Chapter 510 Confrontation Exercise
A Bawa Ku asteroid fortress, fleet training airspace.
A mixed fleet consisting of three heavy cruisers, eight light cruisers and a escort detachment is quietly moored at a virtual mooring point outside the airspace.
This is a common configuration of small mobile fleets in the Atlas combat fleet. It is generally used to perform tasks such as fleet peripheral warning patrols, early warning air defense, armed reconnaissance, and rapid response within the defense zone.
It’s just that the previous fleet battles that Atlas encountered were basically a “stud” fleet battle mode between both sides, so various types of small fleets basically had little use.
Under the combat fleet organization, the few small fleet groups are basically responsible for daily patrols near mining areas and fortresses.
But in fact, in the view of Guterres and Cliffs, if the fleet battles that Atlas Group will face in the future will become routine, then various functional fleets will definitely be It cannot be less.
As for small mobile fleets, there is another 'applicable scenario' in the federal navy's usage habits.
That is, after being strengthened in other aspects, as the vanguard of ‘forced intervention’, it enters the target galaxy to serve as an outpost.
So the final practical training subjects for these 'trainees' in the Rubian system were simply arranged in the Atlas Combat Fleet, a small mobile fleet that was also undergoing formation training.
At this moment, the fleet, which had just finished a coordinated attack training, was resting at the mooring point and conducting routine inspections.
While taking advantage of this moment, the people in the fleet who were idle began to gather around to watch an actual combat drill and confrontation between HCPs.
The two sides in the confrontation were the 'Ruby Team' led by the 'genius' Johnny Redding, and a carrier-based HCP wing within this fleet.
This actual combat drill simulates an encounter between two destroyers responsible for patrolling high-risk areas after discovering each other.
Theoretically, such a battle should occur between ships such as long-distance reconnaissance ships or infiltration destroyers.
It's just that Atlas's combat fleet does not have the luxury to recall these two special ships for regular training.
And even for the Federation Navy and the Imperial Royal Navy, which have more complete naval fleets, such special ships are often not enough in many cases. It is actually a routine operation for conventional destroyers to perform similar tasks. .
So this confrontation exercise was temporarily replaced by two destroyers.
Both sides are composed of a destroyer + a carrier-based HCP squadron. However, the protagonist of this confrontation is actually the HCP. The destroyer serves more as a background board and supporting firepower.
The goal of both sides is also very simple. The first to sink the opponent's destroyer, or the first to destroy all twelve HCPs in the opponent's ship-borne HCP squadron will win.
However, in the eyes of veterans, there is not much difference between these two goals in actual combat.
Without the HCP squadron as the 'mothership' and the destroyer escorting the HCP, it is only a matter of time before it is wiped out by the enemy in the cold universe.
"Team Bucky and Team Rogers, carry out a pincer attack from the lower half of the left and right hemispheres according to the predetermined plan!"
"Team Thor, stay near the destroyer to assist in defense. The ship’s top priority is to intercept the opponent’s HCP trying to launch an assault, no matter the cost.”
Squadron Captain Stark from a certain carrier-based HCP squadron under the Atlas Combat Fleet, in the squadron communication channel He ordered coldly.
The description "regardless of the cost" does not only exist in exercises. Even in actual combat without a "second life", all HCP squadron leaders, including Stark, will issue the same order.
Although Amber has always required each combat unit to give priority to ensuring its own safety while completing combat missions, and not to make unnecessary sacrifices.
But Atlas’s HCP pilots, because of Amber’s ‘hit hard’ fighting style, have all become life-threatening macho men.
In other words, Atlas's HCP troops are also the team that has the most serious "personality worship" of Amber among all combat troops.
In their subconscious minds, it seems that only by completing the mission at all costs can they be worthy of driving the HCP to charge beside Amber.
"I will lead the team for mobile support, and when the time is right, I will serve as the third attack team to attack the opponent's destroyer!" "Everyone, cheer up! The opponent does have an 'ACE'-level genius, but no matter how evil he is Can he be more evil than a macho guy like Boss?"
