The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

812. Integrated Reform (Part 1)

Naval military reform is imperative.

Because with the continuous updating of naval equipment, the existing tactics and systems of the Navy of the Fourth Civilization are bound to undergo tremendous changes. Therefore, all 500,000 officers and soldiers of the Navy of the Fourth Civilization 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 the Fourth Civilization has always carried out. Because compared to the Galactic Republic, the size of the Fourth Civilization is too small, and there is no way to compare with the Galactic Republic in terms of fleet size, so what they need to think about is how to maximize the limited and small fleet power.

And this idea is fleet integration.

As we all know, on the space battlefield, because the coverage of the battlefield often has a multi-dimensional width of tens of light seconds or even a few light minutes, in actual combat, the distance between each battleship will also be very large.

What often happens on the battlefield is that a warship is being besieged by enemy fighter jets, while other warships are often thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers away.

The way the Galactic Republic and later the Galactic Empire solved this problem was to greatly strengthen the power of a single warship and allow each warship to complete all operations independently.

Based on this idea, a series of warships such as the Hunter-class battlecruiser and the subsequent Empire-class star destroyer were born. Even if these battleships are isolated from the fleet formation, they can complete all battles independently, 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 battleships with almost no shortcomings.

Of course, strictly speaking, there are also disadvantages, that is, it is expensive, so this kind of battleship cannot be used by the fourth civilization.

But in other words, the expensive thing is not the shortcoming of the battleship, but the shortcoming of your fourth civilization, okay?

Therefore, the Fourth Civilization's selection of warships is basically very targeted, that is, it is very outstanding in a certain aspect, and would rather endure mediocrity in other aspects.

But now that the war has been fought, this kind of combat method in which all arms cooperate to fight has begun to fail. Because the Galactic Republic is also constantly evolving and upgrading, and the number of hunter-class battlecruisers 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 more and more When they were young, this had already turned the battle into a pure crushing of strength.

Therefore, the fourth civilization also needs to continuously evolve and upgrade accordingly.

At present, there is no way to compare with the Galactic Republic in terms of productivity, so what they have to do is still integration. And a theory drawn up by the Fourth Civilization's Supreme Command and Scientific Research Department is fleet integration.

Every battleship in the Galactic Republic is very powerful, but no battleship is as powerful as a fleet. So as long as every warship of the opponent can be confronted with the entire fleet of his own, then he can gain enough advantage.

In other words, for example, when a Jaeger-class battlecruiser of the Republic is attacking a Cole-class battlecruiser on the left wing of the Fourth Civilization Fleet, another Brown Bear-class heavy destroyer on the right wing can also play a role in coordinated operations. Then this will do the trick.

But the question is, how?

Later, under the inspiration of Lieutenant General Cheng Shitao, who was not yet injured at that time, the Navy Department of the Fourth Civilization finally proposed such a set of combat theories—fleet integration.

The first step of integration is the integration of the fleet's shields.

Connect the shields of the entire fleet to play a complementary role. If battleship A is attacked by concentrated fire, then battleship B, which is under little pressure temporarily, can project the shield on its own battleship to battleship A to strengthen battleship A. protection ability.

This theory seems like a fantasy, but if it can be realized, it will increase the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Civilization's fleet to a terrifying level.

However, this cannot be achieved overnight, but it can be done step by step.

The technical basis for realizing the integration of fleet shields is the special warships of the Traders Emergency Alliance in "Original Sin of a Solar Empire" in the current mothership database.

It can actually be seen from the database that in "Original Sin of a Solar Empire", the Traders Emergency Alliance is also thinking about how to use the overall combat capability of the fleet, because compared to their enemies, the Vasari, their Battleships are very backward.

So they are also thinking about this problem, but they haven't done it completely.

Therefore, the scientists and military strategists of the Fourth Civilization are ready to stand on the shoulders of the Traders Emergency Alliance and continue to work hard and develop until this idea is completely realized.

The key to realizing this vision of fleet shield integration lies in the new type of warship that the Fourth Civilization has just developed—the Dunov-class battlecruiser, and the secret plan that the Givin people are still intensively researching and developing. plan.

The Dunov-class battlecruiser has a length of 1,020 meters, a width of 310 meters, and a crew of 2,700, plus 500 marines and a formation of up to 48 ghost fighters. The overall appearance of the battleship is much sturdier than the Cole-class battlecruiser .

This battlecruiser is equipped with 4 powerful heavy-duty X-ray turrets, 6 medium-sized X-ray turrets as secondary guns, and installed 16 sets of laser close-in defense systems and 4 sets of 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 the Dunov-class battlecruiser are not as good as his overall volume is larger than that of the Cole-class, but its functions are far more than that.

The Dunov-class battlecruiser is equipped with the most advanced large-scale anti-matter engine, and the installed engine is so large that it almost fills nearly one-third of the space behind the battleship. This arrangement causes the Dunov-class battlecruiser to Except for 4 groups of anti-aircraft missiles, there is almost no other firepower deployment at the rear of the cruiser.

However, this provides a very powerful energy supply for the Dunov-class battlecruiser. The anti-matter engine of the Dunov-class can actually drive a giant ship of the 3000-meter class!

And this powerful energy supply is completely inexhaustible with the X-ray turrets on the battleship, and the same is true for the shield capacitor. Whether it is the technology of "Star Wars" or the technology of "Original Sins of a Solar Empire", the energy utilization rate is stuck here. The most powerful turbo laser cannon or X-ray cannon is like this, and the shield capacitor with the largest capacity is also the same. so much.

So to increase the power and shield, then yes, install more turrets and more shield capacitors, which requires additional volume.

Therefore, in this era, a warship with a height of about 1,000 meters is the most suitable size. If you build a warship of three to five kilometers, the combat effectiveness may not be higher than that of a warship with a height 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 warships that the Galactic Republic is transforming now, so what if you are big? The model of the turret used is still the same as that of the Jaeger-level, only there are more turrets.

The same is true of actual battles. Since the war has been fought, these three big ships have appeared many times, but there has never been a time where they were not hoisted up to fight, so it is not unreasonable for the Republic to never use these three brothers in offensive battles.

But the Dunov-class battlecruiser is completely different!