Six Hundred and Twenty Four Cores

People who don't like to use their brains always unconsciously walk into dead ends.

The reason why the United Fleet went retrograde along the predetermined trajectory of the alien fleet was to block the enemy forces to the maximum extent and ensure the annihilation effect of this battle.

Although the air force continues to use the tactics of the United Fleet, the lessons learned from the past are not far away, and of course they will not make the same mistakes again.

After more than a hundred heavy aerospace fighters left the earth, they were divided into four waves, sailing close to the orbit of the alien fleet, but not entering its orbit, avoiding the coverage of debris, and flying from the front side of the alien fleet. Fang approached and left immediately after launching the missile.

A wave of 30 fighters, each fighter has 8 missiles, and each salvo is a simultaneous attack of 240 missiles. Even though the alien warships are hidden in the dense debris cloud, they are still being bombarded by continuous nuclear bombardments. The detonation was exhausted, only two waves of missiles were fired, and the remaining eight alien warships were on the spot.

However, the aviation unit did not stop there, and the remaining two waves still fired all the missiles, blasting the debris cloud over and over again, until they could not find half of the larger debris, and then returned with satisfaction.

It’s not easy for a battleship to turn around, but a fighter plane goes back as long as it says to go back, it’s not messy at all. The fighter plane is so small, and there’s no extra space to load supplies. Let the fighter plane fly for ten and a half months before returning to Earth, and it’s going to starve to death. Ticket pilots are not allowed.

The aviation victory was regarded as a sign of the end of the Battle of Mad Waves. Moreover, the success of the interception operation has confirmed the theory that aviation is the best, which directly led to the military's determination to develop the aerospace carrier.

Just one day later, a debris cloud passed near the earth, and a small amount of debris was captured by the earth's gravity, crashing into several satellites in outer space and falling into the atmosphere, causing a meteor shower that lasted for more than 40 minutes.

The main body of the debris cloud crossed the orbit of the Earth and cut into the gap between the orbits of Venus and the Earth. Later, the debris cloud was affected by the gravity of Venus and was divided into two parts. One part fell into Venus, and the other debris formed a sparse debris belt between the Earth and Venus. Far less than the asteroid belt, but somewhat similar.

In early March, the research institute finally completed the design of the nuclear power engine, and the design drawings were sent to Beiyuezhou as soon as possible.

Under the coordination and command of Beidu, Beiyuezhou mobilized elite soldiers and generals, and it only took two days to manufacture two nuclear-powered engine prototypes.

The principle of the nuclear power engine is no different from that of the Orion project, but decades have passed, and the rapid progress of technology has made the design institute completely abandon the old design content and design a brand new nuclear power engine.

The structure of this engine is very similar to the traditional recoil engine. The engine has a cavity structure similar to a fuel chamber.

It's called the reaction chamber.

In the deepest part of the reaction chamber is a very simple launching device, which can continuously launch plastic pellets the size of mung bean grains.

Don't underestimate this humble little plastic ball, this thing is the real core of the nuclear power engine. The hydrogen atoms in the plastic ball are not ordinary hydrogen, but deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, and the plastic ball also contains a moderate amount of helium. 3.

When the plastic ball is launched from the bottom of the reaction chamber, it will fly outward along the reaction chamber. When the ball reaches the end of the reaction chamber, a beam of high-energy laser will be used to irradiate the plastic ball to cause nuclear fusion of deuterium and helium 3 to produce A very tiny nuclear explosion.

The explosion plasmaized other elements that make up the plastic pellets, and the high-temperature and high-pressure plasma spread rapidly in the reaction chamber, and part of it was quickly ejected out of the reaction chamber, allowing the nuclear engine to obtain reverse propulsion.

By precisely controlling the amount of deuterium and helium 3 in the pellets, the nuclear explosion equivalent in the reaction chamber can be precisely controlled to avoid the destruction of the reaction chamber due to excessive energy.

The continuous firing of fuel balls from the reaction chamber can provide a steady stream of propulsion for the engine, achieving an effect similar to that of a recoil engine, but consuming very little fuel.

When the senior military officials heard the news, they shattered their glasses.

Solid fuel is nothing new. The missiles deployed by the military in outer space are all solid fuel.

But the nuclear power engine actually uses solid fuel, and it works as ridiculously as a BB bomb, it's hard not to be shocked.

But no matter what kind of work method is used, whether it can be used and whether it is easy to use is the most critical issue.

The two prototypes produced by Beiyuezhou were sent to the orbital factory immediately and installed on a 011-class warship.

This 011-class warship was returned to the factory for overhaul due to a breakdown, and failed to join the combined fleet. It is currently the only 011-class warship owned by Beiyuezhou.

After the new engine was installed, the 011-class ship immediately started sea trials.

It was found that the nuclear-powered engine not only fully met the design standards, but also slightly exceeded its acceleration performance, and its acceleration ability was no less than that of a chemical fuel engine.

According to the calculations of the Design Institute, if the 024 is equipped with a nuclear power engine, it only takes one month to fly from Earth to Mars, and it only takes four to five months to fly to Jupiter!

Such data does not seem to be a big deal, it is nothing more than twice as powerful as the electromagnetic engine.

But this data is true direct flight data. In other words, a spacecraft using a nuclear-powered engine does not need to use the earth's gravitational slingshot to accelerate, but can fly to Jupiter in more than four months by only relying on engine acceleration.

That would be too scary.

The emergence of nuclear power engines made up for the last shortcoming of space battleships. Beidu immediately notified Beiyuezhou to start building the first-generation space carrier.

The military's need for a new type of warship is extremely urgent, but it is worried about the uncertainties brought about by launching a large warship directly. After thinking about it, it finally decided to launch a medium-sized space carrier.

In mid-March, the keel was laid for the first space carrier, officially named Penglai.

In order to protect the fragile propellers, the Penglai did not adopt a dangerous external engine solution, but installed a brake engine on the bow, and it was a design that could rotate 360 ​​degrees and adjust the attitude of the battleship.

The installation of engines on the bow will inevitably affect the weapon configuration on the bow, but overall the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

According to the experience of the Navy, the risk of using an aircraft carrier alone is relatively high, and an aircraft carrier battle group with the aircraft carrier as the core must be formed. Referring to the experience of forming an aircraft carrier battle group, the 024-level and 026-level aircraft carrier battle groups will become the escort warships of the aircraft carrier battle group, supply Ships, hospital ships and other specialized warships are also being designed.

However, the first thing the design institute came up with was not the design of the battleship, but the design plan of the second-generation aerospace fighter.

The wing-mounted engine scheme that could not be applied to the battleship was directly transferred to the design of the fighter by the designers, endowing the new fighter with unparalleled maneuverability.

Human beings have been using the wing-mounted engine solution on large aircraft such as passenger planes and transport aircraft. Now it is just to let the aircraft with bomber structure perform the mission of fighter jets. No one stipulates that the engine mounted under the wings is not considered a fighter jet. The practical solution is the best. plan.

isn't it? To be continued. .