nycdaug Chapter 530 New Type of Mech
Chapter 530 New Type of Mech
Before she knew it, it was April 5th. Yunlan finished tidying up the house and pushed the stroller to the city lord's office. As soon as she entered, she found Li Chenglong huddled together with El and Triss, seemingly studying something, while a stack of blueprints was already laid out on the table beside them.
Yunlan asked curiously, "What are you all busy with? You started so early." Li Chenglong said while drawing something, "The three of us are researching two new types of battle armor. In the battle in space a few days ago, I found that both our S1 land-based mech and S2 transformable land-air amphibious mech are quite different from the alien mechs."
He handed the two original manuscripts to Yunlan, picked up Li Yunxi and kissed her, saying, "Although I had the idea of creating a new type of battle armor before, I was always too busy to do it. Now that I finally have some time, plus with El and Triss here, and the things left by Teacher Lena, the research on the new mecha has begun."
It turns out that before Lena left, she wrote a lot of things. These included suggestions for the future development of Dawn City, various improvement plans for the weapons and equipment currently used by the Dawn Army, and improved methods for producing vaccines for the Z virus and C virus zombie viruses.
Because the Starfleet left in a hurry, Professor Lena entrusted this thick document to El and Triss, asking the siblings to pass it on to Li Chenglong. Li Chenglong, after receiving these documents, treasured them greatly and has been conducting various studies on them recently.
Li Chenglong placed his daughter in the stroller and continued, "I plan to abandon some of the S1 and S2 mechs currently in use and replace them with the latest models. There are two types of the latest mechs: one is a land-based and sea-based model, and the other is a space-based model. As for the names of these two mechs, one will be named Qilin, and the other Yanfeng."
Looking at the drawings, Yunlan noticed that the appearance of the Qilin and Yanfeng was significantly more beautiful and gorgeous than the current S1 and S2 mechs, and they also carried many more weapons.
El explained, "The Qilin is a land and sea amphibious combat armor, standing 15.3 meters tall and weighing 18.8 tons. The entire body is made of cosmic alloy, making it lighter and stronger. In addition, it is coated with a beam coating that the Interstellar Alliance has just developed, which can effectively resist special beam attacks."
He took out a design drawing and continued, "As for weaponry, the Qilin mech is equipped with a 12.2mm crystal rotary machine gun or beam cannon on each of its arms and legs, and a 3-meter-long ion battle sword on its right arm. That's its built-in weaponry. As for the main weapon, it's a 155mm super-energy beam cannon. Even a level two special agent wouldn't last more than three shots before being blasted to smithereens."
"To ensure the Qilin's agility and high attack power, each Qilin is equipped with two CX8 engines and two fourth-generation super crystal generators, which ensures high output power while also taking stability into account."
After he finished speaking, Tris continued, "As for the Flame Phoenix, it actually continues the combat concept of the S2 transformable mech. It can transform into a land combat mode or into the Flame Phoenix to fight in the air and space. The Flame Phoenix is not equipped with a large ion battle sword, but with a beam sword that is more than two meters long. As for the cannon, it is also quite different from the Qilin. Although the power is smaller, the flexibility is greatly improved."
She paused for a moment and added, "As for the Flame Phoenix, each Flame Phoenix is equipped with four SX5 engines and three fourth-generation super crystal generators, as well as four high-power thrusters and eight small thrusters in different directions to ensure stability and maneuverability in space warfare. In terms of weaponry, it has four 125mm beam cannons and two 10.5mm super-powered machine guns."
"As for the parameters, the Flame Phoenix's mecha form is 14.8 meters tall and weighs 18 tons. Its entire body is also covered with the latest beam coating, but its cosmic alloy armor is 40% thinner than the Qilin's."
After reviewing these documents, Yunlan thought for a moment before saying, "Based on these design drawings and various parameters, the Qilin and Yanfeng are indeed significantly stronger than the S1 and S2 mechs. However, I can also see from the parameters that these mechs place extremely high demands on the pilots. Can our current mech pilots operate them? And then there's the cost; these things certainly aren't cheap, are they?"
