Everyone: Are mechanics weak? I wake up and rectify the natural disaster

Such a huge thing, when it shines, it can be said that it is conspicuous to the attention of the whole audience.

It can't be hidden from anyone.

And the hexagonal lattice-shaped energy coating that is close to the surface of the ship body,

Although the specific style and appearance are hard to see clearly.

But the heaven-defying defensive effect that easily neutralized almost all enemy firepower was completely exposed to everyone's eyes.

therefore...

After seeing this scene.

The Serb mercenary who had just breathed a sigh of relief was immediately dumbfounded:

"They, they...

They actually have shields?

No, no, this should be rechargeable armor?

Damn it, why is there such a high-end product that looks like a scrap ship scraped from a junkyard? "

Its compound eyes almost shot out of their sockets,

His tone was as if he was struck by lightning while walking on the road, highlighting the disbelief.

"This is so unscientific!"

Then it whined and hugged its head very unbearably.

Well, clearly this is someone who knows his stuff.

Because of his knowledge, from this scene, he realized that the real strength of these unidentified intruders was far less than their appearance, which made him seem a little shocked.

So much so that the sense of fear and crisis that had just barely subsided when the defense platform not far away was firing on all cylinders suddenly returned with a vengeance.

..

Rechargeable armor...

This is something between armor and shield, or to be more specific, it is a product formed by combining the two to a certain extent.

Traditionally speaking, most ship armor does not require energy supply.

They require no power supply and consume no energy.

Not to mention that there is no need to pull out a main line from the reactor to serve it like a shield generator.

Therefore, most ships can omit the step of "laying energy network pipelines in the armored belt".

It not only saves energy expenses, but also reduces a vulnerable weak point.

If you break it down, you can still save a lot of pipeline costs.

Especially as the technological level of civilization continues to evolve, the technological line continues to advance.

The golden combination of shield and armor can be said to be completely fixed, completely monopolizing the need for 'ship passive defense'.

however.

When they began to advance to the super large capital ships, that is, the level of 'dreadnoughts', 'Titans', and even 'celestial battleships'.

New problems will be exposed:

——When targeting very large ship hulls, there is a conflict between the 'effective defense area of ​​the shield' and the 'radiation energy expenditure required to maintain the shield'.

To put it simply, it is actually a matter of energy efficiency ratio and energy consumption ratio.

One thing must be made clear:

The 'shield efficiency' of the shield is the very important 'shield effectiveness' data among the specific parameters of the starship.

And the shield's 'maintenance energy consumption', which is referred to as 'shield consumption',

The two are not the same thing, they are two independent parameters that influence each other but are not essentially the same.

The latter also involves the 'energy consumption rate when the shield is hit', that is, the 'injury shield consumption'...

...In general, the technical theory in this area is actually quite complicated.

As one of the key military field technologies that most civilizations have focused on after entering the interstellar era.

Shields, ever since their invention, have been an important part of the passive defense system on starships.

It can be said that it is second only to armor.

...After all, not every civilization points out the shield technology line, but it can be said that all interstellar civilizations have armor technology lines.

In addition, shields do have some shortcomings compared to armor.

There are certain 'technical thresholds that cannot be bypassed'.

That is the energy efficiency ratio just mentioned.

...a very simple truth.

——The larger the warship and the longer the hull, the lower the utilization rate of its full-width shield.

This can be said to be obvious at one point.

The full-width shield refers to the 'fully-covered hull energy shield', which is a complete and standardized sphere that wraps the warship in it.

Not only does it have complete angles, but it can also turn at will, so even in the charging stage when the shield has not been fully deployed, it still has certain defensive capabilities.

This can be said to be the most effective and everyone’s favorite type of shield design.

But its price is also obvious:

High deployment costs;

High maintenance costs;

High cost of use;

And the space utilization rate is low.

The space utilization rate is low, and the actual situation reflected is low shield efficiency.

In particular, this proportionally low utilization.

Smaller frigates are fine, but the larger the tonnage of the main ship, the more terrible the waste is:

In this star field, the vast majority of interstellar battleships are symmetrical in design, generally rectangular, especially rectangular, and there are countless ones.

