Chapter 247 Drone Mothership! Nantianmen concept!
After listening to what Qiao Zhenhai said, Qian Zhizhong looked at each other with Qin Shan and others next to him.
Then everyone nodded slightly.
Yes, if the Black and White Eagle really dares to blow up its fur, then with their current strength, they can indeed pluck all of the Black and White Eagle's fur!
Not to mention anything else, just the cluster of bombers equipped with Judge drones that Su Heng proposed just now can easily destroy the defense force of any village!
Even the black and white eagle is like this!
Black and White Eagle's unrivaled fleet that roams the world may be powerful, but so what?
There is no need for twin tails to take action. Thousands of Thunder drones are equipped with three thousand Judge drones. Under a single salvo, any fleet will be scrapped!
An attack eight hundred kilometers away, regardless of whether you can detect it in advance, even if you detect it, it will be of no avail!
If you are poor, you can use tactics to intersperse, if you are rich, you can cover it with firepower!
Tactics + firepower, dedicated to treating all dissatisfactions!
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While Qiao Zhenhai and others were busy preparing to combine the brigade.
On the other side, in the underground laboratory of Jiuding Group——
“It’s almost...”
Su Heng murmured to himself as he looked at the huge thing that was one hundred and eighty-seven meters long and twenty-nine meters wide in front of him.
This behemoth is the product of Su Heng's research based on the concept of drone freighter proposed by Qin Shan during this period.
The main body is a 27,000-ton cargo ship that has been manufactured by Yongyuan Shipyard.
After modification, the surface of the current freighter has been replaced with a flat through deck. There is one more ship island.
Approximately similar to an amphibious assault ship.
Of course, because it only carries a small disposable drone like the Judge, the deck of this cargo ship is not as strong as an amphibious assault ship.
Even the deck can be opened directly!
Below the deck, there are huge drone warehouses!
And a total of fifty UAV launch systems and two electromagnetic ejection systems!
These drone warehouses are designed to carry a total of 10,000 Judge drones!
The drone launch system below the deck is directly connected to the drone warehouse, and can launch all 10,000 Judge drones within half an hour!
In addition, on this modified freighter, Su Heng is also equipped with six Thunder unmanned reconnaissance drones that have been modified and strengthened to be able to fold their wings, and four that have also been modified by Su Heng Then a foldable twin-tail unmanned early warning aircraft.
The electromagnetic ejection system on the freighter is equipped for these thunder and twin-tail drones.
As for the Judge, Su Heng originally planned to use the electromagnetic ejection system to launch the Judge.
However, after verification, this idea was abandoned by Su Heng.
The reason is very simple. The body of the Judge is not strong enough, and the huge load brought by the electromagnetic ejection can destroy the Judge in an instant!
If you want to meet the needs of electromagnetic ejection, you can only strengthen the body of the Judge.
But in that case, the cost of the Judge, who is only a disposable item, will increase significantly.
This is completely a waste of time!
The judge itself relies on low costs and uses quantity to accumulate value!
If the cost goes up, what's the point?
If you have the skills, wouldn’t it be nice to just create a bunch of Thunder Gods and Twin Tails?
Not to mention the Judge, even the Thunder, twin-tailed unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and early warning aircraft currently on the ship were redesigned and strengthened by Su Heng before they could meet the requirements of shipboard and electromagnetic Ejection requirements.
Otherwise, even Thunder and Twin Tails will not be able to take off and land on the freighter.
In general, after the upgrade and modification, the freighter has now completely turned into a drone mothership.
The only flaw is that this drone carrier does not have much defensive capabilities.
Su Heng originally wanted to install some electronic countermeasures equipment and electromagnetic weapons on it.
However, after comprehensive consideration, Su Heng gave up this idea.
The reason is simple, it is not necessary.
Whether it is the drone mothership or the judge drone on the drone mothership, it is initially positioned as a consumable.
The total cost of 10,000 drones is only 100 million. Even if you include gunpowder and later installed navigation and positioning equipment and basic intelligent programs, the cost will not exceed 200 million, and it is dragon coins!
Then there are the Thunder reconnaissance aircraft and the twin-tailed unmanned early warning aircraft above.
The cost of these ten drones is much higher. The basic model of the Thunder UAV Su Heng is sold to the National Defense Force for only 800,000 yuan, and the cost is 700,000 yuan, but the Thunder UAV reconnaissance drone However, a large amount of reconnaissance and observation equipment has been installed, and the value of these things is much higher than the Thunder drone itself.
Even if these equipment are self-developed and produced by Su Heng...
In addition, this is a carrier-based model, and the body needs to be upgraded to meet the space and take-off and landing requirements of the carrier. .
