Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Then her promotion to the command of the fleet is naturally reasonable and completely convincing.

At this point, Red and Maomeng have done a very good job.

"When they enter our warp speed interference range, everything will be a foregone conclusion." Stuart marked the interference range on the star map and explained to other fleet commanders and staff officers, "Even if they really It's useless to hide a warp drive in the fleet, once in this range, the orbit of their fleet will make it impossible for them to escape the force field before the missile hits."

"That's right." The fleet commander of the Beluga-class squeezed his chin, and added, "According to the tactical plan, our Beluga-class fleet will try to hit the bullet screen on the escape track of the opponent as much as possible, forcing them to attack it. Evasion to prolong escape time."

"Actually, I really doubt whether they still have so much working fluid to escape the force field." The commander of the arsenal fleet said, "Looking at the current trajectory, although the other party is seeing the No. 1 ship of the Glory class If we warp to the launching position and run away with the engine overloaded to the highest magnification the moment we start releasing the missiles, there is still a chance to drive part of the fleet out of the range of the force field.

"But in that case, due to the ugly specific impulse under the highest magnification overload, the flow rate of the working medium per second is also very large. Considering the time from the launch of the missile to the ignition and then to the impact, combined with the range of the disrupting force field, it can be roughly estimated. , I'm afraid a Veritas will have to burn at least... er... 90% of it?

"Anyway, I feel that at least 90% of the working fluid has a chance to escape before the missile arrives."

The commander of the arsenal fleet guessed a little uncertainly.

"Forget it, this kind of thing should be estimated by professionals." After consulting with his subordinates through the headset, he corrected, "According to the double calculation verification results of Your Excellency Hong and the technical department, if we If the missiles are released at the right time, the opponent needs at least 110% to 115% of the working fluid reserve, so that the fleet on the outer side of the formation can just escape the disrupting force field."

"That's all right."

Hearing this data, Stuart immediately said: "According to our previous observation data, the external working fluid of the opponent's fleet has been completely consumed, and the internal working fluid is no more than 60% at most. It is impossible to gather such a large amount of energy." The quality of the pen comes out."

"Besides, even if the opponent really wants to conjure up such a large amount of energy like magic, we can still pursue warp speed—such a heavy fleet, how could it be possible for such a heavy fleet to outrun our lightly-packed fleet if it really wants to fight warp speed chase? Push people level.

"Not to mention, once the opponent is the first to escape at warp speed, we can turn off the force field without any scruples, wait until the opponent lands, and then start the warp speed engine to warp toward the opponent's landing point of about [-] kilometers. So when you reset the battlefield to the beginning, you can continue to kite them unscrupulously.

"And in that case, they won't have working fluid to accelerate their charge."

The commander of the Maodan-class First Fleet also added.

"When they get here, they have no chance to escape or retreat. The only way to survive is to burn all the working fluid into the engine and charge forward, trying to fight against our firepower and missiles."

"So this time, it's up to you." He patted the shoulder of the arsenal fleet commander, "It's time for these people to see what it means to ignore air defense."

"of course."

Just when he was about to say a few more words, Hong's announcement interrupted him.

"There are still 30 seconds before the enemy fleet enters the glorious attack range. The main guns have already started charging, and all units are ready."

Obviously, the war is about to begin.

"Okay, let's not talk about this." He smiled and waved his hands, "Let us first appreciate Miss Stewart's glorious long-range strike."

"no problem."

Stewart made an "okay" gesture.

"There are 10 seconds before the enemy striker enters the range, the countdown starts, 10,9,8, [-], [-]..."

Listening to the counting sound coming from the headset, and looking at Hong who was sitting behind the table, holding his head in one hand and playing with a pen in the other, a smile appeared on the corner of Stuart's mouth.

"...7,6,5..."

This is their happy life.

Just as Hong has always been doing, they will never allow anyone to destroy it.

It's just that in the past, she could only hide under the red wings, watching her fight with those hateful enemies outside who wanted to destroy their beauty. She wanted to help but was powerless. She could only hate her own strength for being too weak .

"...4,3,2..."

The countdown is getting closer and closer. The electron accelerator has sent the ultra-high-energy electron beam into the Rong-class main battery, and through physical means, it converts its own kinetic energy into the energy of the light field. Hundreds of gigajoules of energy are compressed in the In such a giant laser with a length of hundreds of meters, he is ready to pour out his violent energy at any time.

