Chapter 633 of the text volume: The missiles of the Sun and Moon Empire were actually realized by the Sun and Moon Empire after the mecha was halfway through development. The actual combat effect of the mecha was not as great as imagined. What is more useful is the mecha.
Main gun. Especially the type that can achieve beyond visual range strike.
If it were possible to launch weapons to attack the enemy from thousands of kilometers or even further away, then the strategic advantage the Sun and Moon Empire would gain would be too great.
But the prerequisite is that the fired shells must be so fast that Douluo cannot intercept them even if they are banned.
Or it may explode violently the moment it is intercepted, causing the interceptor to also receive a strong impact.
It's not particularly difficult to do this. Being able to fire cannonballs at such a long distance means that its speed will definitely not be low.
After the Sun and Moon Empire realized that the planet under their feet was round, they already knew that if they wanted to strike beyond visual range, they had to draw an arc in the sky, and ultimately they would have to follow a path similar to a parabola.
trajectory.
And if the upper end of this trajectory can leave the atmosphere of the planet's surface, the distance that the cannonball can fly will be further.
After Lan Nuo heard that the Sun and Moon Empire had this project, he immediately jumped from the mecha research and development department. Although the mecha is easy to use, it is only useful and does not have any strategic significance in terms of strategy.
The changes are not even as great as the creation of tanks, which have a greater impact on the battlefield.
But missiles are different, especially missiles equipped with sufficiently powerful weapons.
However, he remembered that he seemed to have the ability to launch missiles before. Maybe he had it in a dream, or maybe it was some experience left to him by his old grandfather.
These experiences also allowed him to provide very useful suggestions after participating in the R&D department.
After the Sun and Moon Empire began to develop missiles, the biggest problem they faced was not propulsion. They could barely send objects out of the atmosphere. At least as long as they were not sending living objects, there was no need to consider letting them in space.
Survival is theoretically possible.
The real problem is to let this thing fly to the place you want to attack. The super long range of this weapon also means that the error is super large. If it is just a little bit off, it may miss the target when it is launched or hit.
I don’t know how many miles it is.
And if the error is so large, it has no strategic significance, let alone attacking individual targets. Even if it attacks a city, it will most likely go to the suburbs. It may even be directly deceived into another city.
At least its error must be reduced to within a range of five kilometers, so that it can have a certain practical effect. But it is meaningless to work hard on the launch, just like a simple artillery, no matter how far the range is, it is impossible
At that distance, the error should be controlled within a certain range. After all, there is no way to predict the impact of airflow and the like on the shells. No one knows what kind of deviation will occur when the shells fly halfway, even if there are two
Exactly the same cannonballs flying at exactly the same initial speed will eventually land in different locations.
Therefore, it is necessary to adjust its own flight status during flight. It is not difficult to develop such things as attitude control engines. The difficulty is how to determine the correct position of the target at a long distance.
If you want to do this, you can only navigate, and it is impossible to put a person on it. If you put a person on the rocket, although it can be controlled in theory, it will consume a lot of space and mass to maintain its survival.
It would be too big, and the explosive power contained in the shell would be too insignificant.
So cramming people in is definitely not possible. If they think of another plan, the first thing they think of is to record the terrain for navigation.
However, there is a problem. After arriving in space, the clouds will block the terrain on the ground. There is a high probability that it will affect the navigation effect. The performance of the chip itself will also have a certain impact. However, this aspect can be solved slowly. First of all,
It is necessary to take a topographic map of the ground from space and transport the map back safely. This aspect can be said to be quite difficult.
It is relatively easy to launch an unsafe flight into space. However, it is more difficult to allow a flying object to safely fall back to the ground after wandering around in space.
The requirements for automation design are quite high, and Lano's participation may not guarantee success.
Fortunately, these soul mentors of the Sun and Moon Empire are not vegetarians. After a launch test, they have an understanding of the environment in outer space.
In areas far away from the surface, soul power is very thin, which will make it difficult for aircraft that rely on soul engines to accelerate. At this time, normal fuel needs to be used as raw material for the engine to provide propulsion to rise higher.
s position.
In theory, it is possible to use soul power. However, one problem is that when the density of soul power at high altitude is extremely low, the soul power inside the bottle that stores soul power will lose faster.
This is somewhat similar to cells. Cells will lose and absorb water in solutions of different concentrations, and the same goes for soul power. The greater the soul power concentration, the less likely it is for the soul power inside the bottle to be lost.
In outer space, the soul power of baby bottles is lost very quickly, so the sealing technology of baby bottles must be improved. In the original work, the sealing technology of baby bottles was not modified by an eighth-level soul master until thousands of years later.
Successful. That is also his proud skill.
But now the technical problems in this area are in front of the entire research team. Everyone brainstormed and based on each other's ideas, it took only a few weeks to complete the design and manufacturing of a new baby bottle.
This ensures that even in a vacuum environment, the internal soul power can be slowly lost.
In this case, the soul guide can continue to operate in space. In addition, it can also be propelled for a longer period of time.
In terms of chemical fuel propulsion, soul guidance technology has unique advantages. The space soul guidance device can store fuel, and the stored fuel does not occupy the mass of the thruster. In reality, one of the biggest problems in launching a rocket is that the rocket itself
Be responsible for the quality of the fuel itself.
In this way, if you want to fly higher in the sky, you need to carry higher fuel, and if you want to carry higher fuel, you need to carry more fuel to push the fuel.
