The Navy Has No Nuclear Power, So What Does It Have To Do With Our Coast Guard?

“How is it, did you hit the target reef?”

Seeing that Deputy Commander Wei looked a little strange, Staff Officer Cheng asked anxiously

“One good news, one bad news!”

“The good news is that all 30 shells hit the target reef accurately!”

Deputy Commander Wei put down the communication equipment and said to everyone

“All thirty shells hit the target accurately?”

“This is great news indeed!”

“What about the bad news?”

Staff Officer Cheng first showed a look of surprise, then asked curiously

“The bad news is that these thirty shells had such high kinetic energy and power that they directly destroyed our target reefs!”

“This target reef was obviously several meters above sea level, but now all the parts above water have been blown up!”

“This target reef is useless!”

Deputy Commander Wei tried to look heartbroken and said.

But when other people looked at Deputy Commander Wei, they could clearly see that he could hardly suppress the upward smile!

These were clearly two good news!

No one expected the electromagnetic railgun to be so powerful!

“The terminal strike speed of Mach 17 is simply too fast!”

“Even if an iron block weighing several hundred kilograms were dropped, its kinetic energy and speed could smash a big hole in the target reef!”

“What’s more, there are dozens of hypersonic shells with earth-penetrating warheads!”

Staff Officer Cheng said excitedly with a red glow on his face.

This electromagnetic railgun is absolutely a killer weapon in terms of range, firing rate, strike accuracy, and degree of damage!

“Chief Engineer Qin, your coast guard is really rich and powerful!”

“By firing four or five shells at a time, the firing rate of the electromagnetic railgun can be calculated.”

“But you guys can’t live with dozens of rounds of continuous firing?”

Captain Liu Hong said with envy. In all his years of commanding the Type 52C destroyer, he had never seen such a generous live-fire test.

For example, the anti-ship missiles on the warships, two or three rounds of continuous firing are the best.

How could there be such an overwhelming, tsunami-like, direct rain of steel!

“Yes, how much did it cost for this burst of fire?”

Deputy Commander Wei also asked curiously.

The firepower of this electromagnetic railgun is about the same as that of a long-range fire battalion.

But a long-range fire battalion with twelve long-range rocket launchers fired at the same time would cost hundreds of millions of military expenses.

After all, the cost of large-caliber long-range rockets is more than one million dragon coins, even at cost price.

And even the longest-range Guardian 2D rocket has a range that is not comparable to that of the electromagnetic railgun, which is only 480 kilometers!

If compared with medium-range ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons with a range of one or two thousand kilometers, its value is even higher.

Its basic cost is more than 10 million!

So everyone is curious, how much did the Coast Guard spend on that round of bursts of fire just now?

“Just now, about 30 shells were fired in one minute!”

“According to the cost calculation, it will cost about 5 million dragon coins!”

Qin Chuan roughly estimated and said

“How many?”

“5 million dragon coins?”

“”One or a total?”

Staff Officer Cheng was shocked.

Not because it was too expensive, but because it was too cheap.

He couldn’t believe it. He even asked doubtfully whether it was one or a total!

“Of course, it costs a total of 5 million dragon coins!”

“For missiles and long-range large-caliber rockets, the most expensive part is the rocket engine and a large amount of solid propellant!”

“After all, it is definitely not an easy task to transport hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of weight hundreds to thousands of kilometers away.”

“However, the electromagnetic catapult of the electromagnetic railgun directly replaces the role of the rocket engine and solid propellant, giving the projectile an initial speed of Mach 6.”

“Therefore, the cost of each shell of 200,000 is almost entirely the cost of the warhead and the simple scramjet engine!”

“Then there is the electromagnetic railgun, which uses a little electricity when it is fired!”

Qin Chuan explained.

“Electricity bill?”

When Qin Chuan brought up the electricity bill, Staff Officer Cheng and Deputy Commander Wei both laughed.

This supersonic artillery shell, which costs less than 200,000 yuan per shell, is almost as cheap as cabbage in the arms industry. Why are you still calculating the electricity bill?

“It seems that we have all fallen into the misunderstanding of traditional thinking.”

“The cost of shells fired by electromagnetic railguns cannot be calculated using traditional methods because their propulsion method is completely different from that of traditional rockets and missiles!”

“I never expected that the launching cost of this electromagnetic railgun with a range of 2,000 kilometers would be so low!”

“The electromagnetic railgun is definitely a national treasure!”

Staff Officer Cheng said with a smile.

Today was a very happy day for the launch of the 003 aircraft carrier for sea trials.

But he didn’t expect that there was such a huge surprise waiting for him!

“The chief is overpraising me. In fact, the electromagnetic railgun also has its own shortcomings.”

“For example, if the terminal impact speed of the artillery shell exceeds Mach 17, the problem of communication blackout cannot be avoided!”

“If an aircraft carrier is traveling at 30 knots 1,500 kilometers away, and our shells fly to the area in five minutes, the aircraft carrier is actually already 5 kilometers away!”

Qin Chuan took the initiative to ask the question.

His words also made the two leaders ponder.

Just now they only tested fixed targets and did not consider the problem of moving targets.

But after a while, the question raised by Qin Chuan was ignored by the two leaders.

You are a coast guard ship, and you really want to attack an aircraft carrier!

“Chief Qin, what you said is not a problem at all”

“To attack aircraft carriers, we have the Dongfeng Express system and the carrier-based Eagle Strike series. This is their mission!”

“The most important strategic task of the electromagnetic railgun is to attack the enemy’s fixed radar positions, airports and other fixed targets!”

“There is no perfect weapon system that takes everything into account, only a tactical system that cooperates with each other and is foolproof!”

Staff Officer Cheng said to Qin Chuan.

In his opinion, what Qin Chuan said was not a problem or a shortcoming.

Because the birth of each weapon and equipment has its main purpose and direction.

The threat and damage of the electromagnetic railgun to fixed targets are absolutely at the king bomb level.

In this case, why use it to hit moving targets?

“Chief, I raise this question because there are two solutions under consideration and I want you to give some advice.”

“instead of……”

Qin Chuan listened to the two leaders’ consolation and said in a slightly euphemistic way:

“Ah, Chief Qin, is this what you mean?”

Staff Officer Cheng and Deputy Commander Wei were both dumbfounded.

They just thought Qin Chuan was expressing his regret for the electromagnetic railgun.

So they hurriedly analyzed and comforted him!

But they never expected that Qin Chuan actually wanted them to give reference opinions.

Can the electromagnetic railgun really hit an aircraft carrier?

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