Li Chenglong smiled and nodded: "My wife is really smart. She saw the key point right away. After some calculations with El, Triss, and Long Ling, who was studying at the main control computer in the space factory, we determined that the cost of each Qilin is 1 level 11 crystal, while the cost of each Fire Phoenix is 1.5 level 11 crystals."
"So many?" Yunlan asked in surprise, "How many do you plan to manufacture? Do you have enough raw materials?"
Li Chenglong stretched out his hands: "We have enough raw materials. Last time, Teacher Lena and Marina gave me some equipment, so now my space factory can smelt cosmic alloys. As for the raw materials, we've already collected so many alien mech wreckage pieces; that's enough to build several thousand more mechs. As for the production quantity, I plan to start with 100 of each type of mech. Once the armored division's soldiers are proficient in using them, we can continue manufacturing."
Because Li Chenglong's space factory can automatically condense three level 11 crystals every day in its natural zone, he doesn't care about the cost at all. Moreover, not to mention the cost, the energy required for the activities of the Qilin and Yanfeng alone is a huge number, so maintaining such a state-of-the-art mecha force is still very expensive.
Seeing that he had made up his mind, Yunlan didn't say anything more. She said with some regret, "It's a pity I don't have a space factory, otherwise the two of us could produce together, which would be much faster."
Li Chenglong waved his hand: "It's alright. Some of the components can now be manufactured in the second production zone of Dawn City. This way, my space factory's production speed is much faster than before. This afternoon, let's go to the armored division together to take a look, and let two of the best pilots ride in it to experience it and get their opinions. Then we can continue to improve it. Once the improvements are complete, we can start mass production."
After El and Triss arrived in Dawn City, Li Chenglong didn't let them sit idle. He sent them to the Special Forces Brigade to guide the soldiers' training and teach them about aliens. Although the two were only level 11 superpowered individuals, their strength was considerable, equivalent to a late-stage level 11 three-elemental superpowered individual, and possibly even stronger. Therefore, they were more than capable of training the soldiers.
As for their accommodation, they stayed at Li Chenglong's house. After Dawn City was upgraded to the highest level, Li Chenglong and Yunlan's house had a usable area of 200 square meters and 6 bedrooms. Currently, 4 of them are in use: Li Chenglong and Yunlan's master bedroom, Li Yunhao's room, Su Xi's room, and the room that will be given to Li Yunxi in the future. There are also 2 secondary bedrooms available for them to stay in.
李成龙后面对自己和云岚的家进行了再整理，200平方米的使用面积被合理分成了6卧1客1厨1餐厅3卫生间1书房的构造。
After lunch, Li Chenglong and Yun Lan went to the armored division headquarters together. The armored division had recently undergone a minor downsizing, eliminating some redundant work units, which greatly improved efficiency.
The Dawn Army's armored division is currently divided into a tank brigade and a mech brigade. The tank brigade has three regiments, all of which use Q1 and Q2 tanks, while the mech brigade has four regiments, two of which use S1 mechs and two of which use S2 mechs.
Upon hearing about the new mechs, everyone eagerly awaited their arrival. Li Chenglong took out a Qilin and a Fire Phoenix, and had the two best soldiers selected from the entire mech brigade board them.
After an hour of exploration and instruction from the mech's built-in artificial intelligence, the two gradually mastered the operating skills and slowly began to maneuver their respective mechs.
Another hour passed, and the two different types of mechs were already able to perform various actions skillfully under the control of their pilots. The pilot of the Fire Phoenix had even performed a difficult aerial transformation maneuver.
Before leaving in the afternoon, Li Chenglong invited the two pilots to his side and carefully inquired about their experiences piloting the two mechs, listening to their opinions and suggestions. He closed his notebook, already having made up his mind, believing that with this information, the two new mechs could be further improved.