Chapter 350: Changes in Space Warfare Concepts

The information on the big screen was displayed synchronously. At this glance, everyone found that the shell material and impact-resistant structure of this shell were made of No. 1 metal.

An atomic bomb was built in as a fuse, and the main explosive force was a hydrogen bomb. The shell of No. 1 metal material was made porous to release the energy of the hydrogen bomb explosion.

So that's it!

Everyone understood.

They all understood that even if it was just a meteorite falling from the planetary orbit to the ground under the action of gravity, it would cause super strong impact energy. If it was ordinary metal, the super strong impulse would be enough to melt it into liquid at the moment of hitting the ground.

In this way, it is absolutely impossible to achieve the effect of drilling and explosion. Only No. 1 metal material can bear such impact.

What they didn't expect was that this form of electromagnetic railgun shells was originally not available to humans. It can be said that it was designed because of the requirements of mining.

According to the military's point of view, the emergence of this shell has made the warhead of human electromagnetic railguns more diverse, and it can even go a step further and design an armor-piercing shell that penetrates the armor of warships based on this.

This is not unexpected. In fact, the weapons design department had already discussed and made preliminary designs in this regard when designing this planetary orbital earth-penetrating bomb.

Their idea is to upgrade the design based on the armor-piercing structure of the Earth era, replace the funnel-shaped structure material in the armor-piercing warhead of the electromagnetic railgun with No. 1 metal, and then replace the "ammunition" in the warhead with a hydrogen bomb, so that the original armor-piercing metal jet of the armor-piercing bomb can be transformed into a high-heat energy jet of the hydrogen bomb.

The purpose is to use super high temperature to melt the warship armor instantly.

However, at the beginning, they encountered a difficulty, that is, the melting point of alloy No. 1 is 150 million degrees Celsius, and the original design of this armor-piercing bomb is not to penetrate ordinary armor, but to penetrate the outer shell of the warship armored with alloy No. 1.

Then the problem arises. It is known that the core of the hydrogen bomb can reach a temperature of 100 to 1 billion degrees depending on the equivalent. Therefore, if alloy No. 1 is directly used as a hole-shaped reflective jet structure and placed in the explosion core, the alloy No. 1 material will melt before the jet is concentratedly reflected by the hole-shaped structure.

It is possible to use alloy No. 2 as a structure to reflect the concentrated high-temperature jet, and then reasonably design the warhead hydrogen bomb equivalent, but humans think that using alloy No. 2 as a shell is too wasteful.

Therefore, the weapon design department is still studying the reasonable structure of this armor-piercing projectile, mainly in the experiment and adjustment of the funnel structure of the reflecting jet and the distance between the core of the hydrogen bomb explosion, as well as the appropriate explosion equivalent.

The main idea is to control the distance to ensure that the core heat of the hydrogen bomb explosion is below 150 million degrees Celsius when it contacts the funnel-shaped reflecting structure with metal material No. 1, and the energy temperature of the tip of the high-temperature jet of the hydrogen bomb after reflection must exceed 150 million degrees Celsius, so as to ensure that this armor-piercing projectile can instantly burn through the armor of the concentrated warship armor.

In fact, after selling the manufacturing process of alloy No. 1 to the Nair civilization, the weapon design department had the intention of researching in this area, because they felt that the strike effect of the positron gun was greatly reduced when the second-level civilization warship had a magnetic field shield.

If the armor of both warships is very strong, the positron cannon will not be able to break the magnetic field shield for a while, and the conventional laser weapons cannot burn through the warship armor. At this time, the electromagnetic railgun will naturally become the main force of the war.

However, the speed of the electromagnetic railgun shells is too slow, and it is difficult to adapt to the space battle at a distance scale of 15-20 light seconds. Therefore, if you want to exert the true power of the electromagnetic railgun, you have to get closer.

Humans have fought a space war, which was the war with the Kuntai civilization.

However, at that time, humans and Kuntai civilization were both first-level civilizations, and neither had magnetic field shield technology. So in fact, whether it is space warfare practice or theory and command system, humans are based on first-level civilization technology.

After reaching the second-level civilization, the human command also considered the change in the form of war, but the consciousness of space warfare has always been the same.

It was not until the No. 1 alloy material was sold to the Nair civilization and the design model of the electromagnetic railgun armor-piercing warhead appeared that the command understood the problem.

Now, after watching the effect of the orbital bombing penetrator warhead, the staff of the command have become more determined in this idea.

That is, the battle of the second-level civilization will be different from that of the first-level civilization. Its main force will no longer be the positron cannon, but the electromagnetic railgun, and the combat distance will be closer.

It may be shortened from 15 to 20 light seconds to hundreds of thousands of kilometers or even tens of thousands of kilometers.

In this way, the main gun of the Tianqin was designed as a super-large positron cannon, which greatly weakened the attack capability of the Tianqin. This is indeed a loss of the concept of the times.

Because the positron cannon is a type of charged particle jet weapon. If you want to break through the magnetic field shield, it is really a turtle fighting a turtle, except that the magnetic field generator is damaged or the magnetic field strength is not enough to distort the charged particle jet.

Fortunately, not all the main guns of the Lake-class battleships of the human fleet are equipped with super-large positron cannons. The manufacturing ratio at that time was one-third of the three main gun battleships, so only a three-three system should be matched, and the problem should not be too big.

But if you want to give full play to the greatest advantage of the Tianqin, you still have to replace the super-large positron cannon with a super-large electromagnetic railgun.

As a flagship, both attack and defense attributes must be maxed out.

The orbital bombardment mining experiment is still going on. After the first round of bombardment, the planetary continent is already filled with smoke and dust, but humans don't care about that, and then arrange the second and third rounds.

While a group of experts in various fields were observing the orbital bombardment experiment, they kept having ideas in their minds, especially the weapons manufacturing department and the department doing space warfare strategy and tactics research.

In short, after the orbital bombing experiment was completed, it didn't take long for Yue Yuan's office terminal to appear with documents such as warship main gun research, secondary civilization war ideas, and space warfare tactics.

There is also a special proposal document, which is about recommending the replacement of the main gun of the Tianqin. The view in it says that although the armor-piercing shells have not been manufactured yet, according to the research progress, it will probably be within this decade. The Tianqin is now modified, and it will be just enough to equip the electromagnetic railgun shells equipped with armor-piercing warheads in ten years.

Not only that, the proposal also suggested that the main guns of the existing human Lake-class warships be partially modified, so that the warships with electromagnetic railgun main guns in the entire fleet will reach two-thirds of the total number.

Yue Yuan looked at this proposal and found that modifying the Tianqin was not a big problem, but he felt that it was unnecessary for other warships. Because when he saw the content of the proposal, he asked the person in charge of the space dock to understand the situation, and the answer he got was that a large number of modifications were not as good as new ones.

Just change the shipbuilding plan for the future and replace the main guns of the warships to be built with super-large electromagnetic railguns.

Yue Yuan thought it made sense.

As long as the main guns of the warships in the construction plan are replaced with large electromagnetic railguns, the proportion of the three main gun warships in the entire human fleet will be in line with the headquarters' cognition of the concept of space warfare of the second-level civilization.