This is the power of science and technology, and it is the result of Maomeng people's continuous progress and constant pursuit of stronger, higher and better results.

It is also a manifestation of Stewart's meager strength.

Looking at the countdown number "1" displayed on the screen, she put her hands together and pressed on her chest, feeling her somewhat excited heartbeat.

This time, I can finally help you.

red.

"Fire!"

Volume 263 Industry and Power: Chapter 4.25 Look at 'Happiness' knocking on the door (33/[-])

Almost in an instant, 24 Glory-class battleships opened their bow baffles, representing a terrifying high-energy laser that spanned a distance of nearly [-] kilometers and smashed heavily on several battleships at the front of the queue.

Even though the main gun of the Glory-class flagship is in the attack mode, the upper limit of its single discharge energy is only 500 gigajoules. In addition to the lethal characteristics of the laser itself, it can compete with Ruper, who has 1.6 terajoules of kinetic energy in one shot of plasma. Compared with the Sri Lanka plasma cannon, it is much worse, and it cannot achieve the effect of hitting the soul with one shot.

But if you want to say that its power is small, then Glory will not be happy.

That's right, at such a long distance, I can't chew your main equipment, and I can't directly penetrate the armor and enter the core area with one shot.

But what about your surface?

The energy equivalent to more than 100 tons of TNT equivalent was released within 0.1 second, and an astonishing number of X-band high-energy photons blasted into this small piece of armor at the point of impact, making it instantly become A mass of rapidly expanding plasma shredded all armor and equipment near the point of impact.

Even at such an extreme distance, the light spots have spread to a very serious level, and they can still easily penetrate the shallow armor designed by the Great Rupert for its warships, which consist of thick metal beams and thick multi-layer metal Plates constitute heavy armor and take away a large swath of shallow equipment.

Most importantly, it is a [-]-kilometer shooting at the speed of light.

Due to the fact that the overload heat dissipation state is not enabled, the glory-level assault mode shooting can only fire one round every 1 minute. Even if the opponent is closer and switches to the normal shooting mode, it will take 30 seconds to fire one round, plus the number itself Very few, so their firepower density is quite hip.

Even if it takes a full hour to fly from the 3.9-kilometer range of the Glory class to the 2.8-kilometer range of the single pusher, it is impossible for them to cause any serious damage to the fleet.

But after seeing the vanguard fleet being beaten constantly, and almost every warship being touched intentionally by the opponent, even if they knew that the opponent was deliberately disgusting them and lost if they were in a hurry, the Lupers still had a feeling of wanting to fight. The urge to punch the cat allies who worked out this tactic.

Yes, I am in a hurry.

"Report sir, there are still 2.8 minutes before the vanguard fleet enters the 10-kilometer range of the enemy's main fleet." The subordinate's report came to his ears, "According to the vanguard fleet's report, the degree of damage they suffered this time is higher than the previous one. Slightly lower, do we still need to let them start to slow down and replace the fleet behind?"

"Slightly lower than last time?" He frowned, "Tell me specifically."

"Yes, sir." The adjutant looked at the document in his pocket and explained, "According to their report, the damage to the armor of the fleet this time is generally much lighter than the previous battle, but the damage to the equipment is much worse than the previous battle." Slightly higher, combined with scholars' judgment on the high accuracy of laser weapons, they believe that this may be intentional by the other party."

"Destroying the equipment on purpose?" He sneered, "Seeing that we are not fooled, you plan to break more equipment to hold us back?"

"What an innocent and stupid cat."

He waved his hand and ordered: "No matter what, let them retreat to the center of the fleet first. They have been beaten by the small flagship for the main force in the front for so long. It makes no sense to say that they should wait for them to enter the range of the opposite battleship." Come resist."

Although from the perspective of purely dealing with laser ships, the most ideal state is to let these warships always fight in front and absorb the opponent's damage as much as possible, instead of letting every ship that they are exposed to rain and dew hit each other.

After all, the advantage of the laser lies in its ability to attack the shallow equipment of heavily armored ships, and its destructive efficiency against light armored and unarmored units. With the same amount of firepower output, some warships can resist for a long time, but if it is shared by all If it is on a ship, the combat effectiveness of each ship will drop a lot, and the overall decline in combat effectiveness will be much higher than letting some warships die.

Of course, the laser ship is not a fool, and there is no "you must attack this taunting minion" in the real world. They will naturally change targets when they see that they are almost beaten. coming statement.

