An Unscientific Mechanic

In short, Magellan's improved design is temporarily abandoned. Now the development team is focusing on the development of new ships. The existing Magellan modernization plan is taken over by another team.

"Gravitational radar, finally finished..." In November, Ian finally reproduced the gravitational radar. "In this way, the cruiser can be formally finalized. The Minovsky particle... Rum will not be defeated miserably, right."

"Is it the factory area? I, Ian Vasty. I hope to try out a device, um, a new type of radar for the cruiser. A week later? Okay, I will send the parts produced in the laboratory tomorrow." Ian contacted In the factory of the base, some special parts that can only be produced on a small scale in the laboratory are used for trial production of a graviton radar.

"Colonel Edward, the last piece of the puzzle is complete. Find a place to install this radar, so that this ship can also carry out long-distance search for enemies in the Minovsky particle environment."

"Did you develop the legendary Minovsky particle radar? I basically don't understand the radar at all." Colonel Edward received the design drawings sent to him by Ian.

"Why do you have to add the Minovsky particle prefix to everything? Now we are too dependent on the Minovsky particle." Ian slid to the side of Colonel Edward in his chair. "Graviton radar, it directly detects the faint gravitational waves around the object. In that case, there will be no interference by Minovsky particles without electromagnetic waves. After the integration, send me the complete data. I have been working on radar. , Haven’t seen the results of other people yet."

"Then you have to ask them to tell them for yourself. They have squeezed out good things in the past few months." Colonel Edward has already begun to integrate the Gravton Radar into the bridge's electronic equipment array. "By the way, during the battle, all officers were transferred to the cic in the center of the hull. The tall external bridge was only used for navigation, and the cic’s armor was simply breathtaking, even if Magellan’s main gun had to hit twice at close range. In order to break it, cic can even be used as an escape bin to escape alone, and the captains above will think that you treat them as a tortoise with their heads shrunk..."

"Can you have any comments? This ship should only be used as the flagship of the fleet in the early days. Those generals are still more reliable to stay in the armor box. If the bridge is hit by a stray bullet and loses the command system, the fleet will not Is it over?"

"Yes, but if you can't see the route with the naked eye, will the captains feel insecure?"

"There is only one layer of glass in the universe, so there is no sense of security. If it is not necessary to install electronic equipment on the bridge, I would like to change the bridge to a completely built-in bridge. The Magellan-class bridge projection is larger than the hull projection. ."

"Haha, that's not the case. The Magellan and Salamis hull projections are less than half of the bridge projection. At that time, I wanted to thicken the armor of the bridge, but it was rejected, saying that the center of gravity is too high. It is not conducive to the control of the hull. If the center of gravity changes, change the attitude control spout. What does it mean to cut the armor. Nowadays, the Magellan class usually has soldiers in the thick hull, and officers are running naked on the bridge. What do you think..."

"..." Ian silently opened the Magellan-class design. The bridge armor is a uniform 300mm composite armor, and then the inside of the armor is a composite layer for radiation protection and sealing of the bridge. This layer is fragile to 9mm. Pistols can be damaged.

And the armor of the ship is 1 meter thick on average...the ammunition depot is protected by a 500mm armor box. The armor directly in front of the ship is 2 meters thick. But the main gun is more embarrassing, with only 700 mm armor on the front.

"In such a comparison, you are really streaking...have there been no accidents for so many years?"

"In the past two years, a Magellan-class bridge glass was shattered by shards, and the bridge personnel were completely wiped out. Later, all the bridge glass of the spaceship was designed with gates for emergency sealing. This avoided the subsequent ships. There was a tragedy, and later the glass of the Salamis-class bridge was broken, but the gate was sealed and everyone was fine." Colonel Edward's work has not stopped.

"Let’s discuss the matter of the fully built-in bridge for a while, and leave a viewing platform outside. The monitors all over the ship and the fixed-point drones deployed within 500 meters of the ship’s hull are no better than the naked eye."

"Spot drone?" Edward stopped. Looking up at the ceiling, thinking about these five words and Ian's description before. "It makes sense. In this case, there is no problem of being attacked."

