Chapter 66: Fighters
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. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoIf it weren't for the advanced air command system to immediately take over the target tracking task, 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 is a key node in the raid plan.
However, in recent years, the Federation's fighters have become more and more perverted, even when the Peregrine Falcon Type 36, which was widely popular on the black market of weapons some time ago and was called a model fighter by businessmen, the Yanhuang Federation itself was extremely luxuriously equipped with the Type 42, and it was not a prototype, and all the fighters installed and newly commissioned entered the third modification.
After the First World War in the Source System, the once strapped central government suddenly entered the nouveau riche mode, and it was said that it was to order a fighter plane for every ace pilot who galloped in the starry sky and fought for the Yanhuang Federation. Legend has it that each exclusive fighter is equivalent to the cost of a battleship, but as a result, the total number has not exceeded 2,000. It's not that it can't be done, but the Yanhuang Federation is sad to find that after a series of wars, there are not so many ace-level pilots in the aviation wing at all......
As a result, for the Yanhuang Federation, which now has no shortage of mineral resources and no shortage of production resources, there is only a shortage of people. Therefore, take this opportunity to return to the entire broken army family. This will undoubtedly make the military strength of the Yanhuang Federation greatly enhanced in personnel again, in this cruel era, everyone understands that only the enhancement of military strength can get more say for the Yanhuang Federation and better defend their interests.
The three minutes that were torturous and also made Lu Sen's nerves tense passed quickly, and after the Ten Thousand Kings Throne-class of the Yanhuang Federation and the enterprise-level warships of the Galactic Empire also sprayed hundreds of artillery fire on each other, both sides were ready for close combat between the battleships. It's just that under the faint starlight, the appearance of the three blue-gray battleships and the silver-white battleship have also become pitted, although the three battleships have lost their previous brilliance, but the commanders of both sides are very clear that this level of damage to the main battleship, in addition to the visual impact, is not even a little "patent leather" to the extent.
At this time, the golden fighter belonging to the Yanhuang Federation turned over lightly in space, accelerating straight towards the battleship of the Starship Army. At the same time, the small starship that had been invisible in the universe before hastily broke away from the stealth state. Although it was a cruiser of the second rank of the battleship, the difference in rank made it impossible for the cruisers in the battle formations on both sides to participate in the battle until the beginning of the approach operation.
The fourteen high-speed cruisers under the eighty-third team of the Galactic Empire completed the rapid horizontal insertion almost at the same time, and the beautiful maneuver tactics made Lu Sen, who was watching the battle from afar on the battleship, also can't help but cry out in his heart.
The Diffuse Barrage is the Galactic Empire's standard close-range defense, with a total of over seven hundred rapid-fire cannons and three cross-interception barrages in front of the two Enterprise-class battleships. Some of the Federation fighters who didn't have time to avoid crashed head-on into the barrage, and immediately burst into several flashes of light in the universe.
"Pay attention to evasion, and each machine should pay attention to opening the locator and prepare to guide the attacking troops." In the special communication channel of the Yanhuang Federal Air Force, the squadron pilot's command immediately sounded.
Despite the fact that several fighters had been shot down by the previous fire interception net, Colonel Brin, who was the commander of the cruiser detachment of the 83rd Sentai Squadron, was not happy with this small result. In his opinion, the Yanhuang people had just released a squadron of fighter formations, and for the escort force with fourteen high-speed cruisers, it was more than enough for the cruisers to do one-on-one tracking. However, since the Yanhuang Federation Navy wants to adopt boarding warfare, it is enough to show that their fighters cannot have only one squadron.
"Keep the fire, the enemy's brigade of fighters is coming."
For a split second, Brin thought of another possibility, that is, the wave of fighters just now was just a tentative attack, or a complete feint. Breaking out in a cold sweat, Brin immediately issued a warning to his cruiser. It's just a pity that the warning came a step too late after all, and the originally dark cosmic background suddenly appeared a distortion, densely packed with thousands of fighters scattered and jumped, and the spatial shock caused by the short-distance migration was like a blooming flower, and it was also like a wave of water blooming by throwing stones on the calm water.
These grotesque peregrine falcons with their blue-gray livery are as low-key and ordinary as their naval starships, but underneath this low-profile are the lives and blood of the enemy. The traditional blue-gray livery of the Yanhuang Federation shone brightly, and the dense group of fighters accelerated urgently after completing the relocation, following a complex and strange maneuvering route towards the cruiser fleet.
At the moment when the routes of the two sides staggered, all the fighters in the entire fighter formation released machine mines. At the same time, the warships of the Starship Army were filled with the screams of the early warning system - the attack of machine mines.
The fighter group would not stupidly go head-to-head with the anti-aircraft fire of the cruiser group, but chose the rogue tactic of winning by numbers, which scared the dozen or so "eventful" high-speed cruisers of the Galactic Empire. In terms of battlefield duties, these should have been the things of the high-speed cruisers who sheltered behind the battleships on their side, but they had other and more important responsibilities in this battle.
