Spore Story

Chapter 680 Engine
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In the end, the problem was still time.

The development of technology cannot be sloppy (except for new scientific discoveries caused by sloppy, the probability is too low). In fact, several problems of the sixth-generation armor have a special team to study and deal with them, and most of them have already had clues to solve them. Yes, the research sector needs time to wait for these people to turn their ideas into practical technology.

From Kong Huan's point of view, several other technologies may have the same problem. After all, most of these technologies are still in the experimental stage. If the battle situation is not urgent, it is impossible for them to be finalized suddenly.

In this way, his previous behavior of thinking that there are only a few technology applications that are nearing completion, while many promising technologies have not been finalized in advance makes people feel dissatisfied. Ridiculous.

"However, since the application is finalized, we are certain," said the designer. "The technology completed now is not a complete version, but as long as users follow the precautions we have sorted out, use these pre-tests carefully." It is not a big problem to fight for a short period of time with the armor of the model."

"What's more, even the fifth-generation armor is only assigned to the captain level, and the fourth-generation armor is generally used by all troops, so even if the sixth-generation armor is fully finalized, the output is obviously not high."

Saying so, the researcher is also taking off the armor hanging on the friend's mannequin one by one at the same time.

Then, in front of everyone, he took off his coat without hesitation, put on a tights that seemed to be made of special materials under the embarrassing eyes of Kong Huan and others, and put on the armor parts by himself.

After a while, a heroic warrior with light blue fluorescence all over his body appeared.

Of course, it's just a matter of good looks. When it comes to the battlefield, this soul-level researcher is probably no better than an ordinary ghost-level soldier.

But what Kong Huan cares about is obviously not in this aspect: (I thought this guy was normal in the team of researchers before, but now it seems that there are no researchers in my family that are simple.)
After the complaints were over, Kong Huan could take a closer look at the shape of this sixth-generation armor.

After abandoning the protective function of the components of the traditional armor itself, the sixth-generation armor no longer needs to be made into the appearance that the whole body, including the tail and tentacles, must be taken care of.In this way, the appearance design seems to be a lot more out of the ordinary, and it is also more beautiful.

The overall armor has broken away from the one-piece design and has been subdivided into ten parts: helmet, tip, shoulder pads, arms, gloves, chest guard, skirt armor, legs, boots, and tail stabs.

For some unknown reason, the energy supply of each part is no longer unified, but equipped with electro-nuclear grooves separately.This makes the energy no longer use each other, but there is no need to worry about damaging the core circuit, which will cause the entire armor to fail to produce energy.

Come to think of it, that's probably the purpose.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages. This design also makes it troublesome to replace the electric core. Fortunately, the magnetic field shield with the largest energy consumption is powered by the largest chest shield, and it is relatively easy to replace the electric core on the chest.

In consideration of protecting the circuit, the embedded circuit laying technology used in the fifth-generation armor is also adopted in this generation of armor.

Therefore, from the appearance alone, the sixth-generation armor can no longer see the complicated patterns before the fifth generation, and it looks very neat.

"How should I put it? Except for the fact that the fluorescent light is easy to expose the target, it is indeed very good from the appearance alone, but in terms of practicality?"

The next moment, the designer showed a slight smile, and then the fluorescence on the armor disappeared.

"Forehead."

Very fast response!

The designer, who didn't change his face, then smiled and explained a lot of things about the principle of the light emitted by the energy line.

In order to facilitate understanding, Kong Huan and the others listened carefully and at the same time comprehended in their brains.

But in the end, the designer summed up these things into a very simple sentence: "Actually, the armor only glows when it is in use. The previous fluorescence was just to impress the elders. Sorry, it seems It’s superfluous.”

"..." Give me back the time I spent concentrating on listening!
The next step is of course a demonstration of the actual effect, but the sixth-generation armor is characterized by a magnetic field shield and a simple shape. Other than that, the previous generations of armor have already had a complete design system, so it is not a big problem. .

Decades have passed since the energy lines adopted by the third-generation armor. The lines and circuits used in various armors have been gradually improved and further divided into new systems developed from energy line technology.

The various energy techniques emitted from the armor on the designer's body are basically selected from the mature technique circuits that are most suitable for use on the Zerg battlefield, such as chaotic power grids that can interfere with biological electricity An upgraded version of the attack, electric shock, and so on.

According to the designer's explanation, due to the limited area on a single armor part, the number of embedded circuits is not large, so if necessary, armor parts with corresponding energy skill application circuits can be replaced according to the actual situation.

"To put it simply, you can configure the specific functions of the armor on your body by replacing the armor parts with different circuits before the battle. It's okay for ordinary soldiers not to know the above principles." (You are naughty again.)
Of course, if what the designer said is applied to every friend soldier (other races of non-electric creatures wear friend armor after the third generation, it is a complete waste), and the consumption during the period is too high .

