The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

548, Bloody Battle Bespin (6)

The powerful fleet of the Galactic Republic consists of 60 Jaeger-class battlecruisers. The most powerful part is not the battleships with powerful shields and unreasonable layouts but still fierce firepower, but the entire 9000 V- 19 Riptides, 4800 Z-95 Headhunters and 1800 Y-wing bombers!

This is also the reason why fighter jets have the upper hand in the current spiral of technological development in the Milky Way.

At present, the Kuat Power Shipyard represents the highest shipbuilding technology in the galaxy. The point defense system they produce can intercept fighter jets flying at an acceleration of 100G. However, the theoretical maximum acceleration of current star fighters is generally above 3000G! Even if it is ordinary people driving, they can break through 100G acceleration with enough concentration.

Therefore, a starfighter will be able to cause considerable damage to a battleship before it is shot down by the close-in defense system. This damage is far greater than that of a missile of the same price, and it is also much more effective than a turbolaser.

That's why the Jaeger-class battlecruiser, a relatively deformed aviation battleship model, was born. Since this kind of warship has been given such a large carrying capacity, it is better to continue to stuff some AT-TE walkers, LATT assault Transport planes and the like go in, and then the 2,000-strong Republic Marine Corps is even more perfect. Of course, since the ground troops are already carried, it is definitely necessary to enter the atmosphere for fire support work, so a large number of turrets have been installed.

In the end, it became such a four-faced battleship that can do everything, but can't do anything well. Even speaking, even as an aircraft carrier, the Jaeger-class is not as good as a professional aircraft carrier.

Compare the Sowa-class aircraft carrier of the Fourth Civilization, which is 1300 meters long and can carry a maximum of 500 ghost fighters or 1400 vulture robot fighters. However, due to the shortage of pilots in the fourth civilization, each Sowa-class aircraft carrier is equipped with 100 ghosts fighter jets and 900 vulture droid fighter jets.

This carrying capacity is actually much larger than that of the Jaeger-class, because the Wraith fighter is a heavy-duty fighter, and its size is compared to the ARC-170 fighter of the Galactic Republic, and the ARC-170 is only designed to carry 36 fighters on the Jaeger-class.

Moreover, as a professional aircraft carrier, although the Sowa-class aircraft carrier also has main guns, they are basically used for self-defense. The Sowa class has a very complete flight control system on the huge bridge, a complete maintenance system in the huge hangar, and 4 ejection runways, which can take off 20 fighter jets at a time, allowing the fighter jets to reach The acceleration of 50G, this point and directly opening the hangar platform, allowing the fighter to take off with the anti-gravity engine, and then slowly accelerating is an advantage.

But no matter what, on the side of the Galactic Republic, more is justice!

A total of 60 Jaeger-class battlecruisers and 15,600 fighter jets. Artillery battles can at least remain undefeated, and on the battlefield of fighter jets, this number can be crushed directly!

Even though Matt Horner’s A fleet has 9,000 vulture robot fighters, he must allocate more than half of the fighters to defend the floating cities on the planet Bespin, and these fighters are all 3.6 meters long and ultra-light Compared with the Republic's V-19 torrent light fighter, the firepower of the fighter jet is not at the same level.

Tang Xiao knew about their designs before the advent of the Hunter class, so the Fourth Civilization, which uses the Galactic Republic as its imaginary enemy, has always been targeting this kind of fighter sea tactics.

In order to target the elite fighter force of the Republic, Tang Xiao prepared three major weapons for them—stealth fighter, anti-aircraft destroyer, and one more, which Matt Horner still holds in his hand. He knew that even though the Galactic Republic had lost thousands of fighter jets, this was only one-sixteenth of the 15,600 fighter jets they carried.

150 Guard-class anti-aircraft destroyers had already arrived at Planet Bespin when Matt Horner built the line of defense, and jointly built the line of defense. It is also with the help of these anti-aircraft destroyers that the 2,500 vulture robot fighter jets launched by the Fourth Civilization Fleet can compete with the Republic's fleet.

When the Galactic Republic fleet took off the third batch of fighter jets, Matt Horner finally took out his trump card - the ghost fighter!

And all of them are equipped with cloaking devices!

300 Wraith fighters took off from the ejection runway of the Sowa-class aircraft carrier, approached the fighter group of the Republic without anyone noticing, and then launched a one-sided massacre!

In fact, the Galactic Republic also has stealth technology, but because of the Lusan reform, the Galactic Republic has basically not developed military technology, and the stealth technology has also been stagnant. After all, what the Republic is thinking at this time is that once the stealth technology is invented and flows out, it can be said to be a devastating blow to the order management of the galaxy's trade routes.

After 1,000 years, they picked up their own weapons again. The officers and soldiers of the Republic went up to Schiff-Palpatine and went down to an ordinary pilot. They never thought that anyone could equip stealth fighters on such a large scale. !

The powerful tracking system of the Jaeger-class battlecruisers can indeed detect stealthy ghost fighters, but this will greatly reduce their tracking and locking distance, and the system response speed will also drop a lot. But the airborne radars of those fighter jets can only detect the signal of the Phantom fighter almost within 10 kilometers, and it is very weak. For space combat, this distance is almost the same as that of a blind man!

It is also impossible for the flight control command center to direct every fighter to fight with another group of fighters. In this ever-changing chaotic battlefield, you may have just issued an order, and the opposite side has changed its position several times.

The 300 stealth Wraith fighters are like tigers entering the flock, easily slaughtering the fighter group of the Republic. Jedi Master Green Beatty, who commanded the operation, immediately issued an order to retreat, but the third batch of fighter combat groups, including 1,000 V-19 Riptide fighter jets and 1,000 Z-95 Headhunter multi-purpose fighter jets, were able to return to their own battleships. Less than a quarter!

Not only that, Green Beatty also recalled the second batch of fleets that were cleaning up those Gauss firepower platforms. Now there are more than 90 Gauss firepower platforms still surviving, and they are still tirelessly bombarding the warships of the Republic under the control of the computer.

"General! Going on like this is not an option." The commander of the Republic Fleet, Admiral McGlenn looked worried, and turned to Green-Beatty and said, "The other party's Cole-class battlecruiser has powerful kinetic energy guns, and the scan results have already Come out, the diameter of the muzzle is 40 meters, and a smaller spaceship can dance in the barrel! It is this kind of giant cannon that makes us have to open the hybrid shield all the time, and the energy consumption of the shield is huge. In addition ..."

"Stealth fighter." Green Betty said with a serious face, "The sense of crisis in my heart is getting more and more serious. The recovery of Planet Bespin this time will not be as simple as we imagined."

"What is the origin of Dawn Planet? How could such a secondary planet with a diameter of only 4,900 kilometers have such terrifying technological and industrial capabilities!" Admiral Maglen took a deep breath.

"The common rumor is that they came from a planet destroyed by war. Some intelligence personnel believe that their origin is in an unknown star field. And they appointed a female Chiss as an admiral, which is also one of the evidences." Green - Betty said, and said to the communication soldier next to him: "Send the combat data of the Phantom fighter to the rear scientific research department immediately!"