Chapter 445: Jimmy, the Gunner

In the era when the Federal Navy fleet was in its prime, space warfare had evolved from the pursuit of beams and missiles between small ships to a feast of large ships and huge cannons.

Once upon a time, military journeys from the ground and sea to interstellar space seemed to have a tendency to pay homage to the strange age of sailing in the previous world.

At this time, the war once again evolved into a contest between spear and shield, which was a heavy acetyl-titanium alloy armor, an indestructible force field shield, an increase in the efficiency and power of the weapon strike system, and a contest between the speed and destructive power of firepower.

Watching the silent, dazzling eruptions of flames from the outside may not immediately lead one to a reverie, but if you are inside the ship, in the narrow space of the emerting battery, you can almost certainly relate to the moving legends recorded by those starships and resonate with them.

Reload, aim, cast, the roar of cannons, and the fires of destruction rising in the distance.

In the past, because of the distance between each other, the confrontation between battleships often became a farce of dodging artillery fire in slow motion. Later, due to the emergence of the particle propelled bomb base, this embarrassment was completely rewritten.

Nowadays, when a shell is discharged at a very fast speed, the linear thrust provided by the particle-based thruster can increase the speed of the projectile to 1/10 of the speed of light in an instant.

From release to hit, launch to result, the long wait in the past is now generally only a short moment in conventional space operations, and all this can be made possible by this epoch-making particle-propelled missile base.

After decades of continuous improvement and development, the Yinmeng Naval Kinetic Battery has made great progress compared with the old Federation period, using the technology of loading ammunition after war, and the automatic ammunition compartment of each gun position can be quickly assembled in accordance with the requirements of the gun position personnel to meet the needs of the battlefield. This practice of separating the base from the warhead is mainly due to the large volume of the base and the limited volume of the ammunition compartment.

With this simple and easy on-site automatic assembly method, every bomb base stored in the narrow bomb bay can be used to its maximum effect......

--- excerpt from "The War of Amphiaraus" by Fergus

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Rain of bullets, flames, annihilation,

Trapped beasts, stalemate, fierce battles.

In front of the Kuibenhammouf Star Gate, the white pillar of light that the Vulken warship cluster originally pointed to the Star Gate was still shining brightly, but because of the desperate rush of the Tenth Fleet, they had to divide a part of their ships to defend against the enemy, thus weakening their power.

At this moment, the furious electromagnetic lightning has gradually shown signs of convergence, and the influence of the Walkens on the core of the stargate seems to be declining.

This one was suggested by Fazzani, Sarah. Armstrong's reluctance and final adoption was to dismantle the entire Tenth Fleet, use a dozen warships as the first shield, and then break through in all directions after all the troops arrived at the target area, so as to completely bury his own fleet in the dense formation of the Vulken fleet at great risk.

In the face of this sudden 'rogue' style of play, the rigorous but adaptable Walken people don't seem to have much to do at this time. It would be pointless for them to retreat and assemble and then spend some time annihilating this half of the fleet. But if left unchecked, your own fleet will suffer immeasurable losses in this chaotic situation.

For this reason, a detachment of troops temporarily drawn by the Walken people was obviously unable to hold this relatively vast airspace. Their dense array of fringe ships had begun to be overwhelmed by the Tenth Fleet's many maneuverable destroyer groups, and although the stargate blockade was still continuing, it was clear that the time it took was gradually increasing.

The tragic strangulation battle entered the most brutal moment of hand-to-hand combat, and the mobile group of the Tenth Fleet's 'Amun', the Fuxi-class destroyer 'Miracle', was repeatedly interspersed with the Vulken fleet, which could not escape from the attack, just like many of the scattered Silver Alliance ships, and it had already marched to the densest place in front of the Vulken fleet not far from the stargate.

In the bow of the attack destroyer, sixteen 'Miaoshen' kinetic energy cannons were frantically and non-stop spewing tongues of fire, pouring a dense rain of cannonballs on a Vulken battleship not far away.

The size of the Yinmeng Fuxi-class combat ships is not large, and the attack destroyers are only two to three times larger than the ordinary Shennong-class frigates, but compared to the large battleships of the Pangu class, they are like inconspicuous barges next to giant ships.

The destroyer "Miracle" was built by Samael Military Industry and has only been in actual combat for only two standard years, which can be regarded as the latest small combat ship of the Silver Alliance. Although the peak of its defensive shield is nowhere near that of large cruisers and battleships, its firepower output is more prominent when measured in terms of equivalent.

Three-story cabins, 24 kinetic cannons, and its fixed standard crew reaches 120 people. Except for the command cabin, the wheelhouse, the maintenance cabin, the engineering cabin, and a few aggrieved but honorable marines, the rest of the personnel must stay in the established gun compartments distributed in various positions of the ship during combat.

Most of them are professionally trained gunners, according to the standard gunroom configuration of one launcher, one operator, and one coordinator, almost more than half of the crew of the "Miracle" are responsible for the ship's firepower output in wartime, making this work both ordinary but crucial.

In the No. 14 gun room on the third floor of the combat deck, the three gunners in it are nervously carrying out combat operations at this time, the turret is on the side or in front of the ship, and the gunner who operates the turret must stay in the closest position to the turret.

The design bureau of the Yinmeng Military General Assembly Department of the design bureau of this kind of gun emplacement and gun compartment close design, in fact, is not entirely unreasonable, the kinetic energy cannon excitation generated by the huge sound wave through the ship's bulkhead, will allow the gunner to get first-hand feedback and a sense of interaction, this move can undoubtedly cultivate the gunners to the most realistic feeling of the combat situation, instead of each wearing panoramic glasses, like playing a high-definition Star Wars game to treat fire and death.

But for this, the battery striker, 2nd Sergeant Jimmy. Jenkins never saw it that way.

Jimmy, who has served in the Silver Alliance Navy for less than three years, although his military rank is not high, can already be regarded as a veteran of the three fleets of the Silver Alliance Navy. This female soldier with a masculine name, although she has a slender and moving posture and a good face, likes to shave her head and a straight inch board, and calls her male comrades-in-arms in the same 'trench' brothers-in-arms.