Chapter 506: Two or Three Things of the Academy of Sciences (3)

The test flight of the miniature water drop battleship appeared in the test airspace the day after Chen Peilin returned from the research institute, which was an open area far from the tadpole galaxy. In order to win back a game in front of Lu Yingying www.biquge.info Hagrid arranged a battleship with a length of one kilometer, with a round head and a long tail, which looked like a pushpin from a distance.

Although the design of this water drop battleship borrowed from the warship technology of the interstellar police fleet, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering did not copy it rigidly, but improved it on the basis of it. For example, the hull of the ship was reduced in imitation of a half-dimensional battleship, and the unique Moli crystal interlayer on the willow leaf ship and the special Ke-Mo reactor for the crystal battleship were added to the interior.

Like the design ideas of the Academy of Life Sciences, the Institute of Mechanical Engineering has integrated the technology absorbed from the Galactic Alliance to the greatest extent in the design of warships, although some technologies seem to be a little backward now, but they are still very effective in some occasions.

It is said that when they designed the Drop Battleship, they planned to use the Vacuum Zero Energy Extraction Tower of the Blue-Blood Undead Fleet as the core energy source, but the complexity of that thing was a match with the material annihilation reactor, and a group of experts studied the technical information left by the Blueblood for several months without seeing the slightest clue, and finally had to give up and switch to the Ke-Mo reactor with relatively stable energy consumption. However, these people still do not give up, and there is still a team working on the vacuum zero point energy extraction tower, which is intended to be used in the subsequent models of the Water Drop Battleship.

Unlike plant warships, which need to take into account the survival of the battleship itself, the technology battleship is much stronger than the plant battleship because every element of its own is designed for war. This can be seen from the results of the fire test firing experiments of the battleship. On average, the combat power of the Water Drop battleship is equivalent to 2.5 times that of the Willow Leaf battleship. However, because the Willow Leaf battleship has the ability to repair itself and there is no wear and tear problem, the comprehensive strength of the two sides is half a catty to eight taels.

Since the next mission will focus on exploring the Giant Galaxy, this test flight focused on the power of the Droplet, the protection of the space shield, and the output of the reactor. The results of the test barely met the conditions for the battleship to operate on the Giant Planet, but in order for the battleship to continue to pass smoothly after penetrating into the Giant Galaxy, it was necessary to add some margin on top of this. Therefore, these warships will need to be modified in the next step to meet the needs of exploration.

However, during the test flight of the battleship, when considering the internal defense of the water drop battleship, another question was raised by Chen Peilin, that is, in the war of advanced civilization, whether it is necessary to equip mechas, which amplify the combat power of infantry individuals. At the beginning, the bullish interstellar police fleet was planted in front of the Golden Crow Fleet's Xingtian Type 1. Although a dimensional bomb drained the battleship's energy before this, a larger part of the factor, but who can guarantee that no one else will use the same method against these droplet battleships in the future?

And whether it is the database of the ancient human race or the news obtained from Naokos, the eighth-level civilization is rarely armed with individual soldiers for combat. Their fleet had no individual fighters, no small assault ships, and no strong armament for infantry combat.

The battle of the eighth-level civilization is very simple, the two sides use a few main fleets to PK each other, and some unique eighth-level civilizations such as the Youlan Clan, Naokos, and the Star Beast Clan don't even have warships, all of them rely on their strong individual strength, or fight alone or in groups. Such a scene looks like a master who has cultivated a small universe in a fantasy novel is fighting, and it is even more fantasy than fantasy.

"I think it's debatable whether or not to develop the next generation of mechs, and there are a lot of issues involved. First of all, we should understand why mechs appeared. Before the advent of mechs, the armament used by infantry was power armor evolved from individual combat systems. However, the power armor has the shortcomings of small output, weak protection and too few weapons, so after the power armor is enlarged, the individual mecha comes into being.

Therefore, mechs are nothing more than combat equipment used by infantry, and there is no comparison between them in terms of protection capabilities and firepower and space warships. Below the seventh level of civilization, because the protection ability of the battleship is not as strong as that of dimensional technology, the infantry can still play a lot of roles in the process of combat. For example, landing on the opponent's colony or assisting the fleet to infiltrate the opponent's capital ships and war fortresses.

However, after the advent of dimensional technology, the warships of the eighth-level civilization were built very small, and some were not even as large as the mecha itself. This makes the mech's effect minimal. Let's just look at the defense layer of the Pan Jia, even if the mecha can break into the inside of the battleship, just the first layer of space maze can trap all the mecha inside.

Similarly, small warships and warplanes are also facing such an embarrassing problem. Therefore, in the war of the eighth-level civilization, small vehicles are not even cannon fodder, and of course they will no longer spend precious resources to design these things, so the idea that the development of mecha and individual fighters to the seventh-level civilization will come to an end is still desirable at present.

Of course, if one day the annihilation reactor can be successfully miniaturized, so that mechs and individual fighters can also have the destructive power of warships, perhaps mechs and vehicles will be able to usher in spring again. However, judging from the situation of our fleet itself, the existence of mechs is still very necessary. It means deterrence, so that the civilizations below do not act rashly. Although the cannon fever of the giant ship is terrifying, you can't use the muzzle of the main gun of the battleship to put the enemy's head on the head, right?

Mechs can! As long as our fleet is not completely integrated, this deterrent must exist," General Zhou Weiguo, who observed the battleship sea trials, analyzed the mecha. As a member of the Military Theory Staff Committee, Zhou Weiguo's appearance rate in the Jinwu Fleet was not high, and he did not have much actual combat experience, but his contribution to the military reform of the Jinwu Fleet was beyond doubt.

After taking a detailed look at the performance of the Drop Battleship, everyone began to return from the test site. After the confluence of the fleets, after a short break, many places became lively. At the same time, some troublesome things also appeared one after another, and everyone did not have much time to chat here. However, just before the spacecraft passed through the wormhole, a bad news came to Chen Peilin's hands from the command center of the Pan Jia, which made Chen Peilin, who was originally in a happy mood, immediately frown.

"Guys, there's bad news. The reconnaissance fleet has discovered a large-scale gamma-ray burst in the Giant Galaxy, which is very strong, and is presumed to be formed during the fusion of black holes. If this is true, it means that the balance of the Giant Galaxy has been broken, and it may not be long before the entire Giant Galaxy collapses. If we still want to explore the Giant Galaxy, we'll have to speed up! (To be continued.) )