Shout~

The 'Vanguard' interstellar assault ship pierced the night sky like a meteor in an instant.

Kota Kinabalu City.

After the assault ship slowly hovered and the bridge was connected, under the leadership of Feng Peng, the members of the exercise observation group walked to the command hall.

The imposing command hall covers a huge area, the size of an indoor football field, and can accommodate hundreds of people.

On the huge screen, in the dark cosmic background, one after another starships are ready.

The countdown to the exercise has entered the final 1 hour of preparation!

After Feng Peng led all the members to sit as observers, he began to make a final introduction to the exercise.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are still more than 50 minutes to go, and the Sharpening Blade-2025 joint military exercise will officially begin, and this exercise is the first time that the interstellar combat force has conducted a test of the actual combat background and tactical capability of fleet formation!"

"The background of the exercise is that the red side relies on the planet Dastan to carry out defensive operations, while the blue side forms an interstellar expeditionary fleet to carry out offensive operations......"

In Feng Peng's introduction, time passed gradually minute by minute.

And at the same time.

Twenty million kilometers away from the planet Dastan, the star-rated expeditionary fleet that will act as the 'blue side' in this exercise is fully prepared.

In this almost actual combat exercise, Qin Tian mobilized heavy troops, and the interstellar combat troops can be described as elite.

With the Star 01 Star Carrier as the command flagship, 2 Star Battleships, 3 Star Destroyers, and 2 Integrated Supply Ships as reserve forces are in the rear and ready to support at any time.

The main attack group consists of Starry Sky 02 and 03, two interstellar carriers forming the main attack force, supplemented by 3 interstellar battleships and 6 interstellar destroyers, and equipped with 2 large landing ships, 4 assault ships, and 3 reconnaissance ships, forming a crack strike force, these 20 interstellar ships of various types have set off silently and pounced on the planet Dastan.

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The universe is silent.

All the starships of the mighty main attack group opened up the distance between each other and rushed straight to the planet Dastan at a speed of 100,000 kilometers per second, and the tail plasma engine tail nozzle of the starship spewed out a dazzling azure light.

From a distance, it looks like dazzling points of light, scurrying in the night.

Because of this exercise, the planet Dastan, which entered a closed state in advance, did not have a single spaceship nearby, only large early warning satellites, which were aimed at deep space exploration.

The high-power radar detection wave bounces back from the launch to the irradiated target, and it takes a certain amount of time for the speed of light to propagate, so the satellites are arranged far away from the surface of the planet, and in addition to active detection, they also have high-sensitivity passive detection devices, just like a warship sailing in the sea has passive sonar.

There is no medium of propagation in the universe, and certainly no sound can be heard.

But any moving object produces waves of matter, also known as de Broglie waves.

Each large satellite is equipped with very sensitive optical, infrared, radiation, material wave and other passive detectors to detect objects moving at high speed at a long distance, just like a submarine diving in the depths of the sea, without actively producing any sound, quietly listening to the noise emitted by the enemy's warships when sailing.

The main attack group composed of 20 starships rushed mightily, and although they carried out strict radio silence control, they were still detected by large early warning satellites as they got closer and closer to the planet Dastan.

The battle alarm is sounding immediately!

Woo woo woo~

At the No. 3 space home port, which is operating at an altitude of nearly 40,000 kilometers from the surface of Dastan Planet, it immediately entered a state of combat defense, and one after another TF-11 'Fighting Falcon' space fighters were dispatched urgently.

At the same time, the space patrol ship responsible for patrolling and guarding the near-earth airspace of the planet immediately went out at high speed, not taking the initiative to meet the attack, but quickly sowing gravity sensing mines, using minefields to delay the attack of the 'enemy', forcing them to either change their course or spend time clearing mines, so as to buy time for defensive operations.

In addition, it is not only a space home port that can undertake the transit of cargo and personnel, but also serves as an outpost for planetary defense operations, and the weapon defense system has also been fully activated, with weapons such as large-caliber ion cannons, high-power laser launchers, and heavy high-speed missiles already activated.

On the surface of Dastan Planet, the red side, which acts as the defender, with the help of the 'Guardian' artificial intelligence system, operates at a high rate and is ready to carry out various preparations such as electromagnetic warfare, information warfare, and large-scale air warfare.

One after another, spaceships quickly carried personnel and materials into space, and unmanned attack planes and space fighters rose from the ground and soared into the sky into space to meet the battle.

