Galactic Conquest Manual

Chapter 259 Arsenal Ship

In the shuttle channel within the system, the Second Fleet had just wiped out the patrol fleet located at the outermost edge of the galaxy, catching the opponent by surprise, and all the emergency notifications that hadn't even arrived were blown up in the universe.

The commander of the fleet, Lei Yun, counted the number of enemy ships just now with a smile, and said, "What about the patrol fleet composed of 12 battleships and 3 aircraft carriers, hehehe, it is completely vulnerable. Sure enough, the technology before World War II has nothing to do with us. No deterrent."

Zhang Qi stood behind the dimensional radar officer with his hands behind his back, looked at the screen above the radar officer, and said calmly: "Commander, the shuttle in the department is about to end. We caught the enemy troops on the periphery by surprise, but I did it for us. Created an opportunity to raid a patrol fleet in orbit around Nelson."

Lei Yun said with satisfaction: "It is indeed the concept of the arsenal ship proposed by the Mi Army. A missile rain directly makes the opponent die."

The arsenal ship, also known as the fire ship, is a large-scale surface ship plan proposed by the Millikin Navy when formulating the 21st Century Warship (SC-21) plan. The launch platform of anti-missile weapons carries a large number of missile weapons and has strong strike capabilities against land, sea, and air. It is a missile arsenal floating on the sea, known as the first ship of the 21st century.

Although the arsenal ship seems to be powerful, there are reasons why it failed to develop on the earth.The core of modern naval attack is the aircraft carrier and its carrier-based aircraft. In principle, other warships provide protection and supplies for the aircraft carrier.No matter how powerful the arsenal ship is, it cannot match the attack capability of the carrier-based aircraft.

Moreover, the function of the arsenal ship is single, and the arsenal ship can do nothing but firepower. It is impossible to meet the needs of the Navy for surface ships after the Cold War.

Insufficient flexibility, the whole ship only has missiles, the flexibility cannot be compared with carrier-based aircraft when performing high-end tasks, and it is not as good as smaller ships such as destroyers and frigates when performing low-end tasks.

The functions are too simplified, and the arsenal ship lacks the most basic means of detection, confrontation, and self-defense. It cannot be used alone, and it must be used in groups of multiple ships.

The operating cost is quite high, and it will cost a lot of money to fill a large number of vertical launchers with missiles, and because other ships must be selected to be used, the whole set is not cheap at all, and it is obviously not as cost-effective as using an aircraft carrier-based aircraft wing with the same firepower .

And damage control is difficult, once it is hit, it is basically impossible to damage the control operation.In order to reduce the cost of use, the arsenal ship has greatly reduced the size of the crew. A huge ship with tens of thousands of tons has only dozens of crew members. Prayer may be more useful.

Looking at the two 100 arsenal ships following behind the flagship "Xiyu" aircraft carrier, Zhang Qi sighed and said, "Fortunately, the early arrival of the universe era has prevented this kind of warship from being buried in the process of naval military equipment reform." On. If it is a battle between the earth's powers, the arsenal ship will naturally not be on the table. However, in this cosmic era, the enemy does not have as advanced defensive weapons as the earth's powers. The improvement of air-to-air, as well as the improvement of over-the-horizon and accuracy, have made the arsenal ship useful. Although it cannot be used as a core ship type, it can be used as a firepower output point for an aircraft carrier battle group. In this cosmic era, densely packed missiles Flying over will always cause the opponent to explode into fireballs in the universe before they have time to react."

The continuous resources and economic support of the various administrative stars to the local area also prevent the arsenal ship from being criticized by the military bosses for its profligate missiles.The development of intelligent systems and the emergence of space navigation technology have greatly reduced the difficulty of damage control for arsenal ships.There are 50 launch units at the front and rear of the hull, a total of 100.Although there are not as many vertical launch units as the 059 destroyer, the 100 arsenal ship has an intelligent loading system and a more scientific ammunition storage space.At the same time, the intelligent loading has accelerated the launch speed of the arsenal ship.The scientific storage of ammunition also makes the arsenal ship's ammunition capacity reach a finger-pointing 400 rounds.

The arsenal ship does not have many crew members. As a purely firepower output ship with a single function, the arsenal ship is equipped with 280 crew members.As for a series of other functions such as anti-submarine, detection, and air defense, they are naturally handed over to other destroyers and frigates to complete.

The two arsenal ships are "Jiangzhou" and "Changshan". However, in addition to these two arsenal ships, there are also two 055 destroyers in the fleet as output points. "Jinmen" and "Jianye".

第二舰队的核心主力便是由2艘100武库舰，2艘059驱逐舰，3艘航空母舰组成的舰队。

As a newly designed hull, the two 100 arsenal ships are not designed according to the way of the earth's sea surface ships, but according to the design of warships for space operations, canceling the normal shape of surface ships.

"Commander! Chief of Staff! The shuttle within the department is coming to an end!"

