This is a new type of weapon that no one has ever thought of or used before. But Cheng Kaitian believes that, at least in terms of technology and resources, it is not difficult to manufacture such a weapon.
The name of this weapon was named by Cheng Kaitian, interstellar mine.
To put it bluntly, this kind of weapon is just a spherical bomb containing tens of grams of explosives, mixed with some aluminum powder and projectiles. Based on the performance of the explosives currently used, when such a bomb explodes, it can release about 300kj of energy.
The power of a single interstellar mine is not great. But what if... there were ten thousand of these mines? One million, ten million, or even one hundred million?
If it were possible to place a full 100 million interstellar mines roughly around the space base of a deep space civilization, make them orbit the deep space star together with the space base of the deep space civilization, and then equip these mines with collision and explosion devices, So, what happens?
This kind of thing makes Zhao Changxing very interesting just thinking about it.
There are too many interstellar mines, and it is unrealistic to destroy them one by one. Moreover, even if they are destroyed, their explosions will release a larger amount of "space junk", making the space environment more chaotic.
Their orbits are unstable, which means they don't behave in a steady manner. Some of them may be far away from the bases of deep space civilizations, and of course some of them may be close to these bases. And once you get close to the base, the collision and explosion device will take effect, and there will be a bang.
The most wonderful thing is that once surrounded by a cluster of interstellar mines, all space bases of deep space civilizations will lose all mobility. Because no matter whether they accelerate or decelerate, they will only hit more interstellar mines, detonate more interstellar mines, and cause themselves to perish faster.
All people need to do is to create a sufficient number of interstellar mines, then aim them in the general direction and drop them all.
Yes, it's that simple!
There is no need for remote control, no need for mutual coordination, no need for any defensive means, and no need for too high speeds. It is enough to directly let them occupy the space near the space bases of all deep space civilizations!
Among the three requirements of power, speed, and accuracy, the two requirements of speed and accuracy can be ignored. Because star mines don't need these two. And the power is completely sufficient.
From this point of view, in the overall strategic system formulated by Zhao Changxing and the War Commission members, this weapon can completely replace the ecological niche of combat spaceships in the system!
It should be pointed out that Zhao Changxing originally planned to create a sufficient number of interstellar mines to occupy all the near-Earth orbiting space around the deep space star. In this way, there is no need for the previous aiming and launching, and it is just like dumping garbage, dumping it towards the deep sky star.
But after simple calculations, Zhao Changxing had to give up this plan and instead adopted a model of only releasing clusters of interstellar mines around deep space civilization space bases.
On the deep space star, the bases of deep space civilizations are probably all gathered within a range of 70-90 kilometers from the surface. The total volume of this range of space is approximately 40 million cubic kilometers. If calculated based on the density of one interstellar mine per cubic meter, then a full 4 billion interstellar mines would be needed. If an interstellar mine has a mass of 100 grams, it would require 4 trillion tons of materials.
The mass of the entire space carrier is only on the order of more than 10 million tons.
There is no other way but to take the next best option. However, this solution must also achieve the same results.
Under Zhao Changxing's call, everyone in the space carrier was put into front-line production.
The space dock and machine factory roar all day long. Everyone in the space carrier was in a hurry.
Life now reminds Zhao Changxing of some assembly line factories long, long ago, when the earth was still a country.
Zhao Changxing feels that he has now become a piece-rate worker in an assembly line factory.
"How many did you make today?"
"103, how about you?"
"Sigh, I'm still not familiar with the process, so I only made 56 of them."
"You are too slow. Xiao Li made more than 300 today!"
"More than 300! Are these still human beings?"
"Today's mobile red flag must belong to Xiao Li."
"I heard that if you get the moving red flag once, you are eligible for third-class merit evaluation? If you get it more times, you will get second-class merit?"
"It seems so. The leader seems to be discussing with the commanders."
"Then you have to work harder."
Discussions like this are everywhere in the space carrier.
When this war comes to an end and humanity wins - if it can win, then everyone who participated in this war, whether front-line soldiers or logistics soldiers, can be sure to be real human heroes. After returning to Sedna, there will not only be supreme honor, but also a series of material rewards, such as contribution points, housing, etc.