This also caused the cost of the Thunder unmanned reconnaissance drone to skyrocket from 700,000 to 6.3 million!
This is already more than the price of a basic model of Twin Tails plus a smart biological helmet, plus a basic model of Thunder!
This is especially true for the twin-tailed unmanned early warning aircraft.
The cost of a carrier-based version of a twin-tailed unmanned early warning aircraft is as high as 18 million dragon coins!
Almost equal to the price of four twin-tail drones plus three smart biological helmets!
The cost is not high.
However, the cost of these twin-tailed unmanned early warning aircraft and thunder unmanned reconnaissance aircraft is much higher than that of the Judge.
But the number is only ten.
After calculation, plus some supporting equipment, the total cost is just over 100 million!
And it’s also a dragon coin!
In other words, the total cost of all drones added up is more than 300 million dragon coins.
As for the UAV aircraft carrier itself, because there is no need to consider the design and development costs, the only basic costs that really need to be invested are labor and materials.
According to Su Heng’s estimation, the cost of building a drone aircraft carrier will not exceed 400 million, dragon coins!
This is the cost after adding the electromagnetic ejection and necessary communication control and other messy equipment inside.
In total, the cost of such a drone mothership will not exceed 800 million dragon coins.
It’s the price of an ordinary destroyer or even a frigate!
What kind of defense does this thing need?
Even if it is really bombed, I won’t feel bad at all!
Not to mention that there are knife-wielding guards like the Longyuan battleship beside this drone aircraft carrier!
Long Yuan battleship is almost a master of defense!
Whether it’s electromagnetic weapons or electronic countermeasures weapons, we have them all!
As long as Long Yuan is here, it doesn’t matter whether the drone aircraft carrier has defenses. Without Long Yuan, it would be meaningless even if the drone aircraft carrier is equipped with an electromagnetic gun.
Can’t we also upgrade the drone aircraft carrier’s armaments to the level of Long Yuan?
Are you full after eating?
So Su Heng simply gave up equipping the drone aircraft carrier with a defense system.
Dedicate people to do specific tasks, and use consumables to do their job. Don’t worry about anything else.
Of course, if we insist on saying so, drone aircraft carriers are not completely defenseless.
Those unmanned reconnaissance aircraft and early warning aircraft can completely monitor a radius of hundreds of kilometers around the clock!
Once any dangerous target approaches, the judges on the drone carrier can launch a fatal strike on the target immediately!
If you want to threaten the drone aircraft carrier, you must first avoid the warning of the drone reconnaissance aircraft and early warning aircraft!
A defense circle with a radius of 800 kilometers. To a certain extent, this is absolute defense!
Ten thousand drones that are comparable to heavy anti-ship missiles, let me ask you whether you are moved or not!
What?
You said that the Judge cannot hit underwater targets?
Is there a big black fish under the water?
Then we're back to square one.
I know I have no underwater defense capabilities, why should I go out alone? I'm an ADC and I'm going to have a face-to-face fight with a warrior or assassin?
Is there something wrong with my brain?
Ten thousand steps back.
Leave aside Long Yuan.
Learn about the Chikiss attack submarine with a full load displacement of 13,000 tons, eight torpedo tubes and twelve missile silos. When fully loaded, it can carry one hundred torpedoes and twelve submarine-launched ballistic missiles. one time?
Even if it is really necessary, the drone aircraft carrier can carry a few more FQ-1 anti-submarine drones from Longyuan!
FQ-1, this is the rotor anti-submarine drone that Su Heng equipped Long Yuan with.
The maximum ceiling is 2,000 meters, the maximum range is 400 kilometers, the maximum endurance is 40 hours, the maximum flight speed is 230 kilometers per hour, and the maximum load is 1,500 kilograms. It can be mounted as needed. Anti-submarine pods carrying different modules.
Even if such drones are placed on the deck of a drone aircraft carrier, it is no problem to place dozens of them at a time.
Anti-submarine radius of two hundred kilometers!
In this case, what kind of big snakeheaded fish dares to come close, and what kind of big snakeheaded fish can come close? ?
……
After another technical verification test.
Su Heng directly looked away from the drone aircraft carrier in front of him.
Then he continued to look at a very illusory, almost completely transparent data model next to him.
From the appearance point of view, this is an oversized version of an aircraft with a flying wing layout.
There is also a string of data information next to the model.
According to the data, this model is three hundred meters long and has a wingspan of eight hundred meters. It is an out-and-out behemoth.
However, this model is now very illusory, even more illusory than the raptor model that Su Heng simulated based on the few raptor data provided by the National Defense Force!
In other words, this model basically has no actual technical data support!
It’s just an empty shell with nothing but appearances!
