An Unscientific Mechanic

In short, the design of the improved Magellan was temporarily abandoned, and the work of the development team is now concentrated on the development of new ships, and the existing Magellan modernization plan has been taken over by other groups.

"The gravitational radar is finally finished..." In November, Ian finally reproduced the gravitational radar. "In this way, the cruiser can be formally finalized, Minovsky particles... the naval battle at Lum should not be a disastrous defeat."

"Is it the factory area? It's me, Ian Varsity. I hope to trial produce a piece of equipment, um, a new type of radar for cruisers. After a week? Okay, I'll send the parts produced in the laboratory tomorrow." Ian contacted The factory at the base used some special parts that could only be produced on a small scale in the laboratory to trial-produce a graviton radar.

"Colonel Edward, the last piece of the puzzle is complete. Find a place to install this radar, so that this ship can also conduct long-distance hunting in the Minovsky particle environment."

"Have you developed the legendary Minovsky particle radar? I basically don't understand the radar." Colonel Edward received the design drawing sent to him by Ian.

"Why do everything have to be prefixed with Minovsky particles? Now we are too dependent on Minovsky particles." Ian sat on a chair and slid to Colonel Edward's side. "The graviton radar, directly detects the weak gravitational waves around the object. In that case, it will not be disturbed by the Minovsky particles without electromagnetic waves. Please send me the complete data after integration. I have been working on radar , have not seen the results of other people.”

"Then you have to talk to them yourself. They have been holding back good things in the past few months." Colonel Edward has already begun to integrate the graviton radar into the bridge's electronic equipment array. "Having said that, during the battle, all the officers are transferred to the CIC in the center of the hull. The tall external bridge is only used for navigation, and the armor of the CIC is simply amazing. Even Magellan's main guns need to hit twice at close range. The cic can even be used as an escape pod to escape alone, and the captains on it will feel that you treat them as a coward."

"What can you say? This ship should only be used as the flagship of the fleet in the early days. It is more reliable for those generals to stay in the armor box. In case the bridge is hit by stray bullets and the command system is lost, the fleet will not Is it over?"

"That's right, but if you can't see the route with the naked eye, will the captains feel insecure?"

"There is no sense of security if there is only a layer of glass with the universe. If it is not necessary to install electronic equipment on the bridge, I would like to change the bridge to a completely built-in type. The bridge projection of the Magellan class is larger than the hull projection. .”

"Haha, that's not true. Both the Magellan-class and Salamis-class hull projections are less than half of the bridge projection. At that time, I wanted to thicken the armor of the bridge, but it was rejected, saying that the center of gravity was too high. It is not conducive to the control of the hull. If the center of gravity changes, change the posture to control the nozzle. Cutting the armor is nothing. The current Magellan class, ordinary soldiers are inside the thick hull, and officers are running naked on the bridge. What are you thinking..."

"..." Ian silently opened the design drawing of the Magellan class. The bridge armor is a uniform 300mm composite armor, and the inside of the armor is the composite layer for radiation protection and sealing of the bridge. This layer is as fragile as 9 mm pistols can be damaged.

And the hull has an average thickness of 1 meter...the ammunition depot is protected by a 500mm armor box. The armor directly in front of the ship is 2 meters thick. But the main gun is more embarrassing, with only 700 mm of armor on the front.

"Compared with this, you are really running naked... Has there been no accident for so many years?"

"In the past two years, the bridge glass of a Magellan class was shattered by fragments, and the bridge personnel were all wiped out. Later, emergency blocking gates were designed for the bridge glass of all spaceships. This prevented the later ships from There was a tragedy, and later the glass of the Salamis-class bridge was broken, but the gate was sealed, and everyone was fine.” Colonel Edward’s work has not stopped.

"Let's discuss the matter of the fully built-in bridge in a while, and leave a viewing platform outside. The monitors all over the ship and the fixed-point drones deployed within a distance of 500 meters around the ship are no better than naked eyes."

"Fixed drone?" Edward stopped the mouse. Looking up at the ceiling, thinking about these five words and Ian's description before. "It makes sense. In this case, there will be no problem of being attacked."

"But the battery life of drones is too bad now, and there is no way to maneuver with the hull, but it can be dealt with by releasing one after a while." Ian has ready-made drones on hand, but the performance is really low. Not bad, it is estimated that the battleship will run out of fuel for 1 hour of battle, and will be destroyed by stray bullets in 15 minutes.

"You don't need drones. When the fleet maneuvers, the detection equipment of each ship is linked together, and the detection results are summarized to generate a three-dimensional model of the surrounding environment. The effect is similar to that of using drones. When a single ship is operating, use unmanned The machine is ready." Edward continued his homework. "The new type of optical equipment developed by Major Yang, even if the opponent is in the shadow of the planet, the recognition distance has reached more than 1,000 kilometers."

"More than that, I'm developing a new recognition algorithm now. The computer will recognize the pictures taken by the high-precision camera pixel by pixel, and lock and recognize moving objects." Major Yang Pengcheng also slid over.

"Wow, that's a good feeling, then the data collected by the graviton radar and your optical equipment can be verified by each other."

"Moreover, this set of equipment I developed is not only used for hull navigation and enemy observation, but also integrated into the main gun and anti-aircraft gun. The accuracy of the new turret's shelling should be much improved. After all, the observation point If there are more, the accuracy of observation will be higher.”

"Hmm... But will the cost of the turret be too high? It's not good to go over budget in the end."

"No, no, the cost of these optical devices is not high after mass production, so just add an extra main gun."

"...In other words, the price of the newly added optical equipment is as expensive as the main gun?" The main gun of the Magellan class is not cheap. More than half of the cost of the Magellan class consists of two main guns and five mega particle guns. One-third of the auxiliary gun is electronic equipment, and the rest is the cost of the thermonuclear engine and the hull.

The cost of the 356mm twin mega-particle main gun is more than twice that of the 280mm secondary gun. In other words, the price of a dual-mounted mega-particle main gun is about one-eighth of a Magellan-class gun.

However, the new cruiser is equipped with 12 new triple-mounted main guns, and the cost of adding another main gun should not matter... right. But also to increase the armor, configure the garage, new electronic equipment.

In other words, the single-ship price of the new cruiser may be more than three times that of Magellan...

Only then did Ian realize that the new boat might be a bit expensive.

"What's wrong?" Edward finished the work at hand.

"I feel that the price of this ship may be a little too high." No matter how Ian calculates the price of this ship is a bit expensive.

"This is not something you should consider." Edward turned to Ian. "Cost control is the job of the procurement department and the production plant. And, didn't you notice that there is no budget requirement in the order letter given to you? This ship probably has no budget limit. And based on the performance of this ship, the 100-point scale Bai is the flagship of the fleet, and there is absolutely no need to save money on the flagship. Moreover, Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka invented a device that can resist the beam of Mega particles. Two kinds!"

"Huh?" Ian's eyes instantly locked on the East Asian man in the corner of the laboratory. "Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka! Please come over here. Please drag the chair over here."

4 people sit in a circle.

"Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka, have you made something that can resist the beam?"

"Well, it's not just me, Major Kobayashi has also found a way to fight the beam."

"Major Kobayashi, come here. Forget it, come here. Colonel Edward is done integrating. Everyone come here and talk about their results." Ian thought for a while and called everyone in the research room over.

"Let's start with Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka. His invention can be said to be epoch-making." Edward projected the 3D model and drawings of the new cruiser on the wall.

"I found the information on the Minovsky particle flight device through some personal connections." Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka put part of the technical information on the screen, "The Minovsky particle flight device is to build an I-Field under the hull, Then, a large number of Minovsky particles were scattered under the hull to form an air cushion effect to make the hull fly. Needless to say, the I-Field is used for the converging devices of the Mega particle cannon. At that time I thought, since Minovsky particles cannot pass through the I-Field, and the I-Field can constrict the Mega particles, then the I-Field should also be able to block the Mega particles. The result of the subsequent experiment is this .”

Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka pointed to a certain device scattered throughout the hull. "The large I-Field generating device can only be used by deploying multiple parts separately to wrap the hull due to the insufficient output range. In addition, according to the experiment, a single generator can withstand two consecutive Magellan-class bombardments. It will overheat and fail after three times. It takes 15 seconds to force heat dissipation after overheating. In order to deal with this situation, I made this by imitating the principle of smoke bombs and chaff, the light beam disrupts the curtain. It is filled with a large number of negative Minovsky particles , can neutralize 5 Magellan-class bombardments within 30 seconds."

"...It seems that the beam resistance of the new cruiser will be higher."

"More than that, Director Varsity. Major Kobayashi's invention can also be called cross-age."

Ian looked at Kobayashi. Major Yao, an expert in armor materials, can be called a cross-age invention. What did this man invent? Could it be possible that he made Gundamium alloy γ ahead of time?

"Look here." Major Kobayashi enlarged the hull armor. "Considering that the damage caused by the Mega Particle Cannon is mainly kinetic energy and thermal energy, I have newly designed the laminated armor. It can effectively resist the beam. After the beam hits the armor, the heat will be distributed to the whole ship at a uniform speed through the heat dissipation device in the armor. In addition, due to The armor adopts a multi-layer stacked structure with more space inside, and its effect against shells and explosions is stronger than that of ordinary composite armor.”

"Layered armor... unexpectedly appeared here..." Ian could only think about this sentence in his heart.

"Major Kobayashi and Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka have made great contributions. I am afraid that your invention will change the way of warfare in the future. Colonel Edward, please continue."

"The power system is not too brilliant, it is just optimized on the basis of the Magellan class. The output of the reactor has reserved space for the Minovsky particle flight device. The thrust is also enough to push the hull out of the atmosphere, no need The rocket booster is gone." Lieutenant Colonel Perry, who was in charge of the power system, spoke directly. "The only difference is that the engine is actually outside the hull armor, and it also has enough armor. When the engine is damaged and may explode, it can be separated by detonating the explosion bolt to prevent an engine explosion from destroying the battleship."

"The electronic equipment fully considers the operation in the environment of high-concentration Minovsky particles. Now all the equipment used in the ship is optical transmission. There will be no interference with the transmission of electrical signals by Minovsky particles.

Lieutenant Colonel Ji is now developing optical cables for refitting the old-fashioned hulls. The old-fashioned hulls did not take into account the refitting of optical transmission, so development is still difficult.

In addition, the ship is equipped with a newly designed fleet laser communication system, which can ensure that the communication will not be disturbed in the environment of high concentration of Minovsky particles. "

"The firepower system was completed according to the scheduled plan. There are 12 dual-purpose main guns with live ammunition and mega particles in 3 units, 12 laser anti-aircraft guns, and 10 dual-unit 4-tube 80mm Gatling cannons. 3 units of 64 units General-purpose missile launchers, 8 large anti-ship missile launchers, and I added 8 anti-missile laser cannons. I think Zeon will probably use nuclear weapons in the early stages of the war.” Lieutenant Colonel Ben, who is in charge of firepower system design, also tagged his work. "The new main guns designed by Lieutenant Colonel Deakin, Lieutenant Colonel Nolan and Major Niu have excellent performance, but at present, the life of the barrel is not enough when live ammunition is used. Now the ejection speed of the cannon has reached 1100 meters per second, and the full-charge firing After 100 rounds of the barrel, there will be serious accuracy problems. In order to increase the muzzle velocity of the shell as much as possible, the life of the barrel is sacrificed, there is no way.”

"The lifespan of the gun barrel... There should be relatively few opportunities to use live ammunition in the universe. Unless it is a long-distance bombardment battle, it is better not to use the full ammunition package to shoot." Ian can't help this. High, barrel life is too low. "It doesn't affect the use of the beam."

"It doesn't matter. After installing the 406mm barrel, the power has increased by nearly 30% compared to the 356mm, and the effective range has increased by 20%. Moreover, due to the replacement of the new energy pipeline and large turret, the rate of fire has increased by nearly 120%. Now the continuous rate of fire has reached 15 rounds per minute, and the burst rate of fire can reach 20 rounds, but it needs heat dissipation after one minute." Lieutenant Colonel Nolan took the words.

"It's very strong. Next, we will wait for colleagues from various development teams to arrange large-scale weapons."