Underwater operations have always been one of the important research projects of various countries, because everyone knows that there are much more resources on the seabed than on land.
At present, the most advanced underwater operation machine is a wireless remote-controlled diving machine developed by the United Kingdom and Italy in the European Eureka Project, which can work continuously for about 240 hours in the sea area at a depth of 6,000 meters.
However, this state-of-the-art diving machine can only carry out simple shooting, collection and maintenance tasks, and cannot achieve the purpose of extracting various mineral resources from the seabed.
When Li Daniu ordered his submarine to tow two engineering robots to a trench near Australia, Li Daniu also drove steel armor to the location of the submarine.
"Let go of them and get ready to dive."
The most suitable depth for submarines is about 270 meters, which is still a long distance from the bottom of the sea.
When the cable installed on the submarine was loosened, the two engineering robots began to sink from a place 270 meters underwater.
"Ultron, let them turn on the powertrain."
With Li Daniu's order, the ark reactor on the chest of the two engineering robots lit up, and the underwater thrusters on their backs began to operate, and they began to dive at a speed of about 9 knots.
Li Daniu looked at the seabed picture transmitted back in real time and asked, "Ultron, what is the depth of this trench?"
Ultron replied: "It is expected to be around 7,600 meters. ” "How deep is the deepest trench in the world" "What is currently known is the Mariana Trench at a depth of 11,034 meters."
Li Daniu asked: "What is the maximum theoretical depth of our engineering robots working normally on the seabed?"
Ultron replied: "8200 meters" "It's enough."
Li Daniu laughed.
The deepest place in the sea is the trench, but all kinds of resources on the seabed are not all in the trench, most of them are distributed in the deep sea plain with a water depth of 3000 meters and 5000 meters, and the theoretical working depth of the engineering robot is 8200 meters, which is more than enough.
The engineering robot dived all the way, and the various scenery of the seabed photographed by Li Daniu were directly ignored by Li Daniu, compared to these scenes, and even all kinds of strange marine creatures, they were not as attractive to him as the mineral resources on the seabed.
When the engineering robot finally reached the deepest part of the trench, Ultron said: "The depth of the dive is 76,572 meters, whether to start mining and testing" Then you don't need to ask, didn't you wait for a long time just to mine and test, Li Daniu said decisively: "Start now" With the relevant instructions issued, the two engineering robots began to use their own detection instruments to begin to explore the mineral resources of the nearby seabed.
"Discovery of polymetallic bonded minerals."
After Ultron prompted, the No. 6 engineering robot began to dig a hole in the seabed, and when the ore was excavated, the No. 5 robot began to decompose on the spot.
Ultron went on to report: "Manganese, iron, nickel, cobalt, copper have been decomposed" "That's a good thing."
Li Daniu sighed, compared with other countries to develop seabed resources, focusing on energy-related minerals, that is, oil, natural gas and other mineral resources, Li Daniu values the metal ores in the seabed mineral resources.
The reason, of course, is that New Tuvalu has no mineral resources, and after Li Daniu researched the Ark reactor, there is no longer any need for those natural energy sources.
Polymetallic nodules are only one of the seabed ores, and this ore contains more than a dozen metal elements, each of which is a very important mineral resource.
After waiting for a while, Li Daniu asked: "Have you found niobium, tantalum, zirconium, and zircon?"
Ultron replied, "Not found at the moment. ” The mineral resources asked by Li Daniu are all very valuable, including the metal elements in the super alloy formula he developed, as well as the special metals needed for the robot intelligent chip and the Ark reactor.
After thinking about it, Li Daniu ordered: "Ultron, focus the production of the robot production line on the mineral mining robot. ” "No problem" Ultron, after confirming it, asked: "Your Majesty, how to solve the transportation problem" Shipping issues Li Daniu looked at the engineering robot that was mining mineral resources on the seabed, and knew that this test had been considered a success, but then it would face the problem of transportation.
According to the current production schedule of the robot production line and material reserves, hundreds of robots will soon be produced, and if you want to transport all these hundreds of robots from the factory to the sea, it is impossible to rely on Li Daniu to secretly drive every night, and then transport two or two.
If you hire a freight company, then there is a risk that this engineering robot will be leaked.
"With virtual reality technology, can we make these robots invisible, or change their appearance that can be seen by the naked eye," Li Daniu thought of a way and asked: "You can disguise them as construction machinery, and then let the freight company transport them to the dock, and then I am trying to find a way to throw them into the sea." ” "I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but your ideas don't correspond to reality."
Ultron replied: "My database shows that similar to the delivery of construction machinery and equipment, there will be a special person to inspect and accept, even if we can invite the freight company, they will also go through the normal procedures, the construction machinery to be transported to a certain degree of testing." ” "That's right."
After thinking about it, Li Daniu asked, "Ultron, what do you suggest?"
"According to calculations, the most advantageous way is to build a transportation vehicle, which can not only be used to transport engineering robots, but also to transport the robot production line from Factory 2 to your hidden military base, and even to transport the mineral resources mined by engineering robots from the sea. ” Aircraft of a transport nature It's a great way to do more than one thing.
Li Daniu asked: "In terms of technology and materials, do we have difficulties?"
"According to the technical reserves in the database, there is no difficulty in building a flying machine."
"The materials used to make the aircraft can also be purchased directly, the only problem is that we don't have a production line. ” "If the production line of Factory No. 2 is modified, will it not meet the production requirements?"
asked Li Daniu.
"The production line at Factory 2 can only produce metal parts with a volume of no more than 13 meters, and according to the experimental drawings of the aircraft in the database, there are many parts that exceed this volume, and most importantly, we do not have the capacity to produce the overall shell parts of the aircraft," Ultron replied. ” Of course, Li Daniu understands that no matter how perfect the mosaic process is, it is not as good as the overall forging effect, but he can't solve the problem of the production line for the time being, so what should he do?
After thinking about it, Li Daniu asked: "Help me search for the transport aircraft on the market, and report the most suitable transport aircraft model to transform into the aircraft we need." ” After a two-second pause, Ultron replied, "C5 Galaxy strategic transport aircraft, An-225 strategic transport aircraft, Il-76 strategic transport aircraft."
It should be reminded that if you want to buy the above types of transport aircraft, it is no less difficult than building a new production line. ” Although the purchase of strategic-class transport aircraft is much less difficult than other armaments, it is very difficult for New Tuvalu to buy any armaments from abroad, even metals and minerals with military value.
Still, who is going to spend money to buy Li Daniu laughed and said, "Although I have a lot of money, since no one is willing to sell it to me so easily, then I can only take it myself."
Moreover, this transport aircraft is not suitable for direct purchase, because we have to modify it and then carry out secret missions, if we buy it directly, then the aircraft will disappear at that time, and it will definitely cause a lot of trouble. ” After finding two reasons for his impudent theft, Li Daniu said: "Ultron, help me check where these types of planes are, and where are they best parked at secret military bases, even if I drive away, all its countries will not dare to speak out directly." ” t1706231537: