Chapter 813 Integrated Reform (Part 1)
812. Integrated Reform (Part 1)
Naval military reform is an imperative.
Because with the continuous updating of naval equipment, the existing tactics and systems of the fourth civilization's navy are bound to undergo huge changes. Therefore, the entire fourth civilization's navy of 500,000 officers and soldiers must be prepared for this.
The core of this reform lies in the integrated construction of the fleet.
In fact, this is the direction of naval construction that the Fourth Civilization has been carrying out. Because the Fourth Civilization is too small compared to the Galactic Republic, there is no way to compare with the Galactic Republic in terms of fleet size, so what they need to think about is how to maximize the limited and miniaturized fleet. The power.
And this idea is fleet integration.
As we all know, in space battlefields, because the battlefield coverage often has a multi-dimensional width of tens of light seconds or even several light minutes, so in actual battles, the distance between each warship is also It will be very big.
What often happens on the battlefield is that a warship is being besieged by enemy fighter jets, while other own warships are often thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers away.
The way the Galactic Republic and later the Galactic Empire solved this problem was to greatly strengthen the power of a single battleship and allow each battleship to complete all operations independently.
What was born from this idea was the Jaeger-class battlecruiser and later the Empire-class Star Destroyer and a series of other battleships. Even if these warships are isolated from the fleet formation, they can complete all battles independently and are not afraid even if they are surrounded.
They have powerful armor and shields, as well as powerful turbolaser cannons, and can also take off a large number of fighter jets for cover. It can be said that they are warships with almost no shortcomings.
Of course, strictly speaking, there are disadvantages, that is, they are expensive, so this kind of battleship cannot be used by the fourth civilization.
But in other words, the fact that it is expensive is not a shortcoming of the battleship, but a shortcoming of your fourth civilization.
Therefore, the Fourth Civilization’s choice of battleships is basically very targeted, that is, those that are outstanding in one aspect and would rather tolerate mediocrity in other aspects.
However, now that the war has started, this kind of fighting method in which various arms cooperate with each other has begun to fail. Because the Galactic Republic is also constantly evolving and upgrading, and the number of Jaeger-class battlecruisers is increasing, and there will only be more in the future. When the battleship formations with almost no shortcomings in the combat capabilities of each single ship are becoming more and more When it is big, this has turned the battle into a pure crushing of strength.
So the fourth civilization also needs to continuously evolve and upgrade accordingly.
Currently there is no way to compare with the Galactic Republic in terms of productivity, so what they have to do is still be integrated. One theory reached by the Fourth Civilization's Supreme Command and Scientific Research Department is fleet integration.
Every battleship of the Galactic Republic is very powerful, but no matter how powerful a battleship is, it cannot compare to a fleet. Therefore, as long as each of the opponent's warships can compete with the entire fleet, then enough advantages can be obtained.
In other words, for example, when a Republic Jaeger-class battlecruiser attacks a Cole-class battlecruiser on the left wing of the Fourth Civilization Fleet, another Brown Bear-class heavy destroyer on the right wing can also attack To play the role of coordinated operations, then this will be enough.
But the question is, how?
Afterwards, inspired by Army Lieutenant General Cheng Shitao, who was not injured at that time, the Navy Department of the Fourth Civilization finally proposed such a set of combat theories-fleet integration. The first step in integration is to integrate the fleet's shields.
Integrate the shields of the entire fleet into one and play a complementary role. If battleship A is attacked by concentrated fire, battleship B, which is temporarily under little pressure, can destroy the shields on its own battleship. The shield is projected onto battleship A to enhance the protective capabilities of battleship A.
This theory seems like a fantasy, but if it can be realized, it will increase the combat effectiveness of the fourth civilization's fleet to a terrifying level.
However, this cannot be achieved overnight, but it can be achieved step by step.
The technical basis for realizing the integration of fleet shields is the several special warships of the Traders' Emergency Alliance in "Original Sins of a Solar Empire" currently included in the mothership database.
It can actually be seen from the database that in "Original Sins of the Sun Empire", the Traders Emergency Alliance is also thinking about how to use the overall combat capabilities of the fleet, because compared to their enemy Vasari Humanly speaking, their warships were very backward.
So they are also thinking about this issue, but they have not completely done it.
Therefore, the scientists and military strategists of the Fourth Civilization are ready to stand on the shoulders of the Traders Emergency Alliance and continue to work and develop until this idea is completely realized.
The key to realizing this concept of integrated fleet shields lies in the new warship that the Fourth Civilization has just developed - the Dunov-class battlecruiser, and the secret plan that the Jivin people are still intensively developing and manufacturing, Ankelon. plan.
Dunov-class battlecruiser, 1020 meters long, 310 meters wide, with a crew of 2700, plus 500 marines and a formation of up to 48 Phantom fighters. The overall battleship looks better than a Kol-class battleship The cruiser is much shorter, thicker and stockier.
This battlecruiser is equipped with 4 powerful heavy X-ray turrets, 6 medium X-ray turrets as secondary guns, and is equipped with 16 sets of laser close-in defense systems and 4 sets of scattering anti-aircraft missile systems. With the exception of anti-aircraft missiles, all weapons are energy weapons.
If you just look at these, it seems that the functions of the Dunov-class battlecruiser are not at all comparable to its overall size, which is larger than that of the Cole-class, but its functions are far more than that.
The Dunov-class battlecruiser is equipped with the most advanced large-scale anti-matter engine, and the engine installed is very large, almost filling nearly one-third of the space behind the battleship. This arrangement results in Except for 4 groups of anti-aircraft missiles, there is almost no other firepower deployment in the rear of the Dunov-class battlecruiser.
However, this provides a very powerful energy supply for the Dunov-class battlecruiser. The Dunov-class anti-matter engine can actually drive a 3,000-meter-class giant ship!
And this powerful energy supply cannot be used up by the X-ray turrets on the battleship alone, and the same is true for the shield capacitor. Now, whether it is the technology of "Star Wars" or the technology of "Sins of a Solar Empire", the energy utilization rate is stuck here. The most powerful turbo laser cannon or X-ray cannon is like this, and the shield capacitor with the largest capacity is also stuck here. so much.
So to increase the power and shield, you can install more turrets and more shield capacitors, which requires additional volume.
So in this era, a warship of about 1,000 meters is the most suitable size. If you build a warship of three to five thousand meters, the combat effectiveness is not necessarily higher than that of a warship of more than 1,000 meters. For example, the 2,500-meter prosecutor-class, 4,000-meter governor-class and 8,000-meter commander-class battleships currently being renovated by the Galactic Republic. So what if you are big? The turret model used is still the same as that of the Chasseur class, it just has more turrets.
The same is true in actual war cases. Since the war started, these three types of large ships have appeared many times, but there has never been a single time when they were hoisted up to fight. Therefore, the Republic never uses these three ships when it fights offensive wars. reason.
The Dunov-class battlecruiser is completely different!
(End of this chapter)