Chapter 346 Energy Unification and Logistics Upgrade
"It's still possible!"
When Xu Xingchen saw the result this time, he was stunned.
It would be fine if I had drawn additional cores for scientific research ships in the past, but this time I would have directly built the exclusive core of the warship corresponding to the ship girl!
This is equivalent to drawing in advance! Or similar to the game, the ship girl who is directly obtained through missions, such as Lexington and Warwear.
Xu Xingchen was of course particularly happy about this result. Who doesn’t like the big sister of the aircraft carrier to come directly?
There is no need to bet or guessing on the construction of the container. Now it is a surprise and locked in advance. Xu Xingchen wishes to build it immediately.
The situation in the Western Archipelago is unstable, and I dare not come forward to use their construction containers, so I still have to go back to my nest to build it to be stable, so I should go back.
Xu Xingchen looked at the result and the exclusive core. He was so stupid that he had a long time to think about a lot of things.
Finally, he carefully put the core away and looked at the analysis of the loot again.
"Since there are still rewards for ship girls... I can only draw these 20 times..."
"Continue to analyze!"
"The loot is being resolved..."
"Successful analysis: Obtaining early test electromagnetic weapon system."
"Ha! Is this... an electromagnetic cannon!"
Xu Xingchen immediately opened the details and quickly confirmed that the result was indeed an electromagnetic cannon.
It was the one who was tested on the Ocean Mountain landing ship, who was chubby and the camouflage plastic cloth on the construction site was still there.
Xu Xingchen was excited and carefully studied it, and soon confirmed that it was still a semi-finished product.
The Falcon Eagle is a verification machine and has been basically designed. If there are customers who need it, they will be able to enter the production testing process soon.
The electromagnetic gun is still far from mass production and service. It is just a test product for technical verification.
The emergence of these things also shows that the analysis of Level 4 loot is not just mass-produced equipment, but also the tested products that have been produced, and the semi-finished products and technology are also fine.
Back to the electromagnetic gun itself, as a semi-finished product, its current energy is still relatively low. If you pursue hypersonic speed, you will not be able to fire too heavy shells.
The energy conversion rate is also relatively low. If the shells are fired too large, too heavy or too fast, the heat will be very serious and the fire may not be able to fire continuously, or if two shots are fired, it will have to stop for a long time.
There are no suitable shells at present. The shells used for testing hypersonic strikes are temporarily solid. Kinetic energy strikes on tanks may be useful, but naval guns cannot.
And the size of the tank cannot supply the electrical energy required for hypersonic kinetic shells...
To make it practical, these three main problems must be solved.
Or give up pursuing hypersonic speed, just as an auxiliary launch and delivery device, used in places where there is no pursuing strike force, or in civilian use.
For example, it has actually been used in the fire brigade to deliver fire extinguishing agent to the fire area.
This is an application that just needs to be sent to the place without the need for strike force. There is no sonic boom at the moment when the fire is extinguished and the boom is released, which means that the speed does not exceed the speed of sound.
It is much safer and more energy-saving than traditional artillery launches.
The main reason is that the power of electromagnetic emission can be "increased in speed". It is not like traditional artillery. You can only use the increase or decrease of the launching medicine package to determine several large scales.
Moreover, low-power electromagnetic emission is a flame storm without a muzzle, which is safer in fire fighting.
It is obviously not difficult to convert the early electromagnetic cannon in your hand into an electromagnetic launch device that fires fire extinguishing bombs.
The question is, how to use it as a "cannon" in military use?
That is to at least achieve the power of traditional artillery, and then pursue the ideal of electromagnetic cannons as much as possible, and achieve "hypersonic" strikes above seven times the speed of sound.
If you support the capabilities of the Shinniang's scientific research system... maybe... maybe... it will be possible to make a big change...
Electromagnetic guns are a way to explore future technological routes and are still uncertain whether they are feasible. Unless directly related personnel are directly concerned, it is difficult to have an in-depth understanding.
Xu Xingchen tried to set up a scientific research plan based on this beta electromagnetic gun, use the system simulation function to check for himself, and confirm his goal difficulty.
First, check the requirements to tie the power of traditional artillery, and soon "feasible" results and "ordinary" research and development difficulties were obtained.
This made Xu Xingchen a little confused, so he carefully checked the instructions.
