Chapter 221 Weapons Production Plan
Ten minutes later, more high-level civilians gathered in the captain's room to discuss related issues.
Although the first batch of missiles was intercepted very well, who knows if there was a follow-up second, third.
In addition, the matter is so big, even some ordinary people have some vague speculations in their hearts, the nuclear flash of the nuclear bomb has been seen by many people, and the nuclear fusion engine has been started urgently, and the Earth Age has also entered a state of motion, these traces cannot be artificially concealed.
The mothership is slowly accelerating, not just a fixed target like it used to be, but as a consequence, it has been temporarily disconnected from the underground base on the planet, and the long carbon nanorope has been retracted, and there is no way to exchange materials and personnel.
The start of the nuclear engine is consuming a large amount of helium-3 resources in reserve, which makes Zhang Yuan feel distressed to death. Fortunately, humans have found uranium deposits on the surface, otherwise there would likely be an energy crisis and death on this planet.
After a brief meeting, Captain Zhao was in front of the TV station, giving a solemn speech on war. There is nothing to hide from a possible war, and the war is about to begin, so we can't hide from the masses who the enemy really is, right?
"I officially declare a state of emergency wartime!"
“…… We must be vigilant enough against this unknown enemy, and even carry out the same reciprocal retaliation! ”
"If you seek peace through struggle, you will live in peace; If you seek peace through compromise, you will die peacefully! ”
Zhang Yuan stood in the audience, and he was sending a text message to comfort his wife.
"Yes, there were no casualties, except that the ship had a hole made by high-dimensional debris, nothing else...... I am fine too. There is no big loss, you can rest assured, there are no follow-up missiles launched for the time being. ”
"I don't need to go to war, you can rest assured."
But then again, people really don't know what this enemy is!
I don't even know what the other party looks like.
Some people say that there is an unknown technological civilization hidden underground, and some people say that it is an out-of-control artificial intelligence that has wiped out the civilization!
Everyone knows that this step is not a step back, even if there are not too many weapons at the moment, there is no ability to resist, but a step back is hell!
People simply have no ability to leave the galaxy, and there is no possibility of surrendering to each other.
The noisy people were emotional, some people were still in a state of blindness, such a big emergency suddenly happened, and there was no time to react.
After the speech, Captain Zhao stepped down from the stage and convened a second emergency meeting.
Several high-ranking officials just sat in their seats and did not say a word, and all kinds of reporters who wanted to interview were temporarily kicked out by the soldiers.
The noise was followed by silence.
"Now the general public knows about it. In the war mobilization work, it is necessary to work the Propaganda Department, which must not only maintain the stability of the people's minds, but also ensure a strong fighting spirit...... In particular, our industrial capacity is insufficient, and the production of weapons and equipment threatens to sacrifice the current quality of life. ”
"There is no problem with this, everyone should be able to understand." A leader of the Propaganda Department nodded.
Zhao Qingfeng saw that everyone's mood had stabilized slightly, and said with a solemn face: "Let me ask you first, how long will it take for us to get space weapons, including nuclear bombs, if we tilt most of our resources and compress most of the people's quality of life?" ”
In the face of a life-and-death crisis, all industrial development plans can only be put on hold for the time being.
One of the engineers gritted his teeth: "We have discovered a relatively good uranium mine on the surface. If a huge part of the resources is tilted, within half a year, 6,000 centrifuges can be produced......"
"Within a year, you can detonate an atomic bomb, and within two years, you can detonate a hydrogen bomb! The technical difficulties are not big, but there are still some difficulties in the industry. ”
"The shortest is the shortest, nine months."
I heard that it would be more than nine months, and the conference room suddenly became lively again.
Nine months is too long, and even a bit too long, no one knows when the other party will break out with a big move!
Maybe a few days later, a whole bunch of nuclear bombs will be launched!
However, in this kind of space war, the nuclear bomb is already the most conventional weapon, and what high-explosive bombs and TNT are simply ridiculous and generous.
According to the interstellar wars that have broken out within human civilization, there are three most conventional weapons: missiles, lasers, and electromagnetic cannons.
Missiles naturally need not be said, basically nuclear warheads, hydrogen bombs, helium-3 bombs, huge power, slow speed, suitable for handover, but easy to intercept.
The laser focuses on defense, the small one can defend against small UAVs, the medium one can defend against artillery shells and missiles, and the large one can be deployed in space to attack booster rocket anti-missiles. But with the current industrial capacity of the new civilization, it is very likely that laser weapons can be created in the short term. Because laser weapons require some special crystals, which are products of condensed matter physics, which are not easy to store for a long time, and there is no way to bring them from the earth.
Creating a crystal like this doesn't happen overnight.
The electromagnetic cannon is slightly less difficult to manufacture than the laser, but the power of the electromagnetic cannon is directly proportional to the speed of the shell. The faster the speed of the shell, the higher the requirements for the entire armament, especially the long acceleration pipe, a few kilometers, tens of kilometers is not too much!
Therefore, the tonnage and volume of the electromagnetic cannon are often very large...... This is one of the reasons why Earth Age did not carry these space weapons.
One of the military experts said: "I think that the first goal can be to create missiles, small electromagnetic cannons, such weapons...... First of all, it is necessary to have sufficient means of defense to be able to counter these ultra-high-speed missiles of the enemy. The speed of the electromagnetic projectile must reach at least 100 kilometers per second in order to have a sufficient interception success rate. ”
Zhang Yuan nodded, "Understood...... I'm in charge of the research on nuclear bombs and electromagnetic guns. ”
"So, what about gas bombs? Biological weapons-like? Captain Zhao asked.
"No, it's too feasibility."
Speaking was a biologist, "We don't have any research on life on this planet, and we don't know what poisonous gases they fear...... For example, some gases in the atmosphere are themselves poisonous gases, which can kill most of the earth's bacteria, and will also have a chemical reaction with poisonous gases to neutralize them directly. ”
"Besides, there's a vast planet down there, not as big as our ship...... Typhoons themselves have a strong dilution ability, how much poison gas do we need to make to poison the creatures hiding in the burrows? The current productive forces are impossible to produce poison gas even for a hundred years. ”
Hearing this fact, everyone was at a loss, and even Zhang Yuan didn't have a good idea.
His fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, frowning, the current human strength is too bad, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, no matter how smart she is, it is impossible to come up with any good solution.
He sighed softly: "If we were given another eight or ten years, the situation would be greatly improved, but there is no such thing as an if...... in this world."