The legend of Tiga

Chapter 2172: The Big Stage of the Universe

Although one of mankind's feet has stepped into the cosmic age.

However, missiles, a weapon born in the gunpowder age, have not been eliminated by the wide variety of electromagnetic weapons and laser weapons. Instead, they have been reborn with the emergence of the black technology Max power system.

p=mv!

This is the law of conservation of momentum that must be followed at scales as high as the speed of light and as small as molecules and atoms.

The weapons developed from this also follow the rule that the higher the kinetic energy, the greater the destructive power.

A small bullet can penetrate a concrete wall; a small meteorite can create a crater a hundred times larger than itself. Its destructive power comes from the unparalleled kinetic energy brought by its super-fast speed.

This is also the reason why electromagnetic weapons are so powerful. They use magnetic fields to accelerate projectiles to dozens of Mach in a very short time, thereby giving them extremely terrifying kinetic energy, enough to penetrate a mountain with one shot.

Originally, the development of human weapons should be gunpowder weapons, electromagnetic weapons, and energy weapons.
However, the emergence of the Max power system made military experts suddenly realize that there is no need for an electromagnetic gun.

If you replace the missile's warhead with a hard alloy and the tail engine with a Max engine, wouldn't it be an electromagnetic gun?

Moreover, there is no need for bulky electromagnetic accelerators and power reactors, nor for complex pipelines. All it takes is a slight modification of the missile to produce a "super electromagnetic" gun that is large in size, fast in speed, and capable of active trajectory change and guidance.

After all, the destructive power of the electromagnetic gun's projectile comes from its speed. Once the speed of the missile catches up with the electromagnetic projectile, there is no difference between it and the electromagnetic gun. Moreover, the biggest feature of the missile is its flexibility. It can even maneuver at the end. This alone can leave the electromagnetic gun behind by ten miles. Moreover, since the missile has its own engine, it can continue to accelerate and change trajectory after being launched, making it perfect for dealing with long-range, movable targets.

Moreover, the universe is very empty. Without the complex surface and echoes of planets, the end search is more efficient. It is equivalent to an empty field or a city with tall buildings. It is obvious at a glance which one is easier to search for the target.

As for why not use electromagnetics first and then the engine?

Well.
how to say?

A similar idea has appeared before, that is, gun-launched missiles.

The precision guidance technology is organically combined with the tank gun to add long-range precision strike capability to the original characteristics of fast response and strong firepower.

It has been praised in many ways, so why did no one mention it anymore?
The reason is simple, this thing can be used to cheat people out of money and it is practical.

First of all, whether it is the guidance system or the tail jet engine that can be installed in the gun barrel, they are all extremely precise instruments and very delicate. When the gun is fired, it will generate huge boring pressure, which places extremely high requirements on these instruments. High requirements mean high costs.

Let's put it this way, one artillery-launched missile is equivalent to thirty or forty ordinary armor-piercing shells, but because it requires space to install the guidance system, its power is even lower than that of ordinary artillery shells, and the attack range is increased from two or three kilometers to four or five kilometers. This range is even worse than some mortars, let alone heavy artillery.

In terms of mobility, range, power, etc., rocket launchers are far superior to their predecessors, and have completely relegated artillery-launched missiles to the garbage dump.

The same reason applies to the elimination of electromagnetic guns. Laser weapons are far superior to electromagnetic guns in every aspect. As long as energy weapons can be developed, no one will use electromagnetic weapons.

The reason why the missile is still used by TPC is not because it is advanced enough, but because it is cost-effective.

Therefore, the warheads of TPC's new missiles have basically abandoned explosives and instead use hard alloys. They then hit the meteorites at super-fast speeds, using terrifying kinetic energy to smash the meteorites, which are basically fixed in orbit, and at the same time offset the kinetic energy of the meteorites.

You know what, the destructive power is not just a little bit higher than that of explosives of the same volume, but ten, a hundred, or even a thousand times higher.

This is the power of kinetic energy.

An asteroid with a diameter of ten kilometers, hitting the Earth with a diameter of more than ten thousand kilometers, can cause devastating damage to the surface ecological environment, all thanks to its speed.