"But now the UAV's battery life is too poor, and there is no way to follow the ship's maneuver, but it can be handled by releasing one after a period of time." Ian has a ready-made UAV on hand, but the performance is really good. Unfortunately, it is estimated that there will be no fuel in one hour of battle with the warship, and it will be destroyed by stray bullets in 15 minutes.

"Using drones is okay. When the fleet is maneuvering, the detection equipment of each ship is linked, and the detection results are aggregated to generate a three-dimensional model of the surrounding environment, which is similar to the effect of using a drone. When a single ship is moving, it will use unmanned The machine is ready." Edward continued his homework. "The new optical device developed by Major Yang has a recognition distance of more than 1,000 kilometers even if the opponent is in the shadow of the planet."

"More than that, I am now developing a new recognition algorithm. The computer will recognize the pictures taken by the high-precision camera pixel by pixel, lock and recognize the moving objects." Major Yang Pengcheng also slid over.

"Wow, the relationship is good, so the data collected by the Gravton Radar and your optical device can be mutually verified."

"Furthermore, this set of equipment I developed is not only used for navigating ships and observing the enemy, but also integrated into the main guns and anti-aircraft guns. The accuracy of the new gun turrets should increase a lot. After all, the observation points If there are more, the accuracy of the observation will be higher."

"Well... But will the cost of this turret be too high? It won't be good to exceed the budget in the end."

"No, no. After mass production, the cost of these optical equipment is not high. Just add a main gun."

"...In other words, the price of the newly added optical equipment is as expensive as the main gun?" Magellan-class main guns are not cheap. More than half of the cost of the Magellan-class is two main Mega particle guns and five Mega particle subs. One-third of the gun is electronic equipment, and the remaining point is the cost of the thermonuclear engine and the hull.

The cost of the 356mm twin-mounted Mega particle main gun is more than twice that of the 280mm secondary gun. In other words, the price of a twin-mounted Mega particle gun is about one-eighth Magellan.

However, the new cruiser is equipped with 12 new 3-gun main guns, and the cost of an additional main gun shouldn’t matter... right. And also need to increase the armor, configure the gnaku, new electronic equipment.

In other words, the single-ship price of the new cruiser may be three times that of Magellan...

Ian realized that maybe the new ship was a bit expensive.

"What's the matter?" Edward finished his work.

"I feel that the price of this ship may be a bit too high." No matter how I calculate the price of this ship is a bit expensive.

"This is not something you should consider." Edward turned to Ian. "Controlling costs is the job of the purchasing department and the production plant. And, haven't you noticed that there is no budget requirement in the order? This ship probably does not have a budget ceiling. And based on the performance of this ship, a percentage system Hundred is the flagship of the fleet. There is no need to save money for the flagship. Moreover, Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka invented a device that can withstand the beam of Mega particles. Two!"

"Huh?" Ian's eyes instantly locked on the East Asian in the corner of the research room. "Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka! Come here, please. Bring your chair over."

Four people sit in a circle.

"Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka, have you made something that can resist the beam?"

"Well, it's not just me, Major Kobayashi also found a way to fight the beam."

"Major Xiaolin, come here. Forget it, come here. Colonel Edward has finished the integration. Come here and talk about their achievements." Ian thought for a while and wanted to call everyone in the research room.

"Let’s start with Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka. His invention can be said to be epoch-making." Edward projected the 3D model and drawings of the new cruiser onto the wall.

"I found the data of the Minovsky particle flight device through some personal relationships." Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka put part of the technical data on the screen. "The Minovsky particle flight device builds the I-Field under the hull. Then, a large number of Minovsky particles were walked under the hull to form an air cushion effect to make the hull fly up. I-Field Needless to say, the focusing device of the Mega Particle Cannon was all I-Field at that time. I thought, since Minovsky particles cannot pass through I-Field, and I-Field can condense Mega particles, then I-Field should also be able to block Mega particles. The result of subsequent experiments is this ."

Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka pointed to a device scattered throughout the hull. "The large-scale I-Field generator is now due to the insufficient output range, so it can only be used by deploying multiple parts separately so that the positions are wrapped around the hull. In addition, according to experiments, a single generator can withstand two consecutive Magellan-class bombardments. Three times it will overheat and fail. After overheating, it takes 15 seconds to force heat to dissipate. In order to deal with this situation, I imitated the principle of smoke bombs and chaff, and the beam disturbed the curtain. The inside is filled with a large number of negative Minovsky particles , It can counteract 5 Magellan-class artillery shots within 30 seconds."

"...It seems that the beam resistance of the new cruiser will be higher."

"More than that, Director Vasti. Major Kobayashi's invention can be called a trans-epoch."

Ian looked to Major Kobayashi, an armor material expert, who could be called a cross-epoch invention. What did this person invent? Is it possible to get Gundam Nim alloy γ out in advance?

"Please look here." Major Kobayashi magnified the hull armor. "Considering that the damage of the Mega Particle Cannon is mainly kinetic energy and heat energy, I newly designed a laminated armor. It can effectively resist the beam. After the beam hits the armor, the heat is distributed to the entire ship at a uniform speed through the heat dissipation device in the armor. In addition, because The armor adopts a multi-layer stacked structure with more space inside, and its effect against shells and explosions is stronger than that of general composite armor."

"Laminated armor... actually appeared here..." Ian can only think about these words.

"Major Kobayashi, Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka, your invention may once again change the way of war in the future. Colonel Edward, please continue."

"The power system is not too brilliant, but it is optimized on the basis of the Magellan class. The reactor has reserved space for the Minovsky particle flying device in terms of output. The thrust is also enough to push the ship body out of the atmosphere, no need The rocket booster." Lieutenant Colonel Perry, who is in charge of the power system, said directly. "The only difference is that the engine is actually outside the hull armor, and there is also strong enough armor that can be separated by detonating the explosive bolt when the engine is damaged and may explode, preventing an engine from exploding and destroying the warship."

"Electronic equipment fully considers the operation in the environment of high concentration of Minovsky particles, and now all the ships used in the ship are optical transmission. There will be no interference with the transmission of electrical signals by Minovsky particles.

Ji Zhongxian is currently developing optical cables for retrofitting old ship hulls. The retrofitting of the old ship hulls did not take into account the light path transmission, so the development is still difficult.

In addition, the ship is equipped with a newly designed fleet laser communication system, which can ensure that the communication is not disturbed in the environment of high concentration of Minovsky particles. "

"The firepower system was completed according to the scheduled plan, with 12 three-unit live ammunition and Mega particle dual-purpose main guns, 12 laser anti-aircraft guns, and 10 double-unit four-tube 80mm Gatling cannons. UU Reading www.uukanshu .com 3 64-mounted general-purpose missile launchers, 8 large anti-ship missile launchers, and I added 8 anti-missile laser cannons. I think Zeon will probably use nuclear weapons in the early days of the war." Responsible for the fire system The lieutenant colonel of the design also marked his own work. "The new main gun designed by Lieutenant Colonel Deakin, Lieutenant Nolan, and Major Niu has excellent performance, but now, the barrel life is insufficient when using live ammunition. Now the gun ejection speed has reached 1,100 meters per second, and the gun is fired with full charge. After 100 rounds of the barrel, there will be serious accuracy problems. In order to increase the muzzle velocity of the shell as much as possible, the life of the barrel is sacrificed. There is no way."

"Cannon barrel life... There should be relatively few opportunities to use live ammunition in the universe. Unless you can bombard from a long distance, or you don't use the full gun to shoot." Ian has no choice but to use guns with guns. The muzzle velocity is high. , The barrel life is too low. "It doesn't affect the use of the beam."

"It doesn't matter. After the replacement of the 406mm barrel, the power has increased by nearly 30% compared to the 356mm barrel, and the effective range has increased by 20%. Moreover, due to the replacement of a new energy pipeline and a large turret, the rate of fire has increased by nearly 120%. Now the continuous rate of fire has reached 15 rounds per minute, and the explosive firing rate can reach 20 rounds, but it needs to dissipate heat after one minute." Lieutenant Colonel Nolan accepted the words.

"It's very strong. Then wait for colleagues from various development teams to arrange large-scale weapons."