If we choose the best among the best, there are four levels: third-class merit, second-class merit, first-class merit, and special merit. On the basis of the previous honorary title of "Hero of Humanity", more honors and rewards will be obtained. Especially special merit, which is destined to be written into the history books and be passed down to future generations for generations to come.
It's unthinkable to get special merit, but if you do well in piece-rate production in the assembly line and you can hope to get third-class or second-class merit, then the temptation will be too great.
Nothing to say, just do it.
In the midst of being busy all day long, with even Zhao Changxing struggling on the front line and getting a red flag, everyone's enthusiasm for production was mobilized. The highest single-person output data in a single day has also been refreshed repeatedly. When production finally ended, this number was even refreshed to more than 15,000.
Of course, there are factors such as process optimization, greatly improved automation, and familiarity with production, but the number of 15,000 still shocked most people, and they were regarded as gods for a while.
During this production period of more than 100 days, excluding those soldiers who had already sacrificed their lives, the remaining 400 people produced a total of approximately 200 million space mines. At this moment, they are all stored in the warehouse.
At this point, all people need to do is the last step. That is, drop these interstellar mines next to the target.
Regarding the delivery method, Zhao Changxing and the committee members once again conducted a detailed and thorough discussion, and finally decided to adopt the plan of moving the space carrier forward again, and then relying on combat spacecraft to complete the final step of delivery.
This plan is basically the only feasible plan that can be adopted at this stage.
When being dropped, the combat spaceship will accelerate itself to the appropriate speed and direction, then immediately brake and slow down, and at the same time open the ammunition bay door. Therefore, under the action of inertia, the interstellar mines will move on their own. Get out and finally enter the orbit around the deep sky star.
The combat spacecraft can carry about 50 tons of mass at a time, which is about 500,000 interstellar mines. At this moment, each of the 12 combat spacecraft remaining needs to fly about 30 times in total to complete the entire launch.
After finalizing the delivery plan, the space carrier began maneuvering again.
Its main engine and attitude adjustment engine once again entered full power operation mode, pushing the space carrier, which had been greatly slimmed down, but still huge and bulky, to start moving towards the predetermined location.
Just when the maneuver had been going on for several days and was about to be halfway completed, Zhao Changxing once again felt the same vibration he had felt before. This made him frown again.
A support staff member from the engineering team rushed in.
"Leader, the main axis of the space carrier has once again suffered unexpected damage! If we continue to accelerate, the support axis of the circle may break!"
Um? !
Everyone became nervous. Everyone's eyes once again focused on Zhao Changxing.
People know very well that if they stop accelerating the space carrier now, although they can now use combat spacecraft to deliver interstellar mines, this will lead to a greatly extended time interval between different batches of launches, which may affect the overall combat effectiveness.
But if we continue to accelerate, what should we do if the support shaft of the spacecraft circle really breaks?
Zhao Changxing thought quickly and quickly weighed the pros and cons.
"Keep accelerating!" Zhao Changxing stood up, "Everyone put on spacesuits and be prepared if the support shaft of the circle breaks and causes subsequent disasters! The emergency repair team will come to me immediately!"
Between ensuring combat effectiveness and ensuring the safety of the aerospace carrier, Zhao Changxing chose the former.
The significance of this war was too great, and Zhao Changxing did not allow anything to hold him back.
We must ensure that the release time interval is within the range, even if the space carrier is damaged, we will not care. Anyway, if the war fails, people like myself will not be able to escape!
The only thing that needs to be prayed for now is that the main shaft and support shaft of the space carrier can hold up and not break before maneuvering to the predetermined location. When the maneuver reaches the target, love can be as bad as it is!
People put on their spacesuits as quickly as possible, prepared to withstand subsequent disasters, and in silence began to pray that the space carrier could survive this period of time.
Time passed slowly in the heaviness. During this period, every once in a while, people could hear the clicking and cracking sounds that seemed to herald ominousness. It wasn't until a few days later that the maneuver ended and people recovered.
The scheduled location has been reached and subsequent delivery can be carried out.
At this time, the engineering team found Zhao Changxing again.
"Leader, the cause of the spindle problem has been found out! This is a quality problem! Several properties of the special steel that make up the spindle are three thousandths worse than what is required in the planning drawings! This is a man-made disaster!"
The engineering team member gritted his teeth and was full of anger.
"boom!"
Zhao Changxing stood up with a slap on the table, his expression as cold as ice.
