After being irradiated with powerful microwaves, not a single cell will survive in the strata hundreds of meters deep.

in the coming decades.

Not a single grass grows on this land, and it is barren in the true sense of the word.

This is because all the bacteria in the soil that help plants break down nutrients die under microwave irradiation.

It's like land being steamed with steam.

Specifically, we can refer to some ancient gallops, which were pressed from steamed loess.

For thousands of years, there was no grass.

Very few extremely thermophilic bacteria that can withstand ultra-high temperatures.

The lipids in the liquid crystal state inside are constantly decomposing under the action of heat accumulation.

These masters who evolved from the harsh living environment of the Underworld have evolved survival skills in high-temperature, high-pH environments.

It's also hard to survive to the end.

"The wiring inside the electronic equipment is basically in a molten state."

The experimenter, who was in charge of the inspection work afterwards, said by priing open the equipment inside the armored vehicle.

"There is no damage on the outside, but the internal circuitry is completely destroyed."

The space-based microwave strike lasted only a few minutes.

destroyed these expensive heavy equipment.

Actually, it's not just electronic devices.

The high-power microwave also caused unimaginable damage to the crystal lattice of the metal armor plate.

These armored vehicles, even with the replacement of electronic equipment, returned to the battlefield.

There will also be a large-scale decline in the intensity of protection.

"Isn't the infrared reaction of the strike range so strong that it doesn't attract special attention from others?"

In the command center, Geng Bo asked as he looked at the blackened and charred trees after the strike site burned.

All major military powers have deployed their own infrared reconnaissance satellites in space.

It is mainly used to monitor ICBMs and other weapons of mass destruction launched by other countries.

When the satellite discovers a special heat source reaction, it will transmit the corresponding heat source characteristics to the supercomputer on the ground.

The supercomputer then models the missile data based on past reconnaissance.

to judge whether this is a missile or not.

And what type of missile is this.

Different models of missiles, because of the different engines, will have different characteristics of heat source information.

In the human eye, these characteristics are almost indistinguishable.

But in the eyes of high-sensitivity thermal cameras, it is very obvious.

"No, it won't."

Zhang Xingyang shook his head and said:

"Infrared reconnaissance satellites, although able to detect local heat source information."

"But it's hard to find out why."

"Judging from the infrared images, the computer system will only think that there has been a small fire in the area."

Infrared reconnaissance satellites are designed to detect all kinds of missile attacks.

Of course, there are also some infrared reconnaissance satellites, which have civilian use.

It will be used to detect forest fires, etc.

The infrared response of a missile is actually quite different from that of a wildfire.

Specifically, the missile is like a hot spark, and the fire is more like a basin of boiling water for washing feet.

For infrared reconnaissance satellites.

Such fires can be found many times a day in different places.

As a result, this information doesn't even trigger an alert in the first place.

This information does not yet meet the alarm thresholds designed by the designers for the satellite.

"In this way, microwave attacks are simply impossible to prevent."

Geng Bo said with some emotion.

A microwave attack has no obvious characteristics when it is launched.

There are no radar signatures, infrared signatures, etc., of conventional artillery and missile strikes.

The radar itself emits electromagnetic waves, and then receives electromagnetic waves to complete the detection of targets.

The means of attack of microwave strikes cannot be detected by electromagnetic waves.

And want to find microwave strikes through infrared signatures.

Then you need to wait for it to take effect before you can find out.

By that time, the blow had already been completed.

Even if it can be discovered, it has lost its meaning.

"Although microwaves can penetrate many kinds of materials, there are still materials that it cannot penetrate."

Zhang Xingyang said after remembering some of the cutting-edge research content of later generations.

"For example, metallic hydrogen."

Metallic hydrogen, is a very special form of hydrogen.

At millions of atmospheres, hydrogen takes on a metallic state.

The hydrogen molecule becomes a single atom, and the chemical bonds of the hydrogen are broken.

The electrons outside the nucleus of the atom change to a shared state.

The free flow of these electrons gives metallic hydrogen superconducting properties.

The tight arrangement between the atoms also allows the metallic hydrogen to defend against high-energy ray-like attacks.

In later generations, quite a number of metallic hydrogen defense tests have been conducted.

