The Federal Central State Planet Guard Fleet's 042nd Detachment formed a new combat formation.
The 042nd Detachment had two B-Class Battleships, four C-Class Battleships, eight D-Class Battleships, and sixteen E-Class Battleships.
Two of the E-Class Battleships moved ahead by two million and four million kilometers respectively!
Their active radar was fully activated.
Four E-Class Battleships were also deployed along the outer flanks, two million kilometers above and below.
This gave the entire detachment a broader radar detection range!
This was the Federation's latest combat plan, relying on the superior performance of Federation warships to suppress pirate warships.
This was the impact brought about by the Seventh Fleet's previous victory.
The detachment sailed along its designated patrol route.
But!
The previous Main Fleet had consisted of over a hundred warships, including mainline warships and A-Class Battleships!
Yet those hundred-plus warships had faced only four Pirate Groups.
First, they pursued the Witch Pirate Crew's Joint Fleet, then they chased the Third Reserve Force.
From beginning to end, the entire Seventh Fleet had never faced a greater number of warships.
But for a single detachment to do this now was equivalent to dispersing its own firepower.
In the vastness of space, the only way to improve hit rates was to close the distance.
In theory, this detachment's active radar detection range had now reached six million kilometers!
This was because the flagship was four million kilometers away from the foremost E-Class Battleship, while that E-Class Battleship itself had a detection range of two million kilometers!
But!
Every time pirates fought, they hid in radar blind spots.
They usually concealed themselves behind planets, whether large planets or asteroids.
If it was an asteroid, they simply docked their warships against it.
If it was a large planet, they used its gravity to hover in orbit