A big country of aerospace with black technology

The laser air defense weapon project team completed most of the equipment integration and development in two months.

Just waiting for the Institute of Atomic Energy's magnetohydrodynamic generator to make up the most important part.

"Lao Yuan, when will our equipment arrive?"

Zhang Xingyang asked, holding his mobile phone in one hand and looking at the progress of the project team with the other.

"There is only one last step left to complete, and we expect to deliver the goods to you next week."

Lao Yuan's hearty voice came from the other end of the phone, but it was good news at least.

"That's great, we're just waiting for your equipment!"

Zhang Xingyang, who had never had many emotional changes, became happy.

The magnetohydrodynamic generating device is not an overly difficult device.

The Institute of Atomic Energy has gone very far in plasma research, which is at best a bit troublesome for them.

If we follow the normal development schedule, it will take at least one or two years to complete the development of the equipment.

However, Zhang Xingyang gave them sufficient funds this time, and repeatedly requested to speed up the progress of equipment research and development.

With money opening the way, Lao Yuan and the others also worked hard to speed up the progress.

After all, eating people is short-tongued and taking advantage of others is soft-handed.

Two weeks later, the magnetohydrodynamic generating device, which was transported thousands of miles away in two large trucks, was finally transported to the location of the joint laser air defense project team.

"Finally waiting for you, little baby!" Geng Bo shouted excitedly after seeing the two trucks.

The forklift carefully unloaded the two large wooden boxes from the truck.

Several people worked together to use crowbars to remove the outer boards.

I don’t know if it’s because I’m in a hurry or what.

The outer layer of the magnetohydrodynamic generating device is simply covered with a dark carbon fiber shell.

That is because the price of carbon fiber has dropped significantly nowadays, otherwise they might just use a plastic shell.

"With this guy, our integrated power system is complete!" Shi Yifei also said very excitedly.

These two magnetohydrodynamic generating devices are each about four meters in length, about 1.5 meters in diameter, and weigh 1.22 tons.

Today's magnetohydrodynamic generating devices are still relatively large and can only be deployed on ships or in fixed areas.

The power system on the vehicle system cannot use such a system and can only use an ordinary battery pack system.

The small crane in the project team hoisted the two magnetohydrodynamic generating devices to the place reserved for them before.

The magnetohydrodynamic generating device is similar to two pipes, which are connected to the explosive power generator and the laser transmitter respectively.

After the shock wave generated by the explosion of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, the high-speed moving argon plasma will be converted into a large amount of instantaneous electricity in the magnetohydrodynamic generating device and transmitted to the laser generator.

The laser Zhang Xingyang chose was a chemical laser.

Convert the binding energy contained in chemical bonds into laser output.

The gain medium of chemical lasers is generally gas or gas flow.

For example, hydrogen fluoride/deuterium fluoride chemical laser, chemical iodine oxide laser, etc.

The advantage of chemical lasers is that they can support megawatt-level power output, have good output beam quality, and have relatively mature technology.

The disadvantage is that it is large in size and weight, and the gain medium is gas, which will produce waste gas and requires exhaust treatment.

However, these two shortcomings are not a big problem due to the usage scenarios.

Because after Salman and the others bought it back, they basically used it to protect their own oil fields and refineries, and there was no need for mobile application scenarios, so these two shortcomings are nothing.

Everyone worked overnight to connect the magnetohydrodynamic generating device, explosion generator, and laser generator.

Then the whole package is packed and transported to the experimental site not far from the project team site.

Several thousand meters in radius here are designated as no-fly zones.

In order to prevent possible risks, it was also confirmed that there were no suspicious persons within a radius of several kilometers above the ground.

After all, a laser with a power of 300 kilowatts can already leave irreparable scars on a person's body.

Prolonged exposure can be fatal.

After all preparations were completed, the first project test of the joint laser air defense began.

The test is mainly divided into three parts. The first part is to test the ability to prevent low-speed and low-altitude drones.

Next to the huge test equipment, there are several people holding small drone model aircraft. They are also pilots of such drones.

"Joint laser air defense, the first round of testing begins!"

