Great Power Technology

After finishing the visit to the Yongxia Island Fortress, Ye Zhou took a special plane back to Chengdu. While the plane was still in the air, he had already seen the news on TV that the electromagnetic gun was on board the ship, which made him more convinced of what Ma Weiming had said before. The saying that "the electromagnetic gun is just a by-product".

To be able to carry out experiments in this area so openly and then report it openly and openly, depending on the situation, it is probably just a backward product.

However, even the power of such backward equipment is enough to bring about revolutionary changes in Ye Zhou's opinion. If the 055D can adjust the hull structure in the future to accommodate a more powerful and longer-range electromagnetic gun, and then match it with As for the laser anti-missile system, is it still good?

Not to mention whether the era of big guns and giant ships can come back, but at least there should be a series of major changes in the future maritime combat methods.

However, it still takes sufficient time for this day to arrive.

The top priority now is to develop a dedicated quantum computer as soon as possible to gain a valuable window period for the development of new technologies in China.

Thinking of this, he turned on the computer directly and began to deal with a series of unsolved problems related to topological quantum computing sent from Gonger Peak one by one.

On the Internet, news about electromagnetic guns has reached the top of the hot search list, and countless netizens have gathered on the forum to discuss the latest test results.

"Damn it, has the rabbit taken medicine recently? New equipment comes one after another, first the H-20, then the exoskeleton, and now the electromagnetic gun. What's the matter with 003 coming out soon? Our Chang'e Did you also pick up alien technology on the back of the moon on the 2nd?”

"What alien technology? Haven't you discovered it yet? The recent new equipment is related to previous technological breakthroughs. The H-20 corresponds to the aircraft engine, the electromagnetic gun and the exoskeleton correspond to the battery, 003003 seems It has something to do with everything.”

"But in short, that's all. It is the development of military equipment driven by the development of applied science and technology. I irresponsibly predict that the next equipment to be released should be the laser anti-missile system."

"Really or not? Laser anti-missile is too sci-fi, isn't it?"

"There is nothing science fiction. These are mature technologies. They can mainly solve the problems of capacitors and batteries. Laser anti-missile can be practical. Now that electromagnetic guns have come out, these two problems have obviously been solved. Do you think Think about it, can laser weapons be far behind?”

"Is this going to step directly into a new era?"

"Any new era is backward in technology. If we really want a new era, we still have to wait and see when two-dimensional foils can be produced."

"Two-way foil is impossible, but I think the light particles are faster. Wait, I have a question. Didn't the Chou Country have been working on electromagnetic guns before? How are they progressing now?"

"Their research has been stopped a long time ago. It's not because they have no money. They owe so much debt. Now that they have lost their energy hegemony and they still have electromagnetic guns, it would be good if they can understand several of their own aircraft carrier fleets."

"Then they can't have no reaction at all, right? A naval gun with a maximum range of 300 kilometers is terrifying just thinking about it."

"You know they are unresponsive. Maybe they are sitting together in a meeting now."

As discussed by netizens, at this moment, on the other side of the sea, in the white house of Chou Country, a discussion on the newly released electromagnetic gun is underway.

"So, the situation is already very clear. China test-fired its latest electromagnetic gun system this morning, and the results were amazing."

"According to data, the range of their electromagnetic gun is about 300 kilometers, the muzzle velocity is 4,000 meters, and the maximum rate of fire should be 15 rounds per minute."

"This data performance has far exceeded our expectations and even exceeded our latest results - the results two years ago. At that time, the maximum muzzle velocity we could achieve was only 2,700 meters per second."

"According to this data, it is speculated that this electromagnetic gun has fully met the needs of practical combat. In the future, it will gradually replace short-range anti-ship missiles or work in parallel with them, changing the pattern of naval warfare to a great extent."

"If China completely refits all its ships, their firepower delivery capabilities will take a huge leap - although battleships are impractical, if a shield sword does not need to make any compromises on its own anti-missile capabilities Under such circumstances, if you can still have the firepower of a battleship, then the problem will be very serious.”

"What's more serious is that since the other party has taken this step, it means that they must have arranged the next change in naval power. They may want to use some method to bring naval warfare back to the era of cannons and giant ships."

Hearing his words, the man in a suit sitting at the center of the conference table frowned, and then said:

"Wesson, although I am not an expert in the military field, I do have basic military knowledge. I would like to ask you, what do you mean by bringing naval warfare back to the era of cannons and giant ships?"

"Both sides do not use missiles, but rely solely on artillery shells to bombard each other within visual range? How is this possible? This is not a movie like Pacific Rim!"

Weisen shook his head helplessly and replied:

"I know it sounds ridiculous, but unfortunately, this may be one of the ways forward."

"Logically speaking, maritime offensive and defensive equipment develop simultaneously. Shield ships are getting stronger and stronger, and anti-missile systems are getting stronger and stronger, so missiles are getting stronger and stronger."