The biggest feature of the directional machine mine is that it is silly and slow, but on the side of the Yanhuang Federation, the weight of this charge is really a bit frustrated, and basically the light cruiser with a slightly weaker defense will be finished with one shot. Of course, this is not because the light cruiser is not armored enough, but since it has already been fired, the inevitable problem is that there will definitely be a hole in the interception fire, and then more mines will swarm up until the light cruiser is completely drowned. Although from time to time the mines were hit by the defensive fire net, the fire generated after the explosion could not hide that more mines began to break through the fire interception.
"Anyway, if you can't kill this wave, let the North Wind take action." Falcon, who is analyzing the results of the machine mines, has calculated very well, and basically anyone who knows the results of the Beifeng will admire the degree of metamorphosis of the Beifeng missile system to the point of throwing itself to the ground, which is the existence that all military industries must worship in this era. After all, in the years that the North Wind has plagued the shipping lane, the number of light ships that have been knocked down by the missile group in seconds has exceeded two thousand.
However, although the mines did not cause much damage to the cruiser formation of the Galactic Empire, the mines thrown by the large group still achieved the expected effect, at least the high-speed cruiser group of the Starship Army did not care about providing near-air defense support for the battleships that were still shelling each other from the moment they discovered the large-scale mines.
For all kinds of ships in the Grand Fleet with different responsibilities, no matter what they want to protect, the first premise is that they must survive. Otherwise, after a wave of mines, after losing the defensive firepower provided by the cruiser, your own battleships will also have to face the onlookers of the Yanhuang fighter group. As far as the 83rd Warship Squadron of the Starship Army, which has complete intelligence support, knows that the Yanhuang Federation Navy operating in this area is composed of a Ten Thousand Kings Throne class and a Phoenix-class.
As the current main battleship of the Yanhuang Federation Navy, the new Wanwang Throne class performs well in various battlefields in the east, at least when the number is comparable, it can completely suppress the Allied fleet in terms of firepower, and the Wanwang Throne class also has the most flexible maneuvering speed in the battle of the Grand Fleet. Although the current Yanhuang Federation Navy has lost a lot of battleships in the battle, the allies who are enemies with it have lost even more, but because most of the fleets that have become the Yanhuang Federation fleets are clones, this kind of fleet similar to consumables does not matter how much it loses to those guys in the alliance, but for the Yanhuang Federation, which is precious in manpower, every silent battleship has former colleagues on it, which is irreparable bad news.
But for the average size battle formations of other Imperial Navies, the worst thing was to encounter a Phoenix-class battleship. The Confederate Navy's management of such battle-class aircraft carriers was so chaotic that it made all hostile intelligence agents desperate. Because the number of fighters equipped with each Phoenix-class mothership fluctuates according to the mission, there is no fixed index at all.
Even the 10th Air Force of the Empty Flood is extremely unbalanced in its internal distribution as an ordinary air force, and in the end, even Hayabusa, who is nominally the supreme commander, cannot figure out the situation of his subordinates.
Just like there will be a long fluctuation space between the upper and lower limits of the blunt weapon, some Phoenix-level attacks will be fully loaded with more than 100,000 space fighters, while others are only tens of thousands, and even if there are relatively few of them, they are about 10,000 according to the formation of the brigade......
Depending on the number, type of aircraft, and pilot, the fluctuation of the combat ability of the Phoenix-level air carrier is ever-changing, so for any enemy of the Yanhuang Federation, every time facing the Phoenix-level feels like a lottery. Although it is usually covered by direct fire from fighters like waves, occasionally it is possible that a few elite fighter wings will come, like a small strong force that "can't be killed, can't be driven away", and finally kill with one blow while you are exhausted.
Of course, the problem of unstable combat effectiveness is not the most fatal, the Phoenix class takes an extremely coquettish long-range route, that is to say, after being beaten for a long time, when you want to fight back, the powerlessness of not being able to find the target is the most depressed for the enemy commander to vomit blood.
In normal battles, the Phoenix class either hides away from the battlefield and attacks across the galaxy, or is surrounded by a large number of thick-armored battleships in the middle and is tightly protected. Either of the above situations can make the opponents despair, but they can still comfort themselves with the life of a big firework once the lone Phoenix class enters the range of the battleship's main guns.
Unfortunately, most of the time, the Phoenix class is a more cunning opponent than the Ten Thousand Kings Throne level. For example, this time, the Phoenix-class battleship, which is a fighter mothership, is not in this galaxy at all, but uses the principle that space fighters can pass through air tunnels to launch an attack on this galaxy directly from another galaxy. Even if Brigadier General George was ambitious, he could only look at the vast starry sky and vomit blood. (To be continued.) )