Five Hundred and Eighty Seventh Expedition Preparations

Ye Han, who walked into the spaceship, would never have imagined that someone would make such a scandal after he left. At this moment, his heart was filled with guilt, and he couldn't hold other things anymore.

He didn't come back to his senses until the spaceship started.

The fully enclosed spaceship couldn't see the situation in the airport, but there was a feeling dominating him in meditation, looking at a certain point in the base.

There is the direction of home, there is his beloved girl... But he is about to leave, can that ordinary dormitory be considered home?

Thinking that Bai Xiaoting will spend nearly two thousand days and nights alone from today, Ye Han's heart is pierced.

The spaceship gradually accelerated, and the feeling of pushing back became stronger and stronger. The strong noise from outside the spaceship brought back Ye Han's sanity. Through the porthole directly in front of the spaceship, he saw that the passage outside the ship was retreating rapidly.

The spaceship was getting faster and faster, and it was flying fast in the vacuum channel. The noise from outside the spaceship was more and more like an electric drill digging into the wall. After a few minutes, Ye Han finally saw a starry night sky.

He knew that the last section of the No. 2 track was not a vertical shaft, but an inclined shaft pointing obliquely to the sky. Seeing the sky outside the shaft meant that the spacecraft was about to leave the launch shaft.

Just as this idea came to Ye Han's mind, the starry sky that was still in the distance suddenly enlarged, the annoying noise stopped abruptly, and there was no longer a way to retreat outside the porthole, leaving only a black sky dotted with starlight.

The speed seemed to no longer exist, and the movement of the spaceship could not be felt at all. It seemed that there was nothing else between the sky and the earth except this spaceship. It was not until the lights outside the orbital factory came into view that everything came alive again.

The spacecraft entered orbit around the moon and began to approach the Moon Bay spacecraft under the control of the base.

Ye Han has long known about the Rainbow Bay series built by the orbital factory, but this is the first time he has witnessed the true face of a 024-class warship. His gaze was immediately attracted by the huge figures floating near the orbital factory.

Ye Han memorizes the data of the 024-class destroyer by heart—the captain is 146 meters long and has a displacement of 4,800 tons!

This displacement is the tonnage of a frigate for surface ships, but space battleships use a lot of foam alloys, and the volume of warships is much larger than surface ships of the same tonnage, so the 024 class is a destroyer rather than a frigate.

The shape of the 024 class is roughly a cuboid, but it is not a regular cuboid. The bow is slightly narrower than the stern. There are seven stepped double-mounted laser turrets above the bow and three below; Four large electromagnetic engines, two power compartments are located on both sides of the stern, and each has a naval metal reactor.

Because the engine compartment and power compartment take up a lot of space, only three dual-mounted laser turrets are installed at the stern. There is a single-tube 100mm semi-buried turret on the left and right sides of the battleship, and each gun is equipped with 240 rounds of ammunition.

In terms of defensive weapons, the ship is equipped with eight 1020 near-anti-aircraft guns and eight laser near-anti-aircraft guns.

Normally, two 1020 close-in anti-aircraft guns installed on a battleship can meet the defense needs of the battleship. Considering the special situation of the expeditionary force, the military has increased the number of close-in anti-aircraft guns by eight times!

The reason why laser cannons and ordinary naval guns are mixed is because the military does not understand the weapons and equipment of aliens at all. Although laser cannons are advanced, it is hard to say whether they will be useful to aliens.

The laser cannon is one of the most advanced weapons of mankind, but the most mature weapon system is still the most common artillery.

Installing artillery on a battleship is not for fighting, but as the last means of resisting the enemy. Once the battleship uses the 1020 close-in defense gun, it means that the battleship will have to fight the enemy hand-to-hand and fight with life.

The main guns and auxiliary guns are added together. Each 024-class ship has 29 turrets of various types. There are also twelve 4×6 vertical launch modules installed throughout the ship, equipped with 288 pieces of various types. missiles, a third of which are equipped with nuclear warheads.

In addition, there are smoke bombs, rocket launchers, electronic countermeasure equipment, etc. placed outside the ship, and the full ship's weapons and equipment arm the 024 level to the teeth.

Due to well-known reasons, the appearance of the four 024-class ships is exactly the same, and the dark silhouettes that fall into Ye Han's eyes are exactly the same, only the hull number painted on the bow side is slightly different.

According to the order of the superior, after the spaceship that Ye Han and others were on got in touch with the bridge of the Yuewan, it slowly approached the Yuewan, successfully docked with the Yuewan, and immediately transferred the crew and supplies to the battleship.

After Ye Han entered the battleship, he was immediately invited into the bridge by the sailors waiting at the entrance. The captain laughed when he saw Ye Han: "We meet again!"

"Captain Huang?" Ye Han was taken aback. The captain of the Yuewan was the former captain of the Buzhoushan, Huang Bo.

Secretly muttering that there are so many acquaintances, Ye Han hurriedly said hello.

Huang Bo said heartily: "I have a lot of things to do here, you sit down first, and we'll talk later when you're done."

"It's okay, you're busy with your work!" Ye Han quickly agreed, and under Huang Bo's guidance, he floated to his position, fixed himself with safety, and tried to make himself appear insignificant as much as possible.

After only listening for a short while, Ye Han understood that Huang Bo was busy replenishing supplies for the battleship.

The preparations for the materials of the expedition fleet have been going on for some time. Thousands of tons of materials have been continuously launched from the earth and Beiyue Continent, and then sent to the warships for careful storage.

Within a few days, the Rainbow Bay, Dew Bay, and Summer Bay quickly completed the material preparations, and the ammunition supplies filled the warehouses of the battleships.

However, the Yuewan just completed its trial voyage a few days ago. Just a few hours ago, the warship was still checking the hull condition in the dock of the orbital factory. Not long after it left the dock, the orbital factory was replenishing supplies for the warship.

Replenishing supplies for the Yuewan is also one of the two tasks before the expedition fleet departs.

Another job is to install booster rockets for the four warships.

At the same time that the Moon Bay was replenishing supplies, the UAVs under the orbital factory sent the booster rockets that had been prepared long ago to the vicinity of several battleships. The crew personally fixed the booster rocket on the battleship.

The length of the booster rocket is more than 100 meters, and each warship must install eight booster rockets. Due to the uneven surface of the battleship, the booster rockets are not straight up and down cylinders like ordinary rockets, but are adaptively processed according to the shape of the battleship's surface to completely fit the shape of the battleship's surface.

After all the rockets were installed in place, the main body of the battleship was surrounded by eight rockets. At first glance, it looked like a terrorist who was about to carry out a suicide attack.

The booster rocket is a disposable consumable that is used up and discarded. After it is installed on the surface of the battleship, all the hatches leading to the outside of the ship are blocked by the rocket. Therefore, the Moon Bay must be resupplied before the rocket can be installed. Several preparations have been completed. We have to wait for the Moon Bay for a while.