168. Battle of Malastare Canyon (3)
A fleet of 200 spaceships is being assembled. These spaceships are all uniformly painted in blue and white, and are spray-painted with a gear-like logo - this is the logo of Galactic Republic Navy.
However, even with the Galactic Republic Navy mark, this fleet is still extremely shabby compared to the Republic Judicial Fleet, which although in decline, still has many thousand-meter-level cruisers, Heavy Cruiser.
The core of the fleet is a Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. This warship is 600 meters long and is the core ship type of Judicial Fleet. However, this Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser can clearly see that the hull is old, and it is obviously a model that has been eliminated from the main fleet.
In addition, there are 20 Consular-class cruiser and 60 CSS-1 Republic-class shuttle. The former is 115 meters long, and the latter is 80 meters long. From this point of view, having 80 spaceships of about 100 meters should be enough to defeat Corporate Alliance's motley crew of small spaceships, most of which are 3 to 50 meters long.
However, both Consular-class cruiser and CSS-1 Republic-class shuttle are actually passenger spacecrafts used by Galactic Republic officials at all levels to handle official and diplomatic affairs throughout the galaxy.
In an era when Galactic Republic's military expenditures are shrinking day by day, and even Judicial Fleet can hardly guarantee the replacement of battleships, not to mention these local defense fleets, it would be good to have a few usable ships.
Therefore, many of the huge numbers of CSS-1 and Consular-class cruiser have been simply modified, adding weapon pods, and gaining more or less combat capabilities. But they are still essentially passenger spacecraft, and it is useless to expect these spacecrafts to have much combat effectiveness.
In addition, there are as many as 120 PB-950 patrol boats in the fleet. This 37-meter-long small patrol boat was already a product of Corellia Engineering Company 300 years ago. Because it is cheap and practical, tens of thousands of it were produced. It is a common commodity among Galactic Republic regional defense fleets at all levels.
A shuttle flew into the fleet array and flew towards the flagship ship 'Lord' Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. Cruiser Hangar Platform opens to welcome the shuttle as it enters.
A young general in his 30s, wearing a dark blue Republic Navy military uniform and a mustache, stepped off the shuttle. He gave a military salute to the captain who came to greet him and said, "I am a military observer sent by Galactic Republic, Wullf-Captain Yularen, here to assist you in this operation."
After Rusan Reforms, basically all military-related things were abandoned in the Milky Way, so Galactic Republic Army's military rank was not high at this time. As naval captains, Wullf-Yularen can already command a small fleet. And he has a direct appointment from Speaker Phineas-Valorum, so others have nothing to say about this appointment.
"Hello, Captain Yularen." The captain also gave a military salute, "Now that all the spaceships have been assembled, these are the only ones we can find."
"Actually, there is a Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, which is beyond my expectation. I believe that the pirates found by the Corporate Alliance are not capable of fighting against this giant ship." Wullf-Yularen said very calmly.
"Let's go to the bridge." The captain didn't say much and just led Yularen towards the command center of the bridge.
Walking out of the hangar, you can see that the spacecraft is crowded with people almost everywhere. Even if the air filter is operating at full capacity, the air is still filled with the smell of sweat and feet.
Wullf-Yularen frowned slightly, but he understood the reason - this was an old model Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. Even though this spaceship is only 600 meters long, it has as many as 16,200 crew members! Almost every valve on this battleship is so small that it needs to be manually operated, which is extremely inefficient.
So later Galactic Republic military put forward improvement requirements to Lundili Interstellar Engineering Company, the manufacturer of Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser. Later, the engineers of Rendili did come up with a modification plan, reducing the crew of the battleship from 16,200 to 2,204, and also replaced the weapon system and energy system, greatly improving the combat effectiveness.
But I don't know what happened later. Republic Judicial Fleet originally wanted to order 300 new Dreadnought-class heavy cruisers, but only 100 ships were actually delivered. No one can tell what happened in the middle. It can only be thought that a certain official ate up the price difference.
Since it is the old model Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser, the combat effectiveness needs to be recalculated. Wullf-Yularen began to calculate the combat effectiveness comparison between the two sides in this battle, simulating the battle process over and over again.
Arriving at the bridge, Wullf-Yularen carefully counted the number of spaceships in the fleet, "20 consul-class ships, 60 Galactic Republic-class ships, 100 PB-950s, and 1 Dreadnought-class... where are the carrier-based aircraft?"
"Our Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser carries 12 Z-95 Headhunter fighter jets. This is all our carrier-based aircraft." said the captain.
Yularen nodded, "The Z-95 Headhunter fighter has excellent performance, and it is definitely enough to deal with those pirates and bounty Hunter spacecraft. I have a battle plan..."
He began to arrange his own warships on the holographic projected star map, while saying, "Because our main spaceships Consular-class cruiser and Republic-class shuttle are both modified transport ships, the firepower intensity is not a big problem, but this The biggest weakness of these ships is their lack of flexibility, so what we need is to keep a distance, rely on 12 Z-95 Headhunter fighters to protect the integrity of our battleship line, and then destroy the opponent with powerful frontal firepower!"
The captain nodded and said, "Okay, you are Commander in this battle, and I agree with your judgment."
Yularen added, "In addition, according to our intelligence, among the pirates and mercenaries Corporate Alliance paid a lot of money to hire, there is a huge number of Secudians pirates. I have fought with these pirates before. They have a lot of spaceships, but their combat effectiveness is very weak. Most of them are modified ships. In fact, if the Sicudians were not extremely adaptable, these modified ships would not be able to be driven. If they were humans, they would have died on the ship."
The captain said, "I understand what you mean. If the battle situation turns into a melee, then the situation will definitely be unfavorable to us. But we have a Dreadnought-class and 80 large ships that are 100 meters long. We rely on our firepower advantage to prevent those rabble from organizing at all, and we are sure to win!"
"That's right. Corporate Alliance will also have spaceships participating, but their largest spaceship should be the 200-meter-long Fantail-class destroyer. This kind of warship has average performance, and Corporate Alliance does not dare to mass-produce it. The most important thing is, I don't think a group of businessmen will fight." Wullf-Yularen said confidently.
"Hahahaha! It seems you are confident. In that case, I have nothing to worry about!"
"That's it. Hand over the battle plan to the captains of each ship and get ready to go!" Wullf-Captain Yularen gave the order confidently.
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[Easter egg chapter attached picture 1: Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser.]
[Easter egg chapter attached picture 2: Wullf-Captain Yularen.]
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