Chapter 472: Shield Test
The research and development and manufacturing of the energy shield is very smooth, just as simple as it is natural.
After all, its main body is the curvature engine. You only need to install a shield generator on the spacecraft, guide the energy of the curvature engine, abort the jumping process and maintain the engine's operation state.
"In this way, will all spacecraft be able to use shields?" asked the military boss.
"It's true in theory!" Li Maoye replied.
"Can you add a limit on this so that the curvature engine on the warship can generate an energy shield?"
"This is not impossible, so you have to develop two curvature engines!"
After thinking about it for a while, Li Maoye understood the intentions of the military boss. In the future, the spacecraft of the Huajia family will definitely be equipped with a curvature engine, so the energy shield will not work as a secret weapon of the military.
At least in the past decade, energy shields must not be allowed to enter the civil market, and even equipment such as curvature engines that jump spaces through super-light speed must be strictly controlled.
"Or it's okay to reduce the power of civilian engines and shield strength!" the military boss suggested.
Li Maoye turned his neck and replied quickly: "That's even simpler. Just develop a special curvature engine and shield generator, and you can limit it through product equipment of different specifications..."
Simply put, this is the so-called castrated version of the curvature engine. As for how much it needs to be castrated, it depends on what range the military needs to limit it.
The bald boss said it simply, but for the R&D personnel below, this is simply a big problem. After all, the principle of the curvature engine is unknown to them, and no one can think of how to castrate and delete it.
The technical requirements required to be used in this are very huge, but it should not be difficult to achieve depending on the boss's statement.
"By the way, can the energy shield be miniaturized?" asked the military boss.
"Of course, do you want to use it on mechas and fighter jets?" Li Maoye immediately guessed the other party's idea. In fact, this castrated version of the curvature engine can continue to be castrated until it can be installed on mechas or fighter jets.
However, Li Maoye does not have the extra energy to develop such things now. Maybe he can leave it to other researchers to do it, but it may take a long time.
The military boss was satisfied when he learned that he could be miniaturized. As for when he could be done, he was not very anxious to ask for it right away.
The full version of the energy shield generator has been created. As for when to get the castrated version, there is no need to rush to do it. The key is to test it first.
The military bosses were very interested in this conceptual weapon and kept urging the Cattle Star Laboratory to take the samples for testing. Of course, the army would also send people to assist.
After confirming that the shield generator was not problematic after the last procedure, the flower plant finally entered the on-site testing stage. Instead, the flower planter did not place the test site in the solar system, but specifically asked the paving machine spacecraft to find a direction to jump, and then lay a teleportation point in the galaxy four or five light years away.
After confirming that there is no problem with the galaxy there, more than a dozen spacecraft were sent to this strange galaxy through teleportation orbits, and then conduct a practical test of the energy shield here.
The energy shield provided by the curvature engine is actually a space folding technology that can isolate the spacecraft from the real space, making the outside world almost zero in impact on the spacecraft.
However, this kind of energy shield also has a defense limit. Every time it is attacked by an outside world, it will affect the space according to different attack methods and strengths, and then feed it back to the curvature engine and shield generator. As long as it does not cause a sudden overload to break through the energy shield, theoretically this shield can withstand most attacks.
Generally speaking, the energy shield is immune to physical attacks, but cannot be immune to the attacks of energy weapons. Therefore, even if the energy shield cannot be penetrated through overload, the opponent's energy can be consumed through continuous attacks.
Even if the cold nuclear fusion technology is used to provide energy, the spacecraft's energy system will also have an energy supply limit, so each energy attack will cause the spacecraft's energy to decrease. When it drops from 100% to zero, it is when the energy shield fails.
After entering the formal test, the spacecraft equipped with an energy shield generator immediately activated the device, and the oval shield generator emitted light, and then a translucent yellow energy shield expanded outward with it as the center.
The time for energy shield to be generated is very short, and people who are very likely to feel that the shield passes through the body, and they also have not observed the process of its growth from small to large.
However, these scenes were all recorded by the scientific research observation ship next to them. Even though the high-frequency camera was unable to capture the moment when the shield was generated, people finally learned how the shield was generated through the data calculations in the instrument.
"The reactor is running stably!"
"The curvature engine works normally, and there is no space jump!"
"The shield generator is running stably, and its current energy is 100%!"
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The staff on the shield test spacecraft reported the situation one after another. After confirming that it was foolproof at the test headquarters, they entered the next test step.
I saw a space warship next to it turned its muzzle and fired an electromagnetic gun near the shield test spacecraft. According to calculations, it should be flying over the edge of the spacecraft. When it is not confirmed whether the shield function is normal, it is correct to be cautious.
Instead of looking at the shield test spacecraft in space, we stared at the instruments in front of us, or simply looked at the computer simulation process. Only by simulating the data collected by the instruments can people clearly see the process of the shield taking effect.
"Prepare! Launch!"
I saw that when the electromagnetic gun projectile approached the spacecraft shield, the projectile suddenly shone and flew over the edge of the spacecraft without any obstacles. Then when leaving the shield, the projectile also shone for a while, without any influence from the shield in the middle.
"Has the test failed?" asked someone on other spacecraft.
"I don't know, experts are analyzing the results!" someone replied.
In the scene just now, except for the projectile shining twice, the energy shield seemed to have been penetrated and did not have any resistance to it.
The staff on the Shield Test spacecraft submitted the data that had just been attacked. According to the instrument records on the spacecraft, when attacked by electromagnetic cannon projectiles, the energy shield did not react at all, and even the shield energy did not decrease.
"The shield is not in effect?"
"Maybe it? This is the first time to test anyway, so it's normal for some problems in the middle!"
Maybe this person wanted to express his optimism, but this surprised others. If the black technology product provided by the bald boss cannot pass the test in one go, he will be unlikely to throw it out.
