Chapter 65: Firelight
Fortunately, it was just the most ordinary twin battleship shelling formation, and such a local configuration would not worry Lu Sen, who also had battleships in charge. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The reason why the Info battleship is called a symbol of imperial strength is not only because of its expensive construction, terrifying firepower output, and large size that affects the planet's gravitational balance, but also because of the battleship's battlefield survivability and the battlefield deterrence capability of its existence.
If the other party really only has the parameters as the benchmark as provided in the search report, with the thickness of the external armor of the Wanwang-class battleships, the thirty-two large-caliber main guns equipped with the two enterprise-level battleships will take at least three or five days, and they may not be able to really do anything to the Wanwang-class battleship.
However, in the same way, the six twin-mounted main guns of the Ten Kings Throne class, which are also battleships of the enterprise class, have no way to deal with each other, maybe when the battleship is in a one-on-one situation, or when the number is lower than the level of a small battle, the battleship is indeed able to achieve the design plan to kill all low-level warships in seconds, but if it is of the same level, it will be a painful endurance battle.
Don't look at the battle of the Grand Fleet, the attrition rate of each battleship formation in the Imperial Fleet is determined by the percentage of the total number of each salvo, and the speed of one hundred and ten ships is withdrawing from the battle every minute, so there is such a joke in the small circle of battleship captains, if we are unlucky, we may have to withdraw from the battle before we have fired our guns. Although it is a joke, it also reflects the cruelty of the competition between the imperial powers.
However, if the battleship, which is known as the symbol of the empire, is allowed to exist and fight one-on-one, it will not be able to end in ten days and a half months. And most of the time because one of the parties ran out of energy and ammunition reserves, so it withdrew first. A battleship with the most perfect protection is not something that can be solved by the main gun alone at this stage, and the only thing that breaks the balance of defense and firepower output is a complete overwhelm in quality.
"Radar locked." The three-dimensional cosmic coordinates began to clearly simulate the position of the local fleet on the stereoscopic projection, showing a fan-shaped approximate fire control scanning range, and began to automatically detect back and forth.
"Lock the beam and complete the alignment." After the data of the fire control unit at a distance was transmitted back, according to the optical and radar calibration, the target of the main gun began to lock.
"It's about to enter the range of engagement." After the maximum range of the main guns of both sides was expected to arrive, the battle between the two sides officially began.
In the vast and dark universe, three behemoths fired at each other from a distance of more than two million kilometers, pouring deadly artillery fire. The blue-gray and pale blue glow flickered through the muzzles of both sides, and was blocked by their thick armor for the next few seconds. The large-caliber railguns burrowed vicious wounds in kilometers of armor, but these were only ugly in appearance for a battleship with a huge external armor group and heavy protective armor.
Cruiser formations, covered by the sheer size of battleships, were deployed in interception and defensive formations from the safety of the area, ready for attacks by guided missiles or local assault ships and fighters.
Silver-white and blue-gray battleships meet in the vast universe, and under the witness of the stars, humanity begins a ridiculous cannibalism. At the beginning of the battle, Lu Sen could not wait to order the battleship to approach the enemy. The approach of battleships is not without precedent, but for all the enemies of the Yanhuang Federation, once the various warships belonging to the Yanhuang Federation fleet get close, it is the beginning of a white-knuckle battle.
Although it is said that the scientific research model of the Yanhuang Federation after independence has gone out of its own way, the accumulation of experience and basic data that is most needed for many key technologies in the manufacture of warships is from the most fundamental quantitative change to qualitative change.
Therefore, even if it is the latest battleship, the micro-curved jump engine equipped with the throne class is still inferior to the enterprise level of the Galactic Empire in terms of stable output. However, it is not without its advantages to have its own R&D capabilities, at least it can make up for the combat effectiveness in other aspects. That's why there is the current one, and the performance stability is slightly insufficient, but in terms of short-term explosive power, the micro-curved jump engine made by the Yanhuang Federation is a bit unique in the universe.
After all, the opponent of the Ten Thousand Kings Throne level is the eighty-third warband, which is known as the elite, and these starship forces that have risen in conflicts and battles are not soft persimmons that are easy to handle. After seeing the Ten Thousand Kings Throne class start the Weiqu engine, he immediately understood the plan of the commander of the Yanhuang Federation fleet on the other side.
So, during the pause after the first round of rapid shelling by the Federal Navy, the two enterprise-class warships seized the opportunity to change their battle formation. Cover each other while maintaining the output of basic firepower, and then begin to maintain the maximum range of engagement. Smooth rotational shelling and gentle shelling position movement, cruiser formations are appropriately agile and efficient to move.
