Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 485 War and Technology

Of course, the leader of the Red Flame Civilization knew about the assault on the mothership. He had also participated in the new military weapons seminar.

In the imagination of weapons experts, as long as they have magnetic miniaturization technology, they can move the magnetic thrust to small spacecrafts, and these small spacecrafts are designed with small mass, large acceleration, and large bomb capacity.

This is specially designed so that the flagship of Earth's civilization can enter an overload state.

In fact, the weapons experts of the Red Flame Civilization originally wanted to install magnetic pushers on electromagnetic gun shells and turn them into electromagnetic gun missiles, but they were obviously out of their minds. Even if the magnetic pushers were miniaturized, they would not be that small.

So they could only settle for the next best thing and design a small unmanned assault spacecraft, which can also be called a small assault ship.

Since it is designed for human flagships, in addition to the basic fuel tanks of magnetic propulsion, the rest of this small assault ship is all ultra-micro nanorobots.

Under the pressure of war, the research centers of Chiyan Civilization are leaning towards the military industry. It is precisely because of this sense of urgency that they have unleashed their previously unimaginable potential. Under this background, the magnetic miniaturization technology was put on the fast track from the original slow research, making the technology that was originally said to be possible in one or two hundred years to be achieved fifty years earlier.

War has undoubtedly brought endless pain to civilization, causing tragic scenes of loss of life. However, in some cases, it will also promote the development of technology.

Of course, it is not all science and technology, but some manifestations of the national concentration of science and technology development resources due to necessity. The basis of this progress is still the basic science and technology of this civilization, and at the expense of lagging development in other aspects.

There is a saying that scientific and technological development is a double-edged sword. Although war is not a real catalyst for scientific and technological development, the fruits of scientific and technological development are often used preferentially by war, and instead become a catalyst for war.

Similarly, the human side has also made corresponding changes in the construction of new warships. It’s not that the Red Flame Civilization was known to humans before they developed magnetic miniaturization, but that humans reflected on the results and tactics of their own fleets after fighting many battles with the Red Flame Civilization.

This relationship has been like this in human history, and it is still the same among alien civilizations in today's Starry Sky, just as the Red Flame civilization has increased its efforts to promote the research of magnetic miniaturization technology in order to win the war.

Such as the accidental discovery of gunpowder in human history.

Therefore, among the newly built warships, in addition to the engineering motherships dedicated to maintenance, humans also added dedicated battleships for raids, which humans called assault ships.

As Yue Yuan mentioned before, the structure of human warships is too simple and cannot handle various emergencies in war, especially when there are some special tasks, emergency maintenance and the like.

The word "small" is not added in front. That is because humans have not mastered the technology of magnetic miniaturization at all. Not only that, unlike the Red Flame Civilization, which has a main civilization here, there are not many people in this star galaxy who have begun to study magnetism. Pushing for miniaturization is out of the question.

The difference between it and today's Red Flame civilization, and even various technologies in human history that have made great efforts to support the development due to the needs of war, is just unintentional and intentional.

Therefore, humans have to find another way and work hard on design.

The assault ship will be designed as a single electromagnetic railgun main gun type warship. At the same time, the type of artillery shells will also abandon the nanorobot warhead and replace all with armor-piercing hydrogen bomb warheads.

This design is naturally aimed at the new battleships of the Red Flame Civilization. The armor of the new battleships of the Red Flame Civilization is made of human alloy No. 1. Human micro nanorobots can indeed disintegrate, but the technology of ultra-micro nanorobots is not as good as their counterparts. Under such circumstances, the efficiency of this kind of artillery warhead is very slow. It is better to directly use armor-piercing projectiles to penetrate the enemy ship's armor and then explode internally.

It just so happened that when humans originally sold Alloy No. 1 to the Nair civilization, they specifically developed this kind of armor-piercing projectile. In addition, in order to meet the high acceleration flexibility requirements of the assault ship, the assault ship also directly abandoned the nano-repair robot in the design, and the fuel depot was also reduced as much as possible. It was basically a one-time warship design.

Even the armor does not use No. 2 alloy, an alloy material that is difficult to produce, and instead uses No. 1 alloy, which has a higher production volume.

The corresponding tactic is to use the battleship to cover, and then let the assault ships fight in close combat, trying to exchange one assault ship for one of the enemy's battleships. This is enough.

On the surface, it's a one-for-one exchange, but in terms of production costs, humans have the advantage.

In fact, humans have also thought about building an assault carrier and then mounting small assault ships on the assault carrier. This point is similar to that of Chiyan Civilization, but there is no magnetic miniaturization technology.

This is the core technology that can turn the assault carrier concept into reality. Without magnetic miniaturization, using the propulsion technology of traditional secondary civilizations, it is impossible for small assault ships to catch up with the opponent's warships.

The Red Flame Civilization only proposed this plan after miniaturization of magnetic push became possible. Of course, that was fifty years later.

Now faced with such a situation, mankind can only work hard on optimizing the fleet structure and improving production capacity. The last time the First Fleet failed to capture the opponent's second planetary base in one battle, it proved that mankind needed to make changes.

It can also be seen from past wars that wars are not static, but will make corresponding adjustments as the war develops, as new technologies emerge and new problems are discovered.

If this war really goes on for fifty years, humans will naturally see how the Red Flame civilization uses small magnetic propulsion technology on the battlefield, and come up with countermeasures in the future.

Similarly, during the battle, the two sides will gradually understand the technology mastered by the other party as time goes by, and then find ways to master the other party's technology.

Reverse engineering by salvaging the wreckage of the opponent's warships and other means is possible among civilizations of the same level. Of course, this requires a long process and more advanced computer technology than the other party.

Time flies, and twenty years have passed by without even realizing it.

During this period, mankind relied on the high-efficiency production of abundant resources and strong artificial intelligence in the four bases to create seven million assault ships and four million battleships.

It was also in this year that another large-scale battle broke out between the two sides. It was also the human side that took the initiative, led by the Second Fleet, to attack the second planetary base of the Red Flame Civilization.

In this battle, Chiyan Civilization was surprised to find that they were able to achieve a 1:1 battle loss ratio with human warships. However, the surprise did not last long, because they discovered that the number of human warships was basically equal to theirs, and their numerical advantage in warships was reversed this year.

When this news reached their main civilization, the top leaders of the Red Flame Civilization realized that they really could not defeat the earth's civilization. However, they did not give up. Instead, they narrowed the defense line again and focused all defense on the core star field, hoping to delay it for another thirty years.

As the saying goes, thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. When the magnetic miniaturization technology is realized in thirty years, it will be time for them to turn the tide of the war.

(End of this chapter)