Chapter 1334 Cosmic Fortress, Irsha's Attack (9)
At first it was just a luminous point, then it rapidly expanded into a ball at a speed invisible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a flame that kept flickering with intense light.
This moment all happened in the blink of an eye. A small sun appeared at the bottom of the space fortress Ilsha.
The atomic flames swept through everything, vaporizing matter and spreading in all directions.
Hall was originally tracking a space fighter. Although Li Chengqi asked her to return to the Swan, not everyone could kill seven in and seven out of the fleet like him. Hall saw the Swan The number is approaching. Instead of trying to fight out, it is better to wait until the Swan approaches.
The long period of high concentration brought huge physical exertion. Hall's eyes were filled with sweat as he stared at the crosshair, and there seemed to be a ghost for a moment. As a result, several 40mm rapid-fire shells were deflected when he pulled the trigger.
And it was at this moment that a violent flash of light reflected directly on the screen of Zhou Tian's monitor.
Whether it is a space fighter or a battleship, they all use glass, so they can see directly outside. If a magic mecha like the Silver Tornado wants to see outside the cockpit, it can only rely on the viewfinders all over the body.
And we all know that the more precise a thing is, the more likely it is that something will go wrong.
The strong light instantly damaged the photosensitive element in the viewfinder, and the image pieced together by the silver whirlwind front viewfinder began to be distorted and distorted. Mixed with the extremely high-brightness light, the distorted image looked like some kind of monster with teeth and claws.
Hall didn't know what the bright light was about, but she had to let go of the control ball controlling her arm and pull out the keyboard to adjust the viewfinder.
Fortunately, the viewfinder is of military quality. Although the image is still not clear, it can at least be used.
At this time, Hall saw a blue engine light appearing in the direction of the strong flash, followed closely by Li Chengqi and his huge and bloated machine.
"What the hell did you do again?!"
This word is very spiritual.
"We'll talk about it later!"
Hall saw Li Chengqi drifting in front of her. With a turn of his head, the Balkan gun destroyed the engine of the enemy plane that Hall was tracking just now, and the latter fell into a spin state.
Li Chengqi immediately turned his shield sideways to hold it up:
"Prepare for impact!"
Hall wanted to ask what big thing she had done, but as a soldier, her instinct to obey orders was still online, and she immediately adjusted the thruster power of the silver cyclone void component.
Almost at the same time, invisible to the naked eye, the vaporized matter hit them like a solid body. In this star field where an air battle was breaking out, every space fighter seemed to have been severely whipped by an invisible whip.
Some collided together uncontrollably, and some were broken by the impact. The battlefield where cannons and ion beams flew around was completely emptied of air, and almost every space fighter was pushed away.
Hall held the other side of the huge shield with both hands. The engine nozzles behind the two machines were working at full strength. Even so, he was still pushed back step by step and was almost thrown away.
Time seemed to slow down, and the huge pressure seemed to be transmitted to Hall along the silver whirlwind's motion capture system, almost crushing him.
The location of the fleet is already very far away from the edge of the explosion center, and the slowdown of time is just an illusion.
When the impact passed, Hall noticed that Li Chengqi's body was expelling a large amount of water vapor, which was discharging overheated coolant. At the same time, the overheated coolant would also form a water film to minimize the damage caused by thermal radiation. This is an original function of GP02. The shield was immediately lowered, and Hall saw that many of the armed merchant ships approaching from the front had collided. The armed merchant ships that were closer to the explosion and even their armor plates were peeling off and broken, while those closer to the explosion had nothing but wreckage. There is nothing left.
Continuing to look further into the distance, under the abnormal working mode of the viewfinder, Hall saw that the bottom of the space fortress Irsha seemed to have been bitten off, and its military port at the bottom disappeared directly, as if it had never existed. Pass.
"Seriously, what did you explode?"
"A nuclear bomb, to be precise, a hydrogen bomb."
Li Chengqi was also looking at the effects of the explosion. His voice was a little frightened: "I didn't expect the power of this thing to be so exaggerated."
Everyone knows that hydrogen bombs are weapons of mass destruction, but people who have never seen a nuclear explosion have a hard time imagining how powerful a hydrogen bomb explosion is.
Li Chengqi actually didn't think about how powerful this thing was before launching it. After all, you see, it was launched from an 18-meter-tall mecha, and the warhead size was only slightly longer than an ordinary 380mm rocket. It felt like it might be It is a tactical nuclear bomb, not a country-destroying strategic nuclear weapon.
It would be too wasteful to use hydrogen bombs to attack armed merchant ships, so Li Chengqi aimed at the military port, thinking that he could stop work in the port area for a period of time.
As a result, after he pulled the trigger, he noticed an arc-shaped red line appearing on the small map window representing the radar.
He didn't realize what it meant at first, and he stood there stupidly waiting to see the nuclear explosion. It wasn't until the nuclear bomb was halfway out that he remembered.
Damn it, is this the killing radius of a nuclear bomb?
The flight speed of a nuclear bomb is very slow, even slower than ordinary rockets. Its rocket boost only provides initial power, and the rest depends on gliding.
Because of this, Li Chengqi had time to turn around and run, running out of the killing range before the nuclear bomb exploded.
And then, now.
Li Chengqi didn't understand either the mechanism or the nuclear bomb. He believed that this was a tactical nuclear weapon that could suspend the operation of the military port once it was fired.
But in fact, the explosive yield of the GP02 hydrogen bomb is 48 million tons of TNT, and the largest hydrogen bomb detonated by humans so far on earth is the Tsar Bomba with an equivalent of 50 million tons of TNT.
The violent flash and fireball produced by the explosion of this thing have a radius of up to four kilometers, and the powerful thermal radiation can cover dozens of kilometers.
Even though the explosion power of a nuclear bomb in the cosmic environment is much lower than that in the atmosphere, the thermal radiation is still very deadly.
Flying in the void requires extremely high materials, because the ultra-low temperature in the void will cause the surface temperature of the battleship to drop to more than 100 degrees below zero. If there is star light, it will rise to more than 100 degrees. The materials must be able to withstand such Large temperature difference.
The cosmic fortress Ilsha is located in a dark star field, with no starlight. The surface temperature of all battleships is very low. The huge amount of thermal radiation will instantly increase the surface temperature, so high that the material cannot withstand the huge temperature difference, causing a thermal shock. .
This is why the armor plates of armed merchant ships near the center of the explosion began to disintegrate and collapse. They were not considered to withstand such exaggerated heat radiation when they were originally designed.
As for the vicinity of the explosion center, the high temperature measured in tens of millions of degrees is enough to vaporize all materials. No material can resist such high temperatures, so now there is nothing left.
(End of chapter)