Zhang Xingyang gave the order and started today's testing work.

The pilots first took a few steps and then threw the drones in their hands forward.

The motor on the drone started working, driving the plastic blades to rotate, and it began to fly slowly at low altitude.

Prior to this, the pilots had trained several times.

They have a good understanding of the venue and the coordination between them.

Twelve drones, divided into four formations, roared through the sky in a very complex and almost constantly changing shape.

The explosion generator of the laser weapon was also started at this time. Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen produced a violent explosion in the generating chamber, making an almost deafening roar!

It's like a roaring dragon bound within!

At present, laser weapons have two attack modes. The first is the manual operation mode, where you manually aim and attack manually.

Zhang Xingyang was sitting in the aiming cockpit. Several drones were displayed on the helmet sight, and the shining crosses were aimed at the drones.

After pressing the attack button on the laser weapon, silently, only a lilac light was seen, reaching the drone Zhang Xingyang was aiming at almost at the same time.

A hole was burned through the plastic shell in less than a second, and then the battery and motor inside were also burned through!

Although the pilot tried hard to control the drone, the internal battery had burned and there was no way to save it.

I could only watch as the drone tilted and fell to the ground, then burned slowly.

After getting a good start, Zhang Xingyang kept up his efforts, twisting his neck, constantly placing targets within the red circle of the sight, and then pressing the launch button again and again.

Lasers were fired one after another in a very short period of time, and then ignited one after another, scurrying around like headless flies in the low altitude.

The pilots were almost in despair. No matter how they tried to dodge, Zhang Xingyang couldn't dodge the attack at the speed of light as long as he took aim.

With the blessing of the helmet sight, Zhang Xingyang rarely misaimed, and basically 90% of the time he was able to hit directly.

The twelve drones only lasted about three minutes before they were all shot down.

This was Zhang Xingyang's first time operating a laser weapon, so he was not very proficient.

If you try a few more times, the time it takes to shoot down all drones can be reduced to about two minutes.

Zhang Xingyang took off his helmet sight, breathed out gently, and then took out his ears.

When the helmet sight was designed, it was mainly designed for fighter pilots, and the working environment is relatively quiet.

No consideration was given to working scenarios in such a noisy environment.

The anti-noise function is relatively weak, and the explosion generator is very noisy.

Zhang Xingyang just felt like his ears were about to be deafened.

Fortunately, the buffer device of the laser weapon is pretty good. Sitting in the operating cabin, you can hardly feel any vibration.

Otherwise, given the intensity of the explosion shock wave, Zhang Xingyang estimated that his own frame would be shattered.

After the laser generator is working, it slowly emits exhaust gas, but it is not emitted directly to the atmosphere, but to a special air compression device.

After all, they were not on a sparsely populated desert battlefield, so they still had to pay attention to the air quality.

"How does it feel to operate a laser weapon?"

After seeing Zhang Xingyang come out, Geng Bo was the first to rush up and ask.

Zhang Xingyang thought for a moment and said: "It is very different from shooting a gun. The laser has no recoil and no delay."

"Once you press the launch button, it hits instantly."

"What limits the killing speed is the time it takes to aim your eyes."

The speed of the laser is 300,000 kilometers per second, and the furthest distance of these drones is only three kilometers. The laser time is one hundred thousandth of a second, which is almost negligible.

"Let's try the automatic shooting mode later." Zhang Xingyang then said:

"The human eye simply cannot keep up with the speed of this weapon."

Human speed is no longer able to perfectly control such a war machine.

Therefore, Zhang Xingyang and the others also installed an automatic shooting mode in addition to the manual operation mode.

Above the laser weapon, two 360-degree panoramic cameras are installed, which can see all the surrounding situations.

In comparison, human eyes have a limited viewing angle after all, and the horizontal viewing angle of both eyes is no more than 188 degrees.

This evolved from nature over millions of years and has been unable to keep up with the rapid development of science and technology in the past few hundred years.

Zhang Xingyang used image recognition technology to enable the core computing system of the laser weapon to obtain the location of the flying object from the image.

Unlike the supercomputing system of the anti-missile system, it also needs to calculate the lead time.

