Chapter 975 [Battleship Level!] "Aircraft carrier"-stirring stick, "frigate" personal bodyguard]
The main battlefield cannot form an effective strike, and it is also not so easy for stealth bombing warships to break through to the rear of the enemy's fleet and carry out a strategic attack operation.
First of all, the defensive destroyers that are densely packed in the front, middle, rear and other positions of the battlefield, with the same root and origin but different functions, they all have a strong early warning system, which can effectively counter stealth.
Once the concealed bombardment ship is detected by the destroyer and its whereabouts are exposed, it will be hit by a large number of high-speed destroyers and thunderous strikes under the dense blockade.
Even if you can avoid the alert of the destroyers on the periphery, you still need to face a large number of frigates in the rear and a large defensive net formed by various cross-type intensive reconnaissance.
If a stealth bomb battleship wants to avoid a frigate, it is almost impossible to achieve it with the same level of technological equipment.
The easiest thing to be bullied is nothing more than the cruiser, but although the cruiser does not have a powerful self-defense weapon, it also has an anti-stealth early warning system.
As soon as you find a stealth bomb battleship, you can immediately disperse with your speed advantage and call your own fighters, defensive destroyers, to strike at these stealth units.
Concealed bombardment warships are stronger than they are in group combat, and the dense bombing strikes formed in small areas, and the pursuit of a single target is not their advantage.
Even if a few cruisers were blown up by luck, the loss was still on the side of the hidden bombardment of the battleships.
What's more, in the area where the cruiser is located, in addition to a large number of destroyer bodyguards on the periphery, there are usually some "leading brothers" around -
Supersailing and aircraft carriers!
Hundreds of unmanned fighters and extremely high-speed spaceships quickly pounced on the hidden bombardment warship, and even took the initiative to collide with the bombshells that had been dropped and could move extremely slowly.
Whether these bombs will eventually hit the cruiser is still unknown.
And if the nemesis of small and medium-sized warships - aircraft carriers - is preferred for bombing, it is tantamount to taking the initiative to find death.
There is only one reason -
The aircraft carrier looks like a unit, but it carries hundreds of drones or hundreds of space fighters, this kind of special light feather-class aircraft.
A dozen or twenty incoming light and small stealth bomb warships can be easily crushed by the battleships carried by the aircraft carrier.
What's more, the aircraft carrier comes with a variety of defensive naval guns of large and medium-sized calibers, as well as hundreds or thousands of "sons" who can take fatal damage for the "mother" at any time.
Even if 20 stealth bombers successfully arrive at the position, they will be completely submerged in minutes in the face of UAVs and light and small warships under Ukrainian pressure.
Even if you can drop the bomb, most of it will be "eaten" by various drones, and then it will be absorbed by the level 5 protective shield to absorb a lot of damage.
The remaining damage caused by the bomb can be easily carried down by the aircraft carrier's armor layer.
To sum up, a destroyer is a kind of functional auxiliary warship, which undertakes all flank combat missions except for frontal battlefield attacks and protection of rear base camps.
If the entire battlefield is described as an anti-theft window, battleships, cruisers, battle cruisers, flagships, motherships, logistics auxiliary warships, etc., belong to the thick steel bars in the middle, which support the entire battle formation pattern of your own side and block the attack of the enemy's main fleet in the front.
The destroyer is the small layer of mosquito-proof barbed wire covered in the gap of this welded steel bar.
Cover every corner of the entire anti-theft window, block all sneaky actions and fish that slip through the net, and ensure that your battleship formation is not bitten by "mosquitoes".
When necessary, it can also break away from the security window and form a fire network to pounce on the enemy.
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Ship Serial Compilation VII - Aircraft Carriers!
This kind of warship is the absolute hegemon on earth, and now in the space battlefield, although it is no longer the hegemon, it is still one of the most powerful warships.
As a comprehensive mobile combat platform, aircraft carriers have the characteristics of large size, fierce firepower, "many sons", and diversified combat missions.
The light feather-class battleship specially set up by Xingfeng is actually a general term for the warship class specially established for the battleships on the aircraft carrier.
In fact, it is also a carrier-based aircraft!
The light feather class has a large range of sizes, ranging from a few meters to hundreds of meters, spanning two classes, small and light, and there will be drones and space fighters under its banner.
At this point, the son, like the mother, also has a large span of aircraft carriers.
The largest sequence is the "super-sailing" of the mother ship, all of which are more than 10,000 meters in length, and are carrying various small light warships.
The smallest "Milk Bully-class" combat repair aircraft carrier is less than two thousand meters in size, which is the standard for small warships.
So how do you distinguish between the Light Feather class and other ships below the small class?
It's easy to ......
No matter how small a battleship is, it will have an on-board energy reactor to provide energy for the entire battleship, and it has the ability to travel long distances.
