104 The specialty of the Marine Corps is adaptability
Because the USS Constitution has been impounded, it has been moved to the dock in the inner harbor. Unlike the outer harbor where ships frequently enter and leave the harbor, the inner harbor is pressurized, and spacecrafts need to pass through large ship airlocks to enter and exit.
This design is to facilitate ship maintenance. Because there is air, maintenance workers working in the port do not need to wear heavy space suits, which will greatly improve work efficiency.
At the same time, the presence of air also means that it will not be easy for the spacecraft to leave the port, and it must pass through the air lock.
There could not be a more suitable environment for placing a ship under house arrest.
Wang Ping'an directly used missiles to blast open the outer wall of the dock. The moment he broke through the outer wall, the air pressure inside the port almost blew his combat boat out.
Fortunately, he was well prepared, turned the engine to maximum, and used the attitude control engine to offset the shaking of the spacecraft.
His combat boat rushed into the dock before the self-sealing materials could seal the breach.
Then the self-sealing material quickly poured out to block the breach, ending the pressure loss.
Wang Ping'an relied on the inertia of the spacecraft to rush towards the Constitution.
The entire dock was full of flashing warning lights, and the siren should have sounded, but Wang Ping'an couldn't hear it through the thick shell of the combat boat - after all, the external detection equipment of the space combat boat was not used to capture the sound.
There is no medium in the universe, so sound waves cannot propagate.
When passing the trestle next to the USS Constitution, the air flow caused by the combat boat blew away some "staff members".
Wang Ping'an didn't care about these people at all, but Angeli saw that some of the people who were blown away were wearing military police uniforms.
Angele: "You blew away the military police, please pay attention to flight safety!"
"How can you care so much?" Wang Ping'an said angrily, while aiming at the No. 1 airtight hatch on the port side of the Constitution and firing the electromagnetic cannon.
The main armor belt of all spaceships is on the front, because in real space battles, the bow pointing of the spacecraft is not bound to the movement trajectory of the battleship, unlike some pseudo-space war-themed works in the pre-aerospace era.
The bow of the ship must be pointing in the direction of the course.
In a real space battle, it is theoretically possible to keep the bow of the ship facing the enemy, so the main armor belt of most armored spacecraft is on the front.
In addition, based on the same design idea, battleships are generally designed to be relatively slender, reducing the projected area of the bow as much as possible in order to maximize the use of the mass of the frontal armor.
Therefore, the sides of most battleships are relatively fragile.
This is also the significance of space combat ships in large-scale frontal battles: stealing sides.
The USS Constitution is just a cargo ship, and its armor quality is only 5% of the entire ship's quality, at least that's what the registration information says.
And Wang Pingan was also targeting the theoretical vulnerability of the armor.
The first shot of the electromagnetic gun directly smashed the outer hatch of the airlock. The second shot hit the outline of the outer hatch and peeled off a large piece of the outer shell, revealing the machine used to control the air pressure. The third shot accurately
It hit the inner hatch and smashed the entire hatch inside.
But that's all.
Wang Ping'an couldn't even see clearly the corridor inside the Constitution's hatch through the combat boat's optical equipment.
It is obvious that the airlock of the USS Constitution is designed to prevent boarding. There should be a carefully designed "urn city"-like structure inside, which can allow the defenders to kill a large number of enemies who jump from the airlock.
Wang Ping'an cursed, switched to plasma mode, and adjusted the plasma preheating time to the maximum.
The moment the trigger is pulled, the plasma module ionizes the "projectile" into high-temperature plasma, and all the energy is converted into plasma heat. When the preheating time is up, the electromagnetic track projects the lump out.
At the moment of launch, Wang Ping'an's body entered an automatic heat dissipation state - because the body's heat capacity was already overloaded.
The high-temperature liquid tin was sprayed into the air and produced completely different reactions in the universe.
The air that was instantly heated expanded rapidly, and the hot wind formed directly pushed the combat boat's floating direction to a wrong direction.
The high-temperature electric slurry adhered to the damaged airlock, immediately causing a secondary disaster, and a fire broke out.
The melted hull structure turned into dark red molten steel, floating everywhere in the weightless air.
The USS Constitution's point defense system was activated.
