The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 271 Hair hanging unit
Different from the openings of the Dreadnought's granary chamber, these structures are more like the vertical launch units on surface ships in the missile era in later generations. For example, under the scale-like openings of the shield scales on the horseshoe crab body segments of the prototype fifty-oared warship, there are vertical launch units one by one. A deep well-like structure on the surface of the ship's hull.

These deep well-like structures have electromagnetic acceleration tracks. Although the power is not large, they are only used to eject the internal biological missiles. Similar to the cold launch method of later generations, the missiles are allowed to ignite after they leave the ship body.

At the end of the structure is a set of ammunition supply structures - for a mechanical structure, this design may be a bit complicated and heavy, but for a biological structure, it is just a peristaltic muscle structure. This design allows the vertical launch system to double the bomb load.

The Cornerstone series of missiles used in space have a very different appearance from the Cornerstone series in the atmosphere. They are thick and short in appearance, and the overall capsule shape is more like a torpedo than a missile.

Its power system is still a traditional chemical thruster, but the difference is that the new generation of "Pacronite III" is equipped with a fusion warhead, which is more powerful than the previous Pacronite II that used a target fission warhead.

Once the Baghorn Stone III hits, its blooming nuclear fireball will be able to easily destroy the Ezki battleship, whether it is a battleship or an escort ship. With sufficient yield, it is approximately equivalent to a close-range 360-degree X-ray laser shot with no blind angle. Facing the nuclear fireball, there is only one outcome: being destroyed.

Of course, this is only an ideal situation. At the speed of the bag-corner stone, it is inevitable to be intercepted by the enemy's directed energy close-defense weapons. The current speed has reached the limit that traditional chemical rockets can reach. If you want to accelerate further, you must either increase the amount of working mass injection and sacrifice the range, or you can only use fission or even fusion thrusters.

However, these structures are not suitable for use in missiles. Fission reactors require uranium deposits, and fusion reactors require complex tokamak devices. Their production costs are not suitable for single-use missiles.

This plan has been put on hold for the time being - it is envisaged that the Baghorn Stone Type 3 will only be carried by the escort Xinghao. It is positioned as a torpedo similar to the surface ship era, with a slower speed, but once it hits, it is a medium and close range combat weapon with amazing destructive power. .

But the main force Starfly also has a cabin structure similar to the vertical launch unit of a surface ship. These cabin structures will carry some special-grade individuals whose effectiveness is unknown.

This includes a structure used to actively detect the enemy's position - in the space environment, turning on the active radar hastily will make oneself as conspicuous as a beacon in the dark night. In the enemy's detection system, the effect is no less than Sing a "Declaration of Independence" to the crowd.

But if the active radar is turned on, it is a separate one-time device, similar to the sonar buoy in the era of surface ships. It is turned on far away from the fleet, and emits as many rounds of electromagnetic waves as possible before it is destroyed to assist the warships behind. With positioning, things are different.

Its basic appearance is similar to that of the Pogo Stone III. The only difference is that the warhead is not the standard fusion nuclear warhead of the Pogo Stone III, but a large active electromagnetic wave launcher.

The echo is received by the large warship at the rear, and the one-time detection warhead does not have any means of receiving the echo. It is envisaged that multiple such detection devices will emit electromagnetic waves from multiple angles to assist the star body behind in more precise positioning.

Because of the existence of the nest group, there is no delay in information transmission. This kind of weapon or auxiliary equipment that does not appear in Ezki's space warfare theory is theoretically feasible. As for whether it is actually effective, it still needs to be tested in actual combat. The rest is to make up for the lack of close fire defense. This is divided into two parts. The first part is based on a technology that was also used in the era of human surface ships in later generations - cluster close-in missiles with multiple bombs in one pit and installed in a vertical launch unit.

It still inherits the name of the corner stone series and is called the right-angle stone type by Lin Yi. Like the Ortholite, it has a conical shell and a high speed, and is used to intercept approaching enemy missiles.

In later generations, when large vertical launch units were equipped with anti-aircraft missiles, "one pit and four bombs" were sometimes used, which meant that four medium- and short-range air defense missiles were located in the same vertical launch unit. However, the larger size difference between the right-angle stone type and the bag-angle stone type III allows it to fire five or even six bullets in a pit.

The shape of the rectangular stone allows it to be accelerated to a high initial velocity by the electromagnetic acceleration track in the launch unit, and the rocket engine further ignites on this basis. Combined, the rectangular stone can achieve astonishing speed and speed within a short distance. flexibility.

This speed and flexibility allow it to easily intercept the heavy missiles carried by the technically homologous Bagus III and Ezki frigates, forming part of the fleet's short-range active defense system, while the other part consists of some relatively Compared to the main body of Xinghao, the smaller level is completed.

The positioning of these small-level individuals is similar to the carrier-based aircraft in the surface ship era, but there are some differences - to be precise, in the interstellar era, the usefulness of this small unit similar to the carrier-based aircraft, whether in later discussions or within the Ezki civilization theory has always been a controversial topic.

The smaller size means that it cannot carry much fusion fuel or propellant, and its endurance is bound to be limited. At the same time, larger weapons cannot be installed, which means that they cannot pose a threat to large warships.

The only way is to mount explosive weapons, as it is not so much a carrier-based aircraft, but the existence of a recyclable first stage of a multi-stage rocket - this is a solution to the problem that chemical propellers cannot have both range and speed, fission or fusion. The thruster cost is too high.

However, since space battles are different from naval battles, these small units are in the same dimension as large battleships. If we insist on comparing them to naval battles, they should be said to be torpedo boats. And a large number of torpedo boats against large ships has almost never appeared in the history of naval warfare.

However, one of the problems is that torpedo boats cannot withstand wind and waves in the open sea and can only be used in offshore waters. This problem does not exist in space. Whether such tactics are useful or not requires long-term research and testing.

Therefore, Lin Yi currently does not plan to study the "recoverable first stage rocket stage" type carrier-based aircraft responsible for long-range attacks on enemy ships. Instead, he focuses on considering a type of carrier-based aircraft that does not consider the range at all and cannot pose a threat to large warships. But it is an "interceptor" capable of intercepting incoming missiles as part of the close-in defense firepower.

Of course, to be precise, Lin Yi prefers to call them - floating directed energy close-in defense guns.

(End of this chapter)