Chapter 331 Drone Cruise Missiles
May 14.
With tens of millions of workers working all night,
the 4th floor of the farmyard shelter began to gradually take shape.
At the same time,
because a large number of workers were inclined to the surface,
the excavation progress of the engineering team underground was significantly affected.
The efficiency was more than 30% lower than before.
"And there are signs of shortage of building materials."
The first underground floor, the control center.
With the help of a reconnaissance drone flying inside the city-level shield.
Su Wu looked down calmly.
Inside the 4th floor of the ground wall that has not yet been capped, some functional areas have already begun to take shape.
The standard thickness of the exterior wall of the current farmyard shelter is 3 meters.
Starting from the 4th floor above ground.
According to the previous building specifications, the proportion is converted.
The thickness of the underground cement slab for the planting layer and the breeding layer must reach 3 meters.
The underground interlayer of the residential area must reach 6 meters.
However, since there are quite a lot of places in the middle of the interlayer, some hollow pipes need to be laid, or soil used in the green belt, etc.
The actual cement consumed by the interlayer is basically only half of its thickness.
But even so.
The amount of cement they consume is extremely astonishing.
Counting only the outer wall and the underground interlayer, more than 63 million tons of quick cement are used in total.
And even with so many building materials.
Su Wu got only an empty four-story space on the ground.
He also needs to build a plantation of the size of a city inside to be truly completed.
"By recycling the ruins of Jianghe City and the ruins of the shelters in the Kuanjiang River Basin."
"The accumulated quick cement materials."
"In the past, the farmyard was excavated all the way to the 14th floor underground, and then a three-story building of more than 150 meters high was built on the surface."
"There is not much left."
"Now we have to supply the construction of the four floors above ground, which consumes more seriously."
"It is inevitable that there will be a shortage of inventory."
He looked through the expenditure of the inventory materials.
Su Wu discovered that the main raw material of quick cement in the shelter's ordinary material warehouse, limestone powder separated from concrete,
was rapidly decreasing at a rate of one percentage point every hour.
It can be foreseen that if there is no new income,
in a few days at most,
there will be no such cheap construction waste to use.
The only thing to do is to use the precious pure limestone mined from the limestone mine as a substitute.
But relying only on the output of the mine, facing the terrifying demand in the shelter today, it can only be said to be a drop in the bucket.
Thinking,
Su Wu turned his attention to the north of the Kuanjiang River Basin.
Now, the first group of Ice Lake-class transport ships that set out from the coastal Blue Bird Shelter to transport materials to Zhenhai City
have arrived in Gangcheng.
The last batch of Ice Lake-class transport ships sent to the Blue Bird Shelter for transportation are still on the way.
It will take several days to arrive at the Blue Bird Shelter
.
It is estimated that it will still take more than a week
to completely transfer nearly 100 million tons of ordinary materials from Zhenhai City to Gangcheng from the Blue Bird Shelter.
"The storm is almost over now."
"There is no need for the remaining transport ships to transit through Steel City."
"You can return directly to the farmyard."
He stretched out his hand and fiddled with the holographic map.
The transport line in the north, which stretched for more than 1,000 kilometers, was then divided into two sections.
The team on the small section of the transport line less than 100 kilometers away from Steel City continued to move towards Steel City.
The rest began to adjust their direction and headed for the farmyard.
As a super industrial city, Steel City
also consumes a lot of ordinary resources to produce the robots and other equipment needed by Su Wu.
A small amount of materials from Zhenhai City can be transported there.
They can be pulled back to the farmyard after they are made into finished products.
This round trip is not a waste of transportation capacity.
"Those transport ships that arrived at Gangcheng before."
"After unloading ordinary supplies in Gangcheng, they can load up a batch of construction waste and return to the farmyard."
"It will alleviate the shortage of construction materials a little bit."
"Then, the 4,000 Ice Lake-class transport ships that have been produced in the past two days."
"You can go south to Yuhe City to recycle construction waste."
Even now, the seventh-generation fighters and Morning Light-class transport ships that can break through the atmosphere and enter space have been developed. The
Ice Lake-class transport ship, which has an unparalleled 10,000-ton load and is a land transportation tool with an extremely low manufacturing cost,
still has an extremely important strategic position in Su Wu.
Therefore,
he has never relaxed the pace of mass production.
In just two days, another 4,000 ships were produced.
For this new transport force,
Su Wu sent it to Yuhe City, which is adjacent to Jianghe City in the south.
He planned to carry out a massive demolition operation there.
All the concrete that can be found in the ruins of the surface city or the underground shelters will
be smashed and packed away.
