine, which should be the Great Leap Forward?

However, after thoroughly eating the information of the Orion project, it was found that the nuclear power engine was not impossible to achieve, and the relevant design work was immediately in full swing.

Although the brain-opening Orion project died halfway, there was no problem with its design principle, and it was only a matter of time before a practical nuclear power engine was designed.

According to the requirements of the military, the design institute gave three design drawings of the large, medium and small space carriers.

The small aerospace carrier has a displacement of about 30,000 tons, can carry about 30 aerospace fighters, and is equipped with naval guns, missiles, and other naval weapons.

However, limited by its size, this type of aerospace carrier has weak self-sufficiency ability, is more dependent on logistics, lacks long-distance navigation capabilities, and must have supply ships to follow or back to the base during combat, and the cost performance is not very high.

By reducing the number of carriers, it is possible to improve the capabilities of other aspects, but the space carrier originally relied on carrier-based aircraft to fight, and reducing the number of fighters will only make this kind of warship less cost-effective.

The medium-sized aerospace carrier has a displacement of about 70,000 tons, is also equipped with a large number of naval guns and missiles, can carry about 70 carrier-based aircraft, and has the highest comprehensive performance, making it suitable for playing a powerful role as a powerful combat unit in the fleet.

With a displacement of 120,000 tons, 120 aircraft, and many powerful weapons such as laser cannons, close-in defense guns, and missiles, the large aerospace carrier is a combination of the aerospace carrier and the Dakai warship.

Although this kind of warship has the defects of a long construction period and a high cost per ship, it has the highest tariff ratio and extremely strong offensive capability, and is the core force of the space fleet.

Although the design scheme was brought out, the specific design to be adopted could not be revealed until the design of the nuclear power engine, during which the design institute carried out a series of optimization and modification of the drawings.

For example, based on the experience of the expeditionary fleet, the lifeboats were eliminated and replaced with rescue pods.

The plutonium battery is built into the rescue capsule, which provides both heat and electricity, and after the crew enters the rescue capsule, the rescue capsule will automatically inject hibernation hormone for the crew, and the reserve oxygen and water can ensure the survival of the crew in the cabin for five to seven years, buying precious time for rescue.

Moreover, this kind of hibernation capsule has its own navigation system, which is launched like a missile when leaving the ship, and automatically flies to the earth or a designated place under the control of the navigation system, so as to ensure the life safety of the crew to the greatest extent.

All in all, improve the survivability while increasing the combat effectiveness, and optimize the performance of the ship as much as possible.