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Chapter 400 Guided Electromagnetic Gun

Of course, what made the alien humans most angry was that since Liu Xiu destroyed the expedition mining fleet, their superconducting ore was naturally insufficient, which made it difficult for them to manufacture some weapons.

For example, the electromagnetic gun made of superconductors has to use low-temperature superconductors instead because there are no room-temperature superconductors like Pandora. Such a huge superconducting coil cooling equipment is naturally unavoidable.

This naturally leads to the fact that the electromagnetic cannon manufactured has the same power, and is more than ten times heavier than the battery cannon made of room-temperature superconductors.

Therefore, installing such a heavy electromagnetic gun on a space fighter will naturally affect the acceleration performance of the space fighter, affect the internal space of the space fighter, destroy the overall structure of the space fighter and cause a series of problems.

Of course, although low-temperature superconductors are inconvenient to use, they are not unusable. Therefore, the alien humans still decided to use low-temperature superconductors as weapons for the power of the weapons.

Even electromagnetic catapult missiles were developed from this.

That's right, it's the electromagnetic catapult missile. There's no other way. Since the nuclear fusion reactor cannot be miniaturized, the missile still uses the most common rocket engine powered by chemical fuel, so it's naturally not good in terms of acceleration.

Therefore, the method of using electromagnetic catapult to accelerate the missile to give it an initial velocity naturally came out.

As for the rocket engine on the missile, it is used as energy to change direction. There is no way to change the direction by directly adding a tail wing or front wing in the atmosphere and controlling the tail wing or front wing. However, this is space, so there is naturally no way to use the airflow. The only way to change the direction is to use the extra thrust of the rocket engine.

The combination of electromagnetic guns and missiles just makes up for each other's respective shortcomings. The first one is naturally to make up for the problem that although the electromagnetic cannon shells are fast, they cannot turn.

Although electromagnetic cannon shells are fast, they are still not enough in the outer space battlefield where distances are often measured in astronomical units. After all, when an electromagnetic cannon strikes an enemy that is outside an astronomical unit, the muzzle may miss the enemy if it deviates slightly by 0.001 millimeter.

Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the enemy is also moving. Therefore, even if the electromagnetic cannon shells want to strike the enemy one astronomical unit away, it will take more than eight minutes to reach the target at the speed of light. But in reality, the electromagnetic cannon shells can reach one tenth of the speed of light, let alone the speed of light, which is already very powerful.

At such a distance of one astronomical unit, it would take at least eighty minutes for an electromagnetic cannon to hit the target. During this process, if the target moves a little, the electromagnetic cannon shell will pass by it.

Therefore, in this kind of ultra-long-range attack, guidance becomes particularly important.

The electromagnetic guided shells that are a combination of electromagnetic shells and missiles make up for the fact that although the missile can change direction and turn, its speed is not fast.

The electromagnetic catapult missile produced by adding the two together just makes up for each other's shortcomings, achieving a situation where one plus one is greater than two.
This is similar to the effect of the guided artillery shell before Liu Xiu traveled through time.

Of course, the place where guided artillery shells were most used before Liu Xiu traveled through time was the battlefield of the Big Bear and the Small Bear.

Among them, the guided artillery shells of the Daxiong family have significant combat effectiveness and advantages. Taking the Red Earth guided artillery shells of the Daxiong family as an example, its main features include:

High strike accuracy: When traditional artillery shells strike long-distance targets, the accuracy will decrease with the increase of distance. However, due to the use of guidance technology, the Red Earth guided artillery shells can accurately hit targets tens of kilometers away, significantly improving combat effectiveness.

Low combat cost: Due to the high strike accuracy, the use of Red Earth guided artillery shells can effectively destroy the target while reducing ammunition consumption, thereby reducing combat costs.

Powerful, the guided artillery shell has a large killing radius and destructive power. One shell can easily destroy a multi-story building, which shows its powerful power. Strong anti-interference ability: On the battlefield, guided artillery shells need to face various complex electromagnetic environments and interferences, and the "Red Soil" guided artillery shells have strong anti-interference capabilities, which can ensure accurate strikes in complex environments.

Simple structure and easy to operate: The overall structure of this guided artillery shell is relatively simple and easy to operate. It can complete shooting preparation and launching in a short time, which improves combat flexibility and response speed.

In the Big Bear and Little Bear War, the Big Bear side used a large number of Red Earth guided artillery shells to accurately strike enemy targets, achieving remarkable results. This high-precision strike method not only reduced the consumption of ammunition, but also minimized accidental injuries to civilians and non-military targets.

Therefore, the guided artillery shells of the Daxiong family have the advantages of high precision, high power, low cost, strong anti-interference ability and easy operation, and play an important role in the war. Of course, the more critical thing is that the guided artillery shells, because of their high efficiency, also greatly reduce the pressure on logistics.

After all, in the past, depending on the accuracy of artillery shells, it would take ten or a hundred shells to destroy a target, but guided artillery shells can hit the target with a single shot.

This will naturally reduce the consumption of artillery shells, thereby achieving the goal of reducing logistics pressure.

Of course, while the alien humans were conducting experiments on the combination of electromagnetic guns and missiles, Liu Xiu was also working on the combination of electromagnetic guns and missiles.

After all, the strategic vision is not just about the alien humans. Liu Xiu's side is also not bad. Moreover, Liu Xiu's side not only combines missiles and electromagnetic artillery shells, but even combines three missiles.

That is, it is a combination of missiles, electromagnetic shells and annihilation bombs.

It has the precision guidance capability of a missile, the speed of an electromagnetic artillery shell, and the power of an annihilation bomb, or antimatter bomb.

Otherwise, if it is just a guided electromagnetic gun, then when attacking a space battleship, even if it is concentrated, it is very likely that it will only cause a penetrating wound, which will not be fatal.

Therefore, when adding the guidance capability, an annihilation bomb was added to the battery shell to serve as a range kill.

Of course, there are some difficulties in studying how to guide electromagnetic artillery shells. At the beginning, just like ordinary air-to-air missiles, radar guidance is used to attack the target.

But this situation has a big disadvantage.

You should know that radar-guided air-to-air missiles are when the fighter radar detects the target and then launches the missile, and then the aircraft radar receives the target's change of position.

So the air-to-air missile was remotely controlled to change its position and chase after the enemy plane.

This type of radar guidance seems to have no problems, but don't forget that the maximum distance between the two fighter jets fighting in the planet's atmosphere is no more than a hundred kilometers, so the signal delay of radar guidance that propagates at the speed of light is almost negligible.

But once you are in space, things are different. Not to mention hundreds of kilometers, millions of kilometers or even tens of millions of kilometers are very common.

If radar guidance is used at this time, it would be too late by the time the guidance signal reaches the guided electromagnetic artillery shell.

(End of this chapter)