The rise of nanometers

June 15th.

Deep in the Mobei Altai Gobi Desert, in the only remaining Gobi Desert native area, a scientific research base, codenamed "Tanggu Base", is under construction.

This base was built under Huang Xiuyuan's order, and not many people within the Suiren Department knew about it. The base's official name is "Altai Energy Research Institute," and it is mainly engaged in research on wind power generation and solar power generation.

But in fact, this is a place where sheep are being sold as dog meat. In the underground area of ​​​​the base, a huge underground space is being built.

As for what specific research is being done, not many people know its true nature.

at the same time.

Huang Xiuyuan has not been idle these days. In addition to testing various data of CSi nanocrystals, he is also waiting for the experimental ship from China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation to be sent over.

Finally on the 15th, the two power generation ships customized six months ago finally arrived at Zhelang Shipyard in Shanmei.

This kind of power generation ship was an order placed by Huang Xiuyuan from China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation at the end of last year. There was only one requirement, which was to design the inside of the ship into a power station and use carbon powder gas turbines to generate electricity.

In addition, multiple interfaces must be reserved on the deck specifically for laser cannons.

Obviously, this kind of ship is not technically difficult. The gas turbine is readily available. The ship does not need to consider too high protection, nor does it need to consider the recoil of the artillery.

China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation directly used a 12,000-ton displacement bulk carrier as the basis, modified the design drawing, and completed the design.

After the construction was completed, it was sent to Shanmei and handed over to Suiren Company for secondary transformation.

Following the two power generation ships were a dozen engineers and related technical officers from the naval equipment department.

Zhelang Shipyard.

Dock No. 5.

This is a fully enclosed shipyard, with a gray-painted ship lying inside, which is one of the two power generation ships.

At this time, Snail Industry engineers and more than fifty technicians were busy installing two experimental laser cannons on the interface platform of the deck.

Huang Xiuyuan's stand-in robot, Colonel Du Fengqin and Dr. Hu Cunyi from the equipment department, were watching the installation process.

Dr. Hu Cunyi, who got the design parameters of the laser cannon, carefully read the contents.

This laser cannon, temporarily codenamed "Houyi Laser Cannon", uses a CSi nanocrystal with a radius of 15 cm and a length of 120 cm.

In addition, there are supporting flywheel energy storage systems, superconducting power supply line systems, automatic azimuth rotation platforms, fire control radar systems, etc.

According to the design, a power generation ship can accommodate 6 Houyi laser cannons.

In fact, the effective distance of Houyi's laser cannon is very excessive inside the atmosphere. After all, the Blue Star has a curvature, and even land-based and sea-based laser cannons cannot break through the curvature of the planet's ground. Space-based energy supply is a problem. The most ideal vehicle is space. of low-Earth orbit satellites.

However, to a certain extent, the emergence of laser cannons has also made up for some of the weaknesses of the canopy system. The canopy system is easily breached by supersonic ballistic missiles.

In many tests, the eroding clouds of the canopy system were easily bounced away by shock waves at supersonic speeds, causing failure.

In the 18 related tests, when the flying object exceeded 6.4 times the speed of sound, the shock wave could effectively bounce away the erosion cloud; when the speed exceeded 12 times the speed of sound, the canopy system basically failed.

The laser cannon effectively makes up for the shortcomings of the canopy system. After all, no matter how fast the ballistic missile is, it cannot be faster than the laser.

The laser cannon that attacks at the speed of light can destroy the opponent before it gets close.

Current ballistic missiles are usually divided into three flight stages, namely, the ascent stage, the high-altitude stage, and the re-entry stage.

The rising stage is usually near the mainland, ships, and submarines. It is basically difficult to effectively intercept at this stage.

During the re-entry stage, the ballistic missile at this time, with the blessing of gravity acceleration, can usually reach a speed of more than ten times the speed of sound, or even more than twenty times the speed of sound. It is also difficult to intercept at this stage.

Therefore, all major forces place interception in the high-altitude stage. At this stage, the speed is relatively slow and the flight time is relatively long. It is usually at an altitude of 60 to 200 kilometers above sea level.

Even if there are no laser satellites deployed in space, a circle of Houyi laser cannons deployed along the border can still block the enemy's supersonic missiles from 300 to 500 kilometers away.

If you add in the laser satellites that are densely packed in low-Earth orbit, it will be basically difficult for ballistic missiles launched from inside Blue Star to break through the laser defense circle.

Perhaps Maozi's Poseidon nuclear torpedo is even more threatening. Even with the tailwind ear system, a large-yield nuclear explosion occurring on the seabed will cause a huge tsunami.

The Noah Society also has some trump cards, namely the Yellowstone volcano in the Yellowstone Geopark and the nuclear power plants scattered throughout the territory.

Humanity can be said to have achieved the ultimate in research on destroying itself.

It is this destructive deterrent that maintains the current fragile peace.

Huang Xiuyuan looked at the Houyi laser cannon in front of him, and did not feel that he had any chance of victory. Unless he successfully promoted to interstellar civilization that day and no longer needed to rely on the Blue Star's ecology, he could take action directly.

But it is estimated that at that time, the other party will not have the idea of ​​dying together.

Du Fengqin asked in a low voice: "Academician Huang, how big can the solid crystal of Houyi's laser cannon be made?"

Upon hearing this question, Huang Xiuyuan recalled his future memories and then replied:

"The maximum it can reach is about 85 centimeters in cross-sectional radius and 37.5 meters in length. This level can reach from Blue Star to the moon. However, if the distance exceeds 100,000 kilometers, the divergence will be very serious and it will take a long time to be irradiated to cause damage. "

This parameter comes from the future lunar cannon. At that time, China relied on this secret weapon to secretly destroy more than a dozen lunar satellites of the Noah Society.

Huang Xiuyuan participated in part of the design of the lunar cannon, and only then did he know the parameters. This parameter is also the limit of CSi nanocrystals.

If a spacecraft without laser protection is illuminated within 100,000 kilometers, it will be completely scrapped in just a few seconds.

Even if there is an anti-laser coating, it can only resist for a minute or two at most.

Beyond 100,000 kilometers, the divergence will become more and more serious and the damage effect will become smaller and smaller.

At full power, from Blue Star to the moon, it takes 3 to 4 hours of irradiation to destroy the spacecraft. If it is a highly protected spacecraft, it may take more than ten hours.

"So big? How far can the effective killing distance be?" Du Fengqin's eyes became hot.

"It depends on the distance and the duration of exposure..." Huang Xiuyuan explained concisely.

Hearing that he could hit the moon, Du Fengqin kept this in mind and planned to write a special report on CSi nanocrystals when he went back.

Although the lunar cannon was just what Huang Xiuyuan said casually, Du Fengqin firmly believed it. After all, many of Huang Xiuyuan's ideas over the years have been realized one by one.

Of course, there is no need to worry too much about developing a lunar cannon for the time being, because according to Huang Xiuyuan's description, in order to realize a lunar cannon, a nuclear power plant must be equipped as an energy supply system, and the electrical energy required is too huge.

The top priority is to test the Houyi laser cannon, and then build a ground laser defense circle and a low-Earth orbit laser satellite defense circle to form a local defense system with no blind spots.

Huang Xiuyuan looked at it for a while, explained some things, and then returned to the company headquarters.

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