PFC Chapter 764 Lasers and Explosive Energy
Chapter 764 Lasers and Explosive Energy
Chapter 764 Lasers and Explosive Energy
That night, Yevander, Roxie, and Hussein got completely drunk and helped each other out of the bar—actually, it was Fu Qinghai who was supporting all three of them.
Luo Kexi was lifted up by Fu Qinghai with one arm around him, his steps unsteady and swaying, yet he couldn't help but look up and burst into laughter:
"It reminds me of how he dragged us back in the desert, the two of you, like two plastic bags filled with dead bodies, hahaha... ugh!"
Roxie was laughing when his face suddenly contorted and he vomited, his body arched and he vomited the undigested mixture of dinner and strong liquor all over Fu Qinghai's trouser leg.
A pungent, sour smell wafted over.
Fu Qinghai's expression immediately changed.
As a result, after Roxie finished vomiting, she weakly raised her head and looked at Fu Qinghai, who was supporting her, and said:
"We're even, you could say."
Even your mother's score...
Fu Qinghai wished he could just smother this stupid woman in the nearby green belt. Is this even the same thing? Do you think this matter will be settled unless you beat me twenty times?
Of the four, Fu Qinghai drank the most, but he remained expressionless as if nothing had happened. Next was Roxy, this competitive and foolish girl who had been trying to outdrink Fu Qinghai, and now, with Fu Qinghai carrying her on his shoulder, she was completely blacked out and unconscious. Yevand and Hussein had drunk slightly less; the two of them were still able to help each other walk back to their dormitory.
"We'll go first, Qingshan."
Yevander and Hussein had no intention of dealing with Roxie, who was completely collapsed and stinking up. They waved goodbye and said:
"Roxie is in your hands now."
Fu Qinghai had no choice but to carry Roxie all the way to the female students' dormitory area. It was already 12:30 on Calida Star. The entire dormitory area was dark and quiet, with only the streetlights on both sides of the road and a few rooms lit up.
The question is, where is Roxy's dormitory?
Fu Qinghai carried the drunken woman, who looked like a corpse, around the dormitory area twice, but couldn't find anyone. So he patted the large buttocks on his shoulder and asked:
"Hey, where's your dorm?"
The only response he received was a series of unconscious mutterings and even breathing. Fu Qinghai confirmed that the woman's airway was not blocked by vomit and continued walking forward.
If it doesn't work, should I bring her back to my dorm?
Just as the thought crossed Fu Qinghai's mind, he turned a corner and a black-haired girl walked towards him.
The two looked at each other and were both stunned for a moment.
Fu Qinghai had just seen the pretty girl at the bar and had even eavesdropped on her conversation. The black-haired girl, on the other hand, was surprised to suddenly see a boy carrying a girl walking towards them late at night.
"Hello, do you know where her dormitory is?"
Fu Qinghai put Luo Kexi down and helped him stand up straight.
Roxie leaned against him with her eyes closed.
The black-haired girl paused for a moment when she saw Roxie's face.
"Ah, she...she's my roommate."
He then quickly stepped forward to help her up, saying:
"How did she get so drunk... Give her to me."
"Ok."
Fu Qinghai knew, of course, that this girl was Luo Kexi's roommate, and simply pushed the woman in his arms to her.
He needed to hurry back and get rid of the smell on him.
Fu Qinghai had just turned around and hadn't taken more than a few steps when he heard a labored groan behind him:
"Uh... that..."
Fu Qinghai turned around and saw the black-haired girl struggling to support Roxie against her back, looking up and pleading:
"Could you help me carry her back?"
Helpless, Fu Qinghai could only turn around and walk back, grabbing one of Roxie's arms and carrying her on his back again, then following the black-haired girl toward the girls' dormitory building of the Naval Academy.
"laugh."
The dormitory door slid open to the left.
"Sorry, it's a bit messy inside."
The black-haired girl turned around and said:
"You can just leave her in the bathroom."
The double rooms at the Imperial Naval Academy were even smaller than the single rooms at the Imperial Stormtroopers Academy, probably to allow these cadets to get used to life on board in advance. Fu Qinghai carried Roxie and squeezed into the bathroom, placing her on the shower floor. Just as he lifted his head to get up, his eyes were covered by two wet strips of cloth.
Fu Qinghai raised his hand, took it down, and looked at it.
A pair of pure white, seamless briefs.
The black-haired girl walked into the bathroom expressionlessly and snatched the half-dry underwear from Fu Qinghai's hand.
"Thank you, that's fine."
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The next morning, at the firing range.
Fu Qinghai didn't know if the other three had recovered, but he had already started his new training course.
This is a shooting lesson.
Fu Qinghai looked down at the dazzling array of black firearms laid out on the table in front of him. The assault team had a wide variety of standard individual weapons to choose from, including pistols, automatic rifles, sniper rifles, carbines, shotguns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, missile launchers, and flamethrowers, among others…
However, apart from missile launchers and flamethrowers, all other firearms are explosive weapons.
Even the so-called "explosive shotgun" essentially fires a relatively large burst of explosive gas.