"Countdown! Ten!"

"Nine!"

"..."

"three!"

"two!"

"one!"

After opening the dimensional barrier, the Second Fleet jumped out of the transition channel in the system and immediately turned on the dimensional radar. At a position of more than 500 kilometers on the radar, it was impressive to discover the Nelson patrol fleet composed of more than 100 warships.

The crew waited for Commander Lei Yun to give the order to fire. Lei Yun looked at the dense dots of light on the radar screen, exchanged glances with Zhang Qi, confirmed his eyes, then nodded and ordered: "Jiangzhou Ship , Changshan is ready for battle, waiting for my order to fire. Jinmen and Jianye are ready for battle and start counting the time. The electromagnetic gun must hit the opponent at the same time as the missile, and strive to catch them all."

"Yes!"

"The time has been calculated, and the fleet of 176 ships in Nelson's orbit has been locked."

Lei Yun nodded, put one hand on the table and the other on the operator's chair, and ordered: "Distribute 176 warships to our fire team."

"Yes!"

On the Jinmen, Lu Xiang stared closely at the screen, and suddenly found that five targets had been distributed to the bridge. Ning Hao said excitedly beside him: "Captain Lu, our mission is here."

Lu Xiang looked unwillingly at the two 100 arsenal ships next to him, and said dissatisfiedly, "If it wasn't for space wars, the arsenal ships would have no chance to succeed at all. Depressed, we were assigned 5 warships."

Ning Hao smiled awkwardly. After all, the arsenal ship is a pure firepower output, and its function is different from that of an all-round ship like 059. He comforted: "The Jianye next door should only have 5 targets, and the attack time has been announced. Prepare to target enemy ships."

Lu Xiang pursed his lips, and then ordered: "The main gun is in combat mode, aim at the target and wait to fire."

"Yes!"

On the Western Region, Lei Yun received the fire team's confirmation that the preparations were complete, and then ordered: "Fire!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The 166 launching units of the two arsenal ships were all opened, and 166 ship-to-ship missiles flew into the air one after another with a "puff".The disciples of the entire fleet could only see the densely packed missiles shooting towards the distant universe one after another. As for the target to be attacked, it was naturally invisible to the naked eye.

"Lu Xiang! Keep an eye on the time!"

Lu Xiang stared at the countdown to the launch of the electromagnetic cannon, looking at the rapidly shortening time, Lu Xiang ordered: "Get ready to fire!"

And more than 500 kilometers away, 176 battleships, aircraft carriers and other large and small warships patrolling in orbit are cruising as always. Since the patrols on the outer reaches of the galaxy were wiped out by the Second Fleet, they have not received any news at all. Sometimes I relax my vigilance somewhat.

At this moment, the radar ship in the patrol fleet suddenly found 166 light spots on the radar screen suddenly appearing on the radar, and they were flying towards them at high speed. Hundreds of UFOs are flying towards us quickly!"

The captain of the radar ship came to the side of the radar officer, saw hundreds of fast-flying light spots on the screen, but thought it was more than 100 unidentified spaceships, and immediately ordered: "Notify the fleet! Get ready for battle! "

Looking at the place where the UFO flew, the 166 shining light spots could already be vaguely seen. The captain of the radar ship wondered: "What kind of spaceship is this? It's so fast."

The situation discovered by the radar ship was immediately notified to the patrolling fleet, and the captains picked up the binoculars in their hands and looked at the 100 light spots flying over 166 kilometers away.

"Get ready to fight!"

The warships of the patrol fleet had aimed their main and secondary guns at the direction the missiles were coming from, but after more than a minute, when a long column appeared in front of them, they realized what they were facing. This is not a battleship, it is clearly an unknown object made by a certain civilization.

The missiles are getting closer and closer. With a "boom", before the missiles arrived, two warships were interrupted in the middle and exploded into two halves in space.Immediately after the third ship, the fourth ship... After a total of ten warships exploded, the commander of the patrol fleet shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

However, it was too late. After 10 rounds of electromagnetic artillery shells were fired accurately, 166 missiles immediately hit the head. The sound of "rumbling" sounded on the cruise fleet in an instant, and 176 patrol warships exploded into huge balls of fire on Nelson's orbit, as if the entire orbit was ignited.

In the blink of an eye, all 176 warships were wiped out, and the news of the attack was not even sent out.On the bridge of the Western Region, Lei Yun and Zhang Qi quietly stared at the 176 disappearing light spots on the radar screen, and after confirming that there was no more invincible ship in Nelson's orbit, they said: "The second fleet is moving forward and entering the second stage of operations. , Start the orbital bombing, and prepare to land on the border planet Nelson of the Noah Empire!"

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PS. The strength of the opponent has increased, and it is slowly returning to the modern warfare you want.One-sided massacre, beyond visual range, modern warfare wants to see the enemy, does not exist.

(End of this chapter)