The huge new mobile base travels on the snowy field. Although its huge size brings various conveniences, it also affects its progress.
Although the original mobile base was also huge, it was only about the size of two train cars parked side by side. In today's world where everything is covered with thick snow, there is basically no obstacle to travel. of.
But after doubling its size, more considerations must be made about its traffic capacity.
At least there were places that the mobile base could drive through before, but now there are some places that the mobile base cannot pass through, and the requirements for the flatness of the ground have become higher.
The huge obstacle clearer in front of the car body continuously clears away the snow and makes the ground as smooth as possible. In this way, when the huge car body moves forward under the support of six rows of crawler tracks, it will not be affected by the terrain. Uneven force, causing unnecessary damage.
Although the size has enlarged, Chen Xin still adopts the crawler method of advancement.
It's just that the original four rows of eight crawlers have been changed to the current six rows and twelve crawlers, and the crawlers themselves have become wider and longer, able to distribute the weight they bear more evenly on the ground.
The huge crawler tracks made huge noises during operation, and were also constantly vibrating. However, fortunately, the mobile base itself has sufficient sound insulation design and shock absorption measures, so even in the vehicle garage at the bottom of the car body, , you can't hear much noise or feel much vibration.
However, if you open the garage door to the outside, there will still be loud noise coming in.
After the transformation, the mobile base has one more deck than the original. Except for the space that must accommodate the weather controller, the rest of this deck is designed as a personnel cabin. With the addition of the original personnel cabin, this can Bring everyone from the previous base with you.
It's just that the public space used as the canteen has obviously shrunk a lot, so that everyone has to divide into groups and line up when eating. There is no way for everyone to sit at the table to eat at the same time.
This kind of problem was expected by Chen Xin. Although it was indeed a design flaw, it was not an insurmountable flaw in general. After all, it was not unusual for the canteen to not be able to accommodate everyone at the same time.
This problem can be perfectly solved as long as everyone controls their meal times separately. The only thing that may need to be considered is that if all employees have a meeting, this public space may not be enough.
But in that case, we could use the hangar on the top deck.
Although about one-third of the top deck is occupied by weather controllers, the size of the hangar is still larger than the original hangar, and the take-off and landing platform protruding from the side has also been changed from the original capacity to accommodate four helicopters. There were six, half the original number.
It's just that although the hangar has been enlarged a lot, the number of helicopters carried has not been replenished, so the number of helicopters is still the same, making the hangar seem a bit empty.
Now from the hangar, what you see is no longer the empty top deck, the island command room and a lone naval gun. A huge microwave projection antenna is installed on the top deck, like a huge iron pot.
It's just that this pot can neither be used for cooking nor can it be used to hold things. It is used to project microwaves.
In this upgrade, Chen Xin also made adjustments to the original naval gun, upgrading it from a 130mm naval gun to a twin 150mm gun. In this way, it can fire special shells and project chemical agents to designated areas at a faster speed. It is much faster, and the response speed of the weather controller becomes faster.
The captain of the mobile base under his command was naturally very happy that the mobile base under his command had been upgraded. Although this meant that he had to become familiar with the new environment again, it did not affect his good mood.
Who wouldn't want to command a larger warship? If you can be the captain of an aircraft carrier, I’m afraid no one will want to continue to be the captain of a destroyer, right?
This joyful mood also made the captain want to complete his work better, and set new strict requirements for all operators on the mobile base, and even conducted several drills to simulate various situations. response.
I have to say that these soldiers are all good. Although they have not been familiar with the mobile base for a long time before, and now they have changed to a new environment, they quickly adapted to the new mobile base and made it operational in the shortest possible time. up and achieve 100% efficiency and functionality.
Chen Xin was naturally extremely satisfied with this situation. In the past few days after leaving Lucia, as the captain and operators became familiar with the entire mobile base, some minor problems and unreasonable points they raised were also revealed. It was solved with Chen Xin's upgrade.
Chen Xin even realized his idea on the mobile base when he last transformed the Land Cruiser into a mobile base, which was to add a small planting greenhouse to the mobile base.
This greenhouse is placed at the rear of the car body, and it looks like a piece protruding from the top deck to the second deck.
The interior of the greenhouse adopts a vertical planting model, which still draws on the technology of ecological greenhouses. It can carry a variety of crops and solve dietary problems for the crew on the mobile base.
However, the area of this greenhouse is not large, and the output is not much. Although it can solve the dietary problem, if the entire mobile base is focused on the output of this greenhouse, it is not enough. It still needs to be replenished from the outside.
The existence of the greenhouse only makes the mobile base more self-sustaining. Even if there is no external supply, it can still obtain a supply of fresh vegetables, so that the crew on the mobile base will not be trapped in the age of exploration due to lack of fresh vegetables. The crew also suffered from septicemia due to malnutrition.
In addition, Chen Xin also designated a small test area in a corner of the top hangar to conduct some necessary experiments, such as making special artillery shells filled with chemicals.
This test area is not permanent. After Chen Xin and the others return to China and evacuate the mobile base, it can be cleaned up. However, currently it needs to carry out the tasks of manufacturing special artillery shells and modifying the original ammunition.
After all, Chen Xin increased the caliber of the naval gun, but the original shells were no longer suitable, and all the ammunition needed to be reshaped.
Without Chen Xin, this batch of ammunition would of course not be usable, but with Chen Xin's system upgrade, this batch of ammunition would not go to waste.
The reason why he also made new special artillery shells on his way back to China is that Chen Xin planned to conduct several more activation tests of the weather controller on his way back to China to test the effect of the weather controller in different environments.