Another major reason why Fu Qinghai agreed to infiltrate the Calida Military Academy was that it provided convenient and legal access to and research on various active-duty weapons and equipment of the Galactic Empire.
Fu Qinghai didn't know when blaster weapons began to completely replace ballistic weapons in the Star Wars canon universe. He had previously captured blaster weapons from the Star Wars universe in other reincarnation worlds, and after careful study, he confirmed that blaster weapons did indeed have greater advantages over ballistic weapons in all aspects.
Many military novices like to compare the power of two weapons, but in reality, for a single-soldier weapon, power is probably the least important indicator. After all, the size and weight of a single-soldier weapon are limited, and its power will eventually have an upper limit. In war, what is really responsible for providing power are things like shells, bombs, and missiles.
Even when comparing power, for blast weapons and ballistic weapons of the same caliber, the penetration power of a blast beam is far superior to that of a bullet. The drawback is that while a blast beam has some stopping power, it is very weak, far less than that of a bullet.
Explosive weapons are essentially directed energy weapons, primarily killing with high temperatures and a small amount of kinetic energy. Because the high temperatures can cause the wounds to char, there are not many visual effects such as blood spurting when the human body is hit.
In terms of range, because blast energy weapons do not have rifling and the blast energy beam dissipates in the air, the effective range of blast energy weapons is often shorter than that of live-fire weapons of the same caliber.
In terms of shooting accuracy, the trajectory of bullets from live-fire weapons can be predicted to some extent, while the energy beams from blast weapons may fly in all directions. However, the recoil of live-fire weapons is the biggest factor affecting shooting accuracy. Blast weapons also have recoil, but it is much smaller than that of live-fire weapons. Therefore, in terms of shooting accuracy, the two are probably about the same.
In terms of power, range, and accuracy, explosive weapons and live ammunition weapons each have their own advantages and disadvantages. However, in terms of ammunition capacity, explosive weapons have a significant advantage that completely outclasses the latter.
Take the E-11 blaster, the most commonly carried weapon in the Imperial assault teams, as an example. The entire gun weighs 2.7 kilograms and can fire 500 rounds continuously from a single blaster canister. What does 500 rounds mean? In terms of live ammunition, that's the ammunition capacity of a heavy machine gun.
In comparison, the M4A1 carbine weighs 3.0 kg unloaded and 0.4 kg with a standard 30-round magazine.
Not only was the ammunition quantity completely outmatched, but the volume and weight of the explosive gas cylinders were also far smaller than a standard magazine.
The E-11 blaster has an optimal range of less than 100 meters and an effective range of less than 300 meters. The M4A1 carbine has an optimal range of less than 300 meters and an effective range of less than 500 meters. While the latter appears to have a longer range, any rational person would choose the former as their weapon.
美国陆军单兵标准携弹量是5个弹匣150发弹药，特殊情况极限携弹量可以达到15个弹匣450发弹药，但是一个帝国冲锋队员轻轻松松就能携带超过5000发的弹药。
The factors that affect the sustained firing of explosive weapons are usually problems such as barrel overheating, not the amount of ammunition carried.
However, for Fu Qinghai, the weapons he compared to explosive weapons were never live ammunition weapons, but laser weapons—he had once considered whether to replace the laser rifles currently used by the Imperial Guard with explosive rifles.
The upper and lower limits of the power of a laser rifle vary greatly, depending not on the caliber but on the output power of the battery. Tests show that, when the weight and size of the guns are similar, the power of a blaster rifle is greater than that of a laser rifle.
Laser guns can certainly outperform blaster guns. If the battery size is increased further, making it as big as a backpack and connecting it to the gun body with a cable, a so-called "hell gun" can be created. However, this would greatly increase the weight, size, and manufacturing cost of the entire gun.
Laser weapons kill purely through high temperatures, with no stopping force on the target and no recoil on the shooter, so they have both advantages and disadvantages.
However, laser weapons have a significant advantage that neither blast energy weapons nor ballistic weapons can match: their inherent near-perfect shooting accuracy.
For live-fire weapons, lasers are a kind of aiming aid. A laser rifle is essentially turning the aiming aid directly into the firearm itself. How could the shooting accuracy not be high?
In addition, the human empire's laser rifles have a unique black technology: in an emergency, the battery pack can be removed and thrown into a fire to temporarily replenish some power.
The laser rifles boast an absolutely straight trajectory and instantaneous hit rate upon firing, two major advantages that save significant training time and costs. Imagine: in certain urgent combat situations, the Human Empire could simply distribute large numbers of laser rifles directly to ordinary civilians. These civilians wouldn't need any shooting training; simply picking up a laser rifle would instantly create them into basic combatants.
The reason why the Imperium of Man has not done so in most cases is that the manufacturing cost of a laser rifle is far higher than the value of a civilian or even a soldier's life. Many planetary defense forces of the Imperium of Man do not even have the money to equip themselves with laser rifles and still use traditional ballistic weapons, which are called automatic weapons in the Warhammer 40K universe.
