Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 297 05.0296: ‘Anti-ship mount’

“Boss! Boss! The stinky shrimps are making a sneak attack!” The greenskin captain’s deputy, the big guy, shouted.

“Collect the formation, don’t worry about those lagging chickens, cut through the middle of the shrimp formation!”

“Yes, boss!”

The formation of the greenskin fleet was adjusted again.

The surrounding garbage ships quickly approached the giant rock and formed a diamond-shaped charge formation. Their anti-aircraft firepower overlapped, greatly improving the efficiency of intercepting torpedoes and bombers.

Facing the incoming enemy ships, the Gothic 25th Squadron began to turn and circled back in a ∩ shape, allowing the slightly damaged left wing to take a breath for repairs, and let the right side with the automatic loader turned to the greenskin fleet, outputting more fierce firepower.

All the fleet’s light spears fired at the single garbage ship. Although there were adamantium armor plates blocking the front, no matter how large the armor plates were, they could not stop the multiple and repeated cutting of so many beams of light spears.

The bow of the leading garbage ship was hit so hard that its face collapsed. Perhaps their "bridge" was inside. After the third round of salvos penetrated the armor of the monster face, the route of the garbage ship began to be obviously out of control, and it slanted and hit the garbage ship on the right side of the diamond formation.

Horatio stared at the movements of the greenskins.

I saw that the war giant rock following closely behind rudely hit the out-of-control garbage ship, tearing it into a pile of scattered scrap metal, breaking it into pieces, pushing it aside, and clearing the way for the formation to continue charging.

Just looking at the terrifying power of the war giant rock hitting the garbage ship, Horatio could imagine how terrible the consequences would be if this thing hit the Imperial Navy cruiser.

Maybe it would not break the strong adamantium keel in half, but it is completely possible to make one side of the armor belt completely dented and several gun groups lose their combat capability.

Through the air intelligence control system, Horatio found that the enemy aircraft fleet had been reduced by more than half due to the efforts of the interception brigade.

Although the threat of enemy aircraft to the Starhawk bombers was reduced, at this time, the bulky Starhawk bombing formation still had difficulty approaching the greenskin fleet.

The tail of the greenskin fleet also began to spew out surging flames at this moment, while emitting thicker and thicker black smoke.

No one knew what they added to the engine to make the bulky ship that did not conform to the linear fluid design of acceleration rush so fast.

Facing the threat of the greenskin fleet accelerating the charge under the firepower of the macro guns, the "kite tactics" was the best and only choice for the Gothic 25th Fleet.

Under the coordination of the commodore, the fleet began to coordinate acceleration maneuvers.

This was not a simple job. First of all, the commander must be familiar with the maximum acceleration of each ship and the current engine status of each ship.

Taking the limit acceleration of the slowest ship in the formation as the benchmark, the engine afterburner of all ships is kept the same.

In this way, the coordinated speed can be maintained without destroying the battle line.

Otherwise, the ships with slow acceleration will be left far behind and become lone prey.

On the other hand, the greenskins have the abominable alien named Kaguk to unify the command.

But the big guys on the garbage ships are already hungry for the approaching prey, and their greenskin boys have prepared boarding weapons and the Jinba machine guns they call "Big Daka".

They only want to board the ship first and then burn, kill, loot and fight to their heart's content, rather than eat the leftovers of other big guys.

In such a lack of communication and ulterior motives, the greenskin fleet was not surprisingly out of touch during the accelerated charge.

The diamond formation began to disperse, but for the Starhawk bombing formation, although the enemy ships were a little dispersed, at this distance, the bulky body still found it difficult to break through the "no man's land" created by the anti-aircraft artillery fire of both sides.

"It takes time to accelerate to the specified speed, but the enemy ship is approaching too fast! We must find a way to stop the enemy fleet!" Captain Sterling reported to the brigadier general through the detection data sent by the lookout.

"Aviation Department, is there any way? We need the Imperial Navy to buy us time for maneuvering."

Horatio looked at the parameters in front of him. This is the Thinker array that the Communications Department, with the help of the Mechanical Priest, linked to the brigade director on Captain Fasha's body and barely converted into an aviation command console.

It's not easy to use, there is a delay, but it can be used.

The Fury fighter has excellent maneuverability and is much faster than the Starhawk bomber. It also has ground and anti-ship capabilities.

In a sense, the Fury fighter is currently the most likely choice to destroy the enemy ship's engine with a low casualty rate.

"217 Interceptor Squadron."

Horatio's voice came from the loudspeaker above the shuttle apron.

"For the next attack, mount the Death Strike Missile. Mission objective: destroy the engine system of the nearest junk ship."

Captain Fasha, who had just returned to the port for maintenance, looked at the loudspeaker from which the voice came and replied to Horatio: "Yes, sir, we will complete the mission."

Under the command of the Mechanical Priest and the blessing of the swinging nano-aromatherapy burner, the Death Strike Missile dragged by the mechanical slaves entered the shuttle apron.

The names of the Empire's weapons usually refer to a broad category rather than a specific model.

Just like the Fury Fighter refers to this type of void interceptor ranging from 70 meters to 40 meters.

The same is true for the Death Strike Missile.

It is equipped in both the Imperial Navy Air Force and the Astra Militarum.

Although the models are different and even the appearance is different, the name "Death Strike" does not affect the use of the name "Death Strike" to refer to this large ground-to-air and anti-ship missile.

Unlike the version of the Celestial Army on the Chimera, it has 4 booster engines and looks very rough and bulky.

The Navy's Death Strike missile has the Navy's logo on it, and the whole body is painted white, which looks very slender.

This is because there is no wind resistance in the void, and no additional engines are needed to increase the range.

When the Navy fights in the atmosphere, such weapons are also launched directly from the sky.

This saves the Celestial Army version from using liquid booster rockets to launch the missile into the sky, and then start the missile's main engine to fly to the target.

Therefore, the Navy version of the Death Strike missile only has the missile body, without the additional liquid booster engine.

This also makes the Imperial Navy version of the Death Strike missile look more compact and exquisite, and more can be hung on the hanging point.

The white paint is the secret fireproof coating of the Mechanicus. It is said that a trace amount of saint's ashes is added to prevent the missile from exploding and blowing up the entire fighter.

Two slaves dragged the missile, and with the help of the implanted special hydraulic mechanical arm, they lifted the huge death strike missile one after another and installed it on the mounting point.

The whole loading process was not long, and the 217th Interceptor Squadron quickly completed the replacement and mounting.

"Pilots, the Emperor is watching you, complete the mission, and then come back alive." Horatio's voice reached the ears of every pilot in the squadron channel.

"Yes, sir, I will live up to the Emperor's will!"

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