ccnovels #733 - Chapter 733: Everything is shattered wherever it goes! Very expensive? Don’t worry about the
#733 - Chapter 733: Everything is shattered wherever it goes! Very expensive? Don’t worry about the
Suburbs.
A certain military training base.
Usually used for the training of armed forces under the jurisdiction of the garrison area, it was completely emptied today.
The National Security and Dragon Flame teams had already arrived, leaving not a single soul in the entire area, and constructed a tight defense network, not allowing anyone to approach—including the garrison area generals, none could remain here.
However.
Before evacuating, the garrison area, as required by higher authorities, prepared various targets for testing.
Such as heavy steel plates and scrapped cars.
And several huge concrete target piles.
On the open ground.
A scrapped pickup truck was parked in the distance.
Closer, the weapon was set up.
Not a particle cannon, but a laser weapon.
The reason for testing them together was to compare their performance and power, after all, it was guessed that the North American aerospace fighters were 90% likely to use laser weapons.
Soon, the debugging was completed.
In essence, a laser is an optical weapon that amplifies a beam of light through a laser medium, focusing it into a high-density beam, forming extremely astonishing high temperatures, causing the target to melt or even vaporize and ionize.
"Start!" Chen Hao ordered.
The initial light source was amplified in the medium at 300,000 kilometers per second.
Shoo!
A scarlet stream of light shot out.
Hundreds of meters away.
A red dot instantly appeared on the side door of the scrapped pickup truck.
The red dot was the laser.
In just a moment, the red dot rapidly expanded.
Now, the red dot was not just a laser, the car door softened and melted at an astonishing rate under thousands of degrees of high temperature—the car door was burned red!
However…
Laser weapons have a fatal problem.
3000 degrees Celsius cannot instantly vaporize the car door.
To penetrate it, the laser must continuously output and lock onto that point for a certain period of time.
Of course, if it is a satellite with a fixed mode of operation and a calculable and predictable orbit, there is naturally no problem—the laser can continuously lock onto that point until it completely penetrates the satellite.
0.5 seconds!
Suddenly, a large hole appeared in the car door, penetrating it in the high temperature of the laser.
It passed through the car door and entered the car.
Wasn't there a seat blocking it inside the car?
Continue melting!
"Stop it," Chen Hao waved his hand.
The principle of this optical weapon is relatively simple, and the research and development costs and manufacturing costs are low.
If the opponent does not have similar weapons, then it is a powerful weapon for space warfare.
But…
If both sides have it, the shortcomings will be obvious.
If both sides use space fighters to fight, they both have extremely strong maneuverability.
The flight direction is unpredictable, how can you ensure that the laser's attack area always locks onto a certain point on the enemy fighter?
Unless the enemy aircraft does not move.
Or the flight direction can be predicted.
Unrealistic!
The laser weapon test ended.
The defects are obvious: melting the target takes time, although this time is very short, for example, the aluminum alloy door of a pickup truck can be penetrated in about 0.5 seconds, the problem is… the pickup truck is not moving, okay?
Do you expect the enemy fighter to not move either?
If the time is too short to completely melt and penetrate, the damage effect will be limited.
"Switch to the particle cannon," Chen Hao ordered.
The next moment.
The wooden box transported from the research center was pried open by Xiang Yan and Shi Dali together.
A brand new weapon appeared!
The front end of the cannon barrel was half a meter thick, but most of it was the barrel wall, with an inner diameter of only about ten centimeters.
The barrel wall was completely different from common cannon barrels.
Very thick.
In fact, the cannon barrel is a cyclotron accelerator.
The recoil mechanism outside the barrel was even larger.
Generate particles!
Provide kinetic energy!
"I'll do it!"
Chen Hao ran to the back of the particle cannon in a puff of smoke.
His hands were itching!
He quickly completed the debugging and activated the charging mode.
If you looked into the cannon barrel, you would see a large amount of blue electric light, which was the powerful kinetic energy driving it, the cyclotron accelerator inside the cannon barrel—because the kinetic energy was too powerful, it formed an ionized cloud.
