Chapter 105: The Joys and Sorrows of Weapons Testing
The Western Front Coalition had already promised Pan Wen that he and the Anike mercenaries would be given priority in providing Essence Research Project derivative equipment. Although the anti-LWS are not covered by the agreement, the transport officer who delivered the goods has made it clear that it is a condition, and there seems to be no good reason to avoid this dangerous mission.
Fortunately, Pan Wen's relationship with all parties in K11 was okay, and after two days of liaison, consultation and preparation, a civilian joint fleet was mobilized to do the mission together.
The ships participating in this weapon experiment include 86 Anike mercenaries, 90 K11 resistance forces, 150 player mercenaries, and 50 evacuated troops from the original K24-K27 area of the Western Front Command.
Among them, the Anik mercenaries are naturally the most powerful force, with more than 50 cruisers out of 86 warships, not counting the sub-ships carried in the cruisers. The cruiser is an important guarantee for the Anik people to live and plunder in space, and the maintenance on weekdays is better than that of a small ship, and the result is that the overall maintenance speed of the cruiser is faster than that of a frigate or something.
As for the 50 ships provided by the Western Front Command, on the contrary, they are even more than those of the resistance forces, and most of them are reconnaissance ships, and the rest also include several rescue ships that have been temporarily converted from cargo ships, there are not many combat ships at all, and the only thing that is gratifying is only an old-fashioned information complex ship. The KT star cluster's old information complex ship does not have hyperspace reconnaissance capabilities, and it also uses a waveform system, which means that when it uses AU as the radius unit for reconnaissance, the intelligence feedback delay can exceed one hour! Considering that the waveform system may be complementary to the hyperspace information system to a certain extent, Pan Wen brought this batch of ships with him without any complaints.
Ready, assembled, and head-to-go.
During the preparation period, the cadet tactical team in the Pan Van fleet has compared the latest information from all parties, and can basically confirm that the right wing swarm still retains a very considerable strength after breaking through the K21-K23 defense line, and the subsequent capture of the losses along the K15-K20 line will not have much impact on the overall swarm under the support of the swarm's strong regeneration ability.
There is only one goal for tactical customization - not to hit the main force of the swarm headfirst.
To ensure unmistakable risk avoidance, you need the cooperation of a class of scout ships, and I believe that bugs will be afraid of these things after being touched by a class of scout ships once. Even if there are no scruples, the location where the Class 1 reconnaissance ship hangs up is a safe zone for a short time, at least allowing the fleet to gain an initial speed of action. As long as you have speed, you have a choice between fighting, maneuvering, or escaping.
It is obvious that there will be no such weapons in the reconnaissance ships that come from the Western Front. Fortunately, the Imperial and Federal Combined Fleets did not plan to throw out the weapons and leave the process alone, although due to military secrets, the route of action of the first-class reconnaissance ships could not be disclosed in advance, but after Pan Wen requested assistance, they still sent a working group to the Gold, which could selectively inform the movements of some first-class reconnaissance ships at the necessary time.
So the weapons test joint fleet very comfortably jumped to the K15 area with K13 as a transit, and immediately after completing the jump, it received a set of enemy broadcasts issued by a class of reconnaissance ships!
At the current rate of action of the first-class reconnaissance ships, each galaxy in the reconnaissance area can only receive the enemy's broadcast for an average of 15 to 30 minutes in four hours, and can know the general situation at the first time.
After confirming the general size of K15's swarm through the broadcast, Pan Wen did not plan to go any further, and eating them would almost be able to make a difference.
The process of chasing the bugs is not difficult, but the bugs here are moving troops, and due to the distance, when chasing one of the groups, another target locked by the hyperspace information system disappears, and it seems that it has completed the jump to the K14 area.
There are two kinds of integrated information ships in the fleet, old and new, as well as professional No. 11 reconnaissance planes, and the right-wing swarm cannot be as stealthy as the left-wing bugs, and there is no support swarm nearby.
During the test, the test fleet chooses to move in reverse parallel with the insect swarm, whether it is before the battle, or with the movement of the insect swarm during the operation, the relative central axis of the enemy and the enemy is constantly changing, once the insect is dead, it will produce objects with abnormal moving directions due to inertia, which is very convenient for long-distance statistics.
However, the results were not satisfactory to everyone, because the anti-living objects that the BU project put a lot of effort into were not as powerful as they boasted.
In the actual combat test, all the data of anti-living weapons have reached the expected value, except for the lethality index. Well, the most important project is not up to the mark.
According to statistics, an anti-living missile can only eliminate about two-thousandths of a cannon fodder insect within a radius of 10,000 kilometers, and the effect within a radius of 1,000 kilometers is not bad, it can destroy nearly 20 percent of the insects, and it can paralyze a small number of patrol ship-level war insects.
Yes, the main force of the battle against the swarm can only be paralyzed for a short time.
It sounds like a big war bug that can paralyze the main combat power is not bad, and the result of paralysis on the battlefield doesn't seem to be much different from being fatal.
