After the order was issued, each ship immediately released its fighter planes.
Due to the special environment of space, the ejection mechanism of the space carrier is also special. To put it simply, the hangar is like a magazine, the aircraft is like a bullet, and the channel for releasing the fighter jets is like a gun barrel. The entire release process is different from that of an automatic rifle.
Not too much, just much slower, flying one in 1.2 seconds on average.
Each space carrier is equipped with multiple "automatic rifles", ranging from a dozen sets to seven or eight sets.
The large group of fighter jets left the ship at high speed, which indeed attracted the attention of the insect swarm. The thin light that was originally scattered immediately focused on the space carrier, and other warships got a brief respite.
But the massive amount of thin light almost swamped the space carrier. Many fighter planes were destroyed by the thin light that shrouded the mother ship just as they left the ship. Dozens and hundreds of fighter planes exploded one after another, and the ships had to temporarily suspend their flights.
Even if it stopped flying, the thin light would still focus on the space carrier. It seemed likely that it would concentrate its firepower to kill the carrier first, and then attack other warships.
The distance between the two sides continued to shrink, and the space carrier had no time to evacuate. Now Halsey couldn't sit still, gritted his teeth, and ordered each ship to release a smoke screen to cover the fleet.
After receiving the order, each ship immediately launched smoke bombs as quickly as possible. In just over ten seconds, the entire international fleet was enveloped in smoke screens.
The smoke screen cut off the sight of both sides, and the originally fierce confrontation suddenly came to an end.
The swarm of insects still fired persistently at the smoke screens, and each smoke screen pointed at a warship. If these warships remained at their original positions, the chance of being hit by the thin light was extremely high.
However, the international fleet is very experienced, and the first thing each ship does after releasing smoke is to move its position.
The international fleet has not completely ceased fire, and lasers cannot be used, but missiles and artillery shells are fine, as well as super shotguns and artillery-launched missiles.
In order to cover artillery shells and missiles, the international fleet continued to fire smoke bombs after the smoke screen blocked the line of sight, until the space between the enemy and ourselves was completely filled with smoke screens.
However, Halsey soon received a report that all warships that fired guns were targeted by the swarm, even if they were covered by smoke screens.
However, a warship that does not fire cannons but only launches missiles does not have this direction problem. Halsey immediately realized that the insect swarm can determine the warship's position through a straight trajectory.
With the idea of believing something to be true rather than something that is not true, Halsey informed the entire fleet of this speculation and asked all ships to stop using direct firepower and use missiles to attack the enemy.
After each ship complied, the effect was astonishing. The insect swarm could no longer figure out the position of the warship. Although it was still emitting thin light, it was a blind shot without a target. The occasional hits were all a blind cat and a rat.
Halsey breathed a long sigh of relief. Now he only needs to wait until the Jizhou fleet angers the aliens. When the aliens withdraw from the insect swarm, the international fleet can take the opportunity to follow up and chase the insect swarm's ass.
Beat them up.
At this moment, the radar suddenly emitted a piercing scream. Halsey almost jumped up and was stunned.
He was very familiar with such sirens, which usually meant that something was approaching the warship at high speed.
"What the hell happened?" Halsey growled angrily.
"General, the insect machines are going crazy, they are faster than missiles!"
"Are you crazy? How can a bug machine be faster than a missile?" Halsey didn't believe it at all, but when his eyes fell on the radar screen, he was stunned.
On the radar, countless light spots representing insect aircraft were rushing over at extremely high speeds. Halsey was stunned for a few seconds before suddenly waking up: "What's going on?"
"I don't know. It suddenly became like this just now. It's like being on a stimulant. Yes, it's a stimulant!"
Halsey roared loudly: "You just took a stimulant, intercept it for me, intercept it, intercept it with all your strength, quickly!"
With an order, the international fleet opened fire again, all available weapons were deployed, and even close-in defense artillery joined the battle.
The smoke screen blocks the line of sight but cannot block the radar. The positions of all insect aircraft are under the control of the international fleet.
However, there were too many insect machines and their speeds were astonishingly fast. Halsey had already foreseen the development of the war situation.
As expected, not long after, he received a report from the combat staff: "General, the Farragut was hit by a bug plane!"
Halsey said calmly: "How about the battleship?"
"It's okay, it hit a piece of intact reactive armor," the staff officer said.
Ever since the insect-fighting aircraft hit the Leishan, Beidu and Washington began to study countermeasures, and the final conclusion was still to strengthen the battleship's armor. Soon after, the first ship-based reactive armor was born in Beiyuezhou.
Nowadays, this thing has become the standard equipment of the space fleet, not only in the international fleet, but also in the Jizhou fleet, and even the Nanzhou fleet is no exception.
The Nanzhou Fleet Group had the opportunity to use this device in the Battle of Ceres, but considering that early exposure of reactive armor may arouse the alert of aliens, if the aliens find countermeasures in advance, it may affect the entire expedition plan, so the Nanzhou Fleet Group
Reactive armor has always been stored in transport ships, but until now there has been no chance to use it.
Starting from the Farragut, the warships of the International Fleet were successively collided by insect aircraft. Most of the collisions were blocked by reactive armor. There were only a few exceptions. They either hit a location without reactive armor, or the reactive armor was in place.
Damaged in previous battles.
However, Halsey is not worried at all, because the ordinary armor under the reactive armor is also reinforced, and its thickness far exceeds the impact penetration depth of the insect aircraft. Even if the corrosive substances secreted by the insect aircraft are taken into account, it still cannot penetrate the armor.
But Halsey soon stopped laughing, because after the bug machine was nailed to the armor, it didn't secrete corrosive substances and burn through the armor. Instead, it fired a thin light against the armor and cut the armor with the thin light!
Is this life-threatening?
Halsey jumped up like a cat with exploded hair: "Shoot each other, shoot each other to kill the bug machine——"
He really wanted to ask where the Jizhou fleet was and how long they had to wait to launch an attack.
At this time, the Jizhou fleet has already rushed to the vicinity of Callisto and will launch an attack in a few minutes.
In order to save time, the Jizhou fleet dispersed in advance. Each battle group was responsible for one direction. The action plan was similar to the plan of the international fleet, except that there were four less battle groups. Unless the aliens could also come up with a batch of insect planes to intercept
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Can the aliens take it out? Of course not, because not long after the Jizhou fleet launched its operation, the aliens brought back a batch of insect drones from the battlefield, with a total number of about 20,000.
If there are still bug drones on Callisto, do aliens need to weaken their forces on the battlefield?
The aliens brought back not only the swarm of insects, but a little further away, the alien fleet that had never been seen also appeared, also rushing towards Callisto at full speed.
In addition, those light bugs that survived also emerged from the ground and were gathering at a certain location on the ground.
