Chapter 221 Lake-Class Battleship

From the successful development of materials to mass production, and then to large-scale mass production, the new humans took more than 30 years. It can be said that the emergence of every new technology is the result of the diligent efforts of all mankind.

As the first lake-class warship of the new humans, the Dongting ship was also successfully built by the new humans from scratch during this period.

Then there are various sea trials, actual data collection and analysis, and then improved composition.

After all the things about the experimental warships were done, time has quietly come to the hundred years after humans defeated the Kuntai civilization.

In a hundred years, the new humans have achieved heavy nuclear fusion, achieved another breakthrough in material technology, successfully mastered neutrino detection technology, and mastered magnetic field deflection shield technology.

The emergence of heavy nuclear fusion and more powerful materials has enabled humans to have the ability to manufacture larger caliber main guns, such as super-large positron guns, super-large gamma-ray cluster weapons, and super-large electromagnetic railguns.

It can be said that humans have mastered the technologies that a second-level civilization should have in just a hundred years. And the Dongting ship is the crystallization of all these technologies.

The symbol of the second-level civilization is heavy nuclear fusion and cold nuclear fusion. These two technologies have not made the weapons of the warships more diversified. It still uses the weapons of the first-level civilization, but the caliber is larger, the destructive power is stronger, and the power is naturally incomparable.

In fact, there are also plasma cannons, but in view of the emergence of magnetic field shields, the new humans think it is unnecessary to build such weapons that can be deflected by magnetic fields and are far less powerful than positron cannons.

Of course, the types of weapons have not changed, but it does not prevent the new humans from adding some fantastic ideas on the original basis.

For example, the super-large electromagnetic railgun.

The original electromagnetic railgun shells were just iron lumps, relying purely on strong kinetic energy to kill enemy ships. Today's super-large electromagnetic railguns are different. Its shells have been redesigned by humans. In addition to relying on strong kinetic energy to kill enemy ships, they also have an explosion function.

As for what kind of explosion function it is, it is naturally a hydrogen bomb.

For a second-level civilization, hydrogen bombs sound very primitive, and they are really primitive in fact, but hydrogen bombs have an advantage that many other weapons do not have, that is, their power is unlimited.

As long as your equivalent is large enough, its power will continue to increase. If the technology is strong enough, you can keep stacking the equivalent, and finally make a massive star and throw it out, and make a supernova explosion.

Of course, if we are strict, supernovas are no longer in the category of hydrogen bombs, and hydrogen bombs also have an upper limit, which is the critical mass that the gravity of hydrogen elements can trigger nuclear fusion, that is, the minimum mass standard for forming stars.

However, with that technology, there is no need to bomb the enemy with such a large mass, because the advancement of technology has enabled that civilization to master more powerful weapons than it.

In other words, the reason why the super-large electromagnetic railgun is called super-large is because the shell has become a shell carrying a hydrogen bomb, so its caliber will be greatly increased.

The reason is still the super-strong magnetic field.

After the hydrogen bomb is incorporated into the shell of the electromagnetic railgun, a layer of magnetic shielding material must be placed on the outside, otherwise the hydrogen bomb will be under the continuous influence of the super-strong magnetic field. It is very likely to cause an explosion or damage due to the magnetization of the internal structure.

The main reason why the first-level civilization stage did not do this is that the magnetic field technology is not up to standard and there is no ability to do so.

In addition, there is the reason for the impact resistance of the hydrogen bomb structure. Because the kinetic energy of the electromagnetic railgun is extremely large, the original hydrogen bomb structure cannot withstand its impulse at all.

So in the new design, the hydrogen bomb, which is the special warhead of the electromagnetic railgun, has been reinforced and modified by the new humans, and the No. 1 alloy material is also used on it.

Well. No. 1 alloy material is the alloy material with a melting point of 150 million degrees Celsius. The new humans named it to distinguish it from the newly created material with a melting point of 280 million degrees Celsius. As for the material with a melting point of 280 million degrees Celsius, it is naturally No. 2 alloy material.

After completing various experiments on the Lake-class battleship, the human's new shipbuilding plan was immediately put on the agenda.

This time, humans learned the lesson of the Ganymede IV-class battleship and did not build many Mountain-class battleships, but focused all their energy on building Lake-class battleships.

Because the test results have shown that one hundred Mountain-class battleships cannot defeat a Lake-class battleship. The maximum caliber laser weapon of the Mountain-class battleship cannot burn through the Lake-class battleship armored with No. 2 alloy material.

Positron cannons can work, but once the Lake-class battleship supports the magnetic field shield, it will become a decoration.

So the new humans abandoned the combat idea of ​​coordinating multiple types of ships of different sizes, and instead focused on how to improve the coordinated combat of different types of main guns of the same-class battleships.

As for small frigates, they will not be included in the battle queue. Even their original intelligence gathering work is completed by low-cost and fully AI-controlled detection spacecraft, oh, and neutrino detection.

So they have no place in the new fleet. They can only become the duty ships of the new human security department together with the Ganymede IV-class battleship.

To really fight with aliens, you have to use the strongest and largest battleships. Other types of ships are tantamount to suicide, which is completely unnecessary.

Of course, the reason why small ships lose their detection function is, in the final analysis, the lack of superluminal and ultra-long-distance communication. This means that even if small ships in the distance detect that enemy ships are firing at their own warships, they cannot convey this information to their own warships as quickly as energy weapons.

There are many other secondary reasons, such as large warships are both offensive and defensive, and they are fully functional.

In fact, some people in the military have previously proposed that small ships are more flexible and faster. This statement is indeed correct. Small ships are indeed more flexible than large ships, but the final speed is the same. Well, strictly speaking, in a short period of time, small ships have a smaller mass, which gives them greater acceleration and thus faster speed.

But this faster speed is not so outrageous. In other words, it is not as people imagine that large warships are turtles and small warships are flying birds.

Another point is that in military actual combat exercises, people have seen that no matter how flexible small ships are, they are not as flexible as the close-in defense guns of large ships. Simply put, you have made eighty turns with great effort, constantly changing your position up and down, left and right, and the close-in defense guns built by large construction only need to slightly adjust the design angle, and countless light-speed laser guns will shine on you.

And even if you rush to the face of a large ship, what can you do? A frigate like that, not only is it completely unable to blast through the armor of a Lake-class battleship, but even if it gets close to the magnetic field shield range of a Lake-class battleship, it will be magnetized and cause equipment failure and destruction.