But don't forget, the same laser beam has a big difference in damage to the enemy's frontmost battleship with the shortest distance relative to it, and to the enemy's rearmost warship with the longest relative distance.

Therefore, the battleships at the forefront of the formation will obviously suffer more blows, while the battleships at the rear tend to suffer less damage, and are more likely to survive close combat than the front battleships.

But although Lupers knew such a theory, he couldn't do it in reality—the reason is just as he said, he couldn't let a fleet resist damage for others all the time, otherwise it would easily make his people dissatisfied , Once or twice is okay, if there are too many, who knows if something will happen?

If the rate of thought crimes under his subordinates is too high, the leader will be held accountable.

Although they don't know why the leader has so much energy, he can direct the development of the entire country while formulating the next research projects for scientists in various directions. All the people are well-managed, and the rewards should be rewarded and punished, as if they are omniscient gods.

Of course, for someone like him who has become a leader in this field, he still knows more or less than those in the middle-their great leader is not an ordinary Lupers.

After all, ordinary Lupus could not control the country after the establishment of the Great Lupus, and survive until today.

Whether the problem lies with "Lupers" or "One" is unknown.

Although he never discussed the matter with anyone about the leader, nor did he show the slightest difference anywhere, he knew that from the moment he started thinking about it, he had committed a thought crime.

But it doesn't matter, they are different from the middle and lower classes. As long as they don't ask other people to discuss with them, then no one will take care of them-their status is not yet in the hands of the Thought Police, and the leader's direct guards have no control over them. They will not move at all under the direct order of the leader, and will not come to trouble them when they have nothing to do.

To put it bluntly, for those of them who have received sufficient education, have a very open worldview, have enough independent thinking ability, and can even learn old languages ​​by themselves under the collective acquiescence, do you want to make mistakes? It's almost impossible to think about crime.

But leaders don't care about that.

The Thought Police affiliated to the Ministry of Thought has very wide control. Generally speaking, except for those remote areas where the control power is too low, as long as people near the core star field have that kind of wrong idea, once they find any clues, they will be arrested by the police. Hunting and interrogation, no matter whether it is an underground organization that is really doing things, or just an ordinary citizen with some wrong thoughts, there is no exception.

But for those guards who are directly subordinate to the leader and only obey the leader's direct dispatch, they have very little control. Compared with the Thought Police who control everything with overwhelming power, they are simply synonymous with law-abiding .

Of course, the word law-abiding itself is a thought crime. After all, the Great Rupert Country does not have any laws that must be obeyed from top to bottom.

They only talk about power.

"It has entered the range of the enemy's main fleet, and our fleet is under attack!"

Even when broadcasting the news that one's own side is being beaten, the voice of the shipboard AI still seems very powerful.

"The current vanguard fleet is still 2.7 kilometers away from the enemy's vanguard fleet, with a relative speed of 4.85km/s. According to model estimates, the enemy fleet will begin to evacuate after 50 minutes, when the relative distance is 1.8 kilometers, and within 30 minutes. After evacuating and entering the wormhole to leave the current galaxy, our fleet will suffer a total of 80 minutes of shooting."

Yes, you will also be beaten when you evacuate-I don’t know who is so genius on the other side, but he would come up with the design of opening a cannon in the engine of the battleship, and shoot lasers while running. It’s really disgusting.

Only at this time will they hold their noses and admit that a high-power long-range main gun-level laser is still necessary-as long as they have some long-range output, it is impossible for the opponent to directly switch the bow engine like this To run against people, you can only honestly face them while relying on the vector engine and orbit planning to transfer orbits.

In that case, the opponent would not be able to hit and run as much as they want to fight like now, and there is nothing they can do about it.

After the war is won, take their ship and disassemble it for reverse engineering.

he thought so.

Just when the Lupers were being unilaterally beaten by ultra-long-distance lasers, thinking that this would be a life of stagnation as usual, in an unknown corner, a team of weird-looking The spaceship is making final preparations.

"Departure self-inspection is in progress...reactor is normal...engine is normal...missile rack is normal...self-inspection completed, everything is normal, ready to perform departure procedures."

"The departure procedure is being carried out, the dock baffle has been opened...the locking device has been opened, and the preparations for departure have been completed."

After a sound of mechanical movement, the giant mechanical arms that were originally connected to the spaceship and used to secure it firmly have been retracted to the sides of the dock.

