Great Power Technology.

Chapter 283 The era of electromagnetic guns kicks off
After visiting the fortress of Yongxia Island, Ye Zhou took a special plane back to Rongcheng. While the plane was still in the air, he had already seen the news of the electromagnetic gun on the ship on TV, which made him more convinced of what Ma Weiming had said before. Said that "electromagnetic guns are just a by-product".

To be able to conduct experiments in this area in such a grand manner, and then report it generously, depending on the situation, it is probably a backward product.

However, even the power of such outdated equipment is enough to bring about revolutionary changes in Ye Zhou's opinion. If the 055D can adjust the hull structure in the future to accommodate electromagnetic guns with greater power and longer range, and then match them with How about a laser anti-missile system?

Not to mention whether the era of giant cannons can come back, but at least, a series of major changes should take place in the future maritime combat methods.

However, it will take ample time for this day to come.

The top priority now is to get a dedicated quantum computer as soon as possible, so as to win that precious window period for the development of China's new technology.

Thinking of this, he turned on the computer directly, and began to deal with a series of unsolved problems related to topological quantum computing sent from Gongger Peak one by one.

On the Internet, the news about the electromagnetic gun has rushed to the top of the hot search list, and countless netizens gathered on the forum to discuss the latest test results.

"Damn it, has the rabbit taken some medicine recently? The new equipment is one after another, first the H-20, then the exoskeleton, and now the electromagnetic gun, and 003 will be released soon? Our Chang'e Did No. [-] also pick up alien technology on the back of the moon?"

"What alien technology? Haven't you discovered it yet? The latest new equipment is related to previous technological breakthroughs. The H-20 corresponds to the aviation engine, and the electromagnetic gun and exoskeleton correspond to the battery. 003003 seems to be It has something to do with everything."

"But in short, that's what happened. The development of military equipment is driven by the development of applied technology. I make an irresponsible prediction that the next equipment to be released should be the laser anti-missile system."

"Really? Laser anti-missile is too sci-fi, right?"

"It's nothing sci-fi. This is a mature technology. It can mainly solve the problems of capacitors and batteries. Laser anti-missiles can be practical. Now that electromagnetic guns have come out, these two problems have obviously been solved. What do you think?" Think, can laser weapons be far behind?"

"Is this going directly into a new era?"

"Whatever the new era is, it is all outdated technology. If we really want a new era, it depends on when the two-way foil can be made."

"The two-way foil is impossible, but I think the light particles are fast. Wait, I have a question. Didn't Ugly Country have been working on electromagnetic guns before? How are they progressing now?"

"Their research has been stopped long ago. It's not because they have no money. They owe such a big debt. Now that they have lost their energy supremacy, they have returned electromagnetic guns. It's not bad if they understand their own aircraft carrier fleets."

"Then they can't react at all, can they? A naval gun with a limit range of [-] kilometers is terrifying when you think about it."

"You know they haven't responded, maybe they are sitting together for a meeting now"

As discussed by netizens, at this moment, on the other side of the sea, in the white house in Ugly Country, a discussion meeting on the latest electromagnetic gun is going on.

".So, the situation is already clear. Huaxia tested the latest electromagnetic gun system this morning, and the results are amazing."

"According to the data, the range of their electromagnetic gun is about 300 kilometers, the muzzle velocity is 4000 meters, and the limit rate of fire should be 15 rounds per minute."

"This data performance has far exceeded our expectations, and even surpassed our latest achievement - the achievement two years ago. At that time, the maximum muzzle velocity we could achieve was only 2700 meters per second."

"According to this data, it is speculated that this electromagnetic gun has fully met the needs of practical combat. In the future, it will gradually replace short-range anti-ship missiles, or parallel them, and change the naval warfare pattern to a large extent."

"If Huaxia fully refits all ships, their firepower projection capabilities will make a huge leap --- although battleships are not practical, if a shield sword does not need to make any compromises on its own anti-missile capabilities It is a serious problem if you can still have the firepower of a battleship under the circumstances."

"What's more serious is that since the other party has taken this step, it means that they must have arranged for the next change in naval power. They are probably trying to bring the naval battle back to the era of giant cannons in some way."

Hearing his words, the man in the suit sitting at the center of the conference table frowned, and then said:
"Weison, although I am not an expert in the military field, I also have basic military knowledge. I would like to ask you, what do you mean by bringing naval warfare back to the era of giant cannons?"

"The two sides do not use missiles, but rely solely on artillery shells to bombard each other within visual range? How is this possible? This is not a Pacific Rim movie!"

Wesson shook his head helplessly, and replied:
"I know it sounds ridiculous, but unfortunately, this may indeed be one of the future directions of development."

"It stands to reason that maritime offensive and defensive equipment develops simultaneously. The shield ships are getting stronger and the anti-missile systems are getting stronger, so the missiles are also getting stronger."

