Chapter 487 War and Technology

Of course, the commander-in-chief of the Red Flame Civilization knew about the assault mothership, and he had also participated in the new military weapons seminar.

In the conception of weapons experts, as long as they have the technology of miniaturization of magnetic propulsion, they can move the magnetic propulsion to small spaceships, and these small spaceships are designed with the concept of small mass, large acceleration, and large ammunition load.

This is specially designed for the flagship of the Earth civilization to enter the overload state.

In fact, the weapons experts of the Red Flame Civilization originally wanted to install the magnetic propulsion on the electromagnetic gun shells to turn them into electromagnetic gun missiles, but they obviously had a wild idea. Even if the magnetic propulsion was miniaturized, it would not be small enough.

So they could only settle for the second best and design a small unmanned assault spacecraft, which can also be called a small assault ship.

Because it is designed for human flagships, this small assault ship has only the basic fuel tank of the magnetic propulsion, and the rest are all ultra-micro nanorobots.

Under the pressure of war, the research centers of the Red Flame Civilization are all leaning towards military industry. It is precisely because of this sense of urgency that they have burst out with potential that was unimaginable before. In this context, the magnetic push miniaturization technology was put on the fast track from the original slow research, making the technology that was originally said to be possible to break through in one or two hundred years possible to be realized in fifty years ahead of schedule.

War undoubtedly brings endless pain to civilization and causes tragic scenes of the disappearance of life. However, in some cases, it will also promote the development of science and technology.

Of course, it is not all-round technology, but some manifestations of the concentration of national resources for science and technology development because of the need. The basis of this progress is still the basic technology of this civilization, and at the cost of lagging behind in other aspects.

There is a saying that science and technology development is a double-edged sword. Although war is not a real catalyst for science and technology development, the results of science and technology development are often easily used by war first, and instead become a catalyst for war.

For example, gunpowder was discovered accidentally in human history.

The difference between it and the current Chiyan civilization, and even the various technologies in human history that have been vigorously supported and developed because of the needs of war, is only unintentional and intentional.

This relationship has been like this in human history, and it is still the same in alien civilizations today, just as the Chiyan civilization has stepped up its efforts to promote the research of magnetic propulsion miniaturization technology in order to win the war.

Similarly, the human side has also made corresponding changes in the construction of new warships. It is not that the Chiyan civilization has not yet developed magnetic propulsion miniaturization and has been known by humans, but that humans have reflected on the results and tactics of their fleets after fighting many battles with the Chiyan civilization.

As Yue Yuan mentioned before, the structure of human warships is too simple and cannot cope with various emergencies in war, especially when there are some special tasks and emergency repairs.

Therefore, in the newly built warships, in addition to adding engineering motherships dedicated to maintenance, humans also added dedicated warships for raids, which humans call assault ships.

There is no word "small" in front, because humans have not mastered the magnetic propulsion miniaturization technology at all. Not only that, unlike the Chiyan civilization, which has a main civilization here, humans do not have many people in this star system, and it is even more difficult to start researching magnetic propulsion miniaturization.

So humans have to find another way and work hard on design.

The assault ship will be designed as a single electromagnetic railgun main gun warship, and the shell type will also abandon the nanorobot warhead and replace it with armor-piercing hydrogen bomb warhead.

This design is naturally aimed at the new warships of the Red Flame Civilization. The armor of the new warships of the Red Flame Civilization uses human No. 1 alloy. Human micro-nano robots can indeed disintegrate, but when the ultra-micro nanorobot technology is not as good as the opponent, the efficiency of this shell warhead is very slow. It is better to directly use armor-piercing bullets to penetrate the enemy ship armor and then explode internally.

It just so happens that when humans sold No. 1 alloy to the Nair civilization, they specifically developed this kind of armor-piercing bullet.

In addition, in order to meet the high acceleration flexibility requirements of the assault ship, the assault ship also directly abandoned the nano-repair robot in the design, and the fuel depot was also reduced as much as possible. It was basically designed for a disposable warship.

Even the armor does not use No. 2 alloy, which is difficult to produce, but uses No. 1 alloy with a larger output.

The corresponding tactics are to cover the main battleships, and then let the assault ships fight in close combat, and try to achieve one assault ship for one main battleship of the enemy, which is enough.

On the surface, it is one for one, but from the perspective of production cost, humans have the advantage.

In fact, humans have also thought about making assault motherships, and then carrying small assault ships on the assault motherships. This is the same as the Red Flame Civilization, but there is no magnetic propulsion miniaturization technology.

This is the core technology that can make the assault mothership concept a reality. Without magnetic propulsion miniaturization, using the propulsion technology of traditional second-level civilizations, small assault ships cannot catch up with the opponent's warships.

The Red Flame Civilization also proposed this plan after the possibility of magnetic propulsion miniaturization was realized. Of course, that was fifty years later.

Now facing such a situation, humans can only work hard on optimizing the fleet structure and production capacity. The last time the first fleet failed to take down the opponent's second planet base in one go, it has proved that humans need to make changes.

From past wars, we can also see that war is not static, but will make corresponding adjustments as the war develops, as new technologies emerge, and as new problems are discovered.

If this war really lasts for fifty years, humans will naturally see the Red Flame Civilization using small magnetic propulsion technology on the battlefield, and then come up with countermeasures in the future.

Similarly, during the war, both sides will gradually understand the technology mastered by the other side over time, and then find ways to master the other side's technology.

Reverse engineering by salvaging the wreckage of the other side's warships is possible in civilizations of the same level. Of course, this requires a long process and more advanced computer technology than the other side.

Time flies, and twenty years have passed unknowingly.

During this period, humans relied on abundant resources and the efficient production of strong artificial intelligence in four bases to create 7 million assault ships and 4 million battleships.

It was also in this year that the two sides broke out in another large-scale battle. It was also the human side that took the initiative to attack the second planetary base of the Red Flame Civilization, led by the Second Fleet.

In this battle, the Red Flame Civilization was surprised to find that they could fight a 1:1 loss ratio with human warships. However, the surprise did not last long, because they found that the number of human warships was basically the same as theirs, and their advantage in the number of warships was reversed this year.

When this news reached their main civilization, the top leaders of the Red Flame Civilization realized that they really could not beat the Earth civilization. However, they did not give up, but narrowed the defense line again and put all the defense focus on the core star field, hoping to delay for another 30 years.

As the saying goes, 30 years in the east, 30 years in the west, when the magnetic propulsion miniaturization technology is realized in 30 years, it will be time for them to reverse the situation.