Compared to Lan Nuo, although the members of the Earth Trisolaran Organization have higher technology, their combat experience is really far behind. Especially the experience of fighting in space.
There is a huge difference between the environment in space and the ground. So far, only a handful of humans have been able to adapt to the space environment. People like Lan Nuo, who feel that going to space is like going home, are even rarer.
Not to mention that he has conducted countless simulated battles and has a very deep understanding of the mechas and spaceships made by Trisolaris.
In space, the most useful weapons are actually kinetic energy weapons. Both Trisolaran and Lanno have considered the space combat performance of mechas, so they are all equipped with similar weapons.
In a vacuum environment, there is no limit to the speed of sound. Kinetic energy itself can be accumulated almost infinitely. In space, with continuous acceleration, almost all the energy of the fuel can be converted into kinetic energy, without any loss in the process.
Therefore, high-speed artillery shells that can adjust their flight trajectories are one of the best weapons in space. Here, missiles no longer need to carry warheads. They only need to convert all the energy of the fuel into kinetic energy to explode.
The power of the warhead.
Lan Nuo did not leave the space elevator, but relied on the space elevator to quickly start the construction of the position.
To launch kinetic energy weapons, if you want to have a high enough initial velocity, you need a sufficiently solid firepower platform.
He has an advantage in this regard. With the space elevator at his back, he can almost ignore the recoil before the space elevator is destroyed. The change this brings on the battlefield is the time it takes for his attack to fly over and hit the enemy.
Shorter.
The reason is very simple. When the acceleration is similar, the greater the initial velocity, the shorter the time it takes to cover the same distance.
Lan Nuo found it on the space elevator. The equipment here was originally used for space defense. These things were originally designed to prevent problems before they occur. The people who designed them did not expect that one day they would come in handy. After all, in human imagination,
Formal contact with the Trisolarans will take place four hundred years later.
Four hundred years later, such weapons have already lagged behind for who knows how many years. Such weapons have no meaning of existence. Before the arrival of the Trisolarans, the designers did not believe that anyone could really break through the atmosphere and have a negative impact on mankind.
The jointly constructed space station poses a threat.
Lan Nuo took out these weapons, connected himself to the control center of the space elevator, and entered program instructions into it. These instructions all controlled the launch of these kinetic energy missiles.
In space, the design of these kinetic energy missiles is very special. There is a relatively small amount of charge on the head, and the outside of the charge is wrapped with a layer of steel balls.
The function is the same as that of a fragmentation grenade. An explosion in space will not produce a shock wave, and the effect of range damage is greatly reduced. However, if steel balls are added to the warhead, then the steel balls that will be ejected quickly in all directions during the explosion can have a certain effect.
to the effect of shock waves.
However, this thing also has disadvantages, that is, it will complicate the space environment of the battlefield. No one can calculate the flight trajectory of each steel ball after the explosion, and this kind of thing is used in hundreds or thousands. After that, the steel balls
It flies in all directions and hardly slows down in space. The probability of hitting one's own warship is actually not much smaller than that of hitting the enemy's warship.
However, this is suitable for individuals to fight against groups, using a small and broad approach to combat.
In the final analysis, Lan Nuo is only about the size of a person. Under this size, the probability of being hit by such fragments is very slim. The enemies are larger than him in both quantity and size, so they will suffer in such a game.
After completing this series of preparations, the radar has fed back information and scanned the space for the approaching spacecraft that is increasing its orbit.
In space, if you want to raise your orbit, you need to speed up, and if you want to maintain a high orbit at a low speed, you need to consume more fuel.
This is actually one of the reasons why the space elevator chose to make an emergency landing before. If the space elevator is defended, the enemy will need to consume a huge amount of fuel to maintain synchronous rotation with the earth at a lower altitude than the synchronous orbit. This can be regarded as
It is a tactical advantage.
