The total mass of this new Mercury-class battleship has once again increased compared to the previous Mercury-class battleship that used chemical fuel thrusters.

The previous Mercury-class battleship had a total mass of about 100 tons, but now, this battleship reaches about 300 tons when fully loaded.

This is mainly due to the many new types of equipment it has compared to the older battleships.

When fully loaded, this Mercury-class battleship can hold 30 tons of chemical fuel and 100 kg of uranium-235 or plutonium-239.

The total mass of fuel is greatly reduced compared to the previous generation Mercury-class battleship, which used chemical fuel, often carrying fifty or sixty tons, and the total mass of the hull has increased by nearly two times, but under the same level of maneuverability, the endurance of this Mercury-class battleship is five times longer than the previous generation battleship!

Even compared to the previous half-generation Mercury-class battleship, which already used secondary pressurized thrusters but was not equipped with many other new pieces of equipment, the average endurance has increased by about 10% again.

This is mainly because the secondary pressurized thruster has been optimized again during this period.

At this moment, all the new equipment developed by Tom has been installed on it.

The high-speed radar, which has been miniaturized and can continuously scan the entire celestial sphere at extremely high speed and accuracy, is now divided into 16 detection components, distributed at 16 locations on the spaceship's outer shell, ensuring that it can scan in all directions—front, back, left, right, up, and down—without any omissions.

Eight units of the newly developed high-speed turning frame are equipped on it, also distributed in different parts to ensure there are no blind spots in attack.

These 8 turning frames are equipped with a total of 28 electromagnetic cannons and laser cannons.

Among them, there are 4 large and medium-sized laser cannons and 4 large and medium-sized electromagnetic cannons, totaling 8 powerful long-range weapons responsible for launching attacks on opponents, while the remaining 20 laser cannons and electromagnetic cannons are all small, used for defensive tasks.

In addition to the weapon system, propulsion system, and detection system, its armor protection performance has also significantly improved compared to before.

By introducing the zero fiber used to manufacture the space elevator and integrating it into the armor as 'rebar' in the concrete, it can now even withstand repeated bombardments from the most powerful gunpowder armor-piercing rounds head-on without any damage.

Although it still cannot withstand powerful electromagnetic cannon projectiles, it has extremely high protective power against smaller electromagnetic cannon projectiles, stray bullets, and debris.

It also possesses a relatively excellent resistance to high-temperature laser ablation.

Its communication system performance is also excellent. Using a high-power directional antenna specially developed by Tom, this battleship can maintain contact with the main base or other battleships in extremely complex and chaotic battlefield environments.

Besides these improvements, the most important enhancement Tom made for this battleship is that it is intelligent!

It is no longer like previous battleships, where most combat commands could only be issued from the rear, or required a clone to manually input commands to complete.

It has a small supercomputer installed internally.

This supercomputer adopts a parallel computing mode with 64 2 nm chips, possessing extremely abundant computing power for a battleship.

This computing power is not only used for maintaining various intelligent components within the spaceship but also locally runs a tactical version of Goku AI.

The strategic version of Goku AI runs in the real supercomputer, responsible for controlling the overall battlefield situation and assisting Tom in making decisions concerning the entire battlefield.

The tactical version of Goku AI running in the small supercomputer of this Mercury-class battleship is responsible for simple coordination with surrounding battleships and controlling the tactics of a single spaceship.

Countless combat techniques generated from simulated exercises, combat experience gained from the desperate fights of friendly forces, battlefield situations sent from nearby spaceships, and so on, will all enter the tactical version of Goku AI, processed by this excellent algorithm, and finally generate combat commands, which can be automatically executed without clone involvement.

This is the highly intelligent part. Besides this part, some conventional intelligent data processing, such as the high-speed radar scanning electromagnetic cannon projectiles, calculating how to control the turning frame to turn based on this data, and which electromagnetic cannon or laser cannon to operate for interception, can be completed automatically in an instant, completely without human intervention.

As long as communication conditions exist, the tactical version of Goku AI and strategic version of Goku AI will always maintain communication links, receiving commands from the strategic version of Goku AI in real-time.

But if there are no communication conditions, such as the enemy releasing large-yield signal jamming bombs, or the electromagnetic environment is too harsh to communicate, it doesn't matter.

The tactical version of Goku AI can also perform autonomous analysis, assisting the clones to continue fighting on the battlefield.

Furthermore, as long as any satellite or any friendly spaceship maintaining contact with the strategic version of Goku AI approaches, it can immediately use it as a relay to restore contact with the strategic version of Goku AI.

This tactical version of Goku AI is like a hair pulled from the main body of the strategic version of Goku AI, transforming into a clone.

However many tactical versions of Goku AI there are, the strategic version of Goku AI will have that many clones on the battlefield!

Transforming into thousands, or even hundreds of millions, is by no means a dream.

This is a complete set of intelligent warfare systems. Its members not only include the supercomputer base and battleships, but in the future, it can even be expanded to connect various unmanned facilities, such as communication satellites, spy satellites, reconnaissance satellites, armed satellites, interstellar missiles, unmanned spaceship clusters, space mine clusters, turret clusters, and so on, all connected into a single network.

Each clone is an extension point of Tom's consciousness. Through these extension points of consciousness, Tom will be able to collaborate with this intelligent warfare network in every detail, minimizing the impact of communication delays and maximizing the execution rate of his strategic decisions on the battlefield.

At present, although there is only this one intelligent battleship, and it is the smallest Mercury-class battleship, this does not hinder Tom's vision for the future.

Moreover, this future is so close to him, within reach.

Because Tom has broken through all technical limitations, building such a large-scale war network is merely a matter of time.

This intelligent Mercury-class battleship, with the tactical version of Goku AI running inside, is now rapidly maneuvering and fiercely attacking in space under the control of the clone connected to Tom's consciousness.

Only when its fuel was completely exhausted did Tom reluctantly let it return.

"It's time for mass construction! Not only do I want to build Mercury-class battleships, I also want to build Venus-class, and even... Earth-class battleships!"

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