255. The arms race that has just begun
The Acclamator-class trans-galactic military transport ship, the full name is 'Acclamator-class trans-galactic military transport ship' A classic warship designed and built by Na Heavy Engineering Company.
This kind of battleship is 752 meters long, 460 meters wide and 200 meters high. It has a flat and wide triangular shape. A smaller bridge is located behind the battleship and has no portholes for protection reasons. , which relies entirely on advanced navigation systems and sensors to drive.
The Cheer-class assault landing ship is equipped with very powerful firepower, including 12 quadruple turbolaser turrets, 4 sets of proton torpedo launchers, and 24 sets of point defense turrets. And most of the turrets are arranged on the side of the hull. This design is mainly to facilitate orbital bombing.
At the same time, in order to consider the issue of landing operations, the Cheer-class assault landing ship is equipped with very thick armor, especially the armor on the bottom of the battleship is even stronger. This kind of armor uses the most advanced technology - compressing dispersed neutrons directly into the armor material, which greatly increases the neutron density of the armor, allowing this armor to even directly withstand the bombardment of proton torpedoes.
Such firepower and protection can be said to be very excellent even for a battleship. Moreover, each Cheer-class assault landing ship can carry 16,000 soldiers, 80 fighter jets and 84 tanks and armored vehicles, in addition to 320 armed hover motorcycles as a reconnaissance force.
And the powerful engines of the spacecraft determine that they can easily enter and exit the planet's atmosphere for combat.
In other words, a Cheer-class assault landing ship can transport an entire legion of soldiers, and can directly provide air cover and even orbital bombing support for the legion.
There is no doubt that the appearance of the Cheer-class assault landing ship definitely violates the agreement on Rusan's reform! Moreover, this spacecraft has now entered the testing stage. In other words, Kuat Power Shipyard has regarded the Rusan reform as waste paper a few years ago.
Now that Quat Power Shipyard has announced this battleship, the meaning is very clear. Anyway, regardless of whether you, the Galactic Republic, place an order, I have already made the stuff and put it here. Not only that, it is also very powerful and easy to use. It is up to you whether you buy it or not.
In response to the Acclaimer-class assault landing ship, the Trade Federation announced two plans. The first one is to transform the giant cargo ship you own. The transformed cargo ship can be used as a large warship.
Their second plan is to cooperate with Rendili Interstellar Power Company to develop a new generation of warships. This type of battleship is developed and improved on the basis of the Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser to adapt to modern combat needs. The size of the battleship is scheduled to exceed 1,000 meters.
This project is called Project Providence. The Quarren people, who are very developed in the shipbuilding industry, also participated in this project and established a new company - the Free Duck Volunteer Engineering Corps.
Several other corporate giants have also announced their own warship manufacturing plans.
But what people didn’t expect was that the fastest one here was actually the fourth group!
Just the day after Kuat Power Shipyard announced that the Cheer-class assault landing ship had entered the testing phase and that the agreement on Rusan's reform was in vain, the Fourth Group released a brand new warship——
Revelation Revelation-class light cruiser!
This kind of battleship is 344 meters long and is a technology in "Homeland". It was originally classified as a destroyer (Destroyer), but according to the classification rules of the Fourth Civilization, it was classified as a light cruiser. The battleship is equipped with 2 twin-mounted large plasma cannons and 2 twin-mounted large turbolaser cannons. While it has good firepower, it also maintains incredibly fast and flexible maneuverability!
The speed and steering of the Apocalypse-class light cruiser can even be compared with the 108-meter-long Revenge-class destroyer!
Now this kind of high-mobility and high-firepower warship has almost become the symbol of the Fourth Group's warships. Whether they are Revenge-class destroyers or cobalt alloy-class heavy frigates, and now coupled with the Apocalypse-class light cruisers, they are very maneuverable. good.
This is because the positioning of these battleships is very accurate. They don't care about one ship doing everything. What they need is just to do their job well and do it well.
For example, the Apocalypse-class light cruiser’s very clear combat target is the opponent’s battleship, and only the battleship. Therefore, they are fast, flexible, and have strong firepower, and there is not even a point defense turret on the spacecraft. In the future combat planning of the Fourth Civilization, the air defense task will be completed by other warships or fighter jets.
There is no doubt that according to the provisions of the Rusan reform treaty, the Apocalypse-class light cruiser also exceeds the standard. Although the violation is not as blatant as the Cheer-class assault landing ship, it is more practical. .
Because there is no doubt that it is impossible to supply a spaceship like the Cheer-class assault landing ship to any organization except the Republic's military, and it is impossible for the Republic to let other organizations own such a ship. A powerful warship launching an attack on a planet falls into the hands of another organization.
But the Apocalypse-class light cruiser is different. With a price tag of 3.5 million credits, many people can afford this ship.
And more importantly, the Fourth Group directly announced that the Apocalypse-class light cruiser has now begun laying the production line and can accept reservations, and the construction of the first warship will begin within one year!
Organizations large and small in the galaxy suddenly realized - it turns out there are people who can move faster than Quat Power Dockyard!
Although the performance of the Apocalypse-class light cruiser is much inferior to the 325-meter-long Aquintens-class light cruiser, the most classic battleship of its class, in comparison, the Apocalypse-class It was 10 years earlier than the advent of the Aquitens class! Be the first to start occupying the light cruiser market.
As a result, even industrial giants like Kuat Power Shipyard can't help but start to take a serious look at the small industrial enterprise of the Fourth Group.
Various industrial enterprises and business giants sang and I came on stage. Although their positions were all opposite, their actions were surprisingly consistent, that is, they tore up the Lusang reform treaty and threw it to the ground over and over again. Step on.
The behavior of these companies has stepped on his butt for Finis Valorum, the Speaker of the Galactic Parliament who had previously hoped to negotiate terms with these business giants by lifting treaty restrictions. Ah, it's clearly his face!
Do you think we will be grateful for your proposal? Sorry, throwing this agreement out to feed the dogs is just a matter of our words! -
[Easter Egg Chapter Attached Picture 1: Cheer-class assault landing ship. 】
[Easter egg chapter attached picture 2: Apocalypse-class light cruiser. 】