The principle of the electro-surgery engine on the Viking drone is basically the same as that of the turbojet engine. In a sense, it may be more vivid.

People who don’t know much about aviation or military may think that the engine of jet aircraft must be very high-tech, but in fact it is not the case. The implementation principle of aircraft engines is not essentially different from that of automobile engines. They are just a kind of "hot engine".

By the way, early steam engines were also a kind of "heat engine". To put it bluntly, they relied on fuel, chemical energy or other energy, heated media such as water or air to expand, promote the movement of mechanical structures, and ultimately convert them into mechanical energy.

The principle of steam engines is like this, the same is true for automobile engines, and the same is true for jet engines.

The only difference is the different implementation methods, the different processing difficulty of parts, different requirements for parts material, and different overall complexity.

Although jet engines are called the crown jewel of modern industry, they still do not escape the level of primary school textbooks in principle.

Its working process can be simply described as inhalation-compression-heating-jet.

The one that directly sprays hot air is called a turbojet engine, referred to as a turbojet engine.

A "tube" is placed outside the turbo-jet engine and the injected hot air passes through several stages of fan, which is called a turbofan engine, abbreviated as a turbofan.

The advantage of turbofan engines is that they have higher energy utilization and the problem of greater drag at medium and low speeds is not obvious.

Of course, this way, the advantages of turbofans do not seem to be great compared to turbojets? But on earth, which is still dominated by fossil energy, saving fuel alone is enough to eliminate turbojets.

However, the design difficulty, processing difficulty and high requirements for materials of the turbofan engine are worthy of the "Crown Pearl".

Especially the last two, let alone the civilization on earth, even Chen Zheng cannot create available high-voltage fans now... Of course, it is without using zero crystals.

The main problem is that it cannot produce alloys that are resistant to high temperatures, wear and low thermal expansion coefficient. Therefore, when the engine is finalized, Chen Zheng could only choose the turbojet solution.

The turbojet engine was born in 1930 and was invented by British Frank Whilt. Until now, even some aviation enthusiasts can DIY various turbojet engines at home. You can imagine how mature this design is.

Chen Zheng and others also used a classic turbojet structure, but the fuel nozzle was cancelled in the combustion chamber and turned it into an ultra-high voltage arc generator.

When the compressed air passes through the combustion chamber, it is heated by an arc to close to 4000 degrees...

Not only that, the huge energy contained in the high-voltage arc even directly heats some components in the air into plasma!

When these hot gases containing plasma pass through the first section of the tail of the Sound Viking fighter, the energy in the plasma will be absorbed. When the two or three sections pass, the heat in it is recovered by the heat-electric conversion device, turning it into electrical energy again and input into the engine.
Chapter completed!