Chapter 285 Long Range Ammunition
Ross 154 planetary system, hidden base.
Fan Ren is wearing a set of anti-radiation nano-jacket that covers his entire body tightly.
If someone who knows the subject is here, one can even observe that this generation of nano-exosuits has done away with the 'big bag' oxygen backpack that once had to be carried at all times on the back.
Among most civilizations in the Galactic Alliance, it is clear that the scientists of human civilization are extremely lucky.
Under the leadership of Fan Ren and a group of young members, the Human Civilization Committee attaches great importance to the all-round development of science and technology.
To this end, they did not hesitate to lease dozens of resource satellites, asteroids, etc. in the solar system to the Hans civilization in exchange for sufficient income to provide blood transfusions to scientific research departments in all walks of life in their civilization.
In return, these scientists are unable to improve the strength of a series of products to the average level of similar products in the star domain market.
But just in terms of nanotechnology, such as the nano-coat that every carbon-based organism must be equipped with, the technology of human civilization is already fully capable of meeting their daily needs.
Just like the latest generation of nano-jacket that Fan Ren is wearing now, developed by engineers of human civilization, it can completely rely on absorbing oxygen molecules in the outside atmosphere to provide the "oxygen" needed by the body.
In addition, this nanocoat can also be set to absorb and store oxygen molecules so that it can be used for a period of time in a vacuum environment.
However, compared with the 24-hour usage cycle of similar products in the Star Domain market, this nano-coat can currently only provide carbon-based organisms with 5 hours of oxygen storage.
But it is more than enough for human workers in space operations in most cases.
In this regard alone, the nanoengineers who are busy on the front line day and night have saved human civilization a lot of money in purchasing materials.
At this moment, Fan Ren held his breath and focused his eyes on an extra-long electromagnetic track device under an almost transparent strong molecular partition in the test room.
"Boss, all the assembly processes are carried out according to the standards. If there are no errors in your structural drawings, according to my calculations, there should be no accidents. The increase in effective range is absolutely certain."
Ah Dai's confident words came to my ears.
Hearing this, Fan Ren smiled but did not respond. Over the years, he had basically no doubts about the strength of the system.
But in the last large-scale technological unlocking, the system only provided relevant basic content of electromagnetic physics.
However, with the summary of unlocked contents from other various subjects, Fan Ren finally gained the confidence to attack the electromagnetic railgun that had previously only been used by the melee killer.
Before this, as a kinetic weapon, the electromagnetic railgun had a lot of ammunition velocity. When facing high-speed moving targets, once the range was extended to 200 kilometers, the accuracy of the ammunition would have huge errors.
This also means that when a super-large battleship like the Punisher is facing a ship of the same level in combat, its large-caliber railgun can only exert its full strength if the range is extended to the close combat range of 200 kilometers.
In contrast, the laser weapon technology released by the five super alliances has much greater advantages in this regard.
Laser weapons use photons as carriers, and their speed is the speed of light. Even at a distance of thousands of kilometers, the emitted laser can reach the target instantly and cause damage.
According to public information, the effective range of laser weapons is within 10,000 kilometers.
Beyond this distance, the power of the laser will decrease due to various environmental factors in the universe. For high-energy laser weapons, this power reduction caused by environmental factors will have a disintegrating result, and will completely lose its power when it exceeds the range.
However, this weapon system, which currently ranks first in performance and power in the Galactic Alliance, is not widely used among civilizations due to its high cost and the huge demand for ship's comprehensive power when launched.
On the contrary, in low-level civilizations, chemical energy missiles based on high-energy density propellants have become the mainstream weapon system in low-level civilizations because of their tracking capabilities and ultra-long range, combined with traditional chemical energy explosive missiles. They are also cheap and do not need to consider the integrated power system of the ship.
As the saying goes, every inch is long and every inch is strong.
The same is true for space combat.
Even in Fan Ren's imagination, the main combat method of the Qingluan Legion in the future will revolve around the theme of speed and concealment.
But after all, all of that revolved around the existence of the Conqueror, and the combat method was mainly based on stealth approach and induced delivery.
Apart from this, under conventional combat conditions other than the Conqueror, the only way to fight is often by head-on approach or by relying on mobility to get close at ultra-high speeds.
But in this case, the same problem as in the previous Hans civilization expeditionary pursuit war cannot be avoided.
That is, during the pursuit, the fleet suffered a large amount of ineffective combat damage when it was out of range due to insufficient range.
And now, Fanren is testing a type of ammunition that can lock and track the target by utilizing the gravitational characteristics after locking onto it, which he developed based on his knowledge of elementary graviton physics unlocked by the system.
The ammunition uses a built-in chip, which can be connected to the ship's locking system before launch to obtain the gravitational characteristics of the locked target.
It is not possible to accelerate the ammunition. Gravity is constant when the mass of matter does not change. Unless it is in the case of a jump, it is impossible to increase gravity to accelerate the ammunition under normal circumstances.
However, the addition of this chip can lock onto the gravitational characteristics of the target object, thereby achieving continuous lock and tracking of the target through gravitational positioning.
This is one of them.
The second point is the change in the ammunition material itself. The first is the redesign of the ammunition structure, and the rest is the most important change.
This type of ammunition is mixed with trace amounts of super-phagnum ore that can interact with gravitons.
It is precisely because of this ore that this type of ammunition can lock on to the gravitational information of enemy ships through the chip during ultra-high-speed launch, conduct gravitational lock tracking, and fine-tune its own trajectory, so as to accurately hit the high-speed moving target at an ultra-long range without reducing the kinetic energy.
Once the ammunition is successfully tested, according to the standards preset by Fanren, its effective range can reach 800 kilometers for precise tracking and error-free attack in the case of the 5000mm caliber electromagnetic railgun used on the battleship platform.
'Om'
In a vacuum, the electromagnetic railgun's firing process does not make as loud a noise as one might imagine because there is no atmosphere.
The slight vibration comes from the resonance reaction caused by the electromagnetic track acceleration when the ammunition slides out of the track at 10% of the speed of light.
(End of this chapter)
