Three prototype mechas, and finally derived into more models of mass-produced and reduced version of the mecha, Cao Chuan transferred the drawings to the sub-base of Joan of Arc below, and started large-scale production work, with the goal of producing 100,000 sets by 2050, that is, before the arrival of support.

He turned to the third generation of unmanned units.

Many of the technologies of the third-generation unmanned unit have been overcome, many of which are connected with exoskeleton armor, and have even been applied to the second-generation unmanned unit by the employees of the research department, resulting in the fact that through the rule simulation, he quickly designed a typical third-generation unmanned attack aircraft, as a reference, and also made a benchmark for the definition of the third-generation unmanned unit.

This mass-produced unmanned attack aircraft is called Red Arrow, using 25% molecular-grade materials, the maximum speed can reach 500 km / s, two 2000 km beam guns, and the limit speed during the operation is 50 km / s.

As for the third-generation version of the mining vehicle, it also uses molecular-grade materials and has a capacity of 5,000 tons of ore per day; The large version and the spacecraft version with the installation of heavy sodium fusion energy reactors will have an ore processing capacity of 100,000 tons, and the other significant difference is that the mining vehicle will be able to penetrate deep into the mantle layer below 50 kilometers of terrestrial planets to mine resources in a high-temperature and high-pressure environment.

Not long after, the third generation of engineering vehicles, large versions and ship versions; The third generation of the transporter, the large version and the spaceship version, have been designed one after another.

Cao Chuan returned to the military field and studied large-scale unmanned combat units.

Large combat unmanned units are the first to promote spacecraft, both in terms of combat effectiveness, combat radius and other aspects are excellent, and the East Galaxy Company also has unmanned spacecraft, such as the ancient Queen Nana, two White Lotus Princess. Galaxy Echo, it can even be said that here the concept of the ship was confused with the concept of unmanned units.

However, the above spacecraft have never been mass-produced, not to mention appearing as unmanned units, only in orbital space during the Second Pluto War, unmanned spacecraft loaded with space-based weapons are barely among them, so Cao Chuan wants to fill this gap.

Bird class. The moon-level unmanned spacecraft is equipped with 4 beam cannons of the 3000 km class and 2 electromagnetic cannons of 350mm caliber.

The Wolf-class, the Moon-class unmanned spacecraft, in addition to more than twice as many shipborne weapons as the Bird-class, are also equipped with tactical nuclear warheads and are allowed to accommodate 1,000 unmanned units.

Leopard-class, Changyang-class unmanned spacecraft, equipped with the Hammer of Dawn and Deathlight, is allowed to accommodate. 10,000 unmanned units.

Elephant-class, Yuanyang-class unmanned unit mother ship. It is allowed to load 200,000 unmanned units, which is roughly equivalent to the combat power of one of the three major combat fleets, and is equipped with a large number of small self-defense weapons, allowing 5,000 crew members and various auxiliary equipment.

These alone are enough to establish a complete combat system, which can be matched with each other and learn from each other's strengths. As for other models, even improved models are the content that needs to be improved and developed for East Galaxy Company, and the research department is mainly responsible for it. And including production, it will not be completely dependent on its own production, but will still have to be subcontracted. For example, the third-generation exoskeleton armor must find a way to OEM for Atlas, and the unmanned units must rely on a large number of factories in the lunar city to make full use of their productivity.

Just as the problem of whether there was an unmanned unit or factory equipment when he was studying the second generation of unmanned units, after designing the unmanned unit, Cao Chuan's research was to perfectly solve the problem of self-replication.

Perfect self-replication, which is a special ability that only life possesses. By cell division and sexual reproduction, life continues from generation to generation, and you never have to worry about where your offspring come from.

It's a magical science indeed, but with him on biological machines. With the deeper understanding of molecular machines, the cost of time spent on regular simulation is gradually compressed, and it is possible to make unmanned units become biological things.

Let the unmanned unit become a theoretical concept of life, which can "reproduce" and possess "intelligence", then it is indeed no different from life.

Presumably, from now on, scientists will argue about whether unmanned units are machines or life, and they don't care, because this kind of demarcation is not good for him.

And then there's the rule simulation... 1 month, 2 months... 1 year, 2 years...

The more advanced the technology, the longer the time it takes to simulate the rules, which means that the difficulty of climbing technology increases.

In order to achieve the so-called perfect autologous replication, the abstract concept of the cell has reappeared, because the cell constitutes all forms of carbon-based life, and unmanned units and factory equipment must have a common thing in order to carry out perfect autologous replication.

Unfortunately, the existence of the cell concept often means that in order to achieve perfect autologous replication, it may lead to a decrease in other performance parameters, which is not so important to him, and it is not long before a new and more suitable scheme appears.

In this solution, the most critical concept is to unify the standard, so that the components and materials used in the joint production workshop and the unmanned unit are the same, and it will be easier to achieve the point than the cell, because there is no need to find the smallest unit of "unmanned unit cell" first.

Then Cao Chuan found the drawings of the joint production workshop, and seized the time to make a new joint production workshop, in order to make the workshop make a huge spaceship, the workshop was also repeatedly adjusted several times to achieve enough versatility and scalability, resulting in at least the Hengyue-class spacecraft can accommodate the third-generation joint production workshop.

Slowly, he unified most of the third-generation unmanned units with the joint production workshop, and achieved his expected goals in terms of performance parameters and adopted technology.

Cao Chuan ordered experimental mass production, at first the production capacity of the third-generation unmanned unit was extremely low, but because of the existence of the concept of perfect autologous replication, its expansion rate will be faster and faster with the passage of time, just like a virus, only when it encounters a bottleneck in space and resources, it will stop, and there is no need for special management.

In 2135, there will be two more third-generation joint production workshops on the new earth, and the second-generation unmanned units will be officially discontinued, and will gradually transition to the third-generation. Less than a year later, planets 2, 3, and 4 entered the third generation one after another.

Relying on the unremitting development of 3 Lori, gradually the number of unmanned units in their reserves is increasing, rising to 100,000, 200,000, 300,000... The number of spaceships has grown to 20, half of which are unmanned spacecraft, including even 2 Wolf class, as for the Leopard class and the Elephant class, their current productivity is far from enough, and they would rather spend more production on the self-replication of the third-generation joint production workshop than rush to build it.

I believe that in 5 years, it will be a more appropriate time. (To be continued.) )