The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 162 "Optoelectronic Comprehensive Pod"

At the same time, in the rear, based on the experience of attacking leaf-claw worms, Lin Yi is also preparing to further modify the mount type of the Kuai-Wing Diver to better deal with possible leaf-claw worms.

Leaf Claw Worms have a thick exoskeleton of unknown composition, and unlike later tanks and other armored targets, their bodies are flat. Unlike later tanks, in order to compromise the center of gravity and the access of members, the armor on the top of the turret is the weakest. .

On the contrary, due to their flat bodies, the strongest thing on their bodies is the carapace that covers the entire back. This prevents the light-weight small-caliber semi-armor-piercing biological rockets mounted on the Kuai-Wing Diver from having enough penetrating power to break through. Open their hard shells.

Although the high-explosive grenade has a heavier weight, due to various factors such as the shape of the warhead and the impact of the middle eye responsible for guidance on the thickness of the warhead's exoskeleton, its penetration is not ideal and it cannot effectively penetrate the leaf claw. Worm exoskeleton.

Therefore, Lin Yi needed an armor-piercing aerial bomb with sufficient penetrating power, just like the biological semi-armor-piercing bomb fired by the mortar spider, which directly penetrated the exoskeleton of the leaf claw worm and exploded inside its body, causing damage.

The relevant structure is not difficult. You only need to simply transfer the genetic sequence of the biological semi-armor-piercing warhead used by the Mortar to create a similar biological aerial bomb with a semi-armor-piercing warhead.

At the same time, Lin Yi also developed a larger-caliber armor-piercing rocket, changing the original quadruple-pack structure into a single-pack, and having a charge capacity no less than that of a biological aerial bomb.

As a price, the body of this huge biological rocket was so long that it could not be accommodated in the magazine. A warhead protruded from the magazine, like a stinger growing out of the tail of a long-winged diver. The appearance is a bit more ferocious.

The propellant in the large-caliber armor-piercing rocket body is also amazing, but these propellants will be sprayed with a huge injection volume, reaching a speed that is several minutes faster than that of small rockets, and the penetration power they bring is also extremely high. It is so strong that it is speculated that it can penetrate directly through the exoskeleton of the leaf claw worm.

All this was handled very quickly. If you want to achieve this goal, the main difficulty is another problem - that is, the guidance problem of the aerial bomb caused by the improved warhead.

The shells fired by the Mortar Spider do not have autonomous guidance capabilities and require frontline flight levels to provide vision and assist in guidance. This will inevitably affect the accuracy of the guidance, but with the amount of firepower projected by the Mortar Spider, this is not a problem. question.

However, the projection volume of the Ku-Wing Diver, especially the continuous projection volume, cannot be compared with the Mortar Terror Spider firing at full speed, so accuracy becomes more important. Dive bombing itself is also a means to further improve accuracy and penetration.

Therefore, Lin Yi decided to use a brand-new mount, not a disposable mount like an aerial bomb or a rocket, but an additional mount module similar to the photoelectric guidance pod of later fighter jets.

Since the design took into account the possible need to mount such "pods", all these improvements are not difficult. It only requires the development of a special symbiosis that can be directly compatible with the modular structure.

For the shape of the symbiont, Lin Yi made extensive reference to the fish lice of later generations. The overall shape is a long oblate oval, with a structure connected to the host's flesh and blood at the tail end. It does not have any digestive system, etc., and relies entirely on the host's circulatory system. Direct supply.

The tail end of the longer body is embedded in the magazine at the end of the abdomen of the Kui-Wing Diver, while the head sticks out of the body. On the head, there are three astonishingly huge compound eyes, mixed with a huge center. Single eye.

Like the Saw Ant and the Main Battle Soldier Grade A, the three compound eyes are high-definition and high-refresh rate compound eyes, used for daytime vision, while the single eye is a low-light night vision eye that slightly sacrifices other functions. It has a certain degree of night vision ability. In addition, this level named Euglena by Lin Yi also has a special ability to better detect targets in the dark and attack them.

That is a structure that Lin Yi used as early as the Ordovician - the echolocation system derived from the original mother's nest gene sequence.

In the final battle after the inkjet corner stone appeared, the echolocation system of the reconnaissance mother made a great contribution. Without the existence of this level, I am afraid that the outcome of the final battle, even if Lin Yi finally won, would have been different. Pay a heavier price.

Now, although the speed of sound waves propagates slower in the air than in water, which greatly reduces the scope of the echolocation system, it still has a certain effect in the dark night when you are completely blind.

Euglena's head is equipped with well-developed sound-producing and receiving organs, which can emit sound waves of specific frequencies over a wide range, receive their echoes, and sense the environment in a wide range.

Although the detection of ground targets is not as convenient as that of targets in the air or water, it can still be done if it is just to lock the mounds of the opponent's nest group at night.

Those towering mounds will send out obviously different echo signals, and in this era, there are no buildings, no tall trees, and obviously concentrated raised terrain. There are only two possibilities: the opponent's mound group and one's own mother nest group. .

As for our own mother hive group, it can be sensed in the hive mind consciousness network, and there will be no embarrassing situation like accidentally damaging our own base. At the same time, it also means that there is no need to worry about the return issue.

All this combined gives the current Kuai-Wing Diver the ability to carry out long-distance strategic bombing at night. Moreover, Lin Yi did not think that the other party had the means to defend against such an attack.

Now, the long-winged divers under the symbiosis of Euglena can completely play the role of early warning aircraft in the group, find and lock the location of the enemy's mound groups in the dark night, and use the enemy's only ability to rely on at night Vision deficiencies are safely launched against.

However, in this case, using dive bombing tactics is a bit lifeless. If you don't make the right move, you may kill the enemy on the mound, wasting nutrients in vain.

At the same time, Taijun's biological guidance, whose main guidance method is vision, will also be greatly affected, which will significantly reduce penetration and accuracy.

In this way, the new armor-piercing aerial bomb becomes even more important, allowing the aerial bomb to have stronger penetration and enough penetration to penetrate enemy soil without the kinetic energy acceleration caused by dive. The thick walls of the mound caused damage.

In this way, the production of a new modular parasitic grade began under Lin Yi's control, and it is waiting to be matched with the Kingwing Diver to prevent more leaf-claw worms or similar grades from appearing on the other side.

(End of this chapter)