Spore Story

Chapter 592 Future Fleet: Swordfish Sets Sail
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Turning his head to look at the swordfish 01B, which is the size of a human destroyer, staying in the airport, he searched for the improvement technology related to it in his memory, and wanted to continue to improve, but finally shook his head.

Now the technical level of the Pengzu has been getting higher and higher, and it is impossible for Kong Huan to understand everything even if he has a long life. As for the research mode, it is only used for basic research now that it takes a few years, and it has been somewhat unable to keep up with Peng. The development speed of the family has increased.

Now the energy consumption of the magnetic field power engine and the energy storage of the electric core can only be handled by the designers of the Technology Bureau, and all he can think of is some external processing opinions, and then he can only rely on the funds And other aspects of support such as raw materials.

However, Kong Huan is very interested in the six forts on both sides of the hull. This is a romantic thing for men, munitions.It is said that during the battle of meteorites, I heard that electromagnetic guns, electromagnetic guns, and plasma cannons (worms) fired together. Now that I think about it, I was really at a loss for not being able to see that scene.

And Kong Huan, who has visited the skeleton assembly of the second-generation warship, has seen a standard fort that has already been completed in the warehouse not far from the warship dock. Of course, he can recognize that the swordfish in front of him is equipped with the second generation A medium-sized turret designed for modern warships.

The Lola-type electromagnetic gun, as the name suggests, is the second-generation non-closed barrel turret designed by the electromagnetic gun designer named Lola.

The turret equipped for Swordfish is a medium-sized roller-type electromagnetic gun turret with a uniform standard: the maximum diameter of the designed ammunition is 100mm; because it is equipped with an automatic loading mechanism and uses pure electromagnetic warheads, each turret has 2000 rounds of ammunition; The rate of fire can reach 15 rounds per minute.

Of course, that is in a relatively ideal situation. If it is in a tense battle, considering the time consumption such as aiming, it is already very good that the rate of fire can reach 12 rounds per minute.

From this point of view, the rate of fire of the friends' medium and small arms still needs to be improved.

And in the electromagnetic weapon design bureau independent from Aiyi's energy laboratory, combined with the current threat of bugs faced by the friends, aiming at the enemy's low-level numerical advantages and high-level defense advantages, the future weapons of the friends are drawn. Direction of development:
In the future, small and medium-sized weapons (guns below 100mm and guns below 15mm) will mainly pursue rate of fire, range, reliability and portability.It is to use the amount of ammunition delivered per unit to offset the numerical advantage of the bugs at the grassroots level;

Large weapons (heavy guns below 300mm) will pursue range, accuracy, flexibility and power.Only in this way can we effectively attack creatures with strong defense and flexible movement like giant elephants and corrupt dragons among Zerg arms;

As for the heavy weapons that are still in concept (super guns with a warhead diameter above 500mm), they will pursue performance such as range, armor-piercing power, accuracy, and warhead diversity.The main purpose is of course to deal with bug bases, large warships and other weapons.

"The six-roller medium-sized cannon is even more powerful than the one on the previous modified airship."

Kong Huan couldn't help but let out a sigh.The transfer staff immediately smiled.

"Elder, that's right. Swordfish 01B, we designed it according to the model of a small assault ship, ah no, it's the shipyard staff. After handing over the swordfish modification suggestions to our warship design bureau, we think that these shipyards The idea of ​​the personnel is very good, and after further improvement, the Swordfish class can be transformed into a small assault warship."

Speaking of the beginning of the excitement, the transfer personnel smiled and revealed the secret to the empty fantasy, but there are all people with sufficient confidentiality level, so there is nothing to worry about.

"The small assault warship we discussed will pursue speed, flexibility, and ammunition delivery. To put it bluntly, it is a weapon aimed at eliminating the number of bugs at the map level. Speed ​​and flexibility are for Avoid bugs and avoid being besieged; the amount of ammunition delivered is of course aimed at offsetting the advantages of bug numbers; and for defense, it only needs to be satisfied so that bugs like war bees can't easily break in."

"What about the safety of personnel?" Kong Huan asked an important point: "The population of our family is not right. The future battleship driving obviously requires technology. This aspect has greater restrictions on personnel, and the safety of personnel must be guaranteed."

"In this regard..."

After hesitating for a moment, the transshipment staff shook his head: "Master Void, although the lives of our people are always good, and we are working hard to achieve this, but in the current design of warships, once the floating power system of the floating ship damaged, personnel can only rely on individual equipment to get out of the fallen spacecraft."

"And many times, if the battle really goes to that moment, there will be nothing left. This meteorite battle is an example."

"..."

Of the three airships, only one survived. The crew and soldiers on the three airships attacked 450 people, and only 79 people survived. This is the result of the airship battle in the previous meteorite battle. The loss of their support fleet.

"If it really can't be solved," Kong Huan's tone was a bit sad: "Then let's see the number of crew members as much as possible, and increase the scale of warship automation. Now our family's automation technology can also see some population."

"Thank you, Master Konghuan, for reminding me." At this time, the transfer personnel and the people around them were sincerely grateful and gratified.

But perhaps because of the downturn in the atmosphere, everyone became quiet instead. It wasn't until the group of people stopped at the entrance that Kong Huan glanced at the protruding forts and patted the transit personnel beside him.

