0778 Battle of the Behemoths (5)
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"Sir, observe the Planetary Strike Mothership's shield system back online. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć "Given that the Planetary Assault Mothership's shield is stronger than the Destroyer's gunship, I think it would take us more time to destroy it with our main guns." ā
"We don't have any more time." Colonel Tagate glanced at the main screen with his peripheral vision, and then said, "Each ship launches anti-ship missiles at full speed, there is no need to leave spare ammunition, launch with all the shells, and the missiles set their course so that they do not coincide with the ballistics of the main guns." Two-thirds of the fighter squadron's anti-ship equipment is equipped to attack, hiding behind the anti-ship missile group, waiting for the missile group to meet the enemy, and then launching an attack on the target, and one-third of the air combat configuration is equipped to attack and solve the remaining Sijing Man-Sbee fighters. In addition, the main guns of the ships continued to fire without stopping. No matter how heavy the shield of the planetary assault mothership is, it is not infinite, and if you hit it a few more times, it will always break. ā
As the order was given, the three battlecruisers quickly dispersed, and the distance between each ship continued to increase, as did the distance between the planetary assault mothership.
With the Vostok holding back the Destroyer gunships, which were already riddled with holes, the Planetary Assault Mothership no longer had any ships of its own that could be used as shields. Facing three Iron Eagle warships that were even larger than it at the same time, it could only evade the shells fired at it by maneuvering to evade, and no longer dared to use shields to resist railgun alloy shells.
The Iron Eagle Squadron is the best solution for such an adversary, these space fighters equipped with anti-ship firepower, which look similar to the forward-swept Dragon Eagle Global Fighters, but the difference is that these multi-role space fighters, named Eagle Claw, are larger and have two pairs of main wings, which look exactly X-shaped from the front of the nose.
And in addition to the four groups of main engines at the tail, the root of each wing, and the connection with the fuselage, there is also a smaller engine, although such an aircraft will have little aerodynamics in the gravitational atmosphere, but these are space fighters, to hell with the aerodynamic layout or something, space fighters do not need to be aerodynamic, as long as there is propulsion in forward and multi-dimensional directions, all that is needed is a large body that can load enough fuel and run out of a sufficient range, and can carry enough firepower to threaten the capital warship and deal with all kinds of unexpected situations.
The so-called anti-ship firepower means that each of these Eagle Claw fighters is equipped with a number of anti-ship missiles on the belly and wings, four under the belly and two on the wings, a huge carrying capacity of 12 in total. Of course, if there is no suitable place to install it, this number will only be higher - there is no gravity in space, and carrying so many heavy missiles will only affect the acceleration performance and certain maneuverability of the fighter, but will not directly affect the speed of the fighter.
Although these airborne anti-ship missiles are not as large as ship-based anti-ship missiles in terms of size, and their power and range are not as large as those of carrier-based missiles, they cannot be supported by a large number of them, a single Eagle Talon can carry 12 missiles, a squadron of 12 can carry 144 missiles, and a battlecruiser can carry three such squadrons, and 432 airborne anti-ship missiles can be dropped at one time.
As for the air combat configuration of the Eagle Claw space fighter, in addition to the two 30-mm magnetic rail rapid-fire guns and two light pulse laser cannons built into the fighter itself, natural air-to-air missiles are also indispensable.
It's just that in terms of the combat distance of hundreds or thousands of kilometers in space, those small air-to-air missiles on the ground are naturally not good, there is no air to use in space, and all maneuvering orbit changes need to consume working fluid.
Therefore, the so-called air-to-air missile for space, in terms of size, is actually not much smaller than an anti-ship missile, and a single body is at least half the size of an airborne anti-ship missile, and the length is also two-thirds.
Therefore, each Eagle Claw fighter can't carry too many air-to-air missiles, and elite pilots prefer to bring a small number of missiles and more capacitive equipment to enhance the power, range, and combat time of the railgun and laser cannon.
