Goliath-class factory ship.

Fu Qinghai stood in front of the experimental table, the space ape Shi Lan sat on his shoulder, Fu Qinghai pointed to the row of guns of different shapes on the platform, and introduced them in turn:

"AR2 Pulse Rifle from the Half-Life Universe."

"M41A2 Pulse Rifle, from the AVP Universe."

"SWS Electric Pulse Rifle from the Dead Space Universe."

"Kusar Krow Pulse Rifle from Elysium Universe."

The first two were obtained by trading with the reincarnators in the tavern of Jacob Town, and the latter two, one was found in the arsenal of the Ishimura, and the other was captured by Lin Yu in the last reincarnation.

Shi Lan jumped off Fu Qinghai's shoulder, stood on the test table, picked up a pulse rifle and looked at it carefully.

Although he didn't understand these universes, he knew that none of these firearms belonged to the Human Empire.

"The pulse rifle, as far as I know, is an advanced firearm that uses a dual composite propulsion method, which has both the combustion expansion propulsion of the propellant and the acceleration of the electromagnetic coil."

"These guns, according to my tests, are more powerful than laser guns and automatic guns, but they are not as good as blaster guns, mainly limited by the caliber of ammunition and coil power."

Fu Qinghai said to Shi Lan.

The so-called "power" here is only a general concept of Mohu, because the lethality of live-fire weapons comes from kinetic energy, while the lethality of laser weapons comes from high temperatures, so the damage effect caused to different targets is different.

The biggest difference between the pulse weapon in the science fiction concept and the ordinary electromagnetic coil acceleration weapon, that is, the general "Gaussian weapon", is that it does not give up the traditional launch mode.

This pulse emission mode is aimed at the problem of the slow rate of fire of most electromagnetic coil acceleration weapons, and the "Gauss weapons" have a long range, high accuracy, and high power, but the rate of fire is often not good.

Some time ago, a chance encounter with the young Kaul reminded Fu Qinghai that the great sage of Kaul was not only as simple as creating the original cast Space Marine, but also equipped the original cast Star Marines with new weapons: MK10 power armor, improved blaster guns and plasma guns, and innovative anti-gravity armored vehicles.

Therefore, if Fu Qinghai wants to benchmark Kaul, he also has to design special weapons and equipment for the new all-alien space warriors he has developed, and the MK8 Chaos-type power armor is already available, so the blaster gun and plasma gun can also start to be considered.

Without the use of a special warhead, normal explosives are not powerful enough to penetrate the frontal defenses of power armor, but they can penetrate weak areas such as helmets, joints, and gaps.

That's why the Alpha Legion specializes in developing lethal blast bombs for civil wars between Space Marines.

With the technical reserves of the feather gun in advance, Fu Qinghai gradually came up with some ideas of his own to further enhance the power of explosive weapons, and these ideas need to be realized with the cooperation of space apes.

The new weapon research and development plan was officially established:

Pulse Blaster.

"My initial idea for the pulse blaster is as follows: use the traditional two-stage propulsion mode of the blaster weapon as the mainstay, supplemented by the electromagnetic coil acceleration mode, add a battery on the basis of the magazine, see if the bullet can be designed as a caseless bullet, and see if the inner wall of the barrel can be rifled."

Fu Qinghai made a request to Shi Lan.

The space ape thought for a moment and said:

"It is necessary to increase not only one more battery, but also the length of the barrel."

"Yes."

Fu Qinghai had expected this.

Traditional blasters are a very compact and short weapon for Space Marines, with pros and cons.

In the real world, many countries have gone to great lengths to improve individual weapons in order to shorten the length of their weapons and facilitate the transportation and deployment of mechanized troops.

However, a short barrel also means that the trajectory is unstable and the accuracy is poor, and the MK2 Kaul blaster rifle is much longer than the traditional blaster rifle.

Whether it is a coil or a magnetic track, if you want to play with electromagnetic acceleration technology, the barrel cannot be short, because it needs to provide a certain stroke for the acceleration of the bullet.

"The structure of the pulse blaster designed in this way will be a little complicated."

Slan reminded.

"It doesn't matter, this is a weapon of the Space Marines, not a weapon of the Imperial Guard, it's a little more complicated, it's acceptable."

Fu Qinghai said.

In later generations, those blast guns with a gene lock, a sight on the back, and a built-in ammunition counter, is the structure simple?

Shi Lan and Fu Qinghai were talking, and they had already disassembled all the firearms on the table into parts, and after studying them carefully, he looked up and said to Fu Qinghai:

"Within three weeks, I had a prototype gun."

"Good."

