Everyone: Are mechanics weak? I wake up and rectify the natural disaster

The benefits of modular design are obviously clear at a glance.

There it helps.

It is easy to do it if you want to get on the ship and then replenish the ticket.

After all, the batch of capital ships proposed in the previous shipbuilding plan are still in the intensive construction stage.

The 'main structure' part, which is the largest but the simplest, has been completed.

Let's start with the 'internal structure' part that is the most difficult, longest and most necessary to avoid mistakes.

According to Su Wen's understanding, the 'Legion' class is still dawdling in the hangar area.

Even if it takes another one or two weeks, the carrier-based aircraft command equipment will not be completed.

It's easy to catch up with the progress over there.

A capital ship?

The process of building them can be called "big construction".

If it weren't for Su Wen, thirty 100,000-ton shipyards would have been started ahead of schedule.

There is also the empire's unique advantage in the field of machinery manufacturing.

Trying to compress their process into two months... is pure wishful thinking.

No matter how you say the 'Legion' class, it is still a small 50,000-ton battleship.

In the star field, ships of their level,

It is the main force on the battlefield that has an overwhelming advantage in quantity and quality in almost all non-super civilization battles.

For this kind of thing, if it is completed and launched and outfitted,

Driving fully armed to the world before Su Wen traveled through was enough to scare the people on earth out of their wits.

One ship.

Only one interstellar battleship of this level is enough to conquer the entire Blue Star.

No exaggeration at all.

It just does nothing, just floats in low-Earth orbit, opens its shield and allows people below to hit it, and its health bar doesn't even move.

Humanity has indeed made a lot of developments in laser weapons, electromagnetic guns, and space-based weapons.

But until Su Wen traveled through, the most destructive weapon in their hands was still thermonuclear weapons.

That kind of thing, in the atmosphere, has the ability to destroy the world.

But in space, it is very weak.

Not to mention the speed, maneuverability, and protection capabilities of the five strategic nuclear missiles currently in service.

If they cannot come within a hundred kilometers of the 'Legion' class, they will be destroyed by carrier-based aircraft or point defense weapons.

Even if it can break through the air defense fire circle around the aircraft carrier, it is of no use.

That's a vacuum.

The shock wave cannot be diffused, or to be precise, it cannot form a shock wave with the same destructive power as in the atmosphere.

The main lethality of thermonuclear weapons is optical radiation and thermal radiation.

If it can hit the target directly, it still has extremely terrifying power.

But if it is hit on one side, it can be undone at any time, and the damage will not be spread to the battleship itself, but will only overload the shield at most...

That's naturally a different matter.

Unless it's a saturation attack.

Directly flood the target with tens of thousands of megaton nuclear warheads.

But this can only exist in assumptions.

After all, a saturation attack can deal with a country's homeland air defense system in the atmosphere, but it cannot be used to deal with a small target in outer space.

Especially small targets whose speed can easily exceed the speed of the third universe and even reach sub-light speed.

...In the final analysis, the high speed and long range of interstellar battleships are the reasons why they truly have an overwhelming advantage over former interstellar civilizations.

If you can't catch up or run away, how can you deal with an elusive starship?

The latter cannot be defeated without fighting back. If it releases dozens or hundreds of fighter planes, how will human civilization deal with it?

At first, just a 'dagger' scared the big guys from the Chinese Academy of Sciences into fear.

When I think about such an aircraft, it can cruise around the world at hypersonic speeds of more than ten or even dozens of Machs. It cannot be locked by any radar or overtaken by any missiles. It can also break through the air defense system from any place and go to the core city of the country. Alien fighter planes carrying millions of tons of nuclear weapons and even other more outrageous interstellar strategic weapons are wandering around on their own land...

That is indeed a bit easy to scare people into trouble.

The Sword of Damocles cannot scare Blue Star into the information age.

But if it's Damocles' 'Ivan the Great', that's a different matter.

That's it, it's still an old-fashioned T2-class starfighter.

In today's empire, such things are ready to be retired. After being retired, they will be no different from scrap metal.

It has to be said that the field of 'propulsion mechanics' is not obvious, but its influence is extremely huge.

The epoch-making flight speed it brings,

This is the unbridgeable gap between pre-interstellar civilization and interstellar civilization.

The 'Dauntless Frenzy' at the beginning of the 20th century only increased the average speed by less than ten knots, but turned all the old battleships built by the major powers into scrap metal, forcing the major powers to start an arms race that swept the world. .