Within a few minutes of the start of the battle, the elite fleet of the Galactic Empire staged a textbook two-ship formation version of the alternating retreat tactics for the Yanhuang Federation.
"See the undead, this guy is more slippery than the Admiral's cat." Lu Sen, who failed in the first plan, couldn't help but burst into foul language, although when he first made tactical deductions, Lu Sen, who had rich experience in skirmishes, had long understood that the opponent this time was not easy to fool. But looking at the two battleships on the opposite side of the starship army with perfect silver and white paintwork, constantly retreating to widen the distance, I couldn't help but feel a toothache of hatred.
However, after itching teeth, even Lu Sen can't deny the fact that his side may not be able to do better than the old opponent opposite. It really deserves to be a well-known 83rd Sentai in the circle of naval officers of various countries. Of course, this so-called circle of officers is limited to the border fleet, which needs to keep an eye on local developments.
These starship elites who have been fighting with the Source Star Field for a long time and have paid a lot of money to gain the upper hand on their old opponents, a set of dazzling tactics are executed, which can be called extremely smooth, and the slightest sense of jerkiness when such proficiency is completed and applied is not at all like the feeling of impromptu response, and it is not at all to prevent the Federation Army from adopting boarding tactics from the beginning.
There is a distance of nearly a million kilometers between the two sides that are trying to throw more shells at their opponents, and this distance does not include the changing distances at which both sides are constantly maneuvering tactically. Therefore, if you want to carry out a solo assault with the assault landing craft carried by the battleship itself, then these small assault boats, which are only used by the Marine Corps when they are in close combat, will have to ripple in the universe for at least ten minutes to reach their destination.
And in just these ten minutes, not to mention the battleship's near-range defense system with no dead ends, even if the weapons officer manually used the close-range defense ship gun, he could mark and roll out the ship guns one by one. The most important thing is that such a tossing and turning in the universe is enough to make those guys who are not qualified in the system dizzy for a long time. In layman's terms, the physical disqualification here is just a matter of making these guys prone to motion sickness or seasickness.
If it weren't for these inexplicable limitations, the Marine Corps, which is now often burdened with heavy combat missions, would not have been part-time by the unafraid death-fighting guys of the damage management group in previous years.
"The micro-curved engine goes into overload mode, stick it on me." There was no emotional fluctuation at all, and after there was a problem with the first plan, it was Lu Sen's first priority to switch to the alternate plan and complete the combat mission at this time.
Although the generals of the Yanhuang Federation are all gentle and elegant in a calm state, of course, it is not excluded that there is a certain scum in the special fleet who can nap in battle, but once they enter the command state, then the inorganic rage that is difficult to see on weekdays, or the coldness that is suppressed to a few points, and the various personalities that are rational enough to sacrifice everything can be reflected in these soldiers.
"Notify the commandos, count down to one hundred and eighty seconds." At the moment when the three-minute countdown to the engine overload began, Lu Sen had already given the order to attack the assault boat according to the second plan.
The overload of the migration engine can only be a temporary emergency measure, and even the engine manufacturer can't tell how long the engine he built can last in the overload state, so Lu Sen can only estimate according to the most conservative data. He can be reckless, but he can't joke about victory.
However, within three minutes of the battleship in the overloaded state, it is enough to shorten the straight-line distance between the two sides to 600,000 kilometers, and this distance is also the maximum killing range of the twin-mounted 1000 type railgun in theory, which is also one of the reasons why Lu Sen uses battleships to fight in close proximity.
The huge main engine port at the tail of the starship lit up with a brilliant and dazzling light, and the flames burned even more brilliantly because of the overload like a burning star. The speed of the Wanwang-class battleship, which was already high enough, was much higher in an instant, and the entire huge axe-like hull seemed to be thrown out. At the same time, the ejection device built into the belly of the starship began to work, and it took only a minute to drop a squadron of 100 space fighters into space. After these space fighters have completed their attitude stabilization, they will assemble in an attack formation arranged by the Falcon's archon, and prepare for the attack at the designated coordinates.
After all the fighter wings were ejected from the battleship, Lu Sen watched as the fighter plane he had just thrown out disappeared into the radar screen in the blink of an eye, as if he had accidentally sprinkled a handful of black sand grains in the dark night and never disappeared again. If it weren't for the advanced air command system that immediately took over the task of target tracking, then the entire battleship might have to hesitate for a while before firing guns, because if the shelling accidentally injured its own people, then this battle would not be able to be fought, after all, the task of the fighter wing was a key node in the raid plan. (To be continued.) )