Chapter 1612 Qinling After Major Changes

The port area of ​​the Lagrange Point space base.

Looking at the "unrecognizable" Qinling ship docked at the berth, Deng Yuanshu, whose expression was completely frozen on his face, froze there, speechless for a moment.

If the former Qinling only removed the missile system, point defense artillery, and reactive armor that accounted for most of its weight, it could be regarded as a plucked rooster at most, then it has completely become another ship now. a species.

The interface of the missile module was completely removed and replaced with twelve small electromagnetic guns, and a "U"-shaped large-caliber mass accelerator located on the central axis of the starship.

Obviously, after this modification, the weapons that were dismantled to reduce weight will definitely not be able to be put back again...

Swallowing, it took a long time before Deng Yuanshu squeezed out half a sentence from his throat.

"This is……"

Looking at Captain Deng Yuanshu standing there motionless, Lu Zhou walked to his side and explained with a smile.

"In order to better adapt to the environment in the hyperspace channel and take into account the headquarters' requirements for the combat capability of this starship, I asked Dongya Heavy Industries to modify the hull to a certain extent."

"In addition to the mass accelerator you saw as the main gun, we also replaced you with the latest second-generation controllable fusion reactor as an energy source...Of course, these modifications have already been reported. All were carried out under the authorization of the First Fleet!"

His eyebrows twitched violently, Deng Yuanshu finally couldn't help it, he turned his head and stared at Lu Zhou and said.

"What the hell...my Qinling is a guided missile cruiser! What are you changing...to a large destroyer?"

Among all the ships of the First Fleet, only the close-combat destroyers and small shipboards have the opportunity to use kinetic energy weapons such as electromagnetic guns.

For large ships such as cruisers and aircraft carriers, kinetic energy weapons are basically very rare, and even if there are most of them, they are only used to counter point defense weapons such as carrier-based aircraft or missiles that approach a certain distance.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Deng Yuanshu would be so angry.

After all, after all these transformations, the powerful missile system of the Qinling was directly abolished, and it was still the kind that couldn't be installed back.

"You can also call it a battleship." Ignoring Deng Yuanshu's complaints, Lu Zhou coughed lightly and said in a comforting tone, "Okay, okay, don't get excited, the reason for this change is mainly because of chemistry. There are serious safety hazards in the hyperspace environment of smart weapons. And I discussed it with the engineers of the headquarters, and we agreed that this modification is the best choice for both combat effectiveness and safety.”

Hearing these words, Deng Yuanshu almost spit out a mouthful of old blood.

"Are you sure it's still capable of combat?"

"Whether you have combat effectiveness, you will know when you test it later. Don't worry, you will have at least twenty-seven flight missions in the next month. If you have any problems, you can report them to me directly. By the way, except In addition to the routine report of the headquarters, I hope you can provide me with an additional experiment report... how to write it, I will send you the template later, and you can just fill it out according to the template."

He reached out and patted Deng Yuanshu's shoulder, Lu Zhou gave him an encouraging look, and said with a smile.

"work hard!"

"The future of the First Fleet depends on you!"

...

Although he is still worried about Lu Zhou changing his beloved ship beyond recognition without his consent, an order is an order. As a soldier, he will still complete the orders given by the headquarters without compromise.

It took two days to get familiar with the new equipment on the ship, and after confirming that there was no problem, the first experiment began soon.

According to the requirements in the experiment outline, Deng Yuanshu commanded the Qinling, which was fully loaded with ammunition, to set off from the Lagrange point space base, and ordered to activate the warp drive five minutes after leaving the port, and disappeared into the distorted space at an incredible speed middle.

When the starship reappeared in this universe in the next second, it had already arrived in the airspace one astronomical unit away and 1.1 million kilometers away from the asteroid belt.

"The gravitational coordinates confirm... the 'shooting range' has arrived."

"Turn on the radar and search the nearby airspace!"

"Received! The radar has been activated and the search is underway... After the search is completed, it is confirmed that there are no civilian ships or space equipment in the nearby airspace."

Inside the bridge.

Hearing the staff's report from the front, Deng Yuanshu stared intently at the ring formed by asteroid and meteorite fragments outside the porthole, and continued to order in a calm and composed tone.

"The upper limit of the reactor output power is raised to the maximum, the fire control system is turned on, and the radar is adjusted to the enemy hunting mode."

"The enemy hunting mode has been activated! Searching the nearby airspace...report! A missile array was found in an area 2.01 million kilometers away!"

As the light blue cursor swept across the holographic screen, a series of red dots quickly appeared on the radar, and were projected in the form of abstract geometric figures on the large holographic screen directly in front of the bridge.

Looking at the target displayed on the holographic screen, Deng Yuanshu gave the order to fire with a sonorous and forceful voice.

"fire!"

As the attack command was issued, the electromagnetic guns displayed on the hull immediately unleashed fierce firepower towards the front.

Dragging the orange-yellow trajectory, they formed a dense net in the dark and endless sky, and even the icy cold night was faintly lit up for a while.

Looking at the naval guns firing like strafing shots, the rain of bullets cascading towards the asteroid belt ahead like a waterfall, and the portholes lit up by electric arcs and tracers, Deng Yuanshu, who was standing on the bridge, was in awe. I froze there.

This is so...

Railgun?

That electromagnetic cannon that can be charged for half a minute? !

Although he had heard about the terrifying energy of the second-generation controllable fusion, he never expected it to be exaggerated to such an extent that he could directly cut off the capacitor module of the electromagnetic weapon and achieve it by directly increasing the energy output power. The strafing of naval guns? !

Everything in front of him was beyond his imagination, and even overturned his understanding of space warfare.

In the face of such ferocious firepower, no matter how fast the missiles, torpedoes, and carrier-based aircraft are, there will be nowhere to hide. If it is combined with a fire control system with a quantum processor as the core, it can easily cover the opponent's ship even at a distance of one astronomical unit!

Thinking of this,

With the emergence of warp speed technology and second-generation controllable fusion, aerospace combat seems to have returned from the era of "Navy 2.0 of guidance and anti-missile" to the "old" era of queuing and shooting, and missiles fired at each other from beyond the visual range , It evolved into a head-to-head confrontation between firepower and speed beyond visual range.

At least until the defense methods that can effectively defend against kinetic energy weapons—such as the shield technology in science fiction blockbusters—appear, this pattern may be difficult to change for a period of time.

"Captain..." Gazing at the spectacular scene outside the porthole, Liu Zhengyi said in a trembling voice, "Is this... really a weapon on Earth?"

Swallowing, Deng Yuanshu nodded.

"Obviously yes..."

If you say, he was still a little dissatisfied with the hasty decision of the command before, and Lu Zhou dismantled the missile system on the Qinling without even asking his opinion.

So now, he has been completely impressed by the new equipment on the Qinling...

It's simply too strong!