But Lan Nuo knows very well that there is no point in holding on. The intelligence sent by Zhang Beihai is already very clear. What the Earth Trisolaran Organization needs to do is to cut off the cables of the space elevator, although it is not known that they have any means to cut off several adult arms.
Thick and thin nanomaterial cables, but that undoubtedly means that the space elevator itself will also lose the advantage of maintaining low-speed flight in low-Earth orbit.
Since it is an advantage that will be lost sooner or later, then if the advantage is smaller, the impact on the battle situation will not be that big.
Lan Nuo used the high-power radar on the space elevator, combined with the information provided to him by numerous satellites in high and low orbits, to lock on most of the targets that came towards him.
The opponent's trajectory in space looks very chaotic, but if you use a computer to calculate their flight trajectory, you will find that with their current acceleration, when they approach the space elevator, they will exactly form a network.
Grid shape, or the shape of a mesh bag.
It was as if they had expected that the space elevator would cut off and the car would fall from the sky and fall into their net pockets.
Lan Nuo is still waiting. The distance between them is still too far. In space, although this distance is close to the distance of hand-to-hand combat, the impact of distance on the transmission of electromagnetic waves has gradually become apparent.
It takes nearly 0.14 seconds for an electromagnetic wave to circle the earth. Although they are not so far apart from each other in space, there is a slight delay when the electromagnetic wave comes back and forth. This is not normal for ordinary people.
It is very small in terms of perception, and can only be clearly reflected in a larger-scale space station.
But for Lan Nuo, even a delay of one thousandth of a second is enough to determine life or death. In space, the two parties accelerate each other, and the relative speed between them is often tens of kilometers per second.
The moment they intersect with each other may only be less than a thousandth of a second. Is the kinetic energy weapon misaligned at this moment? It may determine life or death.
That's right, Lan Nuo is preparing to launch the "Holy City Charge" this time, and such tactics may also show extremely significant effects in space.
While he was still waiting, the fleet of the Earth Trisolaran Organization had already begun to launch its own weapons, which were kinetic energy warheads, but their shapes were not streamlined.
In space, missiles no longer have to be aerodynamically shaped, in which case they can become grotesque.
The one launched by the Trisolaran is like a lotus pod, with the propeller at the tail of the lotus pod, and the head looks very huge, with a large amount of explosives and fragments wrapped inside the huge head.
After sensing that the enemy has entered the cone-shaped range in front of them, they will detonate their heads, causing the fragments to impact towards the cone-shaped range in front of them at high speed.
A large number of these lotus-shaped missiles were released, drawing arc-shaped trajectories in space and flying towards the space elevator.
Lan Nuo has already arrived at the escape cabin. There is an electromagnetic ejection device here. Originally, this thing was used to eject the return cabin at high speed. When the space elevator faced dangers such as explosions, it was used to evacuate people at high speed. At this time, it was In turn, another tactic was used, which was to give the flying target an extremely high initial velocity.
A large number of artillery shells were fired from the space elevator. These were all equipped with propellers. Because they were not weapons, the temporarily modified warheads were much worse than the lotus-shaped ones with range-killing capabilities, but the reception There is still the ability to command adjustments to one's own flight path.
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"Discover the target, start launching missiles, and prepare for interception." The astronauts from the Earth Trisolaran Organization drove the spacecraft and began to gather lasers to intercept the missiles.
It is difficult for these spaceship pilots to play a big role in the subsequent battle. After all, the combat units on both sides are human-sized and are extremely flexible in accelerating and decelerating in space. In comparison, they are too bulky. The deceleration is too slow. By the time they catch up with the target, the battle may be over, and they can only play their role in fire support.
A large amount of lasers were released. However, at the same time as the lasers were released, several missiles accelerated one step ahead of the missile group, and then exploded in front of the missile group. After the explosion, pieces of silver dust appeared in the space, which were tiny. Metal powder, after the laser enters this metal powder area, it starts to reflect, and it looks like it suddenly becomes thicker, which means that the power is greatly reduced.
