One Thousand Four Hundred and Thirty-Eight Feasible Options

Zhuang Bo's words were like a super magnet, attracting everyone's attention.

Huo Qiang frowned slightly: "What do you think?"

Zhuang Bo said: "It's very simple. Make a pressure-resistant shell, put the nuclear bomb inside, set the depth, and just throw it into the water like a mine."

Huo Qiang suddenly realized it and said angrily: "Why didn't I think of that!"

Zhuang Bo smiled and said: "I have been thinking about this matter for the past few days. After thinking about it, I can't do without nuclear bombs. However, Europa is in a special situation. It is both under ice and underwater. I don't know how deep the water is. If you don’t know where the enemy is, just having ideas is of no use.”

"Understood." Wu Han said, "What the deputy commander means is that this method will only work if you know the depth of the sea and where the enemy is?"

"Yes, that's what I mean." Zhuang Bo nodded, "I always thought that the water under the ice was hundreds of kilometers deep. If that were the case, it would be useless to throw a super nuclear bomb into it."

Huo Qiang asked doubtfully: "Is this depth okay now?"

"No problem." Zhuang Bo said, "Liquid is difficult to compress, and the super nuclear bomb is so powerful. The nuclear bomb is much more powerful underwater than on the water. According to my calculations, the nuclear bomb does not need to be close to the enemy ship at all. With Leishan Take the detachment as an example. The water is 40 kilometers deep and there is space under the ice. It is conservatively estimated that if 50 million tons sink to about 20 kilometers, the enemy ship can be destroyed. For deeper places, 100 million tons can be used."

Huo Qiang was surprised: "It doesn't take 200 million tons?"

"It's not needed." Zhuang Bo said, "100 million tons is enough."

Huo Qiang asked again: "What is the range of power of 200 million tons?"

Zhuang Bo said: "I can't say exactly how much it is. Europa's gravity is low, and the power of the nuclear explosion is much greater than that on the earth. I think the radius of the power should be no less than 70 kilometers, and there is even more!"

Huo Qiang's eyes suddenly widened: "Are you sure? You are talking about the power radius!"

Zhuang Bo hesitated for a moment and did not dare to finish his sentence: "It should be close. The radius of Big Ivan's power is just over thirty kilometers. Europa's gravity is low and the equivalent is twice as high. Seventy kilometers is still less." explain."

The deepest point of the ocean under the ice is only a hundred kilometers, and the power radius of 70 kilometers is about 40 kilometers more, which is enough.

And he had another reason not to mention that Europa is not an open ocean, but a subglacial ocean.

The difference between the two is like an open kettle and a kettle with a lid, and a nuclear bomb is like lighting a firecracker in the belly of the kettle. The one with a lid must contain some power, and the actual power will only be greater than the theory.

"Understood." Huo Qiang said, "You mean to find the enemy's position first, and then place a nuclear bomb at the appropriate location, right?"

"Yes!" Zhuang Bo nodded.

"That's easy to do. Use 50 million for shallow water, and 100 or 200 million for deep water. No matter where the enemy is hiding, they can't escape the nuclear bomb's power radius."

Zhuang Bo added: "Actually, there is a simpler way. Put a nuclear bomb every 100 kilometers. The detonation depth of all nuclear bombs is set at 150 kilometers. Blow up the entire Europa, no matter where the enemy is hiding. He definitely didn’t go anywhere.”

Huo Qiang laughed: "One for a hundred kilometers? Do you think nuclear bombs are like cabbage? Can they grow in the first place in the field?"

Europa has a diameter of 3138 kilometers. According to Zhuang Bo's plan, if the nuclear bomb is detonated 150 kilometers under the ice, the detonation radius will be 2988 kilometers.

A simple calculation will give you the answer. A ball with a radius of 2,988 kilometers has a surface area of ​​about 28 million square kilometers. Even if one nuclear bomb is placed in 100 square kilometers, it will take 2,8900 to bring Jupiter to Earth. Plow it thoroughly.

Even if one is placed every 200 kilometers, it would still take more than 700 to be enough.

Zhuang Bo also realized this and quickly spoke to make amends: "So, we must first determine the location of the aliens, and then take action after we have a clear goal."

Huo Qiang said: "Actually, I prefer a full-scale explosion... Chief of Staff, how many nuclear bombs do we have?"

Fixed-point blasting may cause fish to slip through the net, but comprehensive blasting can leave no blind spots. No matter where the aliens are hiding, they cannot escape.

"There are still a lot of ordinary nuclear bombs, but there are not many super nuclear bombs." After Wu Han finished speaking, he thought for a while and suggested, "Should we contact the international fleet and get more nuclear bombs?"

Huo Qiang said: "Get in touch and get as much as you can."

If there had not been the previous consumption, the two fleets might have been able to gather enough nuclear bombs together. However, the Jizhou fleet bombed Callisto, and the International Fleet flattened Ganymede. The air battle also consumed a lot of money. There is really not much inventory left.

Wu Han immediately complied and soon received a reply from the International Fleet: "Commander, the International Fleet has agreed to participate in the operation. The total number of nuclear bombs on both sides is only about 300, which is even less than half the number of nuclear bombs placed 200 kilometers away!"

"So much difference?" Huo Qiang's brows were raised high. He didn't want to give up the idea of ​​a full-scale explosion, but this place was far away from the mainland, and the nearest friendly forces were the Nanzhou fleet in the asteroid belt. There was no place for nuclear bombs to repair it. Said, there is not enough time.

Increase the distance between nuclear bombs?

Yes, yes, but that would leave too much power vacuum between the nuclear bombs. How many enemies would have to escape in the end?

Huo Qiang had a headache, but he immediately remembered a movie he had watched when he was a child. He had long forgotten what the movie was called. He only remembered that one of the plots was to detonate several nuclear bombs in sequence in the center of the earth, so that the power of the nuclear explosions would be superimposed. Eventually the earth will turn again.

He immediately brought up this idea, and several people looked at each other in surprise. Wu Han saw that Zhuang Bo had no intention of speaking, so he said: "Commander, this doesn't seem to work, right? Why don't you ask the experts above to calculate it?"

Zhuang Bo said: "In theory, the water flow should be able to be superimposed, but the nuclear bomb itself is in the water, so it's hard to say whether it can be superimposed."

Huo Qiang had an even bigger headache: "Alas, this won't work, and if we delay for a few more days, we'll be out of time!"

Zhuang Bo said: "I have an idea that can save some nuclear bombs, but it's only a temporary solution. "

"Tell me about it." Huo Qiang said, "It's already this time, we have to try our best. Tell us what you can do. Let's discuss it together. Maybe we can come up with a solution."

Zhuang Bo said: "My idea is this. Europa is affected by Jupiter's gravity, and a lot of pressure is concentrated on the front. It is unlikely that aliens are hiding on the front, so we can put fewer or even no nuclear bombs on the front, and concentrate the saved nuclear bombs on the back and sides... Of course, this method only treats the symptoms, not the root cause, and the effect is definitely not comparable to a full-scale explosion."

No state... Sigh!