Because with the continuous updating of naval equipment, the existing tactics and systems of the fourth civilization's navy are bound to undergo huge changes. Therefore, the entire fourth civilization's navy of 500,000 officers and soldiers 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 been carrying out. Because compared to the Galactic Republic, the Fourth Civilization is too small and there is no way to compare with the Galactic Republic in terms of fleet size, so they need to think about
It's about how to maximize the power of a limited and small fleet.
And this idea is fleet integration.
As we all know, in space battlefields, because the coverage area of the battlefield often has a multi-dimensional width of tens of light seconds or even several light minutes, so in actual battles, the distance between each warship will be very large.
What often happens on the battlefield is that a warship is being besieged by enemy fighter jets, while other warships of your own 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 battleship and allow each battleship to complete all operations independently.
What was born from this idea was a series of battleships such as the Jaeger-class battlecruiser and later the Imperial-class Star Destroyer. Even if these battleships are isolated from the fleet formation, they can complete all battles independently, even if they are surrounded.
Not afraid either.
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 warships with almost no shortcomings.
Of course, strictly speaking, there are disadvantages, that is, they are expensive, so this kind of battleship cannot be used by the fourth civilization.
But in other words, the fact that it is expensive is not a shortcoming of the battleship, but a shortcoming of your fourth civilization.
Therefore, the Fourth Civilization's selection of battleships is basically very targeted, that is, those that are outstanding in one aspect and would rather tolerate mediocrity in other aspects.
However, now that the war has started, this kind of combat method in which all arms work together is no longer feasible. Because the Galactic Republic is also constantly evolving and upgrading, and the number of Jaeger-class battlecruisers is increasing, it will only be possible in the future.
What's more, when each battleship formation with almost no shortcomings in single-ship combat capabilities becomes larger and larger, this has 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 Supreme Command and the Research Department of the Fourth Civilization is fleet integration.
Every battleship in the Galactic Republic is very powerful, but no matter how powerful a battleship is, it can't compare to a fleet. So as long as every battleship of the opponent can compete with its entire fleet, it can gain enough advantages.
In other words, for example, when a Jaeger-class battlecruiser of the Republic attacks 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 cooperative role.
Then this will do.
But the question is, how to do it?
Later, inspired by Army Lieutenant General Cheng Shitao, who was not injured at that time, the Navy Department of the Fourth Civilization finally proposed such a set of combat theories-fleet integration.
The first step in integration is to integrate the fleet's shields.
Connect the shields of the entire fleet into one and play a complementary role. If battleship A is attacked by concentrated fire, battleship B, which is temporarily under no pressure, can project its own shield on battleship A to strengthen battleship A.
protective capabilities.
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 achieved step by step.
The technical basis for realizing the integration of fleet shields is the several special warships of the Traders' Emergency Alliance in "Original Sins of a Solar Empire" currently included in the mothership database.
It can actually be seen from the database that in "Original Sins of a Solar Empire", the Traders Emergency Alliance is also thinking about how to use the overall combat capabilities of the fleet, because compared to their enemies, the Vasaris, their
Battleships are very backward.
So they were also thinking about this issue, but they didn't do 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 concept of integrated fleet shields lies in the new warship that the Fourth Civilization has just developed - the Dunov-class battlecruiser, and the secret plan that the Given people are still intensively developing and manufacturing, Ankelon.
plan.
The Dunov-class battlecruiser is 1,020 meters long, 310 meters wide, with a crew of 2,700, plus a 500-man Marine Corps and a fleet of up to 48 Phantom fighters. The overall battleship looks much shorter, thicker and stockier than the Cole-class battlecruiser.
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This battlecruiser is equipped with 4 powerful heavy X-ray turrets, 6 medium X-ray turrets as secondary guns, and is equipped with 16 sets of laser close-in defense systems and 4 sets of scattering anti-aircraft missile systems. In addition to 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 at all comparable to its overall size, which 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 engine installed is very large, almost filling nearly one-third of the space behind the battleship. This arrangement causes the Dunov-class battlecruiser to
Apart from 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 Dunov-class antimatter engine can actually drive a 3,000-meter-class giant ship!
And this powerful energy supply cannot be used up by the X-ray turrets on the battleship alone, and the same is true for the shield capacitor. Now, whether it is the technology of "Star Wars" or the technology of "Sins of a Solar Empire", energy utilization
The 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 also only has so much capacitance.
So if you want to increase the power and shield, you can install more turrets and more shield capacitors, which requires additional volume.
Therefore, in this era, a battleship of about 1,000 meters is the most appropriate size. If you build a battleship of 3,000 to 5,000 meters, the combat effectiveness is not necessarily higher than that of a battleship of more than 1,000 meters. For example, the 2,500-meter Prosecutor-class is currently being transformed by the Galactic Republic.
, 4000-meter Governor-class and 8000-meter Commander-class battleships, so what if you are bigger? The turret model used is still the same as that of the Jaeger-class, it just has more turrets.
Actual battle examples are also true. Since the war started, these three types of ships have been used many times, but there has never been one time when they were not hoisted up to fight. Therefore, it is not unreasonable for the Republic to never use these three ships when it fights offensive wars.
The Dunov-class battlecruiser is completely different!