There was nothing stopping the ship from leaving its dock.

"Arsenal Ship No. 29, allowed to leave port."

This kind of thing doesn't just happen here, in fact, every dock on this asteroid with a long axis of [-] kilometers, and even every place that can hide a behemoth of hundreds of thousands of tons , are doing the same thing at the moment.

The warship hiding in the dock opened its baffle and flew into space. The warship lying on the surface of the asteroid and looking like an unfinished warship suddenly lit up its engine, and the cargo ship that was "unloading" around it also He suddenly stopped his movements, left those empty cargo compartments, and flew towards the assembly point with full power.

Such a change is obviously impossible to cover up. The shipboard AI reported it almost as soon as it observed the abnormal phenomenon, hoping to get instructions from the Lupers—but unfortunately, they didn't know either. what's going on.

Although it can be imagined with the tip of the tail, these ships must be doing something they don't want to see, otherwise it is impossible to deliberately hide it from them-but what is it, they still can't figure it out for a while .

You must know that the place where the abnormal movement was observed is the No. 1.1 satellite of the planet named Catus, a giant industrial station and shipyard with an orbital altitude of [-] kilometers, which is responsible for receiving the entire production capacity of the planet Catus small natural satellites.

And their current location has an orbital altitude of 9 kilometers, and the target of their battle, the main fleet of the Cat League, is next to the wormhole in the Catus synchronous orbit, and its orbital altitude is as high as 8.5 kilometers.

In addition, this satellite is not currently in its closest phase to them, and the distance between the two sides is even longer-what kind of weapon can hit such a long distance?

If you really want a weapon with such a long range and objective power, everyone should stop fighting this battle and just go through the process and shout Long live the Maomeng.

But if it depends on warp speed, the opponent's battleship Glory with a warp speed engine is in the fleet at the moment. After ordering his subordinates to test and get confirmation, Commander Lupers' expression became even more confused.

The opponent's warship with warp speed was indeed beating them in the formation, and the attempt to activate the warp speed engine was also disturbed by the disrupting force field as before, proving that his judgment was correct.

What are these battleships for?

Could it be a missile?

As soon as this guess came out, he was vetoed by himself—not to mention why such a weak weapon was hidden in such a big way, even if the other party did so, why put it so far away?

Anyway, the acceleration distance of the missile is only [-] kilometers at most, so it would be fine to bring it directly to the fleet?What's the use of throwing it so far apart from prolonging the strike time and giving them more time to respond?

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However, soon, he threw all his previous judgments into the trash can.

"It has been detected that the enemy Kawei fleet has entered a state of warp speed!"

"The warp speed landing point of the enemy fleet has been found! Orbit parameter xxx... The current relative distance is 12 kilometers!"

Hearing the report from his subordinates, he immediately cast his eyes on the real-time star map in front of him, and found the specific landing point of this fleet—somewhat unexpectedly, not only did this fleet not choose warp speed to shorten the distance, On the contrary, they were farther away than before, and even came to the other side of the planet.

Although the opponent immediately started throwing a large number of missiles out of the ship like dumping garbage, which proved that the opponent did intend to use these missiles for something, but to be honest, he still didn't understand why he had to fly so far.

In the Great Rupert Country, only interstellar missiles have such a long acceleration distance. After all, their interstellar missiles use fusion engines and weigh nearly [-] tons. Chong's advantage.

But judging from the size of these missiles, it is obvious that hundreds of tons of missiles, even their piston fusion engines, which have unique advantages in miniaturization, cannot be installed.

Looking at the missiles that had already lit up their engines and started to accelerate at the acceleration they expected, they looked at the data in their hands, and then looked at each other brightly, looking at each other in blank dismay.

This...is an ordinary nuclear thermal engine.

According to their experience, even if the dry-to-mass ratio of a missile with a nuclear thermal engine reaches 15:1 of the rocket level, its DV is only 24km, and the missile produced in this way is as brittle as a rocket. It breaks as soon as you hit it, and it's easier to intercept than eat.

They really want to convince themselves that the other party is simply stupid-but obviously, this kind of reason can't even fool themselves. After all, even they admit that the performance of pure laser ships in anti-missile is definitely better than theirs. Plasma gunships with only a few laser secondary guns for AA defense are much better.

On air defense, these cats must know better than them.

So, why does the opponent think that a little missile can cause them any harm?obviously...

Wait a moment.