Chapter 400 The battle between the main battle tank and the multi-legged tank
“Every vehicle crew, pay attention to the surrounding situation and collision warning, don’t overwhelm the surrounding infantry.”
In the communication channel , the platoon leader's voice sounded a little nervous to Montana, but he was not surprised. As the leader of the team, Montana himself was now more nervous than the platoon leader.
After the task was assigned, this organization was in the ATT. The armored companies temporarily strengthened for the attacking troops followed their respective attack routes and led the infantry along the streets to advance into the city of Garipol.
Montana is now wearing a protective helmet that integrates the function of a comprehensive head-mounted display, so although he is in a fully enclosed passenger cabin, he can still clearly see the surroundings of the vehicle 'through' the vehicle body. Condition.
At this moment, a warning red dotted line is displayed close to the car body, which represents the area affected by the gravity control unit.
Although the main range of the gravity control area is still directly under the car body, the range drawn by the red dotted line has been expanded a bit for the sake of safety.
The infantry accompanying the main battle tanks are now clinging to the periphery of the red dotted line and maintaining vigilance about the surroundings.
Montana knew that this dotted line would be displayed simultaneously on the tactical visors of these mobile infantry to prevent them from accidentally walking into the gravity control zone.
As the third batch of Roma 'training soldiers', Montana was selected into the Atlas combat vehicle with a group of other companions because of his relatively outstanding driving talent after completing the recruit training. Tool training camp for intensive training.
Then, as a 'top student' in the training camp, he was transferred into the ATLASTESTTEAM, which the Roma soldiers aspired to, and could use various advanced equipment at the first time.
For Montana, this is definitely an affirmation of his technical and tactical level.
After all, the ‘Rabbit Group’, which likes to spray various cartoon bunny graffiti on the outer armor of vehicles and equipment, generally selects personnel from teams with actual combat experience.
Not long after entering ATT, Montana became the commander of a new type of suspended main battle tank designated T-740 ‘Thor’s Hammer’.
The prototype of this new tank, which will be one of the main vehicles of the future Atlas ground heavy armored forces, is the 'Project 12' new main battle tank that was tested on Rubian V.
However, after the equipment research and development center used the forerunner technology obtained from "archaeology" to fix the gravity control unit, the running mechanism of this main battle tank was changed from the traditional crawler type to a suspended type.
Since the gravity control unit is much lighter than the traditional crawler traveling mechanism, the weight of the whole vehicle has been reduced a lot. In addition, the design team boldly abandoned the original main power source. The gas turbine was replaced with a reduced version of the superconducting battery stack, directly upgrading the T-740 from 'hybrid' to 'pure electric'. This also caused the main battle tank to suddenly lose weight from 60 tons to a mere 50 tons.
After testing the gravity control unit and discovering that there was still considerable load redundancy, the design team began to 'stack materials', including additional battery packs, more ammunition, More sensors and a large number of electronic countermeasures equipment.
These things eventually made the T-740 Mjolnir no longer a simple main battle tank, but an important support node on the front line of combat, with multiple vehicles After completing the network, it can not only share situational awareness information with friendly forces, but also independently launch electronic warfare attacks as offensive cover.
Especially with the help of the combat assistance AI developed by Lilith, the crew was directly reduced to 2 people - driver, commander/gunner,
A large amount of information collected by sensors will also be filtered in real time by the combat auxiliary AI, and only some key information will be retained to prompt the commander. Electronic warfare will also be led by the combat auxiliary AI, which means that the crew only needs to be responsible for decision-making and issuing orders to the AI. Command, move, fire.
In addition to these combat auxiliary means, the design team also delivered an excellent answer in terms of the T-740's 'job'.
A total combat weight of 55 tons (can be installed with additional armor), a top speed of 80 kilometers per hour, all-terrain maneuverability, and an obstacle crossing capability of up to 4 meters. At the same time, the unmanned turret can be stuffed into a gun An electromagnetic reconnection cannon with an inner diameter of 180 mm, or a plasma cannon that has also completed testing and entered mass production.
Although the latter has lost the ability to switch to the 'bend' mode, the high-temperature plasma emitted by the unit is not equipped with a deflection force field or the deflection force field is not powerful enough. The killing effect cannot be underestimated.
Especially in street fighting, it is extremely effective against 'soft targets' such as motorized infantry and ordinary power armor.
It can be said that Atlas' equipment research and development center has just found a new track for this 'veteran' in this era when main battle tanks are gradually declining.
Montana did not realize the combat effectiveness of this new type of main battle tank at first. When he saw the allocation information sent by the ATT personnel dispatch center, he was even a little disappointed.
Because he has always been interested in another heavy-duty vehicle tested by ATT on Rubian V. The heavy-duty multi-legged tank then designated as 'Project 14' and now designated as T-600 'Chimera' is more interested.
In the eyes of many Roma people, mechanical equipment such as multi-legged chariots looks more powerful and has greater combat effectiveness.
However, after personally driving the T-740, Montana was quickly impressed by this new equipment, and suddenly felt that the multi-legged tank was nothing.
This is also the problem that Atlas Equipment R&D Center is currently struggling with.
At present, the ground vehicle design group of the Equipment R&D Center is divided into two groups. One side is the 'main battle tank revival group' that emerged after the development of the gravity control unit, and the other side still believes in bionic multi-legged warfare. The chariot also has the "Many-Legged Chariot Stalwarts" who are capable of fighting in a single battle.