During extreme test experiments, a small metallic hydrogen shield even protected against supernova burst-level ray attacks.

It is also the large-scale preparation of this material.

Only then did human beings truly have the ability to resist cosmic-level natural disasters.

Seamount II, which is only 7,500 light-years away from the solar system where humans live, is considered to be a star with a high probability of supernova explosion in the next 10,000 years.

It has 150 solar masses.

After the eruption, the frenzied gamma rays were able to sweep through all the star systems around it for tens of thousands of light-years.

In these star systems, patches of Jedi are created.

Perhaps inside these star systems, the germ of intelligent life has emerged.

It may even be possible to evolve intelligent species that can use simple tools.

But gamma rays from supernova bursts can tear apart the molecules that make up these intelligent life.

Because gamma-ray bursts travel at the speed of light.

These sapient species will not be aware of anything until they arrive.

The process of death is only for a moment, and there will be no pain.

For humans who have not yet applied metallic hydrogen materials on a large scale.

If you encounter such a cosmic-level natural disaster.

There will be no way to fight back.

Compared to tens of millions of years ago, there was no difference between the mammals that wiped out the dinosaurs in the face of an asteroid hitting the Earth.

"Metallic hydrogen, isn't that the legendary material?"

Geng Bo's knowledge of materials science is relatively shallow, but he has also heard of the name metal hydrogen.

It has an extremely high energy density, and its explosion power can be up to forty times that of TNT.

In the past, it was thought that it could be a new generation of rocket propellant.

However, due to the slow development of high-voltage equipment.

The actual preparation of metallic hydrogen has never been completed.

Although every year there are laboratories that claim to have produced real metallic hydrogen.

But most of them are fake.

The small amount of metallic hydrogen that is actually produced is also difficult to store.

Therefore, the research on metallic hydrogen still stays at the theoretical level.

What exactly is going on is still a mystery to everyone.

"The 1.8 million times atmospheric pressure and high pressure laboratory that has just been completed in China has already been qualified to complete the laboratory preparation of metallic hydrogen."

Zhang Xingyang learned more and explained:

"So for us, the preparation of metallic hydrogen is no longer a dream."

Geng Bo said with some surprise: "Isn't that microwave attack about to be able to be prevented?" ”

"It's not that simple."

Zhang Xingyang shook his head,

"The pre-preparation price of metallic hydrogen is far higher than that of gold."

In the era when there was no electrolytic aluminum, the price of aluminum also far exceeded that of gold.

Aluminum helmets, cutlery, etc., which were chemically prepared, were far more expensive than gold at the time.

A few decades later, after the invention of electrolytic aluminum, the price of aluminum plummeted.

The same is true for metallic hydrogen today.

In the high-pressure laboratory, the metal hydrogen that can be prepared each time is only measured in grams.

Such a production of metallic hydrogen, let alone as a defense plate.

Even doing research is too small.

Unless human beings can complete the pressure structure in Zhang Xingyang's memory.

On the planet, dig up vertical passages up to hundreds of kilometers long.

Hydrogen is fed at the bottom, and hundreds of millions of tonnes of water are at the top.

Under strong water pressure, hydrogen is directly pressed into metallic hydrogen.

"At least in a hundred years, it is unlikely that there will be a means of defense against microwave attacks."

Zhang Xingyang finally concluded.

In fact, high-density materials such as metallic hydrogen have been invented more extreme in later generations.

That's the proton lattice.

Within metallic hydrogen, hydrogen atoms are closely arranged next to each other.

In the proton lattice, protons are closely packed together.

Its defenses are even more impressive, and it is even able to sustain itself near many extreme stars.

However, the proton lattice is also a very high-end material in later generations.

The annual output is very low, and most of it is used in extragalactic probes.

The solar system of the future is too small to accommodate humanity's ever-expanding ambitions.

"The next round of microwave anti-aircraft weapons experiments, let's go."

Zhang Xingyang didn't say anything more.

In addition to being a striking weapon, microwaves can also be used as a defensive weapon.

Especially anti-aircraft weapons.

Because it has a wide range of action, the accuracy requirements are not as high as those of laser weapons.

Especially for modern stealth fighters.

Microwave has unbeatable advantages.

Because the stealth performance of stealth fighters comes from the absorbing materials on the surface of the aircraft.