Since Yuhe City is still under the control of the government, and has the support of a super city behind it,
actions are being taken against it.
In fact, it is equivalent to Su Wu's second active large-scale invasion of official forces after Steel City.
It has considerable reference value.
It determines whether Su Wu's attitude towards other forces in Dongzhou in the future will be a little more relaxed or a little more aggressive.
"There are 4,000 Ice Lake-class transport ships, which are responsible for recycling construction waste from next door."
"I think it should be able to greatly reduce the pressure of construction."
Putting aside the things related to the Ice Lake-class transport ships,
Su Wu looked at other means of transportation. The performance
of the Blue Sky-class transport drones, which are currently the largest in his hands,
is far behind that of the new ships.
Even if all 40,000 Blue Sky-class transport aircraft are added together, they are not as heavy as the carrying capacity of a Morning Light-class transport ship.
In addition, they are fixed-wing gliding takeoffs and landings. They
have high requirements for the site.
Seriously speaking, there is basically no value left.
"This is the first transport aircraft to be eliminated on a large scale."
Su Wu was a little regretful. These unmanned transport aircraft brought Su Wu a lot of help
in the early stage . They built an air traffic network for him that covered most of Dongzhou. And through trade with other shelters, they collected a lot of gold and silver. Su Wu's farmyard can develop to this level today. They have a considerable contribution. However, although it is said to be retired. It does not mean that it will be completely scrapped directly. These drones will return to the farmyard one after another after completing their last missions. Enter the assembly workshop on the second floor for disassembly and modification. Finally, it is transformed into a drone cruise missile with foldable fixed wings and a second set of rocket engines. The so-called drone cruise missile has a less formal name, the youth version of the intelligent networked intercontinental missile. The youth version means that the performance in all aspects is greatly behind the original version.
Intelligent networking means that they can form a network with each other, and automatically adapt to appropriate tactics to carry out joint strikes on combat targets.
Intercontinental missiles are a compliment to some extreme performance of cruise missiles.
After the Qingkong-class transport drone is successfully converted into a cruise missile,
its range will increase from the original 1,500 kilometers to 3,000 kilometers.
It has the ability to strike across intercontinental distances.
Although its regular flight speed is still only 165 kilometers per hour,
if you want to really cross 3,000 kilometers to strike the enemy, you have to fly continuously for nearly 20 hours.
The time is ridiculously long.
However, as long as it really arrives near the target and enters the terminal strike program,
the second set of rocket engines installed on it
will be instantly awakened and overloaded.
Then, from high altitude, the cruise missile that enters the vertical strike state will increase its speed from the original 165 kilometers per hour to more than 700 kilometers in a very short time.
It is infinitely close to the flight speed of subsonic rockets and
is extremely difficult to intercept.
In addition, 40,000 cruise missiles converted from Qingkong-class transport drones.
There are no requirements for the launch environment.
You can use any simple launcher or even airdrop it directly to activate it.
The launch difficulty is extremely low.
With them as reserves, Su Wu can easily flatten a place
on the Dongzhou map with the farmyard as the center and a diameter of 6,000 kilometers. If you don't mind the trouble, send a Morning Light-class transport ship, or a sixth-generation and seventh-generation fighter jet to transport and drop cruise missiles. Then Su Wu is more capable of bombing any place in the world. "It can be regarded as a waste of waste heat." "It didn't waste so much manufacturing cost at the beginning." After the Qingkong-class transport drone, there is a biplane helicopter that is almost the same era as it. The performance of this helicopter is impeccable at the original technological level. Whether it is speed, load, or defense, it can be called the top existence. Only super cities are qualified to have a single-digit number of strategic-level equipment. But now, its 20-ton load and 500 kilometers per hour flight speed seem a bit tasteless. Even if the 75 biplane helicopters belonging to the farmyard work all day, they may not be as good as a Morning Light-class transport ship that takes half an hour to fly out. The gap in transportation efficiency between the two sides is so large that there is almost no need to form a team and complement each other. "The cost of biplane helicopters is too expensive and the number is too small." "There is no need to mix with the current air transportation system." "It is better to completely withdraw from the front line." "Turn into a dedicated scientific research aircraft." "Go to various remote and dangerous areas in Dongzhou for investigation and research." "Explore the cause of the disaster and the possible direction of future movement, so as to be able to warn in advance." This is something that Su Wu will have to do sooner or later. As long as the end of the world does not end, he will need to obtain as much environmental changes as possible in various parts of Dongzhou. The biplane helicopter, which lags behind the contemporary but has decent performance, has become the best reconnaissance tool. "Then, the sixth-generation