"The Thunder Gliding Bomb can open several production lines separately. The demand for this thing will be huge in the future. It is not only useful against fixed targets, but also useful for some large giant war machines."
Hear Sosh As Yang said this, one of Bangura's robotic arms stretched out, and the mechanical claw at the front unfolded to display a holographic image, in which a busy factory workshop could be seen.
"Legion Commander, I have already ordered the construction of a production workshop for thunder glide bombs. In the future, we are guaranteed to be able to provide 10,000 bombs per month."
"Too few, strive to make it available every month. We will provide 30,000 bombs per month. Once a big war breaks out, tens of thousands of bombs will not be used for more than a few days. We must make war reserves."
"Yes."
"In addition, although the laser guidance method is safe, we must also be aware of its limitations. Lasers are easily interfered by smoke and even natural weather such as rain. I also know that no weapon can be perfect, but continuous improvement is also It’s necessary, the Adeptus Mechanicus places too much emphasis on the initial sanctity of the weapon.”
In fact, the shortcomings of this weapon go beyond that. For example, it is only suitable for use in atmospheric environments, and in different gravity environments. This weapon that relies on gliding to attack will also lead to a huge difference in speed, but this still cannot conceal its excellence and practicality.
"Legion Commander, in fact, we have already started to improve Thunder. One of the ideas currently being implemented is to add an auxiliary inertial measurement unit, so that as long as the bomb is launched, even if it loses the laser guidance, it can still follow the original direction. The path is maintained on the inertial route."
"Well, this is a good idea. I look forward to your finished product."
After that, Soshyan turned his attention back to the exercise.
Thanks to the efforts of the infiltration team, the Thunderhawk formation used glide bombs and cluster missiles to destroy all the enemy's fortresses on the frontline at extremely fast speeds. At the same time, the Storm Claw fleet also began to dispatch on a large scale.
Part of them form a hunting team, take the lead in crossing the enemy's defense line, go to important transportation lines, and attack the enemy's armor and vehicles that can come to the front line for rapid support, slow down the enemy's support speed, and kill the enemy. The armor strength
The ground armored assault group, under the cover of the low-altitude firepower of another part of the Storm Claws group, crossed the burning ruins of the enemy's fortress and advanced rapidly towards the depth of the enemy, breaking through hundreds of kilometers in one fell swoop.
At this time, the Storm Claw and Storm Falcon assault groups were far away from the fixed airport in the rear, and the battle group's servant force immediately received an order to quickly open a field airport in a certain area.
Soon a support team consisting of more than 10 types of professional vehicles such as construction machinery vehicles, medical support vehicles, communication navigation vehicles, and fuel filling vehicles, as well as a large number of servitors and work robots, quickly came together Work began on a flat land surrounded by mountains on three sides with solid ground, clearing the site, building fortifications, setting up tents, and camouflaging for protection...
In less than 3 hours, a temporary field airport integrating command, communication and navigation, equipment and logistics support functions was completed and began to receive Storm Claws for take-off and landing, loading and refueling. This is also the work that Soshyan requested to focus on before leaving. Don't neglect the temporary support work on the battlefield. Although most Astartes chapters are accustomed to fighting without support, since they will operate on a legion scale in the future, Then you must learn the required course for large-scale war, that is, field logistics support.
“It’s still too slow.”
Soshiyang picked up the communicator and stated his request coldly.
“I can understand 2 hours as being rusty, but 3 hours is close to dereliction of duty. If on the battlefield, the Storm Claw formation does not receive ammunition replenishment for 3 hours, there may be close enemies on the front line. One hour of air support gap may have serious consequences. The entire process must be compressed to one hour in the future. This time the person in charge will not criticize by name.”
Because the main body of this exercise is air-ground coordination, there are a large number of air units. This is also why Soshyan is leading the soldiers to explore new ways of warfare. There are nearly 800 soldiers in the entire exercise field, but the actual deployed infantry units There were less than two companies, and most were dispersed in small groups at the front.
But this does not affect the breakthrough speed. In fact, with the support of a large number of air vehicles, forward-distributed teams can be quickly transferred to any location at will.
Another major feature of this exercise is that there are no "big guys" that are difficult to deploy quickly. All weapons and equipment must be able to be deployed quickly or even airdropped, so the Cruel Blade did not appear in the exercise. On the field.
Perhaps after staying in Edana for a long time, Soshyan's requirements for speed have become a bit high, so the ground vehicles of the White Templar exercise force are Land speed attack boats, Javelin speed attack boats, Land Raider, Rhino personnel carrier and other lightweight armor, including five Rhino command vehicles.
Soshiyan knows that for military power, hardware is important, but software also plays a decisive role.
The prototype of this Rhino command vehicle is the Damocles type, but under Soshyan's specifications, Ulanhuda added stronger communication and sensor arrays to them. Its role is to guide the strike force. target, and coordinate the exchange of information between ground forward forces, rear fire support units, air formations and orbital fleets, and can even establish a combat command chain with the Knight Mecha and Titan Legion.
In addition to traditional equipment, this type of command vehicle is also equipped with many special signal transceivers, communication transmission and battlefield monitoring equipment to fulfill its responsibilities as the command and control hub of a battle company or battle group, Includes linking and coordinating company-to-company, squad-to-squad, surface-to-air and surface-to-orbit sound array communications, and provides secure multi-band communications to coordinate with other Imperial forces in the area of operations - this can be any operation Units such as the ships and fighter planes of the Imperial Navy, the Astra Militarum ground forces, the Sisters of Battle, and even the Advocate Administratum.
Soshyan, who has experienced many wars, is very clear that the biggest trouble on the battlefield is communication interference, so he specifically requires strengthening in this regard, and the technical priests of Ulanhuda have combined tens of thousands of After a war case, they believed that the main source of battlefield interference was psionic or chaotic energy, so they added psionic defense devices or anti-psionic equipment to these command vehicles to minimize chaotic psionic or chaotic energy on the battlefield. Interference with communication devices by enemy sorcery.
In addition, the command vehicle is also equipped with an extendable composite detection radar and a high-precision monitor, which can be used to locate enemy ground and air units, and use the cogitator equipped with a black iron core to conduct data analysis. , and then share the calculated target data with the communication network formed by artillery, fighters and fleets in orbit.