The Flying Fortress has finally started testing, and it’s time to discuss the tactics related to it.
There is no doubt about the basic positioning. It must fly to the tactical target and start fighting. How to execute it exactly remains to be determined.
The area of the first and second floors of the fortress combat area is just over 1,000 square meters, of which 20% is used for supplies. In addition to the smaller third floor with a smaller comprehensive space, it can just accommodate a company-level unit to fully engage in combat.
Specific to the combat posts, there are a total of 32 (second floor) and 48 (first floor), a total of 80 horizontal shooting positions. There are also four elevator gun positions and eight anti-aircraft shooting ports on the third floor. Including ammunition transportation, one Even moving everything is very busy.
Should we use strengthened company units to expand the original company of a hundred people to 150 to 200 people to achieve combat rotation?
This solution is not easy to arrange space.
The rest area is 120 square meters, with four lower floors. It can accommodate more than half of the 150 people and more than 75 people need to stay in the rest area.
The beds in the fortress must take into account the size of the Blade Legion. The minimum bed size they can accept is 2.8 meters x 1.1 meters. If the sleeping position is more compatible, it will need 3 meters x 1.3 meters. Including accident prevention partitions, one bed will cost four square meters. , the floor height of four meters is not enough to make a three-tier bed, so it can only have bunk beds, so that personal storage functions can also be integrated into the beds.
For a shift break of 75 people, 76 basic beds are required, with bunk beds and bunk beds. The total sleeping area is 156 square meters, and the comprehensive corridor ratio is 0.8. The sleeping area alone is 273 square meters, and both floors are not enough. There are also bathing and dining. It seems that there are more than 200 square meters left, but it is not possible, because the people fighting outside also have to consider that the kitchen area cannot be saved, and the medical area needs more space in the face of fierce battles.
This does not include the need for a separate space for the commander.
150 people are not enough, let alone two hundred, unless they are allowed to sleep in the combat zone with the noise of the battle and the roar of their teammates.
Moreover, the arrangement is too oppressive and unable to cope with some emergency internal situations, such as when a fire suddenly needs to be put out. Overcrowded aisles will greatly increase safety risks.
In order to set aside a large enough medical area, the maximum capacity of the Flying Fortress can only be set to 120 people. A few extra beds can be set up for temporary personnel. In the combat area, some floor mats can be stored for the victims, but they cannot be used for combat. .
120 people, which is a standard company-level unit with four platoons and directly subordinate teams such as the cooking class and logistics class.
This scale can activate the fortress's full shooting capabilities in a short period of time, but the continuous combat time it can sustain is limited.
If the plan to strengthen the company doesn't work, we can only take another path and coordinate with multiple fortresses.
If two forts move together, there is no need to open all combat windows in the direction they are facing. Just a few can look after each other. If there are more, it will be easier to hit one's own people, reducing the number of combat positions by a dozen, and the pressure of personnel rotation in a single fort. It will be much smaller.
In addition to the basic combat methods, the fortress can also arrange other tactics.
The biggest advantage of the Flying Fortress is actually its load capacity.
Due to the huge amount of armor plates, the total weight of the empty fortress is 9710 tons!
The outrageous weight is also the reason why the area of the central power area is almost the same as the rest area. There is not such a large vector-generating power source, which is not enough to fly this huge thing.
This is empty weight, its design combat weight is 10,960 tons. Whether it can reach this number, or even exceed it by a little bit, will depend on subsequent step-by-step actual testing to see the results.
The minimum combat load required by the military is 400 tons. This number does not include fixed facilities such as rest area decoration and basic lockers. It is the weight of ammunition, personnel, and equipment. Therefore, including fixed facilities, the Flying Fortress must pass military acceptance, and its combat weight must reach a minimum of 10,200 tons.
There is still some leftover.
As long as the basic acceptance criteria can be met, there is relatively large room for operation.