"A very simple example, in order to break through the opponent's air defense network, we have hypersonic missiles and low-altitude breakout missiles, and China also has more advanced waverider hypersonic missiles. These missiles are very advanced, but there are problems Yes, they are all developed symmetrically with the air defense force."

"No one can guarantee 100% breakout, and no one can guarantee 100% interception. It depends on saturation strikes and effective attack probability."

"However, the emergence of a technology will completely change the balance of offense and defense, and that is laser anti-missile."

"Gentlemen, you also know that laser anti-missile is one of our main areas of attack now. In the latest experiment, the interception rate of our laser anti-missile system has been close to 99%. What does this mean? What does this mean in the future? , it is very likely that the missile will not achieve any results at all."

"No matter how many missiles you launch, the laser anti-missile system can burn the navigation part of the missile at the speed of light, making all missiles completely lose their accuracy."

"Wouldn't that be a good thing for us?"

The man in the suit interrupted Wesson.

Weisen glanced at him with some dissatisfaction, and then continued to explain:

"Yes, this is a good thing for us, but the problem is that the other party also knows that this is a good thing for us, so they want to build electromagnetic guns."

"Laser can intercept missiles, but it is impossible to intercept pure metal artillery shells. Our development of laser weapons itself is an asymmetric strategy, and their electromagnetic guns are based on an asymmetric countermeasure strategy. In other words, this is' Asymmetric strategies for asymmetric strategies'."

"Maybe their current laser weapon development is not as good as ours, but they don't care, because once their electromagnetic guns continue to make breakthroughs, then this is what we will face."

"Both of us can't guard the other. We can only fight faster and trade injuries for injuries."

Weisen saw that the man in the suit still wanted to speak, so he immediately reached out to stop him.

"I know what you want to say. You probably want to say that our number of ships exceeds theirs, and our number of missiles exceeds theirs. If we exchange them, we will still have the advantage, right?"

"That's right."

The man in the suit nodded.

"But you have overlooked one problem. As I said, their 055D is a shield ship! Its own anti-aircraft firepower is enough to withstand two or three waves of our attacks."

"A shield ship that can both attack and defend rushed into the range of the electromagnetic gun against our missiles, and then used a high-precision fire control radar to rain down bullets on us at a speed of 15 rounds per minute. Can you imagine that? A picture? Anyway, just thinking about it makes me tremble all over."

"Before attending this meeting, I had already conducted a preliminary sandbox simulation. The result of the simulation was that the battle loss ratio of our two ships would reach 4:1."

"Yes, we are the 4."

After he finished speaking, there was silence in the entire conference room.

There was a kind of confused fear on everyone's face. They couldn't understand why things had developed to this extent. They couldn't understand why just an electromagnetic gun could bring such a big change to the maritime pattern. .

After a moment, a slightly younger naval officer raised his hand. After Wesson nodded, he said:

"Mr. Wesson, based on your inference just now, I have an even more terrifying idea."

"Is it possible that China already has a laser anti-missile system? Is it even possible that their laser anti-missile system is more advanced than ours?"

Wesson nodded seriously.

"What you said is not a possibility, but an established fact."

"According to the information we have, the other party's Jiuquan and Xichang bases are preparing for the launch of some kind of large rocket. Judging from the satellite images, what they are going to launch is likely to be a laser anti-missile system."

"Space-based laser anti-missile system!"

The man in the suit lowered his head silently. Even if he was an amateur, he could still understand the meaning of these words.

After hesitating for a moment, he asked:

"Can we restrict the development of each other's laser technology? For example, through raw materials and technology."

"You're mistaken."

Wesson interrupted the other party mercilessly.

"Although we have been developing laser weapons for a long time, the technology we use is still incoherent beam combining laser, while China uses coherent combining."

"I can't explain the difference between the two to you in detail, but you just need to know that the other party's technology is 20 years ahead of ours."

"In addition, not only technology, but also 90% of raw materials related to lasers are rare earths. As for China's control over rare earths, I don't think I need to say more, right?"

"So, your idea is completely the opposite."

"It's not how we restrict China's laser technology development, but how we should escape their restrictions on us in the shortest possible time."

After saying these words, the atmosphere in the conference room also quietly changed.

The sound of paper being flipped was heard, and everyone began to try their best to deduce possible plans. It seemed that after realizing the identity of their "prey", their original depressed mood was swept away.

If Ye Zhou could see this scene, he would definitely lament the strength and resilience of his opponent.

After all, a powerful country that can become the world's number one in just a hundred years should never be looked down upon.

However, this did not affect China's established strategy.

Just four hours after announcing the electromagnetic gun test results, China announced a complete halt to the export of rare earths and rare earth products. At the same time, Xichang and Jiuquan satellite launch bases successively disclosed their recent launch plans.

Many years later, when people look back, they may suddenly realize that the end of the anti-ship missile era happened on this day.

The era of electromagnetic guns has officially begun.