My empire of stars

Li Mingze's eyes lit up. Indeed, if drones can be unrestricted, then the empire can completely replace missiles with drones.

As soon as he finished speaking, a drone mothership in space began experiments.

There are two types of drones participating in the experiment, one is a fully automatically controlled drone, and the other is a drone controlled remotely by humans.

Two drones of both types began experiments, one carrying ammunition and the other without.

A few minutes later, the results of the experiment were transmitted back to the laboratory. Among the four drones, the automatically controlled drone without ammunition was able to break through the speed limit of one thousandth of the beam.

Once equipped with ammunition, the speed of this drone will be limited to the maximum speed!

The same is true for drones controlled remotely by humans. They cannot break through the speed limit after carrying ammunition.

On the other hand, the manned fighter jets on the other side can break through this limit regardless of whether they carry bombs or not.

"The experimental results have come out. Only manned fighters can break through the limitations." Li Mingze sighed and said to everyone in the conference room.

"Your Majesty, in this case we not only need to design new warships, we also need to update our aircraft carriers!" Lawns suggested to Li Mingze after pondering for a moment.

"Yes, in addition to new warships, we also need to update our aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft."

"If you need any resources, apply directly. All databases and materials in the empire are open to you!" After speaking, Li Mingze turned and left the conference room.

In the days that followed, Genesis and a group of designers and scientists stayed together every day to discuss the design of new warships and weapons.

First, a brand new weapon design was proposed.

That is, if the range is no longer pursued, the caliber of the weapon can be greatly improved, and so can the power of the weapon. The design concept of the new weapon is to be able to sink the opponent's warship with one shot.

At the same time, according to the information left by the ancient civilization, the Zerg warships are mainly composed of biological warships. Their recovery ability is extremely strong, so the shells fired no longer need to pursue the extreme armor-breaking ability.

The small wounds caused by the penetration of armor-piercing weapons on the Zerg warships can be quickly repaired.

At this time, rum bombs that were banned in the Earth era came into the eyes of scientists.

The empire's new weapon is an orbital accelerator cannon, but unlike previous orbital accelerator cannons, it shortens the acceleration trajectory and greatly expands the diameter of the muzzle.

The barrel of an orbital accelerator gun is now only fifteen meters long, but its diameter reaches three meters!

The rum round design was also incorporated into the weapon's ammunition, and this new weapon, called the Crusher, used bullet-style shells.

The head of the cannonball is not streamlined, but has a hollow shape similar to a rum bullet, surrounded by serrations.

This kind of cannonball will first accelerate through an acceleration track, and the propulsion device at its tail will also ignite the moment it leaves the muzzle, allowing it to reach one thousandth of the speed of light after leaving the muzzle.

When this kind of artillery shell attacks a biological battleship, it will first tear the opponent's armor, and then inject the solid warhead in the shell into the body of the biological battleship, and at the same time explode inside the battleship, and this solid warhead also carries a heated explosive. Special materials that burn.

The hit battleship will not only suffer a physical blow, but will also experience the feeling of thousands of degrees of high temperature burning in the body.

The wound area and destructive power produced in this way will be far greater than ordinary solid warheads!

In addition, special bullets filled with antimatter have also been designed. This kind of warhead has enhanced armor-piercing capabilities. Once it penetrates the opponent's armor, it can release antimatter in the opponent's body.

Bang. After an explosion, the hit battleship will turn into fireworks.

Not long after these two shells were developed, Lawns proposed a new warhead.

That is a crushing warhead assembled from hundreds of saw teeth made of ringworld metal.

This kind of warhead with a fusion reactor inside can provide a steady stream of energy for the serrations on the head, allowing the warhead to continuously "wander" within the body of the Zerg warship.

Use the "meat grinder" on its head to completely smash the weak interior of the Zerg warship.

At the end of the day, this shell can also detonate the reactor directly, creating a small nuclear explosion.

After the crusher weapon was designed, scientists began to design a new warship based on the characteristics of this weapon.

The previous design concept that focused on frontal defense and attack has been abandoned. The new warship will focus on frontal and two-sided defense. All weapons will also be located on both sides of the ship and on the upper and lower decks of the warship.

In this way, as long as a battle breaks out, the empire's warships can maximize their combat effectiveness when the enemy engages in close combat.

Weapons from the four directions of up, down, left, and right can attack enemies all around at the same time. Even if the enemy is on one side of the battleship, it is guaranteed that three-quarters of the weapons can attack the target.

In addition to this new weapon layout, the new Imperial warships are also designed with rams. The triangular rams, which are wider at the top and narrower at the bottom, will be coated with an extra layer of dimensional armor.

Should a ramming strike be required, the new Imperial warship can serve as a lance inserted into the enemy's fleet.

In addition to these weapons, high-speed close-in defense guns have also been enlarged in caliber and shortened in range. The original defense range of hundreds or thousands of kilometers has been reduced to 200 kilometers. These close-in defense guns will also serve as air defense weapons.

The original empire's beam weapons, electromagnetic orbital weapons, and ballistic weapons were all lost on the newly designed warships.

The newly designed imperial battleship can be said to be completely designed for close combat!

The new battleship is the same as the Imperial Glory. The entire battleship only has a sleeping compartment and a working compartment.

Without any living space or warehouses, the size of the entire battleship has been compressed to the extreme.

At the same time, the entire battleship is also as streamlined as possible, with no unnecessary edges and corners, in order to reduce the use of materials for dimensional armor.

In addition to the new warships, the Empire's drone carriers have also been upgraded and redesigned.

The original drones were no longer suitable for the current battlefield, and the ordinary aircraft carriers that had been abandoned by the empire were once again retrieved from the archives and upgraded.

The newly designed aircraft carrier is ten kilometers long and three kilometers wide.

The entire aircraft carrier can carry 20,000 carrier-based aircraft, and it is also responsible for providing supplies and maintenance for new warships.

It is not so much an aircraft carrier as a comprehensive combat supply command ship.

Although its size prevents it from being equipped with dimensional armor, the Empire designed it with 300 meters of thick armor and a shield comparable to that of a Titan.

According to the plan, each fleet will be composed of twelve new warships and three aircraft carriers. Once an enemy is discovered, the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier will attack first. When the enemy gets close, the new warships will engage in hand-to-hand combat while the aircraft carriers withdraw. Out on the battlefield.