Chapter 285: Long-range Ammunition
Ross 154 planetary system, hidden base.
Fan Ren was fully encased from head to toe in a set of anti-radiation nano-coat.
If an expert were here, they could even observe that this generation of nano-coat has eliminated the ‘big backpack’ oxygen backpack that used to need to be carried on the back.
Among most civilizations in the Galactic Alliance, it is obvious that the scientists of Human Civilization are extremely fortunate.
Under the leadership of Fan Ren and a group of young committee members, the Human Civilization Committee attaches great importance to the all-round development of technology.
To this end, they do not hesitate to lease dozens of resource satellites and asteroids in the Solar System to the Hans Civilization in exchange for sufficient revenue, thereby providing blood transfusion to the scientific research departments in various industries of their civilization.
As a reward, although these scientists still cannot elevate a series of products to the average level of similar products in the Starfield Market.
But in terms of nanoscience alone, such as the nano-coat equipment that every carbon-based organism must use, the technology of Human Civilization is fully sufficient to meet their daily needs.
Just like the latest generation of nano-coat on Fan Ren’s body, developed by the engineers of Human Civilization, it can now fully rely on absorbing oxygen molecules from the external atmosphere to provide the ‘oxygen’ needed by the body.
Moreover, this nano-coat can also be set to absorb and store oxygen molecules, allowing continuous use for a period of time in a vacuum environment.
However, compared to the 24-hour usage cycle of similar products on the Starfield Market, this nano-coat can currently only provide 5 hours of oxygen storage for carbon-based organisms.
But this is fully sufficient for the workers of Humanity engaged in space operations in most cases.
In this aspect alone, those nanoscience engineers who are busy day and night on the front line have saved a large amount of funds for Human Civilization in procurement of materials.
At this moment, Fan Ren held his breath in concentration, his gaze fixed on an ultra-long electromagnetic rail equipment under the nearly transparent high-molecular partition in the test chamber.
“Boss, the entire assembly process has been carried out according to standards. If your structure diagram is correct, according to my calculations, there should be no accidents, and the improvement in effective range is absolutely guaranteed.”
A’dai’s confident words came through his ear.
Hearing this, Fan Ren smiled without responding. Over these years, he had basically no doubts about the system’s strength.
But in the last large-scale technology unlock, the system only provided the basic content related to electromagnetic physics.
However, combined with the unlocked content from other disciplines, Fan Ren gained the confidence to tackle the electromagnetic railgun, which had always been only a close-combat killer.
Before this, the electromagnetic railgun, as a kinetic weapon, due to the speed of its ammunition exiting the barrel, would experience a significant drop in accuracy for ammunition once the range was extended to 200 kilometers when facing high-speed moving targets.
This also meant that super-large battleships like the Punisher, when engaging in combat against ships of the same level, could only pull the range to within 200 kilometers for close combat, allowing their equipped large-caliber railguns to exert full strength.
In contrast, the laser weapon technology released by the Five Great Super Alliances has a much greater advantage in this aspect.
Laser weapons use photons as carriers, with speed at the speed of light. Even at distances of thousands of kilometers, the emitted laser can instantly reach the target and cause damage.
According to public information, the effective range of laser weapons is within 10,000 kilometers.
Beyond this distance, their laser power will decline due to various environmental factors in the universe.
For high-energy laser weapons, this power decline due to environmental reasons will result in a catastrophic outcome, completely losing effectiveness beyond range.
However, this weapon system, currently ranked first in performance and power in the Galactic Alliance, is not widely used among various civilizations due to its high cost and the enormous demand for the ship’s overall power during firing.
In contrast, among low-level civilizations, chemical energy missiles mainly using high energy density propellants, with their tracking capability and ultra-long range, paired with traditional chemical energy explosives, along with their low price and minimal need to consider the ship’s overall power system, have instead become the mainstream weapon system in low-level civilizations.
As the saying goes, an inch longer, an inch stronger.
Space combat is the same.
Even in Fan Ren’s vision, the main combat method of the Azure Phoenix Legion in the future will revolve around the themes of speed and invisibility.
But after all, that is centered around the existence of the Conqueror, with combat methods mainly focused on stealthy approach and inducement delivery.
Apart from that, under conventional combat conditions excluding the Conqueror, many times they can only engage by direct approach or by relying on super high speed mobility to close in.
But in doing so, the same problem as in the previous pursuit battle with the Hans Civilization’s expeditionary force cannot be avoided.
That is, during the pursuit process, due to insufficient range, a large amount of ineffective battle damage to the fleet when exceeding the range.
And now, what Fan Ren is testing is a type of ammunition developed based on his use of the relevant knowledge from the system’s unlocked primary graviton physics, which can perform locking and tracking using the gravitational signature after target lock.
This ammunition uses a built-in chip, which before launch can link with the ship’s locking system via the chip to obtain the gravitational signature of the locked target.
It is not possible to accelerate the ammunition with gravity; gravity is constant under unchanged mass of the substance, unless in warp drive situations, it cannot achieve the effect of increasing gravity to accelerate ammunition in conventional cases.
But the addition of this chip can lock onto the gravitational signature of the target body, thereby achieving continuous locking and tracking of the target through gravitational positioning.
This is the first point.
The second point is the change in the ammunition material itself; first, the redesign of the ammunition structure, and the rest is the most important change.
This type of ammunition incorporates a trace amount of super-eating ore that can form an interconnected relationship with gravitons.
It is precisely thanks to this ore that this type of ammunition, during the super high speed launch process, can use the enemy ship gravitational information locked by the chip to perform locking and tracking at the gravitational level, micro-adjusting its own trajectory to precisely hit high-speed moving targets at ultra-long ranges without weakening kinetic power.
Once this ammunition testing succeeds, according to Fan Ren’s preset standards, for the 800 mm caliber electromagnetic railgun used on battleship platforms, it can achieve pinpoint attacks with 5000 km fixed-point tracking and no error.
‘Buzz’
In vacuum, the firing of the electromagnetic railgun, due to the absence of atmosphere, does not produce the imagined huge sound during the launch process.
A slight vibration comes from the resonance reaction produced when the ammunition slides out of the rail at 10% speed of light during the electromagnetic rail acceleration process.
