What the scientific research and technical personnel of the Galactic Empire have never understood is how the swarm drones mounted on the Archon-class aircraft carriers can become so powerful.
The swarm unmanned interceptor aircraft possesses extremely high speed, agility, powerful firepower, and cunning combat logic. Normally, it is impossible for so many things to appear in a micro-drone with a diameter of only 1.5 meters.
The same is true even for the Swarm II drones that are currently appearing on the body.
Two-thirds of their volume is on those two engines, which also gives them unparalleled mobility. However, it cannot explain where the energy reserves are? The powerful plasma beam, such a large power, and
Where did it come from? At the same time, that combat method is comparable to that of an ace pilot. Where is its AI terminal?
Finally, after a lot of research, they believed that this was a technology for long-distance energy transmission and long-distance remote control operation. This could also explain why swarm drones would only appear on Archon-class aircraft carriers.
The aircraft carrier will not carry other types of drones.
But it still cannot be explained why during the Yago-Dur planet battle, in the face of the powerful electromagnetic pulse caused by the violent orbital change of the star, other electronic equipment could not be used, but the swarm drones were still able to maintain a powerful
combat effectiveness.
But in any case, imperial scientists believe that they have at least seen through the secret of this drone a little bit, which can be considered progress to some extent. More intelligence requires more actual combat cases for analysis.
However, the imperial military is not completely ineffective. The Vindicator-class heavy cruiser they handed over to the Xina Fleet for systematic development is a cruiser specially designed to fight against such small fighters.
Vindicator-class heavy cruiser, 600 meters long, equipped with 25 multifunctional turbolaser cannons, 20 quadruple light turbolaser cannons, 10 point defense laser cannons, 20 point defense ion cannons, and 6 power does not count
Large tractor beam.
It can be said that the Vindicator class is covered with anti-aircraft weapons, and it is like a hedgehog. At the end of the Clone Wars, and later during the four-year battle with the Confederacy of Independent Systems on the last fortress, the planet Salukami, the Vindicator-class
The Zhe-class heavy cruiser can be said to be very brilliant. As long as it is there, no fighter can get close!
It is precisely because of the existence of the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser that Quat Dynamics Dockyard boldly removed the close-defense turrets from the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer in the design, allowing the battleship to focus on fleet decisive battles.
Because if you want to install close-in defense turrets, they must cover the whole body of the battleship. There are at least dozens of turrets and they must be installed everywhere. This makes the battleship's energy supply system fragmented and branches must be installed everywhere. This will affect the battleship's main gun and protection.
The power of the shield system.
For example, the disaster-class battlecruisers are basically not equipped with other weapons except particle lances. At the same time, most of the battleships of the Principality of Dawn are actually not equipped with too many close-in defense guns, which is the same idea.
However, today, the Vindicator-class heavy cruiser was completely defeated in the confrontation with the Archon-class aircraft carrier.
Michel Unser's fleet is equipped with a total of 20 Defender-class heavy cruisers. According to the design, 20 Defenders can handle at least 2,000 fighter saturation attacks, which is completely sufficient for fleet operations under normal circumstances.
. But now, what they are facing is not a normal battle!
Although after upgrading to Swarm II unmanned interceptors, the number of aircraft carried has been reduced by half, but the number of Swarm II unmanned interceptors carried by each of the 10 Archon-class aircraft carriers is - 10,000!
In other words, what Michel Unser's fleet now needs to face is a full 100,000 drones!!
What is the situation with the 100,000 drones swarming in? Even the screen of the battleship sensor is completely covered by the signals of countless drones, and it is not even possible to see other things on the screen clearly! In order to effectively command operations
, Michel Uncer had to order the drone signals to be blocked on the holographic combat star map, but the signal was blocked, but the damage caused by these 100,000 drones was real!
Only one Imperial-class Star Destroyer was seen fleeing desperately. Around it, there were at least 3,000 drones besieging it. Densely packed particle beams were constantly shining on the warship. Although each beam was very small, it was small.
With so much force, the Imperial-class deflector shield was broken within 5 minutes!
A Vindicator-class heavy cruiser next to it was sailing in sync with the Empire-class ship. The anti-aircraft firepower on the battleship continued to fire, but those unmanned interceptors were extremely flexible. They could even avoid the rotation of many anti-aircraft turrets, allowing
Near-defense against laser beams has failed.
Although drones continued to be shot down, after fighting for a long time, hundreds of drones were destroyed, but the number of interceptors surrounding the Empire-class Star Destroyer did not decrease at all!
The shield was breached, and those interceptors focused all their firepower on the towering bridge of the Imperial-class ship! Even if the Imperial-class captain immediately raised the protective armor plate, it was still to no avail! The armor plate was quickly and continuously destroyed
The Earth's particle beam melted and fell off. Immediately afterwards, the entire bridge was destroyed by countless particle beams, a large amount of flames spurted out, and the Star Destroyer completely lost control!
As for the TIE fighter formation of the Imperial Fleet, there is no one left now!
Without the threat of fighter jets, the First Task Force led by Ling Liang immediately transferred all carrier-based aircraft back and concentrated on dealing with the N-1 starfighter formation that took off from the planet Naboo.
This is another massacre!
When the N-1 starfighter was developed at the time, it had powerful performance that surpassed the times. This is why even 20 years later, the performance of the N-1 starfighter still does not fall behind too far. But it just does not fall behind.
That's all...
The Ghost Fighter, launched at the same time as the N-1 Star Fighter, has now undergone numerous modernizations. The current Ghost Fighter is the G type, which has gone through 8 generations since the A type. Although in the period of the A type, the N-1 Star Fighter
The performance of the fighter plane is far superior to that of the Ghost Fighter, but after 8 generations, the Ghost Fighter can easily crush the N-1 starfighter.
The N-1 star fighter and the Ghost fighter, the Dawn planet and the Naboo planet, this is the difference between having an independent industrial system and not having an independent industrial system.
The reaction on the battlefield was that 400 N-1 starfighters were wiped out without any suspense, while the number of ghost fighters and Viking fighters lost was...zero!
That's right, without the guidance of a large battleship, the N-1 starfighter would not even be able to see the ghost fighter!
After completely destroying the N-1 starfighter, Ling Liang led the First Task Force and began to reorganize, changing from a defensive formation to an offensive formation. With the Titan battleship Xuanwu as the vanguard, all the warships launched an assault!
Now the overall formation of the Imperial Fleet has been completely disrupted, and almost all warships are fighting independently. Under the attack of 100,000 unmanned interceptors, they are simply overwhelmed. Facing the attack of the Dawn Principality warships,
They couldn't even distinguish several turrets to fight back.
However, the Apocalypse-class battleships and Paladin-class battlecruisers will not wait here!