hotmtlnovel Chapter 850 748: Shield Invincible
Chapter 850 748: Shield Invincible
Although the entire air force base has been designated as the research site for the Southern Celestial Gate project, there are still some tests that need to be conducted elsewhere.After all, this is just an air force base. Despite being transformed into a research site for the Southern Celestial Gate project, where the Flame Country has displayed formidable infrastructure capabilities to convert it into a laboratory meeting the requirements, it is ultimately a temporary research facility, necessitating that some specialized tests be conducted in other locations.
For instance, the field tests of the Energy Shield must be conducted at professional weapon testing grounds, and this air force base did not originally have such facilities.
Therefore, for Chen Xin to conduct field tests on the Energy Shield, it must be transported to a site capable of conducting such tests.
Fortunately, the base already has quite a few Land Ships responsible for regular transport of materials and personnel, so assigning one Land Ship to this task poses no problem.
The Energy Shield was quickly transported to the nearest weapon testing site from the air force base, where this test Energy Shield would undergo the challenge of various weapons currently in service with the Flame Country's military, including a range of small missiles.
The military places great importance on Energy Shield technology, as it is not merely a technology applicable to aerospace planes.
Apart from aerospace planes, fighter jets, tanks, armored vehicles, Land Ships, and Mobile Bases, even Titans and Power Armor, all equipment now extensively used and deployed by the Flame Country, can utilize Energy Shield technology.
This certainly has a massive impact on the Flame Country's military, as it will thoroughly change the form of future warfare and will profoundly affect military strategies for future wars.
Following Chen Xin's announcement of a breakthrough in Shield technology, the Flame Country's military urgently assembled experts from relevant fields to assess the Shield technology, focusing on analyzing its impact on future warfare, and how military tactics and strategies would change after acquiring Shield technology.
To give a simple example, when an aircraft carrier is equipped with an Energy Shield, the power output from the carrier's nuclear reactor allows it to withstand any conventional missile attack, greatly enhancing the carrier's survivability.
And as for tanks or single-soldier weapons like Titans, it's even more evident. With an Energy Shield, the mode of human warfare is enough to transition from reality to science fiction.
Though the Energy Shield is not invincible and can still be breached, the significantly enhanced survivability of various war machines is undoubtedly going to dramatically change the form of warfare.
A tank that a missile could originally destroy would see its defense capabilities greatly improved with an Energy Shield, to the extent that ten times the firepower might still fail to destroy it.
Until humanity develops weapons capable of penetrating Energy Shields, facing war machines equipped with these shields requires either exhausting the shield's energy with saturation fire or exceeding the shield's tolerance with instantaneous overpowering attacks to overload it; otherwise, it's impossible to destroy a unit equipped with a shield.
And that means using more ammunition than in the past to destroy a target, like using an anti-aircraft gun to shoot mosquitoes.
This alone is enough for military strategists to devise all sorts of innovative tactics, rewriting contemporary modes of warfare.
It's somewhat like a spiraling cycle; for example, battleships once had thick armor with unparalleled defense, capable of withstanding various weapon attacks, with some battleships even standing up to nuclear bombs.
This resulted in a period when only another battleship could destroy a battleship; no other method could sink one.
Battleships became the strongest representation of the "shield," prompting countries worldwide to compete in building larger battleships with thicker armor.
Yet, as humanity created larger bombs that aligned more with the aesthetic of appeasing the ecologically conscious, these increasingly artistic weapons shattered the "shield" represented by battleships, making the "spear" the new mainstream.
Modern warships exemplify this trend, built so lightly that a warship might even suffer catastrophic damage and sink from colliding with a cargo ship.
Despite this, their firepower is sufficient to easily send past "shield" representative battleships to the ocean floor, thus negating the need for defense, as humanity has yet to create a "shield" capable of withstanding modern "spears."
But Energy Shield technology represents a new "shield," bringing the spiral back to a point where the "shield" is again stronger than the "spear."
The field tests for the Energy Shield demonstrated this reality in a profoundly shocking manner.
The military of the Flame Country deployed all conventional weapons from land forces, from various firearms to explosives, and brought in artillery of all calibers to test them one by one; even the air force played a part, using all munitions capable of ground attack, just falling short of having the rocket forces release ballistic missiles to strike directly.
Yet, despite enduring such a massive assault, the temporarily modified Type 59 tank equipped with the Shield as a target remained standing on the test ground.
The land around the tank was slashed down by a depth of three parts, yet not even a speck of paint was scratched off the Type 59 tank.
Finally, they resorted to anti-ship missiles originally intended to destroy warships. Only after an anti-ship missile impact did the activated, light-blue Energy Shield deplete its energy and shut down.
This truly astonished the Flame Country's military; the tank's intrinsic defense is negligible. While the Type 59 tank was once a mainstay weapon of the Flame Country's military, its defense capability in the face of various modernized weapons is little better than paper.
Especially against artillery and missile attacks, which are not something a single tank could withstand.
Yet, this Type 59 tank withstood such attacks, enduring to the very end.
This sufficiently demonstrates the strength and excellence of the Energy Shield.
With such results, the Flame Country's military immediately reported the findings, aspiring to equip the entire military with this era-defining new equipment.
The high command naturally agreed enthusiastically, expressing strong support, promptly approaching Chen Xin, hoping he could make the Energy Shield technology practical and equip the main current military equipment to realize an army upgrade and renormalization.
In the eyes of the top leadership, once Energy Shield technology becomes ubiquitous in the military, there would be no need to build what they must call defensive lines. Humanity would be positioned to launch a comprehensive strategic offensive against extraterrestrial life.
In response to the high-level requests, Chen Xin calmly produced designs of the Titan equipped with the Energy Shield and a modification plan for existing Titans.