Chapter 275: The Theory of Weapons (I)
Since he is qualified to sign Tang Lang's "Whole College Lecture Badge", Tang Lang's identity is naturally not a secret among the white-haired old man.
But the old man didn't seem to have much curiosity about the winner of the Medal of Victory, and remained surprisingly silent all the way, whether it was stepping down from the wheeled car of public transportation, or walking into the academy with Tang Lang one after the other, and walking down the extremely deep tree-lined path to his professor's building.
Maybe people with the ability have different quirks, the white-haired old man lives in a more remote place than Yan Chilie's office, far away from the teacher's dormitory area and the professor-level villa area, but the environment is excellent, along the way, Lin Shen Yemao gives people a very relaxed feeling, and I don't know what this old professor thinks, there is a good environment at the door of the house, but he still has to go for a walk in the neighborhood a few kilometers away.
Perhaps, this is the legendary idle egg pain! Anyway, Tang Lang thinks so.
At the moment when the sun was setting, a small building with two stories high, and the walls on both sides were crawling with yellowed leaves and creepers appeared in front of the two, and the footsteps of the big flower dog, which had been very leisurely and calm, became cheerful, and he squatted at the gate very actively and skillfully, looking up at the top of the door with a dog's face, and then, the door opened.
The technology of brushing the face is not terrible, the terrible thing is that a dog can brush its face, and what is even more terrible is that the owner is set like this.
Looking at Tang Lang's somewhat dazed appearance, the white-haired old man opened his mouth a little bit: "How is it?" My automatic dog walking system is okay! Xiaobai goes out to play, and he can go home by himself without me driving. β
This...... Tang Lang felt that it was really difficult to answer, mainly because he couldn't praise it, under normal circumstances, opening a dog hole can achieve the same or even simpler effect, what is so difficult?
And the white-haired old man didn't seem to wait for Tang Lang to answer, but asked a different question: "You came back from the front line, from the perspective of a soldier, tell me your understanding of the two main weapons in modern interstellar warfare, starships and mechas, or more simply, what kind of weapons do you think will dominate the course of the war?" β
Tang Lang didn't know which tendon he was wrong, or that he might still be reminiscing about the strange thing that the dog would brush his face in his mind, knowing that it was no good to talk to the old man more, but he subconsciously said: "Personally, I think that the firepower of the starship is naturally more powerful!" β
And this is also Tang Lang's most intuitive feeling of starships under the starry sky, the mecha is indeed very hanging, whether it is from mobility, firepower and defense, it is the most powerful weapon on land in his memory. But if it is on land, no matter what kind of opponent he encounters, including a master like Miyamoto Gang, even if Tang Lang is defeated, he has never despaired. However, only the moment when Jeppen's huge assault ship rose from behind the mountain, the heart of a powerful warrior couldn't help but shrink fiercely.
As Yan Chilie said, that was Miyamoto's last reliance, if the assault ship, which was still a small DD among the starships, opened fire brazenly, everyone present, I am afraid that except for those who are as strong as the mecha God of War can leave alive, the rest of the people may be bombarded into ashes by ion artillery together with the mountain, which is definitely not a weapon that can be resisted by manpower.
As soon as the words came out, Tang Lang regretted it a little, especially after the old man's face showed extreme disdain.
"Humph! If it's someone else, forget it, anyway, there are stupid people everywhere in this world, and there are not many of you. The white-haired old man let out a cold snort. But you are one of the few recipients of the "Victory Medal" in the Federation for decades, even if there may be those high-ranking fools who want to buy horse bones, but you also have some ability, and if nothing goes wrong in the future, it will be a matter of course to get a colonel and a major general. β
Then, he pointed to the door that had been opened by the big flower dog's face: "Fool, get in, the first lesson of today's school will be taught to you by me Edward, lest you go out in the future, others say that our Qingyu Military Academy is all shoddy products, although in my opinion, that is true." β
"It's the end of the calf!" Although the hob meat reveals sympathy in his words, his words reveal endless schadenfreude. "Let you be so mouthy, you have a good time today!"
In the face of the crazy old professor who is a good teacher, Tang Lang is helpless, he believes that as long as he dares to slap his ass and leave, I am afraid that tomorrow he will really have to leave the academy, maybe the "Victory Medal" is not good. As for saying that the title of that stupid person is a trivial matter, after all, including the big ministers of Changsun Hong and the junyi of the whole academy, in the mouth of this person, they are all on the same level as him.
"The cafeteria is about to open!" Tang Lang tried to make a final struggle.
"Don't worry, you won't starve to death if you eat one or two less meals!" The white-haired old man directly annihilated Tang Lang's struggle.
When the mourning officer entered the door, the big flower dog welcomed Tang Lang, wagging his tail at least more enthusiastically than the previous coldness. The old man squinted his eyes and snorted coldly: "Stupid dogs naturally like stupid people." β
One person and one dog were relatively speechless, and Tang Lang actually read a sense of sympathy and sympathy in the eyes of the big flower dog.
All right! This is really an unlikable old man, Tang Lang once again felt that he had made a huge mistake today. Du Teniang's shouldn't have opened the memory chip of the big spy on a whim! Otherwise, I wouldn't have looked at each other with a dog.