These absorbing materials absorb the electromagnetic waves emitted by the radar.

In order to achieve the effect of stealth on the radar.

These absorbing materials are also capable of absorbing microwaves.

And the microwave will quickly heat the fighter shell, heating their aviation aluminum to a molten state.

Even if there is no large-scale deformation of the fuselage, a small deformation is enough to change the aerodynamics of the fighter.

This caused an aviation accident that can be called a disaster!

Somewhere, a brigade of UAV aviation.

As a newly formed aviation group, they are very special.

None of them were pilots in the conventional sense, and they had never been on the blue sky.

But each of them flew several fighter jets a day, soaring above the blue sky.

The UAV aviation brigade was newly formed after the development of stealth unmanned fighters and stealth unmanned bombers.

Therefore, they have adopted a lot of new ways of fighting.

Because unmanned fighters are capable of carrying out higher overloads.

The maximum overload that a human can withstand is only 12 Gs.

However, as long as the drone does not exceed the limit of its body strength, it is capable of performing high-intensity and high-overload maneuvers.

In addition to this, drones are capable of carrying out suicide attacks, suicide induction, and other behaviors.

These, in the era of manned fighters, were almost unthinkable.

"The higher authorities have asked us to carry out a devastating bombing of this place."

The commander of the aviation brigade, pointing on the electronic map, said.

"Is there an indication of what type of confrontation it will be?"

The combatant in the aviation group asked.

Because no one in the drone aviation brigade will actually fly into the blue sky, they are not called pilots.

Rather, combatants.

All their mission is to win the battle for their side at all costs.

"I didn't say it explicitly, but my superiors said that we should be prepared for heavy losses."

The commander frowned, looked at the electronic map and whispered:

"What kind of confrontation will it be?"

The drone brigade has a large amount of equipment loss on weekdays.

A conventional confrontation exercise will cost hundreds of missiles of various types and dozens of advanced stealth fighters and stealth bombers.

"No matter what kind of confrontation it is, we must show all our strength."

The commander finally gave the order:

"Make pre-war preparations according to Plan No. 1."

Plan No. 1 is actually going all out.

All fighters will be fully loaded, and all bombers will be hung with missiles.

At 2:30 a.m., it was the time when the stars were shining.

A huge fleet of planes is gliding on the runway of the airport, ready to take off.

Dozens of combatants, lying quietly in the fighting compartment.

Holographic helmets, allowing them to command five stealth fighters at the same time.

The fighting compartment, which looks like a holographic game capsule of the future, is equipped with numerous health detection equipment.

Even if you experience the fighter plane being hit from a first-person perspective, it will not have much impact on the physical and mental health of the combatants.

Hundreds of stealth fighters, lined up in a dense formation that manned fighters could not do.

The distance between each fighter is only a few tens of centimeters.

Even if there are pilots who can do such nuanced maneuvers.

No commander would dare to let them do that.

If you are not careful, it will be the end of the crash and death.

Only the UAV aviation brigade, which does not care about losses, dares to do this.

However, it is precisely because of this that the ground-based air defense radar did not detect a huge fleet of hundreds of fighters at all at the first time.

Wait until the stealth bomber drops the first air-to-surface missile.

Ground-based radars discovered this group of stealth fighters and bombers.

The radar was destroyed by anti-radiation missiles at the first moment.

In the communication channel of the aviation brigade, it is believed that there is absolutely no possibility of threatening the air from the ground.

So dozens of stealth bombers began to reduce altitude.

Prepare to get close to the ground and carry out bombardment of the designated target area.

Although the bombing mission can also be completed at high altitude, the bombing effect is definitely not as good as that of low-altitude bombing.

However, the combatants who had just lowered the height of the bomber.

It soon became clear that the sensors on the bomber were constantly transmitting high temperature warnings.

And the internal equipment is also frantically alarming.

The sound of dripping one after another exploded in my ears.

Before the combatants could react, the bomber was like a kite with a broken string, tilting its spin and falling to the ground.

And at the high altitude of the stealth fighters, at the same time began to appear constantly alarms.

A fleet of hundreds of stealth fighters began to burst into brilliant fireworks on the land!

Compared to the fireworks of the New Year, it is even taller and more gorgeous!

(End of chapter)