More than two hours later, the Yuewan finally replenished its supplies, and the eight booster rockets were installed one by one. Everything was ready, except for the east wind.
Dozens of small spacecraft that were originally surrounding the Moon Bay retreated one after another. Huang Bo in the bridge of the Moon Bay loudly ordered: "Start the attitude engine——"
"Attitude engine starts——"
"Join the expedition formation!"
The attitude engine under the battle belly spurted out several streams of white air, pushing the Yuewan to float upwards and joining the expedition fleet. At the end of the formation, four warships were lined up in a row, about a hundred meters apart, with several figures in the silhouette of the Summer Bay.
A red light flashes slightly, which is the signal light on the surface of the battleship.
Ye Han, who had been sitting there for more than two hours, immediately cheered up and stared at the screen on the left side of the bridge with wide eyes. On the screen, the hull number on the side of the Summer Bay could be clearly seen.
That's right, it's a screen, not a porthole.
The 024 class does not have a conspicuous bridge like a surface ship. The battleship command cabin is located under the middle of the battleship. If it were a surface ship, this position would be the middle of the bottom of the ship. It is as low-key as it looks, and people who don't know it can't find it at all.
The location of the bridge.
At first glance, this design seems very unreasonable, but in fact, this plan is the work of the designers who worked hard.
The military has never designed a space battleship, so everything has to be started from scratch.
However, the military has a fine tradition in design. When designing nuclear submarines, they also started from scratch. The designers only had two photos of nuclear submarines copied from foreign newspapers, and another nuclear submarine bought from a toy store.
Model, but the design team just made a nuclear submarine!
Inspired by their predecessors, the designers found a large number of science fiction film and television works, took photos and archived the battleships that appeared in the films, studied them in detail one by one, and absorbed the outstanding ideas.
In this way, from 011 to 024, two models of space battleships were created from scratch, from rough to refined, from chaotic to reasonable.
Comparing the design drawings, it can be found that the first draft of the 011 class has a bridge that clearly protrudes from the hull, which is no different from a surface ship. However, in subsequent drawings, this thing, which is no different from a target, becomes increasingly inconspicuous until
Finally disappeared.
The bridge is the command center and the brain of the battleship. Once it is damaged, the consequences will be disastrous. Is it because such an important position is designed to be so conspicuous that the enemy cannot find it?
A battleship cannot live without a bridge, but it does not need an exposed bridge! However, the bridges of all space battleships in science fiction films and television works are exposed on the surface of the battleship, and only a handful of them can be hidden inside the ship after war.
This weird design amazed all the designers. Wouldn’t it be enough to just draw on the submarine design and build a hidden bridge?
As a result, the two levels of space battleships now look like they can't find a bridge. The designers even gave this structure a name - built-in bridge!
With the built-in bridge design, the images outside the ship cannot be observed through the portholes. In fact, there is no need to use any portholes. The universe is vast and vast, and there is no edge that can be seen at a glance. Apart from the dark sky, there are just dots of stars, which are invisible to the naked eye.
what.
The electronic equipment is different. The camera equipment installed outside the ship can not only transmit images from all directions up, down, left, and right back to the bridge, but can also use optical equipment to enlarge the picture. More importantly, the electronic equipment can fill in the light for the picture.
, separate objects originally hidden in the dark to avoid misjudgment caused by naked eye observation.
Without the supplementary light of electronic equipment, no matter how good his eyesight was, Ye Han would never be able to see the hull number of the Summer Bay clearly, even if the distance between the two warships was only more than a hundred meters.
This is a natural physiological weakness of the naked eye, a weakness that cannot be changed - optical observation equipment is required in naval battles, and the space battlefield is much larger than the sea surface. How can we only observe the situation with the naked eye?
Build a conspicuous bridge, and observation must be through the portholes. What kind of window glass can not only resist the powerful rays in the universe, but also resist the enemy's firepower in battle?
Are you seeking death by leaving such obvious flaws on a battleship?
Therefore, the final design plan is to have screens everywhere on the bridge, showing the situation outside the ship at 360 degrees without any blind spots, just like sitting in a panoramic dome theater watching a documentary film about the universe and the starry sky.
"Report, the Yuewan is in position!" Huang Bo's energetic voice sounded from the bridge.
As soon as he finished speaking, a steady voice appeared in the communicator: "Yuewan, welcome back to the team - the command center, the task force has assembled and requested to leave the port!"
"The command center has received it, the task force can leave the port, salute——"
"Attention everyone, I am the flagship Hongwan. Follow my orders, all ships should spread out, keeping a distance of 500 meters!"
The attitude engine was started again. After the Yuewan slid to the side for seven or eight hundred meters, it adjusted its position again. The four warships finally formed a straight line about five hundred meters apart.
"Command center, the task force is preparing to depart, requesting navigation data."
"Data has been uploaded!"
"Data received, decoded... Attention all personnel, start the main engine -"
"Start the main engine!" Huang Bo immediately repeated the command.
"Main engine start!"
The electromagnetic engine's propulsion power is important to keep, but the actual propulsion power is very small. Ye Han didn't feel anything unusual, and he didn't even notice any sign of the battleship moving.
"Every ship is moving forward at full speed, countdown to the ignition of the first set of booster rockets——"
A countdown of seconds immediately sounded in the bridge of the Moon Bay. Ye Han took a deep breath and pressed his body tightly against the chair, preparing to resist the impact.
"Three, two, one, ignite!" The ten-second countdown ended, and the two booster rockets fixed outside the ship ignited together.
The thrust given by the rocket to the battleship must penetrate the center of mass of the battleship, otherwise the battleship will yaw due to uneven force. Therefore, two booster rockets are ignited each time, and the two rockets are symmetrically ignited at the same time.
The strong power pushed the nearly 5,000-ton warship to slowly accelerate, and the warship gradually moved away from its original position.
Ye Han found that the moon on the screen was obviously moving backwards, and couldn't help but feel sad, and said silently: "Xiaoting, wait for me to come back..."
The formation speed is getting faster and faster, gradually leaving the moon behind and accelerating towards the blue earth.
At this time, the moon was located between the sun and the earth, hanging high in the daytime sky. After the fleet set off, it did not go straight to the direction of Jupiter, but flew to the right side of the earth first.
According to human habits, the solar system is centered with the north of the earth as the top, and all planets revolve counterclockwise. If the forward direction of the earth is regarded as the front, the flight direction of the fleet at this time is behind the earth. After a few minutes, the booster rocket runs out of fuel.
, the four warships made a brief attitude adjustment and aligned themselves in the intended sailing direction, and immediately launched the second set of booster rockets.... Friends who are reading, you can search for "" to find this site as soon as possible.