Monster Factory - 839

There are two types of hovercraft.

One is a fully upholstered type that uses an air propeller to move forward, with the propeller back on the hull.

This type of hovercraft is usually used for small and medium-sized ships. Because there is no power device at the bottom of the hull, it can travel short distances in swamps, shallow waters, ice, and even beaches and mud.

The advantage of this structure is that it can land on the beach and is suitable for military use.

However, because the propeller is not in contact with water, the power consumption is serious, the range is short, and the speed usually does not exceed fifty knots.

The other sidewall type adopted by the humpback whale relies on liftable metal sidewalls to prevent air from escaping, so that the contact area between the hull and water is minimized, and the hull relies on the propeller and water to move forward.

This structure can’t grab beaches, let alone drive in swamps or mud.

However, this structure is very suitable for large ships. At the same time, the propeller is in contact with the water, and the power consumption is greatly reduced. Both the speed and the range are far ahead of the previous one. It’s just that the technical difficulty of this structure is quite large. At present, no country has produced an example of a ship of more than two thousand tons.

In the cockpit, two metal experts stood at the power console.

Following Ye Qing’s order, the two auxiliary electromagnetic engines of the Humpback Whale started. Below the waterline, the two fully movable water jets at the bottom of the hull slowly pushed the humpback whale out of the sealed berth.

The humpback whale, which can carry 20,000 tons of cargo, has an extraordinary momentum even if it slows down. For a time, the waves inside the slipway rolled and the rapids splashed.

When the humpback whale disappeared from the slipway and entered the ocean, I wonder if it was because of the trembling of the sky or the thunderstorm in the weather forecast.

Anyway, at the end of Longxi Bay, there was a lightning bolt that pierced through the sky suddenly, and after dozens of seconds, thunder blasted.

A “Mountain and Sea Testimony”, accompanied by the sound of rolling thunder, passed through the cockpit.

After the rendering of Dubite’s sound effects, this one of the few, particularly majestic songs created by Xu Ninggong, is based on the thunder and lightning in the night sea and rugged mountains and rocks in front of him, giving Ye Qing an indescribable surging mood.

“Qingshan pledged to share the sea.”

“Whether it will never change at this time…”

“White clouds walk away, the river flows…”

“Boom~”

There was another thunder, and Ye Qing laughed boldly, “The target high seas, go forward at full speed after leaving Longxi Beach.”

“Yes, boss.” The metal expert quickly entered a series of commands on the console. The next moment, the half-curved porthole glass in front of it suddenly changed its appearance.

They changed from colorless to pale green.

Standing in the cockpit and looking over, the dark world outside the porthole has also changed color. It is similar to the green under night vision, but its imaging effect is extremely clear. Whether it is the ripples on the sea surface or the little reefs exposed, it is no different from what you saw during the day.

This is a laser night vision system, which has a longer visible distance than the current mainstream low-light night vision devices, and it can be used normally even in an environment where there is no light source at all.

The porthole glass is not only the front image, the left and right sides also provide the sides and tail of the humpback whale, as well as the automatic target recognition function and the heat source detection function.

When the third thunderstorm flashed between the sea and the sky, the humpback whale had already sailed out of Longxi Bay along the channel.

There is an endless expanse of sea ahead, and the sky is full of thunder and lightning.

At this moment, the two main electromagnetic engines broke out in an instant.

What is the concept of a single electromagnetic engine with a power of 200,000 kilowatts?

Take the aircraft carrier as an example. The Bush aircraft carrier with the highest power in Nimitz has a total power of 270,000 kilowatts, but this is only the power of the nuclear reactor. After the secondary circuit water is heated, a part of it needs to generate electricity, and the rest is directed into the gas turbine to drive the vortex. When the shaft rotates, the vortex shaft transmits the power to the wheel, and the wheel drives the propeller.

Mechanical work will inevitably lead to power loss. At the same time, the large-scale machine wheel must be started step by step.

The cockpit transmits the command to go forward at full speed, and the command is fed back to the engine wheel. First, the steam injected into the gas turbine will gradually increase, and the speed of the turboshaft will increase, so that more power can be transmitted to the propeller through the engine wheel.

