548. Bloody Battle Bespin (6)
The most powerful thing about Galactic Republic's powerful fleet of 60 Hunter Class Battlecruisers is not the warships with strong shields and unreasonable layout but still fierce firepower, but the 9000 V-19 Torrent starfighter, 4800 Z-95 Headhunter fighters and 1800 Y-wing bomber!
This is also the reason why fighter planes have an advantage in the current spiral of technological development in the galaxy.
Kuat Drive Yards currently represents the highest shipbuilding technology in the galaxy. The Point Defense System they produce can intercept fighters flying at up to 100G acceleration. However, the theoretical maximum acceleration of current starfighters is generally above 3000G! Even ordinary people driving can break through 100G acceleration if they are focused enough.
Therefore, before a starfighter is shot down by a close-in defense system, it will be able to cause considerable damage to a warship. This damage is far greater than that of missiles of the same price, and it is also much more effective than the Turbolaser cannon.
That's why the Hunter Class Battlecruiser, a relatively deformed aviation battleship model, was born. Since this kind of battleship has been given such a large carrying capacity, it is better to continue to stuff some AT-TE walkers, LATT assault transport and the like into it, and then stuff in the Republic Navy Marines with 2,000 people, it will be more perfect. Of course, since it has already carried ground troops, it must also need to enter the atmosphere for fire support, so a large number of turrets began to be installed.
In the end, it became such a unlikeable battleship that could do everything, but couldn't do anything well. In fact, even as an aircraft carrier, Hunter Class is not as good as a professional aircraft carrier.
Compare Fourth Civilization to Sova-class Carrier, which is 1,300 meters long and can carry a maximum of 500 Wraith fighter or 1,400 Vulture droid fighter, but due to the shortage of Fourth Civilization pilots, each Sova-class Carrier carries 100 Wraith fighter and 900 Vulture droid fighter.
This carrying capacity is actually much greater than that of the Hunter Class, because the Wraith fighter is a heavy-duty fighter aircraft that is comparable in size to the ARC-170 fighter of the Galactic Republic, and the ARC-170 is only designed to carry 36 aircraft on the Hunter Class.
And as a professional aircraft carrier, although Sova-class Carrier also has main guns, they are basically used for self-defense. Sova-class has a very complete Flight Control System on the huge bridge. There is also a complete maintenance system in the huge hangar. There are also 4 ejection runways. 20 fighter jets can take off at one time, allowing the fighter jets to reach an acceleration of 50G at the moment of takeoff. This is another advantage compared to directly opening the Hangar Platform, allowing the fighter jets to take off using the anti-gravity engine, and then slowly accelerate.
But no matter what, Galactic Republic, more is justice!
A total of 60 Hunter Class Battlecruisers and 15,600 fighter jets. At least they can remain undefeated in the artillery battle, but on the battlefield of fighter jets, this number can directly crush them!
Even though there are 9,000 Vulture droid fighter in the Fleet A of Matt-Hona, he must allocate more than half of the fighters to defend the Floating City on the Bespin Planet, and these fighters are all 3.6-meter-long ultra-light fighters, and their firepower is not at the same level as the V-19 Torrent light fighter of Galactic Republic.
Tang Xiao knew about their design before Hunter Class came out, so Fourth Civilization, with Galactic Republic as its imaginary enemy, has been targeting this kind of fighter sea tactics.
In order to target Galactic Republic's elite fighter force, Tang Xiao prepared three major weapons for them-stealth fighter, Flak Frigate, and one more. Now Matt-Hona still holds it in his hands. He knew that even if Galactic Republic had lost thousands of fighter jets, this was only one-sixteenth of the 15,600 fighter jets they carried.
150 Garda Flak Frigate ships had already arrived at Bespin Planet while Matt-Hona were building a defense line. It is precisely with the help of these Flak Frigates that the 2,500 Vulture droid fighters that Fourth Civilization fleets took off one after another can compete with the fleet of Galactic Republics.
When Galactic Republic fleet took off the third batch of fighter jets, Matt-Hona finally came up with his trump card - Wraith fighter!
And they are all equipped with cloaking devices!
300 Wraith fighter took off from the ejection runway of Sova-class Carrier, approached the Galactic Republic fighter group without anyone noticing, and then launched a one-sided massacre!
Galactic Republic actually has stealth technology, but because Rusan Reforms and Galactic Republic have basically not developed military technology, stealth technology has also been stagnant. After all, what Galactic Republic was thinking at this time was that once stealth technology was invented and leaked, it would be a devastating blow to the order management of the galaxy's trade routes.
And after 1,000 years, they picked up their own weapons again. The officers and soldiers of the Republic ranged from Sheev-Palpatine to an ordinary pilot. They had never thought that anyone could equip stealth fighters on such a large scale!
The powerful enemy tracking system of Hunter Class Battlecruiser can indeed detect the invisible Wraith fighter, but this will greatly reduce their enemy tracking and locking distance, and the system response speed will also drop a lot. However, the airborne radar of those fighter jets can detect the signal of Wraith fighter almost within 10 kilometers, and it is very weak. For space operations, this enemy detection distance is almost the same as that of a blind man!
It is also impossible for the flight control command center to direct each fighter jet to fight with another group of fighter jets. In this ever-changing chaotic battlefield, you may have just issued an instruction, and the opponent's position has changed several times.
300 stealth Wraith fighters were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, easily slaughtering the Galactic Republic fighter jets. Jedi Master Green-Betty, who commanded the operation, immediately issued an order to retreat. However, of this third batch of fighter combat groups, including 1,000 V-19 Torrent fighter and 1,000 Z-95 Headhunter multifunctional fighters, less than a quarter were able to return to their own battleships!
Not only that, Green-Betty also recalled the second batch of aircraft fleets that were cleaning up those Gauss Fire Platforms. Now there are more than 90 Gauss Fire Platforms still surviving, and they are still tirelessly bombarding Galactic Republic warships under computer control.
"General! This is not the way to go." Republic Fleet Commander, Admiral of the Navy Magellan looked worried and turned back to Green Betty, "The other party's Kohl-class Battlecruiser has a powerful kinetic energy cannon, and the scanning results have come out. The diameter of the cannon is 40 meters, and a smaller spacecraft can dance inside the cannon! It is this kind of giant cannon that requires us to activate the hybrid shield at all times, and the shield energy consumption is huge..."
"Stealth fighter." Green-Betty said with a serious face, "The sense of crisis in my heart is getting more and more serious. This Bespin Planet's recovery battle will not be as simple as we imagined."
"What is the origin of Dawn Star Planet? How can such a secondary planet with a diameter of only 4,900 kilometers have such terrifying technological and industrial capabilities!" Admiral Magellan took a deep breath.
"The common rumor is that they come from a planet destroyed by war. Some intelligence personnel believe that their origin is in Unknown Regions. And they appointed a female Chiss as Admiral of the Navy, which is also one of the evidence." Green-Betty said, and said to the communications soldier next to him, "Send Wraith fighter's combat data to the rear Research Department immediately!"