1117 Satellite City

Although the actual value of a pure kinetic weapon in space warfare with a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers was still inconclusive, but huge ships and giant cannons were the romance of men! The scene of a thousand cannons firing simultaneously made him excited.

Now that the cannon is here, will the ship be such a distant dream?

“Can we test it?” Jiang Chen looked at Ling Tao.

“Of course! We’ll show you its power.” Ling Tao took off the radio on his shoulder and spoke a few words to the engineers of the institute, soon the barrel suspended by the mechanical arm slowly lowered itself by half a meter.

Ling Tao raised his hand and pressed the touchpad a few times. The warehouse door with the electromagnetic pulse cannon was shut and locked. The sprinkler embedded on top of the roof began to release dry ice into the warehouse. At the same time, the vacuum pumps in the lab began to operate.

With the enchanting smoke screen, the warehouse quickly became a vacuum.

“Steel plates” a few centimeters thick were transported one by one with the mechanical arm and placed in front of the groove 500 meters away from the electromagnetic pulse cannon to create a steel wall. But that was not everything. When the steel plates were over five meters thick, a concrete wall more than ten meters thick was placed behind the steel plates.

The size of the entire vacuum laboratory was limited, and the maximum distance was 500 meters. However, for weapons used in space, there was not much difference between 500 meters and five kilometers. After all, there was no air resistance in the universe, and there was no need to consider the kinetic energy attenuation.

The barrel of the cannon was pointed at the thick “steel plates”. The capacitor inside the cannon began to charge, and eerie blue arcs began to leak from the muzzle.

When everything was ready, Ling Tao smiled at Jiang Chen and invited Jiang Chen to press the command button on the touchpad.

“Press the red button to fire.”

Jiang Chen stepped forward, looked at the turret outside the glass, and pressed the red button.

There was no warning.

Blue arcs suddenly flashed, and the glaring white light formed and disappeared in an instant. The fifty-kilogram shell smashed onto the steel plate, accompanied by the tremor of the earth and the roar under their feet.

“…”

Words couldn’t describe such a shocking state.

Almost as soon as he gained the ability to think again, a thigh-sized fracture formed on the steel plate. The wall of steel formed by dozens of steel plates turned into a “V”.

As for the concrete wall behind the steel, it was shattered…

Because Ling Tao already witnessed this many time, he didn’t find it surprising.

“The cannon can fire shells up to fifty kilograms in mass. In theory, the rate of firing can reach nine rounds per minute. Should we still test one more shot?”

“No need, I have seen its power.” Jiang Chen shook his head.

“Okay”

Ling Tao nodded. Then, he stepped forward and pressed the touchpad a few more times. Once the overflowing electricity in the high-energy capacitor slowly dissipated, he immediately turned off the power of the cannon. The blue arcs also went dim and eventually disappeared.

After a long silence, Jiang Chen finally said emotionally, “…I am thinking now, if you put this thing on the Pacific Ocean, is there a ship it can’t bring down in one shot?”

“No warship can carry this turret,” Ling Tao thought that his boss was really considering this possibility, so he quickly explained to him, “The electromagnetic pulse cannon on the Guardian-class is already strong enough, no ship can be safe and sound after one shot lands—”

“I know,” Jiang Chen waved his hand. “I’m just saying. I won’t use a cannon to kill a mosquito.”

Jiang Chen paused for a while as he examined the cannon, then he continued, “How much is the cost of this cannon?”

“Ignore the cost of research and development, this prototype costs about 1 billion New Xin dollars.”

1 billion New Xin dollars!

When he heard this figure, even as the major shareholder of the Xin Fed, Jiang Chen shivered.

Even if large-scale production could reduce the cost by half, the price tag would still be 500 million Xin New dollars. If the Earth fleet planned to equip hundreds of the electromagnetic pulse cannons on its ship, it would bankrupt the Earth Defense Alliance!

Since Jiang Chen’s expression didn’t look too good, Ling Tao who guessed his boss thoughts quickly explained.

“The reason why it is so expensive is mainly because of the manufacturing process. Many parts cannot be produced by the current technology. Only industrial-grade 3D printers can be used as a substitute. Once the production technology catches up, the cannon won’t be so expensive.”

Jiang Chen finally felt better after the explanation.

In a few days, the Earth Defense Alliance would reconvene once again. The next meeting wa