The total mass of this new Mercury-class battleship has been further improved compared to the previous Mercury-class battleships that used chemical fuel propulsion.
The total mass of the previous Mercury-class battleship was about one hundred tons. At this moment, this battleship reached about 300 tons when fully loaded.
This is mainly because there are many more new equipment than old battleships.
When fully loaded, this Mercury-class battleship can hold 30 tons of chemical fuel, 100KG of uranium 235 or plutonium 239.
The total mass of the fuel is greatly reduced compared to the previous generation of Mercury-class battleships that used chemical fuels, which often weighed fifty or sixty tons, and the total mass of the hull has increased by nearly two times. However, under the same degree of maneuvering navigation, the endurance of this Mercury-class battleship is five times that of the previous generation of battleships!
Even compared to the previous half generation, the Mercury-class battleships, which already used secondary pressurization thrusters but were not equipped with many other new equipment, had their average endurance increased by about 10% again.
This is mainly because the secondary pressure thruster was optimized again during this period.
At this moment, all the new equipment developed by Li Qingsong were installed on it.
The high-speed radar, which has been miniaturized and can scan the entire celestial sphere continuously at extremely high speed and accuracy, is now divided into 16 detection components and scattered at 16 locations on the outer shell of the spacecraft. It can scan everything, whether front, back, left, right, up or down, without missing anything.
It is equipped with eight of the latest developed high-speed bogies, which are also distributed in different locations to ensure that there are no blind spots in the attack.
A total of 28 electromagnetic cannons and laser cannons are installed on these 8 bogies.
Among them, there are 4 large and medium-sized laser cannons and 4 large and medium-sized electromagnetic cannons, a total of 8 powerful long-range weapons, which are responsible for launching attacks on the opponents. The remaining 20 laser cannons and electromagnetic cannons are all small and are used for defensive tasks.
In addition to the weapon system, propulsion system and detection system, its armor protection performance has also been greatly improved compared to before.
After introducing the No. 0 fiber used in the manufacture of space elevators and integrating it into the armor as the "rebar" in concrete, it can now even withstand repeated bombardments from the most powerful gunpowder gun armor-piercing shells without any damage.
Although it is still unable to withstand high-power electromagnetic cannon projectiles, it has extremely high protection against smaller electromagnetic cannon projectiles, stray bullets, debris, etc.
It also has excellent resistance to high-temperature laser burning.
Its communication system also has excellent performance. Using the high-power directional antenna specially developed by Li Qingsong, this battleship can maintain contact with the main base or other battleships in an extremely complex and chaotic battlefield environment.
In addition to these improvements, the most important improvement Li Qingsong made to this battleship is that this battleship is intelligent!
It is no longer like the previous battleships, where most combat orders can only be issued from the rear, or completed by manipulating the clones to input orders.
It has a small supercomputer inside.
This supercomputer uses 64 2-nanometer chips to perform parallel calculations, and has abundant computing power compared to a battleship.
This computing power is not only used to maintain the various intelligent components inside the spacecraft, but also runs a tactical version of the Wukong AI locally.
The real supercomputer is running the strategic version of Wukong AI, which is responsible for controlling the situation on the entire battlefield and assisting Li Qingsong in making decisions that affect the entire battlefield.
The tactical version of Wukong AI running in the small supercomputer of this Mercury-class battleship is responsible for simple coordination with surrounding battleships and controlling the tactics of a single spaceship.
Countless combat skills generated through simulated exercises, combat experience gained from friendly forces fighting desperately, battlefield situations sent from nearby spacecraft, and so on, will all enter the tactical version of Wukong AI. After being processed by this set of excellent algorithms, combat orders will eventually be generated and can be launched automatically without the participation of clones.
This is the more intelligent part. In addition to this part, some conventional intelligent data processing, such as high-speed radar scanning of electromagnetic cannon projectiles, using these data to calculate how to control the steering of the bogie and which electromagnetic cannon or laser cannon to operate to intercept, can be completed automatically in an instant without human intervention.
As long as there are communication conditions, the tactical version of Goku and the strategic version of Goku will always maintain a communication connection and receive the command of the strategic version of Goku in real time.
But if there are no communication conditions, for example, the enemy releases a high-yield signal jammer, or the electromagnetic environment is too harsh to make communication impossible, then it doesn’t matter.
The tactical version of Wukong AI can also perform autonomous analysis and assist the clones to continue fighting on the battlefield.
Moreover, as long as any satellite or any friendly spacecraft that is in contact with the strategic version of Goku approaches, it can immediately use it as a relay to restore contact with the strategic version of Goku.
This tactical version of Goku is like a clone formed by pulling out a hair from the strategic version of Goku.
There are as many tactical versions of Goku as there are strategic versions of Goku, and there are as many clones of Goku on the battlefield!
Becoming tens of millions, or even billions, of incarnations is not a dream at all.
This is a complete set of intelligent war system. Its members include not only supercomputer bases and warships, but also can be expanded in the future to connect various unmanned facilities, such as communication satellites, spy satellites, reconnaissance satellites, armed satellites, interstellar missiles, unmanned spacecraft clusters, interstellar mine clusters, artillery clusters, etc., all connected into a network.
Each clone is an extension of Li Qingsong's consciousness. Through these extensions, Li Qingsong will be able to cooperate with this intelligent war network in every detail, minimize the impact of communication delays, and at the same time, maximize the execution of his strategic decisions on the battlefield.
At this moment, although he only has this one intelligent battleship, and it is also the smallest Mercury-class battleship, this does not prevent Li Qingsong from imagining the future.
Moreover, this future is so close to me, within reach.
Because Li Qingsong has broken through all technical limitations, it is only a matter of time to build a war network of such a scale.
This intelligent Mercury-class battleship, which runs a tactical version of Goku inside, is now under the control of the clone connected to Li Qingsong's consciousness. It is maneuvering rapidly in space and attacking fiercely.
It was not until its fuel was completely exhausted that Li Qingsong reluctantly let it return.
"It's time for large-scale construction! Not only will we build Mercury-class battleships, I'll also build Venus-class battleships, and even... Earth-class battleships!"
