When Chen Yue felt that he had mastered enough war theories and tactics in this continuous self-iteration, the next focus was on hardware.

In the space age, the hardware of interstellar warfare is naturally a spaceship.

The reason for this arrangement is because Chen Yue knows that only when he first understands how to fight an interstellar war can he know what kind of spaceship he needs.

After building a spaceship, we can expose more details of the war through actual space exercises, and then constantly adjust and experiment, so that the theory of war can be improved. The improvement of the theory of warfare, in turn, promotes the improvement of combat ships, so that they complement each other, and both aspects can be developed rapidly.

At this moment, a dedicated production line of combat spacecraft has been formed on Europa's orbit.

Yes, this time the ship's factory was not built on the ground, but in space.

There is no gravity in space, which can make Chen Yue's spacecraft production environment more stable.

Ordinary civilian ships don't need to be so demanding, but combat ships are different. Combat spacecraft must strive for excellence, must use the best materials, must have the most stringent processes and quality control, and must use the most advanced technology.

After several years of continuous research and development, more than a dozen consecutive overturning of the design drawings, and hundreds of thousands of experiments and adjustments, Chen Yue finally built the first combat spaceship in his life.

"Start!"

With Chen Yue's command, a spaceship with a disc-shaped structure as a whole, a pitch black body, a diameter of about 40 meters, and a thickness of about 10 meters at the thickest point, slowly left the dock under the impetus of the ion thruster and came into the vast void space.

Looking at this spaceship, Chen Yue's heart was full of pride.

This is a war machine with a mission to kill, to fight. Chen Yue piled up all the advanced science and technology accumulated over the past hundreds of years on its body, so that it had the most powerful combat power that Chen Yue could have at this stage of science and technology.

The spacecraft uses a nuclear fusion reactor as the energy source, a high-energy ion thruster as the power source, and a high-performance alloy steel skeleton as the whole, equipped with a thick outer layer of armor. Such a tough material makes it extremely resistant to overloads.

At its maximum limit, it can accelerate even up to 100 meters per square second. Such a huge acceleration will bring about an overload pressure equivalent to ten times the gravity of the earth. But even then, its hull will not be deformed.

Heavy, purpose-built multi-layered armor provides a strong defense. In actual tests, its armor can even withstand the full force of small electromagnetic cannons.

You know, even a small electromagnetic cannon has the ability to accelerate a projectile with a mass of 1 gram to a speed of 300 kilometers per second. Such a projectile would have an energy of about 45 million joules, which is equivalent to the energy of the explosion of 10 kilograms of explosives.

The coating applied to the surface of the armor gives it a high stealth capability.

At least with Chen Yue's scientific and technological level, the space scanning radar developed is still relatively difficult to find.

In addition, the coating has a high reflectivity, which means that it is also highly resistant to laser weapons.

It is equipped with six space scanning radars and the same number of optical scanning equipment, which can continuously observe movements within a radius of 10,000 kilometers with itself as the center and relatively complete collection of battlefield information to make decisions for the next battle.

In addition to power, defense, and spatial perception, it is the most important combat equipment, and it is also the combat equipment that Chen Yue attaches the most importance to.

In terms of combat equipment, the spacecraft is equipped with eight small electromagnetic cannons, each of which can fire a projectile with a mass of 1 gram at a rate of 10 rounds a second, and the firing speed can reach 300 kilometers per second.

The main gun is a medium-sized electromagnetic cannon, which also fires at a rate of 10 rounds per second, but the mass of the projectile has increased by a factor of 6 to 6 grams, and the firing speed reaches 400 kilometers per second.

In addition to the electromagnetic cannon, it is equipped with three laser cannons and carries 40 small high-speed interstellar missiles. The interstellar missile is equipped with a tactical hydrogen bomb, and once it hits the target, the energy released by the hydrogen bomb explosion can be directly vaporized even by a space base.

However, the interstellar missile is too big after all, and the maximum speed can only reach 100 kilometers per second, so there is a considerable probability that it will be intercepted. This limits its application and can only be useful in certain special situations. But once it worked, it meant the end of the battle.

Such a battle monster armed from head to toe was the first generation of combat spaceships developed by Chen Yue.

At this moment, a scrapped spacecraft that acts as a target aircraft is fleeing away from Jupiter at extremely high speeds. Under Chen Yue's control, an extremely bright light appeared from the side of this combat spaceship, pushing it to start accelerating at an incredibly fast speed, and quickly chased after the target spacecraft.

It was still thousands of kilometers away, and the high-precision automatic aiming equipment adjusted the muzzle of the electromagnetic gun and accurately locked onto it. After that, the three electromagnetic cannons opened fire together, and hundreds of high-speed projectiles rushed forward, and a few seconds later, the target spacecraft erupted into dazzling fire.

An interstellar missile flew out quickly, accompanied by the dodging action of the target aircraft spacecraft, and it was not short to adjust its course, staring at the opponent like a poisonous snake. In the end, the interstellar missile and the target spacecraft met, accompanied by a burst of dazzling light, the tactical hydrogen bomb exploded, and the terrifying high temperature directly swallowed the target spacecraft.

By the time the light had dissipated, the target spacecraft had completely disappeared.

It has been vaporized by high temperatures, turned into interstellar dust, and has since dissipated into space.

"Combat spacecraft and civilian spacecraft are really two worlds." Chen Yue sighed: "As long as there is one such combat spaceship, as long as there is enough time, even if there are 100,000 civilian spaceships, it can destroy them all." ”

"In the future, I will build more, bigger and more advanced combat spaceships."

Chen Yue thought silently: "You are the first combat spaceship I built, so I will name you 'Stardust'." ”

Interstellar dust is the most common thing in the universe, and it is also the most basic thing. However, it is precisely because of the collapse of interstellar dust that bright stars and colorful planets can appear.

As the beginning of all Chen Yue's future combat ships, this first-generation battleship has this name with special significance.

Stardust-class battleships!