Earth Invasion

Chapter 199 Container Concept

In fact, the modification plan of the so-called external weapon compartment proposed by "Anaheim" to Zhang Mai is not the first, and this concept was actually proposed very early.But it wasn't called that at the time.

This plan came from a small-scale, low-cost UFP application plan proposed by the military-industrial complex under the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in [-].The engineer who designed this UFP weapon system at that time gave this solution a somewhat embarrassing name, called the "container" system.

The original intention of this system is not to be used by the SCO Solar System Navigation Fleet or the Chinese Space Force.This package plan, which was born out of the idea of ​​the missile vertical launch system, is a low-cost use plan to solve the problem of being able to complete more tasks in the case of the limited scale of the UFP in the small SCO member states.

The specific idea is to remove the rotating gun rack that is widely used on UFP and replace it with an external weapon container.Use these containers to maximize the load capacity of the UFP itself.When equipped with four container modules, the types and quantity of weapons that this UFP can choose are almost three to four times that of UFPs that use ordinary rotating gun racks, and in terms of cost, it is only four more armored weapon bays. After saving the rotating gun frame, the design of UFP's power distribution system will become simpler and the maintenance will be more convenient.More importantly, the number of UFP purchases can be greatly reduced.

Of course, this modification scheme also has disadvantages.The most important point is that within a unit of time, the firepower of the UFP dropped significantly. According to the SCO test at that time, compared with the heavy UFP, the firepower channels of the modified UFP dropped from five to two. If the distribution of heavy firepower such as composite plasma cannons and plasma cannons is included, the amount of firepower delivered per unit time is only about one-third of that of the UFP with a rotating gun mount.To make matters worse, if the shield is raised, there will only be one main fire channel left for the UFP.

In this era of fighting for consumption and stacking firepower, this configuration method is obviously unacceptable to major military groups.Therefore, at the beginning of development, this solution was aimed at those small countries that only formed existing troops.

Then the plan failed unexpectedly.

The reason is simple. The people in the military industry department of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization took it for granted.

Since there are troops, the most important thing is whether they are available, not whether they are easy to use or not.According to the combat applications envisaged by the people in the military industry, the military of each small member country who received the detailed description of the project gave a statement that made the person who proposed the concept feel ashamed and angry.

If it is a large-scale battle, then these UFPs are equipped with a large number of rotating gun mounts, and the firepower is concentrated.This kind of UFP will not play any decisive role.The advantages of the versatility and the total amount of weapons carried by this containerized firepower system are only beautiful.

If it is a small-scale conflict or a law and order war at all, then ordinary UFP is enough to deal with it.For the time being, there are no terrorists or extreme opposition in this world that cannot be taken down by ordinary UFPs.As a result, the total amount of weapons in the container system is large, and the characteristics of wide range and flexible application are no longer useful.

Facts have proved that in history, if you intend to concentrate all the functions into one weapon and then plan to eat it all over the world, there will be no good end.

But this plan is unexpectedly in tune with Zhang Mai.

According to the analysis of Zhang Mai's oral data obtained when the fat man in Anaheim communicated with Zhang Mai.Zhangmai's combat time is basically a small-scale assault or cover operation on the ground.As for the combat objects, more than 80.00% are PA and multi-legged chariots.Most of the UFP-level opponents they face are single or two UFP encounters in a team.Analyzing the performance of these encounters, Zhang Mai's tactical awareness is already very good.And because of the reason in the atmosphere, lasers, charged particle cannons, and plasma plasma cannons are all weakened to a certain extent.The accuracy of the electromagnetic gun is also affected to a certain extent due to the frictional heating effect of the atmosphere.However, the heavy particle cannon used by UFP as the main lethal force has no such concerns. The heavy particle cannon that uses the dual killing mechanism of heat and kinetic energy will cause a strong shock wave and vacuum phenomenon in the atmosphere, which will even greatly strengthen the power of the heavy particle cannon. As a result, the use of heavy particle cannons in the atmosphere requires careful treatment of secondary damage.

