bdsm-fiction Chapter 134 Aerial Strike Completed
Chapter 134 Aerial Strike Completed
When Lorraine arrived at the entrance of the archives, the security department had just finished assembling, with more than forty strong, muscular young men with buzz cuts lined up in three neat rows.
With an external enemy at hand, Lorraine cut straight to the point, sharing the current situation with them and then announcing the tasks they needed to carry out.
Faced with powerful alien life forms and an extremely dangerous transport mission, these warriors did not back down, but instead resolutely accepted the mission.
Lu Lin and Bai Jin, who had just arrived, saluted the brave and fearless soldiers.
Afterwards, Lorraine and Platinum led the soldiers to the dock, drove the trucks out of the transport ship's cargo hold, and let them use these trucks to refresh their driving skills and familiarize themselves with the vehicles' performance.
After confirming that the soldiers were conducting their training in an orderly manner, Lorraine returned to the flagship and inspected the production status of the unmanned combat group.
Upon entering the production center, Luo Lin saw Ouyang Nian looking worried in front of the data board.
"What's wrong?"
Ouyang Nian handed the data panel to Luo Lin with a worried expression.
After taking the data panel, Lorraine discovered that it displayed a materials list for the Sea Knight's refit plan, and the steel inventory on the list had fallen below the warning line.
The entire unmanned combat group consumed half of the steel needed to refit the Sea Knight.
Looking at the list marked in red, Lorraine scratched his head and contacted Guo Zhiwei by radio to inquire about the situation at the steel mill in the suburbs of the East Coast.
After learning about the steel plant's situation, Lorraine patted Ouyang Nian on the shoulder, telling her not to worry.
"Several workers in the camp escaped from the steel plant. According to their description, there was still a large amount of steel stored in the steel plant's warehouse, and they had issued a shutdown order through the main control system when they evacuated."
"Without external factors, the steel plant can resume production after simple maintenance and cleaning."
"However, before we can resolve the material shortage for the Sea Knight, there is another problem that urgently needs to be solved."
Upon hearing this, Ouyang Nian's emotions, which had just calmed down, tensed up again, and he looked nervously at Luo Lin.
Lorraine spread his hands, feigning helplessness.
"We currently lack heavy-duty trucks, so we can't transport this steel back."
Upon hearing this, Ouyang Nian was stunned for a moment, then his face flushed instantly, and he raised his fist and chased after the fleeing Luo Lin.
While dodging Ouyang Nian's fists, which were as big as sandbags, Lorraine tried to comfort him.
"Isn't this a chance for you to relax? Why are you getting angry?"
"Mind your own business!"
Ouyang Nian grew increasingly irritable, completely oblivious to the direction Lorraine had fled.
After a five-minute chase, Lorraine finally escaped to the hydroponic farm.
At this moment, Ouyang Nian, who was blinded by rage, followed Luo Lin into the hydroponic farm and saw her older sister with a "kind" expression on her face.
Just as Ouyang Nian was about to turn and run away, he heard his older sister calling out to him.
"Ouyang Nian"
She had already turned her back, but when she heard her sister call her full name, she knew something bad was about to happen.
Like a robot, she stiffly turned around little by little, not forgetting to glare at Lorraine who was smiling as she walked past him.
After Lorraine gently closed the gate of the hydroponic farm, she faintly heard Ouyang Nian's screams.
By the time he squeezed into the cockpit, the drone's ammunition had just been loaded.
After confirming that the reconnaissance aircraft was still over the enemy squadron, Lorraine initiated the strike procedure, inputting the enemy images transmitted back by the reconnaissance aircraft into the loitering munition.
[Ammunition loaded, target identified, ready for takeoff.]
"Clear for takeoff. Begin strike mission."
As Lorraine gave the order, the wings of the cormorant drone on the deck slowly unfolded, and the ducted fans began to rotate.
"Buzz—"
The drone, fully loaded with ammunition, slowly took off and, guided by the reconnaissance aircraft, flew toward the advancing enemy squad.
After flying at high speed for half an hour, the Cormorant drone, fully loaded with anti-tank loitering munitions, had reached above the enemy squad.
The two drones exchanged information in the air, inputting the enemy images captured by the electro-optical turret into the anti-tank loitering munition that was forming a self-organizing network.
[Loitering munitions self-organizing network complete, attack path set, strike commences.]