Although this is only theoretical data on paper, how many fighters can be dispatched in actual combat, how many fighters can carry anti-ship missiles, and how many missiles can be successfully launched are all only theoretical data, but this also proves why the Eagle Claw space fighter still has its own pivotal position in space warfare.
"Colonel, the anti-ship missiles of all ships have been fully launched, the fighter squadrons have all been launched, and the number of remnant bee fighters of the Sijing people is rapidly declining." Colonel Tagate heard the reports shortly after the squadron sortie, but he didn't pay any attention to them, and after glancing at Commodore Towin, he refocused on the planetary assault mothership.
At present, a large number of ship-based anti-ship missiles are rushing towards the planetary assault carrier at high speed from all directions, and in the face of these guided weapons that can automatically adjust the flight path, the maneuvering evasion action of the Sijing planetary assault carrier will not play any role, unless it sails faster than these space fighters.
In space, the speed of the Sijing people's spaceship is indeed faster than that of Iron Eagle's spaceship, but it is not several times faster, and in the face of space fighters that are smaller and faster in terms of acceleration, the planetary assault mothership can't avoid them at all.
The two sides are fighting within the Earth's gravitational circle at this time, and it is impossible for the planetary assault mothership to turn around and run regardless of it, and in the gravitational circle, the more massive planetary assault mothership is inferior to their human fighters in terms of acceleration.
So now in the face of the concentrated fire attack of hundreds of ship-type anti-ship missiles, as well as the group of dozens of human anti-ship fighters coming one after another, the planetary assault carrier can only continue to dodge the shelling of the three battle cruisers, while deploying an anti-aircraft fire network to respond, during this period, the slightest carelessness, they will be densely packed into a honeycomb by the dense alloy projectiles, exploded into a fireball in space, and then only a pile of wreckage fragments is left in the void!
Colonel Tagate's plan was very good, and when faced with a group of precursor ship-based anti-ship missiles that outnumbered the fighter group, the planetary assault carrier chose to concentrate its fire on these missiles and ignore the fighter group that was still behind.
As an incoming anti-ship missile was intercepted by the planetary assault mothership, and fireballs continued to explode from space, a group of 72 fighters all equipped with anti-ship weapons also approached the distance from the planetary assault carrier, and the two sides had already entered a distance of 300 kilometers.
This distance has already entered the range of airborne anti-ship missiles, but there are still their own ship-based anti-ship missiles in front of them that are attracting the anti-aircraft fire of the Sijing people, so the commanders of the fleet plan to launch missiles even closer, so that more anti-ship missiles can successfully break through the anti-aircraft fire network and fall on the planetary assault mothership.
And when the two waves of attack groups approached the distance of 150 kilometers of the planetary assault carrier, most of the hundreds of ship-based anti-ship missiles launched by the fleet before were shot down by the Sijing people -- this is also a matter of no choice, as long as the speed of the missiles cannot be faster than the observation, aiming, locking, and turning of the anti-aircraft weapons, it is impossible to evade the interception of the anti-aircraft weapons, especially the anti-aircraft weapons used by the Sijing people are the same as the Iron Eagle, they are all high-energy laser weapons, and the fire control system of the Sijing people is not weak.
This is why Torwin and Tagate attack intensively with a large number of missiles at every turn, and only in this way can it be possible to make some missiles hit the target before all the missiles are shot down.
As soon as the ship-borne anti-ship missiles were thinned out, the six fighter squadrons did not hesitate to fire a salvo of airborne anti-ship missiles, and more than 800 airborne anti-ship missiles followed behind the ship-based anti-ship missiles with an even more violent momentum, and pounced on the planetary assault mothership that accidentally ate a few alloy shells, resulting in some deformation in the maneuvering orbit change operation!
Although it is said that the power of airborne anti-ship missiles is not as powerful as that of carrier-based ones, such a number and a launch at such a distance will definitely exceed 600 anti-aircraft firepower networks, and if all 600 anti-ship missiles are hit, the fate of the planetary assault mothership will definitely not be better than those destroyer warships, and it will be blown to pieces!
