Chapter 119 Good News from Natha
"Liu Shuai, this is the ultra-high-speed space patrol ship I designed for the military. It is 30 meters long, 10 meters wide, and 5 meters high. It is equipped with two nuclear fusion engines. I will temporarily call it the Young Dragon class."
Fan Ren liked the appearance of the spaceship he designed himself very much, and continued: "Let's compare it with the 2 million kilometers between the earth and Mars. At the speed of the Dragon class, it only takes 30 hours to go there and 35 hours to return.
It is designed to carry out high-speed patrols of outer space around our Earth, routes to and from the Moon, and even other routes in the future.
His two fusion engines, when fully fueled, can run at full speed for five years.”
Fan Ren stopped talking here. This was just a concept map he made with the help of a supercomputer. He didn't know much about the weapon system. So he had no idea whether it would be adopted in the end.
At this moment, he turned his head to look at Liu Shengzhan, and immediately discovered that the eagerness in the eyes of this military commander was as real as if it was revealed.
"Okay, okay, where are the weapons and systems? Mr. Qin, come and see what weapons can be equipped on it. Oh, and Fanren, quickly pull out the 3D diagram of the ship."
The old Qin he mentioned was the designer who had been in charge of the design of Daxia fighter jets. At this moment, he couldn't help but look at Fan Ren with anticipation.
The two engines only occupy the rear part of the battleship's body, about 1/5 of its volume, so the remaining large body must be used for a lot of purposes.
Upon hearing this, Fan Ren did not hesitate and immediately called up the interior design of the spacecraft.
In his vision, there should be an area in the ship's hull for a three-person combat team to take turns resting.
This area plus the cockpit will take up about 2/5 of the space, and the remaining half of the space can be used for other purposes.
"That's enough. According to this standard, we can fit nearly a hundred air-to-air missiles in there."
Mr. Qin understood the design drawing at a glance and laughed immediately.
"It is precisely because of the two nuclear fusion engines that this spacecraft will be able to fly within the Earth's atmosphere after it is completed. However, it still has no subsystem designed for ground landing."
Fan Ren said with a hint of regret that the overall mass of the spacecraft designed with tri-titanium alloy as the hull is very high. If a landing system is to be designed, it will inevitably take up a lot of space.
Whether it is vertical landing or runway taxiing landing, the former requires a gyroscope to stabilize the landing posture, and the latter requires the design of taxi wheels.
This is extremely uneconomical.
Besides, the current space hub will continue to expand in the future, and as many spacecraft docking ports as possible can be added by then.
With the speed of this spacecraft, it can reach any area over the earth within ten minutes.
With the space elevator, there is no need to design an additional spacecraft that can land on the earth.
This meeting lasted a very long time. After completing the design discussion of the Dragon-class weapon system, everyone relied on the Xinghai supercomputer to design a transport ship with manned transportation capabilities.
At Fanren's suggestion, the Ministry of Industry's cargo transport ships were named the 'Elephant Series' and the manned transport ships were named the 'Gale Series'.
The former had been designed long ago, while the latter was designed temporarily for this meeting.
After the design meeting that lasted for several days, Li Jiandong took the design drawings and settled down in the Xinghai Space Base with a group of designers.
It is very close to the Daxia Space City and the space elevator, and has all the high-tech industrial equipment in Xinghai.
The Mammoth series transport ships that were recently manufactured in the space hub were manufactured in sections at this base.
Next, they will complete the segmented construction of two spacecraft, the Dragon and the Wind, over a period of several months.
After that, it will be transported directly to the space elevator via ground transportation, and then sent to the space hub for assembly.
A few months later.
The United States, Nasa Space Base.
Roy sat in the command hall, and with a serious face he directed operators at all levels to carry out the final preparations for the rocket launch in an orderly manner.
As for the space rules statement previously issued by Daxia, he just ignored it. Although Daxia pushed its aircraft carrier fleet 2000 nautical miles to the east of the East China Sea, the . troops stationed in the South Island country were still stationed 500 kilometers east of Daxia.
In his eyes, Daxia was still the same as he remembered. When pushed into a corner, it would just show off its might but would not really take any tough action.
Look, hundreds of warships from the Belarusian side are conducting military exercises around that sea area.
There was no sign of any action from Daxia.
However, he habitually overlooked that before this, the United States' aircraft carriers were operated in the waters near Daxia, instead of being able to "show off their strength" only in the oceans as they are now.
On the base's display screen, all preparations have been completed and the Huntsman-9 rocket has entered launch mode.
Roy looked at the ship parameters one by one and nodded secretly in his heart.
Although Mark handed the entire rocket project department to Nathan, he did not do anything about it, and the rocket was in very good condition.
"10, 9, ignite!"
He issued a solemn order.
The Hunter-9 rocket immediately began to break away from its support frame, and after flames burst out from its tail, it began to slowly rise into the air.
"Damn Daxia, if we can use a space elevator, why would we need to go through so much trouble? Otherwise, the new space station would have been put into operation by now."
Roy cursed in his heart, he was really angry and had no choice.
The current space station must be transported into space by the Hunter-9, and astronauts will be sent out for a spacewalk to connect the subsystem, which is very troublesome.
It's not like the current Daxia, where all the segmented assembly work of the project is completed in the space hub, and then the complete body can be directly "thrown" into the predetermined orbit for operation.
In order to build this new space station, Nasa will continue to launch dozens of Hunter-9 rockets to transport other segments.
On the screen, the rocket had disappeared from the camera lens.
Roy threw down the microphone and left the rest of the command work to his subordinates. Now he had to report the good news to Wells.
Daxia Space Hub Command.
This is a huge building that has just been completed and is located outside the top of the hub.
Because of the special importance of the Space Force, Liu Shengzhan is currently serving as the commander-in-chief here.
For a long time to come, the command center will be temporarily responsible for the communication command and route management of all ships in space.
A small number of space force members under the military have already moved into the space hub base, awaiting orders at any time.
These space forces are all selected from previous military astronauts, and currently number around 200.
At this stage, a large part of them will be responsible for the driving and transportation of various types of ships in space.
A small number of them will be transferred to 24-hour combat forces to take charge of temporary tasks.
For example, there is a Dragon-class spacecraft docked at the port at this moment, which has just completed construction and assembly. There are three team members on it with solemn faces waiting for orders that may come at any time.
Not only Liu Shengzhan, but all the personnel, including the Space Force, are extremely passionate about the tasks they are currently engaged in.
This is an experience I've never had before.
(End of this chapter)
