Chapter 380: Recasting the Glory of Torpedoes
“The first round of heavy particle cannon fire is over, the planned fire target is 15, 13 are sunk, and the 2 tactical goals of losing combat capability are achieved, and you can enter the next stage!”
In the cockpit of the MA-01 heavy armored combat boat, the combat assistant AI Aurora was reporting the results of the first round of attacks to Jacob in a sweet voice.
Although she is only a combat auxiliary AI and does not have an emotional module, in Jacob's eyes, 'Aurora' is like his close friend and companion.
So after hearing Aurora's report, Jacob even nodded like he was having other conversations, and then opened the formation tactical communication.
"The first phase objective is completed! The battle continues!
The Deep Sea Fish Squadron and the Sea King Squadron begin to attack. The heavy particle cannon can fire freely, but the key target of the plasma torpedo is the enemy's capital ship!
< br>Run away after the fight, don’t be reluctant to fight!”
“Received!” Like killers, they lit up the large propulsion arrays behind them one after another. The relative speed, which had never been low, suddenly increased a lot.
And their sudden appearance from the rear hemisphere of the fleet's combat warning circle also caused the Thirteenth Fleet of the Federation Navy to fall into a moment of panic.
Especially the peripheral escort formation responsible for air defense operations fell into chaos after the air defense command ship was sunk by concentrated fire.
The captains of each battleship did not know whether they should continue to attack with the large force and clear out the anti-ship missiles and plasma torpedoes directly in front of the fleet, or turn the ship around to deal with these sudden appearances. Enemy.
Originally, these tasks were supposed to be coordinated by a destroyer in the escort formation that was designated as the 'air defense command ship'.
But as the destroyer was 'lucky' to be the target of the first round of attacks, and 'lucky' to be hit by a salvo of five twin heavy particle cannons, the fusion furnace was destroyed. The distribution of these tasks also came to a standstill for a while.
Jacob, who has fought against the Imperial guerrilla fleet many times on the route of the Para IV, is already an experienced commander of a heavy armored combat boat.
As the person most familiar with the operations of this type of unit in the world, he was keenly aware of this once-in-a-lifetime attack opportunity.
The speed of the two squadrons of heavy armored combat boats suddenly increased, and at the same time they quickly dispersed in units of three boats.
Flying all over the sky, they shuttle flexibly under the anti-aircraft firepower of the escort formation. Even if they are occasionally hit by lasers or charged particle beams, it is not harmful to the heavy armored high-speed predators.
The accelerating track of the twin heavy particle cannon is rapidly cooled down during forced cooling. Although this will reduce the service life of the accelerating track, it does not affect the tactical advantage brought by rapid fire in battle. .
Soon, a total of 20 combat teams under the two attack squadrons, as well as Jacob's independent command team, launched the second round of salvo.
In terms of target selection for heavy particle cannons, all teams did not hesitate to choose destroyers and frigates with weak protection.
Although almost all the ships of the Thirteenth Fleet now have their large sides exposed to Jacob and the others, these pilots all know that the heavy particle cannons equipped by the heavy armored combat boats can withstand Tianya only has the power of a frigate.
It's fine for attacking escort formations, but it might be a bit stretched if used to attack heavy cruisers and battleships with thicker armor.
Heavy metal particle jets can indeed tear apart their armor, but the complex cabin structure and higher-level damage tubes inside these warships make them more vulnerable when faced with attacks from low-power heavy particle cannons. Not a low damage redundancy.
At the same time, the assault of the heavy armored combat boats at this moment was never for the purpose of damaging, but for sinking. Jacobs and the others needed to sink as many enemy ships as possible, so as to reduce the pressure on the main fleet to face the enemy.
As the light of the heavy particle cannon fired again, a series of fireballs exploded outside the federal fleet. The fleet command module once again marked a group of destroyers and frigates with red colors representing 'sinking'. fork.
The biggest 'weakness' of the fragile sides of contemporary naval ships can be said to be fully exposed at this moment.
Since human space battleships abandoned the traditional rotating turret and changed the main gun to a 'shaft gun' arranged on the central axis of the battleship, the battle of human naval units has become a A 'head-to-head' format. The design idea of all warship designers has become to install as many fire projection points and protection as possible on the front projection within a limited budget.
This is why in a fleet battle, two warring fleets will become entangled and engage in a 'two-person turn' in a head-to-head manner, because both sides want to bite the other side's 'six points' while preserving their own 'six points'. Point'.
As the salvo of heavy particle cannons ended, the heavy armored combat boats also rushed into the formation of the federal fleet despite anti-aircraft fire.
At this point, the air defense operations of the escort formation have become more difficult, because they have to prevent friendly forces from causing friendly fire while attacking
The shipborne HCP carried by each warship. Most of them were ejected and began to assist in air defense and interception, but for heavy armored combat boats, they were also targets of attack.
In this way, when each attack team approached the main ship of the Thirteenth Fleet and fired the plasma torpedo mounted in the magazine below the hull, the fleet commander Lieutenant General Guterres Unexpected scenes appeared.
Heavy cruisers or battleships were constantly hit by plasma torpedoes, and the most fatal hits were on the sides. Nearly a hundred huge plasma fireballs appeared inside the fleet formation.
Due to the fact that during the entire attack, Without slowing down, and even occasionally accelerating, the two squadrons of heavy armored combat boats commanded by Jacob quickly penetrated the federal fleet and walked away.
The price for the downing of 3 combat boats was the sinking of 24 heavy cruisers and 2 battleships, and at the same time, 4 additional battleships were severely damaged.
Judging from the cost and exchange ratio alone, this can no longer be described as earned with blood.
But this is just the beginning.
Before Lieutenant General Guterres and others could recover from this round of attacks, the tactical information coordinator's voice sounded again like a reminder.
But this time, there was a hint of panic in his voice.
“Report, a large number of unknown units were detected in the rear hemisphere of the fleet, with optical and infrared characteristics similar to plasma torpedoes, a distance of 2,700 kilometers, a relative speed of 82 kilometers per second, and a number of .1642!”
When he heard this, Guterres was completely stunned.
He never thought that such a situation would occur. This was completely different from all the battles he had experienced before. It could be said that everything was weird.
The tactics of the Atlas fleet can only be said to be unprecedented. As a fleet commander, Guterres did not expect that such a large number of plasma torpedoes would appear in such a deadly position.
But the current battle did not give him time to think about these issues carefully. He could only rely on instinct to order the fleet to disperse urgently and ask the fleet behind to adjust its axis by 180° to shoot down as many as possible. torpedo.
But such an order is still a step too late.
The estimated hit time of more than 30 seconds is not enough time for the rear fleet to complete the steering and air attack.
After the seeker detected the extremely obvious infrared signal of the battleship's propulsion array, these new plasma torpedoes with a stealth configuration and coated with absorbing materials also turned on their thrusters a second time. While continuing to accelerate, they rushed towards their respective targets.
After the plasma warhead hit the plasma propulsion array, the unconstrained high-temperature plasma instantly turned into a huge plasma fireball, instantly swallowing the rear section of the battleship.
The 'combination punch' formed by high temperature + electromagnetic heat effect + electromagnetic vortex unreasonably tore apart the battleship's titanium alloy frame and melted all the substances that could be melted.
Such an attack obviously exceeded the limit that any battleship's damage control system could handle, so these simultaneous attacks of more than 1,600 plasma torpedoes were launched directly within the formation of the Thirteenth Fleet. There were extremely spectacular 'cosmic fireworks'.
(End of this chapter)