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Chapter 450 Fifth Generation Space Fighter

And that’s not all. Liu Xiu has deployed a lot of weapons and equipment on the planet Origa VI.

Especially the three space carriers that Liu Xiu left in the orbit of the planet Origa VI. They are the most advanced weapons and equipment on the Wandering Blue Planet.

Of course, what makes a space carrier so powerful is not the space carrier itself, but the fifth-generation space fighters it carries. That's right, Liu Xiu also classified the fighters that can fly into space into different levels.

Just like how jet fighters were classified into different levels back then.

The classification of Liu Xiu’s first generation of space fighters can actually be traced back to more than a hundred years ago, to Liu Xiu’s father Liu Qin!
When Liu Xiu was separated from Li Yunlong's independent regiment because of his military achievements, he happened to become the test pilot of the wooden plane that Liu Qin had just made.

From then on, things got out of control, and the new third infantry regiment that Liu Xiu had just established was transformed into an aviation regiment.

Of course, all this is thanks to Liu Xiu's father Liu Qin. If it weren't for the wooden airplane he made, Liu Xiu would only be able to run on his two legs!
It is also impossible for it to become an air-feeder directly and eventually obtain a four-star achievement. In fact, Liu Xiu himself understood that without Liu Qin's plane, with Liu Qi's qualifications and combat record, the New Third Regiment could at most become a lion like Li Yunlong's Independent Regiment, and then obtain a one-star achievement, and at most two stars.

But when Liu Qin made a wooden plane and Liu Xiu even flew this wooden plane to shoot down the Japanese plane, everything was different.

After all, the role that an aviation regiment can play is incomparable to that of an infantry regiment.

And just to say that the cost of building an infantry regiment and an aviation regiment is completely different.

Although an aviation regiment only has thirty fighter jets, which is already considered the top configuration, but what if these thirty are fifth-generation Jijian 20 fighter jets!

You have to know that in the world before Liu Xiu traveled through time, the cost of building a Jian-20 fighter was almost seven small targets!

Thirty planes would be twenty small targets, but an infantry regiment only has so many equipments. Even a mechanized infantry regiment is equipped with tanks, but a tank regiment only has thirty to forty tanks.

But the value of a tank is nowhere near that of a fifth-generation tank. Even the most advanced third-generation tanks, thirty of them, are not worth the price of one Jian-20.

After all, the importance of air supremacy is becoming more and more important, and air supremacy in combat within the planet is also of utmost importance.

This is even more true in interstellar wars, because of the pulse detonation engine developed by Liu Qin, which not only reduces fuel consumption by nearly half compared to the turbojet engine, but also has a thrust-to-weight ratio that can easily exceed 20.

It is precisely because of this that the first generation of space fighters became possible.

The reason why chemical fuels are still used as fuel for space fighters is that there is no other way, because miniaturization of nuclear reactors has always been a big problem.

Fortunately, nuclear fusion reactors can be miniaturized, and the pulse detonation engine has finally been replaced by a space fighter propelled by plasma flow powered by a nuclear fusion reactor.

It is precisely because of this that space fighters using nuclear fusion engines naturally become second-generation space fighters.

With nuclear fusion as the power source, the weapons on the sky fighter have also changed from ordinary missiles and machine guns to laser weapons and electromagnetic weapons.

Therefore, the speed and endurance of space fighters at this time have been greatly improved, so if missiles are used, they will not be able to catch up with the second-generation space fighters.

Then there are the third generation space fighters. In fact, the third generation space fighters are not much different from the second generation space fighters in terms of performance. The biggest difference is that they use optical stealth technology, which allows space fighters to achieve a certain degree of optical stealth. This combat mode was used when the interstellar fleets of Pandora and Blue Star No. 2 fought, and the effect was very good.

After that, they took advantage of the extreme speed of antimatter from Blue Planet No. 2 and successfully used the annihilation reactor to create a fourth-generation space fighter that could reach 80% of the speed of light.

However, because it possesses the annihilation energy of antimatter, the acceleration and deceleration are too fast for ordinary people to withstand. Even those who have been genetically enhanced cannot withstand this acceleration of more than several hundred overloads.

Therefore, the fourth-generation space fighter has adopted the technology of remote control driving using quantum entanglement.

Next is the fifth-generation space fighter. Although this fifth-generation space fighter has not undergone any upgrades in energy, its body strength has been taken to a higher level.

This is mainly due to the high-strength material manufacturing technology used by the engineer civilization on the planet LV223 to build spacecraft.

You have to know that this high-strength material manufacturing technology is dozens of times stronger than the best material Liu Xiu has!

This can be seen from the fact that when the Prometheus spacecraft collided with the Engineer's spacecraft, the result was that although the Engineer's spacecraft was knocked down, the Prometheus was smashed into pieces while the hull of the Engineer's spacecraft remained intact. This shows how hard the hull of the spacecraft made by the Engineer civilization is.

Space fighters made of this material can easily achieve acceleration or turning overloads exceeding tens of thousands of Gs and remain unscathed.

This will naturally enable the space fighter using antimatter energy to exert its ultimate mobility.

Its space fighter research department has conducted experiments, using fourth-generation space fighters to deal with fifth-generation space fighters. The results showed that the fifth-generation space fighters can use superb and excellent maneuvers that make it impossible for the opponent's aiming system to predict.

In addition, high-strength materials also bring extremely high impact resistance. Both electromagnetic gun weapons and laser weapons have much stronger impact resistance than ordinary materials.

According to the final simulation results, if the fourth-generation space fighter is used to fight against the fifth-generation space fighter built with high-strength materials invented by the engineer civilization, the final result will be a hundred to zero.

There is no way. Although the fourth-generation and fifth-generation space fighters are all remotely controlled, due to material reasons, the maximum overload capacity of the fourth-generation space fighter is only a few hundred Gs, and it is difficult to make an overload fuselage that exceeds one thousand Gs.

If it were any higher, the fuselage would be torn apart by the powerful inertia because of its insufficient strength.

But the fifth-generation fighter is different. After using the materials on the spacecraft of the engineer civilization, its overload capacity can reach or even exceed 10,000 Gs.

Therefore, the result is that the powerful maneuverability is simply not comparable to that of the fourth-generation fighters.

Of course, it's not just the fourth-generation and fifth-generation fighters that have a huge generational gap in combat power. In fact, there are huge generational gaps in previous generations of space fighters.

For example, there is a big generation gap between the first-generation chemical energy fighter jets and the second-generation nuclear fusion energy fighter jets.

Then there was a generation gap between the second-generation non-stealth fighters and the third generation, and then there was a huge generation gap between the fourth-generation antimatter fighters and the nuclear fusion energy fighters.

(End of this chapter)