Therefore, the armor mode that can freely choose the combat configuration should only be equipped with a small number of elite troops, or high-level individuals have the opportunity to equip it.Ordinary members will get fixed armor assigned according to the composition of the troop, just like the division of vehicle functions.

"But even so, based on the current output of the sixth-generation armor prototype, only 100 pairs can be produced within a month. This is the result of the transformation of three fourth-generation armor production lines in advance."

"That is to say, it may not be necessary to fight against the Zerg this time." Kong Huan hit the nail on the head.

"Who knows, it may not be necessary, right?" The researcher seemed to know something, and seemed very casual.

"Uh," Kong Huan's head was full of black lines: (If the battle had to be dragged on for a month or two, of course it would be useful, right?)

I didn't say this, but for the situation that the sixth generation of armor is temporarily unable to play, Kong Huan has long been psychologically prepared.After all, these things now, everyone knows that even if they are finalized, it is impossible to expand enough to affect the number of battles in the short term.

What's more, these emergency finalized things are just planning for the worst case.After all, even if it is finalized now, there is still a time interval from the establishment of the production line, the production of finished products, and the equipment to the troops.

"Overall, it's still very good. The conditions for small-scale equipment are sufficient, so let's take it as a test in actual combat."

The news about the sixth-generation armor is good, but not bad.After the visit, Kong Huan named this prototype as "Light Scorpion 1" according to the idea of ​​the design bureau.Regardless of some cumbersome precautions, the Light Scorpion Type 1 armor is enough for an ordinary primitive person to exert the strength of a soul-level initial energy body for no more than 10 minutes.

Of course, the resulting energy consumption is also greater.

After the eruption, the armor must be stopped and replaced, and it will be supplied to the electric core of the most important magnetic field shield energy.God knows that this protective ability is only slightly stronger than the magnetic energy shield of the 55mm alloy plate. Why does it reach such a high energy consumption value of 100N per minute? You must know that a natural thunderbolt is only 2000N.

What a waste!
In fact, if possible, Kong Huan would prefer to call it 'Bronze Saint Cloth' or 'Bump Man's Transformation', although the three seem to have nothing to do with each other... Really, huh. XD
After Kong Huan complained, sighed, or howled nervously for a certain distance, Luofa, who was covered in black lines by this seemingly abnormal elder, finally told Kong Huan with a sigh of relief. : "Elder, the Aerodynamics Laboratory is here."

"Ah! Oh, let's go." Taking steps in a daze, Kong Huan walked straight into the door of the laboratory.

"..."

The howling wind blew by, and the hearts of several laboratory receptionists who were waiting respectfully at the door of the laboratory were chilled by the cold wind.

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G09's aerodynamic laboratory was born out of the original aerodynamic research group.

After the appearance of the magnetic field engine, the power group of the predecessor of this laboratory began to separate and work alone.He has studied many useful and useless things, among which fan-powered propellers are the most famous.Because, the Pengzu once tried to fly a total of [-], just like the propeller planes during World War I.

But later on, this cup of propeller aircraft couldn't even match the flying level of the Streakwing Wingman, no matter in terms of maneuverability, altitude, durability, etc.So it didn't take long, with the continuous upgrade of the magnetic field engine, in order to avoid wasting research power, the technical department also put the propeller plane into the museum.

The current Aerodynamics Laboratory has mainly divided into three groups to study respectively: jet propulsion, magnetic field engine and rocket propulsion. In addition, some people have proposed the two things of 'gravity' and 'anti-gravity', but unfortunately, these two The research on this project is still in the realm of science fiction.

However, it seems that the jet power will be discontinued recently, because as soon as the miniaturization of the magnetic field engine is completed, the two power systems that are already somewhat crashed, under the purpose of the friends to use human resources as much as possible , you have to suspend one of them.

This is also a helpless thing. Friends have no time and no one, even if they have resources, no one will use them.

"Elder, this is the new generation of magnetic field engine design," although the explainer this time is very respectful, but everyone can see the pride and arrogance in it. What about the family's problem for several years?

"Very well, let's talk about the specific situation."

The explainer didn't hesitate either, and explained it in detail as if he were a professional.Because as long as they are researchers of their level, most of them know that Elder Konghuan controls a secret research department, and many key technologies of the friend clan have the shadow of this elder's personal participation.

That's why they asked the technical association chief to be in charge of the finalization supervision, instead of Aiyi, the technical chief of the general headquarters at this time.

Of course, there are also Aiyi running around in various electromagnetic technology departments, and for this kind of supervision work that is not too technical, there are some reasons for not wanting to waste time.

After thinking about this for a while, the explainer coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, and then began to explain.

The technology of Pengzu's magnetic field engine so far can only be summarized as one generation.Because these are all engine structures that lay all the magnetic field coils and other things on the outer shell of the spacecraft in an exoskeleton-like mode.This mode not only consumes a lot of energy, but also has a huge impact on the size of the engine.