The main attack group of the blue side, which plays the role of the attacking side, has detected the frequent activity of the 'enemy' radio frequencies, and various weapons and equipment have been urgently dispatched, and immediately move forward at high speed, without leaving a chance for the red side to breathe and adjust.

The two large starcarriers quickly began to release space fighters, and each space fighter did not fight alone, each space fighter was accompanied by 2 to 4 unmanned attack aircraft, which were both wingmen and 'teammates' in attack and defense.

Under the dark curtain of the starry sky, one after another space fighters roared away from the space carrier, accompanied by their own unmanned attack aircraft, like a dense swarm of bees, quickly pounced on the outer space of Dastan Planet.

Faster than them were the large interstellar warships in the main attack group, with super-large caliber turbolaser cannons and ion cannons, pouring fire to destroy targets at a very fast speed, and at the same time, missiles were launched one after another, dragging a long tail of smoke and flames to fight out.

Compared with the dispatch of fighter planes and missile launches, what is invisible to the naked eye is the fierce electronic information warfare between the two sides, in order to interfere with the other side's communication command and disrupt the other side's command system, the red and blue sides engage in a frantic confrontation.

A few minutes later!

Burst into flames and shine brightly!

The heavy missiles fired by the Blue side hit the target accurately, and the targets that were pre-made in advance during these exercises were made to emit a dazzling fire, indicating that they were successfully destroyed.

Almost at the same time, the missiles and energy weapons launched by the red side are also testing the close defense system and energy shield of the blue warships.

In the interval between the contest of large quantities of weapons between the two sides, the space fighters of the two sides also entered a fierce air battle.

After all, this 'fight' is a drill rather than a real battle, so the two sides seem to be fighting extremely fiercely, but in fact, the ammunition used is almost powerless, and the energy weapons launched are also symbolic and non-lethal, and the results of the offensive and defensive battles are mainly interpreted by the artificial intelligence system, and who wins and loses according to the damage.

After nearly three hours of 'fierce offensive and defensive battles', the red side, which was weak in strength, lost outer space, and the main attack group of the blue side began to control the outer space of Dastan at the cost of 'heavy damage' of 2 starships and 2 'minor injuries' of starships, and 'loss' of 74 space fighters.

The main attack group paid such a big price, and the attack ability was further reduced, Qin Tian immediately led a reserve force to support.

The interstellar expeditionary fleet is all in order, and then the landing battle from space to the surface arrives.

One by one, the interstellar warships began to carry out fire strikes from the landing site from space, and the uninhabited areas that had been demarcated before the exercise were suddenly ravaged by madness.

And if it is a real battle, then it will definitely be like industrial cities, major military bases and other targets will definitely be frantically attacked, and the defense must be destroyed to the maximum extent before the landing can begin, but the exercise skips this link.

At the same time as the 'ferocious firepower' attack, the main attack group of the blue side began to send a large number of space fighters into the atmosphere of the planet Dastan to clear the defensive forces of the red side, and the air forces of the two sides staged a 'fierce battle' in the atmosphere.

The preparation of firepower and the seizure of air supremacy lasted more than two hours before the exercise was over, and the exercise determined that the red side had lost air supremacy, and the blue side had paid a lot of price, but it would certainly take longer in a real war.

After seizing air supremacy, the reconnaissance ships took the lead in plunging into the atmosphere to carry out close reconnaissance and fire testing, and the assault ships acted as the first landing force and began to forcibly land under the cover of the fire of a large number of space fighters and interstellar warships in outer space.

The red side dispatched a large number of armored mixed forces, including large armored walking machines, various types of mechas, and intelligent combat robots, to carry out a strong resistance to the blue landing force, and the two sides staged a 'fierce battle' on the landing field.

In order to speed up the speed, build a landing field, and reduce the loss of equipment and personnel in the process of landing operations, Qin Tian sent huge interstellar battleships to break into the atmosphere and form an aerial firepower strike group that covers the sky and the sun, and destroys the armored mixed forces of the red side on a large scale to cover the landing operation of the troops.

After the 'Shopping' occupied a piece of land, large landing ships and integrated supply ships began to land, and the blue army's mechs poured out of the landing ships like a tidal wave.

Under the cover of heavy equipment such as armored fighting vehicles and armored walking machines, as well as the fire support from the air such as starships and space fighters, the mecha army formed a powerful offensive cluster, constantly expanding the scope of the landing field, interspersed with detours, divided and encircled, and even carried out frog jumping operations with the help of rotary-wing transport planes to fight with the red defense forces.

