The nuclear engine gives the Second Fleet far more maneuvering ability than before, but compared to alien warships, the expeditionary fleet only has a slightly stronger straight-line acceleration ability than alien warships, and is inferior to alien warships in other aspects. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Gao Kai made up his mind not to confront the enemy head-on, and ordered the fleet to face the enemy on the side of the enemy, so that the propulsion of the main engine could be brought into play, and the idle tail turret could be used to strengthen the firepower of the expeditionary fleet.

The expeditionary fleet has always been outside the effective range of the alien warships, and although the fine light has left some traces on the human warships, it is far from the level of damage, and can only be counted as scratches at most.

And the laser cannon on the human side has caused a lot of losses to the aliens.

The two sides were at a stalemate for a while, and the aliens probably felt that it was not interesting to continue fighting, and took the initiative to withdraw from the battle, drawing an end to this battle that lasted more than four hours.

The aliens retreated to Callisto, but the expeditionary force could not be withdrawn, and the fleet sent lifeboats to search for the surviving pilots while monitoring the movements of the enemy forces.

The expeditionary fleet attacked in a higher orbit than Europa, and the speed of the two sides was not synchronized, and after a period of operation, Calmede had opened a certain distance from the wreckage left on the battlefield, and the alien fleet attached to Ganymede was beyond the reach of the whip, creating the basis for rescue work.

However, many pilots stranded on the battlefield had already flown far away, and the distress signals on the pilots were interfered with by the complex electromagnetic environment, and the fleet could not directly determine the location of the survivors, and even had to rely on the optical equipment on the ship to search the starry sky inch by inch to slowly identify the survivors and the victims.

The group that made a detour back to the mothership soon after reunited with the fleet and brought back a dozen lost pilots.

The aircrew refueled the fleet as quickly as possible, after which all the fighters joined the search and rescue team.

The search and rescue work lasted more than two hours, and in the end, only more than 30 pilots were rescued, and one-third of them were exposed to high-dose radiation.

There was a lack of medical conditions on the battleship, and the military doctor had to give the pilot an emergency injection of hibernation and wait for the return to Earth before receiving treatment.

The other pilots had been hiding in the wreckage of the fighter plane and had not come out, so they narrowly escaped.

Gao Kai was extremely dissatisfied with this result, and after reporting the whole process of the battle to the command center, he filed a severe complaint and demanded that the military severely punish those responsible.

If you know that the radiation intensity around Jupiter is exceeded, why is the radiation protection ability of the flight suit so poor?

In fact, the flight suit's radiation protection is already very good, only a little worse than a heavy spacesuit.

It's not that the military doesn't have better protective equipment, but the pilot must operate the aircraft in the cockpit, and if the flight suit is too thick and heavy, it will restrict the pilot's movements, which will affect the handling of the aircraft.

On the battlefield, where every second counts, the slightest negligence is the difference between life and death, and even if the military equips pilots with flight suits with the best defensive capabilities, whether pilots want to wear them or not has to be said separately.

In the end, this matter was settled, but the protection of pilots was also taken seriously by the military, but after looking around, the military found that the most protective individual equipment was power armor.

It is not difficult to equip a pilot with a power armor, and the pilot does not need to carry so much weapon armor, and can equip the aviation force after a reasonable reduction of the burden on the basis of the space version of the armor, the problem is that the space version of the armor is controlled by brainwaves, and it must be trained for a period of time before it can be mastered.

The military is divided into two factions on this issue, one believes that pilots only need armor protection, and there is no need for flight armor to continue to use brainwave control; The other group believes that this is an opportunity to vigorously promote brainwave control as an alternative to traditional manipulation.

Brainwave control is not proficient in control, power armor is at least humanoid, can control armor like a body, but the fighter has nothing to do with the humanoid, and the familiar process is much more troublesome than power armor.

In the end, it is the former who has the advantage, after all, the active pilots all use the traditional control method, and it is difficult to say how many people can be qualified if they are still controlled.

However, with the vigorous efforts of the other faction, the military also agreed to conduct experiments in brainwave control, and if practical value is found, it is not too late to promote it.

Brainwave control may be an epoch-making invention, or a future development direction, or a revolution in equipment manipulation, but this thing is still a new thing, and there is no acceptance from either the military or the civilian population, and there is no basis for promotion at all.

Don't think about how to run until you learn how to walk, just wait for the technology to continue to develop.

Gao Kai never expected that his complaint would have so many effects, and the only thought in his mind was to lead the army back after dealing with the aliens as soon as possible.

It's just that the next step will not be implemented for a few days.

The reason for waiting a few days is to wait for Callisto to fly farther.

Jupiter's current situation is not complicated, a large number of small moons have been cleared by the expeditionary fleet, and there are only about twenty moons left, and the aliens have focused on the development of several Galilean moons, and the conspicuous alien buildings on these moons can be seen through telescopes.

However, the distance between the Galileo and Jupiter moons is too close, and the highest orbit of Ganymede is only more than 1.8 million kilometers, while the orbit of Ganymede is rising higher and higher, and the current orbital altitude is about 8 million kilometers, which is four times the height of Ganymede's orbit and has a twist.

The alien fleet stationed on Galileo's moon is not an easy task to reach Europa.

Ganymede is now the highest orbit among the current moons, more than 11 million kilometers away from Jupiter, more than 3 million kilometers away from Ganymede's orbit, and seven or eight times more than the Earth to the Moon.

Even for the alien fleet, it would take several hours to fly over this distance, and it is said that the expeditionary fleet can directly attack Ganymede, so there is no need to worry about the enemy forces of Ganymede.

However, space is not only unobstructed to human beings, but also to aliens, and the alien fleet has always been exposed to human sight, so why is the human fleet always under the surveillance of aliens?

No matter what actions the expeditionary fleet makes, the aliens can respond in time, and the possibility of a sneak attack on Europa is very small, just afraid that before the fleet gets close to Europa, the alien fleets on other satellites have already lifted off to Ganymede.

If the war goes well, forget it, the expeditionary fleet can withdraw before the enemy's reinforcements arrive, but Ganymede is the lair of aliens, so how can it be so easy to fight?

Once the war is unfavorable, the attacking Calmede fleet is likely to be entangled by the alien fleet, and in case the war is stalemate, the expeditionary fleet is likely to be dumpled by the alien fleet.

So it's better to wait for Callistto to fly farther away, at least to delay the arrival of the enemy army for a few hours.

If it weren't for the fact that the supplies carried by the fleet had already been depleted, Gao Kai would rather wait a little longer, and it would not be too late for Ganymede to fly far before attacking.