Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 438 Sending Qinglong Aircraft Carrier into Space
Zhong Cheng's words poured a basin of cold water on Lu Yao's head.

He muttered to himself in disappointment: "How could this be?"

Only now did he realize the seriousness of the situation.

At present, it is no longer a matter of considering whether the rebels can be solved in a short period of time to prevent the rebels from occupying the asteroid belt and directly threatening the earth.

The federation has reached the moment of life and death!
The Vesta air battle caused the Federation to lose its space fleet and completely lost the initiative in the war. Now it can only be passively beaten.

Zhong Cheng didn't want to hit Lu Yao again, and comforted him: "As long as we survive these three or four months, the situation will improve after the formation of the Federation's Second Fleet is completed."

Lu Yao was unmoved, and said worriedly: "Then what will we do in the past few months? Without the suppression of firepower from large space battleships, the ground defenses are fixed targets one by one, and this won't last long."

Lu Yao is also a smart person, and after Zhong Cheng understood it, he also wanted to understand the key point.

In this regard, Zhong Cheng had already come up with a solution on the way to Haicheng.

He said: "The starship bases of Tiangong City and Yinghuo City have delivered 36 small and medium-sized space battleships and are ready to be delivered to the Second Fleet. What we lack now is large space battleships."

Lu Yao's eyes lit up, and he came up with an idea, "If the basalt spaceship is converted into a space battleship, will the time be faster?"

Zhong Cheng dispelled his idea at once, "We can't play with the lives of soldiers like the rebels, and refitting civilian spaceships will take up the dock, and it will take more than three or four months."

Lu Yao had no choice but to look at Zhong Cheng.

Zhong Cheng reminded: "Have you forgotten? We still have five big guys that are not inferior to large space battleships!"

"Yup!"

Lu Yao patted his thigh, "Qinglong Aircraft Carrier! We still have five Qinglong Aircraft Carriers. These are real war fortresses!"

But then Lu Yao became worried again, "But the Qinglong aircraft carrier is an aircraft in the atmosphere, how to get them into space? And are they suitable for space combat?"

The federal president is also the nominal commander-in-chief of the federal armed forces, and Lu Yao has done some research on the federal strategic deterrent weapon.

Zhong Cheng said with a smile: "Since I was able to get the Qinglong aircraft carrier into the sky, now I have a way to get them into space!"

"Qinglong aircraft carrier performs strategic cruise missions at an altitude of 100 kilometers for a long time. The internal life support system is not much different from that of space warships. Its shell armor and weaponry can be used for space operations with a little modification."

"Although the Qinglong aircraft carrier's maximum take-off weight of 20 tons is not as good as the Kunpeng-class space battleship, it is much stronger than the Yinglong-class space cruiser. It can be used as the main battleship of the space fleet!"

Hearing this, Lu Yao was overjoyed. With five Qinglong aircraft carriers and more than 60 small and medium-sized space battleships, a new space fleet can be formed. Although the defense line of the asteroid belt may not be completely defended, at least Ceres can be kept. up.

Zhong Cheng continued: "However, I suggest that it is best to leave a Qinglong aircraft carrier in the earth's atmosphere. The Qinglong aircraft carrier has all flown away. I am afraid that some petty people will have to think carefully again!"

Lu Yao also felt that it made sense, and the two discussed it and decided to keep the first Qinglong aircraft carrier Xuanyuan.

As the first ship of Qinglong aircraft carrier, Xuanyuan has great historical significance. If there is any accident, it will not only be sorry for the predecessors who paid for it, but also cause very bad influence.

It will take about a month for the four Qinglong aircraft carriers to be sent into space and refitted, and Zhong Cheng personally supervises the process.

As for how to settle down the federal high-level, unify opinions, mobilize the Qinglong aircraft carrier and implement the new strategy of shrinking the defense line in the asteroid belt and switching from offense to defense, that is a headache for Lu Yao.