Even with the painstaking efforts of the researchers of Pengzu, the smallest spaceship that can be produced by the first-generation magnetic field power engine equipped by Pengzu is close to 1 tons.It was the experimental spaceship that the third combat group sent out to investigate when it arrived at the periphery of G06.

But once it is reduced to this level, the engine accounts for a terrifying 60% of the spaceship, and the rest of the warehouse, bridge, bedroom, etc. occupy more than half. As a result, in terms of weapons, only one electromagnetic gun can be installed. full.This sad configuration made the experimental spaceship kicked to the corner except for its speed.

The researchers who were forced to help themselves finally proposed a new concept in a seminar—the lattice structure (please do not link it with reality=.=), which changed the exoskeleton of the first-generation magnetic field engine With the appearance of the traditional engine, 90% of the bones are turned into a skeleton-like structure and embedded in the hull, and even become a part of the hull skeleton.The remaining areas in contact with the external magnetic field become points distributed throughout the hull.

This alone greatly reduces the tonnage and space that need to be considered on the engine when designing the hull.

Of course, there are pros and cons.

With such a modification, warships using this type of engine in the future will no longer be able to replace the engine, because the engine and the main frame of the hull are integrated into one.That is, the engine and the hull become one part.

The merits of this effect are still being debated.

Fortunately, the purpose of the Pengzu engine now is not to manufacture large-scale warships, but to take the miniaturization of the engine as the main development direction, so as to build weapons of the single-digit fighter category.

At this time, what was placed in front of Konghuan were two experimental models for technical demonstrations—the S-1 technical demonstration machine and the -2 volume demonstration machine.

The S-1 technology demonstrator is 22 meters long, 15 meters wide, 7 meters high, and weighs 102 tons. It is used to demonstrate the practicability of the second-generation lattice magnetic field engine.The maximum ceiling can reach 2 meters, the maximum speed is 1000 kilometers per hour, the maximum range is 4700 kilometers, and the crew can carry 3-5 people.

若是将其改进成为战机，可以配属25mm速射炮两门（备弹2700发）、或者75mm炮一门（备弹500发）、或者改进为轰炸机载运弹药7吨、亦或者将这7吨用于改进为其它类型机种设备。

The S-2 volume demonstration machine combines the experience of the S-1, and its structure is much simpler.

It has a total length of 10 meters, a width of 6 meters, a height of 5 meters, a total weight of 57 tons, a maximum ceiling of 1.9 meters, a maximum speed of 1.2 times the speed of sound, a maximum range of 3300 kilometers, and two crew members.The purpose of its existence was initially purely for experiments. The second-generation engine can achieve the smallest volume and weight that a fighter can achieve under the premise of ensuring practicality.

However, it has been continuously improved since then, and the current S-2 looks like a practical fighter.

进一步改进的话，它可以配属25mm速射炮两门（备弹2300发）、或者10mm冲击枪四门（备弹6000发）、亦或者清理出2吨的空间，用于其它对应武器配属。

What needs to be explained here is that the 10mm impact gun is the latest weapon design of the Pengzu (refer to the metal storm in the human world), which is powerful and the ammunition consumption is terrifying; in addition, the bomb body of the Pengzu electromagnetic weapon is only a warhead Part, so the ammunition carrying capacity of various electromagnetic weapons is very good.

At this time, standing in this hangar specially built for two friend clan fighters (Konghuan would like to complain that this product is more like a bombardment ship), if it is confirmed that this model is available, then the relevant fighter design bureau will make a decision within a day. Composition within one day, and then come up with a combat transformation plan within a day, because these steps have already been prepared.

but……

"The initial speed after the start of production is probably very low. Because it is a brand new weapon, there is only one production line in our laboratory. Even if most of the parts are produced on the factory assembly line, only two can be produced in a week."

The explainer expressed somewhat helplessly to Kong Huan, who was seeking to expand production capacity, that they could do nothing about it: "The only way to expand production capacity is to increase the production line. At the current speed, three new production lines can be opened in a month, increasing the monthly output to 30. shelf."

"This is already very good," Rofa on the side chimed in.

In his opinion as the quality supervisor of the battleship dock, it is a miracle that this miniature version of the 'warship' called a fighter can reach 30 a month.After all, among battleships, even the simplest Barracuda-class assault ship can only be built in two months.

"Okay, let's discuss whether it is successful or not. Let's discuss it first by looking at the flight test structure. However, fighter jets will be the mainstream of our weapon development for a period of time, and will become the main unit for assisting battleships. We cannot stop improving them."

"Understood, Elder Konghuan."

"Well," Kong Huan waved his hand, nodded to the explainer, then turned to look at the two test pilots who were entering the S-1 cabin.After a while, Kong Huan, who had finished changing clothes, also walked in.

As an acceptance officer, the most important thing is that he is the Elder Youshen with strong self-protection ability, so he will also personally participate in the test flight.

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