Fu Qinghai nodded approvingly.

There is a prototype gun first, and then slowly improve the finalization, and then consider the scale of mass production and cost reduction, follow the scientific research and development law, step by step.

The verbal cooperation agreement between Fu Qinghai and Shi Lan is very loose and free, "fun" is the greatest pursuit of space apes, if one day Shi Lan feels that it is boring to follow Fu Qinghai, he can leave on his own at any time, and Fu Qinghai will not stop him.

But with a steady stream of new technologies from other universes, it may be a bit difficult for space apes to feel bored.

……

Fu Qinghai has wanted to study electromagnetic acceleration technology for a long time.

Because the traditional propellant propulsion technology has a limit after all.

It is also the Cult of the Machine God, a religious scientific research organization with a single brain axis, that clings to the traditional shooting method.

The lower limit of the technology of the individual weapons of the Human Empire is not the laser weapons equipped by the Imperial Guard, but automatic weapons, laser weapons are actually quite high-tech, and automatic weapons are really simple and crude.

The automatic weapons of the Human Empire are exactly the same as the gunpowder firearms of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in the real world, simply put, weapons that use propellants to accelerate the continuous firing of metal bullets.

Logging guns, automatic cannons, assault guns, and even ship-based and land-based macro cannons fall under the category of automatic weapons.

Many people will wonder why the human empire is still using such a firearm with backward principles, in the interstellar era?

Three reasons:

First of all, the enemies faced by the Human Empire during the Great Expedition were not all technologically advanced alien heretics, and there were also many barbarian worlds and feudal worlds whose scientific and technological level was still in the Cold Weapon Age or even earlier.

Secondly, the principle of automatic weapons is simple and the technical basis can be produced and manufactured in many less technologically developed worlds, and they can be equipped in large quantities for low-end garrison units such as the Planetary Defense Force PD, and quickly form the most basic combat effectiveness.

Finally, although the technical principle of automatic weapons is not complicated, the propellant in the bullet is not ordinary yellow powder and black powder, high-performance propellant brings greater chamber pressure, and requires stronger barrel materials, other science fiction universes have begun to ponder coils and magnetic tracks, and the human empire is not enough technology materials to make up, using science fiction materials to enhance the power of traditional weapons, such as the propellant produced by the Huangquan No. 8 casting world is the best quality.

In addition, the same weapon that uses the electromagnetic force Lorentz force to propel the projectile, the electromagnetic coil and the electromagnetic track are actually different, and the main differences between the two are:

Electromagnetic Orbital Weapons: The projectile is sandwiched between two parallel guide rails, the two rails are connected to the power supply, and the current flows to the projectile through one guide rail and then to the other rail to generate a magnetic field, and the magnetic field interacts with the current to produce a strong Lorentz force to propel the projectile forward, reaching a very high speed - theoretically it can reach sub-light speed.

Solenoid Weapons: The barrel or barrel of a gun is made up of a number of coaxial and caliber coils, and the bullet or shell is also embedded with coils. The current is sent to the first coil of the barrel to form a magnetic field, and the coil on the projectile induces an electric current, and the magnetic field interacts with the induced current to push the projectile forward, and when the projectile reaches the second coil, the process is repeated continuously, passing through the third, fourth, and fifth coils...... Up to the last coil, the projectile is accelerated to a very high speed step by step.

Compared with the track, the friction between the projectile and the chamber is smaller, and the mass of the projectile can be greater and the speed can be faster, but the power supply complexity of the coil is far more complex than the track, so although the electromagnetic coil is a more advanced technology in theory, the electromagnetic track is a more mature example in application.

These two electromagnetic acceleration methods, if you want to talk about the principle, everyone knows the basic physical principles that everyone knows in the real world, not to mention the science fiction universe like Warhammer 40k.

But when it comes to practical applications, especially weaponized applications, it's not that simple.

In the real world, the civilian self-made electromagnetic coil weapon can make an iron stick fly 20 meters away, not at all any lethality, the US Navy invested in the research and development of electromagnetic orbital weapons many years ago, so far there is no result.

The physics of electromagnetic acceleration in the Warhammer 40k universe is of course well known in the Cult of the Mechanics, but the Human Empire has not been able to fully apply this technology, as this type of weapon faces many problems in practice, including the limitations of this technology: the incredible amount of energy required to propel the projectile along an orbit or coil, and the huge heat dissipation generated in the process.

From the knowledge of the principle to the military application, there is a huge gap like a moat.

In the Warhammer 40k universe, among the several major camps, Fu Qinghai is very sure that there is only one Titanium Empire.

