When the naval fleet of the Future Military Resources Corporation entered the Persian Gulf, in addition to a large number of modern ships, attention was being paid to it.

The most eye-catching thing is the appearance of the Hades-class battleship.

Before this, no one thought that a group that pursued future technology would actually build an outdated battleship at sea, such as a battleship.

And it is also a heavy expense to build a nuclear-powered super battleship with a displacement of more than 100,000 tons.

Battleships were once the pinnacle and peak of human industrial development, and the unimaginably complex design and construction difficulty can be called the most precious crystallization of human industry.

In fact, the difficulty of building battleships and aircraft carriers of the same class, battleships are much higher than aircraft carriers.

Because of the different combat modes undertaken by the two, battleships are much heavier than aircraft carriers in terms of firepower layout and internal design of ships.

This raises a serious problem, which is the cost of design and construction R&D.

The battleship was eliminated, that is the consensus of the development of the world's navy, don't look at the United States still let the battleship Missouri play its residual heat in the Persian Gulf, but within the US Navy, this battleship, which was born at the end of the second generation, can already be decommissioned as a maritime museum.

Missouri's participation in the war against Iraq, which was also the ship's last mission, will return to the shipyard, dismantle most of its weapons systems, and park in a Hawaiian harbor as a museum.

But no one thought that Future Technology Group, which is synonymous with the world's top technology and is also a top company in military science and technology, would actually build a modern main battleship.

This seems to be a joke, but it is indeed international, and it has caused a lot of laughter.

But when the laughter gradually fell silent, everyone gradually remembered why the Future Technology Group would build such a first-class super battleship.

It can't be that there is so much money that there is no place to burn, there must be a deep meaning.

Just when everyone was thinking about this issue, a report in Jane's Defense Weekly caused a thousand waves for a while:

"The Pluto-class battleship, with a hull length of 333 meters and a hull width of 51 meters, uses an all-electric propulsion unit of the nuclear power system, has four triple 508 mm caliber main guns, and is equipped with an anti-aircraft fire system covering medium, far and near.

This class of battleships is the largest class of combat ships built in human history, with a predicted full load displacement of nearly 120,000 tons, which is several thousand tons larger than the displacement of the Ford-class, the world's largest supercarrier today.

Why would an existence capable of building a super-nuclear-powered aircraft carrier choose to build such a huge battleship is a question worthy of deep consideration by the whole world.

But I also believe that there are many people who are not at all surprised by the appearance of battleships of this class.

Looking back in time, when we see the Apocalypse Tank at the Future Technology Group Weapons Exhibition, I believe everyone will think of the extremely terrifying main gun lethality of the Apocalypse Tank.

The Apocalypse Tank is an advanced main battle tank developed by Future Technology Group, which has super defense, but the most eye-catching thing is its powerful firepower.

It is understood that the main gun of the Apocalypse tank, although it is only one hundred and twenty mm, is an electrothermochemical cannon.

The high-voltage and high-current emitted by the power supply of the electrothermochemical cannon is adjusted by the pulse forming network, so that the waveform meets the requirements of the ballistic current pulse, which is fed into the plasma nozzle, causing an arc between the electrodes, ablating the plastic capillary wall, producing a plasma jet with high temperature, high pressure and high hydrogen content, spraying propellant at high speed, and generating a chemical reaction to generate high-temperature and high-pressure combustion gas, driving the projectile to move at high speed and shoot out of the gun. According to the principle of gas dynamics, the initial velocity of the electrothermochemical projectile can reach up to 3~4 km/s.

The performance at the weapons exhibition of the future technology group, this electrothermochemical cannon has already shown a very amazing effect, capable of ten kilograms of shells, reaching a terrifying muzzle velocity of 4,000 meters per second, and based on such a terrifying muzzle velocity of the shell, there is no tank in the world whose frontal armor can withstand the shell.

From this point of view, the greatest possibility of the existence of the Hades-class battleship is the use of electrothermochemical cannons, otherwise under the combat performance of today's carrier-based aircraft, this battleship has no way to survive on the modern battlefield.

According to this analysis, if the Future Science and Technology Group adopts electrothermochemical cannons on the Pluto-class battleships, it may already have the ability to launch shells hundreds of kilometers away at a muzzle velocity of more than 4,000 meters per second under a shell close to one ton, and if the journey guided projectiles are further adopted, the range can even reach more than 600 kilometers, and they all have the ability to accurately guide strikes.

As incredible as it sounds, there are too many such incredibles for Future Tech Group, and if one day in the future, the Pluto-class battleships really have such capabilities, it will be enough to bring about a drastic change in war and firepower. There will also be revolutionary changes in the tactics of naval warfare. ”

As soon as Jane's Defense's analysis report came out, the ridicule on the Internet suddenly came to an abrupt end.

If it were to be as this analysis suggests, it would be a huge naval revolution.

The range of 600 kilometers has exceeded that of all conventional anti-ship missiles in the world, and once it really has such an attack capability, even the heavily protected aircraft carriers will no longer be safe.

And compared to the speed of the missiles, the shells are almost impossible to defend, and once the aircraft carrier enters the firing range of the Pluto-class battleships, it will be a disaster for the aircraft carrier fleet.

The four terrifying main guns of the Hades class with three loads are enough to destroy an aircraft carrier strike group with one salvo, and such a huge caliber of main guns, hitting the aircraft carrier with one shot is enough to make the aircraft carrier incapacitated.

In fact, the Hades-class battleships that appeared this time have indeed undergone a comprehensive firepower upgrade.

On the battleship, almost all secondary guns were removed and the hull structure was redesigned.

A large amount of anti-aircraft and anti-submarine firepower was installed, and the main guns were all replaced with electrothermochemical guns.

After the upgrade, the Hades-class battleship, although it is still called the Hades-class battleship, has changed drastically from before.

One of the biggest changes is the strike range, when using expensive extended-range guided projectiles, its precision strike radius far exceeds the protection radius of an aircraft carrier fleet.

Fighting with the aircraft carrier fleet, the Pluto-class battleships are enough to safely approach and strike the enemy fleet within the combat radius, and calmly carry out fire strikes on the enemy fleet.