Chapter 425: No firefight, cut off an arm first
Looking at a sudden reply in the communication channel, Megan and Bell were stunned for a moment. They both thought it was because they were tired from the long voyage. That was wrong, and indeed the fleet's adaptive electronic warfare module did not sound an alarm.
However, in the list of communication channels, the names of each fleet will have the logo of each company, and the extra 'Atlas Combat Fleet' also has the impressive Geometry LOGO.
The military-industrial complex is no stranger to this LOGO recently, and even some people are almost stressed
Megan, who was born in the federal navy, also immediately reacted. The huge combined fleet will now It has been attacked by electronic warfare.
It was not that he had not expected this situation before the battle, because the intelligence obtained by the military-industrial complex pointed out that Atlas had strong network information warfare and electronic warfare capabilities.
It’s just that he really didn’t expect that the attack would come so fast. The fleet didn’t even approach the target asteroid base, and it was already hacked during the tactical maneuvering stage.
“The entire fleet, immediately conduct electronic warfare countermeasures! Check all network ports and communication frequency bands! The shipboard control personality immediately conducts electronic warfare virus scanning and killing! Fleet communications are switched to the backup D4 encrypted line!”
Megan immediately issued new instructions, and the Hood's electronic warfare command unit also began to command the electronic warfare modules of all warships in the fleet to start working. This is a mode similar to 'beyond command', which can Skip some unnecessary steps in an emergency to minimize wastage of time.
While the order was being passed on, fleet commander Megan also realized that the course of this battle might not be as optimistic as he thought, because Atlas on the opposite side obviously did not play according to the routine. opponent.
According to Megan's previous experience in corporate wars, there are some differences between fleet battles between companies and battles between regular armies. In theory, before the exchange of fire begins-that is, at this point in time, there should be a round of Final negotiation and so on.
After all, more than 90% of the reasons for corporate wars are due to business competition between the two parties. It is only because the competition has become increasingly fierce that it has gradually transformed from 'business competition' to 'business war'. In the end, It turned into a fight to the death with real swords and guns.
To put it bluntly, it is still a matter of interests.
So usually at the last minute, the two sides will have a round of so-called ‘final negotiations’ as insurance to try to avoid losses to both parties after the war.
In most cases, the defensive side will be on the weaker side in terms of strength. At this time, as long as the offensive side takes a very tough stance and shows sufficient strength, the 'final negotiation' will achieve certain results. results.
But what Atlas is doing now means that they don't even bother to talk.
“You are going to fight us to the end,” Megan said.
"I guess so, and they should have guessed that even if it is a negotiation, we will not let them go easily."
Adjutant Bell nodded and added:< br>
“After all, the boss and the others have the purpose of completely crushing Atlas this time.”
While the two were talking, the combined fleet also started electronic jamming and countermeasures operations, and the shipboard control personalities of each ship also eliminated the virus secretly implanted in the core system - at least that's what it seems for now.
Atlas's first round of electronic warfare attacks were more tentative, so they were just scratching the surface and did not go directly to the 'hard goods'.
However, this electronic warfare attack, which did not trigger the adaptive defense unit at all, was enough to arouse the vigilance of Megan and others, and also made Megan decisively order to switch to the backup encrypted channel.
The protection capabilities of these encrypted channels are indeed better, but the biggest common problem is that encrypted calls that have been translated many times are not stable. Ordinary conversations are fine, but problems are prone to occur when transmitting some complex information. Just like this moment, Megan ordered the pirate fleet in the distance to attack from another direction, first go around to the other side of the asteroid base, and while trying to 'lead the snake out of the hole', see if he could contain part of the Atlas fleet. .
It's just that the ships of the pirate fleet are not originally equipped with advanced equipment and their service life is too long, so when using the encrypted channel of the combined fleet, there will be an 'incompatibility' situation.
The Hood called for a long time, but the pirate fleet only translated some intermittent text and garbled codes.
At this time, the enthusiastic Atlas appeared again, and there was a new user in the encrypted channel that had just been switched.
Atlas Battle Fleet: "The flagship asked you to switch to the G6 trajectory and detour to the other side of the asteroid base. The specific path has been highlighted for you, you're welcome~"
Megan, Bell, and everyone on the flagship bridge were stunned.
Not only them, but the pirate fleet on the other side was also dumbfounded after seeing this message. For a while, they didn't even know whether to follow this 'instruction' or not.
"The entire fleet, close all regular communication ports and network ports, physically cut off the communication modules and conduct comprehensive anti-virus in a safe state, and switch fleet communications to quantum encryption communication mode!"
Some people were furious. Megan slammed the armrest and gave the order loudly.
"Sir, if the quantum encryption communication mode is directly enabled, the fleet's communication bandwidth will be greatly reduced, and the communication efficiency will be greatly affected. Are we going to 'cut off an arm' before the war even starts? "
There was some hesitation in Bell's tone. Although he understood Megan Ford's approach, he still felt that this 'one size fits all' approach was likely to affect subsequent operations.
"Do you think I want to do this? Isn't there no other way?"
Meghan said with some disappointment: "As long as there are other ways, I will not do this, but Atla Sri Lanka's electronic warfare attack capability is truly unprecedented, and our previous response experience may have no effect at all. If we let the opponent attack, I suspect that the entire combined fleet will be solved without bloodshed."
Hearing Megan's words, Bell knew that there was really nothing to refute, but he still had other questions in his heart.
“How did they do it? An attack of this scale can no longer be solved purely by technology. The computing power and resource requirements of the attacker are definitely not low.”
“This just shows that the headquarters’ intelligence is correct.” Megan suddenly said,
"Atlas's large data centers and server arrays are 80% located in this asteroid base. For them, this is the real 'home battle', and the advantages it brings can be said to be huge"
While speaking, the communications of the joint fleet of the military-industrial complex also switched to the quantum encrypted communication channel. Although the amount of information exchange between ships dropped like a cliff, at least it was considered a relatively safe and confidential communication environment. .
In this case, the attack on the Atlas side seemed to have come to an end for the time being, and the combined fleet also successfully completed long-distance tactical maneuvers, bypassing the asteroid rubble belt that served as a 'barrier' , entering the predetermined attack launch position.
(End of this chapter)