2632.Bilbrin Outpost Battle (5)
On the Bilbrin Planet battlefield, two Eternal-class Super Carriers finally entered the battlefield!
In fact, strictly speaking, these two Eternal-class Super Carrier ships are only prototypes and are trial models, not final models.
Eternal-class Super Carrier is actually a follow-up ship developed in the same line as Consul-class aircraft carrier. The basic structure of this aircraft carrier, if viewed from the front, is an L shape. The bottom is actually an enlarged version of Consul-class aircraft carrier, which serves as a hangar, and a huge full-volume ship island is erected above.
The hangar and the ship island are arranged in a ninety-degree L shape. The entire towering ship island is completely like a small town, which contains all the systems and personnel that can support the operations of the aircraft carrier and carrier-based aircraft.
On that huge full-volume ship island, not only additional anti-matter energy reactors were installed, but also the flight control command center, crew cabins, fighter factories and additional weapons systems were moved there. This gives the hangar below more space to deploy carrier-based aircraft, allowing the trial version of Vanguard-class to carry up to 1,000 carrier-based aircraft!
In order to enhance the combat capabilities of Eternal-class Super Carrier, Command Pulse Wave Projector was installed on the battleship. This equipment can remotely link all carrier-based aircraft taking off from the ship. Depending on different combat situations, it can choose to provide additional voltage coating for the armor of the carrier-based aircraft, or assist the carrier-based aircraft in target locking, or provide additional shield capacity for the carrier-based aircraft.
Under the action of Command Pulse Wave Projector, the entire aircraft carrier's carrier-based aircraft formation is completely integrated and can receive help from the mothership at all times.
At the same time, Eternal-class Super Carrier also strengthens its electronic warfare capabilities and can launch EMP pulse waves at targets to interfere with the electronic systems of enemy ships. At the same time, it is also equipped with Long-range Sensor Inhibitor. Once one's own carrier-based aircraft is targeted by the enemy's Fire Control Radar, this device can allow the carrier-based aircraft to escape the lock of the enemy ship through directional interference.
Not only that, Eternal-class Super Carrier is also an armored aircraft carrier. Thick voltage-type cladding armor is installed on it, making the protection capability of this warship comparable to that of Divinity-class battleship. The strong defense allows Vanguard-class to take off and land fighter jets in extremely harsh combat environments.
Kingdom of Dawn's operational requirements for Eternal-class Super Carrier are that this kind of warship can provide solid support for fleet operations in very complex battle situations. The most important thing is that there is no need to allocate part of the force to protect the aircraft carrier during the battle.
This demand is Kingdom of Dawn High Command. In view of the fact that at present and in the future many times, Kingdom of Dawn fleet will be in a war situation with a numerical disadvantage, or in a security war environment where the enemy is hidden and we are clear.
Kingdom of Dawn's current imaginary enemies include Galactic Empire, Rebel Alliance, New Republic, Yuuzhan Vong, and Killiks. They will all pose fatal threats to the fragilely protected aircraft carrier to varying degrees, forcing additional warships to be deployed for protection.
Therefore, enhanced protection capabilities can allow the Vanguard-class aircraft carrier to meet most combat needs.
Moreover, the officially finalized size of Eternal-class Super Carrier should be a Titan-class battleship with a length of more than 8,000 meters, and the carrier-based aircraft can reach 5,000! Just one of this true super aircraft carriers is enough to support the combat needs of the entire sector.
The current two Vanguard-class aircraft carrier prototypes are actually for technical certification. The reason why it is only 4,600 meters long is because the trial model was upgraded and transformed on the basis of two Consul-class aircraft carrier. There are five complete versions of Eternal-class Super Carrier officially approved for construction, and they are still lying in five different shipyards of Kingdom of Dawn.
However, even for the trial model Eternal-class Super Carrier, when these two battleships were guided by Archangel Titan warship's Hyperspace Beacon and arrived at the Bilbrin Planet battlefield, the situation of the battle immediately changed!
After arriving at the battlefield, the two Eternal-class Super Carrier immediately turned their ships sideways and blocked them directly in front of them with their towering ship islands. At the same time, inside Hangar Platform, inside a total of 10 ejection take-off hatches, fighter jets were lined up one after another, waiting to take off.
