Zhou Kuang glanced at Xu Shijie and felt that he hadn't paid attention to this side, so he immediately explained quietly: "During the trial of the battleship, it is necessary to conduct a full-power propulsion experiment, one is to test the quality of the engine and thruster, and the other is to determine the maximum speed of the battleship and provide data for subsequent warships of the same type. ”

The veterinarian nodded slightly.

As time passed, the Shark continued to accelerate while testing the ship's various systems, including weapon salvos, maximum fire density, communication systems, battle damage control, and more.

All systems can be tested in a short time, but the sea trials are not so fast, because the faster the spacecraft, the slower the acceleration, and it is not surprising that it takes a lot of time, even days, to reach the speed limit.

It is not uncommon for an old battleship to take a month to accelerate, and another month to slow down, and it is already a lot of progress to be able to determine the maximum speed in a few days.

The Celestial Army is like the cavalry of ancient times, speed is both survivability and combat effectiveness, and the absolute top priority - in the past, there was a saying in the Air Force that whoever mastered the altitude would have the initiative in air combat.

Whoever masters the speed of the Celestial Army will have the initiative on the battlefield.

If the giant whale fleet in the Battle of Bone Mound did not have a speed that surpassed the enemy, how could it be possible to stand out in the battle? If it weren't for the recovery of the commando, the losses of the giant whale battleships would have been lowered, especially those battleships that ran out of ammunition and chose to self-detonate, which had a good chance of throwing off the enemy and returning safely.

Xu Shijie is quite satisfied with the results of the sea trial, although a lot of problems have been exposed, but the new ship, how can it be perfect, if there is a problem to solve, if there is no problem at all, he feels strange.

The group left the dock ship and returned to the base of Saturn, waiting for the final results of the sea trials.

Five days later, the Giant Shark reached its maximum speed at full speed, and the data fed back to the base scared everyone in the know - the maximum speed of the Giant Shark actually reached an unprecedented speed of 2,000 kilometers per second!

The previous highest record was 1,600 kilometers per second held by the giant whale class, and the exact same configuration actually increased the top speed by 400 kilometers!

Everyone suspected that the data was wrong, but after several confirmations, it was finally determined that there was no problem with the data.

The high-ranking officials of the Saturn base almost blew up.

"Zhou Kuang, what do you think?" Xu Shijie rubbed the corners of his eyes and asked Zhou Kuang, who had just hurried over.

"Report, Commander, before the sea trial, we already expected that the speed of the Giant Shark would be improved to a certain extent compared to the Giant Whale class, but we didn't expect it to increase so much." Zhou Kuang said unhurriedly.

"What? How did you expect that? Xu Shijie was stunned.

"This, Commander, is actually not difficult at all." Zhou Kuang said, "The shell of the giant whale class is composite armor, and the giant shark is the shell of the biological spaceship, although the thickness is similar, but the composite armor is much heavier than the shell of the biological spacecraft...... The Giant Shark uses the same Whale-class thrusters, and the power is the same, but the battleship is so much lighter, and it is strange that the speed does not increase at all. ”

Xu Shijie suddenly realized, shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The weight of the giant whale class is at least 200,000 tons, and the weight reduction of 22 percent is more than 400,000 tons.

"Okay, this matter is over, everyone must keep the speed data of the new ship strictly secret." Xu Shijie gave the highest order, "Zhou Kuang, when will the rest of the biological spacecraft be hollowed out?" ”

"I'm in a hurry, maybe a month." Zhou Kuang felt that it should be done in more than 20 days, but the time was set so tightly, it would be bad if it was not done by then.

"I'll send you people, all under your command, and within half a month, I'll finish it all." Xu Shijie gave instructions without question, "Is there any difficulty?" ”

"Report, no." Zhou Kuang stood upright, and his body stood straight.

If it weren't for Xu Shijie's efforts to defy public opinion, he, a military doctor, would definitely not be at the helm of the No. 1 laboratory, and the commander had an order, no matter how big the difficulties were, he would have to overcome them.

"Okay, that's it, let's all disperse." Xu Shijie waved his hand, and half of the people in the room immediately turned into birds and beasts.

