Chapter 359 Hidden Dragon in the Abyss
"Dr. Sen, long time no see."
Mori Shangzhe, who was discussing the design plan, suddenly turned around with an excited look on his face: "Mr. Chairman! It's a great honor to meet you again."
Li Qingye smiled and said, "Isn't it disturbing you?"
Mori Shangzhe shook his head: "No, I'm just not satisfied with a few details. I'll ask them to revise it once more."
Li Qingye looked at the hull in the breeding pool: "Is this the Qianlong?"
"Yes, Mr. Chairman." Mori Naoto replied immediately.
This ship is the core of the Abyss Project.
Considering that nuclear explosions cannot attack targets deep under the sea, especially targets in the ultra-deep sea, Li Qingye requested the design of an ultra-large submarine that can dive to a depth of 5,000 meters.
The Qianlong
This model has an underwater displacement of 200,000 tons and is equipped with four thorium-based molten salt reactors with a power generation capacity of 200 megawatts.
The diving depth is 5000 meters, the maximum diving depth is 6200 meters, the normal underwater navigation speed is 14 knots, and the maximum speed is 24 knots.
The ship has a crew of 1,273 people and can accommodate 2,400 passengers, or 24,000 passengers in emergency hibernation.
The interior is equipped with an emergency life support system, a pseudo-surface environment chamber, an underwater resource collection system, a seawater filtration system, a food synthesis system, and an ultra-large-capacity database.
The Qianlong can stay submerged on the seabed for several months without having to surface.
Moreover, the Qianlong can stop directly on the seabed and then activate the mimic seaweed camouflage system to disguise itself as reefs and seamounts.
Mori Shangzhe introduced to him: "Since we have a large number of submarine monitoring nodes in the Pacific Ocean and the Ceylon Ocean, the possibility of being discovered by America is very low, so I only designed four torpedo tubes."
"Well, the Submarine Dragon wasn't meant for combat. It just needs to be able to defend itself."
Mori added: "However, torpedo tubes can also launch missiles, but they need to float to a position close to the sea surface."
Li Qingye didn't care too much about this.
As a doomsday submarine, the Submarine only needs to ensure its own survival, everything else is secondary.
Compared with other plans, the Qianyuan plan has the smallest investment and is also the most cost-effective one.
After all, compared to fixed bases, submarines can move constantly, and Homo sapiens submarines can dive to a depth of five or six thousand meters, which is difficult for other forces to do.
Normally, the nuclear submarines of the major powers can only dive to about 800 meters, and the limit is about 1,200 meters.
Therefore, their weapons are specially developed for areas above 1,200 meters in depth. Once the depth exceeds 1,200 meters, the torpedoes, mines and missiles they are equipped with cannot be used.
Not to mention ocean black holes like the Submarine that can dive to a depth of five or six thousand meters.
The safety at this depth is even greater than that in low-Earth orbit in outer space.
After all, satellites in low-Earth orbit still need to worry about laser cannons, anti-satellite nuclear pulse bombs and the like.
In the deep sea, laser cannons and electromagnetic cannons have no killing power, and torpedoes, sea mines, missiles and the like are also helpless in the face of the terrifying water pressure.
Although humans' current scientific research submarines can reach the seabed of about 10,000 meters, in fact, this kind of scientific research submarine not only requires special design, but also has a very high cost and is very slow .
If the torpedo also needs to dive to five or six thousand meters, it is not impossible, but the production cost is too high. In addition, the destructive power is very weak, so no force will research this kind of ultra-deep torpedo.
The Submarine Dragon has applied many new technologies of the Sapiens company, and its anti-sonar detection has basically reached its limit, making it difficult to be detected by sonar.
Torpedoes, missiles and the like all need to lock onto the opponent's precise position.
Now the enemy may not even be able to find the exact location of the Qianlong, how to attack the Qianlong? You can't rely on your sixth sense, right?
Therefore, the Qianyuan Project, with Qianlong as its core, has the highest security.
The only drawback is that the number of passengers a submarine can accommodate is too small. Even if the passengers are dormant, the maximum number is only 24,000.
The entire Qianyuan plan plans to build a total of 6 Qianlong-class submarines, which can accommodate up to 150,000 people.
Although 150,000 people are enough to restart human civilization, it is too few compared to the current 800 million population of Sapiens.
But reality is so cruel.
If that day really comes, the six Submarines will be the spark of civilization of the Homo Sapiens company. They will not participate in the war, but remain silent on the seabed.
Li Qingye also didn't want these Qianlongs to work, but there were some things that were not within his control.
After chatting with Mori Shangzhe for a while, the other party carefully introduced to him the various technologies used on the Qianlong, as well as some special designs.
Li Qingye listened very carefully and interrupted to ask questions from time to time.
As a Japanese, Mori Naotoshi has an innate sense of crisis, which is due to the racial characteristics brought to them by Japan's natural and social environment.
He incorporated this sense of crisis into the design of the Qianlong.
For example, what should be done if the Homo Sapiens company was defeated? Ordinary people, the New Humans, believed that the Homo Sapiens company could not fail, but Mori Naotoshi assumed this possibility.
This possibility was taken into consideration in the design of the Qianlong.
Various special cabins have been designed to simulate life on the surface, making it easier for survivors to live long term on the seabed.
At the same time, an undersea mining system has been prepared, which can utilize undersea minerals and the small parts synthesis cabin inside the Submarine to restore the industrial system of Homo sapiens.
It is even possible to build an underwater base in a seamount with just a single submarine.
At the special request of Mori Naoto, the Submarine was also equipped with a nuclear fuel storage tank. The nuclear fuel on it could be used to manufacture 20 50-megawatt nuclear fission reactors in a short period of time, or be converted into four 50,000-ton atomic bombs.
As long as one Submarine survives, the Homo Sapiens company will not perish.
After listening to Mori Shangzhe's introduction, Li Qingye thought about how to arrange the management of these Qianlongs.
Obviously, the Qianlong cannot be assigned to the defense department. After all, it is not a simple warship. In addition, the Qianlong also needs special supply ports, and these ports must be highly confidential to ensure that they will not be detected by other powers.
At the same time, these secret supply ports also serve as a vacation area, making it convenient for crew members to return to the surface for regular rest.
In addition, in the secret supply port, the staff should be organized as family units. Once an emergency occurs, these people can directly use life-support bags to force themselves into a dormant state, and then be kept in the passenger cabin of the Submarine Dragon and quickly transferred to the deep sea with the Submarine Dragon.
After some thought, Li Qingye decided to set up a crisis response office in the Internal Affairs Department to be responsible for the management of these Qianlong ships.
In addition, those tiered cities are also assigned to the Internal Affairs Department for unified management.
Except for the Guigong Project managed by the Ministry of Space, all other emergency and refuge facilities are managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Since the new humans are very united, there is no need to establish internal checks and balances like other forces. Otherwise, the decentralized management of so many projects will increase management costs and make it difficult to integrate resources.
Moreover, once an emergency occurs, decentralized management will only lead to each team working on their own, causing unnecessary trouble and even internal divisions.
Therefore, Li Qingye plans to package these projects and hand them over to the Internal Affairs Department for management.
