The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1536. Grand Duke Liming (13) [Navy Chapter]

In addition to the Cobalt Alloy, Reckless, and Spearman classes, there are also pulse-star frigates that have been completely retired from active service. Moreover, due to the design problem of the pulse star frigate, this is a slow medium-range fire support ship. After this frigate is retired, it has no value to join the escort fleet, so it is all sold on the black market.

However, the reasons for the retirement of the Reckless-class and the Spear-class light frigates are somewhat different. The reason for the retirement of these two types of light frigates is that they cannot find an opponent.

In the past, the Dawn Territory relied on these two types of light frigates to supplement the performance and firepower of its own fighter jets, and they were mainly used to fight against the fighter group of the Galactic Republic.

But now, with a large number of new fighter jets joining active service, the fighter formation of the Dawn Territory already has the strength to compete head-on with the fighter formation of the Galactic Republic, so there is no need for these two types of light frigates to continue to serve. It is also a light frigate of about 30 meters, and the Valkyrie guided missile frigate is much more lethal to fighter jets.

The fighter jets of the Dawn Territory are still based on ghost fighter jets. However, the Wraith Fighter has been reborn under continuous improvement. Whether it is the avionics system, fire control system, weapon system, energy transmission system, engine system, shield system and stealth system, all have been reinstalled. With the most advanced equipment, the combat capability and the original model are completely the same as the sky and the ground.

In fact, the current ghost fighter is also invisible, and the detection radar of the Galactic Republic still needs to operate at extremely high power to detect it. Although the Republic is also constantly improving its anti-hidden methods, the road is one foot tall and the devil is one foot high, and the active side is always the ghost fighter.

At present, the latest CF/A-17-G ghost fighter, in terms of the actual air combat effect, the overall performance is indeed inferior to the latest V-wing fighter of the Galactic Republic, but with the help of the stealth system, the V-wing fighter In the battle with the ghost fighter, his hands and feet are also tied. If he is not careful, he will lose the trace of the opponent and be unilaterally slaughtered.

In fact, it was precisely for this reason that the Dawn Commander did not advance the upgrade of the Wraith Fighter.

However, this does not mean that Dawn Leader's development in the field of fighter jets has stopped. After the new type of Viking fighters entered active service, the firepower of Dawn Leader's fighter formation has directly increased to a higher level. In addition to being slightly less flexible, the Viking fighter is far stronger in speed and firepower than the Wraith fighter, and it also has the stealth function. To put it more vividly, the Wraith fighter belongs to the kind of dog fighter, and the Viking fighter is a long-range strike fighter.

After being incorporated into active service, although Viking fighters did not participate in many battles, they achieved good results every time.

And now the Liming Army is also thinking about Viking fighters, because the current naval Viking fighters do not have the transformation function, but Lieutenant General Cheng Shitao hopes to order a batch of Viking fighters with the transformation function to meet the needs of the Vikings. The needs of their atmospheric operations.

After all, who doesn't like a piece of equipment that can be used for air combat when flying, and can transform into a mech for land combat when it falls?

However, in the future, in the field of fighter jets, the Halo Weapon System Group has also joined the competition. They have already proposed the plan and prototype of the F-41 Broadsword fighter jet, which is currently being evaluated by the military.

In addition to these two air superiority fighters, the dawn collar also equipped a large number of vulture robot fighters to supplement the shortage of its own fighters. These fighter jets were all purchased through the trade alliance, and the price was cheap and the quantity was huge. Of course, in actual combat, they were also shot down by the Republic fighter jets piloted by those clone pilots.

As for the new triple robot fighters, although Liming Ling also bought them, the quantity was not large. The reason was that the high command felt that it was not cost-effective to introduce triple fighters. As for the coyote robot bombers, it is also because the missions they perform are actually capable of being performed by Viking fighters, so the dawn collar also only has a small amount of introduction.

Of course, the vulture robot fighters will also be eliminated. According to the plan of the Dawn Land Supreme Command, the vulture robot fighters will also be replaced by drones.

At present, Salary Industrial Group has come up with two designs of drones, namely the light drone acolyte and the medium drone infiltrator.

Similarly, the ambitious Halo Weapon Systems Group has also come up with its own UAV program - the F-99 Kangaroo.

However, in the field of drones, a new competitor suddenly appeared, and no one expected this opponent-it turned out to be the Protoss!

Anyway, I don’t know what the current leader of the Protoss side, the leader of the Sirak tribe, Xerakas, thinks. He also provided the Protoss’ drone to the Supreme Command of the Dawn Territory—the swarm drone interceptor!

This kind of unmanned interceptor has good performance both against the air and against the ground, and its body diameter does not exceed two meters. It really lives up to its name, just like a bee swarm! This kind of drone was originally equipped on the aircraft carrier of Protoss. Although the current Protoss is not capable of producing aircraft carriers, it is not a big problem to build interceptors.

It's just that in the past, the protoss would not take the initiative to hand over their equipment to the Dawn collar, including their transport planes and a series of probe robots, sentry robots, etc., all for their own use. This time, it is indeed a good thing to take the initiative to take out the swarm interceptor.

At present, the upgrading of the fighter field, especially the drones, is proceeding rapidly, and the vulture robot fighters with certain intelligence have begun to be handed over to the security forces on the planet, and these robot fighters have also proved that they are very good at public security. outstanding.

And finally, there is another low-key, but still very important fleet of Liming's leading navy—the escort fleet!

Now in the Dawn Territory and when conducting trade and material delivery with other galaxies in the Milky Way, they need enough power to escort them. Especially now that many trades in the Dawn Territory still have to pass through the Hutt Dimension, and it is even more chaotic in that place.

Regardless of the destruction of the Galactic Republic's infiltration fleet, the interstellar pirates that can be seen everywhere will stare at these transport fleets. They don't care about your Dawn Leader or your Confederation of Independent Galaxies. Anyway, if you grab it, you will disappear. Find a place where good and bad people are mixed up to sell the stolen goods. After that, you will be cool for a while, and then continue after the limelight passes.

However, it is impossible to waste the resources of the first-line warships for escort, so the cost performance of these escort fleets is very important.