1648. Yago-Durr Artillery Battle (3)
"Huh..." Matt Horner took a deep breath and asked the adjutant next to him, "Interstellar Base B, deflector How long can the shield last? "
"According to the current intensity of the attack, the Republic fleet will launch a large-scale salvo in 5 minutes. Destroyed in nine minutes," the adjutant said.
Matt Horner raised his wrist, adjusted the watch, and then said loudly: "Notify all ships to enter the attack position immediately! In 10 minutes, launch a counterattack!"
" Yes! ”
At the same time, Bacher Banak, a mathematician from Jiwen Renmin University, said with the scepter in his hand: "The intensity of this electromagnetic radiation storm will reach its peak in 37 minutes."
"In this way... ...Better." Matt Horner's eyes sharpened.
While Gideon Tarkin was still very excited that he had caught this unusual astronomical phenomenon and launched an attack, he did not expect that the people who lived in the Yago-Dur system for thousands of years Jiwen people, their observations and predictions of these astronomical phenomena have already reached a meticulous level!
They can calculate the motion patterns of three-body stars with an accuracy of more than 80%, and calculating an electromagnetic radiation storm is no problem.
Boom! boom! boom! boom! boom! ! !
Inside the B interstellar base, even though all bombings were isolated by the powerful deflector shield, and the thick armor also blocked most of the energy shock waves, the vibrations and sounds generated by the violent explosions also caused the interstellar base to The interior is constantly experiencing minor earthquakes.
"Quick! Get in position immediately! The shield is about to be broken!!"
The damage control troops quickly ran past with a large number of engineering robots and went to their respective areas of responsibility to prepare for the upcoming attack. to deal with armored bombardments directly.
"There is a fire in the No. 7 shield capacitor compartment! Hurry up and put out the fire!"
"No. 7 can't get through! Just open the airtight cabin and let the vacuum extinguish the fire!"
"Then Warehouse No. 7 will be completely destroyed!"
"That's better than losing another team of damage control!"
"The capacitance of Warehouse No. 9 exceeds the limit! Cut it off immediately All connections!”
The shield maintenance department in the interstellar base is extremely busy. They must deal with situations where the capacitor compartment catches fire or even explodes due to explosive heating, and they must maintain the shield at all times. run.
The replacement ultra-high temperature capacitors are actually processed in the same way as those in the Republic. Such a high temperature is wasted if not used. Rather than struggling to find ways to dissipate heat and cool down, it is better to directly launch it as a high-explosive bomb. Based on this thinking, in fact, in a structure like an interstellar base with a huge volume and huge capacitance capacity, there will be several mass accelerators near the shield capacitor bin, so that the shield maintenance department can launch these burning capacitors. Not to mention the utilization of waste, at least it can give these shield maintenance personnel who have been passively beaten some opportunities to vent their anger.
Let’s not talk about the hit rate. This setting can also increase the morale of the maintenance personnel by three, which is perfect.
Boom! ! ! There was an extremely violent explosion, followed by more than a dozen heavy turbolaser cannons falling on the armored belt of the interstellar base! Unprecedented loud noises and vibrations suddenly resounded throughout the interstellar base!
"The shield has been broken!! Be prepared for impact!!"
Boom! boom! boom! boom! ! ! More artillery fire fell on the thick armored belt of the interstellar base, and the armor and turrets were constantly being blown away.
Seeing that the shield of the interstellar base was broken, the battleship commanders of the main fleet of the 20th Army of the Galactic Republic were even more excited. They seemed to have seen the interstellar base being completely destroyed.
At the same time, the high-speed assault fleet sent by Gideon Tarkin had begun to approach the Cataclysm-class battlecruiser formation. In order to avoid the loss of precious particle lances, the Catastrophe-class battlecruiser formation began to attack other members of its own side. The battleships approach. And this also involved the energy of the defensive fleet, making their defensive strength even more stretched.
At the same time, on the Archon-class aircraft carrier, the watch on Admiral Matt Horner's wrist heard a slight vibration. He waved his hand suddenly and said loudly: "All troops, fight back immediately! ! Swarm drones, take off!”
“Yes.” The female voice with an electronic voice responded immediately.
At the same time as the order was issued, countless drones suddenly flew out of the hangar platform of Interstellar Base B, which was being bombed!
Two sets of engines are arranged on both sides, and there is a thick barrel in the center. It looks like a telescope or a Q version of fly-shaped drones swarming out! The number reaches more than 20,000!
As soon as these swarm drones appeared, they rushed directly towards those Galactic Republic battleships! Dense plasma rays were instantly emitted, as if countless hedgehog-like light bands suddenly appeared around the battleship.
At this moment, the Republic fleet is completely unprepared for the emergence of swarm drones! They are concentrating on bombing Star Base B! More than 20,000 swarm drones tore through all the defense lines of the Republic fleet almost instantly!
In the previous battle, the reason why Gideon Tarkin was extremely afraid of those swarm drones was not because of the strong firepower of these swarm drones. To put it bluntly, although the plasma rays of swarm drones are also very powerful, tens of thousands of them can indeed pose a threat to warships, but after all, this threat is not as good as the proton torpedoes carried by bombers.
But he is still so afraid. The main reason is that the main warships of the Republic Navy now have shortcomings in anti-aircraft firepower. The existence of this flaw allowed the swarm drones to cause great interference to his warships, and was thus killed crazily by the Separatists' particle spears in the fleet battle.
Take the current most advanced Knight-class and later Imperial-class Star Destroyers of the Galactic Republic Navy. The main anti-aircraft firepower is 40 point defense cannons and 60 XX-9 heavy turbolaser cannons. In addition, the 60 plasma cannons, Because the projectile speed is too slow, you can't count on air defense.
You read that right, the ancestral XX-9 is also responsible for the air defense function!
In the design, the Knight-class/Imperial-class air defense firepower network has two circles. The inner circle is composed of point defense cannons, and the outer circle is composed of XX-9 heavy turbolaser cannons. In the air defense At this time, the XX-9 heavy turbolaser cannon can reduce the power and increase the rate of fire, forming an equally dense barrage.
However, once the XX-9 goes to do other things, such as orbital bombing or ship attack, then the Star Destroyer will only have 40 point defense guns left to attack the air, and its air defense circle will only be One layer left! In this way, even some high-speed incoming missiles cannot be intercepted!
And this is what happened when the Republic fleet was concentrating on bombing Interstellar Base B, when they faced the attack of swarm drones! (End of chapter)