Metal Ranger of the Endless Plane

From the bottom of his heart, Lu Yuan prefers to use artillery firepower to carry out large-scale attacks on the enemy, rather than using bombers or attack aircraft.

This is also the reason why he only remembered to make air combat drones, but did not make even an attack aircraft of the same size.

However, since the battle situation has developed to the present, he should have discovered this problem or defect in his troops, but he has never made up for the bomber and attack aircraft. What's the matter?

Just one word in short, lazy.

But it's not too lazy to design or manufacture, it's not too lazy to do logistics.

Because the electromagnetic coil gun of the air combat drone can carry hundreds of shelling tungsten core armor-piercing projectiles at one time, which can be used to provide electrical energy for light analysis, and it can also last for a long time.

But bombers, whether they use air-to-surface missiles, precision-guided bombs, or the most basic aerial bombs, require more professional and complex ground handling and ammunition replenishment methods.

On this basis, tactical attack aircraft have two additional options: air-launched rockets and machine guns. However, with the same significant increase in logistics requirements, the effects of these two attack methods on the enemy's damage will be greatly reduced.

In general, if these two weapons are used, Lu Yuan can't just use the drone launch vehicle to provide them with supplies, and must build a special airport.

In fact, there is a special ground attack vehicle that is most suitable for long-distance combat, such as the AC-130U heavy ground attack aircraft.

A five-barreled 25mm revolver gun, a 40mm Bofors automatic gun, and a M102 105mm howitzer (modified), which provides a powerful and comprehensive ground attack to this armed turret modified from a transport aircraft Firepower.

Moreover, this thing can provide 12 hours of long-term air support, with a combat radius of hundreds or even nearly a thousand kilometers, making its attack range far higher than the 20 kilometers of artillery rockets.

It sounds like a good choice.

However, if you want to fly a 105 howitzer into the sky and hit it down, in order to solve the problem of recoil force, the mass and power of the aircraft itself must be large enough.

With the size of an AC-130, a 105mm gun is really used in the warehouse. Not to mention more than ten guns, five or six guns are always possible. Why did you only bring one in the end?

Because carrying is carrying, using is using, there is recoil when using, and ammunition is required, and so on.

So in the final analysis, that's the reason. If you want to use such a large aircraft, you can't use the drone to launch the vehicle, and you need an airport.

And if you have an airport, you have to have a base, and you have to have a defensive force.

On the whole, it is inconsistent with the style of Lu Yuan, a fast-moving force.

In fact, if you want to achieve the same level of fire support as an aerial gunboat, there is another option, which is to replace the ammunition of the aerial combat drone electromagnetic gun with high-explosive grenades.

But in that case, the corresponding electromagnetic gun must be modified, because the kinetic energy given to the projectile by the current electromagnetic gun is excessive for the grenade.

And the magazine has to be modified. Because the high explosive grenade needs to be equipped with explosives and fragments, the volume must be higher by the tungsten core armor-piercing projectile, and at least several times higher, so the built-in magazine has to be larger.

A larger magazine means that the weight of the bomb is also increased, so the aircraft engine, the load provided by the lift, and even the aerodynamic shape have to be changed.

Now that these have been changed, the fuselage has also been adjusted accordingly.

Add more sophisticated fire control systems and high-precision radars.

Wait, it seems something is wrong, right?

How did you add it to the air combat drone that was modified from the F-16 magic, and it was really enlarged to AC-130?

Add water to more noodles, add noodles to more water? I made myself into the noodles...

Okay, after brainstorming, Lu Yuan finally found that it is more economical and easier to maintain the original state...

Fortunately, the air combat UAV uses a single-shot electromagnetic coil gun with a low firing rate to attack in a three-stage attack, and the effect is not bad.

Sure enough, weapons are dead and people are alive.

Well, it should be changed here, the weapon is alive.

In short, under the personal attention and guidance of the commander Rosecuff, the air combat drone's first round of firing cleanly surpassed the surrounding Thunder Dragon and Tyrannosaurus Rex block, and successfully killed a female Titan Python.

With the death of the female giant python, the few male giant pythons wrapped around the spider chariot chassis at the forefront of the battle really changed.

These relatively small giants, shortly after the death of the female python, let go of the spider chariot’s mechanical legs. There is a feeling of confusion that has just woken up but is not really awake, and is aimlessly on the battlefield. Wander around.

"So, after the female Titan Python dies, the male will get out of control?" Everyone pondered.

However, as the second female Titan Python was killed, this idea was quickly broken.

Because this time, the second batch of males who had changed, did not continue to wander aimlessly, but gathered together in twos and threes.

The closest two or three of them were closed first, and the result was in full view. The giant python with the largest head opened its mouth wide and swallowed the other two around it completely from beginning to end.

In the end, I didn't see how this thing was digested. What was swallowed by it seemed to have instantly become a part of its body, making it the size of a female python in the back.

And with the appearance of this new python, those around who were still gathering stopped, even the previous batch of wandering around seemed to have found their minds. Although they did not return to the previous battlefield, they all dived into the grass. , Lie in ambush again.

"Can this happen?" Seeing this, the four of them already understood what was going on in front of them.

It seems that if the female python serving as the commander dies too much, it will produce a female commander again among the males.

The newly-appearing female commander will also be given command of male pythons within a certain range nearby.

It's just that this method is not like a python at all, but more like an ant.

Or, simply, Zerg?

Well, seeing these pictures, Lu Yuan and the others also understood that the previous attempt to kill the female pythons by shooting them to make the entire python army collapsed would not work.

I wanted to capture the thief first and then the king, but without the king, the thief would quickly choose a new king.

The time that can be gained before and after may only be a few minutes, and this time window may be used to do something very cost-effective during individual special operations. But now leading a large force, this time is not enough.

We have to think of new ways, otherwise we have to figure out the war of suppression!

Lu Yuan shook his head helplessly.

Just as everyone was thinking of a new way, Rosecuff once again sent back the intelligence gathered by the front reconnaissance plane.

This time it is a video.

However, in the video footage, it looks like just a deserted grassland.

and many more!

Off the beaten track?

The surrounding grasslands should be full of soldiers from the Lizardmen Legion, right?

How could there be no enemy on such a large grassland?