I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 803 - 701: Laser Assault Vehicle

In Chen Xin’s exclusive laboratory, a six-wheeled small car less than three meters long was parked in front of him.

The car’s body was short and compact, leaving only two seats for the driver and co-driver. On the car was a machine that looked like a telescopic telescope, almost a third of the car’s length, with the accompanying base occupying the back half of the car.

This was the new weapon Chen Xin created after being inspired by Qin Lan.

A laser weapon launch platform modified from the chassis of a Lynx assault vehicle.

Chen Xin made two versions, using pulse lasers and continuous lasers respectively. After small-scale trial production, they would be sent to the military for testing to determine the specific model for mass production.

However, Chen Xin was more optimistic about the pulse laser version, mainly because its damage effect was better than that of continuous lasers.

Of course, after Chen Xin’s upgrades, the damage effects of these two types of lasers have reached the standards of practical weapons, only that their modes of operation are slightly different.

This six-wheeled assault vehicle equipped with two types of laser weapons is lightweight and compact, and its six-wheel chassis has quite good mobility, even in underground tunnels.

The laser weapon it carries, after adjustments and upgrades by Chen Xin, only needs about 0.5 seconds of irradiation to cause effective damage to combat subunits.

Although it seems like reducing the time from a few seconds to a fraction of a second is not much, in actual combat, it unquestionably greatly improves the killing efficiency of the laser weapon.

Take a simple example. If it takes 2-3 seconds of irradiation to cause effective damage to a combat subunit and penetrate its chitin exoskeleton, how can one ensure that the laser can irradiate the same position for at least 5 seconds in underground tunnel combat?

It’s important to know that in the combat ring of underground tunnels, alien creatures still have considerable mobility. Besides advancing on the ground, they can also climb on the sides and top of the caves. In such an environment, aiming the laser at a moving target and maintaining a few seconds of irradiation is not easy.

In this situation, shortening the laser irradiation time, ideally achieving the kind of instant igniting, penetration, and cutting as seen in science fiction, would be best.

But while Chen Xin can create such high-power, high-damage laser weapons through system upgrades, they’re not suitable for production.

At least not in the short term for mass production to meet the military’s needs to clear alien creatures in underground tunnels during counter-offensive operations.

And laser weapons that can cause effective damage in 0.5 seconds of irradiation can already meet the military’s needs and are easier to produce.

Chen Xin has already asked the factory. With slight adjustments to the production line, all other parts are already ready. Within a month, a hundred assault vehicles equipped with laser weapons could be equipped to the troops, meeting the military’s needs.

However, Chen Xin still tried to make a laser weapon with enough power to instantaneously cut through the body of a combat subunit within an effective range as a backup.

Of course, this laser cannon, with enough power to cut through a combat subunit’s body instantaneously, is not suitable for mounting on an assault vehicle but is more suitable as a weapon for Titan.

The greater the power, the greater the energy required. For a small assault vehicle, even with a nuclear battery, the energy output is limited, and meeting the consumption of a regular laser weapon is already the limit.

On the other hand, Titan can output much more energy than a small assault vehicle.

For this reason, Chen Xin also planned to equip Titan with laser weapons.

After all, if Titan could be equipped with more powerful laser weapons, it could sweep through alien creatures in tunnels, and the combat efficiency would undoubtedly be greatly increased.

Nevertheless, Chen Xin still had reservations about the actual usage of laser weapons and planned to wait until the military tested the two assault vehicles equipped with laser weapons in actual combat and then consider whether to equip Titan with laser weapons based on the results.

Laser weapons and projectile weapons are two fundamentally different types of weapons, and their use is more akin to shining a flashlight at a target, rather than, as shown in many movies, shooting a light bullet like a bullet.

Therefore, their use will certainly be different from existing weapons, and specific usage of this new type of weapon still needs practical testing and research by the military.

However, these matters are not Chen Xin’s responsibility. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

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Two assault vehicles equipped with laser weapons were quickly sent to the front lines and handed over to the military.

The military was indeed astonished that Chen Xin provided a new type of weapon so quickly. Although they requested it from Chen Xin, they approached it with a trial mindset, not really pinning their hopes on the new weapon.

After all, they knew such a request was highly unreasonable and somewhat fanciful.

The development of a new weapon, from design to trial production, actual combat testing, and final determination for mass production, usually takes several years at the very least.

The military changing a rifle can take ten years, and producing a new weapon ready for combat in three months, even if it’s just an engineer shovel, is impossible.

It was just that Chen Xin had created so many miracles before, leading the military to think this way.

But even so, the military was prepared for the absence of new weapons, considering that even if Chen Xin managed to develop a new type of weapon meeting the requirements within three months, it might not necessarily enter mass production to catch up with the subsequent counter-offensive operations.

But now that Chen Xin achieved it, the military was undoubtedly greatly shocked.

However, the way military personnel think differs from ordinary people. For them, without new weapons, they prepare accordingly; with new weapons, they naturally adjust around them.

The two prototype vehicles were quickly tested, and the military soon understood the effects of the different types of laser weapons on the two vehicles.

The military was undoubtedly satisfied with the destructive effect of the laser weapons on the two prototype vehicles, even though the damage appeared not too different from large-caliber bullets or small-caliber cannon shells. However, there were inherently fundamental differences between the two.

Laser weapons effectively resolved the issue of ricochets that plagued the military, as well as the risk of cave-ins from explosive shells. They met the military’s requirements for underground tunnel combat.

As a result, the military immediately assembled a group of frontline officers and soldiers with rich combat experience to study tactics and usage. They also returned the test results to Chen Xin here and proposed some improvement suggestions.

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