Ye Han couldn't help but suddenly realized that the aliens' back-up force was here. According to this theory, the light bugs were actually decoys sent by the aliens. The purpose was to lead the human fleet to the vicinity of Callisto and then release the insect drones.
Let’s use a mechanized naval tactic.
Luo Qi was dumbfounded: "There are more light bugs, right? How many resources are needed to feed so many bugs?"
"No matter how much it is, it's more cost-effective than raising a battleship." Ye Han couldn't help but swear: "This is trying to compare quantity with quality. His grandma's and dog's are really willing to give up!"
Everyone invariably thought about the scene of insect drones besieging the battleship. Luo Qi said: "How many insect drones can an alien battleship carry?"
Seeing that Ye Han had no intention of speaking, He Lu whispered: "If there is not one thousand, there is eight hundred, just a lot more."
The gap between a bug machine and an alien battleship is like a fighter jet and a space battleship.
How much does it cost to build a space battleship? Calculated based on pre-war currency values, the cost of the Leishan was about 60 billion, and it was the result of large-scale production that reduced the cost.
This is only a heavy destroyer. The cost of an aerospace carrier is four to five times that of a destroyer, which is maintained at around 300 billion. And it is only the cost of the mothership itself, not including the aircraft on the ship.
The cost of building air and space fighters is much lower, with a cost price of just over 400 million. In other words, one heavy destroyer is only equivalent to 150 air and space fighters...
Of course, this comparison is only for the convenience of calculation. The wartime system greatly reduced manufacturing costs. Whether it is battleships or fighter planes, the actual cost is not that much. Otherwise, Beidu would have gone bankrupt long ago, and it would not be possible to fight like it is now.
It is even more impossible to continue manufacturing warships until now.
In fact, after excluding the bonuses in various aspects such as technology and labor, it is absolutely no problem to produce a thousand fighter jets with the resources to produce one battleship, and there is still a surplus.
Talking about aliens on the other hand, aliens are not as dependent on minerals as humans. No matter what they build, the cost is much lower than that of humans. They can almost replace the insect machine with the weight of an alien battleship.
From this perspective, He Lu's calculations are definitely not exaggerated, but rather conservative.
After hearing this, Luo Qi muttered: "One ship is eight hundred, ten ships are eight thousand, one hundred ships is eighty thousand... Oh my god!" He couldn't make the calculation at all.
There are tens of thousands of people, boundless, and the insect machines swarming towards the international fleet are overwhelming. There are definitely more than one hundred and eighty thousand.
Thinking that these insect machines were only equivalent to more than a hundred alien battleships, Luo Qi felt a sense of collapse and powerlessness.
Others are not much better. The international fleet only has a total of more than 80 battleships. On average, each battleship can be assigned a thousand or hundreds of insect drones.
"Can this battle still be fought?" Luo Qi said blankly.
"It's hard to say." Ye Han frowned, "We have to see how to fight."
After he said this, he stopped talking. Everyone else also fell silent, and everyone turned their attention to the battlefield.
The insect swarm flew out from behind Callisto, and then dispersed as it flew, gradually dividing into nine groups, each of which corresponded to an aircraft carrier battle group.
At present, the number ratio between the insect swarm and the international fleet is more than 10,000 to nine, but insect planes continue to fly out from behind Callisto, constantly strengthening the strength of the insect swarm.
After the insect planes were divided into nine groups, they did not rush forward in a swarm, but continued to disperse during the flight. Finally, they became hundreds of groups, rushing towards the target from different directions, approaching multiple points to attack from multiple lines.
What surprised Ye Han even more was that each insect machine was dispersed rather than clustered together. It is conceivable that if encountering a counterattack by an international fleet, this formation can minimize casualties.
The tactics of the insect plane reminded Ye Han of a skirmisher line...well, an aerial skirmisher line!
The movements of the insect drones were not very fast, but there was a certain distance between them and the international fleet, so they completed all the planned tactics very calmly. At this time, the insect drone that had made the most progress still had a range of tens of thousands of kilometers from the human warships.
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Facing the menacing swarm of insects, Halsey decisively ordered the fleet to avoid it, and all battle groups immediately moved away from Callisto to delay the encounter between the two sides.
At the same time, Halsey ordered each battle group to open fire with all their strength and try their best to weaken the insect swarm.
After receiving the order, each battle group immediately launched missiles at the insect swarm they were facing, and then adjusted the attitude of the warships one after another, and sprayed super shotguns all over their heads and faces.
Ye Han didn't find it strange at all. Although the concept of super shotguns originated from Leishan, both Beiyuezhou and the International Base were very concerned about the situation in the asteroid belt. They discovered that Leishan used debris clouds and then developed super shotguns.
Not surprisingly.
Besides, although there are conflicts between Beidu and Washington, their positions on the issue of aliens are highly consistent. Even if the international fleet does not take this matter to heart, Beidu will take the initiative to provide - as long as the aliens can be dealt with, no matter how high it is,
If the cost is affordable, what does a new weapon mean?
The shotgun is commonly known as a sprayer. The super shotgun fired can be called a super sprayer. Countless steel balls hit the incoming insect machine head-on.
After a period of flight, the missile entered the range of the insect aircraft first. But in just a short moment, the originally silent insect aircraft suddenly opened fire. Countless thin lights blocked the path of the missile, and the battlefield was almost crisscrossed by criss-crossing thin lights.
Filled with light, a massive amount of thin light surrounded the insect swarm like an iron barrel, cutting incoming missiles one by one, and then chopped them into pieces, without giving the missiles any chance to detonate.
Some of the missiles detonated their fuel when they were cut open by the thin light. Some exploded instantly, and some erupted into a fierce flame, but most of them remained unknown and turned into a pile of useless fragments silently.
The first round of missiles had just been intercepted, and the first round of shotguns had arrived. The appearance of the insect swarm suddenly changed. The originally charging insect aircraft became a mess and flew out in various dazzling maneuvering trajectories, trying their best to avoid the incoming attacks.
Steel balls.
It is simply unrealistic to intercept the steel balls, and the only way to avoid them is to use high-speed maneuvers.
In order to reduce the chance of being shot, all insect drones maneuvered to face the human fleet, and none of the insect drones exposed their sides, which were more vulnerable to being shot.
This scene reminded Ye Han of the original No. 5 star field. It was the first time that the Leishan faced the insect machine. He never expected that the insect machine could fly up and down in the debris cloud and pass directly through the debris cloud.
past.
But the power of super shotgun shells is directly related to speed. The fragment cloud originally came from artillery shells, and the steel ball cloud now comes from electromagnetic guns. The speed of these two weapons is not at the same level at all. The insect swarm can avoid the shell fragments, but it cannot avoid the super
Shotgun, this has been proven in previous battles.
