LUX-3: Force Field (LUX and the New TECH) by Pence Ken

Author:Pence, Ken [Pence, Ken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Reviewing the Data stick – Lockheed Skunk Works – Palmdale, CA

Clark and Patel couldn’t wait to look at the details left by Lux and Douglas on their last visit. The files opened easily and depicted three different vehicle sizes. Clark opened the large one first.

“My god! Look at this. This thing is huge. It has no stealth design. Look at the size and specs,” Clark blurted to Patel even though Patel could see as easily as he could. “The specs say it’s designed to go on year-long missions – in space. That’s crazy. We don’t have rockets built to do that,” Clark said.

“This definitely isn’t your average bear. They’ve incorporated the SpaceX StarShip designs, added some survivalist ideas, and then Star Trek stuff. The barracks show individual rooms for the officers and eight a room for the non-commissioned soldiers. That is more like the workers’ rooms at Foxconn where they manufacture low-cost electronics,” Anish said.

“It has two galleys and private berths. It’s the size of a Corvette Combat ship. It is 100 meters long, and 18 meters in diameter. Look how the layout shifts to handle different gravitational orientations. Look at the way they laid out triple-redundant environmental systems. Look – Blakely thrusters. He has a lot of guts to name them after himself,” Clark said.

“No. The engineers at Eglin Air Force Base started calling them that. We still haven’t been able to reverse-engineer them. I thought I’d faint when I saw them here. I thought they knew we had a set of thrusters from Eglin we were trying to get to work. What’s the specification for the wall thickness? That can’t be right. It’s only three centimeters. How could that be with the overall weight they listed?” Patel explained.

“Remember their shield was only two (2) centimeters thick, and it stopped that railgun round cold. I would never have believed that in a hundred years if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. This does look like a viable design. It shows the stages of construction clearly. Much of this tech is off the shelf so we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. This design calls to support a vehicle complement of 70 plus a crew of eight.”

“What about the other designs he gave us?” Patel asked. “What’s the general size and crew complement?”

“Looks like what the kid explained in cargo size but there is way more to these designs. They are meant to be lived in with exercise rooms, galleys, observatories, comm suites, computer cores, cargo bays, missile launchers, and lasers. It even has an armory,” Clark looked at the three designs. “I need to look at something further.”

“What next?” Patel asked.

“Answer this for me, Amish. Who would buy these if we built them? How many would they buy and at what price?”

Anish leaned back a second while thinking? “Everyone would want to buy them. We might be able to build them for NATO forces. If they could stop radiation and any kinetic weapon – what did Blakely say about lasers? He said he has some mitigation of the laser threat.

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