People who don't like to use their brains will always lead their thinking into dead ends unconsciously.
The reason why the combined fleet moved retrograde along the planned orbit of the alien fleet was to block the enemy forces to the maximum extent and ensure the annihilation effect of this battle.
Although the aviation force follows the tactics of the combined fleet, it has learned from the past and will certainly not make the same mistake again.
After more than a hundred heavy aerospace fighters left the earth, they were divided into four waves. They sailed close to the orbit of the alien fleet, but did not enter its orbit. After avoiding the coverage of the debris, they flew from the front of the alien fleet.
The enemy approaches, launches the missile and then breaks away immediately.
There are thirty fighters in one wave, each fighter carries eight missiles, and each salvo is a simultaneous attack of 240 missiles. Even if the alien warship is hidden in the dense cloud of debris, it is still being bombarded by continuous nuclear fire.
The explosion was so severe that only two waves of missiles were launched, and the remaining eight alien warships were devastated on the spot.
However, the aviation force did not stop there. The remaining two waves still launched all the missiles, blasting the debris cloud over and over again, until they could not find even half a larger fragment, and then they returned home with satisfaction.
It is not easy for a warship to turn around, but a fighter plane goes back as fast as it says, without any hesitation... The fighter plane is so small, and there is no extra space to load supplies. If the fighter plane can fly for ten and a half days and then return to the earth, it will not starve to death.
A large number of pilots is not enough.
The victory of the aviation force was regarded as a sign of the end of the Kuanglan Campaign. Moreover, the success of the interception operation solidified the theory of aviation force, which directly led to the military's determination to develop an aerospace carrier.
Just one day later, a debris cloud passed near the Earth. A small amount of debris was captured by the Earth's gravity, crashed into several satellites in outer space and fell into the atmosphere, causing a meteor shower that lasted for more than 40 minutes.
The main body of the debris cloud crossed the Earth's orbit and cut into the gap between Venus and the Earth's orbit. Later, the debris cloud was affected by the gravity of Venus and split into two parts. One part fell into Venus, and the other debris formed a sparse debris belt between the Earth and Venus. The scale
Far inferior to the asteroid belt, but somewhat similar.
In early March, the institute finally completed the design of the nuclear power engine, and the design drawings were sent to Beiyuezhou as soon as possible.
Under the coordinated command of Beidu, Beiyuezhou mobilized elite soldiers and generals to create two nuclear power engine prototypes in just two days.
The principle of the nuclear power engine is no different from the Orion project, but decades have passed and the rapid advancement of technology has caused the design institute to completely abandon the old design content and design a brand new nuclear power engine.
The structure of this engine is very similar to a traditional recoil engine. The engine has a cavity structure similar to a fuel chamber, called a reaction chamber.
The deepest part of the reaction chamber is a very simple launching device that can continuously launch plastic balls the size of mung beans.
Don’t underestimate this inconspicuous little plastic ball. This thing is the real core of the nuclear power engine. The hydrogen atoms in the plastic ball are not ordinary hydrogen, but deuterium, the isotope of hydrogen. The plastic ball also contains an appropriate amount of helium.
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When the plastic ball is emitted from the bottom of the reaction chamber, it will fly outward along the reaction chamber. When the ball flies to the end of the reaction chamber, a beam of high-energy laser is irradiated on the plastic ball, causing deuterium and helium 3 nuclear fusion to produce
A very small nuclear explosion.
The explosion ionizes other elements that make up the plastic pellets. The high-temperature and high-pressure plasma rapidly spreads in the reaction chamber, and part of it quickly ejects out of the reaction chamber, allowing the nuclear engine to gain reverse propulsion.
By precisely controlling the amount of deuterium and helium 3 in the pellet, the nuclear explosion yield in the reaction chamber can be precisely controlled to avoid excessive energy destroying the reaction chamber.
The reaction chamber continuously fires fuel balls, which can provide a steady stream of propulsion for the engine, achieving a similar effect to a recoil engine, but consuming very little fuel.
When the top military officials heard the news, their glasses shattered all over the floor.
Solid fuel is not news. The missiles deployed by the military in outer space are all solid fuel.
However, the nuclear power engine actually uses solid fuel, and its operation is as ridiculous as shooting BB bombs. It is really hard not to shock people.
But regardless of how it works, whether it can be used, and whether it is easy to use are the most critical issues.
The two prototypes produced by Beiyuezhou were immediately sent to the orbital factory and installed on a 011-class battleship.
This 011-class warship was returned to the factory for overhaul due to malfunction and failed to join the combined fleet. It is currently the only 011-class warship owned by Beiyuezhou.
After being equipped with a new engine, the 011-class ship immediately began sea trials.
It was found that the nuclear power engine not only fully met the design standards, but also slightly exceeded the acceleration performance, and its acceleration capability was no less than that of the chemical fuel engine.
According to calculations by the design institute, if the 024 class is equipped with a nuclear power engine, it will only take one month to fly from the Earth to Mars, and it will only take four to five months to fly to Jupiter!
Such data doesn't seem like a big deal, it's just twice as powerful as the electromagnetic engine.
But this data is true direct flight data. In other words, a spacecraft using a nuclear-powered engine does not need to use the Earth's gravity slingshot to accelerate. It can fly to Jupiter in more than four months by relying only on engine acceleration.
This is too scary.
The emergence of nuclear power engines made up for the last shortcoming of the space battleship. Beidu immediately notified Beiyuezhou to immediately start building the first-generation space carrier.
The military has an extremely urgent need for new warships, but it is also worried about the uncertainties caused by directly launching large warships. After careful consideration, it finally decided to launch a medium-sized space carrier.
In mid-March, the keel of the first space carrier was laid, and it was officially named Penglai.
In order to protect the fragile propeller, the Penglai did not use the dangerous external engine solution. Instead, it installed a brake engine on the bow of the ship, and it was a design that could rotate 360 degrees and adjust the posture of the warship.
Installing an engine on the bow of the ship will inevitably affect the weapon configuration on the bow, but overall the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
According to the Navy's experience, the risk of using an air and space carrier alone is high, and an aircraft carrier battle group with an air space carrier as the core must be formed. Based on the experience in forming an aircraft carrier battle group, Class 024 and Class 026 together become the escort warships and supplies of the aircraft carrier battle group.
Ships, hospital ships and other specialized warships are also being designed.
But the first thing the design institute came up with was not a battleship design, but a second-generation aerospace fighter design.
The wing-mounted engine solution that could not be applied to battleships was directly moved by designers into the design of fighter aircraft, giving the new fighter aircraft unparalleled maneuverability.
Humanity has been using wing-mounted engine solutions on large aircraft such as passenger planes and transport aircraft. Nowadays, it is just to let bomber-structured aircraft perform the mission of fighter jets. No one stipulates that if the engine is mounted under the wings, it does not count as a fighter jet. Practical solutions are the best.