The latest New Max missile can accelerate the missile to Mach 100,000 in the universe, then shut down the New Max engine at the end and move forward by inertia until it hits the target, or change trajectory midway to track the target.

In other words, the New Max missile only needs energy for acceleration and trajectory change, which is quite economical. The only expensive thing is the New Max engine. But this is not a problem, because the biggest difference between missiles and rockets is that missiles are not staged, so it is better to make a staged one. Thus, the New Max missile with a two-stage rocket design came into being.

After the acceleration phase, the rocket body separates, the upper warhead continues to move forward, and the lower power unit separates. People are then sent to recover it and continue to use it after inspection.

how to say?

genius!

have a thought!
Anyway, after listening to the explanation of Stationmaster Yamazaki, Chiba Makoto was completely shocked.

What kind of imagination can come up with such an idea?

It's like how to stand an egg upright. The answer is to tap it.

It's simple, but it requires thought.

Anyway, before hearing the answer, Chiba Makoto had never thought that he could reduce costs by abandoning expensive engines.

The reason for doing this is very simple. The main task of this missile is to deal with meteorites, not space wars, so naturally people can be sent to leisurely recover the engine.

Of course, such an expensive missile is definitely not used to deal with ordinary meteorites that drift naturally into the inner solar system, but rather accelerated meteorites thrown by aliens or monsters.

This type of meteorite is characterized by suddenness and high speed.

Suddenness means a sudden change in orbit without any sign. By the time you notice it, it has already hit you straight on, and its speed is much faster than that of ordinary meteorites. If you use ordinary missiles, even if it is destroyed, the distance is too close, and a large amount of fragments will turn into dense meteorites and hit you, causing damage to the ground.

Of course, the new Max missile also shoulders the heavy burden of "armor stacking", which is to verify the special theory of relativity that the greater the speed and the greater the mass, the more it can be superimposed with the law of inertia, thus achieving the effect that the greater the speed and the greater the mass, the greater the kinetic energy.

If this is the case, then once the speed is infinitely close to the speed of light, its mass is also equivalent to infinity, and the kinetic energy is infinite squared, then what kind of damage will be caused?
This is beyond human imagination, but it has to be studied.

After all, humans have plasma astronauts, a means of travel that can reach or even exceed the speed of light. The power systems used by aliens who can reach Earth are probably more advanced and faster, and their weapon systems must be stronger. Well, although no alien has "future weapons" so far, they basically use various types of monsters, or even fight themselves, but this is probably related to the fact that most aliens who come to Earth are "retail investors".

But this does not prevent humans from worrying about this, so exploring the sub-light speed and light speed fields has naturally become a top priority for humans, and has maintained high investment for several consecutive years.
Sub-light-speed kinetic missiles are the only good output at present.

Just like now, after three kinetic missiles hit this asteroid weighing hundreds of millions of tons, the huge inertia caused the more than 50-meter-long missile body to be instantly squeezed into iron sheet.

Almost at the same time, the asteroid, which was much larger than the missile, sank into a huge hole at the impact site, and countless long and wide cracks spread in all directions, extending toward the back at an extremely fast speed. Before the cracks collided at the back, a mountain hundreds of meters high suddenly rose up opposite the impact point, and then exploded like a lit firework.

Countless fragments flew around like exploding fireworks, followed by an asteroid that was shattered by countless cracks. From a single piece with a diameter of several thousand meters, it became billions of pieces of various sizes, just like a broken apple, with most of them flying backwards and a small part rushing forward. It really looked like an exploding firework, except that the 'sparks' were made up of gravel.

w(0Д0)w!

The scene was truly spectacular and the effect was indeed excellent.

I fully realized the concept of a bird hitting a plane. I smashed a "plane" with just the price of a chicken.

As expected, weapons are not outdated, it just depends on whether they are suitable for use.

Just like the crossbow, it is an old thing from thousands of years ago, but it can be very effective in specific scenarios such as infiltration.

"Great!"

Fudoken, who was sitting in the front seat, was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth as he watched the asteroid being shattered into pieces.

