The fleet's defense line is in danger, but on the flagship, Lieutenant General Yang and Leona are busy with other things. They don't seem to care about the raging attacks outside...
If you observe the diamond-shaped fleet carefully, you will find that although the fleet was indeed beaten "miserably" by the raiding fighter group, no battleship was actually hit by an air explosion! Even six shots from the pirate's dreadnought had caused six Star Alliance cruisers to withdraw from the battle. However, relying on the "a+" formation conversion, no battleship has been completely eliminated, and even the diamond-shaped battle formation is still intact.
In other words, the Starfleet fleet's battle losses were actually far less serious than they seemed! What's more, from the beginning to the end, the diamond battle formation still maintained a salvo frequency of once every half second, and never stopped calling out the pirate cruisers - there are very few pirate cruisers left, and even fewer cruisers equipped with main guns. All were killed!
Dreadnoughts are the main force that are deployed in decisive battles. In normal times, the cruiser is the core of the fleet - in this sense, the pirate fleet has actually been uprooted and will not be able to recover for decades!
"Have you found out?" Lieutenant General Yang asked slightly nervously after seeing Leona go and come back.
"That's right! It's the Kashan!" Leona replied excitedly, "The identification code has been confirmed, and that ship is one of Batari's two flagships!"
"Damn it! That's it! Let's go immediately, Leona." Lieutenant General Yang immediately gave the order. "Go and give it a heavy blow! Now, we are going to beat the Batarians until they can't stand up for ten years! Hurry up. The people who interfere may arrive next minute, and we don't have much time left..."
Leona saluted vigorously, turned and left! It didn't take long. The fighters carried on each cruiser began to be released. Compared with the number of these sparse fighter jets that are still overwhelming the pirates, one can only think of the word "a drop in the bucket" - it seems that the Star Alliance is at the end of its rope and its skills are exhausted.
In interstellar combat. Responsible for carrying fighter jets into the battlefield and releasing them, it is usually a heavily guarded aircraft carrier. However, because the release and recovery of fighters in space does not require space-consuming equipment such as runways, only simple ejection devices, Dreadnoughts, cruisers and even frigates can carry a small number of fighters.
Especially cruisers. Since it is often necessary to be sent to complex areas to perform unknown types of missions, both air patrols and ground operations need to be prepared in advance. Therefore, under normal circumstances, each cruiser is equipped with dual fighters and dual tanks, or all are replaced by shuttles.
Now the cruiser released these fighter jets, which the pirates had expected. Less than fifty fighter jets were released, and the small size made people feel pitiful... These fighter jets bravely charged towards the pirate fleet. It's like Don Quixote challenging the windmill. But they only made a little splash and then retreated urgently, leaving only many destroyed aircraft and escape cabins on the battlefield, as well as the ridicule of the pirates...
The battle started with the fleet bombarding the meteorite swarm until now. Twenty minutes have passed. According to the sensitivity of this area, when the fighting officially broke out, I don’t know how many eyes were drawn! Especially the Citadel must have received the news... There are probably countless political forces calculating the gains and losses at this moment. Weighing whether to intervene.
But once the Dreadnought-class "Kashan" is attacked, the first one to appear must be the Batarians! Their entire possessions are only two dreadnoughts. If you don’t believe it, they dare not save them!
At this moment, the pirate fighter group, which had been unable to attack the ship formation for a long time, had already discovered that the situation was not good. Those smart people are already hiding behind, ready to run away at any time. This situation can actually be seen more clearly on the Kashan Dreadnought!
There are not many cruisers left in the central airspace, and the frigates have been beaten to a pulp! In fact, the channel for the Star Alliance battleship group to point to the dreadnought has actually been opened. If the Star Alliance battleship group was not still being madly entangled by the pirates' three-axe, I am afraid that the attack would have begun to accelerate!
If you don’t leave now, when will you wait? Just when the Kashan was looking for an opportunity to retreat, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed.
"The entire army is here, move to the second stage!" Lieutenant General Yang ordered loudly to the communication array.
