"The two Trumzoyom-class destroyers and the five Almataba-class frigates are all outdated old ships. It seems that the Qian Empire is indeed not as good as before. Especially the poorest outer ring fleet is probably There are not many new warships in service, and six conventional fleets are more than enough to take charge of the Tianxi Star Theater."
By enlarging the screen countless times, Sir James clearly saw that at the docking port of the refining station, which was tens of thousands of kilometers away from the fleet, several warships from the Empire that had set sail had been recorded. The obsolete warships in the database further confirmed the evaluation of Grand Marshal Beauclair and Admiral Shestakov on the Qion Empire, an old empire.
"The upper levels are alienated, and the lower levels are overwhelmed. If there are no major reforms in the last ten or twenty years, the Qin Empire will inevitably fall from the first echelon of the galaxy due to more and more emerging forces."
The top brass of the Human Federation, who have studied the Qien Empire as an imaginary enemy for thirty years, may know this country better than the empire's top brass, not to mention the bad traits that have existed since the birth of the Qien race. Whenever I think of the three pillars of the royal family, the parliament and the slave trade guild in the inner circle of the empire, it is difficult not to make people laugh.
If the entire Qien Empire can unite as one, with the inner, middle and outer rings united, then the Federation will have no chance of winning the war with the Empire, even if it is slightly ahead in military technology.
Even if economic strength and political influence are put aside, in terms of fleet size, the Empire and the Federation are now as big as one another. The gap in the number of warships has become so large that it cannot be smoothed out by quality.
But unfortunately there is no if, and from a human perspective, the more corrupt the situation in the Qien Empire is, the greater the opportunities for the Federation will be. According to Admiral Shestakov's vision, after this war is over, the Federation will begin to gradually encroach on the major resource galaxies in the disputed star belt as planned, and the Cross Nebula will completely become the back garden of the Federation Navy.
Sir James, who returned his attention to the battlefield, easily saw the tactic the seven enemy ships intended to use - swarming.
Compared with the line and bombardment tactics that are more often used by medium and large warships, swarming tactics have little technical content. They just allow the ships to rush directly towards the enemy and cause as much damage to the enemy ships as possible at very close range.
To say whether this tactic is useful, it definitely works, and the more chaotic the battlefield, the more useful the swarming tactic is. This kind of small ship that doesn't care about anything, relies on more powerful maneuverability and flexibility than large battleships to run around, and waits for opportunities to find targets to attack, is definitely an enemy that is enough to give any capital ship a headache.
The most important thing in swarming tactics is "distance". As long as the closer it is to the enemy, the smaller the boat is, the more likely it is to create miracles. Considering that the attacks of kinetic weapons and most energy weapons will be intercepted by the battleship's shield, they will not be able to cause damage.
Therefore, small ships that choose swarming tactics are generally equipped with a large number of missile launchers and explosive weapons such as space torpedoes.
Once these missiles and torpedoes with shield shears or modulators installed on their heads are not blocked by the point defense system, these small boats that take the "low-cost, high-yield" principle to the extreme will be able to tell the enemy with their lives. It is the true meaning of "using small things to make big things happen".
For example, the five Almataba-class guided missile frigates currently faced by the Kraken fleet are old-fashioned large frigates designed by the Qian Empire Naval Design Bureau decades ago. Their hulls of more than 300 meters are almost as long as four. It is an ordinary destroyer of the 100-meter class, but its conventional naval gun firepower is extremely mediocre.
Except for the four-door low-power and far less powerful purple laser, not to mention the small-diameter blue laser emitter for X-rays, the most noteworthy thing about the entire frigate is the twenty-four in the middle of the ship and on both sides. Fusion missile launcher.
In addition to being equipped with a super-large-yield fusion or anti-matter warhead, each fusion missile that needs to close the distance for blasting attack is also equipped with a powerful fusion engine as a means of rapid maneuvering of the missile.
And space torpedoes are not torpedoes in the traditional sense. Compared with the underwater ghosts that have made countless warships afraid, space torpedoes are actually giant missiles that are slower.
Due to their huge size and the extra mass of additional armor, some civilized imperial navies whose engine technology is not up to standard will even install spaceship-level sublight propulsors on torpedoes in order to increase their speed in a short period of time.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, the speed of missiles and torpedoes has increased to a quite terrifying level when they approach the point defense array. At this time, intercepting them requires not only a sufficiently flexible and dense point defense system, but also a powerful combatant A computer is also essential.
The lack of either of the two may cause these shield-seeking entities to instantly break through the seemingly reliable energy barrier, allowing missiles and torpedo warheads equipped with fusion or even anti-matter warheads to stand directly outside the battleship. It exploded against the armor and fragile hull, releasing the huge energy contained within.