If such a large asteroid falls to the ground, it will definitely destroy the ecological environment on the surface. This is how the dinosaurs died tens of millions of years ago. However, TPC only used three missiles to smash it, which fully demonstrates the power of TPC. As human beings, we are proud of it.

The missile's mission was accomplished, and now it was time for him to show his prowess.

Fudo Ken rubbed his hands together and immediately rushed out in his plane. He began to target the larger fragments one by one, using lasers and missiles to blow them into smaller pieces.

"So, it's just a meteorite."

Chiba Makoto muttered to himself and kept observing the outside, but he did not sense anything unusual until the missile hit the asteroid and both were shattered to pieces.

Now, Ken Fudo began to 'call the roll', using laser cannons to blast potentially threatening large meteorites into smaller fragments. This way, even if small pieces of debris drifted near the space station or into the orbit of a spacecraft, the automatic close-in defense system would be able to deal with it.

Within a few minutes, the Super Victory Team intervened in the regional communication channel and arrived at the asteroid belt. After understanding the situation on the scene, they also joined the "cleaning" team to blow up those large meteorites that might pose a threat.

As a result, the asteroid belt, which had been dark all year round, suddenly bloomed with flowers of fire. Although they were fleeting, they were extremely brilliant.

Soon, all the meteorites with a diameter greater than 30 meters that originally covered the radar screen were cleared away, leaving only the largest piece of debris with a diameter of more than 500 meters, rolling away.

The reason for leaving it to the end is to ensure that nothing goes wrong.

Such a large piece needs to be carefully calculated and exploded into as many pieces as possible.

After all, this is in the universe, and the explosion will give the fragments kinetic energy, making them move faster. That is to say, if the explosion is not enough to break them into pieces, you will need to chase the fragments and "shoot them again."

This is a troublesome task, as it requires adjusting the speed and angle of the aircraft according to the trajectory of the debris and then launching the attack. Each piece of debris takes about a minute.

In just seven or eight seconds, the onboard detector collected enough data for the main computer to make a judgment, giving the attack location, the speed and angle at which to attack, and also providing the attack intensity as a reference.

"Let's go together." Kibi Kosuke said in the communication channel, "Smash it."

"understand!"

Fudoken responded immediately, and then flew towards the rolling asteroid in front with the Super Victory Team.

"Prepare!"

Two Victory Condors with identical paint jobs but different hull numbers swooped over from the left and right. The halo on the heads-up display screen enveloped the asteroid, and the Neomax power system began to output energy, which was continuously transported along the pipelines, causing all the laser emission ports on the two Victory Condors to light up.

When the energy accumulated to the maximum and the asteroid rolled to the predetermined launch position, the two Victory Condors simultaneously launched their strongest attack - the Victory Tornado Thunder.

Using Max energy, although the caliber is not as good as the real Max cannon, its power should not be underestimated. Just one shot can destroy the asteroid.
Ok?
Kibi Tsunade, who was waiting for the huge rock of several hundred meters in size to explode, narrowed his eyes, because he found that after the tornado hit the asteroid, it did not explode as expected, but was shrinking instead.

Yes, it's contraction.

Tornado Thunder, as the name suggests, is three different colored energy rays that rotate and intertwine into one, and then attack the enemy like a tornado.

But the tornado became smaller and smaller after hitting the asteroid.

Moreover, the two tornadoes came from two directions, but after hitting the asteroid, they seemed to be attracted to each other and gathered into one beam.
Disappeared!
Yes, it just disappeared.

There was no explosion, no annihilation. The tornado and thunder that was powerful enough to destroy a mountain disappeared silently after hitting the asteroid.

Our eyes may be misleading, but the onboard detectors clearly show that the energy intensity at the asteroid drops precipitously.

It's like there is a bottomless pit. No matter how much energy is pumped into it, it will never come back out without even a splash.

this.
what's the situation?
"Stop attacking, stop attacking."

Although he didn't know why, Kibi Kousuke quickly stopped the attack.

Not only would the Victory Eagle be drained if it continued to attack like this, but because so much energy was released without causing an explosion, it must have been absorbed and stored.

(End of this chapter)