The Titanium Empire's research on magnetic rail weapons was not achieved overnight, the early magnetic rail weapons were too large in size, and could only be mounted on combat suits or hammerhead sharks, which were not individual weapons at all, but serious vehicle-mounted weapons, until the second dome expansion, the scientists of the Tu clan of the Titanium Empire, who were stimulated by the strength of the Human Empire, worked hard to study hard, and finally miniaturized the magnetic rail weapons into individual soldiers.

I took out something like a rail-mounted rifle.

From Fu Qinghai's point of view, the defects of the Titanium Empire's magnetic rail rifle are still very obvious, a pack of batteries can only support three to four shots, that is to say, every three shots have to change the magazine, the fire density is very low, and the logistics requirements are very high.

But what is the result?

The power of terror.

The Astarte Warband hated the RailRifle as a weapon, because a Space Marine, hit by a heavy RailRifle, would directly break the armor of the human into pieces - even the genetic seeds could not be recovered!

In the original book about the cathars, it is clearly mentioned that Belisarius Kaul specially drove his mechanical ark to the front line of the Gulf of Damocles theater, that is, the area where the Titanium Empire and the Human Empire are at war, in order to understand how the Titanium Empire overcame the technical problems of these two electromagnetic acceleration weapons.

Judging from the latest official situation, the Great Sage of Kaul should be in a state of seeming to understand it at the moment - the railgun has been built, and the railgun has not yet appeared.

……

"Khan, I've heard a lot of words about the 'Goliath-class factory ship' in the Star Newsletter recently."

In the captain's room, Xia Hao was reporting to Fu Qinghai.

"Hmph, that's to be expected."

Fu Qinghai's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said.

The Goliath-class factory ship, slow-moving, thin-skinned and filling, is the ultimate fat in the eyes of the forces of Chaos, and those poor traitors who have fled into the Eye of Fear dream of owning a large foundry ship of this class.

A Goliath-class factory ship left Mars and left the solar system, such a behemoth is naturally very conspicuous, and it must not be hidden from the eyes of people with intentions, Fu Qinghai suspects that many people have already targeted this ship.

"Let them come."

Fu Qinghai smiled and said.

"What else?"

"A distress signal, claiming to be a Rogue Trader from the Extreme Star Domain, currently besieged by orc pirates, requesting support from a nearby Imperial fleet."

Xia Hao paused for a moment, and then said:

"I asked for follow-up messages, but I didn't get a response."

"Where's the location?"

"Karisis Sector, Chosian's Territory, Ecorich Galaxy, spatial coordinates ......"

The location coordinates on the Xia Hao newspaper are very clear from the star region to the sub-star region to the galaxy and space coordinates.

"Hmm...... Tut. ”

Fu Qinghai smacked his lips and fell into thought.

Then he casually turned on the holographic projection in front of the desk, adjusted to the three-dimensional map of the entire star region, the blue projection slowly rotated in front of him, Fu Qinghai glanced around, and then turned on the communicator, and said inside:

"Tracy, come to the captain's room."

Fu Qinghai reported the coordinates and locations confirmed by the Star Whisperer to the navigator and asked:

"How long will it take to modify the voyage and get to this location now?"

Tracy estimated in her heart and replied:

"An extra week is expected."

Fu Qinghai nodded:

"Okay, then let's go check it out."

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------Off topic------

The content of this chapter is a little bit hard sci-fi.,Not so space opera.,First of all, I apologize to the book friends who feel bored.,About electromagnetic acceleration technology.,Actually, I'm going to open a copy of the Warhammer 41k in the later stage.,When I encounter the Titanium Empire, I'll talk to you slowly.,Combined with the plot.,But some time ago, there was a book friend.,I have to turn some words from the original book that "linear acceleration" and other lakes and other words.,Based on this, I insisted that I wrote it wrong.,Said that the Cult of the Mechanicus has electromagnetic coil weapons...... Originally, I didn't plan to pay attention to him, but he ran to station B everywhere and said that I wrote it wrong, and I couldn't bear it, so I could only liberate these words in advance.

The core logic of these people is still one: because the human empire rules the galaxy, so the human empire must master what technology, because the Mechanicus Cult even has any technology, so it is impossible to even have the "basic" technology of electromagnetic acceleration - these are very stupid logic, reflecting the view of the world is too simple, that is, the often said "three views are incomplete", and then I will slowly tell you why this logic is wrong, and I hope you can find some small gains in a network.

I've been saying in previous chapters: Explosive guns are not the solution to sniper rifles, and after reading this chapter today, many book friends should have guessed what the sniper rifle of the protagonist's battle group is.