Chapter 227: The flaws of laser weapons

Mars City One.

Laser weapons research and development laboratory.

"Professor Wilson." Lu Yongchang's voice came from far away from the door, "How is the research going?"

Wilson's eyes lit up when he heard the sound. He quickly stood up from his seat and walked towards the door.

"professor."

Seeing Lu Yongchang in a white coat walking towards him, Wilson lowered his head slightly and said hello in a respectful tone.

"Is the electromagnetic gun test over? How was the effect?"

Seeing the unyielding look in Wilson's eyes, Lu Yongchang smiled at the corners of his eyes: "The effect is very good! The initial velocity of the projectile reached 6,000 kilometers per second!"

"According to Yevgeny's suggestion, we added micro nuclear bombs to the electromagnetic gun projectiles, which greatly increased the power of the projectiles!"

"An asteroid with a diameter of one hundred kilometers turned into powder in one minute."

Wilson couldn't help but froze on the spot, a trace of wavering flashed in his eyes, and he muttered to himself: "This...is this electromagnetic gun so powerful?"

At this moment, Wilson even pictured Yevgeny showing off in front of him in his mind.

"What about your side? How powerful is the laser weapon?"

Lu Yongchang's voice interrupted Wilson's "revelation."

"Professor, I'm about to go find you." Wilson said softly with a bit of embarrassment in his eyes, "We have already made a laser weapon, but..."

Lu Yongchang looked a little happy: "Have you already achieved results? Take me to see it quickly!"

With that said, Lu Yongchang walked directly towards the laboratory.

Wilson quickly followed behind Lu Yongchang: "Professor Lu, the current effective attack range of our laser weapons is only about 50,000 kilometers."

"Once it exceeds 50,000 kilometers, the power of laser weapons will rapidly decay."

"In addition, in order to improve the power of the laser, we..."

"Fuck!" Lu Yongchang's soul-stirring exclamation sounded in the laboratory, "So big?!"

"...We slightly adjusted the size of the laser emitter." Wilson added in a low voice.

Lu Yongchang stared blankly at the laser transmitter that occupied most of the laboratory: "You call this a slight adjustment?"

"The radius of this laser transmitter must be 10m, right?"

"...To be precise, it is 9.5 meters." Wilson said cautiously, "Professor Lu, despite its size, it is also very powerful!"

Lu Yongchang sighed deeply.

Those who make weapons are more "unreliable" than the last.

The former only has nuclear bombs in his mind, while the latter is determined to "get bigger and stronger."

"What about?"

Upon hearing this, Wilson's expression suddenly became excited!

"Professor, according to our tests, even the armor of the Luan Bird Starship cannot survive for a second."

Lu Yongchang was stunned.

He looked up again at the disc-shaped laser lens with a radius of 9.5 meters in front of him.

He suddenly discovered that the huge disk in front of him seemed to be quite pleasing to the eye.

"Ahem!" Lu Yongchang coughed hard twice, moved closer to Wilson, and asked in a low voice, "Can the power be increased?"

Wilson: "???"

"You know, we will face an interstellar war that is destined to be difficult. I feel that the range of 50,000 kilometers is still a bit short." Lu Yongchang straightened his expression and continued, "In addition, without knowing the thickness and thickness of the enemy ship's armor, Given the intensity, we can only increase the power of the weapon as much as possible.”

"What do you think, Professor Wilson?"

Wilson suddenly came to his senses: "Professor Lu, I think you are right!"

"It's just... a matter of range. This is already the highest power we can support at present."

Lu Yongchang frowned: "The problem with the fusion reactor?"

"Not entirely." There was a bit of bitterness in Wilson's eyes, "It's mainly a matter of heat dissipation."

"Professor, you also know that it is difficult to dissipate heat in space."

"We can only actively dissipate heat through a large amount of coolant, so this laser weapon is currently the limit of what we can achieve."

Looking at Lu Yongchang's slightly disappointed expression, Wilson gritted his teeth and said again: "In addition, due to heat dissipation problems, in actual combat, the effect of laser weapons may not be as good as you think."

"In order to increase power and reduce heat dissipation pressure, we specially designed this laser weapon into a pulse type."

"That is to say, it cannot irradiate continuously."

Lu Yongchang's face became increasingly ugly.

This is undoubtedly bad news.

The inability to irradiate continuously means that the threat of this laser weapon to enemy ships is not even as great as the electromagnetic gun!

"Then what's the use of this laser weapon?" Lu Yongchang shook his head with disappointment.

Originally, in his vision, laser weapons could serve as the main output weapon in interstellar warfare.

Powerful and fast, this is undoubtedly a weapon designed for interstellar warfare!

But reality gave him a big bag.

"Professor, we believe that the real purpose of this laser weapon should be to intercept kinetic energy weapons launched by the enemy." Wilson reminded softly.

Wilson's words awakened Lu Yongchang.

His eyes lit up, and the scene where Zero controlled the electromagnetic gun firing not long ago suddenly appeared in his mind.

"That's right..."

Lu Yongchang murmured to himself: "If Zero controls this laser weapon, we can build an interception zone that is 50,000 kilometers long!"

"But, what should I choose as the main weapon?"

He frowned and walked slowly to the seat beside him.

"Professor Lu..."

Looking at Lu Yongchang's somewhat "disoriented" appearance, Wilson's eyes showed some worry.

Hearing the call, Lu Yongchang raised his hand and waved it casually: "Don't worry, give me some time, let me think about it."

As he spoke, he sat on the chair and closed his eyes.

There was not much time left for humans, and he had no extra time to try.

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