The arrival of the new warships allowed the Galactic Empire warships to begin bombarding the two Vanguard-classs. However, all attacks were blocked by the towering ship island. The powerful Deflector Shield sent out bursts of energy light waves, neutralizing all the energy of the attack. There is no way to shake the battleship at all!
Following the General Trench order, the captains of each ship also issued attack orders!
I only saw that in an ejection take-off hatch, the 200-meter-long electromagnetic acceleration corridor began to light up dazzlingly section by section, and then a Sabre-class fighter began to accelerate instantly. After 20 electromagnetic accelerations, its acceleration had reached 100G, and it was shot out instantly like a cannonball!
With such a take-off speed, coupled with the protection of the ship island, it is impossible for the take-off fighter formation to be locked by enemy ship's gunfire. You know, for interstellar warfare, the actual distance between the two sides is only less than one-tenth of the maximum range of their respective weapons.
For example, the Galactic Empire ancestral XX-9 heavy-duty Turbolaser cannon has a maximum range of ten light minutes, but generally speaking, the battlefield of fleet operations is within one light minute, and most of the time it is even around 5 light seconds. So under such circumstances, there is almost no real back row on the battlefield.
Unless you can shoot at dozens of light distances with Particle Beam Lance like Calamity-class and Paladin-class, then it is called back row.
Therefore, at this time, the carrier-based aircraft that has just taken off from the aircraft carrier is directly within the enemy's fire coverage, and it is the most vulnerable at this time. The speed has not increased, and the take-off position is relatively fixed. If not, who will you hit?
Early battleships did not consider this problem, so many carrier-based aircraft were destroyed as soon as they took off. Therefore, during the Clone Wars period, in order to make up for this shortcoming, Jedi Knight Anakin-Skywalker created an original method of moving the belly of Hunter Class Battlecruiser forward to cover the takeoff of fighter jets.
His opponent at that time happened to be the current commander-in-chief of Kingdom of Dawn Northern Fleet, General Trench.
Later aircraft carriers, such as Pursuer-class of the Galactic Empire, Sova-class of Kingdom of Dawn, and Consul-class, began to use electromagnetic acceleration to allow fighter jets to attack directly at a faster speed, reducing the disadvantage of being locked as soon as they took off.
But now Eternal-class Super Carrier simply uses the towering ship island as a shield.
Vanguard-class can eject and take off 10 fighter jets at one time, and the interval between two ejections is only about 20 seconds. After entering the battlefield, more than 500 fighter jets were quickly released within a few minutes. Because these fighter jets had almost accelerated to the limit speed that the pilots could bear, they quickly joined the battlefield.
This is also the most deadly time!
Because the first wave of the Galactic Empire fighter formations had just completed an attack and exhausted Concussion Missile and Proton Torpedo, and were on their way back!
Their first batch of fighter formations now has about 1,100 aircraft left, and they are speeding back as hard as they can, preparing to return to the mothership for supplies and maintenance, and then prepare for the next wave of attacks.
These fighters and bombers had just carried out a large number of tactical maneuvers in the previous attack, and had to make a 180-degree turn after firing all the ammunition. At the same time, they had to maintain evasion to avoid being shot down by anti-aircraft fire. Therefore, their current acceleration is generally only about 20G to 30G, which is only less than one-third of the carrier-based aircraft taking off on Eternal-class Super Carrier!
The first batch of fighter jets includes 150 Sabre-class fighter, 100 Wraith fighter, 100 Viking fighter, and 50 F-41 Blade-class fighter.
This posture is completely aimed at the Galactic Empire fighter formation!
Sabre-class fighter was the fastest and had caught up with the Galactic Empire's fighter formation less than 3 minutes after takeoff. These fighter pilots were all ace pilots who had joined Rebirth Plan, experienced hundreds of battles, and even died several times. In almost one encounter, dozens of the Galactic Empire TIE Advanced fighter were shot down.
Immediately afterwards, Sabre-class fighter rushed into the the Empire fighter formation like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, and started a completely asymmetrical massacre!
In modern air combat, the system is king! Sabre-class fighter is not only installed with the most advanced intelligent auxiliary AI, but also has advanced sensors, Fire Control Radar, and electronic countermeasures systems.
Moreover, when the fighter jets took off, they received the command pulse wave bonus launched by the Vanguard-class aircraft carrier, allowing the super photon computer mounted on the Eternal-class Super Carrier to share computing power with all carrier-based aircraft, improving the combat effectiveness of the auxiliary AI, and at the same time providing these fighters with additional energy shields through long-range energy transmission!