The small building was unexpectedly tidy, but seeing that he was greeted and held a robot similar to a vacuum cleaner in his hand, Tang Lang thought that this was definitely not the result of the old man's hard work.
The white-haired old man snorted angrily and threw his coat to the robot who greeted him in pure Chinese and said, "Ora, go and open the study, I want to educate the fool." β
"Okay, Professor Ai!" The robot's intelligence is quite high, and the big eyes rolled slightly: "Do you need to prepare a refreshment for the guests?" β
"Then bring him a steamed bun! If he wasn't stupid, he would have stayed a little longer. β
Tang Langγγγγγγ All he wanted to know was how long it was. Also, what is the standard of stupidity, he hopes that he can be a little more stupid.
"First of all, let me explain that the debate about whether starships are important or mechs is important has started from the moment the mecha was born, and it has not stopped until today.
However, both in military and scientific circles, we must first determine the basis of the debate, and the role of a weapon should not be based on superficial firepower, but on whether it can influence the trend of war. So, just now you subconsciously replied that the starship has stronger firepower, which itself is a manifestation of an extremely imbecile stupidity. The white-haired old man stood in front of the projection, two or three meters apart, and his saliva was about to spray Tang Lang's face.
Tang Lang nodded.
The old man's point of view is very objective.
"Modern interstellar warships are the embodiment of the most powerful forces of various countries, and some people say that whether a country is strong or not depends on whether the starship is strongγγγγγγ But in fact, the heavy artillery equipped with starships does not play a big role in planetary operations, especially after antimatter bombs are banned by the countries of the starry sky.
Because the essence of human warfare is mainly to conquer rather than destroy, even those nomads on the ancient blue star who only aim to loot have to destroy cities after plundering wealth and resources, and history has also proved that destruction will end with destruction.
Recognizing the essence of war, let's take a look at the tactics of modern star warfare, in fact, the ancient old naval tactics on the home planet of mankind thousands of years ago have never become obsolete since entering our interstellar age.
Just imagine an aircraft carrier in the ancient oceans, the target is so obvious, why is it so difficult to sink it? It is precisely in its powerful defense capability that close defense naval guns, frigates, underwater submarines, anti-aircraft missiles, constitute a whole combat platform. As a result, an aircraft carrier formation can continue to fight for a long time, and in that era, sometimes an aircraft carrier formation can defeat a country.
And to put this tactic into the starry sky, a starship carrier formation, with the combat power of cross-galaxy operations, plus the help of jump channels, can cross hundreds or even thousands of light-years of distant combat missions to achieve long-distance combat missionsγγγγγγ
Isn't it scary? And the main fleets of our Southwest Federation and even the starry sky powers are almost all similar formations, with one or two motherships as the core of the fleet, supplemented by cruisers, frigates, destroyers, communication ships, transport ships and other multi-purpose ships, as well as star fighters, mechas, etc., among the motherships, forming a terrifying battle cluster.
However, I still have to say that it is such a starship battle group with extremely destructive power, and it is just nonsense to deal with planets.
Because the entire planet can be seen as an unsinkable mothership. The reason why a formation with a mothership can easily defeat a combat fleet without a mothership in the starry sky is because the modern star carrier is far more powerful than the aircraft carrier in the ancient blue star era, with a length of thousands of meters and a width of hundreds of meters, and the huge space gives it an incomparably terrifying storage space, which has essentially become a supply platform.
A fleet, replenished by the mothership, can be prepared for combat around the clock. The modern star carrier can support all the supplies of a combat fleet for more than half a year, and at the same time has the task of repairing the platform. How can an ordinary fleet compete with a mothership fleet that can replenish energy and ammunition while repairing damage? It's like in a game, if you're just a mecha, no matter how powerful your attack is, unless you have the ability to kill the opponent in one go, you can't compete with a mecha that is equipped with sufficient logistics to repair the mecha and is also a meat shield. People have wet nurses, what else do you have besides being stronger?
To put it bluntly, the mothership formation consumes more energy than others, however, when the mothership formation faces the resources of an entire planet, where can it consume more energy than a planet with sufficient defense power? β
Tang Lang was quite-for-tat: "Don't forget, the starship has magnetic energy heavy cannons and those terrifying ion cannons with large calibers, if you use these heavy cannons to plow to the planets that can't dodge, aren't they all the defensive railguns that can easily destroy the planet?" And the fleet can advance and retreat freely, all attacks can be led by them, but the defense system on the planet can only be beaten passively, and as the hard shell of the defense is broken, then their end will come. Mere defense, which loses the ability to move strategically, often ends tragically. β
"Yes! How many fools are holding on to your theory that Starfleet dominates the war. In the face of Tang Lang's rebuttal, the white-haired old man rarely did not get angry, except that he was still stupid, but sighed: "There is a saying, the ideal is very full, the reality is very backbone, this tactic is theoretically feasible, but in fact it doesn't make sense." β
"Big bullshit!" In the end, probably to show his firm attitude, the old man added another sentence very deliberately.
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