From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 244 Gangnir Plan
"Did I read that correctly? Atlas's light cruiser is attacking the ground with heavy particle cannons?!"

"Rubyon 5 has such a thick atmosphere, aren't they afraid of heavy metal particle beams hitting the heads of their own troops?"

The public channels where the fleets of various companies in orbit are located have exploded after the Hermes' shocking attack just now.

At this time, a 'light spot' that could be directly observed also appeared on the surface of the planet.

After passing ballistic calculations, the shipboard control personalities of each warship quickly reported the location of the attack to their respective captains.

Satellite city of Ptolemaic City, 35 kilometers southwest.

This is directly in front of a salient on the ground front.

It’s not like no one has thought about using heavy particle cannons to attack the ground.

However, the refraction and scattering caused by the thick atmosphere not only prevent the heavy metal particle jet from hitting the target, but also greatly weaken the power.

When conducting similar experiments, the experimental ships of the two countries actually tried to do addition, that is, increasing the energy input to speed up the initial velocity of the heavy metal jet, trying to forcibly burn through the atmosphere and attack.

As a result, the violent and turbulent heavy metal particles directly reached my grandma's house, and created holes in the atmosphere that took a long time to repair.

As a result, the two militaries finally stopped investing in this area.

First of all, if this kind of attack is carried out by a warship, it will need to point the bow of the ship towards the ground in a low orbit for a long time, which requires very high attitude control of the ship body.

Secondly, the accuracy of this kind of orbital attack is really impossible to use. The uncontrollable error of nearly 10 kilometers creates the "Schrödinger's attack landing point."

Of course, this kind of error is better than the charged particle cannon. That thing has produced the incredible effect of the "bending cannon" in atmospheric experiments.
Of course, the most important reason is also that the two countries have entered a period of peace, and each is more focused on its own development and internal stability maintenance.

As for quelling the rebellion on the planet, it is obvious that it is enough to use controllable orbital attack ships to 'lay eggs'. There is no need to continue development in this area.

Therefore, whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, the development of orbital strikes or the entire military field has actually been stagnant for many years.

There are basically no major updates to the army's combat and training syllabus. Every year, some details are changed over and over again and that's it.

"The 'Gungnir' plan, final actual combat test, the entire project is completed!"

"The attitude stabilization system of the entire ship is normal, and the orbit height deviation is within the controllable range."

"All subsystems of the weapon unit are operating normally. The self-test of the fusion furnace and energy circuit has been completed, and there are no abnormalities in various indicators."

"The attack impact point calculation is completed, and the deviation from the expected impact point is 5.42 meters."

"The attack effect assessment is waiting for ground troops to upload."

The Hermes' shipboard control personality, 'Athena', reported the test results one by one in a sweet female voice.

As part of the "High Energy Earth Orbital Attack Plan" - Project Gungnir, Athena is also the only shipboard control personality in the Atlas fleet that has accepted Lilith's "upgrade" and has related auxiliary capabilities. .

Her main role is to help the warship stabilize its posture when attacking the ground, and to continuously calculate the attack channel to ensure that the attack error is within an acceptable range.

And as Cliffs said the words 'test successful' through the ship-wide broadcast, the whole Hermes ship started to boil.

However, Captain Cliffs still fell into deep thought while completing the ship-wide broadcast and commanding the Hermes to return to high orbit.

As an experienced naval captain, he knew exactly what the success of this test meant.

Although the current warships want to perform this task, they need to go through a lot of modification projects.

But Cliffs knew that after the news and related videos reached major military research institutes, it would take up to a year for this earth orbit strike technology to spread.

Maybe it will become a 'standard' feature of the next generation of warships.

"Pandora's box has been opened by ourselves."

When the atmosphere on the Hermes boiled, both the coalition forces and the Imperial Army on the ground front were shocked by this strike like 'Thor's Wrath'.

There was even a moment of silence on the entire front.

When four overly bright beams of light suddenly appeared in the dark night sky, they seemed to be imprinted on people's retinas. Even if they closed their eyes, they would vaguely see the attack trajectory that was like a 'god's punishment'.

And the fireball that rose up like a little sun afterwards will forever be etched in the hearts of everyone on both sides who saw this scene.

As mentioned before, the kinetic energy of a heavy particle cannon when attacking is a very outrageous number.

Even after reducing the muzzle velocity, the kinetic energy calculated based on the mass of 2000 grams of bismuth metal is still an astronomical figure.

Not to mention, this is a salvo of four main guns of the light cruiser.

The heavy particle cannon used by HCP is only 8 meters long after the accelerated orbit is deployed.

On the Dragoon-class destroyer, the acceleration track length of the HIPW series heavy particle cannon is 60 meters.

The heavy particle cannon equipped on a Griffin-class light cruiser like the Hermes has an accelerated orbit directly reaching the 150-meter level, and the diameter of the orbit is also larger.