In this way, Zhang Mai does not need to estimate the accumulation of firepower when fighting against UFP.The problem of fewer fire channels due to the absence of a rotating gun rack has also been greatly alleviated.

The fat man in Anaheim successfully persuaded Zhang Mai to agree to his proposed transformation plan.

A week later, Zhang Mai finally saw the refitted MTA2a[-] on an industrial satellite near the moon in the L[-] satellite group, that is, in the refitting workshop in Anaheim.

"I said, isn't this a bit too much?" Looking at the UFP floating in the microgravity workshop, locked by the support frame from the knees and shoulders, Zhang Mai felt dizzy for a while.

MTA2a[-] has been scraped off the white finish that MTA[-]a[-] was painted on on Assyria.Today's MTA has been painted gray and black.And for some reason it was spray painted with dark blue lines.This makes it look like this UFP is not going to go to the battlefield, but is planning to go to some defense weapons exhibition to perform equipment.

Moreover, the current climate of Assyria is summer, and even if I rescued Sara in the shortest possible time and flew to Assyria from L[-] on the Kuafu giant mass accelerator, the time to reach Assyria should be autumn, let alone using blue Color coating is necessary.As far as the loss is concerned, Zhang Mai also thinks that it is best to apply a brownish-yellow coating effect, so that it can at least play a protective role.

Regarding this strange painting, the fat man said, "Don't you think it's so handsome? And the most important function of steel and big wood is to pull it. This kind of painting is very handsome. "

Then, under Zhang Mai's threat of not giving money, the Anaheim modification company honestly sprayed the UFP's appearance into a drab brown.

Of course, this is all trivial. The biggest change of the MTA is that the composite plasma cannon on the gun rack on the back of the machine body is gone, and the heavy particle cannon folded at the rear has also been put aside.The shape of the plasma propulsion array on the back has changed, from the original nearly square shape to a bar whose up and down length is almost twice the left and right width, and the plasma assaulter on the upper third of the propulsion array has been raised, and then the surface It forms an angle close to [-] degrees with the lower two-thirds.On both sides of the propulsion array, two dark container modules were installed where the rotating gun racks were originally placed.Similarly, two container modules of the same specification are also installed outside the legs of the MTA.

The only thing that hasn't changed now is perhaps the electromagnetic rifle and the heavy sword on the UFP's back waist.In addition, there seemed to be two more hoe-like things near UFP's feet.Zhang Mai didn't see anything else for the time being.

"Let me introduce the change of the power part first." Taking a laser pointer from the side, the fat man in Anaheim pointed at the plasma propulsion array behind the UFP with the red beam in his hand, and then kicked the floor, Flew there with a few people.

Perhaps it was because he hadn't been active in microgravity for a long time, Zhang Mai accidentally flew over the head, and the fat man was caught.

"It seems that you are used to being bound by gravity." With a joke, the fat man stopped talking nonsense, and began to introduce the changes that have occurred in UFP.

"I calculated that before the modification, about eight percent of the power of the MTA[-]a[-] would normally be allocated to the rotating gun mount to keep the composite plasma cannon on standby. Now that the rotating gun mount is dismantled by me, but this power supply The distribution has been burnt to death on the control center, and I have no way to change it. So I added about one-fifth of the plasma thrusters, and then arranged them at an angle, and you can usually use [-]% of the power Keep the power supply for one-third of the plasma thrusters..." As he spoke, the fat man drew a circle on the angled plasma thruster arrays with a laser pointer.

"It can provide almost 43 tons of thrust, basically allowing your UFP to leave other UFPs far behind in terms of ground maneuverability."

Zhang Mai nodded involuntarily. He carefully recalled the several battles on the Assyrian planet, and many of them were resolved by fighting.After all, the distance on the ground is very close, these thrusts can make your UFP suddenly start faster, and you can even catch some people who are dealing with you with ordinary MTA2a[-] UFP by surprise.

