2523. The First Battle of Bangta (Part 2)
Adar Talon felt incredible when faced with such a situation!
Because according to the communications received, a total of four warships of his fleet were attacked in the attack just now, and all of them had their main armor belts penetrated! One of the ships, Victory II-class Star Destroyer, was unable to fight. It was parked there crookedly, with flames sprouting from all over its body.
Such a situation is simply impossible to happen!
Because all along, even though Kingdom of Dawn has produced many advanced battleships, in the current battlefield of the galaxy, Imperial-class Star Destroyer still relies on its huge size and powerful energy output to become one of the best battleships in the entire galaxy.
Apart from Titan warship, the only battleship that can be stronger than Imperial-class Star Destroyer is Divinity-class battleship. Other main battleships, even the Hell-Angel Class Battlecruiser, are much smaller than the Imperial-class, so they can only be compared to each other.
In other words, the existence of Imperial-class Star Destroyer is that Galactic Empire relies on its strong industrial strength to use larger volume and stronger energy output to make up for the technological gap between the two parties.
In other words, Imperial-class Star Destroyer is actually very difficult to sink on the battlefield. After all, the length of 1,600 meters, coupled with the super energy output of the L-A2B solar furnace, allows Imperial-class Star Destroyer to provide enough energy to Deflector Shield, allowing the warship to withstand a large amount of firepower.
Therefore, under such circumstances, in the previous battle, no matter how the battle situation developed, it was absolutely impossible for his Imperial-class Star Destroyer to suffer heavy damage at the beginning of the exchange of fire. After all, Deflector Shield can withstand a lot of firepower.
But now, the motley crew of General Grievous, with just one sparse salvo, actually caused heavy damage to two Victory II-class Star Destroyer and two Imperial-class Star Destroyer!
"Report the battle situation immediately! Why are you being attacked!" Adar Talon said sharply.
"General, the analysis has come out. It's a missile." The adjutant came over and said, "It was the Separatists missile that passed through the shield of our warship and directly hit the armored belt!"
Even the adjutant's face was full of disbelief.
"Passing through the shield?" Adar Talon thought about countless possibilities, but he never thought that such a thing would happen.
Deflector Shield, useless?
Just when he was extremely surprised, the fleets of both sides were still engaging in fierce exchanges of fire. General Grievous's fleet was fighting and retreating, and at the same time, it gradually dropped the Destruction battleship to the end of the formation, facing Imperial fleet alone.
Soon, the second wave of firepower from both sides arrived. Countless Turbolaser beams, lasers and missiles were flying everywhere. Through the images transmitted back by the hyperspace probe, it was seen that several battleships in Separatist fleet were severely damaged. But they were all old battleships, such as the Generous-class frigate that was being blown into a fireball.
However, on the Imperial fleet side, the situation was still the same as last time. The shields of two more Imperial-class Star Destroyers were penetrated, and the armored belt was directly hit by missiles, setting off a violent explosion! One of the ships, Imperial-class Star Destroyer, even ignited a fire because the missile penetrated the explosion-proof compartment. The internal equipment ignited a fire. The engineering team is urgently putting out the fire.
In this short exchange of fire, Imperial fleet, which had an obvious advantage in both quality and quantity of warships, turned out to be the one that suffered greater losses!
"Command all ships! Prioritize interception of enemy missiles! There is a problem with their missiles!" Admiral Adar Talon ordered loudly.
In fact, he didn't need to remind him, all the battleship captains also noticed this. The missiles launched by Kingdom of Dawn fleet can really penetrate the shield!
Cold sweat began to flow from Adar Talon's forehead. This news was like a bolt from the blue to him.
Because all along, even dating back to the beginning of the interstellar era, the battleships on Galactic Republic have always used Deflector Shield as their main means of protection. Deflector Shield is really comprehensive. The energy shield can isolate heat, and Particle Shield can isolate kinetic energy. Moreover, when any point is attacked, its energy will be diffused to the entire shield system to neutralize it, leaving almost no dead ends.
The Hunter Class Battlecruiser produced before Clone Wars is a typical product that Galactic Republic attaches great importance to Deflector Shield and despises armor. Even though Imperial-class Star Destroyer came out and strengthened the armor, it still relied heavily on Deflector Shield for defense. This is reflected in the fact that many of the equipment of Imperial-class Star Destroyer are installed outside the armor, such as communication systems and shield generators.
In the battle manual of Imperial Navy, once the battleship's Deflector Shield is defeated, the captain has the right to immediately request to retreat to the rear of the battle line. Because this shows that the battleship has sustained great damage.
But now, Kingdom of Dawn's missiles can penetrate the shield and directly attack the armor without any loss. This is equivalent to a very terrifying thing - that is, all the Empire warships are fighting with serious injuries!
"Focus on intercepting the opponent's missiles! Let the technical department analyze the situation of the opponent's missiles immediately!" Adal Talon also had rich combat experience. He did not panic, but kept giving instructions, "Analyze the missile trajectory! Find the warship that launched the missile!"
"General! After analysis, these missiles all come from the 15 unfamiliar battleships Separatists! And they are all large cruise missiles!" The technical officer immediately replied, "Small missiles launched by other warships have not penetrated our shields!"
Adar Talon nodded seriously, "In this case, the situation is slightly better. We only need to focus on intercepting those large cruise missiles."
He stared at the warships on the holographic combat star map that were retreating while continuously launching missiles. He only saw that these 15 warships were roughly in the form of a tubular structure, with very irregular shapes and quite a bit of the roughness of the industrial age. And generally speaking, the shapes of these battleships are quite similar to the Invincible-class battleship that Galactic Republic served in the early days.
"Notify the fighter formation to target the unfamiliar enemy warships!" Adar Talon gave the order.
"Yes!"
At this moment, Imperial fleet began to weaken the energy supply of Deflector Shield, outputting more energy to the weapon system to obtain a faster firing frequency, and then concentrated its firepower to intercept the incoming shield-piercing cruise missile.
But they also discovered a problem, those large cruise missiles flew extremely fast! The flight speed is more than twice faster than the current Galactic Empire active missile!
Interception is more difficult than expected.
And what's even worse is that General Grievous's fleet has now completed its formation adjustment.
Destruction battleship fell to the end of the formation, standing alone in front of Imperial fleet like a wall!