In fact, this is not the case, this is the result of the missile delivery type with the shortest distance between the irradiation source and the target, which means that the lower power payload type is simply not likely to have much impact on the big war bugs at a long distance, and it is thankful that it can interfere with their hit rate, as for the main gun type of anti-living weapons are still made in the shipyard.
In addition, the missile projection type enters the Great War Worm within a distance of 1,000 kilometers, and there is a strong luck factor in it, once the swarm further increases the interception configuration, it is difficult to say what role dozens of hundreds of anti-living missiles can play, at least hundreds or thousands of them have to be released out, and it is all money.
In addition, there were a small number of super-large bugs with no production organs in the swarm of insects that were pitted in this test, and during the entire test, not even a single anti-living missile hit its surrounding area, and these things were finally killed by the main gun. A series of data comparisons can lead to at least two conclusions. First, the ability of the Super Bug to intercept at close range is at least no less than that of a human light cruiser; Second, the long-range firepower projection of the main weapon of the Super Bug is outrageous enough, but the bad enough hit rate drags it down, and it basically looks at the face from 200,000 kilometers away, and it is not suitable for a strong attack like the bugs in other right-wing star sectors, and even if the degree of defense in the K11 West Zone is still slightly insufficient, it is not a big problem to do a good job of short-term defense with the cooperation of a class of reconnaissance ships.
Pan Wen was satisfied with the results. Whether it is insects or humans, they all stop here, and in order to desperately work hard to develop military technology, if it can last for ten or eight years, it will definitely provide the real world outside with a huge amount of reference data that cannot be measured by materials and money.
From a certain point of view, he is just taking it for granted, the demon kings, tens of billions of thinking bodies, and countless AIs will try all kinds of ways to kill the enemy. Maybe a small mistake missed at a certain moment will become a decisive factor in victory or defeat after a while, and no matter how dedicated he is, if he does not have strong enough intelligence resources, sooner or later he will be negligent.
Returning to the weapons test, the results of the weapons in the test were not ideal, but the fleet made unexpected discoveries during the wreckage inspection and collection after the battle.
Two pieces ...... No, two serums.
A few people in the fleet have already heard of the essence, after all, it is the first time they have seen it, and the two essences were discovered by the Anik people first, but they don't know how to collect this kind of object between energy and matter, and the essence was captured by the Panvin fleet engineering ship that arrived later on the grounds that "it needs to be isolated and checked".
The two baby fist-sized essences could not be retrieved from the battle database, and it was not even clear whether they were made by anti-living weapons, so for the time being, they could only be defined as accidents, not even surprises.
In order to determine whether the appearance of the essence was a pure accident or the result of a low-probability anti-LW strike, Pan Wen did not retreat with the fleet after completing the test, but instead took advantage of the presence of a person in the team who could provide a time point for the operation of a type of reconnaissance ship, and went further into the interior of the swarm occupation zone.
Things were a bit bad when the fleet turned to K17, where a huge number of bugs gathered, but fortunately, a class of reconnaissance ships seemed to have some deterrence against bugs, and several swarms of bugs with very eye-catching scanning features did not "guard the door", so that the test fleet turned around and ran back to K15.
Unexpectedly, the second test was finally completed in K17, and the bugs were also not sticking to the community, and the bugs seemed to be fighting sports battles in the K21-K23 defense line.
There is a type of reconnaissance ship whose direction of movement ensures initial safety after jumping, and with the help of information, the second test target swarm performed by K17 is similar to the previous wave, and the results are similar, and once again three essences are found.
The results can be repeated, and guessing becomes science.
It has been proved that anti-living weapons can force cannon fodder bugs to become essence with a very small probability, the probability is a little lower, and the essence of the bugs can support a fighter and gunboat at most, but it is also a good start, anti-living weapons get rid of the embarrassing situation of dispensability, and should in turn stimulate the progress of the essence development project in the BU plan.
Before returning, the fleet, with the information support of a class of reconnaissance ships, took a break to take a break to detail the details of several asteroid factories that the original human inhabitants did not take away when they retreated.
Back at K11, after a series of strict virus and parasitic quarantine, the fleet was disbanded.
After submitting the test data and the small grain essence, Pan Wen received an energy bar worth 100,000 star coins from the Western Front Command as a test reward!
The energy of 100,000 star coins seems to be a lot, and there is still a Caesar-class information complex ship left before the war, but compared with the consumption of the test troops summoned by Pan Wen, Mao is not a single one. The entire test fleet would consume a total of about 15,000 star coins of fuel if it jumped one node, and this was thanks to the fact that there were more than a dozen cruisers in the fleet that used low-cost fusion energy.
With a wave of his hand, Pan Wen left 10,000 star coins of energy for his own replenishment and reserves, and the rest was divided into three parts for the resistance forces, Anike mercenaries and player mercenaries.
It's not that Pan Vin looked down on the Eastern Front Command composed of the defeated army, but that there was really little less distributable, and only three components could be divided into three components to make most of the shipowners involved in the test profitable. The official has its own official resource channels, what Pan Wen has to do is to let the civilian armed forces see the possibility of making a profit in the war between humans and insects, so that he can gather enough strength to muddy the water, otherwise when the essence is rotten on the street, everyone will feel that they can do it themselves, and what else is wrong with him.