No matter how big the carrier-based aircraft is, they are all powered by ship-based energy storage modules, and there is no main energy reactor carried by the warship.
With the aircraft carrier as a support, the combat radius is drawn around the aircraft carrier, and the carrier-based aircraft can go back to recharge at any time, and there is no need to carry energy reactors.
This is also the reason why Xingfeng summarized the "super-navigation" carrying warships as the ship sequence of the mothership, rather than the aircraft carrier.
One is carrying a battleship, the other is carrying a carrier-based aircraft, which operates in a completely different way of doing things internally.
The advantage of carrying carrier-based aircraft is that it can save a lot of space occupied by the installation of energy reactors, which can be used to carry other combat materials.
For example, bombs for bombers, artillery for drones, assault deterrence for high-speed fighters, and so on.
As for what kind of combat mission an aircraft carrier undertakes in a battle, it mainly depends on what kind of carrier-based aircraft and resources it is carrying in its hangar.
For example, the "Milk Ba-class" combat repair aircraft carrier, which is equipped with a light feather-class maintenance drone, and its internal structure and facilities are also built around logistics, and the main task is to provide combat repair of the armor layer and structural layer for its own warships.
It is a combat repair aircraft carrier that belongs to the logistics category!
If it is carrying a light feather-class bomber, it can form a formation of hundreds of bombers at a time to carry out intensive bombing of the enemy.
It is a war bomber aircraft carrier that belongs to the main battlefield!
If you are carrying a large number of attack drones or high-speed space fighters, you can follow closely behind the battleship and harass and confuse the battle formation of the enemy fleet to create an advantage for your own battle.
It belongs to an assault aircraft carrier!
To put it bluntly, the role of an aircraft carrier as an integrated combat platform in the battlefield is to become a-stirring stick through its own variability.
So that the enemy has no way to attack with peace of mind, no way to change the formation in an orderly manner, and no way to retreat calmly.
It allows you to diversify your tactics and cover a wider range of combat firepower, and at the same time, you can reduce the damage rate of the capital ship through cheap carrier-based aircraft.
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Ship Sequence Preparation Eight - Frigates!
As a small warship, the frigate is basically only less than 2,000 meters in size, and the shipboard guns carried are mainly medium-caliber guns.
Large-caliber weapons can become ship-based main guns!
However, despite the small size of the frigate, its role in the fleet is very large, and it is the last security barrier where the core of the fleet is located.
Its duty is to guard, using its ultra-high speed advantage to be the most loyal personal bodyguard.
The size of the flagship and the mothership are very large, and their role in the battle is also proportional to the size, and each of these two battleship sequences may be related to the final outcome of a battle.
In order to carry out protection work to the extreme, corvettes usually have electronic early warning frigates, interceptor frigates, stealth frigates, torpedo frigates, assault frigates, and so on.
From reconnaissance, early warning, anti-concealment, blockade, interception, and other aspects, the all-round and three-dimensional escort mission is carried out to block the enemy as much as possible on the periphery of the protection target and ensure the safety of its own core warships.
If it is urgent, it is even necessary for the frigate to make sandbags, and take the initiative to absorb the attack damage of the mothership and the flagship, which is threatening enough.
In general, the core purpose of the frigate is to protect its own core units, and the shape, function, and performance of the battleship design are all carried out around protection.
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Frigates, destroyers, cruisers, battle cruisers, battleships, aircraft carriers, flagships, motherships.
These eight fleet sequences are a frontal battlefield sequence formed by Xingfeng for future fleet wars in space based on the existing interstellar warship technology.
Of course, this is just a basic template!
In the future, Xingfeng's strength will be even stronger, and the number of interstellar warships in his hands will break through from the current hundreds to tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands.
At that time, according to the needs of the battle, many types of interstellar battleship sequences will be born to face the changes in the battlefield situation in space battles more calmly.
But now......
Xingfeng is still just a novice player in space, and in order to collect these hundreds of warships from all over the world, he has used all kinds of methods.
With tens of thousands of warships, there is still a long, long way to go.
At present, the sequence of these eight warships is completely enough for these hundreds of warships in hand to form an effective space fleet battle formation.
If you only encounter a civilized race that is similar to the earth, or even worse than the earth.
Xing Feng felt that he still had a chance!
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After dividing the battle sequence of the battleship, there is finally a necessary division -
Battleship Level!
With the technology of space jump acceleration navigation, it represents that the civilization race has reached the second level, and the interstellar battleship that has risen at this technological level is called a second-level battleship by Xingfeng.
The battleships under the banner of the Yate Clan and the Prawn Clan are all second-class warships!
The "scaled-down version" sold by Xingfeng to the countries of the earth not only does not have a space jump acceleration engine, but also removes the energy shield of the battleship, and only provides electromagnetic kinetic energy cannons and laser cluster weapons.
Strictly speaking, these "castrated versions" of battleships can only be regarded as first-class battleships!