According to an old employee of Miaoxing Laboratory, Academician Li will completely solve the problems and bugs before the product enters the test. Even if there is a problem during the test, it will be caused by the tester himself.
So the experts who tested with the team began to analyze where they did not do the right thing, and even removed the shield generator and reinstalled it to avoid the equipment line being wrong.
After some trouble, they still found no problems.
At this time, someone suggested: "Since there is no problem, the test is normal. If you are not sure, I suggest you aim directly at the rear of the test spacecraft this time to see if the shield will block the projectile!"
This suggestion is very bold, but it is based on the judgment that the bald boss will not make mistakes. It can make sense logically and is very convincing.
But if you really want to test, you still have to withdraw the humans on the shield test spacecraft, leaving only the intelligent AI robot to assist in the test.
This is nothing to do!
Now human space weapons are powerful. If the ability shield does not take effect, then there is a high probability that the spacecraft will be penetrated with one shot, and it may even destroy the spacecraft with one shot.
Since that's the case, safety first and test second.
First, withdraw the humans on the spacecraft to other spacecraft, and then order the intelligent robots on the spacecraft to turn on the shield generator, so that the entire spacecraft is surrounded by a light yellow translucent energy shield again.
After confirming that everyone had no problem, the outside world fired an electromagnetic cannon again. This time, it aimed at the body of the spacecraft. Although it was an unimportant stern, if it was hit by a shell, it would be sure to penetrate it. As for whether it would cause greater damage, no one dared to guarantee it.
The light from the muzzle flashed by, which was the light when the projectile accelerated to the extreme in the electromagnetic field and then flew towards the target at a speed that humans could not see.
I saw the projectile passing through half of the phantom, passing through the shield test spacecraft. Other phenomena were the same as the first test. The energy data on the spacecraft also showed that the attack had no effect at all.
"Look, have you seen it? Everyone!"
"The projectile actually passed through!"
"No wonder there is no impact at all. It turns out that the projectile and the space of the spacecraft do not overlap!"
Most of the experts who followed the test this time were from the Meow Star Laboratory. They studied the curvature engine for a long time. Even though they did not really understand the working principle, they also summarized many effective experiences.
Since the shield generator works through the curvature engine, it can use existing research inferences to explain the phenomenon in front of you. The key is that the bald boss also gave many tips.
"It must be the curvature engine that folded the space where the spacecraft is located. Although in our opinion, their positions overlapped when the projectiles hit the spacecraft, in fact, the two are in different spaces, so the magical scene just now happened!"
"Not only is the space of the spacecraft itself folded, but the space where the energy shield is located is folded, and this fold will make the spacecraft almost immune to all physical attacks!"
"At present, it seems that this is the only explanation!"
Everyone thinks that testing only once or twice is not enough. It is necessary to test it a few more times to obtain accurate data, so other spacecraft are also added to the test, and there is no limit on the spacecraft's location that will be attacked this time.
I saw a test spacecraft wrapped in a light yellow translucent energy shield. Under the siege of five warships, bright light kept shining on the surface of the shield. This was a phenomenon that occurred after the projectile and the energy shield overlapped.
According to the instrument data on the shield test spacecraft, the powerful electromagnetic gun has the least impact on the energy shield. Even if hundreds of projectiles are fired continuously, it cannot reduce the spacecraft's energy by one percent.
"There will definitely be loss of energy, but compared with the energy consumption of maintaining the energy shield, the attack of the electromagnetic gun is not even tickling!" experts concluded and analyzed.
No wonder the spacecraft is not afraid of colliding with space planets during curvature jump. It turns out that they are not in the same space at all. So when the spacecraft is jumping with curvature, they are not afraid of physical obstacles such as space dust, meteorites and asteroids.
"Physical attacks are almost immune!" the expert wrote in his notes.
However, this is just one of the steps in the testing stage, and there are still many attack methods that need to be tested, such as laser energy cannons. Judging from the data from all aspects, the energy shield will definitely be affected by the laser cannon.
In fact, this is true. When the shield test spacecraft was attacked by the laser cannon, the laser cannon was blocked by the energy shield and a blue light shines on the light yellow shield.
This time, the laser cannon did not penetrate the body like the electromagnetic cannon. It was completely blocked by the shield, leaving the spacecraft itself without any impact.
At the same time, the energy on the shield test spacecraft continued to fall, and when all the spacecraft were added to the attack test, the energy shield fell faster.
"Well, it can withstand very high-intensity laser cannon attacks!"
"Yes, according to the speed of the shield test's very energy drop, it will take a long time to overload the energy system even if the laser cannon attack power is increased by a hundred times..."
For such a long time, the spacecraft has been able to escape from the encirclement through curvature jumping, and even if it does not escape, it can make an effective counterattack. It is highly likely that it can counterattack the spacecraft that besieged itself.
"With the energy shield, it is difficult to destroy the spacecraft!" The experts said happily.
But in this way, the human space warship is not that the spear is stronger than the shield, but that it is completely reversed. The shield is far more powerful than the spear, allowing a spaceship with energy shield to massacre an ordinary space force!
"Continue to test other weapons?" the test supervisor said.
What we want to test this time is particle weapons. According to the views of weapon experts, particle weapons, like laser weapons, can cause damage to energy shields, but whether the attack effect is stronger than laser weapons must be tested before it can be determined.
"Particle weapon, launch!"
In the computer simulation screen, a ball of white light-like substance sprayed out from the muzzle of particle weapons. When it hits the energy shield, it shines like a laser cannon.
Under the attack of particle cannons of space warships, the shield test spacecraft was greatly affected. It can greatly reduce the shield energy and is much more efficient than the attack of laser cannons!
Chapter completed!