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Chapter 248 Nuclear Bomb Capture Plan
To be honest, Amber herself was embarrassed after finishing her speech to the whole army.

He has never been a good speaker, but in the situation just now, as a military commander, he had to say something to stabilize the morale of the military.

However, the methods of giving speeches and shouting slogans are still not as effective as leading by example.

Especially for the large number of Roma people under his command.

Although their ethnic group has not experienced war for a long time, war is just a noun in their dictionary.

Maybe many Roma people's understanding of war is larger-scale collective fights?

But after the Roma Marine Corps was formed and participated in several battles, Amber discovered that these 'orcs' still had blood in their bones.

It just needs some method to stimulate it.

At the moment, Amber has found that the most effective way is to 'take the lead'.

He found that when he fought with these Roma people and rushed to the front, the fighting will of these 'hairballs' would become extremely high.
So after finishing his speech, Amber commanded the synthetic brigade that had paused briefly to enter the offensive rhythm again.

The remaining imperial soldiers should still have 11 nuclear bombs with a yield of 20 tons.

So no matter what, Amber will not let both the coalition and the imperial forces continue to destroy this planet.

This is absolutely not cost-effective for Amber and Atlas Group's next plan.

"If the attack starts immediately, a ground support attack can be carried out, but the shooting angle is expected to be lost after 10 minutes."

Although the number is not large, having and not having them are two different concepts.
In Amber's view, a small fight between the coalition forces and the Imperial Army is enough. It is better not to throw out nuclear bombs casually for the time being.

Therefore, the focus is still on Major General Benjamin, the commander of the coalition forces. Eighty percent of the planetary defense forces under his command have this thing.

As for the coalition forces, even if the troops of private military companies and defense contractors have nuclear bombs, they dare not use them openly.

And when he looked at the scene around Amber that had become blurred due to the high-speed movement of the machine on the boat, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that his boss was indeed a ruthless person, and he could still contact him while fighting.
"No, I don't need immediate support. Phew. Phew."

Theoretically speaking, it is difficult for the planet's garrison to use this thing, and the launch silos and TIE vehicles have indeed been abolished.

While leading the assault, Amber contacted the light cruiser still overhead.

While the 'high energy warning' sounded in the cockpit, Amber performed a tactical sideways movement. After dodging a heavy particle cannon shot, he continued:
"I need you to stand by in orbit as a deterrent. Let's do this. You command the Hermes to re-orbit as quickly as possible, and wait for my instructions after entering the orbital strike range again."

The opportunity for the Lubion Galaxy Autonomous Government to 'invite' Atlas to intervene in an official name can also be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

However, according to the establishment of the garrison, there are definitely a few small-yield tactical nuclear bombs carried by special HCPs, which are generally used for nuclear counterattacks.

The intensity of this war must be controlled.
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"Cliffs, can the Hermes continue to provide ground support now?"

The large-scale use of nuclear bombs will cause a large number of casualties on both sides. The most important thing is that it will have a certain impact on the ecology of the planet Rubian 5.

For Amber, he never wanted to see the second mushroom cloud rising on the battlefield.

Because this means that the remaining imperial troops and the coalition forces will definitely enter the worst-case scenario of dropping nuclear bombs on each other's surface.

It would be better to leave it to Atlas for safekeeping temporarily.

The transportation location of Rubian 5 and the entire Rubian galaxy, and the political location of the dominant galaxy as the federal opposition 'Federal Republican Party', are actually very suitable for Atlas to develop here.

At the same time, he also rushed to the front with 10 airframes from the brigade's HCP company.

Cleaves' image appeared in a small window on a screen throughout the day.

"Yes, Boss!"

Amber nodded, and then looked at Isabel in another small window. She had been online when Cliffs was connected just now.

"Isa, you contact the Lubion System Autonomous Government and tell them that the consequences of both sides throwing nuclear bombs at each other on the planet are to find ways to dissuade them from launching a nuclear counterattack, even if it is just to delay the Hermes to re-enter the orbital strike range. All right!”

"Got it, I'll do it right away!"

Isabel knew that the situation was urgent at this time, so she ended the communication without saying anything.

The Lubion Galaxy Autonomous Government has several ships staying in orbit to supervise operations, so you can contact them immediately.

Cliffs also saluted Amber, then ended the communication as well and began to direct the warship to perform an emergency orbiting maneuver.

"Helmsman, it's up to you now. Complete the orbit as quickly as possible. After re-entering the orbital strike range, stay as long as possible!"

"Yes, sir!"

The helmsman wearing a comprehensive head-mounted display immediately started the operation. With the help of the shipboard control personality, he quickly calculated an orbit that could complete the orbit as quickly as possible.