Laser weapons do not need to be calculated in advance at all, they are destroyed immediately upon discovery.

The second round of testing began soon, and this round of testing was more complicated.

There are not only numerous low-altitude and low-speed drones, but also some old-fashioned 105 howitzers and 107 rocket launchers borrowed from the army.

Numerous flying objects will attack from several kilometers away, and the target is the location of the laser weapon.

Of course, for safety reasons, artillery shells and rockets do not have explosives, so even if they fall on the location of the laser weapon, they will not cause a big danger.

However, it is still dangerous to hit people with such a large iron block, so everyone basically hid in underground bunkers.

The drone pilots started flying from several kilometers away.

Zhang Xingyang also joined the ranks of pilots this time, but his drone model is a little different.

It uses a turbojet engine and has a length of three meters, almost out of the category of low-altitude and low-speed drones.

As the sound of the start of the test came from the radio, everyone began to fly their drones.

Zhang Xingyang directly pushed the push rod in his hand, and the fixed-wing drone in front of him erupted with violent noise.

Rising from the ground at an extremely fast speed.

Because of its large size, Zhang Xingyang's drone also has a high-definition camera mounted underneath.

Although the resolution of this camera is only 480P, in this era, it can be considered as high-definition.

The image was transmitted from hundreds of meters in the air to the small display screen in Zhang Xingyang's hand.

This system may not mean much in twenty years, but now just the image transmission function is worth thousands.

The entire drone plus operator costs about 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.

But with Zhang Xingyang's salary, playing this little thing is nothing.

The lighter drone does not fly as fast as Zhang Xingyang, and he is now in the lead.

But there are flying objects faster than him.

The rumble of 105 cannons and the whizzing of 107 rocket launchers could be heard in the distance.

Although the launch time is later, their speed is faster.

Flying at the front were several artillery shells.

Zhang Xingyang slightly adjusted the angle of the camera.

Then I saw a lavender laser hitting the front and side of the cannon at a speed that was invisible to the naked eye.

The shell that was hit by the front fuse instantly became unstable in the air, spinning around in the air.

The shells that were hit to the side were directly deflected and fell to the ground on one side.

Zhang Xingyang thought for a moment, and then quickly lowered the altitude of the plane, flying almost close to the ground.

Because laser weapons are also limited by terrain.

Moreover, Zhang Xingyang has a better understanding of the behavioral logic of the automatic attack mode.

Its attack priority is from largest to smallest.

Zhang Xingyang's plane will definitely be the first to be hit once it rises higher.

The artillery shells and rockets in the air were hit one by one by the laser, and then flew everywhere like a kite with a broken string.

Basically, it will not continue to fly along the ballistic line.

Although the pilots flying behind Zhang Xingyang did not have image transmission cameras, because Zhang Xingyang's plane was larger and the distance was not too far, they also saw that Zhang Xingyang's plane lowered its altitude after flying out.

Then they also lowered their altitude. Although I don't know why Zhang Xingyang did this, there is no harm in following him.

Two pilots were not very skilled and hit the ground while flying close to the ground.

Because everyone's height to the ground is very low, basically only within one meter.

Zhang Xingyang's height is less than half a meter.

After dealing with the high-altitude threat, the panoramic camera finally discovered the drone less than a kilometer away from the laser weapon.

Because this section is a plain, even if it is flying close to the ground, it cannot block the drone operated by Zhang Xingyang.

There was no other way, Zhang Xingyang could only drive the plane to the maximum speed, trying to rush to the opposite side in the shortest time.

As for positioning, it makes no sense.

The speed of light is much faster than the turning speed of the aircraft.

However, Zhang Xingyang's aircraft shell is very special. It has a layer of 12 mm boron phenolic resin, which can withstand laser radiation for a period of time.

All previous flying objects were illuminated for less than one second.

Zhang Xingyang's plane was exposed to light for about three seconds before the first hole appeared.

At this time, there is only less than three hundred meters away from the laser, but unfortunately this distance cannot be passed.

Zhang Xingyang could only watch as his plane fell to the ground.