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Faster-than-light missiles, the technical route was born out of the faster-than-light spacecraft, and can make great use of the production line of faster-than-light spaceships, both in terms of technical difficulty and practicality, it has its advantages that cannot be underestimated, and it is the most commonly used practical route for interstellar civilizations with weak technical strength and difficulty in finding efficient faster-than-light weapons to break through the bottleneck. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, since it is called a missile, it is naturally very different from a real faster-than-light spaceship.

The biggest difference between this weapon and conventional faster-than-light ships is that it has strict requirements and restrictions on size.

After all, as a large-scale application of mass faster-than-light weapons, this kind of faster-than-light missiles are to be mounted on the weapon platform on a large scale, in order to ensure the combat power of the warship, the minimum standard must also be able to install a certain number of missile entities on the faster-than-light spacecraft, the more the better.

It's a pity that if you want to integrate all kinds of equipment into a smaller bomb body, the higher the technical content, and the greater the technical difficulty.

In terms of the demand for combat power of the overlord-level interstellar civilization, if a main battle superluminal spaceship cannot carry more than ten superluminal missiles, then this kind of combat power will undoubtedly not meet the needs, and it will not be able to cope with the high cost of scientific research.

So each spacecraft should be able to carry ten faster-than-light missiles, which is already the minimum standard.

Generally speaking, in addition to deducting the various equipment, materials, and personnel compartments that must be equipped with the faster-than-light ship itself, it is necessary to carry more than ten faster-than-light missiles in the ship, which requires that the length of such missiles must be compressed within 100 meters, and the diameter of the missile body must also be compressed below 10 meters!

A missile is actually 100 meters long and has a diameter of about 10 meters, which is simply a giant missile in the era of the planet, and it is impossible for any missile launcher to carry missiles of this level, even whether the land-based silo can be stuffed into this kind of giant is also very questionable.

So at first glance, it seems that such a large size as a faster-than-light missile should still be able to do it relatively simply.

In reality, however, this is not the case at all.

You must know that the faster-than-light spaceships in interstellar civilizations are basically not small because they carry too much key equipment.

Those core equipment that can be used by faster-than-light spacecraft to travel for tens of hundreds of light-years without a single problem, space power engines, spacecraft energy systems, etc., are all taller than a ten-story building, and when these devices are assembled together, they must have a huge space to carry them, which leads to the fact that faster-than-light spaceships basically have a length of less than one thousand meters.

If the problem of length is relatively easy to solve, the problem of the diameter of the projectile body is even more tricky.

This requires that the size of the core equipment must be greatly reduced, and the structure must be readjusted as much as possible, so that the original width and height of the battleship in the range of hundreds of meters can be reduced to less than ten meters in diameter!

From these two aspects alone, if you want to change the technology originally used on a faster-than-light spaceship to a small and delicate faster-than-light missile, this technical difficulty is already so difficult that it can be said to break through the sky.

For the interstellar civilization that is tackling key problems in this area, the difficulty of developing faster-than-light attack weapons on other routes, if it is as high as the sky and as deep as the earth, so that people can't touch the edge at all, then the technical route of this faster-than-light missile, although it is relatively closer to reality, has a greater possibility of breakthrough, and relatively speaking, if it can still launch an offensive in this area, then the difficulty of this route will be more realistic, and it will make people feel more desperate.

Because of this kind of technical standard that can be seen and touched, although the difficulty is not as lofty and broad as heaven and earth, which makes people unable to touch the edge at all, it is also completely as vast as the sea and as deep as the sea, which is enough to make the overlord-level interstellar civilization deeply feel what is called desperate technical difficulty!

It can be said that any scientific and technological civilization that can make a superluminal missile must consume countless resources, and it will take countless generations of top scientists to contribute their lifelong wisdom and painstaking efforts, and it will take tens of thousands of years to have a little hope of success.

And even if this is achieved, for the technology tree of the faster-than-light missile, it is only half lit, and the problem of whether it is there or not has it has been solved.

Such a successful miniaturization of a superluminal missile, even if it is successfully developed and put into actual combat, without special performance optimization, will never be satisfactory in terms of the success rate of destruction.

Because the performance requirements of the superluminal missile and the superluminal spacecraft are completely different, the conventional spacecraft certainly pays attention to the speed problem, but an equally key problem is that the spacecraft needs to ensure sufficient range, and it will have to sail for tens of light-years or hundreds of light-years to reach the battlefield in the long interstellar spacecraft, which undoubtedly requires the faster-than-light spacecraft to have long-lasting sailing performance.

It can be said that all mature faster-than-light ships have been designed and optimized in this regard.

And the performance requirements of faster-than-light missiles in this regard are completely different.

The faster-than-light missile does not need to travel a distance of tens of hundreds of light-years, it has a launch platform loading, the combat spacecraft sails into a certain distance range of the target spacecraft, launches the missile, and then hits the target, it needs a short period of extreme speed and flexible orbit change ability, there is a certain demand for range, but the demand in this regard is far less intense than the faster-than-light spacecraft, so it is also necessary to optimize the design of the faster-than-light missile.

Only the miniaturization improvement, even if it is successful, it is only a small spaceship, and the same level of spacecraft playing bumper ship games does not guarantee that it will be able to hit the target ship, nor can it bring a real breakthrough in combat effectiveness.

It is important to know that what the superluminal missile has to do is to completely destroy the target within the shortest possible time and distance after launch, which leads to its performance requirements are very extreme, to be absolutely high-speed, to achieve performance stability within a certain distance, only to achieve a breakthrough in these two aspects, is a truly commendable, feared hyperluminal missile.

