Chapter 516 Escort Fleet and Mining Platform

The construction of industrial command transport ships is in full swing, and the escort ships that match this type of ship are also being built step by step.

Escort ships and mining ships are attached to various land-based platforms of industrial command ships, exchanging long-distance navigation capabilities for more outstanding combat performance.

Confirming that they will take root in the sky island world and expand on a large scale, it is time for the leader to make a comprehensive improvement and optimization of their own airships.

"The first industrial fleet is expected to be equipped with ten new escort ships and ten 75mm anti-ship support guns."

Peregrine class.

Ji Lin looked at the fully integrated improved airship. The originally exposed keel structure is now filled with dense additional armor, and the entire ship does not use the pod design of the Seagull class in order to make the most efficient use of space.

The purpose is extremely clear, that is, to fight.

And the Seagull class needs to replace the pod to take on other tasks.

The Peregrine-class airship without a pod design looks a bit like a crouching black fish. The replaceable additional armor overlaps like scales on the slender black hull. The integrated design allows them to wrap the Peregrine-class with an entire layer of additional armor.

The obvious benefit of integration is that the turning speed of the Peregrine-class is twice that of the prototype Seagull-class.

The Peregrine-class paid all its endurance, multi-function, and manpower capacity... and became a high-speed escort ship similar to a heavy fighter.

"There is no need to consider the problem of personnel accommodation. After compressing the crew cabin and fixing some stable structures... we got about 50% of the extra space. We used this space to install the energy storage module developed reversely from the ruins."

The special short-range escort interceptor ship redesigned based on the Seagull-class can move at a speed of 20km/h and has short-range acceleration capabilities.

The only small problem is that this thing has a high-speed range of only 100km. After the onboard energy is exhausted, it can only move at a speed of 10km/h. It needs to go to the nearest ship or base to replenish energy.

Save energy.

‘Peregrine-class escort ship’

‘Energy storage: Install rune cycle batteries to store the produced energy and have short-range acceleration capabilities. ’

‘Power gun group: 75mm ship-borne rapid-fire gun: range 1500 (meters), weapon power: 200, 2 rounds/minute. ’

‘Additional armor: Install medium additional armor, which can absorb a lot of damage, and can be replaced after the war through simple repair and disassembly. ’

Ten 30-meter standard Falcon-class escort ships are enough to deal with a medium-sized conflict battle, and at least ensure that the industrial ship can retreat unscathed.

The 75mm ship-borne guns with an effective range of 1.5 kilometers and a maximum range of 2.5 kilometers allow them to suppress the enemy at a safe enough distance.

The Peregrine and Seagull airships have common parts, so the leader will not consume more resources due to the additional production of the Peregrine class.

The two ships can even share a parts and equipment production line, but there are some special accessories and different final assembly processes.

"Very good."

Ji Lin nodded and expressed his approval of Chong Yan.

He was responsible for designing fast small ships, while Sif was responsible for designing medium-sized ships. They each had their own strengths.

They were just not very good at designing medium-sized ships.

"And the first model, we designed it based on the floating platform used by the floating island - a mining platform... or a mining ship?"

Chong Yan pointed to the black iron block on the other side. If he hadn't pointed it out, Ji Lin might not have noticed the several black iron blocks parked in the corner over there.

That thing is a real iron box. He would not have noticed it without Chongyan's reminder.

A black iron box.

The long iron box, 40 meters long and 15 meters wide, was placed in the corner and was not noticeable at all.

It was like a building that originally existed there. Even the engineers who came and went did not pay attention to the iron block.

Maybe it was because this thing was really not that good-looking.

"This thing can transport about 75 meters of materials at a time, and the overload can reach up to 100 meters under overload conditions."

An industrial command ship is expected to carry 10 mining platforms.

Chongyan said, looking at the tablet in his hand, and explained to his leader.

"Of course, what we have to do is to install a new energy supply system for this original mining platform so that it can use the mechanical arm... A mining ship is equipped with two mechanical arms."

It's just a pity that the mechanical arm has not been able to replace manpower. This clumsy mechanical arm plays the role of a crane to install a small impact drill.

When the heavy drill of the mining industrial command ship has plowed once, they will use a small airborne impact drill to break the veins that the heavy drill has not completely crushed. The small airborne impact drill is the steam nail gun used by the steam machine, but the discharge function is removed.

Some veins that the industrial command ship cannot reach can also be crushed and mined by these mining ships. The impact drills they carry are also much more efficient than ordinary mining methods.

After the crushing and mining is completed... send someone down to pick up the head.

Mining platforms usually dock in some areas that are not convenient for industrial command ships to approach according to needs to collect biological and mineral resources.

They are more flexible, and the spacious enough platform can also accommodate a large number of workers to recycle and collect the resources growing on the cliffs, which allows the industrial command ship to mine the resource area without approaching.

It is like an extension of the industrial command ship.

Like the tentacles of the industrial command ship, it extends into every corner of the resource mining area.

It is worth mentioning that whether it is a mining platform or a Peregrine class, it is generally not parked in the small hangar of the industrial command ship... but parked in the engineering frame extended from the industrial command ship.

Only when maintenance is needed will it enter the hangar and use the mechanical arm for maintenance.

This can greatly save the internal space of the industrial command ship and give space to more important storage space.

Ten Peregrine class interception escort ships and ten small mining platforms.

In this way, it is a complete long-distance industrial fleet that can bring the leader incomparable benefits of ordinary mining fleets.

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