812. Integrated reform (Part 1)
Naval military reform is an imperative.
Because with the continuous updating of naval equipment, Fourth Civilization Navy's existing tactics and systems are bound to undergo huge changes, so all Fourth Civilization Navy's 500,000 officers and soldiers must be prepared for this.
The core of this reform lies in the integrated construction of the fleet.
In fact, this is the direction of naval construction that Fourth Civilization has been carrying out. Because Fourth Civilization is too small compared to Galactic Republic, there is no way to compare with Galactic Republic in terms of fleet size, so what they need to think about is how to maximize the power of the limited and miniaturized fleet.
And this idea is fleet integration.
As we all know, in space battlefields, because the battlefield coverage often has a multi-dimensional width of tens of light seconds or even several light minutes, so in actual battles, the distance between each warship will be very large.
What often happens on the battlefield is that a warship is being besieged by enemy fighter jets, while other own warships are often thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers away.
The way Galactic Republic and later Galactic Empire solved this problem was to greatly strengthen the power of a single warship and allow each warship to complete all operations independently.
What was born from this idea was a series of battleships such as Hunter Class Battlecruiser and later Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Even if these warships are isolated from the fleet formation, they can complete all battles independently and are not afraid even if they are surrounded.
They have powerful armor and shields, as well as powerful Turbolaser cannons, and can also take off a large number of fighter jets for cover. It can be said that they are warships with almost no shortcomings.
Of course, strictly speaking, there are disadvantages, that is, it is expensive, so this kind of battleship Fourth Civilization cannot be used.
But in other words, the fact that it is expensive is not the shortcoming of the battleship, but the shortcoming of your Fourth Civilization.
Therefore, Fourth Civilization basically has a strong focus on the choice of battleships, that is, the ones that are outstanding in one aspect and would rather tolerate mediocrity in other aspects.
However, now that the war has begun, this kind of fighting method in which various arms cooperate with each other has begun to fail. Because Galactic Republic is also constantly evolving and upgrading, and the number of Hunter Class Battlecruiser is increasing, and there will only be more in the future. When each battleship formation with almost no shortcomings in single-ship combat capabilities becomes larger and larger, this has turned the battle into a pure crushing of strength.
Therefore, Fourth Civilization also needs continuous evolution and upgrading.
At present, there is no way to compare with Galactic Republic in terms of productivity, so what they have to do is still integration. One theory that Fourth Civilization High Command and Research Department came up with is fleet integration.
Galactic Republic Every battleship is very powerful, but no matter how powerful a battleship is, it cannot compare to a fleet. Therefore, as long as each of the opponent's warships can confront the entire fleet, then enough advantages can be obtained.
In other words, for example, when a Galactic Republic and a Hunter Class Battlecruiser attack a Kohl-class Battlecruiser on the left wing of Fourth Civilization fleet, another Grizzly-class heavy destroyer on the right wing can also play a cooperative role, so that's fine.
But the question is, how?
Later, inspired by Army Lieutenant General Cheng Shitao who was not injured at that time, Fourth Civilization Admiralty finally proposed such a combat theory-fleet integration.
The first step in integration is to integrate the fleet's shields.
The shields of the entire fleet are connected together to play a complementary role. If battleship A is attacked by concentrated fire, battleship B, which is temporarily under no pressure, can project its own shield on battleship A to enhance the protective capability of battleship A.
This theory seems like a fantasy, but if it can be realized, it will increase the combat effectiveness of Fourth Civilization's fleet to a terrifying level.
However, this cannot be achieved overnight, but it can be achieved step by step.
The technical basis for realizing the integration of Fleet Shield is the several special battleships Trader Emergency Coalition in the current mothership database "Sins of a Solar Empire".
It can actually be seen from the database that in "Sins of a Solar Empire", Trader Emergency Coalition is also thinking about how to use the overall combat capability of the fleet, because compared to their enemy Vasari, their warships are very backward.
So they were also thinking about this issue, but they didn't do it completely.
Therefore, the scientists and military strategists of Fourth Civilization are ready to stand on the shoulders of Trader Emergency Coalition and continue to work hard and develop until this idea is completely realized.
The key to realizing the integrated concept of Fleet Shield lies in the new warship Durov-class Battlecruiser that Fourth Civilization has just developed, and the secret plan that the Givin is still developing and manufacturing intensively, Ankolon Plan.
Durov-class Battlecruiser has a length of 1020 meters, a width of 310 meters, and a crew of 2700, plus a formation of 500 Marines and up to 48 Wraith fighter. The overall battleship looks much shorter, thicker and stockier than Kohl-class Battlecruiser.
This battlecruiser is equipped with 4 powerful heavy X-ray turret, 6 medium X-ray turret as secondary guns, and is equipped with 16 sets of laser close-in defense systems and Group 4 scattering air defense missile systems. Except for anti-aircraft missiles, all weapons are Energy Weapons.
If you just look at these, it seems that the functions of Durov-class Battlecruiser are not worthy of its overall size, which is larger than Kohl-class, but its functions are far more than that.
Durov-class Battlecruiser is equipped with the most advanced large-scale anti-matter engine, and the installed engine is very large, almost filling nearly one-third of the space behind the battleship. This arrangement results in Durov-class Battlecruiser having almost no other firepower deployment in the rear except Group 4 air defense missiles.
However, this provides a very powerful energy supply for Durov-class Battlecruiser. The antimatter engine of Dunov Class can actually drive a 3,000-meter-level giant ship!
And this powerful energy supply cannot be used up by the X-ray cannon towers on the battleship alone, and the same is true for the shield capacitor. Now, whether it is the technology of "Star Wars" or the technology of "Sins of a Solar Empire", the energy utilization rate is stuck here. The most powerful Turbolaser cannon or X-ray cannon is like this, and the shield capacitor with the largest capacity also only has so many.
So if you want to increase the power and shield, then you can install more turrets and more shield capacitors, which requires additional volume.
Therefore, in this era, a warship of about 1,000 meters is the most suitable size. If you build a warship of three to five thousand meters, the combat effectiveness is not necessarily higher than that of a warship of more than 1,000 meters. For example, the 2,500-meter Prosecutor-class, 4,000-meter Governor-class and 8,000-meter Commander-class battleships that Galactic Republic is currently transforming, so what if you are big? The turret model used is still the same as Hunter Class, it just has more turrets.
Actual battle examples are the same. Since the war started, these three types of ships have appeared many times, but there has never been one time when they were not hoisted up to fight. Therefore, it is not unreasonable for Galactic Republic to never use these three brothers when fighting offensive battles.
But Durov-class Battlecruiser is completely different!