The spy ship Invisible Hand lurks in subspace with its stealth capabilities, and now she is about to enter the atmosphere......

The spy ship was quite small, measuring only 130 meters in length, one-twentieth the size of the Darkstar and one-twelfth the size of the Conqueror. But the wingspan is 170 meters.

The Invisible Hand has the functions of gathering intelligence, infiltrating, smuggling, poaching, robbing merchant ships, chasing and hunting small ships, and is a completely different product from the capital ship.

The ship is a spacecraft capable of traveling to and from the planet's atmosphere and space without obstacles. The design idea is extremely close to the battle cruiser - you can't catch up with what you have hit, and you can't catch up with what you can't catch.

The Invisible Hand is significantly different in appearance from the Dark Star and the Conqueror, with the Dark Star's upper deck building layout relatively similar to that of a traditional naval battleship, but with a wider and flatter hull, close to leafy.

The Conqueror is a typical wedge-shaped dagger-shaped cruiser, with an integrated superstructure and hull, various facilities such as conning towers, shield generators, and observation equipment stacked on the upper deck like a mille-feuille, and weapon systems arranged on both sides like sail battleships.

But the Invisible Hand is decidedly more sci-fi, and looks more like an F-22 fighter than the two ships in the capital ship class — the wings and tail are not just aesthetically pleasing, but also designed to fly better in the atmosphere.

As a spy ship, the Invisible Hand has the following characteristics:

1. It has the space jump function that the Dark Star and the Conqueror do not have for the time being—due to the large size of their hulls, they cannot support the extremely energy-intensive space jump energy supply in their initial form.

The Invisible Hand, on the other hand, greatly reduces the amount of energy consumed by space jumps due to its small hull, allowing the fusion reactor to support space jumps across galaxies, and to perform tactical jumps in battle to avoid the attack of the main gun.

The Invisible Hand wings fold when folding to reduce folding resistance. At the beginning of the warp turn, the overloaded energy system will overload the shield system at the same time, allowing the shield energy to climb up significantly to prevent it from being crushed into its body.

Second, it has the ability to maintain full combat effectiveness in the atmosphere.

Upon entering the atmosphere, the Invisible Hand's wings will also be deployed, and the shield will expel the air around the hull, creating a vacuum within the shield.

In this state, the Invisible Hand itself will experience almost no resistance, and all the air resistance and frictional heat will be shielded by the terrain, allowing the Invisible Hand to fly hypersonic in the atmosphere, and even perform space warps in the atmosphere.

This is designed to break through the planet's orbital defenses, allowing the Invisible Hand to transport special operations teams to the surface for infiltration and sabotage behind enemy lines.

3. Penetration capability, information warfare capability.

The Invisible Hand's device can also be used to teleport people to the surface or evacuate them to the ship's hold, as well as to kidnap people. This is provided that there is no interference and that the victim's location is precisely pinpointed.

The information warfare capability is invincible in the same size, and electromagnetic pulse and quantum jamming devices are specialized in destroying the enemy's communications and combat systems. But it's not as big as the huge Dark Star.

Fourth, excellent stealth performance and acceleration ability

The Invisible Hand has a masking device that outperforms the syndicate's device, and the Warm Reminder can detect signals that are slightly different from background noise, and the Empire's core military bases can distinguish it. But in the face of the infiltration of the invisible hand, the Demaxian Empire can only be blinded.

Another powerful weapon of the Invisible Hand is the snow leopard ripple leveling device at the stern of the ship, which can greatly weaken the gravitational wave signal generated during subspace navigation.

All moving objects produce gravitational wave signals, just as waterfowl and boats swimming on the surface of the water produce water ripples. With the current level of human technology, it can only detect the gravitational wave signals generated by celestial bodies such as black holes, and cannot chalk the signals of ships and asteroids.

This device acts like a submarine's anechoic tile, attenuating the generation of gravitational waves and reducing the "noise" level of the Invisible Hand to an extremely low level.

The reason why it is named snow leopard is because when the snow leopard lives on the snowy mountains, in order to prevent competitors from tracking its footprints, it will have a fluffy and wide plush tail to sweep away the footprints while walking.

Fourth, a specially designed protection, mobility, and firepower system.

(1) The Invisible Hand has two shields, the first of which is a traditional energy shield, and the petite hull makes her shield density two-thirds that of the Darkstar, at the cost of the shield taking time to recharge, the recovery speed is extremely slow and does not last long, and it cannot be opened indefinitely.

The other shield is a deflected shield, which has excellent protection against laser weapons and energy weapons, and the shield density is close to that of the Conquistador, but the problem is the same, it is not long-lasting, and it is also ineffective against aerospace.

The armor is fragile, and the thickness of the whole ship's armor is only 140-180mm thick, and the material is a nanomaterial with better protection performance at a thinner thickness, and it has a certain self-repair function. I'm afraid all that can be done is to stop the design of small arms in the event that the shield is completely ineffective.

(2) Having such weak armor in exchange for excellent mobility. Even the legendary speed is armor - as long as you can't hit me, it doesn't matter how brittle I am. The Invisible Hand can grapple with capital ships and disgust you like flies, and its mobility and short space jumps make it nearly impossible for the main gun to hit the Invisible Hand, and the few hits are not enough to break the shield.

(3) The Invisible Hand has an extremely powerful weapon system of its size. In the upper part of the fuselage, there are 3 twin plasma guns, one for the fuselage and one for each wing, for a total of 6; In the lower part of the fuselage, there is a twin plasma gun in the bow and one in the belly, for a total of 4 guns;

There are a total of 10 guns, which are about as powerful as the secondary guns of the capital ship, and can wash the deck of the capital ship in close combat.

The powerful armament has made the Invisible Hand a well-deserved killer of light warships, and the unlucky ones she is targeting really can't be beaten, and they can't run away.

5. Carrier-based aircraft

The Invisible Hand can only carry 36 tactical aircraft, taking into account the function of ground attack. Her fighter jet exists as a frigate, and it is also capable of traveling between space and the atmosphere. The performance is not inferior to the fighter carried by the Dark Star.

…………

The invisible hand crept out of the subspace.

"Ghosts, prepare for battle." An order emanates from the command room of the Invisible Hand.

In the next second, six figures stepped into the teleportation device. The three marked coordinate points lit up in unison, and it was the edge of the cave in Raast, where Ludwig was located, next to the blue ice who was waiting outside.

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In the conning tower of the Conqueror, a figure in black armor stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, and he was stunned for a moment when he saw this: "Interesting, the action is suspended." ”

The probe recognized Lan Yu and his party, and when he saw this, he tapped his finger on the table: "I said, you will need our help." ”