Only Xu Shijie himself was left in the huge office, and he was impatient to start the remote communication system and began to report the trial voyage to the lunar base.

A speed of 2,000 kilometers per second is by no means as simple as flying an extra 400 kilometers per second, which means that the time to fly from the Earth to Neptune outside the bone will be shortened from the current half a year to four and a half months.

Such data is enough for an eight-magnitude earthquake at the top of the entire Ministry of Defense.

The returning Giant Shark made modest improvements to the problems that arose during the sea trials, because they were all minor problems, and it only took a few days to complete the transformation.

When the trial team in the No. 1 dockyard ship was gearing up for a new round of sea trials, Xu Shijie finally received a communication from the lunar base.

The content of the communication was very simple, ordering the Giant Shark to fly to the moon base at full speed immediately after a certain degree of camouflage, and to ensure that the problem was not seen by the Outer Skeleton.

Retrofitting a battleship is a hassle, but camouflage is much simpler.

The camouflage force directly under the base sent a spaceship and three or five people to put the armor plate that had been prepared long ago on the shell of the Giant Shark, and then sprayed enough water on the joint, and the water at the low temperature quickly solidified, and the low temperature in the universe made the solidified water as hard as steel, and directly froze the armor plate used for camouflage on the shell of the Giant Shark.

After half an hour of busy work like this, the surface of the Giant Shark was a lot of messy equipment, and it looked like a similar appearance, and the streamlined hull was completely hidden under camouflage, and at first glance it looked like a space version of a big hedgehog.

The armor plate used for camouflage is simply a thin layer of iron sheet, but it looks like that, but in fact it is useless at all.

This camouflage method is simple and straightforward, and it can even disguise a small warship as a helicarrier, and when it is necessary to remove the camouflage, you can just use any equipment that can warm up the ice and you're good to go.

The removed camouflage can be retrofitted to another ship when needed at a negligible cost.

The only downside is that the ice must be thick enough – although there is no air in the universe and it will not melt due to the violent friction of the air, sunlight and rays can also give some heat to the water ice, and if it freezes too thin, it is in danger of falling off halfway.

When everything was ready, a trial crew was stationed on the Giant Shark and drove the spacecraft to the lunar base.

At the same time that the Giant Shark arrived at the lunar base, two other Giant Shark-class warships were also assembled.

Because of the experience of the first ship, the assembly speed of the follow-up warships has been more than doubled, and all the existing biological spaceships at the Saturn base have been included in the transformation plan, and they have applied to the headquarters of the Space Army to send all the biological spaceships captured by the entire army to the Saturn base for "modernization" modification.

Zhou Kuang specially reminded that it was best to empty it first and only transport the shell.

At present, the number of biological warships captured by humans is really quite large, most of them are enemy ships destroyed by the United Fleet during the Mars campaign, and the vast majority of them are still floating in space orbit outside Mars and no one cares.

As a result, the headquarters of the Celestial Army said that Mars immediately organized a large number of people to go to outer space orbit and did their best to collect the wreckage of the biological warship.

As early as the end of the battle, the relatively intact enemy ships were divided up by the participating countries, and most of the ones that are still floating in orbit are incomplete. However, the requirements of the headquarters of the Heavenly Army are not high, and the complete one cannot be found, even if it can be pieced together.

Anyway, it's also used to transform the battleship, and if you put it together, it's a complete shell, isn't it?

It's a pity that the people involved in the search are not at all clear what these battleship shells are for.

The headquarters of the Celestial Army was a different scene, and everyone who knew that the Saturn base of the Dao Dao had transformed an ultra-high-speed warship into an ultra-high-speed warship was beaten in the chest...... In the first battle of the bone mound, countless biological warships were destroyed, and the shells remained roughly intact, if not a thousand, but eight hundred!

They didn't want to think about it, even if they knew it at that time, would the combined fleet, which was busy withdrawing, still have time to drag a string of tails back?

In addition, the Saturn base, to be precise, Lab 1's own plan to cultivate biological warships for slaughter has also been put on the agenda, and the Earth will supply "materials" to Jupiter at the same time, and also find ways to transport some to the Saturn base.