Because magnetically bound charged particles form the shield, the shield itself has no specific shape. It can be a ball, or it can also be made into other shapes.
So they simply gave up the spherical shield, and the drop shield was attached to the surface of the equipment, so that it could continue to play a defensive role and keep the weapon from being interfered with.
It’s just that this has very high requirements for magnetic confinement technology. So far, they have not been able to make the magnetic field evenly distributed on the surface of the object, and they are still conducting technical research.
However, based on the existing magnetic confinement technology, it is difficult to create a magnetic field that can fit the surface of an object, but it is not impossible. Therefore, Chen Xin still did not intervene and let the research team conduct technical research on their own.
In fact, these two methods are not the only ones proposed by the project team, but after many comparisons, only these two methods are more reliable.
Among the other options are to extend the weapon out of the shield and shoot; some to actually make the shield into a shield and hold it in your hand to fight like in the cold weapon era; and some to shoot the shield with the machine gun of the propeller aircraft back then. The machine gun shooting coordinator of the mouth is connected, and a coordinator design is also made for the shield...
These solutions cannot be said to be unreasonable, nor can they be said to be unrealistic, they are just relatively less practical.
For example, adding a shield coordinator to pause the shield when firing is a good design idea, but it is not practical.
Weapons with low firing frequency, such as cannons, may also use this design. Anyway, if it flashes every once in a while, it is not a big problem.
But if it is a weapon such as a machine gun, it means that when the machine gun fires, the shield will not work at all.
In modern warfare, a few tenths of a second can determine life or death, not to mention that a machine gun can continue to fire for a few seconds. During this time period, the shield cannot play a protective role.
Therefore, although this solution is the simplest to implement, just improve the startup of the shield generator, it is the most difficult to use among the several solutions.
As for the form of a shield, this is a design that can be tried, but it is only suitable for individual soldiers or to install a large size for something like a Titan.
Vehicles and equipment such as tanks or aircraft are not suitable for equipped with shields of this design.
The design of extending the weapon outside the shield is actually the same. It is not a big problem if you use it for individual soldiers, and even tanks can use it, but for aircraft, this is really useless.
Modern fighter jets, especially fifth-generation aircraft, pay attention to stealth performance. The missiles and cannons on the fuselage are hidden in order to reduce the reflective area on the surface. They will only be exposed when in use. There is no way to extend the protection in advance. Outside the shield.
Therefore, in the end, the project team determined the direction of research in two directions: directional shield and irregular shield.
As for the existing shields, they actually rely on the principle of the coordinator and are not unusable. This was actually reflected when the Titan troops were tested before.
When the shield is not activated, the shield has no impact on combat. You can fire if you want, use a machine gun to shoot if you want, and you can even shoot missiles at will. As long as the shield is not activated, there will be no problem.
Only when you are attacked and want to continue attacking while the shield is activated will you be unable to attack targets outside the shield.
The situation where the shield is always activated and unable to attack is mainly when it is under concentrated fire or surrounded by melee units.
Therefore, after some evaluation, the military installed shield devices on warships, fighter jets and other vehicles, adding a layer of defense to these vehicles.
As for the Army's tanks, they are not equipped with shields. Even Titans are equipped with shields only on some new models and upgraded general-purpose variants, and not all tanks are equipped with shields.
In addition to the shield project, good progress has also been made in aerospace fighters. After verifying the technology through a technical demonstrator, the project team has begun to design a prototype.
In this regard, all countries participating in the Nantianmen Project have shown strong interest. Resources from European countries have invested almost unlimited amounts in this project. They even dug up the original paper archives of various related technical materials. It was packed up and shipped from Europe to meet the research needs of the aerospace fighter project.
Because air and space fighters are very valuable projects for all countries.
This is not just because of the combat effectiveness of the aerospace fighter itself, but because it represents the possibility of using aircraft to break through the atmosphere and enter outer space.
The realization of this actually represents another level of meaning, that is, a cheap way to enter space.
The most fundamental reason why humans have not explored outer space on a large scale is not that technology cannot do it, but that there is no cheap technology.
Sending a person into outer space costs far more than his own weight in gold. You can imagine how much money is invested in a space project.
So far, only the three top Blue Star countries, Yanguo, Lucia and the now-defunct Federation, can afford the manned space project.
Although Europe can also engage in aerospace projects, it cannot carry out manned spaceflight independently, even if European countries unite. They can only use federal technology to send their own astronauts into space.
The International Space Station is also a multinational cooperation project, and even the Federation itself can hardly afford it.
What countries have been seeking and exploring before the disaster is cheap and reusable aerospace technology.
If we can make a breakthrough in this, then humans can move beyond Blue Star, the cradle of human civilization, into the vast expanse of space, and start a new era of human civilization.
Compared with the current harsh natural environment and limited resources on Blue Star, the vastness of the universe and nearly unlimited resources are the hope for the future development of mankind.
Therefore, all countries are very concerned about the aerospace fighter project. They hope to make a breakthrough in this technology, then civilianize it, restart space activities, or simply build a space city in outer space, and human beings can move to outer space or simply Moon colonization.
In this regard, Chen Xin did not have any influence or interference, nor did he upgrade the system for the project. He just watched the project team's research.
This is not because Chen Xin is not enthusiastic about it, but because he clearly remembers that the system he obtained has a clear limit, that is, after he leaves the doomsday environment, the system will be frozen. (End of chapter)