Chapter 280: Child of Light
On the basis of the Moby Dick-class airship, the Israeli military-industrial complex has developed a new high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. It has rotors like the Pisces crane, as well as a tail that increases speed, and overall, the fuselage has become flatter and more streamlined, so it can fly to an altitude of 10,000 meters and reach speeds of up to 200 kilometers per hour.
At present, there is no aircraft capable of posing a threat to such a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft. On the very day the war was declared, Beluga whale reconnaissance planes began taking off from military bases in California, Oregon and Washington states to spy over the United States.
The major cities in the western part of the United States today are mainly small towns along the Pacific Railroad, so the focus of reconnaissance is on this major artery of the Midwest. President Lincoln received the military information of the high-altitude reconnaissance plane on the West Coast and immediately asked the Department of Defense to rush to work out a conscription plan.
At the same time, Lincoln also wondered, as if intelligence showed that the East India Company did not have an obvious conscription plan, whether it was India, Malaya, Israel, the Soviet Union, Brazil, Germany, Japan, which had been the East India Company's thugs, Italy, which still maintained Downing's private army, and the puppet states Poland and Lithuania.
Could it be that the East India Company was so confident that it did not need a new mobilization to fight the United States? But when you think about the recently exposed Robocop, a chill rises in Lincoln's heart......
Reconnaissance had already begun on the Western Front, and on the Eastern Front it was clearly the task of the German ** regiment. In order to cross the Atlantic at high speed, after more than a year of research and development, the wing-ground effect aircraft with a payload of 1,400 tons was successfully born in Hamburg, which will be responsible for surprise attacks on the most developed eastern cities in the United States, such as New York, Philadelphia, Boston, etc.
At 6,100 kilometers from Hamburg to New York, a wing-to-ground aircraft with a speed of 500 kilometers per hour can reach the battlefield in about 12 hours. It can be said that this monster-class aircraft has taken the place of an aircraft carrier.
The offshore hydrogen refueling station, which provides a strong supply for wing-to-ground effect aircraft, also immediately stepped out of the real room and was deployed in the North Atlantic. They will use the solar, wind, and seawater temperature difference energy of the Atlantic Ocean to provide a steady stream of fuel for the wingers, and they will be a fishing platform and vegetable cultivation ground, so they can supply most of the food.
There will be a supply station every 500 kilometers, stretching from Hamburg to a distance of 1,500 kilometers from Boston, a safe distance that will ensure that the supply station will not be attacked by the US military. If the ground effect aircraft came to this distance, it would be able to hit the American city in three hours.
Unfortunately, the speed of such a sea supply station is only 30 kilometers per hour, and it will take at least a week to deploy all the way to a distance of 4,500 kilometers. Downing's regret was actually a miraculous speed in Lincoln's opinion, and it would take at least a few months for Americans to recruit soldiers, and the United States never liked to prepare too many standing troops.
Washington urgently conscripted troops while appealing to potential allies to intervene, but even the most likely allies, the former Southern brothers, did not dare to respond, although President Davis was re-elected as president because of his success, but his strategic thinking was more confused, and when he saw the stock market plummeting, he immediately retreated, leaving his brother country isolated.
France was scolded by the whole country, strongly condemning Windsor imperialism, Napoleon III was very pleased, it is best that the people of the whole country hate Windsor to death, so that the claws of Windsor imperialism can not reach France, of course, the official is to publicize the disadvantages of Windsor while not daring to take any military action, for fear that the German ** team does not have to go on an expedition, and directly hits his home.
The Russians are biting dogs that don't bark, quietly peddling weapons to the United States and France in moderate diplomatic rhetoric, and their engineers miraculously invented an assault rifle similar to the AK47, which came from the Russian arsenal, hence the real name K1. It is very famous in military circles, and after its launch, it has attracted the attention of all parties. In this regard, the Americans are inferior, the Americans focus on the development of hydraulic cannons, the current technology has been close to the level of the artillery used by the Middle East India Company in the previous war, and combined with the Russian K1 assault rifle, the confidence of the US Army has greatly increased.
Of course, history is advancing, and air defense forces are also particularly important, therefore, the United States, France, and Russia have jointly developed helicopters and anti-aircraft guns, and in terms of helicopters, because fuel cell engine technology cannot break through, their attack helicopters are comprehensively backward in terms of performance, and it is estimated that they will have to rely on anti-aircraft guns after giving their opponents a surprise.
However, the high-altitude reconnaissance plane, which is equipped with a rotor to increase the lifting force, is not within the range of anti-aircraft guns, which worries the US military. If there is no positioning function, the effectiveness of the reconnaissance aircraft will be greatly reduced, so the military built a YƬ immediately shut down all the launch towers of AT&T.
Lincoln was a man of decisive decision, and immediately issued a decisive military order in the protests of congressmen, and the military took over the AT&T in full. As a result, the war is bound to start, and the New York stock market continues to plummet, which is already miserable.
This move of the US military was really powerful, and it immediately decided to rebuild the positioning system, which will slow down the progress of the war. The specific plan is to build a launch tower at a commanding height in an uninhabited mountainous area and send the air force to protect it. Many of these towers are in the United States, which is equivalent to the first battle of the war is the offensive and defensive battle of the towers.
The US military has the advantage of being at home and can send a large number of ground troops, while it has the advantage of the air force and can set up launch towers on hills behind enemy lines at will. The fierce contest between the two sides shows that the Americans have a good grasp of the strategic use of radiolocation.
