After the Celestial Army entered service with the Skyhawk-class warships, it gradually formed a set of standard weapon configuration schemes.

There is a laser cannon with a range of light seconds at long range; There are various short-range defensive guns at close range; Large targets have beam torpedoes; Small targets have powered shock ships.

The Skyhawk-class warships have the advantage of weapons in four conditions, large and small, far and near, and the missiles and fusion nuclear warheads that originally supported the firepower of the battleships have even taken a back seat, and there is no place for them at all.

Interestingly, this set of weapons configuration plans is not the crystallization of the wisdom of any one department, but is completely the result of the inadvertent combination of research departments.

Although the Harrier-class battleship has been simplified to a considerable extent, it still follows this set of configuration scheme in essence, so the actual combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the Skyhawk class, but the continuity and endurance of firepower are worse than that of the Skyhawk class, so the deep space plan is all dispatched to the Skyhawk-class battleships to execute, and the Skyharrier-class battleships remain in the solar system to defend the mainland, and not long ago replaced the Skyhawk-class battleships of the Giant Star, Orion Stargate and Neutron Galaxy.

The original high and low combination has become the main attack of the Sky Eagle level and the main defense of the Sky Harrier level.

At present, the total number of warships of the Celestial Army is thirty-five, of which 19 are of the Aquila-class and 16 are of the Harrier-class. The reason why the Aquila-class is more numerous than the Harrier-class is that sixteen Sky-class ships are enough to defend all the existing strategic nodes of the Chinese side, while the number of more than a dozen Sky-class Aquila-class ships is obviously far from enough, so the construction of the Sky-Harrier-class is suspended.

And the subsequent models of the Skyhawk class have also undergone some improvements, and the improvements of the new ships are mainly to strengthen firepower and defense, and to eliminate the air and space carriers that have a limited role in battle. The fighters of a large group were placed directly in the main body of the Skyhawk class, but the early models remained the same, but the aircraft carrier originally carried more than 200 fighters from three aviation divisions, and now there are only more than 80 fighters left in one division.

It is said that it will be further reduced to more than 30 planes in one group, and the original 10-kilometer-long aerospace carrier will be retired from active service, and the old Skyhawk-class warship will be replaced with a small aerospace carrier that can only carry more than 30 fighters.

It is heard that the reason for this, in addition to the fact that the role of fighters in combat is becoming smaller and smaller, is also the element of the insufficient number of fighter pilots.

If the Aquila is configured in full accordance with the standard configuration of the Aquila, each battleship needs 2560 pilots, and the total number of pilots required for the 19 Aquila-class ships is nearly 5,000!

Pilots, especially those of the Space Army, are all special high-end talents. Even if the Celestial Army merges with the Air Force. The total number of fighter pilots is only more than 6,000, and the Skyhawk class will definitely not build only thirty or fifty ships.

After solving artificial gravity, the quality requirements of the space army for pilots have decreased to a certain extent. But no matter how much it falls, it cannot fall below the standard of air force pilots.

Moreover, pilots are high-end strategic arms. It is impossible to train on a large scale - the cost of training a qualified pilot. Converted into gold is heavier than the pilot's weight.

The total number of people in the whole country is large enough to pick out enough pilot seedlings, but the military's funds for pilot training are limited.

And today, when the role of the aerospace forces is gradually declining. The cost of training is being further reduced, taking the past 2213 as an example, there are only more than 300 pilots newly trained by the Sky Army, of which nearly 100 are selected from the commando team, and some of them will take up the post of trainee captain in the near future to enrich the command system of the Sky Army.

If the Aquila hadn't left early, maybe Ye Fei would have had a young trainee deputy captain by now.

The commander of a ship needs to have the dual qualifications of a commando and a sky aviation pilot, and at present, among the more than 1,000 people on the ship, except for Ye Fei himself, no one is qualified.

If the scissors were younger, they might also dig holes in the door to participate in two-way training. It's a pity that he doesn't have a chance anymore.

"It's a pity, we're not that piece of material, Jiang Yufei's kid has retired again, or there can be someone to compare with you." Scissors suddenly said nostalgically, "If he hadn't left the army, how could he be a colonel now?" ”

One detachment can produce two fleet seedlings, which is rare in the history of the Heavenly Army, but Jiang Yufei gave up halfway, which is really embarrassing.

"Isn't it?" Ye Fei also had a complicated emotion in his heart, he hadn't been in contact with Jiang Yufei for a long time, and he didn't know how he was doing now.

The soldiers of the iron-clad battalion, the retired and retired comrades-in-arms of the year were transferred, and now Ye Fei is left with the two old brothers Black Bear and Scissors.

At this time, the Scales and the Shuttle Fleet began the second hedge, and the Scales responded to the changes with no change, still forming a semi-circular hedgehog formation to defend in an all-round way.

However, the shuttle fleet changed the long-range attack just now, and divided into several teams to fly cross-cutting and interspersed while flying close to the opponent, and quickly rushed towards the Scales battle array.

As soon as it entered the range of the Scales, the Shuttle battleship threw out a large number of missiles, and then the Shuttle Fleet quickly approached while the Scales were busy dealing with the missiles, and engaged in a face-to-face hand-to-hand battle with the Scales Fleet.

The shuttle ship spewed out some kind of liquid from the interior of the ship after getting close to the opponent, and after hitting the fine-scale battleship, this liquid could freeze on the surface of the battleship in a very short time, and once the decomposition beam muzzle of the bow was sealed, the beam cannon could not be fired, and became a useless ornament.

The Scales Clan shot a very small weapon at the enemy ship, because the distance between the satellite and the battlefield was a little far, so Ye Fei and the others couldn't see what this weapon was.

But after they hit the shuttle battleship, the satellite image was suddenly occupied by a blazing white light, and the explosion of the ball of light flooded the shuttle battleship in the blink of an eye.

When the bridge officers of the Aquila saw this scene, they were all stunned on the spot, and their jaws were collectively dislocated.

Ye Fei's head buzzed like a hammer: "Nuclear bomb? I'm fucking it. ”

If he doesn't swear, he won't be able to vent his shock.

The development of scientific and technological civilization may have certain similarities, but it is not absolutely consistent.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb more than 200 years ago, but the fact that mankind was able to invent this deadly weapon is directly related to the physical genius Albert Einstein.

Is the mechanical civilization advanced or not? Before they came into contact with humans, they never knew that fusion fission could also be used as a weapon, and after coming into contact with humans, because of the technical blockade of nuclear weapons by human countries, mechanical civilizations that had not been able to get the drawings were also unable to make nuclear weapons. (To be continued......)