255. The arms race that just started
Acclamator-class assault ship, the full name is 'Acclamator-class Acclamator-class trans-galactic military transport ship'. This is a classic warship designed and built by Rosanna Heavy Engineering Company, a subsidiary of Kuat Drive Yards.
This kind of warship is 752 meters long, 460 meters wide and 200 meters high. It has a flat and wide triangular shape. A smaller bridge is located behind the warship. It has no portholes for protection reasons and relies entirely on advanced navigation systems and sensors for driving.
Acclamator-class assault ship is equipped with very powerful firepower, including 12 quadruple Turbolaser Turret, Group 4 Proton Torpedo launchers, and 2 Group 4 point defense turrets. And most of the turrets are arranged on the side of the hull. This design is mainly to facilitate Orbital Bombardment.
At the same time, in order to consider the issue of landing operations, Acclamator-class assault ship is equipped with very thick armor, especially the armor on the bottom of the battleship is even stronger. This kind of armor uses the most advanced technology - compressing dispersed neutrons directly into the armor material, which greatly increases the neutron density of the armor, allowing this armor to even directly withstand the bombing of Proton Torpedo.
Such firepower and protection can be said to be very excellent even for a battleship. Moreover, each Acclamator-class assault ship can carry 16,000 soldiers, 80 fighter jets and 84 tanks and armored vehicles, in addition to 320 armed hover motorcycles as a reconnaissance force.
Moreover, the powerful engines of the spacecraft determine that they can easily enter and exit the planet's atmosphere for combat.
In other words, one Acclamator-class assault ship can transport an entire legion of soldiers, and can directly provide air cover and even Orbital Bombardment support for this legion.
There is no doubt that the appearance of Acclamator-class assault ship definitely violates the agreement of Rusan Reforms! And this spacecraft has now entered the testing stage. In other words, Kuat Drive Yards had already regarded Rusan Reforms as waste paper a few years ago.
Now Kuat Drive Yards has announced this battleship, and the meaning is very clear. Anyway, whether you Galactic Republic place an order or not, I have already made the thing and put it here. Not only that, it is also very powerful and easy to use. It is up to you whether you buy it or not.
In response to Acclamator-class assault ship, Trade Federation announced two plans. The first one is to transform the giant cargo ship you own. The transformed cargo ship can be used as a large warship.
Their second plan is to cooperate with Rendili StarDrive to develop a new generation of warships. This kind of warship is developed and improved on the basis of Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser to adapt to modern combat needs. The size of the warship is scheduled to exceed 1,000 meters.
This project is called Project Providence (Project Providence). Quarren, which is very developed in the shipbuilding industry, also participated in this project and established a new company-Freedom Dark Volunteer Engineering Corps.
Several other corporate giants have also announced their own warship manufacturing plans.
But what people didn't expect was that the fastest person here was Fourth Group!
Just the day after Kuat Drive Yards announced that Acclamator-class assault ship had entered the testing phase and Rusan Reforms's agreement was in vain, Fourth Group released a brand new battleship——
Revelation-class light cruiser (Revelation-class light cruiser)!
This kind of battleship is 344 meters long and is a technology in "Homeworld". It was originally classified as a destroyer (Destroyer), but according to the classification rules of Fourth Civilization, it was classified into the sequence of Light Cruiser.
The battleship is equipped with 2 twin-mounted large plasma cannons and 2 twin-mounted large Turbolaser cannons. While having good firepower, it also maintains incredibly fast and flexible maneuverability!
The speed and steering of Revelation-class light cruiser can even be compared with the 108-meter-long Revenge-class destroyer!
Now this kind of high-mobility and high-firepower warship has almost become the symbol of the Fourth Group warship. Whether they produce Revenge-class destroyer or Cobalt-class heavy frigate, and now the maneuverability of Revelation-class light cruiser is very good.
This is because the positioning of these battleships is very accurate. They do not pay attention to one ship doing everything. All they need is to do their job well and do it well.
For example, Revelation-class light cruiser, the very clear combat target is the opponent's battleship, and only the battleship. Therefore, they are fast, flexible and have strong firepower, and there is not even a point defense turret on the spacecraft. In the future combat planning of Fourth Civilization, the air defense task will be completed by other warships or fighter jets.
There is no doubt that according to the treaty provisions of Rusan Reforms, Revelation-class light cruiser also exceeds the standard. Although the violation is not as blatant as Acclamator-class assault ship, it is more practical.
Because it is undoubtedly impossible to supply a spaceship like Acclamator-class assault ship to any organization except Republic military, and it is impossible for Galactic Republic to let other organizations have such a powerful warship that can launch an attack on a planet into the hands of other organizations.
But Revelation-class light cruiser is different. With a price tag of 3.5 million credits, many people can afford this spaceship.
And more importantly, Fourth Group directly announced that Revelation-class light cruiser has now begun laying the production line and can accept reservations, and the construction of the first warship will start within one year!
Organizations large and small in the galaxy suddenly realized - it turns out there are people walking faster than Kuat Drive Yards!
Although Revelation-class light cruiser is much inferior in performance to the 325-meter-long Aquitenes-class light cruiser, the most classic warship of its class, in comparison, Apocalypse-class was 10 years earlier than Aquatens-class! Be the first to start occupying the Light Cruiser market.
As a result, even industrial giants like Kuat Drive Yards can't help but start to take a serious look at the small industrial enterprise Fourth Group.
Various industrial enterprises and business giants sang and I came on stage. Although their positions were all opposite, their actions were surprisingly consistent, that is, they tore up the Rusan Reforms treaty and threw it to the ground and stepped on it over and over again.
The behavior of these companies, for Chancellor of the Galactic Senate Phineas-Valorum, who had previously hoped to negotiate terms with these business giants by lifting treaty restrictions, is stepping on his butt, it is clearly his face!
Do you think we will be grateful for your proposal? Sorry, throwing this agreement out to feed the dogs is just a matter of our words! -
[Easter egg chapter attached picture 1: Acclamator-class assault ship.]
[Easter egg chapter attached picture 2: Revelation-class light cruiser.]