Hey, there is really no way to take the Americans, it seems that if you want to build a high-reliability positioning system, you can only ...... It's on the satellite. It is almost impossible to build a reliable liquid hydrogen rocket with existing technology, so Downing did not plan to do this in the first place.
If you still engrave it, as mentioned in the previous flare, metal fuel is used. In the same way, metals, especially aluminum powder, which has been manufactured in large quantities, can be used as fuel for solid-state rockets, and in space without air, it needs its own oxidizer, which is ammonium perchlorate, a small amount of iron oxide can be used as a catalyst, plus some polymers that bind it all together, their ratio is repeated and their combustion is not as tyrannical as liquid hydrogen, so it is quite stable.
This selection has saved n detours for the development of rocket technology. At the same time, Downing's personal participation in the project obtained terrifying resources, and he had already gone to California to develop solid-state rockets, and everyone thought that he was going to California to supervise the war. In fact, his interest was not in the war at all, but in the various technologies behind the war.
The project has not been moved, the test platform first, this has always been Downing's style, it has planned four platforms for the rocket project that can withstand huge thrust, to test the four boosters of the R1 rocket, as long as they can output smoothly at the same time, the core technology is considered to be mastered.
In order to dynamically adjust the direction of the rocket to eliminate external influences such as air resistance and gravity, the four thrusters must be able to rotate at a slight angle, which is a difficult task in the case of ultra-high propulsion.
That is to say, the fuel and oxidizer of the solid-state rocket are fixed, but the catalyst is dynamically provided, so that the power output can be adjusted in the final stage, and indirectly increase or decrease the thrust of a certain thruster, and the effect is the same as rotating the thruster.
The overall thrust of an ordinary solid-state rocket weighing 500 tons can launch a 2-ton satellite into a synchronous satellite orbit, so satellite launch is always so expensive, although Tang Tuhao is not bad for money, but saving money is his habit, he has a way to launch a 2-ton satellite into a synchronous orbit with only 2 tons of fuel.
The answer to black technology is to use air. There's no better way to do this than a laser, which can be launched from the ground to a vehicle, which is designed to be a parabola that concentrates the energy of the laser in one point and can quickly heat the air to a point hotter than the surface of the sun, resulting in a huge explosive expansion.
And the use of expansive air thrust should also be exquisite, a plurality of convergence points form a ring, the center of the ring is an awl shape, the expansion ring can produce a huge propulsion force by pulling this awl hard, and the node energy of the ring is not uniform, so that the rotating force can be generated, so that the laser carrier rotates rapidly to maintain balance.
This time, instead of using the scary ruby red visible light as a laser, a much cheaper carbon dioxide laser medium can be excited to produce an infrared laser that is invisible to the human eye, so as to reduce the risk of exposure to black technology.
The advantage of laser thruster is that it can provide energy on the ground, and the disadvantage is that it needs air, so when it reaches the edge of the atmosphere 30 kilometers away, the thruster will inevitably be Microsoft, and then the solid-state rocket comes in handy, at this time the earth's gravity is not so strong, and the air resistance is also weak, so the solid-state rocket is much easier to send the satellite for a ride.
The two thruster projects were developing at the same time, and when Downing came up with a laser thruster that could make a kilogram of something fly several meters high, most of the engineers didn't know what the boss was doing, and they were about to fight with the Americans, why were they still playing?
Laser thrusters are making progress every day, and soon, the ten-kilogram thing can fly to a height of tens of meters and automatically balance and adjust its direction under a controllable annular force, fly hundreds of meters away, and then fly back to the original point and land safely, and the engineers speculated: "Is the boss going to use this thing to drop a bombshell at the Yankees?" ā
The room is filled with all kinds of transitional products, one kilogram, two kilograms, 4, 8, 16 ...... If someone who doesn't know why suddenly breaks in, there will be an extremely strange feeling, a sense of foreboding. In short, this is never meant to be a toy.
Downing also devised a mobile strategy for the gradual increase in the size of the laser emitters, all of which were deployed on a heavy truck and connected to California's powerful power grid, and in the end heavy trucks and lasers were not a problem, and California's power grid began to struggle. (http:/ļ¼ļ¼ć Wing-to-ground aircraft urgently brought windmills and perovskite solar panels from all over the world to compensate for the power consumed by the ultra-high-power lasers.
California's surge in power equipment was discovered, but they only thought it was a sign of increased military production.
In the future, these laser thrusters will be deployed all over the world, so Downing also asked the countries in the sphere of influence to increase the deployment of power equipment in advance, just 24 time zones need a launch site. They are all off the beaten track, Zone A: near Kampala, Uganda; Zone B: Somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula; Zone C: An Israeli oil city in the Persian Gulf; Zones D, E and F: within India; Zone G; Malaya; Area H: Loess Plateau, Shanxi; Zone I: Western Siberia.
Zones K, L and M: Eastern Siberia; Zones X & W: Alaska; Zone V: Washington State; Zone U: California; Zone S: Colombia; Zone Q: The Great Savannah of Cerrado, Brazil; Zone P: Eastern Brazil. There are some time zones where countries don't have friendships, or they are in the ocean, then there is no way, in short, Downing has planned 19 places that have skyrocketed power networks, all of which have the potential to become satellite launch sites, and when the time comes, as long as the heavy trucks carrying laser launchers are pulled within reach of the grid, they can use the powerful power.