Although the power of the shock wave in the vacuum will be weakened to almost non-existence, even a battleship with a length of more than one kilometer and a behemoth with an armor plate thickness of more than ten meters can be protected by an anti-matter missile and torpedo that penetrates the shield. The damage it can cause is by no means a minor injury that can be ignored casually.
If the design of the battleship is unreasonable or the armor belt has been knocked open by various attacks, these steel behemoths that have taken countless manpower and material resources to build may even be at risk of being soul-crushing!
Fortunately for Gu Xiao, the enemies that Sir James needs to deal with this time are just a few old missile frigates and thunder strike destroyers that only carry ordinary torpedoes.
So he raised his head and glanced at the many officers in the command room whose faces became serious due to the sirens of incoming enemy ships. They rested their hands on the command platform and said relaxedly: "Gentlemen, if my prediction is good, this should be Is this your first actual battle since leaving the training ground?"
"Seeing how nervous you are, I have to say a few words. There are always first times for everyone, just like those little movies you watched when you were young. When you watched them, everyone was a master of theory. How come you are all holding guns? At the critical moment of going into battle, you just lower your head and be as nervous as if you were meeting for the first time?"
Sir James, who always liked to mingle with naval officers and soldiers, winked as he spoke. The private information and light banter in his words also made all the officers laugh, but they did not dare because they were worried that the Lieutenant General would play hard to get with them. Make a sound.
Seeing that some of the officers who were not smiling were holding back their faces red, James, who was afraid that he would suffocate them to death, sighed helplessly and ordered the fleet that was already in combat mode to capture the target and fire on its own, and the officers who received the order also He immediately suppressed his smile and started busy around the projection and screen beside the podium.
After teasing his subordinates, James focused his attention firmly on the seven incoming Qian Empire ships. The one who secretly commanded this fleet should be a veteran, otherwise these warships would not take the risk of being destroyed halfway and deliberately attack them. Attack the position where the battleships are gathered together.
Fighting with small battleships that are far more numerous than one's own is a taboo for the disadvantaged side. Targets that are too scattered may lead to the fact that by the end of the battle, these seven completely destroyed battleships will not be able to replace any federal ship.
Therefore, it is better to have a bigger appetite and target the enemy's capital ship cluster from the beginning, and use up all the missiles and torpedoes. Based on three rounds of salvo fire before total annihilation, these seven ships can launch 300 missiles. Multiple fusion missiles and dozens of space torpedoes are indeed a great threat to the capital ships clustered on the battlefield.
It's a pity that the opponent's commander is obviously not smart enough and is not willing to spend a small amount of time using mobility to conduct a tactical deception on the federal fleet with a high probability of success, and the Kraken assault fleet he leads is not a lack of training. .
This is a crushing battle whose outcome is determined before it even begins.
Less than half a minute had passed after the five missile frigates and two torpedo destroyers had just completed the first round of firepower. The sentinel frigates and destroyers surrounding them like a school of fish used their laser point anti-cannons and The machine guns blasted away the missiles and torpedoes.
Perhaps the external armor on missiles and torpedoes can allow them to survive one or several point defense guns, but the Kraken fleet has more than ten professional screen ships, and the point defense guns mounted on them are even more useful. Count in hundreds.
Therefore, the commander commanding the Imperial Counterattack Fleet had no choice but to issue the order to launch the second round of torpedo missiles in the baptism of red laser beams in space as dense as wool on a sweater.
Unfortunately, before the new round of missiles and torpedoes were taken out of the magazine and loaded by the automatic loader, the battlecruiser Conqueror, which was still thousands of kilometers away from them, and the naval battleships around her planned to Use their forest of naval guns to play a grand movement representing respect and death for these warriors.
Under the joint search of enemies by the advanced combat computers and gravity detectors on the capital ships, the dynamic prediction capabilities of the expanded algorithm helped them to perfectly lock every Qian Empire warship sailing in a decisive attitude.
In just one second, as if the agreed-upon guns of the battleships roared silently in the silent space, hundreds of tons of electromagnetic projectiles and hundreds of X-rays at least as thick as a bucket were suddenly covered. Everywhere they have been, are, and may be in the future.
Fifteen seconds later, the fleet flagship Conqueror scored her second hit in this battle. After being baptized by a storm of electromagnetic projectiles, all the shield generators of the entire Imperial fleet were overloaded and scrapped.
And X-ray, who had long been outside the shield and couldn't wait to get in close contact with them, pounced on them instantly, giving these old ships and their crews perhaps the first experience in their long service lives with the romantic speed of light and dazzling emerald green. The battle ended with a gorgeous ending.
With seven bright fireballs and the melting wreckage of the ship coming into view, Sir James turned his attention back to the large space station farther away - the pre-dinner bread had been eaten, and it was the turn of the staple food On the table.
But the premise is that the other party is wise enough and destroys all the functions of the refining station in full compliance with his requirements. Otherwise, he will never give those who are greedy for life and afraid of death an ending to leave with dignity.