Because Wang Pingan was hiding in the shooting blind spot of the Constitution's main laser, the Constitution could only activate point defenses scattered everywhere to fight back against Wang Pingan. However, for a combat boat of several hundred tons, the light point defense used to deal with missiles was a bit too much.
It's child's play.
Under normal navigation conditions, the Constitution would definitely start the attitude control engine, roll the hull, and use the anti-meteorite main laser to deal with Wang Ping'an.
But now the Constitution is in the port and cannot move at all.
After Wang Ping'an replaced the battery, he fired a few enthusiastic rounds of electromagnetic cannon into the defense, and immediately destroyed the thing.
Then he turned to the air-tight locks on the other side and glared at them again.
While the plasma dissolved the hatch, Wang Ping'an's aircraft overheated again, but the overheating did not prevent him from firing several missiles at the hatch.
The Constitution was calling on the radio: "Stop your vandalism, we are law-abiding citizens!"
Wang Pingan found the integrated antenna of the communication system on the shell of the USS Constitution, and the entire antenna was sent away by a burst of missiles.
**
Lieutenant Colonel Guo of the Marine Corps was speechless, thinking about the situation in front of him.
"Let us use gang warfare equipment to guard the USS Constitution...could it be said..."
At this time, a staff officer suggested: "We can use individual missiles to attack this crazy combat boat."
"No, we should rescue the emergency now. The Space Force has its own responsibility to save ordinary people from fire and water." The lieutenant colonel waved his hand, "Our mission is to land on the Constitution and help rescue the wounded! Be prepared at any time when boarding the ship. You may be nervous.
The wounded opened fire on us!"
The staff officer had an expression of "What the hell are you talking about in your sleep?", but the lieutenant colonel remained unmoved and continued to order: "Attention all troops, board the ship in a fighting posture. It is predicted that the Constitution may be partially disabled if it encounters a closed gas."
Use explosives on the secret hatch, it’s important to save people!”
Although the Marine Corps leader also looked confused, he still carried out the order and rushed to the burning airlock of the USS Constitution.
Their spacesuits are not afraid of this flame. After all, the high-temperature-resistant coating on the outside can even withstand the irradiation of individual laser weapons.
The first Marine to rush into the Constitution was immediately intercepted by intensive firepower. Fortunately, the Marine's armor was hard enough, allowing him to hide behind a bunker.
The people on the Constitution were shouting through their personal communicators: "We must protect the company's property and prohibit you from boarding the ship privately!"
Lieutenant Colonel Guo grabbed the walkie-talkie: "We are going to board the ship to rescue people. If you open fire on us, you will be regarded as terrorists attacking the Space Force. You must stop resisting immediately, surrender and surrender."
"We refuse!"
"Hmph, you really have a problem. All Marines, please pay attention. We are fighting back in self-defense. We are using whatever firepower we need."
As soon as he finished speaking, the individual nuclear grenade exploded inside the Constitution. The explosion was equivalent to 10 tons of TNT. The light produced made the damaged hatch of the Constitution look like a searchlight.
The hurricane that erupted from the hatch blew away the two Marines who were approaching the hatch.
Colonel Guo ordered via radio: "Dock control center, exhaust the entire dock, otherwise the shock wave of the bomb will be too annoying, and it will affect too much when we fight."
"Understood, wish you good luck." The dockyard replied.
**
Liddy Kirk said in surprise: "The dock has begun to exhaust air. When the dock reaches a vacuum, it will be time for us to start operating."
If there is air in the dock, casually damaging the outer wall of the dock may cause violent secondary damage, which may affect people trying to escape.
But if there is no air in the dock, it will be equivalent to adding a layer of shackles to the Constitution.
Liddy Kirk smiled happily: "The Space Force is really a bunch of pigheads who stick to the rules!"
At this time, the tremors caused by a new round of explosions were transmitted through the structure of the ship's hull.
The Space Marines didn't keep their hands at all, and the nuclear grenades were just thrown for fun.
After all, this is a space environment, and the impact of nuclear weapons can be easily eliminated. Radiation and the like can be solved by discharging the radiated air and water that washes away radioactive dust into the universe.
Liddy Kirk held the intercom: "Hold on! Just wait until they drain the air out of the cabin..."
Another voice overcame Liddy: "The combat boat outside is destroying the spacecraft's engine!"