At the time when the value of the Minovsky particle had not yet been verified, whether it was the Federation or Zeon, the mainstream shipbuilding idea continued the idea of carrying precision-guided weapons in the Western era, but since the interference effect of the Minovsky particle on communication equipment was confirmed, people quickly understood that the old idea no longer worked.

Because people are learning creatures.

However, in this era of tactical innovation, Zeon and the Confederation pursued military reform for the same reason, but took different paths.

It is worth mentioning that both the Earth Federation Space Army and the Zeon Army began to rise in this era of military revolution.

The Federation realized that precision-guided weapons were no longer reliable, so they began to explore new tactics, but unlike Zeon, who could only take the MS one way to the black, the Federation explored two paths at the same time.

The first way is the doctrine of big ships and giant artillery, which occupies the mainstream of the tactical ideology of the Federal Army today.

Proponents of this school argue that the use of the Minovsky particle at the tactical level has brought the battlefield back from electrical intelligence to the era of optical intelligence, and that heavy warships, once again considered outdated, will dominate the battlefield.

The theory that the warships of both sides will carry out artillery warfare within the reach of optical equipment quickly became the mainstream after the practical application of the Minovsky particle weapon, and the main ships of the Federal Army, the Magellan-class battleships and the Salamis-class fast cruisers, are the products of this school of thought, and in the Arms Enhancement Program of the Federation Army in the 70s, these two types of battleships were mass-produced as the main force of the shipbuilding program, and the number of warships in service reached several times the number of warships in all other colonies combined.

The second way is the continuation of aircraft carrier tactics in the Western era, the space carrier-based aircraft platform and the new space fighter.

Although the aircraft carrier tactics became the ultimate victor in the Western era, in the cosmic century, this road was extremely tortuous, and the difficulties were mainly in two aspects, one was that the threat to the warship from the carrier-based aircraft that had lost its high-power precision-guided weapons was greatly reduced, and the other was the combat management problem of a large number of carrier-based aircraft in the case that only optical communications could be used. After the lost contact accident, the Federation Army slowly lost enthusiasm for this route, and although they had not completely given up, they basically had no power to fight back in the face of the big ships and giant artillery gangsters who had completely advantaged them.

Of course, the Federation carrier-based aircraft faction did not completely fail, but compared with the huge number of main warship groups, although the Federation Army only has a small number, it still equips a number of carrier-based aircraft units for the purpose of reconnaissance, suppression of bandits, and even face problems, and the escort aircraft carrier converted from Columbus-class transport ships is equipped with FF-4 Toryas fighters and FF-S3 Swordfish fighters, and it also has a certain combat effectiveness.

And Zeon is much simpler, since Kilian took power, Zeon's military department has been focused on MS.

In fact, there is no essential difference between the MS tactics on the Zeon side and the Federation's carrier-based aircraft tactics, they are both typical of the use of consumable carrier-based aircraft/MS to flood the enemy in order to save valuable warships, but unlike the failure of the Federation carrier-based aircraft partisans, the success of the Zeon MS tactics is due to the success of the MS design.

Compared with carrier-based aircraft, which can only fly in a straight line or curve, the MS can use the AMBAC maneuver (a technique for attitude control through the humanoid hand and foot movement of the MS) to move in all directions, and there is no need to consider aerodynamics in space, the speed of the MS is not slower than that of carrier-based aircraft, on the contrary, because the MS can carry a large enough thermonuclear engine, but it is higher than that of carrier-based aircraft.

At the same time, compared with carrier-based aircraft, which cannot be equipped with high-power weapons and heavy armor, the MS, which is much larger, can be equipped with nuclear rocket launchers, 120mm caliber automatic weapons and thermal weapons for close combat, and the threat to warships is far from being comparable to carrier-based aircraft.

It is precisely because of the success of the development of the MS that Zeon has the confidence to fight against the Federal Army, because no matter how quickly the battleships of the Federal Army are produced like dumplings, the cost and man-hours will always far exceed that of the MS.