Among the simulation results, there are some very simple calculations that can intuitively see the basic logic, and then simulate the actual situation around these calculation results.
For modern 155mm artillery, the shell weight is usually around 50 kilograms, and the initial muzzle velocity is approximately 900 to 1100 meters per second.
Based on the compromised 1,000 meters per second, the kinetic energy of the muzzle is about 25 megajoules, while the current beta version of the electromagnetic gun can already stably maintain the kinetic energy of 32 megajoules.
As for energy supply, it is not a problem.
25 megajou is about 7 kilowatt-hours, and even according to the existing energy conversion rate of 75%, it only requires 9.3 kilowatt-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hours-hour
The current general gas turbine of Xu Xingchen Fleet, GT25000, has undergone a new round of improvements, and has added an intercooling cycle to become GT25000IC, and its maximum output power has also been directly increased to 40,000 kilowatts, equivalent to 54,400 horsepower.
With each gas turbine plus a power generation module, the maximum power generation per minute exceeds 660 degrees, which theoretically can supply the energy required for 70 emissions.
In fact, this scientific research task itself will increase the energy utilization rate of electromagnetic guns to more than 90%.
Then the electricity generated by a GT25000IC gas turbine can support a 155mm electromagnetic gun and fire 86 times per minute.
At the same time, under the same kinetic energy as traditional artillery, with a more uniform acceleration process than traditional artillery, the electromagnetic gun has a lower requirement for shells than traditional artillery. Therefore, there is no problem with the development of shells with the power of traditional artillery.
The 155mm cannon is no problem, and the smaller caliber cannon has a smaller kinetic energy, so the R&D will be even less problematic.
Therefore, the difficulties of this task goal are all focused on improving the accuracy and firing rate, improving adaptability and maintainability, improving energy utilization and intensiveness.
These difficulties are not the most difficult parts to overcome, especially for ship girls, which are easier to achieve than conventional ships of humans.
So the difficulty of this task is "normal".
Xu Xingchen was overjoyed and immediately raised his requirements and tried a hypersonic strike of seven times the speed of sound.
After the system simulation, it directly caused a "difficulty".
A 155mm shell needs 140 megajoules to accelerate to 7 times the speed of sound, while the limit of this test electromagnetic gun has just reached 64 megajoules.
This requires a large number of design modifications and a significant increase in energy supply.
Or limit the caliber to less than 115 mm, the bullet weight is controlled below 20 kilograms, and the kinetic energy of the muzzle is controlled below 60 megajou, so the difficulty of R&D will be reduced.
After a simple consideration, Xu Xingchen constructed two scientific research tasks.
One is the most basic conventional electromagnetic gun that requires the power of traditional naval guns, and the other is a hypersonic strike electromagnetic gun that achieves speeds of more than seven times the speed of sound.
First design the ordinary version of the product for mass production, now replace the traditional small and medium-caliber traditional artillery in your fleet, and then slowly develop a complete electromagnetic cannon.
Why does Xu Xingchen have such a pursuit? Is there any practical use of electromagnetic cannons that just match the power of traditional artillery?
For traditionally powered ships, it doesn’t make much sense to replace this ordinary version of electromagnetic gun, and additional logistics categories are added.
But if the platform is replaced with a fully-electric ship, the situation will be completely reversed.
At this time, traditional artillery is the additional logistics category. If you replace the electromagnetic cannon that equates the power of traditional artillery, you will directly reduce the logistics category.
The control and management system of electromagnetic guns is naturally unified with the integrated all-electric system, and does not require too many specialized personnel to be added.
The source of energy required by electromagnetic guns, as well as the power used for ship navigation and other equipment, is generated by fuel power in the fuel compartment, which achieves a larger range of energy unity.
There is no need to store launching medicine in the ammunition depot.
Moreover, the energy density and utilization rate of fuel are more than ten times that of explosives. While electromagnetic guns do not need to store launching drugs specifically, naval guns have more than ten times the launching capacity.
This kind of upgrade itself is not obvious, but it is a huge improvement for logistics, and wars are often a battle of logistics.
Therefore, the 055 without using the integrated full-electric system will certainly not be directly equipped with immature electromagnetic guns.
And 055, which has enabled the integrated full-electric system, will have a high probability of directly installing an electromagnetic gun.
Chapter completed!