fighter still needs to work normally." The sixth-generation fighter is the crystallization of the technology in Su Wu's hands when it is fully approaching the forefront of the world for the first time. Its cruising speed of five times faster than the speed of sound and its transport capacity of 40 tons are still quite impressive even now. It can be responsible for some marginal tasks that are not worth the Morning Light transport ship's special trip. However, its original range of activities needs to be adjusted and shrunk. The vertical take-off and landing function of the sixth-generation fighter. After all, it requires the cooperation of a dedicated airport that is expensive to build. And this type of airport, including both fixed and movable types. Until now, there have not been more than 10 sets. The number is very limited. The sight passed by the sixth-generation fighter that had been discontinued and the scale was finally fixed at 500. Su Wu continued to look at the route from Jianghe City to Xiaojiang Province. A large number of caravans were heading back to Xiaojiang Province. These caravans completely lost their greatest function after the birth of the seventh-generation fighter and the Morning Light-class transport ship. Transporting people. The only remaining combat and transporting supplies. It was barely enough, and it could only be said that it could be used. In this case. The caravan train has actually entered the official shutdown stage. Its final number will always be fixed at 612 trains. However. Considering the current number of Ice Lake-class transport ships, it has not really completely crushed everything. There will be at most 5 Morning Light-class transport ships in a short period of time. With a scale of more than 600, the caravan trains are enough to quickly transport more than 6 million tons of materials at a time. It can still bring considerable benefits to Su Wu. In terms of importance, it is slightly more important than the sixth-generation fighter. "The focus of super factory production in the future," "will be the seventh-generation fighter, Morning Light-class transport ships, and Ice Lake-class transport ships." "Then, in order to maximize their transportation efficiency." "The wireless power transmission network built by networking low-Earth orbit satellites." "It's time to put it into use."
Whether it is the seventh-generation fighter, or the Morning Light-class transport ship and the Ice Lake-class transport ship,
their main driving energy source is electricity.
Among them, the seventh-generation fighter, as a weapon biased towards combat,
has a very limited amount of power.
If it fights alone, it can only activate the electromagnetic protection force field for less than one minute at most as a means of defense in an emergency.
If at this time,
it can be charged through the wireless power transmitted by the satellite.
Then not only can its electromagnetic protection force field become a permanent defense for an unlimited time,
but it can also load another set of energy shields that could not be activated due to the limited power it carries.
The battlefield survivability can be increased by more than 10 times almost immediately.
As for the Morning Light-class transport ship, because of its limited number, let's not talk about it for now.
According to the current daily production of 2,000 Ice Lake-class transport ships,
it will take less than one or two months .
The number will exceed 100,000.
With such a large scale, just finding a place to charge is a huge problem.
And if there is a low-Earth orbit wireless power transmission network,
then the Ice Lake-class transport ship is on the way to transport supplies.
You can replenish electricity anytime and anywhere while traveling.
It can achieve a near perpetual motion performance.
In addition, there is a small additional benefit.
With sufficient power support,
the Ice Lake-class transport ship can also stimulate electromagnetic protection field and energy shield.
It can also carry miniaturized beam main guns.
It greatly improves the safety during transportation.
Chapter 332 Space Power Grid
Day 2.
10 seventh-generation fighters and 1 Morning Light-class transport ship.
Officially rolled off the production line.
At this time.
With the remaining resources in the shelter.
Four more batches of production can still be continued.
Then, due to the lack of some key raw materials, it will be suspended.
"The seventh-generation fighter and the Morning Light-class transport ship use the same technical framework."
"The key materials required are not much different. At most, the quantity is slightly different due to the size difference."
"Considering the huge difference in their transport capacity."
"After the initial rounds of production, after completing the basic primitive accumulation."
"We should try our best to produce the Morning Light-class transport ship."
The seventh-generation fighter.
Behind the unparalleled performance, there is a list involving tens of thousands of different materials.
Many materials do not exist in nature.
Corresponding manufacturing equipment needs to be established to produce them specifically.
In addition, there is no free trade market in the end times. Each shelter is an almost closed island.
It is also quite difficult to collect enough basic resources.
In the end, Su Wu was faced with the limited resources.
He had to choose a production direction to focus on.
Should he lean towards the seventh-generation fighter jets on the combat side, or the Morning Light-class transport ships on the logistics side?
After a brief weighing, the result was almost unquestionable.
That is, he would lean towards the Morning Light-class transport ships.
The seventh-generation fighter jets are indeed powerful.
