The new warship not only uses solid smoke for the shell, but also applies a large number of engineering plastic parts inside the warship, which greatly reduces the overall mass of the warship, and it is said that plastic components account for more than 60% of the total mass of the battleship.

What kind of deck floor, wherever engineering plastics can be used, absolutely do not use metal parts; Wherever metal lining can be used, there is absolutely no metal lining!

According to incomplete statistics, this alone will reduce the weight of the new warship by more than 80,000 tons!

Hearing the news, everyone was so shocked that their hair was dizzy and swollen, and they couldn't slow down for a long time.

Although engineering plastics have always played an important role in aerospace engineering, they are used in unimportant positions, and such a high proportion is really a big girl on the sedan chair, the first time!

Moreover, after the new ship is minus 80,000 tons, there is still a total mass of nearly 10,000 tons, that is, it will be built purely from metal materials, and it will be a heavy battleship with a dead weight of nearly 100,000 tons!

Now, everyone understands a little.

With the current technology of mankind, driving a 100,000-ton space battleship is simply an impossible task, and only 10,000 tons are left, which is also a huge test.

But it doesn't matter, the superiors have used all the results of the research on the Falling Ship Mountain on the new ship, which has greatly enhanced the power of the battleship.

But hearing this news, everyone is even more worried, this battleship is so advanced, can it work?

But in reality, some of the properties of engineering plastics are even better than steel, and the key is that they can be built faster and at a lower cost.

In other words, the new ships are all plastic except for the power compartment, thrusters, and other places where metal parts must be used.

It is an exaggeration to say that it is a plastic battleship, but it is not too much to say that it is semi-plastic.

After the initial shock, everyone also wanted to open it, the alien species can knock a hole in the horizon of the moon with one shot, no matter what kind of steel, it will be killed in front of the alien weapons, in this case, what is the difference between plastic and steel?

In just two days, the solid smoke protective layer of half of the battleship has been formed, although it is only an empty shell, it already has the appearance of a battleship.

However, the accuracy of the mold of the surface armor is far from as high as imagined, and it is put together, but it is like a building block, giving people a feeling that it will disintegrate immediately with a little more strength.

The next step is not to put all the armor together, but to fix other modules in the hull.

The task is equally simple, find out the corresponding modules, feed them into the hull in order with the correct attitude, snap into the prefabricated slots to trigger the deployment, and the layers of cabins are constantly stacked, and the internal structure gradually unfolds.

Don't think it's very simple, each module must be installed exactly to the specified location, especially for the interface, there must be no mistakes, otherwise either the circuit is not smooth, or the signal is not through, so only the best pilots can perform this seemingly simple, but in fact accurate task.

Moreover, the engineering boat is only responsible for transporting the modules into place, and the final assembly is all automatically completed by the intelligent robotic arm.

Like a large iron bug stationed in the air, it crawls around the inside of the hull, stitching together the modules with mechanical meticulousness and a high degree of precision.

All the people involved in this project can't help but sigh, those who are engaged in design, the brain hole is really not ordinary, fortunately they have made a robotic arm, otherwise the amount of work will at least rise by one level, in case a module is broken, the entire project progress will be delayed.

This is definitely not unfounded, because each module must be opened in the most precise position to ensure that the unfolded cabin is accurately stuck in the proper position, and once the rotating position is deviated, it is possible to twist the fragile counterpart.

After the modules inside the battleship are fixed, the protective layer is also fixed, and it will not shake without moving.

In this way, layer by layer, piece by piece, the battleship took shape at a very fast speed.

During the entire assembly process, it is necessary to always maintain an upright posture with the bow facing up and the opening downward, and use the hull to resist the solar wind and various cosmic particles, so as to minimize the impact of external factors on the battleship.

At the end of May, the most critical part came, the core modules of the battleship were sent into the shell, the habitation module, the control module, the cryogenic sleeping module, the fusion reactor, and eight groups of large thrusters...... Almost all of the metal is concentrated in the core module and stern, and if it weren't for the accumulation of too much engineering plastic in the bow, it is difficult to say whether the battleship would be able to maintain balance.

At this point, even if the battleship is preliminarily completed, the next step is for engineers to enter the ship and carefully inspect all the electrical lines.

The structure of the new ship is based on an alien battleship, only the core compartment needs to maintain air pressure, and the core cabin is very small, less than a fifth of the total volume of the battleship, but all the important equipment is here.

Outside the core cabin are various functional cabins, highly automated, no matter what you want to do, you only need to move your fingers in the bridge, and there is basically no need for manual operation.

The reason why I say basic is because no one dares to guarantee that there will be no problems with the machinery and equipment, and once there is a failure, you must wear an extravehicular suit to leave the core cabin.

In addition to this, there are several special "intermediate cabins", which are usually kept in a vacuum and can be inflated and pressurized at any time to become pressure cabins if necessary.

For example, the supply warehouse and the bilge hangar for storing daily necessities.

When all the inspection items are completed, the battleship is officially completed.

But it's just done.

At this time, there are still many modules left in orbit, and the launch vehicle is constantly being launched on the ground, and new modules are being added.

But none of them are structural modules, but carriers of weapons, provisions, fuel, and various living and combat materiel.

Because they are all designed according to the standard, and openings are reserved in advance on the solid smoke hull, so you only need to send each module to the corresponding position in order and stuff it into the battleship in turn.

The supply was much faster than splicing a battleship, and it didn't take three days in total.

On June 7, 2065, an ordinary but extraordinary day, the battleship Expedition was officially delivered to the Space Force.

The name of the expedition is far-reaching, which means that this is only the first step for mankind to move into the deep space of the universe, and there is still a long way to go.

The 48 people in Group A became the first crew of the Expedition, and while there was still a little time, the battleship underwent intensive functional tests, including the power system, power system, propulsion system, weapon system, life support system, and even the shield system!

This is in order to enhance the combat capability of the expedition, the superior deliberately mobilized a batch of shields from the Falling Ship Mountain, the number is not large, it can only protect the bow direction, but its significance is not the size of the protective area, but the first time that a human warship has a force field shield!

Although it is only a semi-plastic warship, the Expedition is the strongest warship in human history, and there is no one!