"According to what you just said, the transformation of this swordfish is actually not complete?"

"No?" The transfer staff looked blank.

"Didn't it say that Swordfish will be further modified into a small assault ship?"

"No," the transshipment staff smiled and waved their hands: "We are just saying that based on Swordfish's experience, we will design and improve a first-class small assault ship, not that we will use Swordfish to transform it. After all, the main skeleton of Swordfish is It’s still the first-generation airship model, and it’s a bit old.”

Everyone stepped into the interior of Swordfish, and it was obvious that the interior had undergone a lot of repairs, and even the corridor structure was much different from the previous Swordfish, and it was much more beautiful and simple.

Kong Huan felt that the workers of these shipyards probably dismantled the swordfish to only the main parts such as the skeleton and the engine, and then replaced all the other parts.

And he obviously didn't know, this time he guessed right.

The transshipment personnel who followed in were satisfied with the appreciation of the entourage, and then continued the previous words: "According to the Warship Design Bureau, it was inspired by Swordfish 01B, so it wants to redesign an assault ship based on this modification method." Type floating battleship."

"According to the plan, this level of small assault ships will be matched with the previously designed second-generation main battleships to form a standard fleet to deal with the main force of bugs. So strictly speaking, the transformation of the swordfish-level spaceship has ended Understand."

He patted the brand-new wall of Swordfish beside him with emotion. The Swordfish at this time is the most advanced floating spaceship compared to Double Moon Star; but as long as the second-generation main battleship sets sail in June next year, Swordfish will be completely behind .

Only less than half a year's progress, people can't help but sigh.

Follow the stairs to enter the upper level of Swordfish, and finally stop at the three-meter-high doorway, on which the words "main bridge" are clearly visible.

Entering it, Kong Huan found that in terms of bridge design, there were not many modifications to Swordfish.

After explaining the situation of the bridge in detail, the transshipment staff bowed and saluted: "Then, my lord, our shipyard has assigned ten technicians to you for data collection and maintenance work. I wish you a pleasant journey."

"Thank you."

Nodding his head, he motioned to the elders and attendants to see him off, while Kong Huan himself unceremoniously sat in the captain's seat, enjoying the wide view from the captain's seat. Of course, all he could see was the dock and port wall.

Swordfish's original crew has all been trained at the shipyard and is now able to maneuver the ship with ease.

The job of commanding the battleship is handed over to Kong Huan's adjutant who also received training at the shipyard, so as the 'captain', Kong Huan is actually more like a decoration. (mascot?)

As for the drivers of the magnetic field engine, which was the most restrictive in the past, because the engine has finally been popularized, the selection and training are very easy. This time, the shipyard has prepared two people for Void at once.

Nowadays, in order to meet the needs of future technical arms, the Pengzu has set up a spaceship school on Xinpeng Island alone.There are dozens of subjects such as warship piloting and warship command, and more than 300 students; as for ordinary crew members, they are trained in the shipyard.

However, the current magnetic field engine weighs several hundred tons, and its miniaturization is still a huge problem, which limits the development of the Pengzu's air combat power.At the beginning, Kongfan also thought about whether to make weapons such as fighter jets, because it could not be equipped with a high-speed but heavy magnetic field engine to increase the speed of fighter jets. Facing the cautious floating planes that are more like targets, this idea is Can only give up temporarily.

So the illusory dream of the Helicarrier seems to take some time.

"Swordfish debugging, pumice power activated!"

After confirming that all passengers boarded the ship through mental observation, the adjutant began to issue instructions one by one.The crew members located throughout the hull began to accept orders from the adjutant through the command communication system inside the hull.

After a while, the brand-new swordfish slowly drove out from the entrance of the airport hive again.Because of the lessons learned, the driver did not let the swordfish overshoot at once, and the engine was scrapped as a result.

Under the deliberate adjustment of the professional pilot, the speed was controlled at the same low speed as the Wingman's flight speed, and slowly but firmly left the range of the floating island's airport, and then lifted to an altitude of 1 meters.The sealed hull structure, coupled with the oxygen generator inside the hull, makes the people in the boat feel less uncomfortable.

Looking through the large window of the bridge, looking down at Xinpeng Island, which gradually became smaller and finally blocked by clouds, the people on the ship all smiled.

"Elder Void, please indicate the target."

Perhaps it was to satisfy Kong Huan's vanity, or maybe it was to take care of the captain's mood as a mascot, the adjutant looked at Kong Huan sitting on the captain's seat with a straight face and enjoying the scenery outside the window.

"Hmm, the first target..."

Turning his head to look at the representative of the Executive Yuan beside him, his empty expression was a little embarrassed. (forget (=.=))
"It's the Black Bone Clan, Elder Void. This time we plan to arrive at the Black Bone Clan first, then pass through the Shadow Clan, our clan's surface industrial area, our clan's underground city, and finally return to Xinpeng Island."

"Oh," nodded, and Kong Huan, who was sitting on the captain's seat, considered the specific position for a while, and then waved his hand, suddenly full of pride.

"Target, to the southwest, the Temple of the Goddess of the Black Bone Clan!"

"Target southwest, Swordfish set off!"

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(End of this chapter)