Earth Invasion

Chapter 75
The electromagnetic reconnection gun is a powerful weapon that directly obliterates opponents with speed in the era of fighting in the atmosphere.When other missiles, chemical energy artillery and other weapons are still at the speed of sound, the electromagnetic gun takes the lead with the speed of the projectile based on the cosmic speed as soon as it comes out.Even in sci-fi movies, Transformers can't withstand the thunderbolt of this thing.

But in the era of space warfare, the electromagnetic reconnection gun has become a "smart" weapon.Because the speed is only a few hundred kilometers per second, at a combat distance of thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers, when the relative speed of the two sides exceeds tens of kilometers per second, it takes more than ten seconds for a physical projectile to hit the target, which is really not enough to watch .Leaving aside the laser cannons and charged particle cannons that are at the speed of light, even the plasma projection cannons with low-speed energy groups have a speed of thousands of kilometers per second.Even if the ultra-high-speed heavy particle cannon is abandoned in pursuit of lethality, it is still advancing at one percent or two percent of the speed of light.

However, the emergence of the deflection electric field turned this invincible energy weapon into a battle of attrition purely for power.A military scientist once said that the appearance of the deflection electric field has made the protagonist of the space battle jump from the fighter level to the battleship level, and it is more and more like the battleship competition before World War II.

In this era when all kinds of energy beams are flying around, a frigate of SCO uses two reconnection guns as the main firepower. It seems funny, but there is a reason for it.

First of all, the SCO is an alliance of countries but not a unified country.So the SCO Solar System Navigation Fleet and the Chinese Space Force are two different departments.Although people always talk about the SCO Star Destroyer and the SCO Star Destroyer, it is actually wrong to say so.There is no Star Destroyer in SCO. The Star Destroyer is directly under the central government and is divided into two departments, one is the General Staff and the other is the Ministry of Space Industry.In the SCO solar system fleet, the largest battleship is the 8-class cruiser, which is also the capital ship of most countries in the SCO republic.As a defensive force, the SCO solar system navigation fleet does not have many [-]-class cruisers, and the detachment composed of [-]-class cruisers and [-]/[-]-class destroyers is already the main fleet.The largest number in the sailing fleet is the patrol detachment composed of [-]H[-] and [-]-class frigates.

A distinctive feature of this patrol fleet is that it is multi-purpose, and it is possible to run into any job.It is expected that the electromagnetic reconnection gun equipped with a variety of warheads and capable of using non-lethal weapons will become the main firepower of this frigate.

But it would be a big mistake to underestimate this weapon in this way.As we said earlier, the electromagnetic reconnection gun is a smart weapon.

At a high speed of hundreds of kilometers per second, it is impossible to chase the target like a missile.However, an important advantage of the electromagnetic reconnection gun is that there is no eddy current generated by the alternating electric field, and it will not only shoot metal rods.The warhead fired by this reconnecting gun can be programmed to charge.

Takamachi Fite fired ten rounds in a very short time, all using double-layer warheads.Behind the front-end kinetic energy impact warhead is a small ball that is constantly rotating. Inside this ball is a directional self-forging warhead.

The ten rounds of Takamachi Fite's warheads not only take into account the trajectory of the opponent's maneuvering and dodging, but also allow the warheads using this self-forging warhead to explode on the opponent's side after being maneuvered and evaded, and perform a second attack. attacks.

The battleship's reactor, thrusters, etc. are all behind.And because of the tail thruster and the rear side thruster, there is no way to use the deflection electric field.Avoiding the direct kinetic energy impact of the electromagnetic gun, and then being attacked from the rear side with a self-forging warhead, it is better to directly use the deflection electric field to carry these shells down.

It is a pity that for an armed transport ship converted from a civilian ship and using a civilian-grade subcritical reactor, it is not easy and pleasant to increase the deflection electric field strength in a very short period of time.

A subcritical reactor is, in essence, a fission reactor.Under the injection of high-temperature proton beams, radioactive isotopes will continue to fission until the fission cannot continue.This kind of reactor was first successfully developed by NATO in the 22nd century.After all, it is not a comfortable thing to always be crushed on the fusion reactor.Due to the essential difference in energy density between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission, subcritical reactors cannot compete with fusion furnaces in terms of total power, but the advantage is that such reactors can be made small and have low starting power.The smallest subcritical reactor plus a starting power supply is only the size of two watermelons, and can even be used for home use.In addition, this kind of reactor is different from the fusion furnace that needs to use dangerous things like superconducting batteries as absorption carriers. The output power of this thing is adjustable, and it is easy to stop the fission reaction.After the fusion furnace is shut down, there is still a large bomb like a superconducting battery stack to deal with.

Therefore, in terms of civilian use, power-adjustable and safer subcritical reactors gradually occupy the market.Only heavy ships and warships continue to use fusion furnaces.Moreover, NATO began to allow ultra-small subcritical reactors to enter the household electricity market, which also caused NATO's power supply system to gradually differ from the centralized power supply of the giant power stations of the SCO.This is one of the reasons why NATO and the space circle care so much about Assyria.Because the Assyrian planet is full of radioactive materials.

But ordinary civilian use, industrial use, and military use are fundamentally different.Subcritical reactors are small in size, and if multiple reactors are connected in parallel, the power can also be piled up.It can also meet the needs of some industrial ships.

But in some places, the subcritical reactor can't keep up with the fusion furnace anyway, that is the instantaneous power.

The fusion furnace is essentially a continuous small fusion nuclear explosion under the confinement of superconductivity.So the beginning is the pulse energy output method.It is very difficult to reduce the output power, and a lot of unused electricity needs to be absorbed by superconducting battery stacks.However, on warships, whether deflecting electric fields or various energy weapons, they are all pulsed.So, these weapons are a natural match for Fusion Furnaces.Moreover, the fusion furnace itself is very easy to operate at super power, as long as you have enough release wells, the power transmitted by superconducting can easily double the rated power, and the realization is also very simple, just throw in twice as much helium III. .

Subcritical reactors are miserable. Even if the fuel rods are inserted to the end, they will fission slowly and slowly.You said I removed the moderator, that's good, it turned into an atomic bomb and exploded...

Armed transport ships refitted with subcritical reactors are very reluctant to use deflection electric fields to resist hard.Especially solid warheads, this kind of mass weapon requires a local rapid value-added boost of the deflection electric field, which is a great test for the reactor.

　There is another chapter at noon, half of it will be updated first, and then there will be colleagues of Lancers

　　
　
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