Li Mingze's eyes lit up, indeed, if drones can be unrestricted, then the empire can completely replace missiles with drones.

As soon as he finished speaking, a drone carrier in space began experiments.

Two types of drones were involved in the experiment, one that was fully automatically controlled, and the other that was remotely controlled by humans.

And two of the two UAVs have started experiments, one of them carrying ammunition and the other not carrying it.

A few minutes later, the results of the experiment were transmitted back to the laboratory, and among the four drones, the self-controlled drone was able to break through the speed limit of a thousandth of a beam without carrying ammunition.

And once equipped with ammo, the drone's speed is limited to its maximum speed!

The same is true for remotely controlled drones, which cannot break the speed limit when carrying ammunition.

On the other hand, manned fighters on the other side can break through this limit regardless of whether they are carrying bombs or not.

"The results of the experiment are already in, and only manned fighters will be able to break through the limits." Li Mingze sighed and said to everyone in the conference room.

"Your Majesty, in this way, we not only need to design new warships, but we also need to update our aircraft carriers!" Lawrence pondered for a moment and then suggested to Li Mingze.

"Yes, in addition to new warships, we need to update our aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft."

"Any resources are needed to apply directly, all the databases and supplies of the empire are open to you!" After Li Mingze finished speaking, he turned around and left the conference room.

In the days that followed, Lawrence and a group of designers and scientists spent their days discussing the design of new ships and weapons.

First of all, a completely new weapon design was proposed.

That is, if the range is no longer pursued, then the caliber of the weapon can be greatly improved, and the power of the weapon will be the same, and the new weapon is designed to be able to sink the opponent's warship with a single shot.

At the same time, according to the information left by the ancient civilizations, the Zerg's warships are mainly composed of biological warships, and their recovery ability is extremely strong, so the cannonballs fired no longer have to pursue the extreme pursuit of armor-piercing ability.

The small wounds caused by the original armor-piercing weapons can be repaired very quickly.

And at this time, the rum bomb, which was banned during the Earth period, entered the eyes of scientists.

The Empire's new weapon is the Orbital Cannon, but unlike the previous Orbital Cannon, the muzzle diameter has been greatly increased while the orbit has been shortened.

The barrel of an orbital accelerator gun is now only fifteen meters long, but its diameter has reached three meters!

The design of the rum was also incorporated into the weapon's ammunition, and this new weapon, known as the Smasher, used bullet-style shells.

The head of the cannonball is not streamlined, but rather a hollow shape similar to a rum bullet, surrounded by serrations.

The projectile will first pass through an acceleration trajectory for acceleration, and the propulsion device at its tail will ignite the moment it leaves the muzzle, allowing it to reach one-thousandth of the speed of light after exiting the muzzle.

This type of shell will first tear through the opponent's armor when attacking a biological warship, and then shoot the solid warhead inside the biological warship, and at the same time explode inside the battleship, and the solid warhead also carries a special material that burns when heated.

Ships that are hit will not only be physically hit, but will also experience the sensation of thousands of degrees of heat burning in their bodies.

In this way, the wound area and destructive power will be much greater than that of an ordinary solid warhead!

In addition, special bullets filled with antimatter have also been designed, which enhance the armor-piercing ability and release antimatter in the opponent's body once it penetrates the opponent's armor.

Bang.... When a burst of explosions occurs, a hit ship turns into fireworks......

Shortly after these two shells were worked out, Lawrence proposed a new warhead.

That is, a crushing warhead assembled from hundreds of serrations made of Ring World metal.

The warhead, which houses a fusion reactor inside, provides a steady stream of energy to the serration of the head, allowing the warhead to "swim" around the Zerg battleship's interior.

Use the "meat grinder" on its head to completely smash the weak interior of the Zerg battleship.

Eventually, the shells could detonate the reactor and create a small nuclear explosion.

After the design of the Crusher weapon was completed, scientists began to design entirely new warships based on the characteristics of this weapon.

The previous design concept of frontal defense and attack has been abandoned, and the new ship will focus on frontal and flank defense, and all weapons will be located on both sides of the hull and on the upper and lower decks of the ship.

In this way, even if a battle breaks out, the Empire's warships can be used to the maximum level of combat effectiveness when they are in close combat by the enemy.

Weapons in the four directions can attack the surrounding enemies at the same time, and even if the enemy is on one side of the battleship, it is guaranteed that three-quarters of the weapons can attack the target.

In addition to this new weapon layout, the new Imperial ships are also designed with ramming angles, which are wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with an additional layer of dimensional armor plated.

Once rammed, the new Imperial ship can be plunged into the enemy's fleet like a spear.

In addition to these weapons, the high-velocity close-in defense guns have also been thickened and shortened, and the defensive range of hundreds or thousands of kilometers has been reduced to 200 kilometers, and these close-in defense guns will also play the role of anti-aircraft weapons.

The original Empire's beam weapons, electromagnetic orbital weapons, and ballistic weapons were all lost on the newly designed battleships.

The newly designed Imperial Battleship can be said to be completely designed for close hand-to-hand combat!

The new ship is the same as the Imperial Glory, with only dormant and working compartments for the entire ship.

Without any living space, warehouses, etc., the volume of the entire battleship was compressed to the extreme.

At the same time, the entire battleship is also kept as streamlined as possible, without extra edges and corners, so as to reduce the materials used for dimensional armor.

In addition to the new warships, the Empire's drone carriers have also been upgraded and redesigned.

The original drones are no longer suitable for the current battlefield, and the ordinary aircraft carriers that were originally abandoned by the Empire have been found from the archives to be upgraded.

The newly designed aircraft carrier is 10 kilometers long and 3 kilometers wide.

The entire aircraft carrier is capable of carrying 20,000 carrier-based aircraft, and it is also tasked with providing supplies and repairs for new warships.

It is not so much an aircraft carrier as an integrated combat supply command ship.

Although its size prevents it from being equipped with dimensional armor, the Empire has designed it with a thickness of up to 300 meters and a shield comparable to that of the Titans.

According to the plan, each fleet will consist of twelve new warships and three aircraft carriers, and once the enemy is detected, the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft will be the first to attack, and when the enemy is close, the new warships will be close to hand-to-hand combat, and the aircraft carriers will withdraw from the battlefield.