Warships from other companies in outer space also detected nuclear explosions on the planet's surface. Just when they each urgently contacted the ground forces of their own companies, they all noticed a long trail trailing from the tail, which was obviously the Hermes that started to accelerate.

"What's going on? Are Atlas's battleships about to retreat?"

"It's impossible. Their company's troops are still on the ground. How can they retreat now?"

"Perhaps the nuclear explosion just now fell on the ground troops of Atlas Company and wiped them out?"

"No, the nuclear explosion occurred on the left wing of the coalition forces, and Atlas's company was on the right wing of the battle line."

"Look, this light cruiser is not retreating, it is still on the orbit!"

"Wait a minute. Doesn't it want to orbit once before entering the attack position, and then launch another round of ground attacks?"
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When Cliffs and Isabel started to take action respectively, Atlas's mixed brigade also bit the Imperial Armored Brigade-level combat team in front of them at a speed that no one expected.

In the previous battle, the 49th Armored Brigade Combat Team in the mouth of the imperial commander had actually killed two battalion-level combat units by Atlas combat troops.

And judging from the rough statistics of enemy wreckage on the battlefield, they should have directly killed the two most powerful armored battalions.

If we look at the organization of the 49th Brigade, apart from the firepower battalion, support battalion, support battalion and other troops, the combat battalion of this brigade should still have one infantry battalion and one armored cavalry battalion.

They are all lightly armed troops. Although they have good mobility, they extremely lack the ability to fight frontally.

Therefore, Amber did not hesitate at all and directly issued the order to attack across the board.

At the same time, the second RQ220 'Observer' stealth drone that took off in an emergency also flew over the war zone, and drew a huge circle in the sky with another RQ220 that had not been shot down.

Amber's order to the UAV operation team was simple. While detecting enemy troop movements and sharing relevant data and information with ground units, they also searched for traces of possible tactical nuclear attack HCPs on the battlefield.

Although these specially modified bodies have better concealment than ordinary HCPs, this does not mean that they can be invisible in front of advanced comprehensive detection equipment.

Even if these aircraft have been wearing optical camouflage, maintaining radio silence, and minimizing their own electromagnetic signals.

At the same time, the subcritical reactor is not used, but the additional conformal superconducting battery pack is relied on for the most basic driving.

But in front of the 'observer' with a high-level infrared detection unit, the HCP sneaking on the ground is still very conspicuous.

After all, HCP is not like a battleship that can be equipped with an absolute black body layer that completely isolates all radiation characteristics.

Moreover, when these tactical nuclear strike HCPs enter attack operations, they are either single-person covert operations or have a small number of vehicle escorts.

Therefore, as long as a lone HCP is found, or a HCP escorted by a small number of vehicles, it can be marked out as a suspected target.

As long as a suspected target is discovered, the two stealth drones will immediately synchronize the relevant information to the troops on the ground to facilitate them to carry out the 'nuclear bomb capture operation'.

Yes, that's Operation Nuclear Bomb Capture.

Atlas currently does not have the ability to produce nuclear bombs. If it can obtain some nuclear bombs, it will still be of great help to ground combat.

Although the entire manufacturing process of thermonuclear weapons can be obtained as long as you are willing.

If you have connections and channels on the black market, you can buy the equipment needed to make a nuclear bomb.

But that was a relatively long process after all, and it could only be done in a sneaky way.

But if it is captured from the enemy, it is different.

The tactical nuclear bombs carried by special HCPs are somewhat different from the nuclear bombs in silos and TIE vehicles.

The latter basically sets a fixed target, and adopts measures such as hardware intervention and two-person operation to prevent accidental launches.

As for the tactical nuclear bombs carried by HCP, in order to be more 'tactical' when used, naturally they cannot be controlled in traditional ways.

Generally speaking, these tactical nuclear bombs have their warheads and carriers sealed separately in peacetime and are specially protected.

After entering combat status, the nuclear bomb together with the carrier will be put into the launch box.

When the nuclear strike team receives the attack order, the HCP who launches the nuclear bomb will carry the launch box on his back. At the same time, the HCP can also perform 'hardware intervention' on the launch box at this time.

The authority released by the Imperial Commander is actually the authority for the HCP to intervene in the hardware. At this time, the HCP can activate the launch box and set the attack target for a nuclear strike.

So Amber's idea is simple, that is to find the HCP carrying the nuclear bomb, defeat it as quickly as possible, then take away the launch box and conduct electromagnetic shielding.

Even if the generating program cannot be cracked later, the carrier can be dismantled and the warhead can be taken away for personal use.

This kind of operation was very common during the division of the Empire and the civil strife of the Federation. During that dark and chaotic period, neither side knew how many nuclear bombs were flowed into the civilian population.
Of course, at that time, after losing government control, various private armed forces among the people no longer kept secrets. There were many companies that built their own factories to make nuclear bombs.

(End of this chapter)