This kind of research method is absolutely impossible in the human world. Not to mention whether there are so many materials science experts with sufficient knowledge accumulation and operational experience to participate in the experiment. Even if there are, the material loss in the process alone would be unbearable. Every experiment requires the participation of extremely sophisticated equipment, consumes a lot of electricity, and a large amount of precious raw materials. But for Li Qingsong, none of this is a problem. Materials expert? I have, a lot. If one million isn’t enough, I can even come up with 100 million. Every clone, even if he is a farmer, pig farmer, sports car driver, or garbage collector, can be transformed into a materials expert at any time if necessary. Material loss? That doesn’t matter. So many factories run at full capacity all day long, and what are the purposes of producing so many products? Is it to allow every clone to live a good life? Of course not, but to support the consumption of scientific experiments.
The two major obstacles do not exist at all for Li Qingsong. So Li Qingsong started to tackle the problem in materials science with the highest theoretical efficiency, and in just over a decade, he kept trying, iterating, and optimizing, and finally found the right materials. A type of steel produced by high-pressure forging with metallic niobium as an added element. Finally, a breakthrough in materials science was achieved, and there were no more obstacles for Li Qingsong to manufacture qualified high-speed bogies. At this moment, after decades of continuous research and development, a qualified high-speed bogie was finally placed in front of Li Qingsong. Its overall structure is like a hemisphere, with some brackets extending from it, which look somewhat like antennas. Li Qingsong placed this antenna on a test bench that was shaking and swaying violently. Although the test bench was constantly shaking, no matter how it shook, because of its special shock-absorbing and stabilization system, only the hemisphere inside the outer shell was shaking, while the outer layer remained stable and did not move at all. Not only that, the brackets on it were also turning rapidly, pointing this way and then that way. It looked like branches swaying randomly in the strong wind, but the indicator lights released from those brackets showed that this was not an irregular swing, but a conscious control. The light would always accurately point to the corresponding numbers on the huge screen in front, even though those numbers were extremely small and could not be seen clearly with the naked eye even if one got close, and even though the distance between the two was as high as a hundred meters. Dozens of brackets were aimed quickly and simultaneously without any confusion or error. Looking at its performance, Li Qingsong finally nodded with satisfaction. “Everything else is good, except that the amount of niobium metal used is a bit too much. This stuff is a rare element. The largest niobium mine on Earth once had a reserve of only a few million tons, and there is even less here in the Jupiter system. If we want to produce on a large scale, we still have to look for large rocky planets or the asteroid belt. But it doesn’t matter. In the future I will build several mining bases inside the solar system. ” At this moment, the high-speed bogie has also been successfully developed, and only the last component is left in the entire interception system. Data processing system. The data processing system is the brain of the entire interception system.
After the radar captures the target signal, the data processing system must first make a calculation based on the target's orbit and heading, combined with its own orbit and heading, as well as the operating status, orientation, and attitude of the existing defense weapons in the current situation. It then makes a comprehensive decision and issues instructions to the bogie, which will then point the appropriate weapon in the appropriate direction and activate the electromagnetic gun and laser cannon. Although a data processing system is important, it is ultimately just a high-performance computer. At this moment, Li Qingsong has mastered the manufacturing process of 2-nanometer chips and can already start mass production. Chips using a 2-nanometer process are more than capable of handling the calculations for this amount of data. Therefore, with the successful development of the high-speed bogie, the last obstacle to building a truly "modern" warship was finally completely removed by Li Qingsong. The long and large-scale scientific research that lasted for decades finally produced some phased results, allowing Li Qingsong to breathe a sigh of relief. But it was just a slight relief. Li Qingsong did not forget that Wukong AI was always waiting for real and effective battlefield data as food. At this stage, Wukong can only live in the virtual space simulated by supercomputers and use some virtual data as food. So…… Li Qingsong made a decision immediately. Build a truly modern battleship! At this moment, because the relevant technology has just had a breakthrough, the relevant production line is not yet ready. But it doesn’t matter. Under the existing industrial system, customized production can also produce all the relevant parts of this warship. As a result, the spacecraft shell factory, engine factory, secondary pressurization module factory, bogie factory, and so on, a total of 16,000 parts factories involved, produced all the parts within five days and transported them all to the vacuum assembly workshop. The assembly workshop maintains an extremely high vacuum degree, and the material there is even less dense than real interstellar space. Taking the distance of about 5,000 kilometers from Ganymede as an example, even in the space where matter is so thin, there are about 10 particles per cubic centimeter on average. However, in the vacuum assembly chamber built by Li Qingsong, the average number of particles per cubic centimeter is only 3. In such a pure space, various parts began to be precisely assembled. In the many production and construction projects in the past, Li Qingsong deeply realized a truth. For an industrial product like a spacecraft, which has a huge number of parts, even as many as hundreds of thousands or millions of parts, the production of a single part is not the most difficult part; the most difficult part is assembling them together. This is an extremely complex systematic work. If there is a slight mistake, it may affect the overall performance of the spacecraft. If the wiring is a little unreasonable, it may cause a malfunction. But fortunately, Li Qingsong was already familiar with this. Hundreds of clones, assisted by the "Divine Work" AI, manipulated highly precise robotic arms to build the parts in the vacuum chamber into the spacecraft frame bit by bit. It took more than ten days of continuous welding, gluing, tightening and connecting to assemble this truly first modern Mercury-class battleship in history. Looking at this spaceship, which is disc-shaped, dark gray on the outside and about 16 meters in diameter, Li Qingsong's heart was filled with joy. The birth of this spacecraft means that at least in terms of warship-related technology, we have completely surpassed previous human civilization!