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The splendid exercise lasted until noon the next day.

The background of this exercise is that the red side as a defender lacks space combat forces and does not have enough starships to fight the enemy in outer space, but they rely on their homeland and have a large number of ground forces, while the blue side is the opposite.

One offense and one defense, the tactics are changeable.

The main test of this exercise is the level of synthetic combat between the two sides; the interstellar combat unit is different from the traditional sea, land, and air forces, and brand-new equipment must use brand-new tactics, and this magnificent exercise is only playing a simple test role.

So what is the level of actual combat?

After the exercise, the temporary structure of the red and blue sides during the exercise was revoked, and all units returned, and the performances were summarized from top to bottom.

And inside the city of Kota Kinabalu.

A huge superphotonic computer with a rate of more than trillions of operations per second is conducting a rigorous second wargame deduction.

It was not a complete exercise, it ended with the defeat of the red side, and the blue side did not win easily.

So is the result of this exercise correct?

What lessons are worth noting in the offensive and defensive battles between the two sides?

Many issues need to be analyzed and summarized, especially in this exercise, many links are omitted.

For example, the blue starfleet seized control of outer space within 200,000 kilometers of the planet, and there was no crazy firepower and fierce fighting at all, but a judgment made by simulation and deduction.

For example, before the landing battle, the blue side only provided data for the simulation calculation by destroying the targets in the exercise site, and then the artificial intelligence system used this as the basis for calculation, and according to the comparison of the strength of the two sides, the red side lost air supremacy, but what about the actual battle?

The enemy who is doing local defense operations on the planet will certainly do everything in his power to fight, building space fortresses one after another in space, hiding a large number of anti-air defense weapons in the deep mountains and jungles on the ground, and even using nuclear bombs to block the enemy in the tragic anti-landing operations......

There is a big difference between actual combat and exercise, but through the process of exercise, tactical conception and wargame deduction can be carried out.

Therefore, after a few days of profound summarization, the interstellar combat unit organized a number of interstellar warships to go to the planetary belt hundreds of millions of kilometers away from the planet Dastan, and selected a star with no resources and minerals to conduct a live-fire test.

Everything from a single ship attack to a cluster saturation attack was tested, all space fighter pilots carried out live attacks, and when they returned from training, a large interstellar transport ship sent thousands of specially modified models into deep space.

Among these intelligent autonomous control models, there are everything from space fighters to interstellar battleships, such as the huge interstellar mothership, which is filled with inert gas with a radiation protection membrane, imitating a large number of starfleets, in addition, there are a large number of robot-controlled unmanned attack aircraft.

Such a 'high-imitation' starfleet is the object of 'Star Wars' sparring, like those battleship models, they can simulate the electromagnetic radiation signal characteristics of real warships, and they also have mobility, and the flight speed is not slow, after all, there is no air resistance in space.

And the purpose of building a sparring fleet is not to allow the interstellar expeditionary fleet to wipe them out in one go.

Qin Tian divided Starfleet into two, the same red and blue sides.

Through the simulation system, the red team will first control the sparring fleet remotely, while the blue side will control the existing warships and fighters, and the two sides will engage in an interstellar battle with physical objects, and after the results of the victory or defeat are decided, personnel will be exchanged.

This kind of simulated confrontation training is different from purely virtual and non-physical simulation confrontation, and no matter how realistic the virtual scene produced by CGI is, it is not as real as seeing it with your own eyes and touching it with your own hands.

In this kind of confrontation exercise, Qin Tian relaxed the restrictions and allowed the officers and soldiers to give full play to their subjective initiative, and all kinds of imaginative tactics could be used, and those who performed well were also given various rewards.

After the intense drill lasted for more than a week, these 'fake' sparring fleets were finally 'inescapable', and were used as high-quality targets by Starfleet's warships and space fighters, and all of them were destroyed in actual combat targets.

After returning to Dastan, Starfleet began to enter a short period of recuperation, overhauling warships and fighters, personnel taking turns to rest, accepting new warships, etc., and during this period, they entered deep space in the form of single ships and multiple ships to carry out training, and after a period of time, they conducted formation confrontations.

In the arduous training day after day, the strength of the interstellar combat force is getting stronger and stronger, and the day of the expedition to the Zeta system is naturally getting closer and closer.

March 5, 2025.

After further upgrading and refitting, the 'Vanguard' interstellar assault ship quietly left the planet Dastan, took the mission of actual combat reconnaissance, and took the lead in embarking on a journey to the planet Bor in the Zeta system......