After receiving the message from its onboard computer, the Cormorant UAV began to adjust its flight path, descend in altitude, and switch to its attack route.
Upon reaching the attack start point, the bottom hatch of the Cormorant UAV's cargo bay opened, and the composite pylon slowly extended out of the cargo bay. After inputting the ignition command to the loitering munitions, the pylon unlocked and dropped twenty-four loitering munitions.
Propelled by a propeller at the tail of the missile, the loitering munition with its wings spread out hovers in the air, using a self-organizing network to allow each munition to identify its target.
Once all 24 loitering munitions had locked onto their targets, they swooped down from all directions.
When the loitering munitions dived to 3 kilometers, the small and medium-sized enemy units leading the attack realized the danger of the approaching attack.
One second later, its two 23mm electromagnetic cannons on its back began spitting shells into the sky, shooting down a diving anti-tank loitering munition.
After the explosion, the loitering munitions began to maneuver erratically to evade ground-based air defense fire.
At the same time, smaller individuals within the group also raised the electromagnetic guns on their arms and fired at the diving loitering munitions.
Due to its high firepower density and accuracy, all six loitering munitions in one direction were shot down within a few seconds.
Through the self-organizing network system, the remaining 17 loitering munitions were scattered and evenly distributed in the enemy's upper hemisphere, using a more dispersed formation to reduce the enemy's air defense efficiency.
At the same time, the Cormorant drone in the sky began to dive and dropped 12 more loitering munitions at an altitude of 4 meters, bringing its dive speed to 400 kilometers per hour.
The loitering munition successfully reduced the enemy's air defense efficiency by using the modified formation, but this formation also caused the enemy to disperse and form a ring formation on the land, creating cross-air firepower.
As the countdown to contact decreased, the loitering munition entered the low-altitude dense air zone, and its dive speed began to decrease slowly. During this process, the enemy concentrated its firepower and detonated several more loitering munitions in mid-air.
At this point, the second batch of 12 loitering munitions switched to vertical attack mode. With the help of gravity, the diving speed of this batch of loitering munitions gradually increased, getting closer and closer to the first batch of loitering munitions.
As the countdown ended and rapidly ticked away, the enemy, unable to intercept all the loitering munitions, began to move quickly in an attempt to shake off their pursuit.
又是两朵火光在低空炸开，第1批投放的24枚巡飞弹此时只剩下11枚，但是第2批垂直俯冲的巡飞弹凭藉420公里每小时的俯冲速度，全部到达了敌方上空400米处。
Four seconds later, a series of flashes lit up the ground. When the smoke cleared, no intact, movable enemy units could be seen on the ground.
The reconnaissance drone circled in the air for a period of time, and only after confirming that all the enemy forces had been killed did it return to base with another drone.
The two drones slowly returned to the flagship at cruising speed. Before they landed, Cleveland had already begun analyzing the combat information they transmitted and optimizing the unmanned combat group based on this information.
After the two drones came to a stop on the deck, Cleveland had already calculated a combat report and an optimization plan for the unmanned combat swarm.
[Operation Report]
Analysis shows that the maximum air-to-air interception altitude for large enemy units is approximately 7 kilometers, while the effective air-to-air interception altitude is between 4 and 5 kilometers.
When a dense formation is used, the enemy's air defense efficiency is extremely high, with an interception rate of 70% and a strike efficiency reduced to 15%.
When employing multiple strikes, the effectiveness of the second and third strikes will increase to 92%.
[Recommendation: 1. When using air units to strike enemy small and medium-sized units, it is recommended to use high-yield cluster bombs with mobile penetration capabilities.]
[2. When attacking medium to large enemy units, it is recommended to use saturation attacks. If precision attacks are required, please use a large number of units to block the enemy's firing channels.]
[Optimization Solution]
To improve strike efficiency and combat group survivability, unmanned combat groups need to be equipped with aerial smoke screen release systems and smoke grenade launchers, as well as an increased number of logistics units.
To ensure full aerial visibility, the flight altitude of the CH-2 light reconnaissance UAV needs to be increased.
Cleveland subsequently provided a list of materials needed to optimize the unmanned combat swarm.
After confirming that the required materials were sufficient, Lorraine approved the optimization plan, but at the cost of a shortage of thirty to forty drivers.