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Chapter 120 War Beast
After so many years of full efforts to promote scientific and technological development, accompanied by many technological breakthroughs over the years, Li Qingsong believes that the time is ripe to develop and manufacture larger Earth-class warships that are more important on the battlefield.

Since it is a higher-level battleship, it must have more powerful attack and defense capabilities. It must be able to act like a stabilizing force in the face of any chaotic situation. Once the Earth-class battleship arrives, it can stabilize the situation.

It must have unparalleled long-range attack capabilities, and be able to cause huge damage to the enemy at a distance of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kilometers.

Only in this way can it cover a sufficiently large battlefield space and extend its influence to every corner of the battlefield.

It also needs to have the longest endurance. In extreme cases, it must be able to fight continuously in the battlefield for several months or even a year without external supplies.

It also needs to have the most stable communication capabilities. It must be able to maintain contact with the strategic version of Goku at all times. At the same time, it can also deliver signals to every Venus-class and Mercury-class battleship on the battlefield, so that these small and medium-sized battleships will not be separated from the whole.

Every aspect of it must be the best. Only in this way can it play the role that Li Qingsong hopes it can play.

Compared with these places with extremely high requirements, its maneuverability requirements are not that high.

It does not need to be like a Mercury-class battleship, with an acceleration of tens or even hundreds of meters per square second, nor does it need to be able to go from a standstill to a high speed in an instant.

This is also unrealistic for such a huge battleship.

It only needs to have an acceleration between a few tenths of a meter and a few meters per square second.

Although the acceleration is low, based on the huge fuel reserves of the Earth-class battleship, it can still maintain a higher cruising speed after accelerating for a period of time.

Following this idea, Li Qingsong quickly completed the design drawings of the Earth-class battleship.

Although the drawings have been designed, Li Qingsong still faces more than 10,000 technical obstacles of varying sizes in order to actually manufacture it.

But that’s okay. These obstacles are merely technical, not fundamental, and we can just tackle them.

With Li Qingsong's full dedication, many laboratories reported good news in just half a year.

All technical obstacles have been overcome.

During this period, various factories designed specifically to meet the needs of Earth-class battleships have been completed.

So after upgrading the production line and improving the production process, the manufacturing of the first Earth-class battleship began immediately.

Just half a year later, a brand new combat spacecraft appeared in Li Qingsong's sight.

It is no longer butterfly-shaped like the previous Mercury-class and Venus-class battleships, but looks like two rectangles connected together.

The total length of the two cuboids is about 210 meters, of which the larger one is about 150 meters long and has a side length of about 30 meters, while the smaller one has a side length of about 20 meters.

One end is big, the other end is small.

Its surface was not smooth, but rather densely packed with a variety of equipment, nearly filling up the entire ship's total area of over 30,000 square meters. To match its enormous size was its equally unprecedented mass.

In Li Qingsong's plan, the fully loaded gross mass of a Mercury-class battleship was approximately 300 tons, while the mass of a Venus-class battleship rose sharply to around 2500 tons.

At this moment, the Earth-class battleship has climbed again based on the Venus-class battleship. If fully loaded, the mass directly reaches 1.6 tons!

Such a huge mass and such a huge size finally allowed Li Qingsong to let go and install almost all the advanced equipment he developed on it.

It is equipped with 3000 small electromagnetic cannons and laser cannons for defense!
Large electromagnetic cannons and laser cannons used for attack are deployed in various locations, with a total number of more than 100.

In addition to these, it also has four super-giant electromagnetic cannons installed in front and behind.

Because of its extremely long hull, the barrel of the electromagnetic gun can be made very long, and accordingly, the acceleration capability is stronger.

Therefore, this super-giant electromagnetic gun has the ability to accelerate a 10-gram electromagnetic cannon projectile to 20 kilometers per second.

A 10-gram electromagnetic cannon projectile is unprecedentedly large, and a speed of 20 kilometers per second is also unprecedented for an electromagnetic cannon.

At this speed, a single electromagnetic cannon projectile possesses 200 million joules of energy! Converted to TNT, that's roughly equivalent to half a kilogram of TNT!

In Earth's time, ordinary grenades typically contained only a few dozen grams of explosives. Therefore, this single projectile possessed the energy equivalent to the explosion of ten high-explosive grenades strung together.

When a grenade explodes, the energy is released in all directions. However, once this electromagnetic cannon projectile hits the target, its energy release is extremely concentrated, only in one direction, and the concentration is extremely high, with almost no dispersion. Ultimately, all the energy is poured onto the target without any waste, which is much higher than ordinary grenades.

The electromagnetic cannon projectiles are so powerful, and based on the large enough acceleration capability brought by the long enough hull of the Earth-class battleship, the firing rate of this giant electromagnetic cannon can even reach ten rounds per second!

It's almost as powerful as a machine gun.

In addition to the giant electromagnetic cannon, it is also equipped with four large laser cannons.

Also because of the relatively large mass, the laser beams emitted by these laser cannons have extremely high energy and a very small divergence angle.

In actual verification, these laser beams have a certain lethality even when facing targets 50,000 kilometers away, far exceeding the killing range of Mercury-class battleships and Venus-class battleships, which are at most a few thousand kilometers.

In addition to weapons, the high-speed radar it is equipped with also has the most powerful performance.

A total of 1024 deep-space scanning modules continuously scanned the celestial sphere, collecting information on any targets approaching. Once a target was detected, 3000 defensive weapons would immediately respond.

The supercomputer that serves as the brain of this battleship has performance that is incomparable to other battleships.

This supercomputer uses 2 2048-nanometer chips! Including the spacecraft's sensors, controllers, and more, a single Earth-class warship alone uses over chips of various processes and models!
At this moment, this huge ship, which was armed from head to toe and had nothing left out, and could truly be called a war beast, began its first voyage since its birth under the control of Li Qingsong.

(End of this chapter)