"Is this possible? I'm afraid the void shield relies on air strikes..."
Sergeant Avic, who was performing this kind of mission for the first time, was grumbling, but he stuck to his duty and ensured that the laser irradiator continued to work.
Then, he caught the sound of flying across the sky, so he looked up and immediately saw twelve black spots that looked like small aircraft approaching the stronghold. Their speed was a bit slow, at least in his eyes.
However, it was precisely because of this relatively slow speed that the moment they came into contact with the void shield, they only caused a ripple. Then two of them disappeared in the flash of the void shield, and the remaining ten headed towards the target.
Ten seconds later, several mini-mushroom clouds shyly poked their heads out from behind the stronghold's protective wall. The burst of explosive heat energy instantly annihilated the target. The gravel and rubble rising into the sky even hit the hillside where Avic's team was located.
Later, the sergeant was also stunned——
"It actually... happened?"
At this time, the inside of the fortress was in ruins, but this was not the end. Amidst the screams of the engines, 6 missiles launched by three Thunderhawks rushed in an arc towards the last remaining body of the fortress.
Small points of light burst out, like the feathers of light that a holy angel unintentionally sheds on the mortal world. The whole world was instantly baptized by the flames of truth and kindness. The chain reaction of sub-munition projectiles triggered by the explosion destroyed the entire fortress in the blink of an eye. The shock wave
The protective walls that were farther away were torn to pieces, and the strong wind picked up the attachments on the ground and roared towards Avic, forcing him to turn around to protect the equipment in his arms until the storm faded into a burst of ashes and embers.
settlement.
"Wow, Sergeant, this..."
Soon, the surrounding recruits also gathered around, curiously looking at the ruins in the distance. It was hard to imagine that there was a fortress standing there before.
Avic wiped the dust off the eyepiece with his hand and looked back at the ruins.
"First use low-speed laser-guided gliding bombs to break through the void shield defense and blow up key facilities, and then use high-power cluster missiles to attack unprotected facilities and personnel... Even if the enemy still has survivors, the significance of this stronghold no longer exists.
, and to complete all this, you only need a few recruits and three Thunderhawks, so that you can destroy a fortress with a void shield."
A recruit looked at it for a while and whispered:
"Then our value becomes a laser launcher...The glory of the Astartes should be in chain saws and explosive bombs."
Avic immediately corrected him.
"We are soldiers first. What soldiers want to think about is how to complete the mission and how to win. Remember this."
As he spoke, he patted the equipment with his hand.
"And do you think the enemy will let us unsuspectingly use equipment to illuminate them? In actual combat, it won't be that simple. To be able to say such innocent things means that your training is not over yet... Okay,
Stop talking nonsense and hurry up to perform the next mission."
In the observation post at the rear of the remote exercise base, Soshyan was watching with interest the images of reports coming from all directions.
"...In just ten minutes, all 9 of the enemy's strongholds were destroyed. If we follow traditional tactics, whether it is a frontal attack, a penetration breakthrough, or forcibly overloading the void shield with firepower, it will take longer and longer than this.
To pay more costs, we have to ensure that there are no powerful enemies such as Chaos Space Marines inside to resist, and there may be casualties."
Soshyan turned his head to Bangura aside and said with a smile:
"Sage Bangura, this 'Thunder' gliding melt bomb is a great design. The ultimate speed is set at the rejection threshold of the void shield, which ensures the penetration rate without being too slow.
"
Bangura also responded with a smile:
"It's all thanks to the commander of the mission, otherwise we wouldn't have thought of such a design, let alone such accurate data on the critical value of the void shield."
Because it involves Soshyan's more sensitive identity, Bangura said it very euphemistically. In fact, the design of this glide bomb comes from a weapon called the Ghost Missile in Aida's arsenal. It is usually used by Phoenix fighters or vampires.
Used by fighter planes, it has an incredible propulsion device. It can adjust its speed precisely by adjusting its own spiritual bone wings. It can take advantage of the fact that the void shield is not easy to defend against low-speed targets. When approaching an enemy defended by the void shield, it suddenly reduces its speed to the critical point of the void shield.
Value, the void shield is not easy to block low-speed targets to specifically break the shield. After completing the breakthrough, it can suddenly increase to the top speed within a tenth of a second, making its speed and trajectory as strange and unpredictable as a ghost, hence the name ghost missile
, which can be said to be very contrary to common sense in physics.
It is naturally difficult for humans to simulate such missiles that rely on spiritual bones and ancient Ada technology to achieve magical effects. However, this idea of first maneuvering at high speed and then penetrating at low speed inspired Soshiyang, so he asked for it a long time ago.
Bangura proposed the idea of developing a low-speed penetration weapon.
So there was this Thunder Gliding Bomb. This bomb is similar to a missile. The structure is quite simple. There is a guidance head in the streamlined top cover. After the guidance device senses the laser reflected from the target, the unfolded flying wings will be controlled.
The projectile goes straight to the target at a low speed along the reflected laser.
Of course, there are definitely disadvantages to maintaining a low speed. For example, it is easy to be intercepted by lasers or interfered by enemy equipment. Then the best way is to launch again closer to the enemy. The risk is very high on the ground, so I choose to launch in the sky.
Launch, and in order to resist enemy interference, traditional auspicious guidance will definitely not work, and wet parts are not very safe, so the safest way is laser guidance.
As for the enemy's interception firepower, the simplest way is to pile up the number and use saturated numbers to overwhelm the enemy's interception firepower. This requires that such bombs should not be too complex and can be manufactured in large quantities at low cost.
The glide bomb fits this requirement very well.
As for the Void Shield critical value data, Soshyan also got this from the Bonesinger. Originally, he thought that this would only have some reference value for humans. After all, humans have been playing Void Shield for so many years.
What surprised him was that the Adeptus Mechanicus' understanding of the principles of the void shield seemed to remain at a relatively basic level.
He didn't know why. Anyway, everyone knew how to create it. He could only guess that a lot of data that was too detailed required the sages to figure it out by themselves over many years, and if they really figured it out, they would most likely not share it.
In the end, it is still a problem of the closed nature within the Mechanicus and the proliferation of sects.
There is no solution to this problem, so Soshyan can only sigh.
The void shield critical value data is very important for this equipment, because it determines the speed at which the bomb should penetrate the enemy's shield, ensuring the penetration rate without being too slow, but this
This kind of data is not a single value. In fact, there will be corresponding differences due to the scale of the void shield, the coverage area, and the model of the generator. This not only requires a lot of statistics, but also requires a series of complex formula calculations.
Ada has very in-depth research on human void shields, and they even have a special calculation method that can quickly calculate the critical values of various types of void shields in the empire.