Following his order, the Star Alliance frigate group immediately gave up the entangled target and turned around and rushed towards the dreadnought in the distance! The diamond-shaped battle formation completely gave up on the remaining cruisers and began a long-distance attack on the Kashan Dreadnought.
At this time, even the stupidest pirate can see that the situation is over! But at this time, the roar of the pirate commander rang out in their communication channel! "I order you to kill those cruisers immediately! Don't be afraid, the empire's navy will be here soon! Victory ultimately belongs to us!"
The pirates looked at each other, and then most of the fighters and shuttles regrouped and pounced on the cruiser group! In any case, at least on this battlefield, the pirates still have the advantage!
But the next moment, the laser cannon controlled by the gardian system of the diamond battle formation suddenly erupted! Several times more orange-red light suddenly lit up, as if the entire fleet was emitting endless light!
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A month ago, when these old cruisers gathered near Pluto, they conducted offensive and defensive drills with the transferred personnel. After occasionally passing by Mu (the Gagarin Space Station also looked at Pluto's orbit), I asked someone casually, "Why are these ships still using the gardian-1 type?"
Of course, those who heard it would explain carefully to the little princess of the Star Alliance, "This batch is all old-fashioned warships waiting to be retired. According to the 60-year classification, they just did not catch up with the Garden II system."
"Is this gathering for training a combat mission? Why not upgrade the defense system?"
"Well...because they are all old warships that are about to be retired, is there any need to upgrade them?"
"The design goal of the gardian system is to increase the survival rate of the warship, that is, the survival rate of the crew. Upgrading the gardian system is very expensive, but the life of each soldier is also valuable."
"Okay, you're right, I will apply." Mu Xing's point of view was naive, but the man didn't want to argue with Mu Xing on such a trivial matter, so he gave in after a little resistance.
But after thinking for a while, Mu Xing continued. "It just so happens that I have some suggestions for modifying the Navy's Gardenian system, let's call it Gardenian Type 3. I just want to use this battle to test it..."
So that's it - these old cruisers were originally supposed to be equipped with the Garden I type (which emits an orange laser beam, causing continuous burning damage); but on the eve of retirement, they were prepared to spend a lot of money to replace it with the Garden II type. (Launches milky white drop-shaped light balls, causing compound damage; then it became Mu Xing’s test subject and was replaced by the Gardenian Type III!
Mu Xing seemed to be intentionally trying to cause some misunderstanding. Type 3 also fired orange laser beams, but it caused compound damage. And not only that, wireless power transmission, heat-absorbing tiles, new lens materials, etc.... The use of a large number of new technologies makes the power of the Type III gardian system seem beyond imagination? !
It is precisely because of this safety issue that the Navy is willing to assign twice as many personnel to each warship...
Every cruiser, whether it was on the periphery of the diamond battle formation or the one that had been "destroyed" before and was dragged behind and dying - at this moment, 24 Guards laser cannons were set up, and they fired wildly at the target, blasting it! The computer of the gardian system completely took over the manual operation and immediately exploded to maximum power! The orange beam of light emitted from the lens was not interrupted at all. After it penetrated an aircraft, it just dragged it to the side and "cut" another shuttle aircraft into two pieces!
This doesn't look like a laser cannon at all. It's clearly a "laser sword" that is dozens of kilometers long! Countless slender orange-red sword blades snaked across the sky, leaving countless explosive fireworks and beautiful laser traces.
Looking at this scene outside the window, General Yang on the flagship couldn't help but sigh, "Small fighter tactics... have become history from now on."
It is not difficult to imagine that when the Garden III system is popularized, and when the defensive artillery fire of battleships has super explosiveness and extremely accurate hits - using the flexibility of small fighters and small targets to restrain the tactics of large battleships, I am afraid that there will no longer be a way to defeat large warships. The day of success!
In the future, thick ablative armor will inevitably become the mainstream of defense together with kinetic energy barriers. (To be continued.