In the end, it takes three to five minutes for the ship to reach its maximum speed. At the same time, the power generated by the propeller cannot exceed 200,000 kilowatts of power.

And the electromagnetic engine?

It is an all-electric drive, and a nuclear reactor drives an ultra-supercritical unit. The unit is only used to generate electricity, and it only takes two seconds to go from a static state to the maximum speed of the electromagnetic engine.

Even if the ultra-supercritical unit is in a low-power working state, it only needs to reserve the power supply for two minutes to achieve a balance of power output when it breaks out at full speed.

Two 200,000-kilowatt electromagnetic engines exploded at the same time, and the otherwise stable waves behind the humpback whale suddenly seemed to be thrown into a row of depth bombs. The waves burst out to the height of dozens of stories, and the front part of the humpback whale also suddenly injected a strong air current towards the transmission.

The air currents isolate the flat hull from the sea. These air currents are compressed by the humpback whale’s own weight into a thin stream of high-pressure air. They escape everywhere, lifting more area of the hull while trying to move towards Passing by outside the hull.

However, a layer of flexible metal sidewalls rising from the bottom of the humpback whale prevented the high-pressure air from passing.

The two main electromagnetic engines accelerate from a static state to 30,000 revolutions per minute within two seconds, driving the two fully-moving water jets at the tail, and blowing up the huge waves at the same time, the humpback whale is like a The super sports car with the catapult start mode turned on instantly broke off.

At this moment, Ye Qing felt that the entire world, every cell in his body, was roaring following the loud noise made by the electromagnetic engine.

Even if Ye Qing is already sitting on a seat with mechanical shock absorption function and is firmly anchored with a seat belt, Ye Qing still has the illusion that he is sitting on the Shenzhou V rocket.

The humpback whale soared from ten knots to 130 knots in only ten seconds. If you change to kilometers, you will reach a speed of 240 kilometers per hour in ten seconds.

The huge thrust firmly pressed Ye Qing to the back of the chair. Ye Qing rolled her eyes with difficulty, and saw two metal experts firmly in place like metal piles. He also saw the percentage electronic power dial, the output power was fixed at 62%. superior.

This is the maximum speed at which the Humpback Whale normally sails, but not its maximum output power.

After being fully loaded, at this speed is its maximum output power, and it is also the cruising speed that it can maintain for a long time.

No way, who made it load a nuclear power reactor.

In a short time, the humpback whale’s speed can still soar, but that will severely wear the water jet propulsion device.

In the 130-knot speed mode, it took half a minute before Ye Qing’s discomfort disappeared.

At the same time, the sea was still calm, and the humpback whale remained fairly stable for most of the time after the humpback whale entered the full-speed cruise state. It’s just that the noise erupted by the water jet is extremely loud. If a ship approaches the vicinity, the people on the ship will definitely feel the galloping horses when visiting the flood discharge of the dam.

At this time, don’t even think about getting out of the cabin to enjoy the beautiful ocean scenery.

With Ye Qing’s physique, as soon as he stepped out of the hatch, he would be blown into the sky by the oncoming wind.

The noise in the cockpit was isolated to an incredible degree, and only occasionally when the humpback whale jumped over the waves for a short distance, could it detect the small violent turbulence under high-speed driving.

In the dark night, the humpback whale swept close to the sea like an arrow from the string.

Occasionally, a flash of lightning can pierce the sky to be seen, and there is no trace of the humpback whale from any visible lights.

Ye Qing listened to surging songs one after another, feeling the stimulation of power and speed.

I don’t know when, suddenly a heavy rain hit the humpback whale.

The heavy rain is like countless arrows, but it can’t shake the humpback whale.

The specially modified automatic ship identification system is constantly working, marking the ships within 20 nautical miles of the humpback whale, and the ship’s radar is constantly searching for nearby targets. The electronic nautical chart keeps marking the location of the humpback whale based on the trajectory and inertia.

Modern ships use GPS for navigation, but not the humpback whale.

On the electronic chart, the humpback whale avoided the commercial channel and moved straight ahead.

No matter where it is in front of it.