From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 333 Hunting time, but the roles are reversed

"What's going on with the air reconnaissance?! Why wasn't the target found?"

"Sir, the size of the target is too small, less than 50 meters, and it is suspected to have optical and infrared stealth capabilities." Faced with the question from his immediate superior, the air defense commander explained bravely.

"Where's the TMD air radar? Didn't the radar detect it either?"

Viscount York was obviously not satisfied with this explanation, and his tone became less polite at this time.

"Target. The RCS (Radar Cross Section) of the target is too small. You will know it just by looking at this."

The air defense commander, sweating profusely, projected a rapidly generated chart on the main screen of the battleship. Viscount York's face immediately became serious after seeing it.

Because it was indeed the first time for him to see such a small unit like RCS in space combat.

Although HCPs are smaller in size, only at the 10-meter level, they do not have any stealth configuration to hold them up, and the various bits and pieces on their bodies further amplify the radar stealth cross section.

But now the RCS of these three unknown units are too small. Viscount York immediately suspected that they should be some kind of aircraft with a stealth configuration and a small enough frontal cross-section.

To be honest, judging from the data currently projected, the fleet air defense team can detect targets at a distance of 3000 kilometers, which is actually an extraordinary performance.
At the moment, this high-speed raid has reached its peak, and it is impossible for the entire escort detachment to stop combat operations because of the appearance of these three unknown units.

"A high-speed, stealth, and miniaturized stealth bomber? Hasn't this thing been eliminated a long time ago?"

Viscount York flashed in his mind an 'ancient unit' that only existed in textbooks. This type of unit called a stealth bomber was once very popular.

However, after the fleet was gradually equipped with a large number of directed energy anti-aircraft weapons, both the stealth bombers themselves and the plasma torpedoes they launched had extremely low survival rates on the battlefield.

When in several battles, this kind of concealed bombardment squadron was annihilated by the organic units before they had time to drop bombs, this unit quickly withdrew from the active equipment sequence of various countries.
"It's impossible to rush in despite the fire, right?"

After thinking of this, Viscount York quickly made a decision.

"The entire fleet continues to attack, and the three frigates 882, 883, and 885 begin air defense operations to intercept unknown targets!"

Soon, the three frigates that received the order began to maneuver. These units, which were originally responsible for a large number of air security and air defense operations, quickly maneuvered to directly above the escort detachment.

Then, the air defense commanders of the three frigates discovered that they seemed to be unable to stop the three unknown units that were attacking at high speed.
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"Attention Dunkleosteus team, Megalodon team and Canglong team have been dispatched and are expected to arrive in 2 minutes!"

"Received, we will launch attacks first to attract the opponent's attention! Let them pay attention to cooperation!"

Jacob completed a brief communication with the transport fleet, and then pushed the throttle to the 'maximum thrust' position again.

The heavy armored combat boat with the research and development number MA-01 he was driving suddenly lit up the large propulsion array at the rear, and a long trail was quickly dragged out.

"Team Dunkleosteus, start attacking the rollers. The target for the first salvo has been marked. After the salvo is over, you can choose your bomb target. Remember, we are not many in number. We only need to cause chaos to the opponent and support it until the main force arrives!"

Under Jacob's order, the three heavy armored combat boats quickly distanced themselves and drew huge concentric circles on the attack route.

The huge forward G force hit instantly. Jacob felt his eyesight go dark at first, but after undergoing physical transformation, he quickly adapted.

When Amber offered him an olive branch, he originally had the idea of ​​​​improving his body and then coming to Atlas to retire.

As a result, after joining ATT and becoming the first test pilot of MA-01, this idea was immediately thrown out of his mind.

"Why do you want to live in old age? A real man should drive a heavy armored combat boat!" This kind of triangular heavy combat boat does not need to maintain the electromagnetic muscles and electromagnetic joints of the whole body like HCP, and many of them are used to maintain balance and adjust posture. The system was also dispensed with.

Therefore, after installing two large subcritical reactors in one go, the energy supply of the heavy armored combat boat basically only has three directions left - deflection field, main armament, and main thruster.

You must know that at the beginning, the extreme Amber actually wanted this armored combat craft to be directly used in the battleship-level fusion furnace.

However, it is still a bit too reluctant to fit a furnace into a length of 50 meters, and we can only consider it after the fusion furnace is miniaturized in the future.

At this moment, the high-speed armored combat boat and the three frigates conducting air defense interceptions pulled out extremely high angular speeds, and the electromagnetic reconnection cannon's firing basically couldn't keep up.

Even for charged particle cannons and high-energy laser turrets, their turret speeds have become somewhat limited at this moment.

Since this escort detachment of the Imperial Navy was in the process of a high-speed raid, the three frigates did not dare to change their axes rashly, because this would easily cause them to lose touch with the larger force due to inconsistent acceleration.

Therefore, they can now only rely on the weapons arranged on the ship and equipped with omnidirectional turrets to attack. This is also one of the pain points for frigates when performing fleet air defense missions at this stage.

At this moment, the air defense commanders on the three frigates were sweating profusely because they discovered that the protection of these three high-speed units was better than they thought.

The fastest high-energy laser that can track a target will look like it is tickling the target, leaving only a few burn marks, and the target will immediately perform evasive maneuvers to avoid the rays.

And if the charged particle beam swept out by the charged particle cannon is swept up, it will be blocked by the deflection force field that suddenly lights up.

"What kind of weird thing is this? It's so fast and the protection is so good."

Just as the air defense commander of one of the frigates was sitting in his virtual cabin directing the entire ship's air defense operations from a simulated 'God's perspective', the alarm suddenly rang.

"Warning, a strong electric field has been detected! It is determined to be a heavy particle cannon shot!"

As soon as he finished speaking, six bright blue-white beams of light suddenly flashed in the dark night sky, and their landing points were all concentrated on a frigate.

The pitiful top deck defense of the Imperial Navy's Penitent-class frigate was exposed at this moment.

The twin heavy particle cannons carried by the MA-01 directly shredded the top armor plate without deflection field protection.

The gap created by the concentrated fire attack quickly spewed out gas that had not had time to be evacuated, and the attitude of the entire battleship began to lose control. It was like a flying garbage bag, throwing out a large number of debris and unlucky crew members. .

The shocked air defense commander had no time to mourn for his friendly forces and immediately shouted on the joint command channel:
"Quick, quick, quick! All anti-aircraft artillery groups open fire! The opponent fired heavy particle cannons, which will deflect the force field before the energy supply can be restored!"

For a time, in addition to the two frigates that were performing air defense missions, several surrounding warships also began to let the secondary armed forces on the ships carry out supporting fire.

The orange ballistics, lasers, and charged particle beams of high-speed tungsten alloy penetrating rods intertwined a rain of death light above the fleet, while the three armored assault boats flexibly shuttled through the rain of light.

And their speed exceeded everyone's expectations. The air defense commander found that their interception window had been compressed many times compared to before. Before the firepower net could even be 'weaved', three armored assault boats had already arrived. face.

The magazine under the hull of the boat was opened at some point, and a round plasma torpedo quickly detached from its pylon and flew out.

At this moment, this relatively slow weapon, with the speed of the armored assault boat, reached a relative speed that its kind had never reached.

While the Dunkleosteus squadron nimbly passed through the middle of the Imperial escort formation, three huge plasma fireballs also lit up in the fleet behind them.

(End of this chapter)