Seeing that Zhang Mai was quite satisfied with this change, he pointed the laser pointer at the left hand part of UFP again.

"The double shield of the MTA series made me change it to one. I have come to a conclusion through the detection of the memory metal part of the shield. Your large shield works almost ten times longer than the small shield. In this case, your The small shield is almost a burden, so I combined the two shields together, and now I have changed the power supply system of the two shields into one, so it cannot be disassembled again."

For this change, Zhang Maijue didn't care. He nodded and signaled the fat man to continue.

Taking Zhang Mai to the cockpit, he motioned Zhang Mai to get in.

Sit in the driver's seat as instructed, start the main system, and in the welcome speech of the airborne AI, Zhang Mai called up the UFP weapon system menu.The original weapon option is gone, and it has become four sub-items, which contain the weapons integrated into the four weapon containers.

"Eject all." Commanded in voice mode.With the sound of electromagnetic clutches, all four weapon containers opened.

Plasma composite plasma cannon X[-];

Atmospheric [-]MM electromagnetic projectile gun X[-];

[-]. [-]m heavy particle cannon X[-];

[-]-meter-class electromagnetic reconnection gun X[-];
[-] units of [-]MM ion rocket launcher X[-];
[-]MM[-] tube Vulcan Phalanx X[-].

Looking at this long list of weapons, Zhang Mai couldn't help but feel pain in the egg.

Among these things, at least half of them are light weapons used to deal with PAs and multi-legged tanks, such as curved weapons such as [-]mm projectile guns.There is also the [-]MM Vulcan cannon, which is basically useless except for dealing with the fragile armor of PA or multi-legged tanks.

"I don't seem to want the [-] rocket and the Vulcan cannon." Zhang Mai was a little displeased.The fat guy in Anaheim is too familiar and self-assertive.

"Don't worry, I don't charge for these things. It's a discount for you to come to me for modification." As he said that, the fat man called up an attack program on the control menu, which happened to be the program for the [-]-meter-level reconnection gun.

This thing is the result of Zhang Mai after seeing a direct hit of physical ammunition by Takamachi Fit in outer space.Dongfang Hao supported his choice.Not to mention the reconnection guns of battleships. When in outer space, if you don’t use the charged particle cannon for the first interception, reduce some mass and magnetize the projectile core, the [-]-meter reconnection cannon can be regarded as the deflection electric field interception of an ordinary frigate. It is difficult to get up.On the ground, the distance is very short, if a UFP is directly hit by a [-]-meter heavy-shooting cannon, the shield will be disabled if you are a little unlucky.It is not impossible to be directly blown off the arm.

At the same time, the secondary damage of this kind of thing is not as great as the heavy particle cannon, so it can be used with confidence.Of course, the fly in the ointment is that the [-]-meter reconnection gun needs a lot of energy, and the rear seat is a big problem.

"Although I recommend that you use a prone position when using the reconnection gun, it is not impossible if you want to use it standing up." Pointing the shooting procedure to Zhang Mai, the fat man in Anaheim said.

"As long as the main accumulator of the reconnection gun is connected, if you are still standing, the linked hoe on your feet will pop out, then push into the ground, and remind you to adjust the posture of the UFP. The composite plasma cannon It was modified with your original NATO-style cannon, but there is no normal line support, I am afraid that the charging will be slower, but it will not have a big impact..."

The fat man was about to continue talking, and Zhang Mai was listening carefully. At this time, a figure flew in from outside the workshop.

"Maizi! I'll study your new toy later." When they got closer, they saw the face of the person coming.Ai Cixiu grabbed a pipe next to him to stabilize his body.

"Get your toys on board now, the Glide Eight is in port!"

After nearly half a month of waiting, the whereabouts of Sarah Allahman Puyol finally became clear.

　Ask for a ticket, don't hide the monthly pass

　　
　
(End of this chapter)