Anaji Meat Grinder (I)
Countless Galactic Republic Spaarti clone troopers charged forward with furious roars, only to be mown down in droves like wheat beneath the defenders' rain-like barrage on Annaj Planet.
But the moment those firing positions opened fire, they were met with another overwhelming wave of aerial bombardment—sometimes even Orbital Bombardment! The powerful firepower completely blanketed the positions the clone troopers had exposed at the cost of their lives.
Immediately afterward, even more Spaarti clone troopers rushed forward.
This was also a ground warfare tactic the Galactic Republic Army had developed specifically for Spaarti clone troopers. To put it bluntly, rapidly produced Spaarti clone troopers simply were not worth equipping with particularly powerful mechanized armored forces, whereas strengthening air support posed no problem at all.
Air support did not need to care whether the Spaarti clone troopers' combat power was strong enough; it only needed the air forces themselves to be powerful enough. Compared with ground armored assault tactics, which still required tactical skill and training, the Supreme Strategic Command had abandoned the idea of closely imitating them after witnessing Dawn Star Planet's armored assault tactics several times.
Nor were Annaj Planet's defenders pushovers. For one thing, the Duchy of Dawn fleet was constantly attacking the Republic Expeditionary Fleet, preventing it from concentrating on Orbital Bombardment.
At the same time, large numbers of fighters took off within the atmosphere to intercept them.
Among those fighters were, remarkably, SJF-14 fighters!
This fighter was the only atmospheric combat aircraft currently in production in the Fourth Civilization. It was an air-superiority fighter from "Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak," and a small number of them had once been produced by the Calamity Legion's land carrier on the battlefield of Tatooine ten years ago.
Later, due to its outstanding atmospheric combat performance, the SJF-14