Launch!
Chen Hao pressed the red button.
Shoo!
A beam of light mixed with ionized clouds, showing a faint blue color, flew out of the cannon barrel in an instant.
Not as fast as a laser.
About 200,000 kilometers per second.
But as far as the naked eye is concerned, there is no practical difference between 200,000 or 300,000 kilometers per second.
Boom!
The high-kinetic-energy particle beam hit instantly.
During the previous laser test, the rear car door was attacked.
At this moment.
The front car door was directly penetrated, without the so-called melting process.
Not only that?
The pickup truck was penetrated first, and then there was a terrifying high-energy shock wave, which directly tore the car body to pieces in an instant, and countless fragments and parts were scattered and shot out.
The kinetic energy of the particle beam consumed part of it, but it was still not completely exhausted, and continued to fly forward.
There was a building seven or eight hundred meters away.
The barracks in the training area.
Bang!
There was another loud bang.
The reinforced concrete three-story building was instantly pierced with a large hole.
That hole…
Actually penetrated the entire building!
You could see the other side from this side of the building!
"Damn it!"
Someone couldn't help but swear.
He was really scared!
In the past month or so, they worked overtime to develop the particle cannon using the technical data given by Chen Hao.
Understanding its working principle, they knew that its power was very strong.
However, understanding through principles and data is completely different from the shock brought by seeing it with your own eyes, okay?
"This thing…"
Song Wencong was dumbfounded: "Theoretically, as long as the kinetic energy is large enough, I'm afraid… even an asteroid can be smashed!"
"You're thinking too much."
Chen Hao woke up from the shock, shook his head and smiled: "So much kinetic energy requires too much energy, even the kinetic energy of several nuclear power plants is probably not enough… In the future, maybe it will be possible."
Once hundreds of nuclear power plants are built.
Once high-voltage wireless power transmission is completed.
Then…
Theoretically, it is possible to allow multiple nuclear power plants to be thousands of miles away, charging the particle cannon in space.
But!
Limited to theory.
First of all, a sufficiently giant particle cannon must be manufactured, rather than the small cannon in front of us.
Secondly.
The particle cannon must be strong enough to withstand it.
Otherwise, the huge amount of electricity and the massive high-kinetic-energy particles will burst the particle cannon first.
Giant Particle Cannon Concept (Star Destroyer Level)
"We're not fighting aliens, we don't need something that strong."
Li Zhiguang waved his hand, staring at the particle cannon in front of him, his face full of excitement: "With this, laser weapons are nothing!"
Laser?
In front of a particle cannon, it's just a younger brother…
No!
It's a grandson!
"Old Li, this cost is also high," a weapons scientist said with a wry smile.
"How much does it cost?" Li Zhiguang was stunned.
He is mainly responsible for the J-40 core engine and related field research and development.
Particle cannon…
Not within his technical scope.
He didn't participate in the particle cannon R\u0026D, nor did he specifically ask about the cost.
"In order to catch up with the progress, the R\u0026D funding burned fiercely, leaving aside the R\u0026D… the cost is dozens of times higher than laser weapons!"
Catching up with the progress will inevitably burn funding.
What's more, it's not just the R\u0026D costs that are high, the cost of the weapon itself is also ridiculously high.
"Dozens of times?!" Everyone was shocked.
"Specifically… dozens of times?" Li Zhiguang asked in a daze.
"Excluding R\u0026D, probably… 35 times!"
"…"
A group of people were stunned.
No wonder!
At the beginning, Chief Chen only gave the J-40 a laser as a secondary weapon!
Everyone knows the cost of laser weapons.
Nearly ten million.
35 times…
Doesn't that mean that a particle cannon costs about 350 million?
That's almost half the price of a J-22!
You must know that the J-22 is a top fighter jet, and this thing is just a weapon.
"Everyone doesn't need to worry about the money," Chen Hao waved his hand.
Scientists should concentrate on scientific research.
Is money something they should consider?
Just as he was about to talk about mass production, his phone suddenly rang.