I Have a Little Black Hole

The Deep Space Laboratory also has a deep accumulation in the field of optics. Like Xiong Antai, Zhang Hanxiu has also considered space weapons. His idea is laser weapons. Whether in science fiction movies or in reality, laser weapons are big killers. .

Like the electromagnetic railgun mentioned by the boss, laser weapons can also be classified as energy weapons, and our company's technical advantage is that we have a nuclear fusion reactor, which can provide stable and continuous energy.

Moreover, our company also has a very outstanding performance in the field of materials science. We are leading the world in the fields of superconducting materials and high-energy batteries, which provides a solid foundation for our research and development of laser weapons!

Because laser weapons in space do not have various restrictions in the atmospheric environment, there is no embarrassing situation where they can only be used in limited ways on earth, and cannot carry out all-weather operations, and can attack at any time!

'Origin', give us a brief introduction to laser weapons! Zhang Hanxiu started to be lazy again while continuing to introduce.

His words also made everyone laugh. This guy is so open and aboveboard. As the company's artificial intelligence, Origin is in charge of a large number of tasks in the company.

For example, it does the records and related paperwork of various meetings of the company. When encountering various company-related problems during the meeting, everyone will call it to introduce you to everyone. Zhang Hanxiu The task given to it is too simple for it, so of course it will not refuse such a job.

Okay Director Zhang! The science mission begins.

Laser weapons (English: Laser Weapon) are weapons that use high-energy lasers to accurately shoot long-distance targets or to defend against missiles. They are divided into tactical laser weapons (THEL) and strategic laser weapons.

It has excellent performance such as fast, flexible, precise and anti-electromagnetic interference, and can play a unique role in optoelectronic countermeasures, air defense and strategic defense.

The disadvantage of laser weapons is that they cannot operate all-weather, limited by heavy fog, heavy snow, and heavy rain, and the laser emission system is a precision optical system, which is also seriously affected by the atmosphere, such as the absorption of energy by the atmosphere, energy attenuation caused by atmospheric disturbance, and thermal halo. effects, turbulence, and attenuation due to beam jitter.

Since laser weapons require a large amount of electrical energy, it is difficult to achieve large-scale applications until the problem of difficult miniaturization of energy storage devices (such as high-energy batteries) is solved.

Of course, the above two problems are just like what Director Zhang said, they basically have no impact on the laser weapons that our company is about to develop.

Because our company's requirements for laser weapons are to be used in space operations, that is, they tend to be strategic laser weapons, and there are no such interference systems in space.

As long as our company's nuclear fusion reactor technology takes a step forward, it can be miniaturized and mobile, and the energy problem will not be a problem, and our company's high-energy battery level can also initially support strategic laser weapons.

The so-called tactical laser weapons use lasers as energy to directly kill enemy personnel, destroy tanks, aircraft, etc. like conventional weapons, and the strike distance is generally up to 20 kilometers. The main representatives of such weapons are laser guns and laser cannons, which can emit a strong laser beam to strike the enemy.

The strategic laser weapon is a laser weapon used to attack strategic missiles or satellites, with a range of several hundred to several kilometers and a laser power of more than ten million watts. In this environment, the higher the range and power of laser weapons, the better!

If we can develop to the main laser weapon like the Death Star in the Star Wars movie, then our company can have enough confidence in the face of danger!

There are two aspects of laser destroying the target: one is perforation, and the other is spallation.

The so-called perforation means that the laser beam with high power density makes the surface of the target material melt sharply, and then vaporizes and evaporates, and the vaporized material is ejected outward, and the recoil force forms a shock wave, which penetrates a hole in the target material.

The so-called spallation is that after the surface of the target absorbs the laser energy, the atoms are ionized to form a plasma cloud. The cloud expands and ejects outward to form stress waves that propagate deep. The reflection of the stress wave causes the target to be pulled off, resulting in spalling damage.

In addition, the plasma cloud can also radiate ultraviolet or X-rays, destroying target structures and electronic components.

The destruction mechanism of laser weapons is:

1. Thermal damage. When the target is irradiated by a strong laser, the surface material absorbs heat and is heated, resulting in softening, melting, gasification, and ionization.

2. Mechanical failure. When the object irradiated by the laser is vaporized and ionized, the plasma formed by the high-speed ejection will cause the target to deform and break due to the recoil force.

3. Radiation damage. Plasma can radiate ultraviolet or X-rays, destroying the electronic components inside the target.

The characteristics of laser weapons are: concentrated energy, fast transmission speed, high hit accuracy, fast transfer firepower, anti-electromagnetic interference, can be reused many times, and high combat efficiency and cost ratio.

Laser weapons are mainly composed of lasers that generate light sources and beam directors that have the functions of tracking, aiming and launching.

Highly concentrated laser, the energy is also very concentrated. For example, in our daily life we ​​think the sun is very bright, but the laser light emitted by a giant pulsed ruby ​​laser is 20 billion times brighter than the sun.

Of course, the laser is brighter than the sun, not because its total energy is greater than the sun, but because its energy is very concentrated. For example, the laser beam emitted by a ruby ​​laser can penetrate a 3 cm thick steel plate, but the total energy is not enough to cook an egg.

Lasers have many unique advantages as weapons. First of all, it can fly at the speed of light, 300,000 kilometers per second, no weapon has such a high speed. Once it is aimed, it hits the target in almost no time, regardless of the lead.

In addition, it can concentrate more than 1 million times the energy of nuclear weapons in a very small area and in a very short period of time, and it can also change its direction flexibly without any radioactive pollution.

With so many advantages, I think Director Zhang's suggestion is correct!

However, its research and development tasks will not be easy. The charging speed determines the firing speed of the laser weapon, the high temperature resistant material determines the number of shots of the gun barrel, and the performance requirements for equipment such as aiming and detection equipment are also very high. These problems are all needs to be resolved!

Only after these shortcomings are solved, the laser weapon can be regarded as a mature space weapon when used in our company's future spacecraft!

My introduction is complete, thank you all!