Voyage of the Stars

It can be said that the layout of a battleship equipped with a magnetic field shield is completely different from that of a mountain-class battleship. Therefore, humans must build new ships and new ships.

there are many reasons.

The first is the plan to make major changes to the original Shan-class battleship. Not to mention it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is completely unfeasible.

What doesn't work here is not just a design problem, but a combination of factors.

The power system of the Shan-class battleship cannot support the surging energy required for the powerful magnetic field of the magnetic shield. The main reason is that the Shan-class battleship is not large enough. There is no way to stuff huge magnetic field generators inside while ensuring there is living space.

Of course, there is another reason why the one here is not big enough, and that is that the heavy nuclear fusion engine is really big.

Huge magnetic field generators and huge heavy nuclear fusion engines, no matter which one they are, require humans to build larger warships.

Those larger than the Mountain-class battleships are called Lake-class battleships by humans.

The name of the first Lake-class battleship was decided by New Humanity during the design stage, and it was Dongting Ship.

In the years after the realization of heavy nuclear fusion, the largest and most important project of the new humanity was shipbuilding. From exploration to design, to feasibility verification, and then to the actual preparation of various materials to build the ship. After it is built, it will undergo various sea trials. Finally, the warship will be adjusted based on various experimental data, and everything will meet the design requirements. , to make dumplings in large quantities.

This process takes a very long time.

In this process, humans must also face a problem that must be faced in building giant ships, and that is structural strength.

Because in the design, if the battleship is to be able to accommodate dual fusion systems of heavy nuclear fusion and cold nuclear fusion, as well as carry a magnetic field shield system, it must be at least twice as large as the Shan-class battleship.

After all, it is a battleship powered by "burning stone", and the fuel storage warehouse is also very large.

According to the design of the design institute, its length must be at least 3 kilometers, and its width and height must be at least 1.2 kilometers. This is the minimum requirement. If you want more redundant space, you have to make it larger.

Of course, as the first Lake-class battleship, the Dongting ship was built according to this minimum standard.

The reason why the battleship is designed with such a different length and width-to-height ratio is entirely because the main guns and engines take up a lot of space.

Let’s not talk about the heavy nuclear fusion engine. Just imagine the planetary engine in the movie. That thing is huge. In the movie, its single engine is 11 kilometers high, the main body is 30 kilometers in diameter, and the base is 60 kilometers in diameter.

Of course, the new humanity's heavy nuclear fusion engines are not used to push planets, but are used on battleships. So naturally there is no need to make it so big, on the contrary, it needs to be made smaller.

You can build it as small as you can, but even so, it is still very large, as much as one-third of the length of the Dongting ship, which is the space occupied by the heavy nuclear fusion engine.

The cold nuclear pulse engines are smaller. According to the design, they will be divided into multiple ones and distributed around the heavy nuclear fusion engine at the stern of the ship.

The heavy nuclear fusion engine is so huge that a warship the size of the Dongting ship can only install one. As for the steering engine, traditional hydrogen nuclear fusion and a new cold nuclear pulse engine are needed.

And larger warships, of course, need to be equipped with larger-caliber main guns.

Because of the emergence of magnetic field shields, the main guns of the new warships have also changed. It is no longer equipped with positron cannons as the main guns for each ship, but is configured according to the formation.

After mass production in the future, at least one of the warships forming a formation with the Dongting ship will be equipped with a super-large positron cannon, and the other will be equipped with a large-caliber electromagnetic rail gun. A small formation must have three warships with different main gun types at the same time.

Like the Dongting ship, in terms of design, it is equipped with a very large gamma ray cluster cannon.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the main space of such a battleship is occupied by the main gun and engine.

The design of such a size also requires the Dongting ship to change the design ideas of previous Shan-class battleships, and many spaces appear much smaller.

However, the most different design is not the size of the redundant space, but the bridge design.

The Lake-class battleship no longer adopts the movable bridge design of the Mountain-class battleship, but directly adapts to the core built-in design. In other words, the bridge of the Dongting ship will always be located at the core of the battleship, where the armor defense is thickest.

Drawing on the experience and lessons learned from the previous two ships that were sunk and all crew members were killed, the bridge of the Dongting ship will add an emergency survival support system.

To put it simply, in addition to the built-in bridge, a layer of special material armor is installed. The armor layer is made of a material that has a melting point of 150 million and is resistant to ordinary nuclear explosions, and is integrated with the bridge.

This kind of bridge design is equivalent to stuffing a "steel egg" inside the battleship.

When the warship suffers a fatal blow and loses combat effectiveness, the "Steel Egg" will activate the emergency system, close all armor structures, and turn the bridge into a 'curling up pangolin' to wait for post-war rescue.

Humanity's mechanical expertise allows humans to do this. However, accordingly, the manufacturing difficulty and construction time will also increase.

Of course, it's all worth it.

The bridge alone uses this alloy material. It can be imagined that the outer armor of the new battleship will not be much worse. As for the current Dongting ship, all its outer armor is made of this alloy.

As a test ship, just looking at these configurations can crush the Tianqin in all aspects.

In fact, there is another reason why the Dongting ship was built to the smallest specifications, and that is because the strength of its keel has almost reached its limit. If it is built larger, even this material, which is said to be the most powerful material currently in mankind, cannot withstand it.

Under the surging power of the heavy nuclear fusion engine and the cold nuclear pulse engine, there is a danger of deformation.

Therefore, in addition to building ships, the new humans are currently doing another thing simultaneously, which is to find ways to produce another more powerful material on a larger scale.

Yes, this material has been developed. As a new alloy, its melting point has reached 280 million degrees Celsius, and its impact strength can directly resist Big Ivan. Well, although it was still somewhat deformed during the experiment.

In fact, it was the emergence of this material that enabled the new human race to ascend to the throne of "burning stones" in such a leap.

And this material was still researched based on the analysis of the wreckage of the broken spacecraft that was on Callisto at that time.

Of course, if there is no such material, new mankind can still achieve heavy nuclear fusion with the previous 150 million degree Celsius melting point alloy material, but it will not be as fast, and more difficulties will need to be overcome in technical details.

Lake-class warships can naturally be built, but only warships as big as the Dongting ship can be built. If they are larger, they will have to make breakthroughs in materials and technology again.

In fact, if a civilization develops normally without any unexpected encounters, the warships and material technology that have reached the second level civilization level will probably be like this.

The New Humanity has the wreckage of a spaceship that is at least a Level 4 civilization as a backup. It is reasonable to say that it is stronger in terms of materials and technology than a normal Level 2 civilization.