When the four main guns on the bow of the ship are fired at a muzzle velocity of 500 kilometers per second, the damage caused on the ground is basically equivalent to a small-yield tactical nuclear weapon. Not only is it extremely powerful, it is also clean and harmless.

As the huge fireball and shock wave that rose into the sky slowly disappeared, the commander of this imperial brigade combat team also discovered that on the command terminal, the troop tag of an armored battalion near the landing point had been marked with a 'cross' mark.

This means that more than 95% of the personnel in this battalion can no longer detect vital signs, and the vehicles have also been offline in the data link.

In this case, it is usually believed that this unit has been completely wiped out.

While several other nearby imperial battalion-level combat units that had been affected were still urgently gathering their troops to confirm the damage.

Atlas, who had recovered from the shock, formed a mixed brigade and launched a formal attack and impact.

When each force attacked the outer perimeter of the kill zone from orbit, some vehicle drivers and HCP pilots used their own observation equipment to see the glassy ground near the impact point.

There are also those armored vehicles, HCP and other units that are like melted butter.

Although the 'sound and light' effect of the orbital strike just now was extremely shocking, the damage seen with my own eyes now can be said to be extremely powerful.

But when they knew that this orbital attack, which was like divine punishment, came from their own fleet, everyone in the mixed brigade was greatly boosted in morale.

As Lieutenant Memphis had guessed before, this counter-charge-style assault operation was actually spearheaded by the brigade HCP company led by Amber.

Five kilometers away from the armored battalion that was annihilated by the orbital strike, another armored battalion under the Imperial Armored Brigade Combat Team was urgently gathering the wounded and shrinking its formation.

Although they were not the target of the orbital strike, the hot shock wave that swept over still plunged them into chaos.

Some units close to the attack point also suffered heavy losses.

It was at this moment that the soldiers on the front line saw a scene they would never forget.

In the flames and smoke of the explosion, an HCP with a red light on the head monitor appeared in front of them like an evil ghost.

When the shadows of other HCPs slowly appeared in the smoke, and formed an attack formation, they rushed toward the front amid the flashing blue light behind them.

These imperial soldiers finally realized that the HCP of this coalition force had been killed in their faces.

"All units, fire freely! Stop these HCPs!"

When the frontline commander's roar resounded throughout the communication channel, the Imperial Army's front line finally became lively.

Various ballistics, rays and beams were swept towards Amber and his HCP assault force.

Several Imperial Zealots have jumped over the heads of their own mobile infantry, rushing forward with their shields raised, and the electromagnetic rifles in their hands are still firing out strings of orange lines of fire.

A bunch of high-risk HCPs with purple markings are also marked on their all-circle monitors. Based on the data in the database, the combat assistance AI has marked the relevant models above these bodies.

Zealot, Dragon Rider, Dwarf Bear, Steppenwolf
This kind of logistical nightmare-like combination also made these imperial pilots feel disdainful. This kind of civilian armed forces just didn't consider the issues of versatility and coordination.

In this regard, Amber actually wanted to explain that it was not that he did not want to generalize it, but that he was too rushed to receive the order and had no time to change the equipment for the HCP troops, so he could only use what he had.

"Let's go and kill these motley crew!"

The commander of the HCP company of the Imperial Armored Battalion said coldly in the communication channel, and then took the lead in manipulating the machine to pounce forward.

"Pay attention to the battle formation and cooperate with rear fire support."

Before the commander finished speaking, the combat auxiliary AI of all the empire HCPs on this front issued warnings.

When the pilots looked towards the source of the warning, they saw the HCP on the opposite side raising a thick rectangular body from the weapons rack on its back.

While several small round covers were popped up on the front end of the cuboid, the combat assistance AI also thoughtfully marked the weapon type.

Six-unit 150mm plasma rocket launcher nest.

"Fuck! Avoid! Avoid!"

With the cooperation of the attitude control system, the imperial pilots urgently used the 'retreat step' to stop the momentum of the charge.

A row of blue 'light walls' appeared in front of them.

Just like the defensive tactical hydrogen bombs commonly used by fleets in space, the plasma fireball's excessive brightness and short-term electromagnetic shielding effect caused the combat auxiliary AI of the Empire's HCP to reduce the amount of light entering the cockpit and temporarily stopped pointing forward. detection.

In addition to attacking fixed positions, the plasma rockets carried by the HCP on the ground are actually very difficult to hit in the HCP's civil war, so in many cases they are used as "high-power smoke grenades" on the spot.
"Pay attention to defense, the opponent may launch a volley after the plasma fireball ends!"

While the Imperial Commander spoke, these HCP pilots set up their shields and increased the power of the deflection field.

But at this moment, a series of explosions broke through the sound barrier, and then these imperial pilots saw the two sides of the light wall like mercury pouring down the ground. Two teams rushed towards them with swords and shields, like gladiator HCPs.

It was only then that the Imperial HCP commander realized that his troops were facing a group of lunatics.

A group of lunatics who skipped the stage of pouring firepower on each other at the beginning of the fight and went straight into the front line for hand-to-hand combat.

(End of this chapter)