"The air platform is a bit troublesome..."
Looking at the illusory model in front of him, Su Heng murmured to himself.
During this week, in addition to studying drone aircraft carriers and transforming Thunder, Thor, and twin-tailed drones.
The rest of the time was almost spent tinkering with the "Nantian Gate" proposed by Qian Zhizhong.
However, until now, a week has passed, and he still has no clue.
If you want to build an aerial strategic platform that forms a group like what Qian Zhizhong said, you are destined to not be able to do it in a small way like drones like Lei Ming carrying Judge drones.
That has no value at all, let alone meaning.
But if you want to expand, how to make this platform fly, how to make this platform continue to fly at an altitude of thirty or forty kilometers, how to control flight costs, etc., etc., are all problems!
Su Heng had previously tried to use pulse detonation engines and variable cycle engines, but after verification, both ideas failed.
Without it, the cost-effectiveness ratio is too low!
You can fly, but taking off once will cost hundreds of millions of dollars!
And the consumption of every minute or even every second is an astronomical figure!
That is an out-and-out gold-swallowing beast!
Gold is being thrown into it every second!
No village can afford this thing...
So whether it is a pulse detonation engine or a variable cycle engine, Su Heng gave up.
Then it is like this now. After a week of research, I have come up with nothing except an empty shell with a superficial appearance.
Looking at the model in front of him, Su Heng frowned, and thoughts kept passing through his mind.
I don’t know how long it took—
“That’s right!”
A flash of light suddenly flashed through Su Heng’s mind!
“Two or thirty thousand meters is not enough. The air resistance is too great. It is difficult to fly such a large platform. What about two to three hundred thousand or three to four hundred thousand meters?”
Satellites and space stations quietly emerged in Su Heng's mind.
As we all know, satellites and space stations do not require power to fly.
In other words, only a weak power is needed to maintain flight in space.
The reason is very simple. At an altitude of 100,000 meters or even 20,000 to 300,000 meters, the air is very thin!
Correspondingly, the resistance encountered by the aircraft is also greatly reduced!
Then under the action of gravity and centrifugal force, the satellite can fly at high altitudes with very weak power or even no power.
The same is true for the space station.
“If I transform the Origin into a large spaceport, and then place space vehicles on it, can I achieve the same effect as the ‘Southern Gate’?”
Thinking of the Origin, Su Heng’s eyes flashed.
Countless thoughts flashed through my mind.
The biggest problem restricting "Nantianmen" is gravity and air resistance.
Needless to say about gravity, planet gravity is a knowledge learned in junior high school.
As long as it is on the planet, no object can escape the control of gravity.
The same goes for airplanes.
The reason why an airplane can take off depends on the lift generated by the difference in air velocity. When the upward lift is greater than the downward gravity, the airplane will naturally fly.
In other words, to overcome gravity, you must create a force that can resist gravity.
The lift brought by the air is not enough to meet the needs of a very large aircraft like the "Nantianmen".
In other words, even if it is satisfied, the cost-effectiveness ratio is so low that it is unbearable!
Su Heng has also tried to develop anti-gravity equipment, but he has no clue yet!
Like the anti-gravity engine in the movie, this thing is so advanced that it is impossible to build it in a short time!
As for air resistance, this is also knowledge in junior high school.
To expand, just refer to the sound barrier encountered by airplanes during flight.
The so-called sound barrier is actually air resistance!
Similar to gravity, any object on the Blue Star that wants to move quickly will encounter air resistance.
To give a simple example, you encounter a strong wind while running. When the strong wind reaches a certain level, you cannot run even if you want to, or even be pushed in the opposite direction by the strong wind!
This is resistance!
The sound barrier is the result of the aircraft compressing the air in front to an extreme level after its speed approaches the speed of sound, which is equivalent to an invisible membrane!
If the aircraft can break through this barrier, then the so-called supersonic aircraft will be born...
The larger the aircraft, the greater the resistance caused by high-speed flight!
For a behemoth like the "Nantian Gate", its resistance is so huge that ordinary people can hardly imagine it!
To obtain the lift to escape gravity, "Nantianmen" must fly at high speed!
In this way, resistance becomes a natural chasm for the "Southern Gate"!
But high altitude is different.
For example, the origin is operating at an altitude of 400 kilometers, and the air at this altitude is extremely thin.
There is almost no corresponding resistance!
If the "Nantian Gate" is placed at this height, then the problems of resistance and gravity encountered by the "Nantian Gate" can be completely solved.
Thinking of this, Su Heng's mind suddenly became active.
Originally, he had plans to build the Origin into a large space station or even a space port.
Doesn't "Nantianmen" and his ideas coincide now?
(End of this chapter)