Homo sapiens.

Chapter 411 Feathered Serpent
9 month 11 day.

The turmoil from the outside world did not affect Li Qingye's daily work.

He is currently in the Hugang Basin in Hongsawady.

As one of the five space cities of Homo sapiens.

Compared with the other four aerospace cities, the military style here is stronger.

Wu Feng, who was in charge of the Longerang Mountain Base before, has recently been transferred here to be responsible for the management of this space city.

In addition, people from the space department and the defense department also appeared here.

Mang Qingshan, sent by the Defense Department, explained to him: "Chairman, this is the Feathered Serpent Corps we recently formed."

"How do you train?" Li Qingye was a little curious. He knew about the formation of the Feathered Serpent Corps in the defense department. After all, such a major event must be approved by him.

Mang Qingshan is the person in charge of the corps. When he heard the question, he quickly replied: "We have cooperated with the space department and borrowed part of the astronaut training facilities. As for the actual combat training, there is no other way."

"I heard that the Ministry of Defense is revising the previous plan recently?"

Mang Qingshan nodded: "Yes, it is due to the emergence of new technologies and technical adjustments."

"Which part was adjusted?"

"Before we planned to use the space shuttle to take off on the ground, but now we have changed it to take off at a position of 3 meters in the stratosphere."

Li Qingye's eyes flashed with clarity: "A vacuum airship platform?"

"Yes, taking off in the middle of the stratosphere, the atmospheric resistance will drop by about 15 times, and the distance from the Karman line is also 7 meters, which can satisfy the space shuttle with a large load to enter and exit the atmosphere."

Li Qingye stroked the stubble on his chin, and then ordered: "Call out the defense department's plan and have a look."

"Please wait a moment, I will arrange it right away."

After a while, Mang Qingshan called up an internal planning document of the Ministry of Defense and projected it on the holographic device.

There are not only various planning schemes on it, but also many conceptual models and scenarios.

Specifically, it is to build an airship platform that is about the size of a dandelion airship, but with double the vacuum volume. The platform will have a vacuum volume of 40 billion cubic meters.

At an altitude of 3 meters, the airship will have 4 tons of buoyancy, minus the weight of 1 tons of supporting facilities, and the remaining 3 tons of buoyancy will be used to carry the space shuttle.

To be precise, it is not a space shuttle, but an aerospace fighter and an aerospace transport aircraft.

The Feathered Serpent Legion is the force responsible for managing the space carrier, and it is also a special force, because the Feathered Serpent Legion has three orbital airborne regiments, which can drop into any area of ​​the earth from suborbital.

As for why it is unnecessary.

The reason for the Ministry of Defense is to avoid the airspace of other countries. Airspace in the usual sense refers to the airspace below the Karman line. The suborbital and low-Earth orbits above the Karman line are all international public areas and do not need to pass through other countries. allowed to pass freely.

In other words, those landlocked countries actually have a "coastline", and that coastline is the Karman Line at a height of 100 kilometers.

If Homo sapiens wants to enter the Mobei region, if they follow the traditional mode of transportation, they can only pass through the control area of ​​Lucia or the Far East.

But if the suborbital route is adopted, Homo sapiens does not need to pass through the control areas of Lucia and the Far East, and naturally does not need the permission of the other party.

In this case, Homo sapiens can use the concept of "cosmic sea" to radiate their influence to a number of landlocked countries.

Li Qingye looked at the cost again.

Among them, the total cost of the Aircraft Carrier 2 is estimated to be 5.2 million gold dollars a piece.

750 million gold dollars for an aerospace fighter.

An aerospace transport aircraft costs 3860 million gold dollars.

A set of orbital airborne armor is 8 gold.

In terms of operating costs, the space carrier uses nuclear reactors, and the energy consumption cost is 50 million gold dollars for 600 years.

Aerospace fighters and aerospace transport aircraft use methane liquid oxygen engines, and the fuel cost of a single flight is only about one-thirtieth of that of a ground launch.

Li Qingye saw five aerospace planes jointly designed by the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Space.

One of the aerospace transport aircraft with a payload of 2000 tons has a dead weight of 1200 tons, but only 3000 tons of methane and liquid oxygen.

If it is launched on the ground, at least 6 tons of methane and liquid oxygen are needed to send a load of 3200 tons to suborbital orbit.

Launching at high altitude can indeed save a lot of fuel and effectively reduce operating costs.

As long as it enters the suborbital area, it can easily fly over the target and then drop 2000 tons of payload.

This 2000-ton payload will land using a method similar to launch vehicle recovery technology. It can be a special empty container, or it can carry a special airborne force, or it can be a lot of bombs.

In fact, solid-fuel rockets launched in suborbital orbits can easily reach more than ten times the speed of sound under the blessing of gravitational acceleration.

Even the electromagnetic gun can be used directly to launch tungsten steel rods to the target ground.

There are too many condescending attack methods, even if a steel ball is thrown down, the power is comparable to a bullet.

The purpose of the establishment of the Feathered Serpent Corps is to enhance the strike force of Homo sapiens in suborbital orbits, and at the same time, it is also taking advantage of the existing rules to exploit loopholes.

The cost of launching a 2000-ton load to suborbit is actually 3000 tons of methane and liquid oxygen. The cost is about 4 gold dollars, and the average transportation cost is 50 gold dollars per ton of load.

The cost is not too high, but it is not cheap either.

But for some closed inland areas, the transportation cost of 50 gold yuan per ton is also acceptable.

For example, transporting some emergency supplies, special equipment, important items, etc., can be quickly put in place in this way.

Li Qingye understood the defense department's thinking.

They should have considered that Homo sapiens will intervene in the affairs of other regions in the future, and they did not want to waste words with other forces along the way, so they promoted suborbital transportation and suborbital airborne.

After all, the relationship between Homo sapiens and other regions is not very good. Even countries in Africa, South America, and West Asia that cooperate with Homo sapiens on the surface are actually very vigilant against Homo sapiens secretly.

This is mainly because Homo sapiens often annexed other small countries, which is obviously unacceptable to most forces.

If Homo sapiens were not strong enough, the great powers would have formed a coalition to attack Homo sapiens.

Therefore, it will definitely not be so easy to pass through the airspace of other regions in the future, and the forces along the way will definitely be very wary of Homo sapiens' air force entering its control area.

You can't fight all the way, can you?If you really do this, you will make a special meal of dumplings for a plate of vinegar, which is not worth the candle.

Li Qingye didn't say anything about it. It's a good thing that the defense department has this kind of strategic thinking.

The development and progress of technology will inevitably lead to the innovation of tactics and strategy.

There is no need for the Ministry of Defense to follow the rules too much, just like when America developed information warfare, it was because of the military changes brought about by the development of information technology.

Now Homo sapiens is also exploring new tactical strategies to take full advantage of the advantages brought by new technologies.

Suborbital, a special interstellar public area, was previously unreachable by technology, and many forces had no way to use it, so they could only do some theoretical research.

Now Homo sapiens is going to lead the times and develop a new mode of warfare.

He finished reading the internal documents of the Defense Department: "Wu Feng, put it away! Let's go to the training base to have a look."

Wu Feng quickly turned off the projector, and ordered his assistant to clean up the traces of that document.

He took Li Qingye to the training base of the suborbital paratroopers.

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