Chapter 586 New Design Concept

Li Mingze's eyes lit up. Indeed, if drones were not restricted, the Empire could completely replace missiles with drones.

As soon as he finished speaking, a drone mothership in space began the experiment.

There were two types of drones participating in the experiment, one was a fully automatically controlled drone, and the other was a drone remotely controlled by a person.

Two of each type of drone began the experiment, one carrying ammunition and the other without ammunition.

A few minutes later, the results of the experiment were transmitted back to the laboratory. Among the four drones, the automatically controlled drone without ammunition could break the speed limit of one thousandth of the light beam.

Once equipped with ammunition, the speed of this drone will be limited to the maximum speed!

The same is true for drones remotely controlled by someone. They cannot break the speed limit after carrying ammunition.

On the other hand, the manned fighter jets on the other side can break this limit regardless of whether they are carrying ammunition or not.

"The experimental results are out. Only manned fighter jets can break the limit." Li Mingze sighed and said to everyone in the conference room.

"Your Majesty, in this case, we not only need to design new warships, we also need to update our aircraft carriers!" Lawrence suggested to Li Mingze after thinking for a moment.

"Okay, in addition to new warships, we also need to update our aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft."

"If you need any resources, just apply directly. All databases and materials of the empire are open to you!" Li Mingze turned and left the meeting room.

In the following days, Lawrence and a group of designers and scientists stayed together every day to discuss the design of new warships and weapons.

First, a new weapon design was proposed.

That is, if the range is no longer pursued, the caliber of the weapon can be greatly improved, and so is the power of the weapon. The design concept of the new weapon is to be able to sink the opponent's warship with one shot.

At the same time, according to the information left by the ancient civilization, the Zerg's warships are mainly composed of biological warships, and their recovery ability is extremely strong, so the shells fired do not need to pursue extreme armor-piercing ability.

The small wounds caused by the penetration of armor-piercing weapons can be quickly repaired by the Zerg's warships.

At this time, the rum bombs that were banned during the Earth period entered the eyes of scientists.

The Empire's new weapon is a rail accelerator cannon, but unlike previous rail accelerator cannons, it shortens the acceleration track while greatly expanding the diameter of the muzzle.

The barrel of an orbital accelerator cannon is now only fifteen meters long, but its diameter reaches three meters!

The design of the rum bullet has also been applied to the ammunition of this weapon. This new weapon, called the Crusher, uses bullet-style shells.

The head of the shell is not streamlined, but a hollow shape similar to the rum bullet, with sawtooth all around.

This shell will first pass through the acceleration track for acceleration, and the propulsion device at the tail will also ignite the moment it leaves the muzzle, allowing it to reach one thousandth of the speed of light after leaving the muzzle.

When this shell attacks a biological warship, it will first tear the opponent's armor, and then shoot the solid warhead in the shell into the body of the biological warship, and explode inside the warship at the same time. Moreover, this solid warhead also carries a special material that will burn when heated.

The warship that is hit will not only be physically hit, but also experience the feeling of thousands of degrees of high temperature burning in the body.

In this way, the wound area and destructive power will be much greater than ordinary solid warheads!

In addition, special bullets filled with antimatter have also been designed. This kind of warhead has enhanced armor-piercing ability. Once it penetrates the opponent's armor, it can release antimatter in the opponent's body.

Bang. After a burst of explosion, the warship hit will become fireworks

Shortly after these two shells were developed, Lawrence proposed a new warhead.

That is a crushing warhead assembled with hundreds of sawtooths made of ring world metal.

This warhead with a fusion reactor inside can provide a steady stream of energy for the sawtooth on the head, allowing this warhead to "wander" continuously in the body of the Zerg warship.

Use the "meat grinder" on its head to completely crush the fragile interior of the Zerg warship.

In the end, this shell can also directly detonate the reactor to create a small nuclear explosion.

After the design of the crusher weapon was completed, scientists began to design a new warship based on the characteristics of this weapon.

The previous design concept of focusing on frontal defense and attack has been abandoned. The new warship will focus on frontal and side defense, and all weapons will be located on both sides of the ship and on the upper and lower decks of the warship.

In this way, as long as a battle breaks out, the Empire's warships can maximize their combat effectiveness when they are in close combat with the enemy.

Weapons in the four directions of up, down, left, and right can attack enemies around at the same time, and even if the enemy is on one side of the warship, it can ensure that three-quarters of the weapons can attack the target.

In addition to this new weapon layout, the new Empire warships are also designed with rams. The triangular rams with a wide top and a narrow bottom will be plated with an additional layer of dimensional armor.

Once a collision is required, the new Empire warship can be inserted into the enemy's fleet like a spear.

In addition to these weapons, the high-rate close-in defense guns have also been thickened and shortened in caliber, and the original defense range of hundreds or thousands of kilometers has been reduced to two hundred kilometers. These close-in defense guns will also serve as anti-aircraft weapons.

The original Empire's beam weapons, electromagnetic rail weapons, and ballistic weapons have all disappeared on the newly designed warships.

The newly designed Imperial warship can be said to be designed entirely for close combat!

The new warship is the same as the Imperial Glory, with only a dormant compartment and a work compartment.

There is no living space or warehouse, and the size of the entire warship has been compressed to the extreme.

At the same time, the entire warship is streamlined as much as possible, without any extra edges and corners, in order to reduce the use of dimensional armor.

In addition to the new warship, the Empire's drone carrier has also been upgraded and redesigned.

The original drone is no longer suitable for the current battlefield, and the ordinary aircraft carrier that was originally abandoned by the Empire has been found again from the archives and upgraded.

The length of the newly designed aircraft carrier is ten kilometers, and the width is three kilometers.

The entire aircraft carrier can carry 20,000 carrier-based aircraft, and it is also responsible for providing supplies and repairs for the new warships.

Rather than an aircraft carrier, it is better to say that it is a comprehensive combat supply command ship.

Although its size makes it unable to equip dimensional armor, the Empire has designed a heavy armor of 300 meters thick and a shield comparable to that of a Titan.

According to the plan, each fleet will be composed of twelve new warships and three aircraft carriers. Once the enemy is discovered, the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carriers will attack first. When the enemy gets close, the new warships will engage in close combat, and the aircraft carriers will withdraw from the battlefield.