Compared to laser rifles, which were only fully equipped by the Imperial Guard, individual blast weapons have become so prevalent in the Star Wars universe that they are practically ubiquitous. The Imperial Army uses blast weapons, the Rebel Alliance uses blast weapons, various bandits and outlaws also use blast weapons, and it's not uncommon for civilians to own one or two blast weapons.
After multi-dimensional analysis and comparison, blaster weapons still possess significant advantages in terms of low cost and ammunition capacity. If Fu Qinghai can reduce the manufacturing cost of blaster weapons in the Warhammer 40K universe to the same level as in the Star Wars universe, then replacing laser rifles with blaster rifles is feasible. Putting aside other factors, blaster weapons are at least far superior to ballistic weapons.
Conversely, if Fu Qinghai were to bring the laser rifle from the Warhammer 40K universe into the Star Wars universe, it could also trigger a weapons revolution. The training time and costs saved by the laser rifle would be of great significance to the Rebel Alliance, which initially relied mainly on civilians to launch uprisings, and could to some extent close the gap in individual soldier quality between them and the Empire.
Laser weapons also exist in the Star Wars canon universe, but there are not many types. They are mostly vehicle-mounted weapons. There are no ship-mounted weapons like laser lances, nor are there individual weapons like laser rifles.
"Hey, Aoyama, it's your turn."
The classmate next to me suddenly spoke up to remind me.
This pulled Fu Qinghai out of his thoughts.
An instructor, with his hands behind his back, slowly walked up to Fu Qinghai, looked him up and down, and said:
"You were spacing out while I was explaining the structure of the different firearms, so you must have a good understanding of the firearms on the table. Now, it's your turn to demonstrate how to disassemble these firearms for us."
Several classmates around him already had gloating smiles on their faces, especially the boy who had been beaten by Fu Qinghai, who couldn't help but write "I'll make you look bad" on his face. However, Fu Qinghai still didn't know his name.
"Okay, sir."
Fu Qinghai nodded and said.
After saying that, he picked up a DC-17 blast pistol from the table and quickly disassembled it into a pile of parts. Under the astonished gazes of the instructors and classmates, he took a step to the right and picked up a DC-15 blast rifle, quickly disassembling it into a pile of parts. Then he picked up an RPS-6 rocket launcher and continued to disassemble it into parts...
In less than five minutes, all the individual weapons on the long table had been turned into a pile of parts of various sizes.
Fu Qinghai didn't stop. He took a big step to the left and returned to the pile of black parts. He grabbed a few parts and squeezed them together in his palm. The DC-17 blast pistol reappeared in his hand. Without hesitation, Fu Qinghai raised the pistol forward with one hand and pulled the trigger.
"Biu!"
The tall, muscular boy with curly hair froze on the spot.
He had just clearly felt a scorching beam of energy grazed past his temple, and he could even smell a faint odor of burnt protein.
He felt a little wet in his crotch.
Eight rings.
As Fu Qinghai lowered his pistol, he glanced at the stationary target eighty meters away. There was nothing he could do; the accuracy of his blaster pistol was just like that. If he were to use Force Sensing to cheat, he could hit the bullseye even with his eyes closed, but there was no need.
Hitting the bullseye with the first shot is impressive enough.
While his classmates were still in shock and hadn't reacted, Fu Qinghai had already swiftly assembled the DC-15 blast rifle. He raised the barrel and butt against his shoulder, tilted his head slightly, squinted one eye at the electronic sight, and steadily pulled the trigger, unleashing a burst of energy.
"Biu—"
Ten rings.
A charred hole appeared in the center of the bullseye.
A longer barrel does indeed bring better accuracy, and for blast weapons without rifling, this is one of the few ways to effectively improve shooting accuracy.
Fu Qinghai put down the explosive rifle.
They started assembling the next gun.
He kept repeating this process.
Assemble, fire, assemble, fire...
He demonstrated that he could not only quickly disassemble and reassemble these firearms, but also that all the reassembled firearms could fire normally without any impact on their accuracy.
The surrounding students dispersed to watch Fu Qinghai quickly assemble the new gun and then immediately aim and fire. Except for the first pistol, he hit the bullseye every time.
Until he picked up the RPS-6 rocket launcher.
"Stop, that's enough, that's enough."
The instructor finally spoke up and called a halt to the performance.
Fu Qinghai followed orders to put down the launcher on his shoulder, unlock the launcher, and remove the rocket from the tail of the launcher, removing the primer and placing it on the other side.
Then stand with your legs apart, head up, and hands behind your back.
"Qingshan, is it? I've seen it for myself today."
The instructor, with his hands behind his back, circled Fu Qinghai and looked him up and down, clicking his tongue in amazement.
"As expected of the student ranked first in credits, you've definitely got some skills. Whatever your past grievances, remember not to point your guns at your classmates again. This is a one-time exception. Alright, from today onwards, you don't need to attend my classes anymore."
The instructor waved his hand, signaling that Fu Qinghai could leave.
"Okay, sir."
Fu Qinghai raised his hand in salute and turned to leave.
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