Chapter 817 Golden Eagle
Armed transport ships are the lowest value among the next batch of projects to be harvested.
The prototype of the armed transport ship was designed by Sun Cheng himself, and later transformed by his subordinate Decepticon engineers and tested spacecraft Hope.
He was driving this spacecraft and successfully sent his first batch of Decepticons to Mars, and created a new base there.
After returning from Mars, Hope was pulled over by the Decepticon engineers under Sun Cheng to collect various data.
After all, it was the first spacecraft produced by the base to perform space navigation. Although the ship was small, the Decepticon engineers under his command, who had been trained, also began to design the Hope for the second time to develop more new models.
Finally, based on the Hope, the prototype of an armed transport ship was born.
Sun Cheng came to a low mountain more than 20 kilometers away from the control center of the No. 2 Base. In the huge airport that had almost been hollowed out, there were more than a dozen spacecraft that could hardly see the appearance of Hope, docking here.
I looked up and looked at the top of the mountain belly. The huge alloy plate replaced the top of the mountain. Once these spacecraft with vertical take-off and landing capabilities are opened, they can take off directly from the airport located in the mountain at will.
It seemed that he had received the news that he was coming in advance, and a young Decepticon engineer hurried over.
His name is magnifying glass. You can tell by looking at this weird name. It was not written by Sun Cheng, but by his teacher Hephaestus.
"Commander, welcome to the airport for inspection!"
The magnifying glass is one of the assistants of Hephaestus, who has now been promoted to senior engineer. He was just an engineer at the time. Hephaestus has participated in the transformation and manufacturing of many warships and submarines.
Because of these experiences, after obtaining the construction technology of the Explorer-class cargo spacecraft, Sun Cheng called Hephaestus, who had experience in large ship design and construction, to serve as the main responsibility for the Explorer-class cargo spacecraft production project.
As his assistant, Magnifier also participated in the construction of the Explorer-class cargo spacecraft for a period of time.
Until Sun Cheng proposed the Hope test spacecraft project, the magnifying glass was sent by Hephaestus to help him perform optimization design and build Hope.
After that, the magnifying glass did not return to Hephaestus's team again.
The young Decepticon engineer was also ambitious, and he seemed to see huge development potential from the Hope test spacecraft.
After the construction of the Hope test spacecraft was completed, Sun Cheng was in a good mood and took the initiative to propose to him that he would build a separate project and continue to improve the Hope.
He was about to go to Mars at that time, but did not refuse the magnifying glass's proposal.
Unexpectedly, this guy used the resources obtained by the project to create the first batch of three ships, installed weapons systems, and fully optimized the transport cabins.
A few months ago, when the soldiers invaded Trindadi Island, three armed transport ships arrived at the black market for support at the last moment.
However, the special shape of the transport ship and a series of improvement plans really made Sun Cheng excited.
Therefore, we originally needed to apply for resources from the base under the banner of perfecting Hope, and officially appointed as the head of the "Armed Transportation Ship" project.
With the assistance of a group of Decepticon engineers and technical officials, this guy used nearly half a year to carry out a series of comprehensive transformations and upgrades from beginning to end of the "armed transport ship".
It is now that the airport is now closed, and these more than a dozen new weapons are no longer visible in the shadow of Hope.
Finally, the finished product of the "Armed Transportation Ship" plan was officially named "Golden Eagle".
There are 1 or 2 different models of armed transport aircraft developed by the US military transport aircraft.
The official name of Type 1 should be the 'Golden Eagle Destroyer', which was completely transformed into a combat spacecraft.
It is 27.7 meters long, has a wingspan of 33.4 meters, and a height of 16.4 meters. The spacecraft's empty weight reaches 94.2 tons, and its maximum take-off weight is about 179 tons.
An ordinary Decepticon warrior can drive such a fighter very well, but in outer space flight, two Decepticon warriors need to operate at the same time.
It carries a 120mm caliber plasma cannon, two sets of rocket launchers, and eight groups of missile launchers, which can carry up to 90 tons of missiles and other ammunition.
Under the premise of having nuclear weapons in the future, the Golden Eagle Destroyer can even be used as a launch vehicle with a nuclear warhead.
When designing this fighter, the magnifying glass conspicuously referred to some design concepts of fighter jets, fighter bombers and bombers on the earth.
However, unlike those military aircraft on Earth that cannot break through the atmosphere, it can fight in outer space.
It is designed as a short-range escort unit for the future transport fleet. At least there is no problem with escorts from Earth to Mars. The power system will have to be further upgraded even further.
The official name of Type 2 should be the 'Golden Eagle Armed Transportation Ship', which focuses more on transportation.
It is 55.3 meters long, has a wingspan of 59.6 meters, and a height of 21.8 meters. The spacecraft's empty weight reaches 196.2 tons, and its maximum take-off weight is about 579 tons.
The weapon system on the spacecraft has been reduced to two sets of rocket launchers and four sets of missile launchers, which can ensure that it does not have any ability to fight back when encountering emergencies.
Because it is more complicated than the "Golden Eagle Destroyer", the "Golden Eagle Armed Transporter" requires at least two ordinary Decepticon soldiers to be responsible for flying. In the case of outer space flight, at least three Decepticon soldiers are required.
The finalized "Golden Eagle Armed Transportation Ship" can transport up to 60 Decepticon warriors or more than 300 tons of supplies at the same time.
Compared with the three prototype ships that appeared on Trindadi Island, there is no doubt that the current Golden Eagle Type 2 can truly be called an armed transport ship.
“Not bad design!”
Two blue lights shot out from his eyes, and his eyes carefully scanned the two types of golden eagles spacecraft in the airport for a while, Sun Cheng nodded with satisfaction.
His sight was especially on the Type 1 Golden Eagle Fighter for a while. His current deformation has not been confirmed after replacing the new body.
The Golden Eagle Destroyer is in line with Sun Cheng's aesthetics. After the Cybertronians transform, they will fully master the full capabilities of certain military weapons or transportation equipment.
Therefore, he has not easily decided to scan the Golden Eagle Destroyer and use it as his current deformation form.
After all, although the Transformer Golden Eagle Destroyer will bring an amazing transformation to his speed, he can even fly across the planet more easily after transformation in the future.
However, according to Sun Cheng's research on the Cybertrons over the past few years, the fire in his body under the form of a golden eagle is probably difficult to complicated the consumption of flying across planets.
Conservatively, he could not fly to Mars in the form of a golden eagle, and would be out of power due to the exhaustion of energy in the fire in his body.
Chapter completed!