"A very simple example. In order to break through the opponent's air defense network, we have hypersonic missiles and low-altitude breakout missiles. Huaxia also has more advanced waverider hypersonic missiles. These missiles are very advanced, but there is a problem. Yes, they are all developed symmetrically with the air defense force."

"No one can guarantee a [-]% breakthrough, and no one can guarantee a [-]% interception. It depends on the saturation strike and the effective attack probability."

"However, the emergence of a technology will completely change the pattern of offensive and defensive balance, that is, laser anti-missile."

"Gentlemen, you also know that laser anti-missile is one of our main directions. In the latest experiment, the interception rate of our laser anti-missile system is close to 99%. What does this mean? This means that in the future , it is very likely that the missile will not achieve any results at all."

"No matter how many missiles you launch, the laser anti-missile system can burn the missile's navigation department at the speed of light, making all missiles completely lose their aim."

"Isn't that good for us?"

The man in the suit interrupted Wesson.

Wesen glanced at him with some dissatisfaction, and then continued to explain:
"Yeah, this is a good thing for us, but the problem is that the other party also knows that this is a good thing for us, so they want to use electromagnetic guns."

"Lasers can intercept missiles, but it is impossible to intercept pure metal shells. Our development of laser weapons itself is an asymmetric strategy, while their electromagnetic guns are based on an asymmetric countermeasure strategy, or in other words, this is' Asymmetric strategies against asymmetric strategies'."

"Maybe their current laser weapons are not as developed as ours, but they don't care, because once their electromagnetic guns continue to make breakthroughs, then we will face the situation."

"Both of us, neither of us can guard against the other. We can only fight fast and exchange injury for injury."

Wesen saw that the man in the suit wanted to speak, so he immediately reached out to stop him.

"I know what you want to say. You probably want to say that we have more ships than them, and we have more missiles than them. If we exchange, we still have the advantage, right?"

"Yes."

The man in the suit nodded.

"But you overlooked a problem. As I said, their 055D is a shield ship! Its own anti-aircraft firepower is enough to withstand two or three waves of our attacks."

"A shield ship that can both fight and defend, rushed to the range of the electromagnetic gun against our missiles, and then rained bullets on us at a speed of 15 rounds per minute with high-precision fire control radar. Can you imagine that? Is it a picture? Anyway, whenever I think about it, I feel trembling all over."

"Before participating in this meeting, I have conducted a preliminary sand table simulation. The result of the simulation is that the battle damage ratio of our two ships will reach 4:1."

"Yes, we are the 4."

After his voice fell, the entire meeting room fell silent.

There was a confused fear on everyone's face. They couldn't figure out why things had developed to such an extent, and they couldn't figure out why just an electromagnetic gun could bring such a big change to the sea pattern .

A moment later, a slightly younger naval officer raised his hand, and after Weisen nodded, he said:
"Mr. Wesson, based on your inference just now, I have a more terrifying idea."

"Is it possible that Huaxia actually already has a laser anti-missile system? It is even possible that their laser anti-missile system is more advanced than ours?"

Wesson nodded heavily.

"What you said is not a possibility, but an established fact."

"According to the information we have, the opponent's Jiuquan and Xichang bases are preparing for some kind of large-scale rocket launch. Judging from the satellite images, what they are going to launch is likely to be a laser anti-missile system."

"Space-based laser anti-missile system!"

The man in the suit lowered his head silently. Even if he was an amateur, he could still understand the meaning of these words.

After hesitating for a moment, he asked:
"Can we limit the development of each other's laser technology? For example, through raw materials and technology"

"You are mistaken."

Wesson interrupted the other party mercilessly.

"Although we have been researching and developing laser weapons for a long time, the technology we use is still incoherent beam combining lasers, while in Huaxia, they use coherent beam combining."

"I can't explain the difference between the two to you in detail, but you just need to know that the technology of the other party is 20 years ahead of us."

"In addition, not only technology, 90% of the raw materials related to lasers are rare earths, and China's control over rare earths, I don't think I need to say more?"

"So, your idea is completely opposite."

"It's not how we limit the development of China's laser technology, but how we can escape their restrictions on us in the shortest possible time."

After these words were finished, the atmosphere in the conference room also quietly changed.

The sound of papers being flipped sparsely sounded, and everyone began to try their best to deduce possible solutions. It seemed that after realizing the identity of their "prey", their original depression was swept away.

If Ye Zhou could see this scene, he would definitely marvel at the strength and tenacity of his opponent.

After all, a country that can become the number one power in the world in just a hundred years should never be underestimated.

However, this did not affect Huaxia's established strategy.

Only four hours after announcing the test results of the electromagnetic gun, Huaxia announced that it would completely stop the export of rare earths and rare earth products. At the same time, Xichang and Jiuquan satellite launch bases successively announced their recent launch plans.

Many years later, when people look back, they may suddenly realize that the beginning of the end of the anti-ship missile era happened on this day.

The era of electromagnetic guns has officially kicked off.

(End of this chapter)