Five Hundred and Eighty Eighth Sail

More than two hours later, Yuewan finally replenished its supplies, and the eight booster rockets were installed one by one.

Dozens of small spaceships that were originally surrounding the Moon Bay retreated one after another, and Huang Bo in the bridge of the Moon Bay ordered loudly: "Start the attitude engine——"

"Attitude engine starts—"

"Join the expedition formation!"

The attitude engine under the belly of the battle spewed out several white airflows, propelling the Yuewan to float upwards and join the end of the formation of the expedition fleet. The four warships were lined up with an interval of more than 100 meters. A red light flashed slightly, which was the signal light on the surface of the battleship.

Ye Han, who had been sitting dry for more than two hours, immediately cheered up, and stared at the screen on the left side of the bridge with wide eyes. On the screen, the hull number on the side of the Summer Bay could be clearly seen.

That's right, screens, not portholes.

The 024-class does not have a conspicuous bridge like a surface ship. The command cabin of a battleship is located in the lower part of the battleship. If it is replaced by a surface ship, this position is in the middle of the bottom of the ship. The location of the bridge.

At first glance, such a design seems very unreasonable, but in fact this scheme is the painstaking work of the designers.

The military has never designed a space battleship, everything has to be started from scratch.

However, the military has a good tradition in design. When designing nuclear submarines, they also started from scratch. The designers only had two photos of nuclear submarines reproduced from foreign newspapers, and a nuclear submarine bought from a toy store. Model, but the design team just came up with a nuclear submarine!

Inspired by the predecessors, the designers found a large number of sci-fi film and television works, took photos and archived the warships that appeared in the films, conducted detailed research one by one, and absorbed the excellent ideas in them.

In this way, from 011 to 024, the two types of space battleships have grown from scratch, from rough to refined, from chaotic to reasonable.

Comparing the design drawings, it can be found that the first draft of the 011 class has a bridge that clearly protrudes from the hull, which is no different from a surface ship. Finally disappeared.

The bridge is the command center of the battleship and the brain of the battleship. Once it is destroyed, the consequences will be unimaginable. Is it because the enemy is afraid that the enemy will not find out if such an important position is designed so conspicuously?

A battleship cannot be without a bridge, but it does not need an exposed bridge! However, the bridges of space battleships in all sci-fi film and television works are exposed on the surface of the battleship, and only a few of them can be hidden inside the ship after the war.

This kind of wonderful design made all the designers amazed, directly borrowing from the design plan of the submarine, wouldn't it be over to build a hidden bridge?

As a result, the space battleships of the two levels became what they are now without a bridge, and the designers even gave this structure a name-built-in bridge!

With the built-in bridge design, the images outside the ship cannot be observed through the portholes. In fact, there is no need to use any portholes. The universe is vast and boundless, and you can’t see the edge at a glance. Except for the dark sky and a little bit of starlight, you can’t see anything at all with the naked eye.

The electronic equipment is different. The camera equipment installed outside the ship can not only transmit the images in all directions up, down, left, and right back to the bridge, but also use optical equipment to enlarge the picture. More importantly, electronic equipment can fill the screen with light, separate objects that were originally hidden in the dark, and avoid misjudgment caused by naked eye observation.

Without electronic equipment to fill in the light, no matter how good Ye Han's eyesight is, he would never be able to see the hull number of the Summer Bay, even if the distance between the two warships is only more than a hundred meters.

This is the natural physiological weakness of the naked eye, an irreversible weakness—even if optical sighting equipment is used in naval battles, the space battlefield is much larger than the sea surface, how can we only observe the situation with the naked eye?

If you have a conspicuous bridge, you must pass through the portholes for observation. What kind of window glass can resist the powerful rays in the universe and resist the enemy's firepower in battle?

Leaving such obvious flaws on the battleship,

Are you courting death?

Therefore, the final design plan is that there are screens everywhere in the bridge, showing the situation outside the ship at 360 degrees without dead angles, just like sitting in a panoramic dome theater watching a documentary film about the universe and starry sky.

"Report, the Moon Bay is in place!" Huang Bo's energetic voice sounded from the bridge.

As soon as the words fell, a steady voice appeared on the communicator: "Yuewan, welcome back to the team—command center, the task force has assembled, please leave the port!"

"The command center has received, the task force can leave the port, salute——"

"Attention all, I am the flagship Rainbow Bay, listen to my order, the ships spread out, the distance is 500 meters!"

The attitude engine started again, and after the Moon Bay slid out to the side for seven or eight hundred meters, it adjusted its position again, and the four warships finally lined up in a line about five hundred meters apart.

"Command center, the task force is ready to go, requesting navigation data."

"The data has been uploaded!"

"Data received, decoded... Attention all personnel, start the main engine—"

"Start the main engine!" Huang Bo immediately repeated the order.

"The main engine starts!"

The propulsion of the electromagnetic engine is expensive, and the actual propulsion is very small. Ye Han didn't feel any abnormalities, and he didn't even notice the slightest sign of the battleship moving.

"The ships are advancing at full speed, and the countdown to the ignition of the first set of booster rockets—"

The countdown sounded in the bridge of Yuewan. Ye Han took a deep breath, pressed his body tightly on the chair, and prepared to resist the impact.

"Three, two, one, ignite!" The ten-second countdown ended, and the two booster rockets fixed outside the ship ignited at the same time.

The thrust given by the rocket to the battleship must penetrate the center of mass of the battleship, otherwise the battleship will yaw due to uneven force, so two booster rockets are fired each time, and the two symmetrical rockets are fired at the same time.

The strong power pushes the nearly 5,000-ton warship to accelerate slowly, and the warship gradually moves away from its original position.

Ye Han noticed that the moon on the screen was obviously moving backwards. He couldn't help feeling sad, and said silently: "Xiaoting, wait for me to come back..."

The speed of the formation is getting faster and faster, gradually leaving the moon behind, accelerating towards the blue earth.

At this time, the moon was located between the sun and the earth, hanging high in the daytime sky. After the fleet set off, it did not fly directly in the direction of Jupiter, but flew to the right side of the earth first.

According to human habits, the solar system is above the north of the earth, and all planets revolve counterclockwise. If the direction of the earth is regarded as the front, the flying direction of the fleet at this time is behind the earth. After a few minutes, the booster rocket runs out of fuel After a short attitude adjustment, the four warships aligned themselves with the intended sailing direction, and immediately activated the second set of booster rockets.