The Federation didn't do it because the cost performance of their carrier-based aircraft for warships was outrageously low, and Zeon did it because the cost performance of the MS for warships was already able to make them overjoyed.

Sure enough, science and technology are the primary productive forces, and Lear was once again moved by famous quotes.

After explaining the tactical thinking of both Zeon and the Federation, let's go back to the question just now, why is Lear so unoptimistic about the combat effectiveness of the Mtsai class, but he is unwilling to say it explicitly?

Because the Msey-class was not originally designed to shoot in artillery battles, although it was also equipped with Miga particle cannons that were not inferior to the number of the Federation Army's Salamis class, in the actual battle it was definitely Salamis who had an advantage.

Because the difference between the Msey class and the Salamis class is not a simple warship, but it is not a simple aircraft carrier, it is an organic hybrid of a battleship and an aircraft carrier, if you want to compare it, it is the idea of an IJN aviation battleship or an aircraft-carrying cruiser of the former Soviet Union.

It has a certain combat effectiveness, but it is also capable of acting as a carrier-based aircraft platform.

That's why the Msey-class has that fantastic split design, and to make room for the MS-mounted Gnaku, its two main thermonuclear engines are arranged in an inverted V-shape on both sides of the hull, which makes it more than double the size of the Salamis class in a regular cross-section.

The artillery battles of the Cosmic Century are different from the battleships of the Western Era, which use live ammunition weapons that shoot at a curve, while the battleships of the Cosmic Century use the Miga particle jet parallel to the direction of the gun barrel, so although it is also an optical aiming battle, the attack area of the battleship is the cross-section of the inclination angle generated when the cannonball lands, while the attack area of the space battleship is the cross-section directly opposite the Miga particle jet.

Knowing this, it is understandable why the tactics of the Federation Army no longer used the rear turrets, but placed all the turrets in the front, since the frontal cross-section of the battleship was much smaller than the side cross-section, so there was no room for broadside firing.

The larger the cross-section, the higher the bounce rate.

It's the same thing that soldiers have to bow over when they charge.

Therefore, both the Magellan class and the Salamis class are elongated, very small wedge-shaped structures with a regular cross-section, because this is the result of the combination of the needs of increasing firepower and reducing the rate of ammunition, if you do not consider the existence of MS, and simply consider the shelling battle, there is no doubt that the Magellan and Salamis classes are masterpieces of engineering.

An excellent combination of performance, productivity, and versatility.

If you don't consider the MS application ability of the Musai class, and simply consider the artillery battle, I am afraid that only 3 Musai classes can be exchanged for two Salamis classes, which is still a situation where the artillery skills of the two sides are equal, but in fact, the average artillery level of the federal army, which has taken artillery training as the focus of actual combat training from the beginning, is far above the Zeon army.

However, on the other hand, the design of the Salamis-class and Magellan-class has also become the fundamental reason why these two warships in the MS war era only have extremely low MS application capabilities, no matter how they are modified, because they have inherent shortcomings in design.

Of course, the battleships of the Federation Army are not without their shortcomings, such as the towering external bridge, and a large number of exposed fire control equipment.

However, in general, the combat power of the Salamis class is above that of the Msey class.

So Lear wasn't going to let the precious warship take that risk.

As for why he was reluctant to give this reason, the reason was simple.

Because he is the young master of Alxstein.

The Alckstein family's main industry, Geonnick, is the largest producer of MS.

The heirs of such a family can easily be considered provocative or slanderous when they talk about the shortcomings of the battleship in public.

Anyone else, whether ordinary or military, soldier or general, can criticize at will, but Lear cannot.

So don't say it.

Such troublesome logic.

"That's all for this operation," there was nothing else to say, so Lear said, "Dismiss!" ”

Everyone stood up and saluted and turned to leave, Cardo and Johnny Leiding were no exception, but they were stopped by Lear: "Cardo, Leitin, you two stay." ”