The Trisolaran Earth Organization did not expect that fighting in space could pave a way for itself in this way.
Although the Trisolarans also know some experience in space combat, they have never fought against foreign enemies and most of their battles have stayed in planet orbit. Therefore, although they are stronger than the Earth's Trisolaran organization, they are not much stronger.
Although the interception effect of laser weapons is not obvious, this is not a problem at all for the Earth Trisolaran fleet whose firepower scale and advanced level are far beyond that. The missile groups of both sides are not of the same size at all.
"The target is still giving resistance! The space fighters are dispatched!" Although the commander of the Earth Trisolaran Organization knew that he had been betrayed, he still suppressed his inner anger at this time and calmly commanded the fleet.
At this time, space fighters and mechas are dispatched to contain and pursue the enemy. When they think about it, Lan Nuo must find a way to escape to the space station as soon as possible, so the missiles in front of him are just left behind by him.
To buy himself time to escape, the space elevator will continue to accelerate upward, while he will assemble an escape capsule and launch upward at a faster speed.
Sophon was also monitoring Lan Nuo's every move and feeding back to the fleet. After seeing Lan Nuo enter the escape capsule, the members of the Earth Trisolaris organization thought that their judgment was correct.
However, it is useless even if Lan Nuo prepares to escape. Even if the space elevator launches the escape capsule with a high initial velocity, the acceleration that the human body can withstand is limited.
Therefore, in short distances, the speed that can be accelerated is limited, and in terms of long-distance acceleration, the space fighters of the Earth Trisolaran Organization are far more powerful than the set of mechas on Lan Nuo, and can be accelerated before he flies to the space station.
intercept him.
Just when they thought that Lan Nuo would use the accelerated ejection device to escape, they didn't expect that the direction of the ejection device rotated 180 degrees and was aimed at the direction of the fleet of the Earth Trisolaran Organization.
At the same time, there were eight other escape capsules containing empty mechas. They also changed their directions and accumulated energy towards the fleet of the Earth Trisolaran Organization.
Including Lan Nuo, all the ejection tracks were overloaded, and the capacitor stored far more electrical energy than the capacity. With the pressing of the launch button, the nine mechas were ejected with an acceleration exceeding three times the rated acceleration.
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Lan Nuo endured thirty gravitational accelerations at this moment. An ordinary person would be crushed into a bloody mess by this kind of acceleration. However, Lan Nuo has reached the pinnacle of body control and controls himself regularly.
His flesh and blood squirmed, releasing the pressure he was under, and effectively supporting his internal organs, protecting these most fragile structures. Lan Nuo was able to withstand this acceleration for a short time, although his body was seriously injured.
The injury was not fatal to him, and it would not even affect his subsequent reaction.
Immediately afterwards, they continued to fly at an acceleration that exceeded the limit that the human body can withstand.
This is not just the effect of the thrusters. It also has the effect of the acceleration orbit. Even if they have left the orbit, they will still be affected by the electromagnetic force and can still accept acceleration after leaving the orbit.
Therefore, during this distance, Lanno can have higher acceleration than the space fighter of the Earth's Trisolaran Organization.
It's not that the space fighters of the Trisolaran Earth Organization can't achieve greater acceleration, it's just that the pilots can't stand it.
As for unmanned combat aircraft, their flexibility and combat effectiveness in space are indeed higher than that of manned ones. The problem is that artificial intelligence has limitations in controlling fighter aircraft.
If humans control it, they will also face the problem of delay. This is not a problem that can be solved by a simulated cockpit. There will also be delays in the simulated cockpit and the real situation on the battlefield. The driver must arrive near the battlefield before he can try it.
Drive in a similar manner.
However, they no longer have enough time to think. Lan Nuo is like crazy, flying madly in the direction of the fleet of the Earth Trisolaran Organization.
Those space fighters and mechas that had already begun to accelerate were too late to slow down at this time, and could only watch their opponents' suicidal charge.
