Since Ye Qing felt that this repetitive torpedo was a bit like the magic metal ball floating around Electromagneto.
Then why not make it more scientific and magical?
Make an amorphous torpedo completely out of amorphous metal.
Perhaps it is not appropriate to describe it as a torpedo. Amorphous metal can change its form at will.
In addition, torpedoes that rely on chemical reaction energy to kill ships are one-time combat weapons. After a loud noise, it will be shattered into pieces.
Ye Qing hopes to have a high-tech weapon that can be used repeatedly, and it must be kept as quiet as possible during the killing process.
So amorphous metal is naturally the best choice, and the name can be changed when it is finalized.
It can also be shaped into a fish, using its fins to swing, or like a squid to swing as power, so that it can be completely silent.
The sailfish in the ocean can swim at a speed of nearly sixty knots, and the front of its mouth is a slender bone-shaped sharp thorn.
When it swims quickly in the sea, it can easily pierce the hull of a wooden fishing boat.
Using amorphous metal, its speed will only be faster.
"Then... what is its weapon system?" Dian Jing covered her eyes. "Boss, you really don't intend to turn the amorphous metal into a blade to repeatedly cut the hull."
"Although amorphous metal can turn the blade into a nano-scale thickness, the hull armor of a warship is between twenty and thirty millimeters thick, and the key parts are protected by composite armor. Using amorphous metal to cut, I'm afraid it will take hours. "
"Even if there is a group of blind people living in the warship, they can still follow the sound."
"Of course I know that." Ye Qing rubbed his forehead. Amorphous metal is magical, but it is certainly unrealistic to expect dozens of kilograms of it to sink a warship that is easily thousands of tons.
So it is necessary to install a weapon for the amorphous torpedo.
This weapon must be silent and can cause great damage to the warship.
The electromagnetic generator was the first to be abandoned. It belongs to the soft killing range.
"Apart from chemical explosions, there is only one energy weapon left." Ye Qing clapped his hands and encouraged Dian Jing and the Master Craftsman: "Let's brainstorm and design a subversive weapon for the amorphous torpedo."
The Master Craftsman said without hesitation: "You don't have to spend too much time thinking about it. I've seen the destroyer we dragged back. Its shell is made of high-strength non-magnetic steel."
"In theory, this kind of steel can be cut quickly with the plasma cutting technology commonly seen in industrial processing."
"The biggest problem is still the energy source."
The principle of plasma cutting technology was not complicated. It used electric current to generate high-temperature plasma arcs. These high-temperature arcs, which were as high as thousands of degrees, could quickly melt various alloy metals in the work area. As early as Ye Qing's early days of entrepreneurship, he had used this technology to help a certain clubhouse cut a high-strength explosion-proof door.
Therefore, in theory, even the simplest plasma technology could cut open the hull of a warship.
However, energy was conserved. Even if the amorphous torpedo was only a few dozen kilograms in size and carried an energy module that had yet to be developed, it was impossible for it to sink a thousand-ton warship.
Because the sinking of the ship was done slowly, the moment water entered the hull, the crew would be able to detect it and quickly take remedial measures.
"Let me first calculate the energy needed to cut a square meter of high-strength non-magnetic steel with the plasma cutting technology." Tianjin took out the holographic glasses and put them on, and used the formula calculation program inside to calculate something.
A few minutes later, Dian Jing guided the calculation results to the electronic screen.
The high-strength non-magnetic steel shell of the frigate was 30 millimeters thick. If the UHF plasma technology with an output power of 9,600 was used to cut a one-square-meter gap, it would theoretically consume 0.5 kilowatt-hours of electricity.
According to the energy storage density of the energy module, a 300-gram energy module was needed to meet the energy consumption of one cut.
Assuming that the amorphous torpedo carried a 10-kilogram energy module as a power source, after removing the necessary energy consumption to maintain the amorphous metal deformation, it was only enough for the UHF plasma cutter to cut a piece of armor of tens of square meters from the hull of the warship.
"It seems to work, but it also seems to not work."
This energy consumption situation was not unacceptable to Ye Qing. "In theory, the amorphous torpedo only needs to cut a small piece of armor and let itself drill in to destroy the important internal facilities of the warship, such as the ammunition depot or the fuel depot. There is a high probability of success."
"But what I want is an innovative energy weapon."
"If we want to use the plasma cutter, we have to have a mini reactor."
Dian Jing rolled her eyes. "Boss, we are not Stark Industries, and we can't make a small Arc Reactor."
"We have to face the reality. Monster Industries can currently create the battery with the highest energy density, only the energy module."
"No ~ the energy module has not been built yet."
Arc Reactor...
If there is the kind of Arc Reactor in the movie, all difficulties will be solved. Not to mention the plasma cutter, even if it is a high-energy laser, the oscillation knife can be made for it.
Don't think about the technology of the Arc Reactor. This thing violates the principle of conservation of energy.
The most realistic technology is to boil water and to miniaturize the nuclear reactor.
Monster Industries is at the forefront of the world in miniaturization reactor technology. In theory, the reactor can be reduced to the size of a truck.
But it is still too big. When it is built and placed on the torpedo, the whole torpedo weighs at least hundreds of tons.
Without a nuclear reactor, there is not enough energy to supply the weapon system...
Reactor...
Ye Qing carefully thought about the various possibilities of the miniaturization of the nuclear reactor.
After thinking for a long time, Ye Qing of course did not come up with a result.
But the principle of the nuclear reactor suddenly gave Ye Qing inspiration.
"Dian Jing, you just consumed the UHF plasma cutter in the formula. What is the operating temperature of the arc?"
Dian Jing did not understand why Ye Qing asked this, but it immediately answered, "The arc temperature is 8,000 degrees, of course, this temperature only exists inside the arc."
Ye Qing continued to ask, "What is the temperature limit of the Humpback's reactor core?"
"Limit temperature?"
Dian Jing thought that the boss should know this thing. "Boss, if you mean when the cooling water is removed from the loop and the core is allowed to heat up freely without cooling measures. The temperature of the reactor core will gradually rise to the limit of more than 3,500 degrees. "
"In fact, when the core rises to 3,000 degrees, the zirconium alloy fuel rods we use to seal the nuclear fuel will be slowly melted by the high temperature, and then we will completely lose control of the core."
"Boss, you humans have performed the example of the core losing control many times. I don't need to explain how it will explode."
Ye Qing laughed and laughed very proudly, making Dian Jing a little scared.
"Dian Jing, you are right, we can't make the Arc Reactor."
"But we can use the idea of the fuel rod to create a new weapon."
Dian Jing blinked, "What... what weapon?"
"Uh... it can be called a nuclear fission knife."
"Or it can be called a fission knife."
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