On the yacht, Cai Ruichen accompanied Getney, watching from a distance as successive explosions appeared at different angles around the scorpion, and the expressions on the faces of the two were completely different.

Cai Ruichen was confident, while Getney's face was surprised.

From the beginning of the test, the look of surprise on Getney's face was not cut at all, because this explosion-proof test of the sea scorpion seemed to him to be a bit excessive.

For a two-thousand-ton frigate, the anti-explosion test was actually detonated hundreds of kilograms of explosives at a distance of almost two hundred meters.

The anti-explosion test conducted by the US 100,000-ton aircraft carrier is almost only a little higher than this intensity.

The test explosion distance is more than 200 meters, and the yield of underwater explosives is hundreds of kilograms.

Don't underestimate these hundreds of kilograms of explosives, under the power of an underwater explosion is 800 times that of an atmospheric explosion, if such an explosion is close to within 100 to 50 meters of a ship, it is enough to cause fatal damage to most of the warships in the world.

This kind of damage is no less powerful than a warship being directly hit by a missile and exploding hundreds of kilograms of explosives underwater, and at a very close distance, even a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier may suffer some damage to its hull.

The hull of those warships of thousands of tons may crack and enter the water directly under the squeeze of the explosion.

Moreover, if the explosion occurs on both sides of the warship at the same time, even if it is one or two hundred meters apart, under the action of the explosion force on both sides, even if it is a 10,000-ton drive, the entire hull will be squeezed, twisted and deformed. In general. All of them sank directly.

The United States is the country that has conducted the largest number of naval explosion tests at sea in the world. Getney has seen too many of these tests.

Many of the decommissioned warships of the U.S. military are all used to test explosions at sea to provide more safety design data for new ships.

Getney, as an old navyman, knows better than anyone what warships fear the most.

Just like submarines, all depth charges use the power of underwater explosions to kill submarines.

A nuclear-powered submarine with an underwater displacement can hardly withstand a depth charge that explodes under water a hundred meters from the submarine. The explosion of an underwater anti-submarine bomb within a hundred meters is simply a disaster for a submarine.

Therefore, modern submarines almost all use double hulls, on the one hand, to increase the depth of diving, and the other purpose is to enhance the defense of submarines.

It is like the Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine with an underwater displacement of more than 30,000 tons in the Soviet Union, with its strong defensive power, can directly ignore the close-range underwater explosion of depth charges.

Of course, with such a powerful defense submarine, there is only a super underwater monster such as a Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine in the world. to have it.

It was Getney, who understood this, who saw the scorpions that exploded continuously around him. is still intact, so surprised.

In his opinion, this is simply incredible, and if the center of the explosion is replaced by a new Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, it may not be able to stand it.

The displacement of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is more than 9,000 tons, and the full load displacement is more than 10,000 tons.

At least he didn't think that a random Littoral Combat Ship of the same displacement would be able to survive such an explosion, which was obviously impossible.

Previously, many military experts in the U.S. military said that this kind of warship does look very sci-fi, but in terms of practicality, there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

The emergence of a new weapon will inevitably be accompanied by a lot of problems and troubles, and this sea scorpion is different from the traditional naval path.

The layout of the three hulls will affect the original structural strength of the hull, and on this small warship, twenty-four vertical launch systems, a helipad, a naval gun and a close defense system are actually installed.

It's just a small man carrying artillery, and the supply of weapons is too tight, which will inevitably limit the displacement of armor and lead to a decrease in the ship's defense.

Otherwise, with such a small displacement, it would be impossible to place so many weapons and equipment, as well as those related supporting radars and systems.

Arguments like this occupy the mainstream in the US Navy, and the outside world is not optimistic about this warship.

Previously, Getney also thought so, he felt that the Future Technology Group came up with such a warship, which was too short and concise, but made the real combat effectiveness of the warship unable to be brought into play.

After all, there is no warship in the world with more than 2,000 tons of weapons installed on it.

But now, Getney's impression has been completely subverted, because being able to withstand such an explosion can completely prove that this type of warship is definitely not as unbearable as guessed.

On the contrary, it is very likely to become a type of light frigate with very strong combat effectiveness, at least all the light frigates in the world are not as powerful as the warship in front of them seems.

Twenty-four vertical launch systems, so far, there is not a single warship of more than two thousand tons that can be installed with so many vertical launch systems.

And as for the vertical launch system of the Future Technology Group, whether it can only be equipped with anti-aircraft missiles or a missile that can be equipped with a variety of different functions, the outside world is not very clear.

The vertical launch system on the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers of the US Navy can only be equipped with anti-aircraft missiles of the standard series, and cannot be equipped with cruise missiles and anti-ship missiles.

And on the Russian vertical launch system, it can be equipped with anti-aircraft and cruise missiles.

Huaxia's vertical launch system is three types of general, which can be equipped with air defense, anti-ship and cruise missiles.

If the vertical launch system of the Future Science and Technology Group can also be used to equip three types of missiles at the same time: air defense, anti-ship, and cruise, then the combat effectiveness of this sea scorpion, under the adjustment of needs and operational requirements, is not even weaker than those frigates of four or five thousand tons.

This was Getney's judgment at the moment, and he now welcomed the next cooperation with the Admiralty, a future security company.

What the United States needs most now is this kind of self-reliant ally, because the cost of cultivating an ally again is too high, and time does not allow it.

"Can I get on board that explosion-proof test scorpion and have a look?"

As soon as the anti-explosion test was over, Getney immediately asked Cai Ruichen.

"Absolutely." (To be continued.) )