Chapter 399: The shocked Van Fleet
Using a large number of technical weapons to fight is indeed a waste of money.
But compared to the high pension of Atlas Private Military Company, this amount of money is nothing.
In the previous conflict with the federal army, the Atlas ground troops still suffered certain losses, which were even greater than the previous battle losses on the Lubion 5.
Not only was the elite training team 'annihilated', causing Amber to almost go berserk on the battlefield, the fifth medium-sized synthetic battalion that coordinated the beheading also suffered considerable losses in personnel and vehicles.
Even the few outposts engaged in defensive battles suffered casualties under the attack of the federal army.
Although these casualties are related to the objective factor of "the enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered", according to post-war statistics, it is more related to the fact that Roma soldiers are reluctant to use technical weapons.
Even Lilith, who monitors everything all the time, doesn't know when the Roma group in Atlas began to have a mentality of 'the company is my family, and making money and development depends on everyone'. Thought.
Most of these Roma people from the Thousand Stars Empire believe that with extremely high personnel salaries and welfare benefits, the company's profitability may be relatively average, and they are now engaged in humanitarian aid. The income from "charitable activities" that seem to be insignificant may be even lower
So in order to reduce the company's 'economic pressure' not to be too great, and at the same time to reduce the consumption of technical weapons, these Roma people Basically, suicide swarms, smart landmines, and loitering bombs will not be used unless absolutely necessary.
Even the Roma, who have fought from beginning to end and are now considered 'veterans', will be as frugal as possible in the use of technical weapons and consumables, and even be a little fussy.
After Amber learned about this situation, it can be said that she was angry and moved.
Then he immediately held an 'ideological education meeting' with military chiefs at all levels, and after the meeting, he asked these military chiefs to tell them layer by layer, 'Don't be afraid of equipment losses, open up the use of equipment' This idea spread.
In Amber's opinion, this is a very simple math problem, because the disability pension of Atlas soldiers after being seriously injured or killed in action is higher than that of other private military companies and even the regular armies of the Federation and the Empire. It's all several levels higher.
So compared to these pensions, the drones and intelligent units consumed by the soldiers in battle are nothing at all.
Rather than losing soldiers, losing pensions and consuming a lot of technical weapons, it is better to protect every soldier and reduce casualties as much as possible, and on this basis, freely consume those things that are 'consumables'.
This is why, after taking over the first line of defense, the heavily armed troops did not pursue the victory, but let the suicide swarms and loitering bombs go to 'wash the ground' first.
The Suicide Swarm was developed based on the Imperial Swarm captured by Amber at Robert IV's Blue Harbor and later used in the battle at the Orbital Elevator Base Area.
Essentially, it is a small drone equipped with high-performance military explosives. Its maneuverability is similar to that of an FPV, but its material, battery life, and signal transmission are much stronger, and it is also military-grade resistant. means of interference.
The person controlling these suicide swarms is none other than Lilith, who has been busy with business recently. This is also the last time she will control these suicide swarms.
In the future, suicide swarms will also be controlled by the ‘hive core’ with upgraded software and become a link in the hive system.
Under her control, these suicide swarms seemed to come alive. Their flexibility and integrity were astonishingly high. At the same time, they continued to move towards the second position of the imperial defenders and deeper into the ground. Rush to the reserve position.
The mission of these suicide swarms is also very simple, that is to attract as much terminal anti-aircraft fire as possible to expose them, and then hit them head-on. If they can find high-value air defense command vehicles, field radars, and jamming vehicles, Targets are even better.
Even if it does not cause a lot of damage in the end, it can still allow the attacking troops to have a general understanding of the enemy's deployment in depth.
More importantly, after the suicide swarm's raid attracted a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower, it created an extremely good penetration condition for the follow-up loitering bombs. When encountering targets that have not been destroyed by the swarm, these loitering bombs will rush directly towards them for 'last hit'. The remaining loitering bombs that have successfully penetrated the defense will fly towards the depths of Gallipol.
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“The overall situation has been decided. The imperial defenders here are basically unable to make a comeback. They have no ability to regain the lost positions.”
Infinity In a cabin somewhere, Van Fleet, who was under house arrest here, watched the battlefield live broadcast on the virtual screen and said, with some fear in his tone.
"How come the situation has been decided? Didn't this just open a hole?" Guterres, who was sitting on another chair next to him, frowned, then looked down at the man in charge of house arrest. Information given to them previously by their Atlas soldiers.
"Look, Atlas only has two brigades of offensive troops, while the number of imperial defenders in Gallipol is close to five brigades. It's still this kind of extremely complex and dangerous street fighting."
"You are alone. "Navy, you know nothing about land warfare!" Van Fleet raised his eyes, his words full of disdain for the Navy Vice Admiral next to him.
He has always believed that the naval fleet led by Guterres was 90% responsible for the final outcome of the battle on the Para 4.
"Oh, you are the only one who knows land warfare? You know land warfare and you are locked up with me now?" After hearing Van Fleet's words, Guterres immediately replied, not to be outdone.
In his opinion, it was precisely because Van Fleet was 'beheaded' by Amber at the critical stage of the battle that the situation on Para 4 collapsed. Otherwise, it would have been entirely possible for federal support to be obtained. The fleet has arrived - if the Federation has arranged for a supporting fleet.
"You" Van Fleet was choked and speechless. He stared at Guterres for a long time before calming down the urge to punch him.
"What, you are not convinced?" Guterres is indeed a federal naval officer like Randall, and he is extremely talented in choking.
“You idiot, can’t you see that the combat methods of Atlas’s ground forces are quite different from those of the Federation and even the Star Dragon Empire?”
Van Fleet suddenly said loudly, and his momentum immediately calmed the Vice Admiral next to him,
“Ultra-long-distance heavy artillery bombardment, new armored units with excellent terrain passability, and There are those densely packed unmanned units, not to mention that their ordinary soldiers completely crush ordinary human soldiers in terms of physical fitness. These things are not currently possessed by the federal ground forces."
"It's true what you said. This company does have some weird new things."
Van Fleet's words couldn't help but bring back some bad memories of Guterres, regardless of Whether it was the massive invisible plasma torpedo that poked the fleet in the eye, or whether it was strafed by the six-kilometer-long giant ship. These memories are destined to leave an indelible impression in Guterres' mind.
“Let’s not talk about anything else, just talk about those long-range heavy artillery. The design and combat concept are completely different from the current federal army. Why don’t I have such a good thing as the 180-kilometer range self-propelled electromagnetic gun TNND?
This is just the firepower of a battalion. If this guy named Amber is cruel and uses it as the main equipment of the artillery combined brigade of the group army, I dare not think about its support and strike capabilities."
Van Fleet paused, then continued:
"As long as Atlas' troops advance steadily and slowly as they do now, and continue to use this unmanned swarm to clear the way, the personnel status, equipment and morale of the imperial defenders will only be eroded bit by bit."
"Can't we find opportunities to launch a few counterattacks or pick a place to ambush?" Guterres asked with some confusion. In his opinion, the imperial defenders have a 'good location' anyway, and There are also more troops available.
"Don't you believe it? Let's wait and see."
(End of this chapter)