Super Plane Mall

Chapter 299 How to Divide Spaceships

Although Zhu Lei opened up the right to purchase plasma thrusters and anti-gravity engines, even the largest spaceships that the folk forces can manufacture will not exceed 5 tons. In terms of defense, it is simply incomparable with the official spacecraft produced by Zhu Lei and Daming.

Therefore, whether it is Zhu Lei himself or the state-owned shipbuilding factory of the Ming Empire, they are very confident that they will win the competition in the future, not to mention that the plasma propulsion system is produced by Zhu Lei, and now Zhu Lei's Yongan Group plasma propulsion They have all been updated to the fifth-generation plasma thrusters. Compared with the previous generations, the current thrusters are more powerful, less energy-efficient and smaller, and have more diverse functions. If Zhu Lei is under such circumstances If his Yong'an Group still can't compete with these private shipyards, then he can simply die.

What's more, his Yong'an Group has been studying controllable nuclear fusion for nearly 20 years. Just a month ago, it finally made a breakthrough in controllable nuclear fusion technology. According to the calculations of scientists, due to the breakthrough The first controllable nuclear fusion engine will be ready in a few months, and then he will finally be able to build a spaceship that can truly travel between stars, and the size of the spaceship does not have to be limited to a range as it is now.

Since the controllable nuclear fusion technology is about to succeed, Zhu Lei has also made changes to the classification of spaceships in the Ming Empire. After all, the commander of the space army of the Ming Empire is in charge of the entire space program of the Ming Empire, so he has the right Divide the current spacecraft of the Ming Empire.

So this time in the cabinet meeting, he discussed with the ministers in the cabinet about the future classification of spaceships.

According to the information obtained from the Super Plane Mall, Zhu Lei divided spaceships into six levels according to the mainstream classification method.

All spaceships below [-] tons are planned as aerospace vehicles, which means that all spaceships below [-] tons cannot be called spaceships at all, so these types of spaceships are collectively called aerospace vehicles.

All such spacecraft between 1 tons and 100 million tons are converted into small spacecraft.

The spaceship belt between 100 million tons and 1000 million tons is planned as a medium-sized spaceship.

Spaceships between 1000 and 1 million are classified as large spaceships.

A spacecraft of 1 million tons to 1 megaton is called a heavy-duty spacecraft.

Spaceships over 1 megaton are called super-heavy spaceships, or super-spaceships.

And this method of division is also the common division method of all cosmic technological civilizations in the Plane Mall.

However, in this division method, each level also has subdivisions, such as spaceships below [-] tons, or aerospace vehicles.

Although this type of aircraft is basically used by every civilization as a means of transportation between planets and space ports, some of this type of aircraft are spaceships with certain space capabilities, so these types of aircraft are divided into two levels, one Those below [-] tons are divided into one grade, and those between [-] tons and [-] tons are divided into another grade.

Although various civilizations in the universe have different names for spaceships of different levels, the basic division is still the same.

However, according to the results of the discussions between the cabinet and Zhu Lei in the Ming Empire, all spaceships below [-] tons are called aerospace planes, while spaceships between [-] tons and [-] tons are called spaceships. Only a spaceship of [-] tons can be called a spaceship.

As for the other five levels of spaceships, except for the super-heavy spaceships, the remaining four levels are all subdivided into two levels, that is, level-one spaceships and level-two spaceships.

Of course, in addition to the weight of the spaceship, the volume of the spaceship, the size of the spaceship, and the range of the spaceship will also be taken into consideration. Classify the spaceship into which class.

However, these are the division methods of civilian or non-combat spacecraft.

The division method of combat spaceships is completely different from the division method of civilian spaceships. The division method of combat spaceships still inherits the division method of surface warships on the earth.

Combat spaceships are generally divided into frigates, destroyers, cruisers, battleships or aircraft carriers, and interstellar fortresses, and each type of warship is divided into light and heavy types except for interstellar fortresses, but these types of spaceships are all more than [-] The spaceships below [-] tons are all classified as space fighters, while the spaceships between [-] tons and [-] tons are all called spaceships.

Therefore, according to this division method, the largest spaceships in the entire Ming Empire are just small spaceships, but as long as the technology of controllable nuclear fusion engines is developed, the Ming Empire will have the strength to manufacture medium-sized spaceships. That is, a spacecraft with a tonnage of more than 1000 million tons.

But even with the advent of controllable nuclear fusion technology, it is impossible for the Ming Empire to manufacture heavy spaceships. After all, the tonnage of heavy spaceships must exceed 1000 million tons, and according to the information in the Super Plane Mall, There are also rigid regulations on the size of heavy-duty spaceships, so the current technology of the Ming Empire can't do anything about such spaceships.

It is very difficult to manufacture heavy spaceships even for intermediate and high-level civilizations in the universe. Only after reaching the high-level civilizations can the manufacture of such heavy-duty warships be considered a matter of course.

And the ultimate weapon of the universe like the Star Fortress is impossible even if advanced civilizations want to manufacture it, because the Star Fortress not only has absolute requirements for weight, volume and quality, but also has very high requirements for combat power and defense. .

Therefore, it is impossible for advanced civilizations to create interstellar fortresses. Only the ultimate civilization in the universe can create interstellar fortresses. Therefore, the Ming Empire does not even have to think about such weapons, even if the Ming Empire is now a hybrid civilization. It is also powerless against ultimate weapons such as Star Fortress.

However, these are not things that the Ming Empire needs to consider for the time being. After all, the Ming Empire is not even an intermediate civilization. It can only be regarded as one foot into the intermediate civilization. After the manufacture of medium-sized spaceships capable of interstellar voyages, the Ming Empire can be regarded as a standard intermediate-level civilization.

Of course, Zhu Lei believes in the combat effectiveness of the Ming Empire's cosmic army. Even if it is compared with the intermediate civilization, it is not much worse. Of course, this is under the same number.

(End of this chapter)