The Emperor’s Angel of Death

"We can set up several production lines just for the Thunderclap Glide Bomb. The future demand for this thing will be huge, not just for engaging fixed targets, but also for dealing with large-scale, giant war machines."

Hearing Sorskyan say this, Bangula extended a mechanical arm, the mechanical claw at the end unfolding to reveal a holographic image showing a busy factory workshop.

"Chapter Master, I already ordered the construction of a Thunderclap Glide Bomb production workshop. In the future, I can guarantee a monthly supply of 10,000 units."

"That's too few. Strive to provide 30,000 units per month. Once a major battle breaks out, tens of thousands of bombs won't last a few days. We must have a war reserve."

"Yes, sir."

"In addition, although laser-guided methods are safe, we must also see their limitations. Lasers are easily interfered with by smoke, even natural weather like rain. I know that no weapon can be perfect, but continuous improvement is necessary. The Adeptus Mechanicus emphasizes the initial sacredness of weapons too much."

In fact, the shortcomings of this weapon are more than that. For example, it is only suitable for use in atmospheric environments. In addition, in different gravity environments, this type of weapon, which relies on gliding for attack, will also cause great differences in speed. However, this still cannot hide its excellence and practicality.

"Chapter Master, in fact, we have already begun to improve the Thunderclap. Currently, one idea being implemented is to add an auxiliary inertial measurement unit, so that once the bomb is launched, even if it loses laser guidance, it can maintain inertial flight along its original path."

"Well, that's a good idea. I look forward to your finished product."

After that, Sorskyan shifted his attention back to the exercise.

With the efforts of the infiltration team, the Land Raider squadrons used glide bombs and cluster missiles to destroy all the enemy's forward strongholds at an extremely fast speed. At the same time, the Stormtalon gunships also began to move out on a large scale.

Some of them formed hunting squads, taking the lead in crossing the enemy's defenses and heading to important lines of communication to strike at the armored vehicles and vehicles that could quickly support the front lines, hindering the enemy's support speed and inflicting casualties on the enemy's armored forces.

The ground armored assault group, under the cover of low-altitude fire from another part of the Stormtalon group, crossed the burning ruins of the enemy's fortresses and advanced rapidly towards the enemy's depth, breaking through hundreds of kilometers at once.

At this time, the Stormtalon and Stormhawk assault groups were far away from the rear fixed airport, and the Chapter's servitor forces immediately received orders - to quickly open a field airport in a certain area.

Soon, a support detachment composed of more than 10 types of specialized vehicles, such as engineering machinery vehicles, medical support vehicles, communication and navigation vehicles, and fuel refueling vehicles, as well as a large number of servitors and work robots, quickly began work on a flat ground surrounded by mountains on three sides and with a solid ground, clearing the site, building fortifications, setting up tents, camouflage protection...

In less than 3 hours, a temporary field airport integrating command, communication and navigation, and equipment logistics support functions was completed, and began to receive Stormtalons for takeoff and landing, loading ammunition, and refueling.

This was also the work that Sorskyan asked to focus on strengthening before he left. Do not ignore the temporary battlefield support work. Although most Astartes Chapters have become accustomed to fighting without support, since they will be operating on a Legion scale in the future, they must learn the compulsory course of large-scale warfare, namely field logistics support.

"Still too slow."

Sorskyan picked up the communicator and coldly stated his request.

"I can understand 2 hours as unfamiliarity, but 3 hours is almost dereliction of duty. If on the battlefield, the Stormtalon squadron cannot get ammunition replenishment for 3 hours, there may be nearly 1 hour of air support blank on the front line, which may lead to very serious consequences. The person in charge of this will not be named and criticized this time."

Because the main body of this exercise is air-ground coordination, the number of air units is very large. This is also Sorskyan leading the warriors to explore new ways of warfare. There are nearly 800 warriors on the entire exercise field, but the actual deployed infantry units are less than two companies, and most of them are scattered on the front line in squads.

But this does not affect the speed of breakthrough. In fact, with the support of a large number of air vehicles, the squads distributed on the front line can be quickly transferred to any location at will.

In addition, a major feature of this exercise is that there are no "big guys" that are difficult to deploy quickly. All weapons and equipment must be able to be deployed quickly or even air-dropped. Therefore, Brutal Blades and the like did not appear on the exercise field.

Perhaps it was because he had been in Eldar for a while, Sorskyan's requirements for speed became a bit high. Therefore, the ground vehicles of the White Templars exercise troops were mainly lighter armored vehicles such as Land Speeder Storms, Javelin Attack Speeders, Land Raiders, and Rhino armored personnel carriers, including five Rhino command vehicles.

Sorskyan knew very well that for military forces, hardware is important, but software also plays a decisive role.

This Rhino command vehicle is a Damocles pattern prototype, but under Sorskyan's index requirements, Ulan Huda additionally added stronger communication and sensor arrays to them. Its role is to guide strike targets for strike forces, and coordinate information exchanges between front-line ground forces, rear fire support units, air formations, and orbital fleets. It can even establish combat command chains with Knight Titans and Titan Legions.

In addition to traditional equipment, this model of command vehicle is also equipped with many special signal transceivers, communication transmission, and battlefield monitoring equipment to fulfill its responsibility as a command and control hub for a battle company or battle group, including connecting and coordinating company-to-company, squad-to-squad, ground-to-air, and ground-to-orbit audio array communications, and providing secure multi-band communications to coordinate with other Imperial forces in the combat area - this can be any combat unit, such as Imperial Navy ships and fighters, Astra Militarum ground forces, Adepta Sororitas, and even the Adeptus Arbites.

Having experienced many wars, Sorskyan is very clear that the biggest trouble on the battlefield is communication interference, so he specifically requested that this aspect be strengthened. After comprehensive analysis of tens of thousands of war cases, Ulan Huda's Tech-Priests believe that the main source of battlefield interference is psychic or chaotic energy. Therefore, they added psychic defense devices or anti-psychic equipment to these command vehicles to minimize the interference of chaotic psychic energy or enemy witchcraft on communication devices on the battlefield.

In addition, the command vehicle is also equipped with expandable composite detection radars and high-precision monitors, which can be used to locate enemy ground and air units, and use the cogitators equipped with black iron cores to perform data analysis, and then share the resolved target data with artillery, fighters, and the communication network formed by multiple parties in the orbital fleet.