Chapter 397: Haze Defense

"Point our ion cannon at them!"

"laser……"

The opponent's large flying saucer had just escaped from the curvature bubble, and its speed was even more pitiful. Under the powerful firepower of the Deep Space's six thousand rounds per second, it contained more lasers!

But it soon became clear what the previously observed haloes were.

A layer...a thin light shield!

After this layer of light shield was hit by the laser, it emitted a bright light and seemed to absorb the energy of the laser weapon.

Therefore, this large flying saucer did not suffer much damage.

"It's an ion shield!" an expert shouted.

In the case where plasma can be highly confined, the ion shield... can indeed absorb a large amount of laser energy.

Moreover, in the face of this kind of shield... the few ion cannons are probably useless and can only be used to bully small spacecraft.

Other things were fine, a shield made everyone feel like their technology was being crushed.

However, we are in a crisis now, and it is impossible to discuss too many academic issues in this area... Many people are thinking in fear and confusion, what should we do?

what to do?

Now people's light speed weapons are useless, but the opponent's are still useful, so how can we fight?

"There must be an upper limit to the shield's absorption capacity. Either... use a super large high-energy laser? Or use a kinetic energy weapon such as an electromagnetic gun. The ion shield cannot block kinetic energy weapons."

"The proton beam of the ion cannon is too small, and it may also be affected..."

People have thought about various ways to defend against light speed weapons beforehand. After all, light speed weapons are the fastest, simplest, and most direct means of attack. This kind of weapon must have defensive measures.

Of course ion shield is one, but people's technology is not good enough and there is no way to do it.

Plasma can be solidified. Isn’t controllable nuclear fusion readily available?

Of course, if the technology is not enough and there is no shield technology, there are other ways!

For example: solid nitrogen in the armor sandwich, reflective materials as smooth as possible, armor as thick as possible, etc. are all means of protection.

There is another effective method proposed by a soldier that consumes a lot of materials... "smog defense"!

The maximum diameter of haze particles is 80 microns, and most of them are between 1 micron and 10 microns. The vast majority of laser wavelengths are below 1000 nanometers, that is, below 1 micron, so it is difficult for lasers to bypass haze particles, and the attenuation in haze is very severe.

Simply put, the attenuation speed of laser light in haze can be described by Lambert's law. That is, an exponential function whose variable is negative.

In the same way, high-energy proton beams will be greatly attenuated and scattered when faced with various suspended particles!

"emission!"

The technology was not enough, so local methods were used to improvise. A large number of smoke-type electromagnetic guns were launched immediately, and they exploded almost a thousand kilometers away from the Deep Space.

The explosion of these missiles quickly formed a giant cloud, and with the crazy injection of ammunition, the cloud grew larger and larger, and soon became hundreds of kilometers thick, directly blocking the Deep Space!

With various nuclear bombs exploding and electromagnetic shielding, there is a haze cloud in the middle, making the battlefield more complicated.

The two sides can only barely see each other through high-intensity long-wave radar. Even if high-energy lasers or ion cannons pass through this layer of haze, their power will be greatly reduced, making it difficult to truly threaten the body of the "Deep Space".

People could only see the colorless laser drawing bright long beams in the middle of the clouds. During various scattering and reflection processes, the energy of the laser attenuates rapidly.

Now, the light speed weapons of both sides are useless...

The creation of haze clouds made many soldiers finally breathe a sigh of relief, although it consumes a huge amount of material resources...

This mass is a real mass. Only the Deep Space, which has a lot of money and reserves a large amount of material, can use this method to create clouds while running.

The cosmic war measured in "seconds" is too tense, and human nervous responses are too slow. Many countermeasures are directly implemented by artificial intelligence, and now the results are pretty good.

After the "smog cloud" was created, the battlefield became slightly calmer. The speed of the electromagnetic gun was far slower than the speed of light. It would take dozens of seconds to travel 600,000 kilometers.

Immediately afterwards, several groups of light suddenly lit up in the clouds. It was the opponent who bombed the clouds with nuclear bombs, and people began to replenish them with a large amount of materials. At the same time, a large number of security alarms were sounded, and internal robots were urgently repairing the attacked areas.

The war seemed to have entered a calm period from the fierceness at the beginning, but Yu Yifeng's tight heartstrings did not relax.

He was thinking about whether to forcefully start the warp engine.

He began to urgently contact the experts in the engine room...

"The damage to the Deep Space is not too great, but without the warp engine, we can no longer escape... It will be difficult for us to shoot down the opponent's flying saucer!"

An anxious voice came from the other party, "But the gravity of this planet still has an impact, and even the gravity of the star has a certain impact... The probability of success is too low, Captain! Once we fail, we will have nothing!" "

"Can you..."

The Deep Space began to continuously spray high-speed "Yuyan" to defend itself, and the opponent's flying saucer also began to spray small drones, directly attacking the Deep Space.

Fortunately, there was only one large enemy spaceship that landed near the Deep Space, and the others were medium-sized flying saucers. The other large enemy spaceships either landed hundreds of millions of kilometers away, some hit planets, and some... fell directly into stars.

Medium-sized flying saucers do not have things like ion shields that consume a lot of energy, and there are only dozens of them, so they are not so scary in front of the high-firepower Deep Space.

This may be the good luck of mankind.

On the contrary, the main battlefield in front of the planet has reached a white-hot level. Thousands of spaceships are fighting in a space of 100 million cubic kilometers, firing countless high-speed bullets.

A "Yuyan" spewed out a large number of electromagnetic shells and fired at a large flying saucer. In fact, due to the ultra-high speed, the bullets do not need to be accelerated by magnetic fields at all, and only need to be thrown randomly. These bullets will attack in the direction of movement at a speed of 6,000 kilometers per second due to their own inertia.

However, the next moment, this "Yuyan" was hit by a laser and exploded.

Only a few bullets were thrown at the enemy flying saucer.

"Yuyan" is small in size and can only withstand one shot; "Leviathan" can withstand a little more as long as the engine or computer is not hit; "Titan" is the main combat force.

Although this alien civilization was caught off guard by a lot of tactics in advance, the difference in performance and firepower made the combat loss ratio of small and medium-sized drones reach... 15:1!

It takes 15 "Yuyan" of humans to shoot down one medium-sized UFO of the opponent!

More than 10,000 Yuyans were soon left with only two-thirds, but the enemy's small and medium-sized UFOs were also damaged on a large scale. This is because at the beginning, most of them were blown up by self-destruction or by the sea of ​​missiles fired by the phalanx.

But the number of enemies on the battlefield ahead did not decrease, but there was a trend of increasing, because the opponent's flagship was releasing a large number of small drones.

To be honest, such a record is not too bad, and it is enough for humans to be proud of.

Putting aside the technical reasons, the cost and volume of 15 "Yuyan" are far less than that of a medium-sized flying saucer...

But from the perspective of large main battleships, there is a considerable gap...

On the front battlefield, the enemy's main battleships still have eight ships! Except for the first one that was bombarded and half-dead, the other eight were almost intact.

Titan's laser weapon can't hurt the enemy at all because of the enemy's ion shield, and the speed of the electromagnetic gun is not fast enough, so only the Yuyan in close combat can barely hit it.

Ion shield has become a nightmare that humans can't express in words!