Chapter 19 Noble Squad (Please read! Please collect!)
Orbital strike is essentially bombing outside the atmosphere.
At least in the eyes of humans in this world, this is the case.
On the low-Earth orbit experimental ship, after trying high-energy lasers, charged particle cannons, heavy particle cannons, and electromagnetic guns.
The military of various countries have found that instead of playing with these bells and whistles, it is better to just throw missiles.
Planets suitable for human habitation have thick atmospheres.
Directed energy weapons attenuate seriously after penetrating the atmosphere.
As for the projectile of the electromagnetic gun, even in the final stage, the speed is half slower than the discharge speed.
Even on a planet with an extremely thin atmosphere, these point-to-point attack weapons are actually not suitable for ground attacks.
In terms of killing effect, a 140kg tungsten alloy long rod bullet hit the ground at a speed of Mach 14.
The pure kinetic energy impact damage caused is not as powerful as a 155mm electrothermal chemical cannon using high-explosive grenades.
In terms of attack accuracy, ground forces have a large number of precision-guided weapons that can achieve an attack error of the same level as high-energy lasers.
But the power and lethality range of the high-energy laser beam are completely "diluted" by the atmosphere.
So, the orbital attack ships of all the major forces finally "returned to their original nature" and started orbital bombing.
Just like the Minotaur-class orbital attack ship that is 'laying eggs' in Robert IV's low-Earth orbit.
These battleships, which are about 1 kilometer long and resemble thick silver door panels, do not have any anti-ship attack weapons and are only equipped with a small number of close-in defense guns for self-defense.
The spacious space inside its ship, except for the battleship-level jump drive and fusion reactor.
Almost full of missile silos and deployment bays.
In standard configuration, the Minotaur can carry 500 'David' tactical surface-to-surface missiles and 10 'Tunguska' tactical hydrogen bombs.
At the same time, it can also carry a quarter of the empire's regiment, which is 500 orbital paratroopers.
The Eighth Expeditionary Strike Group brought a total of 50 Minotaur-class ships.
Right now, these silver door panels are scattered over the entire Robert IV.
Based on the intelligence provided by Commander Adam, they have already dropped a round of tactical hydrogen bombs on several assembly points of federal ground forces.
These tactical hydrogen bombs with terminal speeds of Mach 30 gave many federal troops no time to react.
In the first round of delivery, only 15% of the warheads were intercepted.
The remaining tactical hydrogen bombs that broke through the interception all completed air explosion at a height between 200 and 350 meters above the ground.
The ground troops rushing to various exercise assembly points suffered extremely tragic casualties under the attack of tactical hydrogen bombs.
After completing the tactical nuclear strike, except for some warships that continued to cruise in low-Earth orbit and continued to attack with 'David' tactical surface-to-surface missiles.
Most of the Minotaur-class orbital attack ships have once again lowered their orbital altitude.
The orbital paratroopers carried on the ship also sat in the orbital drop cabin located in the deployment port inside the ship.
As the green light turned on, each orbital drop capsule detached from the attack ship along the slide rails and plummeted toward the predetermined landing site.
These orbital paratroopers will become the first troops of the Empire to set foot on the soil of Robert IV.
They will land near key cities, facilities, and nodes on the planet and launch attacks as quickly as possible.
When they open up a safe landing site, an even larger aerospace transport aircraft will carry all kinds of heavy equipment into the atmosphere.
And this is also the current standard procedure for humans to conduct orbital assaults.
Among these airborne pods falling like meteors, some of them have particularly cool paintings.
Although during the process of entering the atmosphere, the outer coating of these airborne capsules was burned black.
But you can vaguely see the silver dragon symbol symbolizing the imperial nobility under the blackened surface.
In one of the airborne cabins, Viscount Ankarin was experiencing the extremely exciting 'breaking through the atmosphere' with his comrades. Most of the other imperial nobles who joined the army were battleship captains or ground force commanders.
Let Viscount Ankarin, the leader of the 72nd Orbital Airborne Regiment of the 107th Expeditionary Division of the Star Dragon Empire.
Became a ‘freak’ in the mouth of other nobles.
But Viscount Ankarin didn't care about other people's eyes at all.
In his opinion, those 'cowards' who are addicted to opera, music, equestrianism, and fencing.
It is impossible to comprehend the unique excitement brought by orbital airborne landing.
From the very beginning, he bought a decommissioned orbital assault ship, and then brought a group of like-minded 'freak' nobles to play 'outer space bungee jumping' in a different way.
Enlisted into the army and became the first orbital paratrooper with aristocratic status in the history of the Star Dragon Empire.
Now, he has become the leader of the 72nd Orbital Airborne Regiment, and received the honor of the 'Blood Dragon Regiment' personally awarded by the emperor.
Under his influence, some young nobles began to join this game of the brave, regardless of the opposition of their elders in the family.
These nobles gathered in the "Blood Dragon Regiment" are called the "Noble Squad" by other orbital paratroopers.
At this moment, the target of Ankarin, his noble team and the Blood Dragon Group is the Yassin base.
After entering the atmosphere, the remaining air defense forces of the Federal Army began to counterattack.
Although the airborne capsule can break into the atmosphere, it is actually a very fragile unit.
Ground air defense forces often do not need to completely destroy them, they only need to destroy their attitude control engines through attacks.
You can make these drop pods lose control and then roll and hit the ground.
As beams of high-energy lasers sweep across the sky.
The rods of the anti-aircraft electromagnetic guns also flashed in the night sky with bright trajectories.
Airborne pods continued to be hit by anti-aircraft fire.
Then it rolled, disintegrated, and exploded.
Viscount Ankarin didn't care about the hellish scene outside the porthole.
He was currently recalling the secret mission he had received from the commander of the strike group, the Marquis of Ascania, before the airborne landing.
"After landing, quickly go to the location of the communication center. The lurking personnel of the 'Star Dragon Fang' will join you."
Recalling the task assigned to me by the Marquis, I felt Violent shaking caused by the friction between the airborne capsule and the atmosphere.
Viscount Ankarin closed his eyes.
In this environment where ordinary people would be frightened to the point of incontinence, he could feel a kind of calm.
Even think with the aid of this ‘peace’.
Viscount Ankarin pondered this task over and over in his mind.
He was a little confused as to why he needed to take people to the communication center.
And he also has to meet up with a lurker from the ‘Star Dragon Fang’.
In addition, this task was directly given to him by the Marquis.
Thinking of a certain identity of the Marquis, Viscount Ankarin suddenly felt that this task might not be easy.
A roar came from the bottom of the airborne capsule, followed by a violent positive overload, interrupting the viscount's thinking.
The reduction engine at the bottom of the airborne capsule started.
This also means that the airborne capsule is undergoing its final deceleration and is about to land.
"Gentlemen! Prepare to fight!"
(End of this chapter)