Chapter 186: The All-new Young Dragon
Crisis Year 39
Jupiter-Mars Hub, Great Xia Space Force Branch.
Unlike the simple docking method at the hub port’s spaceship berths, the Space Force port design is more complex and specialized.
The port design here adopts the dock mode, with each dock equipped with automatic resupply configuration equipment.
Currently, the port docks are hosting 20 new-type spaceships just completed at the spaceship construction factory.
Unlike the original Young Dragon, the current upgraded Young Dragon uses silver-like super metal as the hull material.
Due to the upgrade in material strength, Xinghai Design Bureau had to enlarge the spaceship, increasing the original 2 nuclear fusion engines to 4.
As a result, the current Young Dragon has grown to 60 meters long, 20 meters wide, and 10 meters high, doubling the size of the initial model.
However, surprisingly, although the Young Dragon’s size has doubled, its current maneuverability and high-speed capability far surpass those of previous versions.
The current Young Dragon has a maximum speed of 3000 kilometers per second and is designed to withstand 350 Gs of acceleration gravity.
But it must use nano buffer to withstand this terrifying gravitational acceleration.
However, this nano buffer has still not been successfully developed, so although the current Young Dragon has very strong performance, it can only unleash all its capabilities under unmanned control for now.
But it’s not feasible yet. Although A’dai can access the Great Xia Space Force data link system, it can only issue precise command directives. On a real battlefield, combat personnel must manually pilot the spaceship to make the fastest combat responses at the first moment.
Therefore, although the current upgraded Young Dragon has strong performance, without the support of nano buffer, reaching 3000 kilometers per second still requires a lengthy 12 hours.
But this already far exceeds the performance of the former Young Dragon.
Li Jian stood on the distant plaza, his gaze fixed on the emerald green Young Dragon that had finished resupplying in front of him, his expression excited and uncontainable for a moment.
Qiming Base has been handed over to his old partner Shi Xianliang, and he has taken over as chief commander of the Huomu Hub Space Force Branch as colonel under Liu Shengzhan’s orders.
“Listen to my command, board the ship, perform pre-flight checks according to the training manual. A’dai, record every team member’s operational behavior for assessment.”
“Yes!”
The team members behind him erupted in a high-spirited response, then under the leadership of each ship captain, they boarded the ships with machine-like precision, every action meticulous.
Li Jian watched this scene very satisfied, but he did not linger here and turned to head to the command headquarters.
There is the latest battlefield simulation system developed by Xinghai Laboratory, which is more convenient for real-time grasp and understanding of the entire exercise battlefield.
Just one second before he arrived at the command headquarters, A’dai’s feedback came through.
“Boss Li, basically all completed the various checks and preparations within the stipulated time. Trained well.”
Hearing this, Li Jian smiled without paying attention to A’dai’s praise. These team members are elites carefully selected by Great Xia Military Headquarters. In the past, which one wasn’t a soldier king in their units? Now in the Space Force, surrounded by competitors of the same level, how could they not train with full effort?
The door opened, and after Li Jian stepped in, he went straight to the command position and skillfully put on the large helmet beside him.
Instantly, the scene before his eyes changed—this was the preset battlefield.
“I command, Qingluan Brigade, set sail immediately, head to the designated exercise area, and await further orders.”
With his order, the more than twenty emerald green Young Dragons in the dock began sliding out neatly and uniformly.
In today’s exercise, A’dai is only connected throughout in monitoring mode, with all operational processes handled by the Space Force on the spaceships.
In Li Jian’s helmet projection, twenty small screens instantly appeared. As long as he focused his gaze slightly on any screen, that one would quickly enlarge.
He did not scan them all at once but checked the interior cockpit situation of each spaceship one by one according to formation numbering.
However, after completing this process, he found no issues. Clearly, these Space Force personnel have long mastered the spaceship proficiently.
The screen switched, and the formation of 20 Young Dragons immediately formed four straight lines and began accelerating.
Li Jian knew this was footage from another unmanned monitoring ship piloted by A’dai.
“Qingluan Brigade expected to arrive at the battlefield in one hour.”
A’dai’s voice came through, while Li Jian continued shifting his view back to the cockpits, closely watching the team members’ operations at every moment.
This is the all-new Young Dragon remodeled by Great Xia over three years with countless manpower and resources, by over a hundred designers. For this exercise, 200 old-version Young Dragon spaceships are already ambushed at the designated battlefield.
The exercise will begin immediately once the new Young Dragons arrive at the battlefield.
The exercise rules are also simple: the 200 old-version Young Dragons will launch unrestricted, no-rules ambush attacks on Qingluan Brigade.
Simulating an encounter battle to test the overall combat performance of the new Young Dragon and the training quality of Qingluan Brigade.
At the same time, far away at Blue Star Hub, Space Force Headquarters, Liu Shengzhan and Fan Ren beside him were also watching this scene with anticipation.
Liu Shengzhan’s age seemed frozen, no longer aging.
Fan Ren knew this was the normal reaction after anti-aging treatment; 10 years have now passed.
This state will continue for another 10 years, and when time is up, his lifespan will once again march firmly toward aging.
“Kid, guess if Qingluan Brigade can retreat unscathed?”
Liu Shengzhan smiled and posed the question. Fan Ren answered without thinking: “Retreating unscathed is of course simple, but according to the exercise’s predetermined content, Qingluan Brigade must completely annihilate these 200 old-version Young Dragons, which is not so easy.”
“I think it’s possible. Performance leads comprehensively; in our previous fighter jet domain, this is already a generational gap battle.”
Fan Ren nodded. He didn’t understand combat much. He came to observe the exercise today mainly to collect various issues exposed in battle on-site, to make changes for future spaceship construction.
He didn’t care much about the result.
This batch of Young Dragons is just a practice product from Xinghai Design Bureau.
After so many years of development, Xinghai Laboratory now has many technologies on the verge of breakthrough, just waiting for results to adapt them one by one to spaceships built in the future.
That will be the time for truly large-scale Space Force development.
