Voyage of the Stars

Chapter 60 Callisto Ship
Unmanned detection cannot be completed overnight, so Yue Yuan first went to inspect military technology.

Yue Yuan first learned about the situation with engineers and technicians, and then went to the office in charge of Gao Kun to meet with Gao Kun.

Gao Kun still looks fat and chubby. God knows how humans' daily diet of energy bars keeps him fat. He just looks dozens of years older than he did on Callisto.

Seeing Yue Yuan suddenly arrive in his office, Gao Kun suddenly jumped up from his office chair: "Chief, why are you here?"

"Sit down, I'm here to learn about the battleship construction situation." Yue Yuan pressed his hand, indicating to Gao Kun not to be nervous.

"Oh, I'm about to go to the construction site. If the general manager wants to know the situation, why don't we go and have a look?" Gao Kun did not sit down, but left his desk and made such a suggestion to Yue Yuan.

"Chief, you have a meeting on military technology at three o'clock in the afternoon." Long Xiaolin, who came with him, reminded.

"No need to wait until three o'clock. Send them a notice that the meeting location will be temporarily changed to the shipyard's on-site observation deck, and the time will be advanced half an hour." Yue Yuan said, taking the lead to walk out of the office.

Long Xiaolin followed the instructions and sent a change notice to all participants, and at the same time followed Yue Yuan to the observation deck of the dock site.

Because this new shipyard is built based on an asteroid, to go to the shipyard observation deck, you must take a transport boat from the Hope to the shipyard in a higher orbit.

The construction of battleships does not require a space dock as large as the Hope, nor does it require so many resources, so humans who have the resources of four asteroids can meet their construction needs after mining them for a period of time.

When Yue Yuan and Gao Kun came to the dock observation deck, this small space dock had already been built.Now looking from the observation deck to the working area, we can already see the prototype of the battleship keel laying.

Before the on-site meeting started, Gao Kun pointed at the busy transport robots in the dock and introduced them to Yue Yuan.

"Chief, this warship was designed based on the drawings of that year. The finished ship is 712 meters long, 406 meters wide, and 305 meters high. The designed unladen weight is 81 tons. The rear of the ship is equipped with two nuclear fission engines. The upper and lower sides of the bow are Arrange two vector steering thrusters.
The bow of the ship is equipped with a plasma main gun, a secondary electromagnetic gun, eight beam cannons on the left and right wings, twelve missile launchers, a considerable number of various types of torpedo launchers, as well as Guards guns and Guards lasers. .”

Plasma cannon, also known as plasma cannon, is a weapon that uses lasers to heat heavy hydrogen to millions of degrees Celsius to turn it into a plasma state. It then uses electromagnetic technology to wrap the charged particles and shoot them out to destroy the target.

Strictly speaking, it can also be regarded as an electromagnetic gun. After all, it uses electromagnetic technology, but the so-called electromagnetic gun fires alloy warheads.

Gao Kun finished introducing the general configuration of the battleship, and then began to talk about the structure of the battleship.

Yue Yuan, who knew the importance of military power, listened very carefully, because this unfinished warship is the representative of the highest military force for mankind at present.

From the overview of battleships to battleship weapon defense systems, to battleship materials and structures, Gao Kun spoke in great detail in his areas of expertise, without feeling nervous at all.

“This Callisto ship adopts a movable concealed bridge design. When entering battle, the bridge can be moved into the center of the battleship for hidden protection, so that the captain, commander, technicians, etc. on the bridge can get better protection. Protect"

Callisto - the name of this unfinished warship. "You mean, under normal circumstances, the people on the ship can still watch the scenery outside through the bridge?" Long Xiaolin on the side suddenly asked curiously, as if he was thinking about something wonderful.

to see the scenery?
Gao Kun was stunned. As a designer, he had never thought about looking at the scenery.

So he looked at Long Xiaolin who didn't know what he was thinking. He was about to say no, but suddenly he felt that it was okay.

"It can be regarded as having this function. Soldiers are also human beings. It is good to relax occasionally during non-war times." Gao Kun thought for a moment, but did not say anything that he had not thought about at the time.

However, Yue Yuan raised his eyebrows and said leisurely: "What do you mean by 'also'? If it is, it is, if it is not, it is not."

"Uh, this,"

Seeing Yue Yuan speak, Gao Kun expressed the original intention of such a design with an embarrassed look on his face: "Commander, the primary purpose of the movable bridge is not to see the scenery, but to deal with the blindness of the bridge caused by the destruction of the sensors outside the ship during combat. Condition."

"If the bridge located in the center of the battleship loses its battlefield view because the shipboard radar and various off-ship sensors are destroyed, then the movable bridge can be moved back to the bow so that the personnel on the bridge can regain their battlefield view."

Hearing what Gao Kun said, Yue Yuan originally wanted to say something unnecessary, because in terms of practicality, it is really not as good as a fixed concealed type, and he felt that when the external sensors and radars of the ship were destroyed, it is estimated that the battleship It was about to be scrapped. It was a miracle that the crew on the ship survived at this time. They were still thinking about how to continue fighting. Shouldn't they be thinking about how to escape from the battlefield?
After all, there are so few humans.

But since he himself had never seen a real interstellar war, he thought about it and let it go.

After being slightly embarrassed, Gao Kun continued to talk.

"Chief Commander, after the keel frame design is completed, the next step is to install the main transverse bulkhead and the fission reactor foundation. This is the second step in the construction of the warship. It is very important and will take about two months.

The third step is to install the main longitudinal bulkhead.Then comes the installation of side frame segments and middle hull protection, followed by the installation of bow and stern armor protection and bridge movable mechanisms.
The sixth step is. And the seventh step becomes the ninth and tenth step of installing the inner bulkhead partition alloy plate."

"Step No. 14 is the highlight. This requires the military industry department to keep up, because Step No. 14 is the installation of various important components of the main gun stack.
After completing the 22-step mooring equipment installation, it is estimated that it has been used for three and a half years. At this time, a series of comprehensive tests such as warship micro-motion trials and air tightness tests will have to be carried out.

After all the above tests are passed, it is time to install the final part of the warship, including the installation of various auxiliary weapon systems, surface radars, antennas, etc.
This warship requires a total of 33 construction steps from laying the keel to completion, and each one is indispensable, so four years is already very fast. "

Listening to Gao Kun's story, Yue Yuan couldn't help but sigh at the complexity of warship construction.

The Callisto ship is more than twice as long as the aircraft carrier, but with today's level of human automation, it actually takes four years.

But he still feels that four years is too long. Unfortunately, this is already the ultimate speed of human beings. If he wants to speed up shipbuilding again, he must make another breakthrough in intelligent AI technology, so that more and more powerful systems can be used in the shipbuilding process. Smart intelligent robot.

(End of this chapter)