Coincidentally, the T-740 ‘Thor’s Hammer’ and the T-600 ‘Chimera’ were developed separately by these two groups.
However, due to the excellent performance currently displayed by the T-740 and the amplified advantages of the main battle tank after solving the problem of maneuverability and obstacle crossing capabilities, the T-600 heavy multi-legged tank is temporarily somewhat The light was obscured.
“Warning, an abnormal electromagnetic signal was detected in the window of the building marked at 1 o’clock, which is suspected to be the activation signature of the anti-vehicle missile fire control radar.”
The voice of the combat assistance AI suddenly sounded, causing Montana to quickly focus on the marked window in the distance, but due to the viewing angle problem, he could not see clearly what was inside the window for a while.
"It seems that the swarm hasn't cleaned up here either."
Montana murmured to himself, glanced at the infantry 'beside him', and then After a few presses on a touch screen, the warning message from the combat assistance AI was synchronized to the team around him and the other two tanks behind him.
Then he saw a mobile infantryman who was searching and advancing turned his head and made an OK gesture to a certain sensor of the T-740, followed by a single unit mounted on his back. The soldier's drone took off and quickly flew towards the marked window.
Soon, a small pop-up window on the integrated head-mounted display showed the picture of the drone camera, and inside the window was a heavy anti-vehicle missile that should be placed on the ground position. transmitter. "Fuck, the cold emission mode is used indoors by them???"
While Montana was 'amazing' at the operations of these imperial defenders, the picture in the camera also flashed suddenly. He looked up and saw the drone making an emergency horizontal pan. Dodged shots from the window.
The vital sign detection device mounted on the drone also confirmed that there were no other soldiers or civilians in this building except the anti-tank team.
"OK confirmed that there are no civilians in the building, the 172th crew is ready to fire!"
"Received, permission to fire."
The T-740's 180mm inner diameter electromagnetic reconnection gun was raised under the guidance of Montana's pupil aiming, and the electromechanical transmission turret also slowly rotated to a certain angle.
"Gavin, make sure to keep the car steady."
Montana looked towards the longitudinal passenger cabin layout and lightly kicked the driver Gavin, who was sitting in front of him, on the butt. The latter also immediately expressed receipt in the communication channel, and added at the same time:
“You don’t have to kick my butt every time.”
The buzzing main gun recharged. The sound of energy sounded. After charging the 'hot cannon' in advance, it didn't take long to charge before firing.
I saw an orange line of fire flashing on the street for a moment, and then the marked window was covered in smoke and dust, and then a piercing scream and explosion sounded at the same time.
Only vehicle crews and mobile infantry equipped with noise reduction mode will not be affected by loud noises.
When the smoke and dust dissipated, the original window had turned into a huge gap in the building, or the entire building had a corner cut off by the kinetic energy of the electromagnetic reconnection cannon.
“Enough!”
Montana subconsciously wanted to pump her fist, and then realized that she was in a compact crew cabin.
At the same time, the drone that had just been dodged flew over again to confirm the impact of the strike. When the "suspected threat target location" sign originally marked on the integrated head-mounted display disappeared, Montana also breathed a sigh of relief.
But just when he was about to continue advancing, the drone suddenly detected a large number of enemy units in front of the street, and a series of red inverted triangle signs were also marked.
The next second, a series of dense barrage swept across, and the drone was shot down in an instant.
An accompanying anti-aircraft vehicle equipped with multiple electromagnetic machine guns!
Montana immediately realized why suicide swarms and loitering bombs were not fully effective. The opponent also had so many accompanying terminal air defense units. This thing is very effective against dense formations of UAVs under street fighting conditions. It is indeed one of the natural enemies.
"Enter the enemy! Engage the enemy! The number of MBTs is 2! The number of multi-legged tanks is 4, and the number of infantry and powered armor is 33!"
While yelling in the communication channel, Montana turned the deflection field from The 'Adaptive' setting was set to 'High Power' mode, and then he subconsciously kicked Gavin on the butt.
"Gavin, lower the height of the vehicle"
"Copy that!"
The T-740's vehicle body slowly lowered, and the mobile infantry that was originally following the advance around it They quickly spread to both sides of the street, and another T-740 following Montana and his crew also drove to a position alongside them.
Under the work of the active stabilization system, the translucent barrel of the plasma cannon pointed steadily in the direction of the enemy unit.
One second later, powered by the superconducting battery stack, a ball of plasma silently left the translucent barrel.
A high-temperature, high-speed plasma mass that is essentially ball lightning sweeps across the street in the blink of an eye, with an attack distance of less than one kilometer, and the launch and hit occur almost at the same time.
"Boom!"
The plasma group quickly exploded after hitting the target multi-legged tank, completely melting it into a puddle of 'soft butter', It also affected a circle of surrounding infantry.
Scenes like this happened in almost every street covered by the attack. Although the imperial defenders continued to mobilize troops to block the gap, the gap was still being opened in the face of equipment that had obviously produced generation differences.
At the same time, suicide swarms and loitering missiles continued to penetrate deep into the city along the gap, avoiding the air defense units marked by the frontline troops.
“I’ve said it, it’s really over now”
In the cabin of the Infinity, Van Fleet looked at the real-time footage captured by a high-altitude stealth drone on the screen, deep in his eyes. Sighed deeply.
(End of this chapter)