But when it comes to the moment of life and death,
relying on the giant super-giant fortress of the farmyard shelter,
he will fully utilize his production capacity to produce large electromagnetic railguns and beam main guns.
The combat power that will be released may not be weaker than that of the seventh-generation fighter jets.
At most, because they cannot move, they can only be limited to self-protection.
They cannot interfere with other places outside the shelter.
But for Su Wu, as long as he can survive, it will be fine .
As for more benefits
, instead of waiting for the future battle on the battlefield, it is better to produce one more Morning Light-class transport ship now.
Collect more resources scattered on the surface earlier.
"Also, population is also a resource."
"The main task of the Morning Light class transport ship in the early stage is to transport population."
"As long as there are enough people and enough spirituality is produced."
"Perhaps, an upgrade of technology."
"It can offset all the previous investment."
After experiencing the earth-shaking changes that the seventh-generation fighters brought to the shelter,
Su Wu's desire to upgrade technology became more eager.
This is also the reason why he insisted on expanding the shelter and gathering more people at all costs.
Obtaining their labor force is secondary.
The most important thing is that they can bring more spirituality.
After a short inspection.
The Morning Light class transport ship took off slowly first.
From the newly built 4-story flight channel on the ground, it drove out of the farmyard shelter.
In the dim skylight on the surface.
Gradually accelerated and flew in the direction of Xiaojiang Province.
It will start its first mission there to transport the first batch of 500,000 people back.
After the Morning Light class transport ship.
The 10 seventh-generation fighters that had just come off the production line, as well as the first seventh-generation fighter that had just been separated from the air transportation network,
were concentrated and moved to the warehouse area of the aerospace carrier factory.
There, they underwent special warehouse transformation.
Logistics robots were responsible for loading the packaged special satellites embedded with large wireless power transmission devices
into their hangars .
The total mass of a special satellite was 400 tons.
It was just within the transportation limit of the seventh-generation fighters, so that none of their transportation capacity would be wasted.
"Loading is complete."
"Start the takeoff procedure."
The factory warehouse door opened again.
11 seventh-generation fighters drove out slowly at the same time. They
followed the ground track in an orderly manner and entered the launch site. The seventh-generation
fighter has no landing gear. Its movement on the ground is actually carried out through low-power suspension flight.
Therefore, after entering the launch site,
it did not go through preheating and engine start-up.
It directly entered the next vertical take-off stage without delay.
A total of 11 fighters were divided into three batches and successively lifted off to a height of more than 150 meters.
They left the shelter along the four flight corridors above.
Su Wu's control center.
On the large screen in front of the console.
At this moment, it was temporarily transformed into the command center of the launch site.
Multiple sub-screens with different angles were divided to monitor every operating detail of this group of fighters. A few seconds later. The group of seventh-generation fighters penetrated the clouds and entered an accelerated sprint state of 20 times the speed of sound. More than a minute later. They arrived at their respective predetermined orbits one after
another . The special satellite in the cabin began to be launched. "The launch was successful," "The special satellite has been deployed." "Start searching for links. The connection has been successful." "The wireless power transmission network has started to operate." An invisible beam of electricity was launched into the air from a large power transmission device in a farmyard. After being refracted by several special satellites, it finally fell on an experimental Ice Lake-class transport ship on the surface. It successfully obtained power replenishment while moving. "After multiple transfers, the power loss rate reached about 5%." "A single satellite can build up to 100 different power transmission channels at the same time." "To achieve stable coverage of the entire Dongzhou." "The current number of satellites is not enough." "It must be expanded to at least 6 times this number." In front of the console screen, looking through the actual operation data of the space power grid reported by the artificial intelligence. Su Wu quickly identified several key nodes in it. The power transmitted through multiple transfers by low-Earth orbit satellites. There will be a certain amount of additional loss in the process . Although the proportion is not large, the cumulative number is not a small number. There is also an upper limit on the number of goals for charging at the same time through the space power grid, which cannot exceed 100 at most. This number seems small, but it is not impossible to circumvent it. The simplest way is to install multiple small wireless power transmission devices at the terminal that receives power. For example, in a transport team, a beam of power is first received from the space power grid, and then distributed within the team. Due to the small wireless power transmission device, the maximum transmission distance reaches hundreds of kilometers. They can also be connected in series and connected to the grid. Therefore, in theory, all equipment that needs to be charged and is within hundreds of kilometers can be regarded as the same team. Finally, if you want to form a complete version of the space power grid, you need 66 special satellites. Otherwise, what Su Wu gets is a defective version that can only intermittently charge designated units on the ground. Although it is not unusable, the efficiency will inevitably be greatly reduced.