"It's finally done!" Seeing this scene, Colonel Targate didn't bother to look at the last Destroyer gunship, which was finally blown up into a beautiful fireworks under the constant shelling of the battle cruiser "Vostok", and his attention was still focused on the planetary assault mothership.
As one of the only Space Fleet Commanders of the Iron Eagle Force, he knew very well that the Destroyer gunship, even if it was intact, was no match for the Kodiak-class battlecruisers, and the Destroyer gunboats were just small guys in terms of firepower and tonnage.
Only the Planetary Assault Mothership, a large starship that is only one lap smaller than the Kodiak-class battlecruisers, is the opponent, especially after seeing that the Planetary Assault Mothership destroyed one of the main hulls of the "Arabia" with a single shot, forcing the "Arabia" to abandon the entire left engine area where the hull was located.
Think about it, if the Planetary Assault Mothership's cannon was not hit on the left engine area, but in the center of the hull or some other more important position, I am afraid that the "Arabian" would be completely destroyed under that shot, and it would be killed in one shot. The best-case scenario is that even if the "Arabian" is not completely destroyed by a single shot, it is very likely that it will be destroyed.
At this moment, a thick beam of light suddenly shot from a distance, and swept through the missile group, more than a quarter of the anti-ship missiles were directly evaporated by the beam, and the remaining third was detonated by the high temperature! In just an instant, counting the ship-based anti-ship missiles, thousands of anti-ship missiles of all kinds, under this blow, more than half of the number disappeared!
"Enlarge the image!" The main screen immediately turned to the location where the attack appeared, but because the position of the attack was too far away from the fleet, the screen was not immediately adjusted to the appropriate position, and only a small bright spot could be seen, and Tagate immediately ordered manual adjustments.
It took three seconds to manually adjust, and on the main screen, the original small bright spot was immediately enlarged, and a ring-shaped flying machine was slowly rising from the plasma cloud, followed by a small guy only one-tenth of its diameter.
"It's the ring-shaped ship." At this point, Brigadier General Towin finally looked up at the home screen, "Count, it's time for it to appear." ā
"You guessed this thing would show up?" Colonel Tagait, after first placing an order for a fleet to enter the maneuver to avoid another beam strike, then looked at the brigadier general, "Or were you waiting for it to appear from the beginning?" ā
"It's just an estimate." Brigadier General Towin replied, "At first, I didn't expect this thing to appear, but after the exchange between the two sides became bigger and bigger, I was worried about whether the Sijing people would increase their troops, and then I thought about whether this thing would appear. ā
"Seeing that you have been preparing for so long, do you have a plan to deal with it?"
"There are some, but the execution is more ...... It's difficult, and it takes everyone to work together to make it possible, after all, that thing is too big, and although it looks fragile, I believe that its shield must be stronger than the planetary assault mothership I don't know how many times. We're all having a hard time fighting a planetary assault mothership, and if we fight such a guy, wouldn't it be even trickier for us. Brigadier General Towin looked at the magnified Sijing ring-shaped spaceship on the screen, and said with some distraction, "How long will it take for that C target to be solved?" "Target C is naturally the planetary assault mothership that appeared first.
"The Vostok has already dealt with the Destroyer gunship, so it and the fighter force can be sent to contain the planetary assault carrier." Colonel Tagate glanced at the data in his hand and replied, "That ring ship and the new planetary assault carrier are still five thousand kilometers away from us, at least we don't have to worry about the new planetary assault carrier in the short term." But the range of the Ringship's weapon is ......"
"It's a big hassle." Brigadier General Towin said, "Although the 'Arab' has lost half of its main engine, it has not been destroyed after all, and most of the weapons systems are still intact. In addition, the Vostok only used its main guns to defeat the Destroyer gunship, and its missiles and fighter fleet were not used. They were ordered to dispatch all their fighter squadrons, and the anti-ship missiles were all fired at target C. After the missile and fighter groups were launched, the 'Vostok' approached the C target and destroyed the target with close artillery strikes. (To be continued.) )