It can be said that this is a huge scientific research problem of the same magnitude as the miniaturized ship itself, and it is normal to casually plague a civilization for thousands of years.

However, once the technological transformation at these two levels is completed, there is no doubt that a real hyperluminal weapon will be completed, and the hyperluminal missile under this technical route is essentially more similar to a small spaceship, playing a suicide attack, an attack is equivalent to consuming a small high-end main battle spaceship, the cost is undoubtedly quite high, compared to the ultraluminal war weapons of the earth civilization, it is of course low to the extreme, but realistically speaking, it is not without some advantages.

At least it largely inherits the technical route of faster-than-light ships, and the difficulty of research and development is more than ten times lower than that of faster-than-light guns.

In terms of power, even if the hit rate of the superluminal missile is ensured, it can only kill a spaceship with one missile, and the cost performance is more than one and a half points worse than that of the superluminal gun.

But anyway, the superluminal missile also has a unique advantage in performance, that is, as long as the technology is perfect and the launch conforms to the combat regulations, then a missile will almost be able to destroy a spaceship, after all, people themselves are equivalent to a superluminal spaceship, which can be turned by themselves, and the target spacecraft is difficult to dodge the attack of this missile, and it is higher than the ultraluminal cannon of the earth civilization from the perspective of hit rate.

Of course, in a comprehensive comparison, this superluminal missile technology has a big gap at all levels compared with the superluminal cannon of the earth's civilization, although the hyperluminal cannon will not turn on its own halfway, but in terms of rate of fire, range, and cost performance, it is far beyond the category of hyperluminal missiles, and it is an advanced, extremely powerful hyperluminal attack weapon.

With such a powerful faster-than-light weapon, the cosmic-level civilization of the Meteorite Star Sea back then also had similar technologies and products, as a real cosmic-level civilization, crisscrossing countless galaxies, this kind of high-grade attack weapon, it is naturally impossible for the cosmic-level civilization not to dabble in it anyway.

Not only do they have weapons similar to superlight guns, but they also have even better and more powerful combat weapons, and even armed battle stars have more than one!

It's a pity that these top-level civilization equipment, let alone left in the meteorite star sea, after the collapse of the cosmic-level civilization, even which galaxy they were left in has long been unknown.

After the three hegemon-level civilizations of the Meteorite Star Sea have been firmly seated in the hegemon-level position, they have always diligently sought to achieve better development and have more powerful power, and their desire for faster-than-light weapons has simply reached the max level.

They have searched and rummaged over and over again among the remnants of various civilizations of the universe-level civilization, trying to find a few words about faster-than-light weapon technology.

The problem is that the cosmic-level civilization of that year also attached great importance to the balance of power, and they retained a large number of assets, technologies and capabilities of the R&D, production, and manufacturing system of faster-than-light spacecraft in the star field near the meteorite Star Sea Civilization Circle. The equipment and materials were deliberately arranged in other different galaxy regions, which led to the tossing and turning of the three major overlord civilizations of the meteorite star sea for countless years, and finally failed to find even a fragment of the technical information of the faster-than-light weapon system.

Only the faster-than-light missile, a fishing wire version of the faster-than-light weapon attack system, has received the same technical inspiration and implementation route for the three hegemon-level civilizations.

Of course, what the three hegemons got was not actually a technical secret in the real sense, they just obtained a little conceptual information left by the original cosmic-level civilization, just like modern people can search the Internet and find a lot of aircraft carrier design and structure drawings casually, the three hegemon-level civilizations get this kind of bad street entertainment information.

Not only the three hegemon-level civilizations, but also many other civilizations in the Meteorite Star Sea have also obtained similar information and information, after all, this kind of entertainment information similar to popular science materials can be filled with a USB flash drive, and it is not worth much at all and there is no secret at all.

However, even with these materials, other interstellar civilizations have not put them into practice at all, and only the three hegemon-level civilizations in the Meteorite Star Sea have a completed superluminal spaceship production system, so even if they want to fall into the pit, only the three overlord-level civilizations are qualified.

Although it is a fast-of-light weapon of the fishing wire version, although there are only some technical information like entertainment information, this has undoubtedly pointed out the way forward for the three hegemon-level civilizations.

Even if the three hegemon-level civilizations do this and really get out the faster-than-light missile, it will undoubtedly make a huge progress, and they will directly raise their combat power and deterrence capability to a higher level, thus laying a more solid foundation for power.

With the superluminal missile, even in the face of the sudden attack on them by the current earth civilization, with such a basic counterattack capability, the three hegemon-level civilizations can rely on it, and they will not all look frightened.

However, the wish is good, when the three hegemon-level civilizations began to develop superluminal missiles according to the map, they really realized what it means to be in pain.

The real interstellar civilization with a perfect system and independent research capabilities, on the basis of a faster-than-light spaceship, is nothing more than spending tens of thousands of years, even if it costs a lot and consumes more, it will still be able to reap full results in the end.

However, the three hegemon-level civilizations really studied at the beginning, only to find that they had truly fallen into the bottomless abyss!

Even if you want to change the superluminal spaceship and save up the fishing silk version of the faster-than-light weapon, the difficulty of this is still too great for the three hegemon-level civilizations of the Meteorite Star Sea.

This level of scientific and technological achievements, that can be described as extremely sophisticated, said to be a hair and move a thousand jun is absolutely not the slightest problem, a seemingly insignificant and ordinary small screw, maybe its size, shape, material, weight and other aspects of the data, can involve the structural balance of the entire spaceship, in the process of ship miniaturization, the problems encountered by the three hegemon-level civilizations are simply astronomical magnitude, so that people can't find the north at all!