MTL - Darkness is Coming-Chapter 743 Sword Master Heaven (Part 2) (Thanks to Immortal Legend

In fact, the weapon concept proposed by Yu Qian was proposed by the US federal military weapons experts as early as the 1980s. Because the design inspiration of this concept came from the widely circulated "accident" (a column of frozen urine falling from an airplane bathroom) smashing women and throwing a coin to kill pedestrians on the top floor of the Empire State Building are purely false stories), so they did not attract attention.

However, at the beginning of this century, the international anti-nuclear wave became more and more high. Especially after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, people from various countries talked about nuclear disarmament. In response to the possible nuclear disarmament, the US military began to develop a space-based platform called "God's Rod". Kinetic weapon system.

The so-called rod of God is a cylinder made of tungsten, titanium or uranium metal with a weight of several tons, and then a small rocket is used to boost and free fall, so that the high-density metal rod has huge kinetic energy during the falling process, and it is used in the satellite. Under precise guidance, the metal rod can hit the target at ultra-high speed.

This is a new type of strategic deterrent weapon that can carry out precise strikes on high-value strategic targets. In the description of American military experts, it has a wide range of strikes, short response time, strong defense breaking ability, strong survivability, and low environmental pollution. Advantages, but also in the anti-nuclear trend to occupy the humanitarian initiative.

  However, the rod of God, which has so many advantages, has not been able to receive a large amount of research funding, and has been used by the United States as a smoke bomb for the arms race, which only serves to confuse opponents.

  Why this? In the final analysis, there is only one reason: the so-called space-based kinetic energy weapon system sounds high-end and atmospheric, but it has many drawbacks.

Although there is no infrared signal when the Rod of God is launched in theory, the radar cross section is very small, and it is difficult to detect and give early warning. The weapon medium is high temperature resistant metal, which is difficult to intercept...

but! The manufacturing cost of the rod of God is extremely high, the cost performance is extremely low, and the unexpectedness is extremely high!

First of all, the metal rod rubs violently with the atmosphere during the falling process, which will not only reduce the speed, but also affect the accuracy of falling. Taking a tungsten rod as an example, to accelerate a tungsten rod with a weight of several tons to the expected speed during the falling process, it is necessary to A booster rocket must be used for acceleration, and the fuel that needs to be consumed during the fall may be heavier than the tungsten rod itself, and to put so much fuel into satellite orbit, the launch cost will increase several times.

Secondly, satellites are not stationary objects. If the satellite is far away from the target when a strategic strike is required, it needs to maneuver into a suitable orbit through orbital transfer, which requires a lot of time and fuel, unless the US federal government can launch a complete satellite with a global strike surface coverage. Internet, otherwise the so-called "suitable for hitting time-sensitive targets" is just a lie to defraud research funds.

In addition, although the rod of God in satellite orbit can avoid the range of aircraft and conventional missiles, it is still a target within reach in front of high-orbit anti-satellite rockets from China, the Russian Federation and other countries, so this weapon system is practical. It does not have the security that the media boasted about.

Finally, the striking effect of the Rod of God is completely unknown, and simulation experiments cannot be carried out without collecting the specific values ​​of important strategic targets of various countries. If the Rod of God is too fast, it is likely to hit a deep spot on the target like a bullet passing through a wooden board. Small holes cannot cause enough damage to large buildings, and if the rod of God is too slow, it may not be able to destroy the wartime command center located several hundred meters underground. In other words, the Rod of God is actually an unstable, uncontrollable, and uneconomical weapon.

   But when this weapon concept is combined with Yu Qian's ability to enchant God, it will have a completely different effect. If coupled with the help of Zero One Base, it will produce earth-shaking changes.

  Precision guidance is extremely difficult? Not a problem at all.

Even if the thermal protection coating and thermal control system cannot guarantee that the projectile will not be damaged by friction with the air after entering the atmosphere, even if the friction generates extremely high heat and causes damage to the internal precision electronic components, kick wear or disintegration, even if the projectile is bound to be affected by the air. Affected by uncertain factors such as flow and density differences, even if the projectile has no tail correction and no terminal guidance, there are still projectiles that Yu Qian can control.

   Coupled with the simulation operation of Zero One Base, Yu Qian only needs to move his finger while watching the three-dimensional electronic map and the pictures taken by the reconnaissance satellite, and then he can fine-tune the projectile so that it can accurately land on the target area.

   The damage cannot be controlled? It is also not a problem. With the cooperation of Zero One Base and Yu Qian, after the space-based kinetic energy weapon system is on the satellite orbit, it only needs to conduct a few experiments, and Zero One can simulate the whole process of the next strategic strike based on the experimental data. .

Of course, if this is the only case, then the cost performance of this weapon system is still not high. With today's space transportation system, the cost of sending high-quality metal rods into orbit will be astronomical. The return received is very limited. Unless Yuanjiu will contribute its own funds, it will be difficult for Yang Xiaoqian to convince the National Aerospace System to spend a lot of money to build this space-based weapon system for Yu Qian.

But Yu Qian's ability is by no means limited to this. Since Yu Qian can control his metal with spiritual sense at a super long distance, after installing a booster rocket with strong thrust and sufficient fuel, the metal rod running in the satellite orbit can not only be able to Strike on the ground, but also strike at satellites and space stations!

   With the existing technology, it is impossible for any satellite launched by any country or organization to evade or intercept this fatal blow!

   In other words, as long as this concept weapon can be put into orbit, then the survival of satellites of various countries depends on modesty!

  If you want to live, you will live, if you want to die, you will die!

   And what does it mean for the satellite to be destroyed? The founder of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics once said, "If we lose communications satellites, there's not much bandwidth left."

Once the long-distance communication satellite is destroyed, the burden of long-distance communication will only be borne by submarine cables and land-based communication systems, which will severely damage the country's communication capabilities, and ordinary citizens will become "deaf" who cannot use the Internet, TV or even radio. and "blind".

From a military point of view, although most military communications do not use or rely on satellite systems, after the loss of satellites, all tasks in the country must be carried out through non-satellite means, and the precision guidance capability of conventional missiles is almost completely lost, which cannot be fulfilled. The air dominance of the ground strike force is equivalent to nothingness.

   Even the first powerful country like the United States will be as weak as a baby once it loses all its satellites and faces the unscathed China.

   Therefore, Yu Qian's "sword" may not always point to the ground.

   When his eyes turned to the sky, he raised his hand and the sword mastered the sky!