Zhong Cheng rushed back to Beishan that night and called Zhou Hu, Zhao Wei, Yang Xi, Lin Wei, Gui Bin, Jiang Yan and others to a meeting overnight.

He told Lu Yao very easily that he could send the Qinglong aircraft carrier into space, but it was actually not a simple matter.

At that time, the Qinglong aircraft carrier was lifted into the air by dragging, because it provided enough initial speed for the aircraft carrier to leave the ground at about 0.8 times the speed of sound, or 0.722 kilometers per second.

Now the Qinglong aircraft carrier needs to reach the first cosmic speed, which is 7.9 kilometers per second, to get rid of the earth's gravitational field if it wants to leave the earth's atmosphere.

At present, the cruising speed of the Qinglong aircraft carrier is about twice the speed of sound, that is, 2 kilometers per second. To increase it to 0.68 kilometers per second, the problem that needs to be faced is not the power problem, but the hull cannot withstand such a high speed.

This is the main reason why all atmospheric vehicles cannot fly out of the earth.

The shape of the flying wings of the Qinglong aircraft carrier can get enough lift in the air to maintain the huge hull to fly in the atmosphere.

But if the speed is too fast, the high temperature generated by the high-speed friction between the air and the casing will melt the casing.

Moreover, the windward side of the flying wing is too large, and the force on each part of the body is uneven. The faster the speed, the greater the twisting force on the body. In severe cases, the entire ship will bend and deform or even disintegrate in the air.

The reason why the aerospace plane can go back and forth between the inside and outside of the atmosphere is that it adopts a tapered fuselage, narrow wings, and the surface of the shell is coated with special high-temperature resistant materials.

The participants immediately put forward several proposals, but they were all rejected by Zhong Cheng due to time constraints.

For example, Zhao Wei proposed to send the Qinglong aircraft carrier back to the ground first, disassemble it into dozens of large components, and then use the space elevator to send it to the Starship Base in Sky City for assembly.

This is not completely useless, because the Qinglong aircraft carrier also needs to be modified to install new armor, shipboard artillery, and replace the nuclear fusion engine. It can save a lot of effort when it is disassembled and reassembled.

In peacetime, this would be a very suitable solution, but it will take more than two months, and war will not wait for anyone.

Guibin suggested to carry out the painting operation in the air, add a layer of high-temperature resistant material to the Qinglong aircraft carrier, and then install hundreds of Zhurong electric pushers of various types on its shell to accurately balance the stress on various parts of the fuselage, so that Qinglong The aircraft carrier flies into space by itself.

This plan is still feasible to a certain extent, but the risk is too great, and if it is not done properly, the machine will crash and people will die.

However, his suggestion opened up the minds of everyone, allowing the Qinglong aircraft carrier to fly into space by itself.

What hinders the Qinglong aircraft carrier from flying into space is the gravity of the earth and the atmosphere. The two can also be said to be a problem. If there is no atmosphere and it is a space environment, then there is no problem.

Now as long as the Qinglong aircraft carrier is provided with a vacuum flight channel similar to a space elevator, the Qinglong aircraft carrier can escape the gravity of the earth by relying on its own nuclear power engine.

Everyone spoke one after another, supplementing each other's opinions, and a plan was formed.

Although it is impossible to really build a vacuum flight channel, it is possible to artificially create a temporary vacuum channel that only exists for a few tenths of a second.

The specific plan is to use the aerospace plane to use special air absorption equipment hundreds of meters in front of the Qinglong aircraft carrier to create a short-term vacuum channel.

Yang Xi made calculations on the spot. At present, the most powerful vacuum pump can instantly evacuate the air 50 meters ahead during high-speed flight, and after a little modification, it can reach a range of 100 meters.

Two of them are mounted on the tail of a 305-type Luanniao aerospace plane, and four aerospace planes can be used to create a vacuum flight channel for the Qinglong aircraft carrier.

Four Qinglong aircraft carriers can be sent into space in one day, and it will not exceed five days including the preparation time.
This plan is totally doable!
(End of this chapter)