"Hahahaha."
Everyone in the communication channel was immediately amused by the squadron leader's words, and they I also quickly thought of Amber's performance in the battle.
Especially in the final stage of the previous defense battle of A Bawa Ku Fortress, the scene where the 'Sword of Victory Oath' was held high and led the HCP cluster to attack the enemy fleet.
After thinking about it like this, everyone in the squadron also found that the young boy in front of them who had "something" seemed not so troublesome.
As the squadron leader, Stark was naturally very satisfied with everyone's reaction, and then continued:
"This Mr. Johnny Letting is indeed a good 'seeker', and at the same time We are also a member of Atlas's 'big client' Renaissance Alliance, so we should play the role of a good teacher
Let him understand in actual combat training that not everyone can be like him. Like the Boss, he can decide the trend of the battle with his personal bravery, so that he will not lose his life in vain on the battlefield in the future."
"Copy that, squadron leader~"×N
Amid everyone's serious responses, the twelve HCPs of the Avengers Squadron followed Stark's command, quickly dispersed and entered combat mode.
The HCP team responsible for attacking from the lower half of the two hemispheres, after confirming that friendly teams and destroyers had entered combat positions, lit up their plasma propulsion arrays and attacked the target warship.
The rays of different colors emitted by directed energy weapons, mixed with a lot of orange-red ballistics, were accurately swept in the direction of the two teams' assault.
But for these HCP pilots who survived the battle to defend the A. Bawa Ku asteroid fortress, such intercepting firepower was almost a joke. You must know that when they charged with Amber, they faced It's the anti-aircraft firepower of an entire fleet!
Looking at the tracking close-ups on the big screen, these HCPs, mapped by the on-demand control system, seemed like cosmic dancers, making various evasive movements flexibly and naturally.
Even the trainees from the Lubion Galaxy who were looking forward to the 'genius' Johnny Letting winning again couldn't help but exclaim.
Soon, the two teams, a total of 6 GAT-X303 ‘Sacred Shields’, approached the final warning circle 7,000 kilometers away from the target destroyer, one on the left and one on the right.
The two attacking teams, in addition to the standard space combat configuration of each aircraft, also have an HCP dragging a plasma rocket launch box with a carbon fiber cable.
After entering the attack distance, the HCP responsible for dragging untied the carbon fiber rope. While keeping up with his teammates at a faster acceleration, he also issued attack instructions through the blue and green lasers.
Nearly a hundred laser-guided plasma rockets quickly separated from the launch box, and then after receiving the laser guidance from the HCP, they quickly rushed towards the target destroyer.
The whole process went smoothly, just as most people, including squadron leader Stark, had predicted. The Lubion trainees, who lacked actual combat experience, quickly fell into passivity in this non-simulator actual combat exercise.
In space combat, fighters are fleeting, the initial distance between the two warships is fixed, and the acceleration performance of the HCPs on both sides is similar.
So even though the distance between the warships of both sides is getting closer, the HCP squadron that accelerated the attack first can still get closer to the other side's warship after meeting the enemy.
This also means that they can attack enemy warships at a faster speed.
At this time, the enemy's HCP can only choose to retreat to defense, or bite the bullet and attack the target warship that is still some distance away.
In a large-scale fleet battle, this is not an advantage, because this little distance advantage and first attack time are of no avail in a confrontation with hundreds of warships and thousands of HCPs.
But it is different in this kind of small-scale fleet battle, especially in the encounter of single-ship confrontation
For these 'trainees' in the Lubion system, at this moment The situation is also more difficult, because they do not have that rich 'combat experience', which tells them to use 'XX methods' to deal with 'XX situation'.
So once they do not seize the window period to launch an attack first, then they can only passively defend around their own warships.
Just when everyone thought that the Lubion trainees were going to be overwhelmed by the 'Avengers' squadron that had already launched an attack formation, three yellow flares exploded in succession in space, causing each ship to The onlookers on the battleship couldn't help but exclaimed.
Because this means that three Avengers squadron HCPs were destroyed in the battle.
(End of this chapter)