Chapter 59: Three Years of Preparation
Regarding scientific research, Yu Yifeng has never pointed fingers. Professional problems are solved by professionals, which is also the concept of employment that he has always believed.
This batch of power armor is only a test type, and people still have a year and a half to improve and correct it.
According to Professor Ding Yidong's vision, they plan to replace the current aluminum-air battery with a more durable radioisotope battery, and the endurance of the entire power armor will be up to two months!
They also want to add some intelligent operating systems to enhance the individual combat capability and security of the power armor......
Not only power armor, but a wide variety of other weapons are also being developed: tanks, drones, robots, and more.
Of course, there are also gunpowder weapons, that is, higher performance rifles, machine guns, sniper rifles, heavy machine guns, and the second is the latest electromagnetic run!
Gunpowder weapons are still indispensable in conventional weapons. Although they are not very useful in space warfare, they can still be used on local battlefields on the ground.
They have been used by humans for so many years, have good reliability, are not prone to mechanical failures, and will not be completely eliminated for a while.
Moreover, the biggest drawback of gunpowder weapons...... The problem of too much recoil has also been perfectly solved by the appearance of power armor!
Gunpowder weapons are not that they can't be made stronger, but that the human body simply can't withstand the huge recoil.
Like the AM military sniper rifle, Barrett M82A1 and the like, if you don't go through rigorous training, ordinary people can shatter their shoulder blades with a strong recoil.
But after using Power Armor, there is no such problem at all.
The huge recoil is borne by the machine, and people only need to stabilize their bodies during the shooting. And the emergence of power armor has also brought a huge load capacity. A soldier can carry hundreds or thousands of rounds of metal bullets without having to worry about the load.
At present, the newly developed gunpowder weapons have a higher initial velocity and great power, and they can easily penetrate the armor of the earth's tanks, which is enough.
Of course, the electromagnetic cannon is not among the gunpowder weapons, and the initial velocity of its shells reaches 10,000 km/s, which is incredibly powerful! The huge recoil can directly lift people and power armor in one fell swoop.
The current human technology cannot solve the huge recoil behind the electromagnetic cannon, so the electromagnetic cannon can only be installed on a ten-ton nuclear-powered tank.
This is also a great pity for Zhao Yao and other soldiers, unless humans can develop a more powerful Gauss rifle that only sprays proton beams...... This weapon is out of play in the short term!
In addition to these hot weapons, a cold weapon system has been added to the right-hand side of the power armor.
Hot weapons always need ammunition, no matter how much you carry, they are still limited, but cold weapons can be used indefinitely.
One of the research directions is high-frequency weapons, which apply high-frequency vibrations of thousands of hertz to the material to obtain powerful cutting power...... However, this weapon is not mature, the material requirements are too harsh, and the energy consumption is too high.
People simply installed a chainsaw on the left-hand side of the power armor, a high-speed rotating chainsaw made of Chao alloy Z, and the effect was quite good! Cutting metal is like sawing wood.
And just like that, day by day, month by month, year by year...... It seems like a long three years, but more than two years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Until September of the new human calendar year 0008, all the power armor was debugged, and most of the projects were also prepared in the busy.
A large number of newly built robots, excavators, drones, spaceships, airships, and more have been kept in warehouses, just waiting for Noah to approach the planet Nix. Then it is equivalent to Yi Feng's order, and the huge team will quickly complete the landing work.
"With a large amount of material being shipped, Noah was out of sub-light two months ago, and is now reaching 24 km/s, fueled by small nuclear bombs and ion engines. There are about three months left to reach the Knicks. ”
“…… The X-003 Power Armor will be widely equipped with Soldiers and Landing Engineers. Its metal skeleton weighs 60 kilograms with associated equipment, but its rated carrying capacity is more than 300 kilograms. ”
“…… The 40-kilometer-long, one-kilometer-wide outer ring track is being implemented, and the work is 77% complete, and it is like a ring around the outer edge of Noah. In a little longer, we will carry out test flights of the spacecraft in a circular orbit. ”
People watched the daily news broadcast with relish, and as the Knicks got closer, their hearts became more and more excited.
This planet, too far from the star, cold and dark, I don't know what, but it is the first step for mankind to leave the solar system!
Human beings, full of fighting spirit!
"The circular track can be completed immediately, and the high magnetic acceleration and deceleration scheme is adopted, which is amazing! It seems that space engineering and war are the biggest catalysts for the progress of human civilization. ”
Yu Yifeng looked at the data on the report and sighed slightly.
The development in the past few years has been too fast, and after continuous large-scale projects, the entire scientific system has a sense of rapid progress.
It can even be said that ...... Their current mechanized army can easily crush any country on Earth!
Whether it's a nuclear bomb, or a war machine!
The number of nuclear bombs alone is equivalent to that of all countries in the world combined. What billion-ton helium-3 nuclear bomb, a trillion-ton quad-hydrogen nuclear bomb, can scare the US president to death......
In fact, this is the case, and war can accelerate the development of science and technology......
The first tank was invented by the British during World War I.
The first artificial satellite was invented by the Soviets in 1957 during the Cold War.
The first computer, also born during the Cold War, was used by the US Department of Defense for missile calculations.
It is precisely because of the implementation of the lunar landing program during the Cold War that the United States has always been a world leader in rocket technology, weapons research, materials science, medicine, biological engineering, computer science, and many other fields.
What is the difference between the current state of humanity and war?
Yuriko, who was sitting opposite, shook her head and said, "In the final analysis, it's not war or aerospace, it's the pressure of survival that brings scientific progress." Both during the Cold War and now. Humans are still too lazy to survive, and there is no pressure to survive, so the motivation for progress is much smaller. Today's human beings have been in a state of crisis for a long time, and the pressure to survive is extremely great, so they can only use every bit of strength in their bodies and use all their wisdom. ”
"But in peacetime, human beings always like to engage in trivial things, and it is difficult to invent epoch-making things such as computers and satellites? Maybe there has been no war for a long time, and our technology has slowly stagnated, right? ”
"It's like carving, what's the use of carving the ground no matter how good it is? It's like singing, what's the use of singing well? For the development of science, the person who invented the carving technique or invented the singing is a real pioneer. The people behind are just repeating the path of their predecessors, no matter how good they are carved and sung, it is impossible to surpass the pioneers in a sense. ”
"Perhaps, this is where the difficulty of becoming an interstellar civilization lies...... Is it too comfortable? ”
Yu Yifeng also sighed: "You can be a philosopher...... But it makes sense. For scientific research, it is far more impactful to develop a new method or new way of thinking than to apply it to the extreme. ”
"As we are doing now, in the face of desperation, unimaginable power can often erupt, and all kinds of whimsical ideas are endless. That's why there is a saying that fragile human beings have unimaginable vitality......"
"Unfortunately, this kind of explosiveness is difficult to sustain, and once there is no pressure to survive, the outbreak will be over. Unless, we can improve the way of thinking of the whole civilization......"
Yu Yifeng thought in reverie.
The universe is so big, there will definitely be this kind of race that can explode infinitely and continue to climb technology, it is really hard to imagine their strength......
If only the new human civilization could continue to explode!