Chapter 220 Dongting Ship

It can be said that the layout of the warship equipped with magnetic shield is completely different from that of the Shan-class warship, so humans must build new ones and also build new ships.

There are many reasons.

The first is the plan to make major changes to the original Shan-class warship. Not only is it time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is completely unfeasible.

The impossibility here is not just a design problem, but a comprehensive factor from all aspects.

The power system of the Shan-class warship cannot support the surging energy required for the strong magnetic field of the magnetic shield. The main reason is that the Shan-class warship is not big enough. It is impossible to stuff a huge magnetic field generator into it while ensuring living space.

Of course, there is another reason why it is not big enough here, that is, the heavy nuclear fusion engine is really big.

The huge magnetic field generator and the huge heavy nuclear fusion engine, no matter which one, require humans to build larger warships.

Humans call those larger than the Shan-class warships the Lake-class.

The name of the first Lake-class warship was thought of by the new humans during the design stage, and it was the Dongting ship.

In the years after heavy nuclear fusion was achieved, the biggest and most important project for the new humans was shipbuilding. From exploration to design, to feasibility verification, and then to actually preparing various materials for shipbuilding, after the ship was built, it had to go through various sea trials, and finally adjust the warships according to various experimental data. After everything met the design requirements, it was mass-produced.

This process takes a very long time.

In this process, humans must also face a problem that must be faced when building giant ships, that is, structural strength.

Because in the design, if you want the warship to accommodate both heavy nuclear fusion and cold nuclear fusion dual fusion systems, and to carry a magnetic field shield system, it must be at least twice as large as the mountain-class warship.

After all, it is a warship powered by "burning stones", and the fuel storage warehouse is also very large.

According to the design of the design institute, its length must be at least 3 kilometers, and its width and height must be at least 1.2 kilometers. This is the minimum requirement. If you want more redundant space, you have to build it bigger.

Of course, as the first Lake-class warship, the Dongting ship was built according to this minimum standard.

The reason why the battleship is designed with such a poor length and width-to-height ratio is entirely because the main gun and engine occupy a large space.

Let's not talk about the heavy nuclear fusion engine. Just imagine the planetary engine in the movie. That thing is huge. In the movie, its single engine is as high as 11 kilometers, the main body diameter is 30 kilometers, and the base diameter is 60 kilometers.

Of course, the heavy nuclear fusion engine of the new human is not used to push the planet, but is used on the battleship. So naturally it doesn't need to be so big, on the contrary, it has to be built smaller.

It can be made as small as possible. Even so, it is still very large, so large that one-third of the length of the Dongting ship is occupied by the heavy nuclear fusion engine.

The cold nuclear pulse engine is smaller. According to the design, they will be divided into multiple ones, distributed around the heavy nuclear fusion engine at the stern.

The heavy nuclear fusion engine is so huge that a battleship of the size of the Dongting ship can only be equipped with one. As for the steering engine, traditional hydrogen nuclear fusion and new cold nuclear pulse engines are still needed.

And larger battleships, of course, need to be equipped with larger caliber main guns.

Because of the emergence of magnetic field shields, the main guns of the new warships have also changed. It is no longer that every ship is equipped with a positron gun as the main gun, but is configured according to the formation.

After mass production, the warships that form a formation with the Dongting ship will have at least one equipped with a super-large positron gun and another equipped with a large-caliber electromagnetic railgun. A small formation must have three different types of main guns at the same time.

Like the Dongting ship, it is equipped with a super-large gamma-ray cluster gun in design.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the main space of such a warship is occupied by the main gun and the engine.

And such a large design also requires the Dongting ship to change the design ideas of the previous mountain-class warships, and many spaces appear much smaller.

However, the most different design is not the redundant space size, but the bridge design.

The Lake-class warship no longer adopts the movable bridge design of the Mountain-class warship, but directly adapts to the core built-in design. In other words, the bridge of the Dongting ship will always be located in the core part of the warship, where the armor defense is the thickest.

Having learned from the experience of the two previous ships that were sunk and all the crew members died, the bridge of the Dongting ship will add another emergency survival support system.

Simply put, in addition to the built-in bridge, a layer of special material armor will be installed. The armor layer is made of a material with a melting point of 150 million and can resist ordinary nuclear explosions, and forms a whole with the bridge.

Such a bridge design is equivalent to stuffing a "steel egg" inside the warship.

When the warship is hit by a fatal blow and loses its combat effectiveness, the "steel egg" will activate the emergency system, close all the armor structures, and turn the bridge into a "curled up pangolin" to wait for post-war rescue.

Human mechanical expertise allows humans to do this. However, the manufacturing difficulty and construction time will also increase accordingly.

Of course, this is all worth it.

The bridge alone uses this alloy material. It is conceivable that the outer armor of the new warship will definitely not be bad. As for the current Dongting ship, its outer armor is all made of this alloy.

As a test ship, just looking at these configurations can crush the Tianqin in all aspects.

In fact, there is another reason why the Dongting ship was built according to the minimum specifications, that is, the strength of its keel has almost reached its limit. If it is built larger, even this material, which is known as the strongest material in the world, cannot withstand it.

It will be in danger of deformation under the surging power of the heavy nuclear fusion engine and the destruction of the cold nuclear pulse engine.

Therefore, in addition to building ships, the new humans are currently doing another thing at the same time, that is, to find a way to produce another stronger material on a larger scale.

Yes, this material has been developed. As a new alloy, its melting point has reached 280 million degrees Celsius, and its impact strength can directly withstand Big Ivan. Well, although it is still a little deformed in the experiment.

In fact, it is the emergence of this material that has enabled the new humans to so jump up and ascend to the throne of "burning stones" in one fell swoop.

And this material is still based on the analysis of the wreckage of the dilapidated spacecraft on Callisto at that time.

Of course, if there is no such material, the new humans can still achieve heavy nuclear fusion with the previous alloy material with a melting point of 150 million degrees Celsius, but it will not be so fast, and more difficulties need to be overcome in technical details.

Lake-class warships can naturally be built, but only warships of the size of the Dongting ship can be built. If they are larger, they must make breakthroughs in material technology again.

In fact, if a civilization develops normally without any adventures, the warships and material technology that reach the level of second-level civilization are probably like this.

And the new humans have a spaceship wreckage of at least the fourth-level civilization as a backup, so it is reasonable that they are stronger in material technology than normal second-level civilizations.