With such assistance, Sabre-class fighter is just like God of War! Galactic Empire's TIE Advanced fighter, their performance far exceeds that of TIE/LN light fighters, and is much stronger than Kingdom of Dawn's Wraith fighter, but in front of Sabre-class fighter, they are almost stationary and transparent!
Balls of fire were set off, and TIE Advanced fighter was blown to pieces.
But now those the Empire fighter formations can't pick up the speed at all. After the first wave of attacks shot down hundreds of fighter jets, the Kingdom of Dawn fighter formations can even rush in front of the the Empire fighter jets at three times the speed. After completing the turn, they launch a second wave of attacks!
This time, TIE Advanced fighter's losses were even more severe!
Although the face-to-face attack allowed TIE Advanced fighter to fire back. But most of the Concussion Missile they launched were intercepted. With the command pulse wave bonus of Eternal-class Super Carrier, the Kingdom of Dawn fighter formations took turns to cover and fire to intercept the incoming missiles. It was completely trivial.
However, all the blaster cannons fired by TIE Advanced fighter were blocked by the energy shield of the opponent's fighter jet! Not only was Eternal-class Super Carrier's remote shield enhanced, but at this time, Taowu Titan warship happened to launch Fleet Shield again.
The light green light curtain that appeared on all battleships and fighter jets within the range at the same time was a light of incomparable despair to the pilots of the Galactic Empire!
At the same time, the Wraith fighter formation was eyeing the Galactic Empire bomber formation. These include TIE bomber, and a small amount of Y-wing bomber inherited from the naval armament of Galactic Republic in the Clone Wars period.
The advanced TIE bomber is not bad, and its protective capabilities are not bad after all. And the thin-skinned Y-wing bomber is a perfect target at this time!
The escorting TIE Advanced fighter was overwhelmed by the attack from Sabre-class fighter and was unable to provide more cover for the bomber formation. In the face of these bombers, even the Wraith fighter, which has lagged behind the times, is basically a dimensionality reduction attack when enhanced by the command pulse wave of Eternal-class Super Carrier!
Witnessing this tragic scene, Galactic Empire Admiral Horst-Strege quickly ordered his fighter formations to scatter and flee, and at the same time took off a second wave of 800 fighter jets to go for reinforcements. He also ordered the 40 Vindicator-class heavy cruiser in the formation to move forward quickly to provide fire support for his own fighter formation.
At the same time, in the frigate formation, General Strege also ordered 100 DP-20 anti-aircraft gunboats and 100 VT-49 assault gunboats to go for reinforcements.
These warships are equipped with light firepower and the most advanced fire control system, which can effectively fight against enemy fighters.
At this time, the Empire's first batch of fighter formations had lost more than half, and the starry sky was full of fighter fragments and the twisted corpses of the pilots.
What makes the remaining the Empire fighters despair is that their firepower, protection capabilities, and speed cannot match each other. This is the only way to be slaughtered.
After killing the third round in the the Empire fighter formation, more than 700 of them had been destroyed. Most of the remaining the Empire fighters were no longer in their original formation and could only fight on their own and dispersed to escape.
As for the Kingdom of Dawn fighter jets, they have only suffered battle losses of just over 50 in the fight so far! And the loss of Sabre-class fighter is directly zero!
After the damaged fighter jets retreated, the remaining fighter jets quickly completed the reorganization within a few seconds under the command of the most advanced Flight Control System, then dispersed and outflanked, rushing towards the Galactic Empire's battleship formation.
The anti-aircraft warships under Horst-Strege tried their best to intercept, but the fighter jets of Kingdom of Dawn were not willing to fight. They began to make large-scale detours, preparing to bypass the interception of the anti-aircraft warships. Even if those warships want to catch up, they will be massacred by the warships from Kingdom of Dawn if they break away from the formation!
After solving the threat of enemy fighter jets, General Trench also reorganized his fleet and prepared to adjust the battlefield situation.
At this moment, the fourth wave of reinforcements has arrived!
There were two more Divinity-class battleships, and as always, these two Divinity-class battleships went directly to the front of the battle line and turned on the battle device.
The situation began to improve, and General Trench finally gave the order, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk... Doomsday Weapon, start charging!!"