After this cycle continues, sending a small amount of mass into space requires an extremely huge amount of fuel.
And if the quality of the fuel itself is not taken into consideration, then everything is too simple. It only requires much less fuel to complete a launch, and the size of the rocket can also be very small. This is a unique advantage of launching missiles in this world.
Intercontinental missiles can be used to transport large amounts of explosives easily. The explosives made by soul guides are often extremely powerful. They are much more powerful than ordinary explosives and can almost rival nuclear bombs. If they can be transported far enough
If so, the impact on extraordinary creatures would be even better than a nuclear bomb.
After all, most of the power of a nuclear bomb is concentrated in its explosive power, and it spreads in all directions.
In contrast, the power of radiation does not harm powerful individual organisms so much.
As for soul-guided cannonballs, you can concentrate your attacks in a relatively small range and release them with more powerful effects in a small range.
Lan Nuo has never tried the effect of the ninth-level fixed soul-guided artillery shell. Even when he came to this world, he had never seen it. After all, this thing is quite precious. It is impossible to just blow it up for fun.
Even the national reserves of the Sun and Moon Empire are likely to be less than three digits. However, as the design and production of soul guides are separated, the difficulty and price of making ninth-level soul guides will be further reduced.
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After all, many top level nine soul engineers now design a soul guidance device. After the design is completed, it will be handed over to the manufacturer for mass production. In this way, the difficulty and cost of production will definitely be greatly reduced. When designing,
We will consider how to increase the power and how to reduce the difficulty of production. There is definitely a limit to what one person can do, but for a group of top soul mentors, it is a completely different situation.
There will definitely be more level nine custom-installed soul-guided artillery shells in the future, especially with the development of missiles, which may become the main force in wars in the future.
Back to the spacecraft, after completing the design and manufacturing of the sealed milk bottle, the test into space can basically be successful. After the first round of successful launches, the probe successfully crashed at the predetermined location, because it was only a probe
, so it is strong enough and can be operated. Even if it falls back, it will bring back corresponding data. The trajectory in space is basically in line with the predictions of the soul mentors. In this case, theoretically it can be done by launching the camera up.
It can even be photographed stably in orbit. They need more information about this planet.
After the satellite and camera were launched, they circled the entire planet for three days and made countless rounds in low-Earth orbit before landing successfully.
Although the landing capsule crashed, the tightly protected camera inside was successfully saved. The captured content was read out.
For the first time, humans in this world saw what the planet below looked like in the starry sky.
They may not be able to recognize other landmasses, but the continent they live in is still barely recognisable.
Although the drawing technology is relatively poor, because the world's top experts can fly to high altitudes to observe and intuitively complete the drawing of maps at high altitudes. After splicing together maps from various places, we can still obtain the results in the long history.
A relatively complete map was created.
By comparing the map with the scenes taken from space, you can roughly guess which continent they live on. In fact, you can see the cities on the ground through observation from space. So you can tell just by looking at the pictures.
.Where is the continent they live on?
But what is surprising is that there are actually two continents besides it. In terms of area, they are comparable to the continent they live on.
There are also traces of civilization on it, but it seems relatively primitive, at least not as obvious as the cities on this continent. This means that it is a continent that is easier to conquer than the three countries opposite it, given the strength of the indigenous people living there.
I'm afraid it's much worse than what's happening here. The Sun and Moon Empire is trying so hard to fight against the Douluo Three Kingdoms. In fact, it's better to go to the other two continents to develop resources.
After realizing this, the entire Sun-Moon Empire's policy couldn't help but change a little. Navigation technology, which was not valued by them at first, was also valued at this time. This planet is so big. There are still two planets not far apart.
It's not too far away, but the huge continent allows them to survive. In that case, what's the need to fight to the death with the three Douluo countries?
The senior officials of the Sun and Moon Empire more or less know that Douluo and the others are protected by gods. And gods are existences that they cannot fight against now. In this case, it is better to retreat to the next best thing and find two wild continents first.
Develop your own strength. Wait until you have the confidence to challenge an enemy of the level of a god, and then try to regain the land you lost.
However, no matter what the future strategy of the Sun and Moon Empire is, the research and development of missiles will continue. After figuring out the map of the earth's surface, the next step is to store the map in the chip. Then let the missiles in space target each other over and over again.
Touch the map, scan, and compare the environment on the ground to confirm whether you have reached the target.
"It is still too unstable to simply use this method to navigate. In addition to trying to use maps to navigate, the stars in space can also be used as navigation coordinates for us. You should have noticed that the stars at night will surround
Polaris rotates. This is caused by the rotation of our planet. This means that when the satellite is in different orbital positions, there is a huge difference in the starry sky above. Compared with the ground that will be blocked by clouds
, the starry sky is obviously an easier target to observe. Navigating based on the starry sky and flying to the starry sky area where the target we need to attack is located. The effect should be much better than simply navigating through the map on the ground. The two types of navigation cooperate with each other.
Next, it is possible to avoid the map being unable to match due to yaw to the greatest extent." Lan Nuo proposed an idea that no one had thought of. However, some people soon mentioned the problem with this idea.
That is, the planet under their feet is constantly rotating, and in this process, the starry sky corresponding to the same day and area will also continue to change. It is meaningless to just record the starry sky.
"So we need to introduce the concept of time. Before launching, we have to calculate the approximate time of hitting the target and the picture of the starry sky in the area where the target is located after hitting the target."