The total weight of an individual soldier of the Blade Legion is 170 kilograms. This weight includes personnel, titanium alloy armor, individual weapons, washbasins, bedding, etc. However, the amount of ammunition in this state is relatively limited, only ninety rounds.
The 15 mm projectile of the Python III is still too heavy. Although it has not been changed to a solidified boundary layer bullet, the standard bullet has also increased from 56 grams of the second type to 63 grams of the third type, which has improved a certain aerodynamic advantage. A greater proportion of kinetic energy can be retained at a distance of 800 to 1,200 meters.
The 63-gram projectile carries 90 rounds and weighs 6.3 kilograms including the magazine, accounting for more than 12% of the total load. It is the third largest single weight after weapons and armor.
A single soldier weighs 170 kilograms, and the total weight of 120 men is only 20 tons or several hundred kilograms.
A 10,000-round ammunition box weighs 680 kilograms each including packaging. According to the per capita limit of 1,000 rounds, the combat time will be doubled again. Leave a margin to round up the number, 300,000 rounds, plus the corresponding charge. Devices and weapon magic modules, one combat unit of 15mm ammunition weighs thirty tons.
The load on the cannon is greater. After all, the projectile weight is 150 grams per shot, and the rate of fire is too high. For four cannons, each gun has a unit of 100,000 rounds, including the corresponding energy module, etc., and the weight of one unit Nearly ninety tons.
Including food, water, extra parts, etc., a standard five-day deployment fortress combat unit is probably less than 200 tons, which is a huge margin from the 400 tons required by the military.
These margins are used for other things, such as installing an armored platoon.
The role of armored units on the magic battlefield is relatively limited. Due to the problem of magic power reserves, they cannot cope with continuous magic bombings, and their movement ability is not better than magic units and beast-shaped enemies.
But it at least allows our own warriors to avoid facing magical attacks directly and at the same time provides battlefield mobility, so it is not completely useless.
For example, when aerial reconnaissance detects a high-intensity magic source at the entrance of a cave, but cannot be directly attacked by the fortress and air force, the role of armored units is reflected. Although it is a bit risky, there is a chance to directly complete the beheading and end the battle.
Beheading can have the effect of ending the battle, which is also a structural flaw of the demon cluster. After all, it is a cluster that relies on violence and magic to integrate. Once the oppression from above is gone, fleeing is the only result.
The combination of fixed fortresses and mobile forces can make up for their respective shortcomings to a limited extent. What is more troublesome is the rest space. If it is not possible, it can only occupy a little space in the combat area and separate a certain rest area.
However, armored units do not need large soldiers, which brings the possibility of balancing space and purpose.
The advantage of large soldiers is their strong combat effectiveness. Even if they are directly hit by three-ring single-target magic, their survival rate is higher.
Combat armored vehicles do not take into account the close combat and survivability of soldiers, because when the armor is broken, it is difficult for the people inside to survive, so using normal-sized soldiers will not significantly change the combat effectiveness of the armored unit.
The floor height of the combat area is close to five meters. A room with a floor height of just over two meters is hoisted from the ceiling. There is still enough space for soldiers to pass underneath. Individuals with a height of 1.6 to 1.8 meters will feel more depressed in a space of about 2.2 meters. , but short-term stationing is not a big problem.
As for combat armored vehicles used on the battlefield, they are also readily available.
The military's current armored units are divided into two categories: armored transport and armored combat. The latter are all cannon variants, or cannon carriers, and do not have cannons and grenades.
The form of the vehicle-mounted cannon is somewhat different from that of a single cannon. It is mainly short-barreled, mostly twin-mounted 15mm versions. The short-barreled can effectively improve the operability of the mechanical transmission. The disadvantage is that the accuracy will be reduced and the magic acceleration time will be longer. It is short, has insufficient power and accuracy, and there is no point in using 20 mm. It is better to use a smaller caliber to increase the amount of ammunition delivered.