And for such a hull layout.

For a three-hundred-meter-long battleship, the full-width shield must cover both ends.

But up, down, left, right, aren’t they all free?

For a ship body designed with a roughly elongated rectangular outline, when a full-width shield is used, the larger the scale, the lower the proportion of effective use of the shield area inside the shield.

There's nothing we can do about it.

After all, it also involves ship engineering...

——For a regular battleship whose main responsibility is frontal combat, it must be the bow to meet the enemy.

Not only does it concentrate firepower, it also reduces the area that may be hit by reducing the projected area directly in front of the hull.

As for facilities such as the crew compartment, power section, avionics section, ammunition depot, etc., they must be arranged farther back to be safer.

No matter what civilization it is, the ideas in this regard are basically the same. It does not mean that you can change it if you want to.

——In addition, the shape of the shield is also determined to be circular, or to be more specific, spherical.

The energy shield is really not an entity in nature. It is not a physical structure that can be processed twice like an alloy.

From a technical point of view, whether it is an energy shield, a field effect shield, or a phase shield, they are actually closer to an energy field.

It is a non-entity structure of field effect type that acts around the battleship.

At most, it's just a particle shield, barely able to resemble highly condensed matter, and the rest are far behind.

This attribute also determines that the shape of the shield is difficult to further modify after it is generated.

Therefore it can only be a sphere.

After all, whether it is an energy field or a particle field, they all move regularly around the center of the circle with the shield generator as the center. In this way, it is not an experienced driver who abides by traffic regulations. Of course, it will not follow horizontal or vertical directions. Routes come and go.

...In fact, it can indeed be changed.

As long as the technical level is reached, what can't be changed?

Aren’t the hull shapes of the Fi people and the Venerable people quite strange?

As for their shields...

Although it is indeed a sphere, it is not just a sphere.

It's just that people are happy.

The core database Su Wen received from the Lunar Research Station contained the related technology of 'Compact Matrix Shield', and the theory, technology, and process were all quite complete.

It can be seen that it is not that they are unable to change, they just have the same view as Su Wen and are too lazy to bother.

The issue is...

Super civilized people can afford it, but how can ordinary three-legged cats afford it?

Therefore, most civilizations can only say: 'If the mountain doesn't come to see me, I will go to the mountain':

The hull shape cannot be changed, nor can the shield shape, so we can change it based on the shield design idea!

What a big deal.

The 'front shield' emerged from this.

Compared with the all-inclusive full-width shield, the forward shield is a partial coverage design, and usually has a fixed bow central axis angle and does not adopt a full-width movable design.

The main reason is that the coverage area is too small, even if it is movable, it doesn't make much sense...

...What's more, it can't be turned around.

A battleship equipped with a fixed forward shield certainly has strong frontal defense.

And it can also achieve the effect of 'joint shield' with a dense rectangular array when multiple ships are combined to form a fleet for combat.

However, if it is a single order.

Most warships have the conventional layout of "the bow meets the enemy and the stern advances".

If it was bypassed by other faster ships...

To be honest, I'm afraid it would be difficult for others to resist the urge to pop their anus when they see such a big ass full of thrusters facing them.

Therefore, from a practical perspective, both full-width full-width shields and fixed front shields have various shortcomings.

On small and medium-sized frigates, and even some not-so-large battleships, this problem was not noticeable.

But when it comes to the real Big Mac, those flaws can no longer be ignored.

then.

New 'ship passive defense systems' that combine the advantages and disadvantages of both and further improve them have appeared one after another.

That is, what is on these dozen Titan ships in front of everyone.

Shield armor.

To be precise, it should be called 'charged plated armor'.

After combining with the charged coating, the armor has extremely strong ductility. Any force of a kinetic energy weapon hitting it will be transmitted in all directions like hitting cotton, thereby losing the most proud penetration of kinetic energy weapons. force...

——This is a truly cutting-edge technology that only advanced civilizations can master and apply in actual combat.

therefore.

when it was exposed.

The mercenaries who were taking refuge and watching the battle started wailing instantly.