And the naval gap between interstellar civilization and pre-interstellar civilization is not just ten knots?

If you consider the strategic value behind this...

Just like this, just one battleship is enough to conquer a former interstellar civilization.

The manufacturing cycle is a little longer, and it doesn't seem so unacceptable.

Su Wen felt that the service life of the battleship was relatively long, so it didn't seem to matter if the construction time was longer.

Does slow work produce fine work?

"How is the new carrier-based aircraft doing?"

He suddenly remembered this matter and turned his head to look at the people around him.

"The indicators I proposed... don't have to be completed in full, as long as the positron reactor can be put on the machine,"

"Positron weapons and the like...don't force it."

"We don't lack that bit of output. If we can't make do with the technology from the previous stage, it's fine."

Su Wen expressed his position very considerately.

There is no rush.

Energy, materials, and transportation are the three pillars of industry.

Basically, every time the technologies in these three pillar fields are upgraded to a level, they will have a huge impact on the entire technology tree, and more subdivided technologies will often spread from the new pillars.

Just like the mandatory locks on the technology tree, they must be unlocked to open the research options in the subdivisions under the pillars.

However, no matter how important the three pillars are, it is impossible to achieve that every improvement will produce a corresponding improvement in the military field.

For example, the original 'cold fusion' is an example.

This technology has great potential for use in energy and transportation.

Unlocked the cold fusion reactor that surpasses the thermonuclear fusion reactor, and also unlocked the 'cold fusion thruster', which is also a superior thermonuclear replacement product.

But unfortunately, it is not suitable for use as a weapon.

...Of course it doesn't fit.

That changed the way of fusion, but it was still essentially a nuclear fusion reaction.

So much so that even if Su Wen unlocked the 'cold fusion energy', it did not have any extended application in the field of weapons.

Not only is it impossible to extend, it will even go backwards - there are cold nuclear weapons, but the performance has not been improved much, the cost has increased significantly, and the application is far inferior to the more 'original' thermonuclear warheads.

Compared with the hot core of T2 to the cold core of T3, the positronium from T3 to T4 naturally improves more.

But Su Wen was also mentally prepared:

'Positronium' is, after all, legitimate antimatter.

Even the reactor that uses it as fuel is indeed small and can be easily applied to small equipment, such as carrier-based aircraft.

But if you want to launch it as a weapon...

The supporting equipment required is not much smaller in scale.

Reactors and naval guns are two completely different things.

The former only needs to 'run and output energy stably';

The latter needs to cycle through the three states of 'charging', 'discharging' and 'directional launch', and requires a lot of supporting equipment.

The total volume of the entire set of equipment can sometimes be much larger than the reactor, the first of the three major components of a battleship.

...Not to mention anything else, the set of 'Antimatter Particle Beam Directional Constraint' alone is not that big.

Su Wen had a hard time imagining how such a big thing would be forcibly stuffed into a standard starfighter...

Can't get in!

No matter how much you think, you can't get in!

"Just as you expected, Commander,"

Facts have proved that Su Wen's guess was correct, at least partially.

"It is indeed too difficult to transplant a weapon of the 'Positron Beam' level to a carrier-based aircraft,"

Azuma leaned down, controlled the holographic projection in front of Su Wen, and opened a file in the General Armament Department.

Su Wen felt the touch of her brocade-like hair brushing against his face, and recalled the fragrance with a hint of sweetness.

There was even more pressure from the terrifyingly large armored belt on my shoulders...

...He was very suspicious that this woman was flirting with him intentionally or unintentionally, but he couldn't provide any evidence.

Just looking at the detailed presentation of design ideas in front of her, she seemed to be introducing it very seriously.

I can't make any judgment based on an act that is probably unintentional...

"...Considering that the carrier-based aircraft has been confirmed to be equipped with a positron reactor, your original idea of ​​'also using anti-matter weapons' as an extension must be correct.

The question is only what type to use - it is obvious that the energy consumption and equipment space requirements of beam weapons are too high and can only be ruled out;

As for the missile, it overlapped with the 'Aurora' class positron air mine.

We will also rule it out..."

Azuma's voice was like a gurgling mountain stream, with a convincing sense of thoughtfulness.

Su Wen nodded subconsciously and secretly felt guilty for some impure thought.

She focused her attention on her plan.

He also couldn't notice the small hint of cunning that flashed across her eyes.