Chapter 244 Project Gungnir

"Am I seeing this right? This Atlas light cruiser is using a heavy particle cannon to attack the ground?!"

"With such a thick atmosphere on Rubion V, aren't they afraid that the heavy metal particle beam will deflect to their own troops?"

The public channels of the fleets of various companies in orbit have exploded after the shocking attack of the Hermes.

At this time, a 'light spot' that can be directly observed also appeared on the surface of the planet.

After the ballistic solution, the shipboard control personality of each warship quickly reported the landing point of this round of attack to their respective captains.

Ptolemy City Satellite City, 35 kilometers southwest.

This is right in front of a bulge on the ground front.

It's not that no one has thought about using heavy particle cannons to attack the ground.

However, the refraction and scattering caused by the thick atmosphere not only prevent the heavy metal particle jet from hitting the target, but also greatly weaken the power.

When doing similar experiments, the experimental ships of the two countries actually tried to do addition, that is, to increase the energy input to speed up the initial velocity of the heavy metal jet, trying to forcibly burn through the atmosphere to attack.

As a result, the violent heavy metal particles went straight to the grandmother's house and created a hole in the atmosphere that required a long time to repair.

Such a result eventually stopped the military of the two countries from investing in this area.

First, if this kind of attack is carried out by a warship, it is necessary to keep the bow facing the ground for a long time in low orbit, which requires a high attitude control of the ship.

Second, the accuracy of this orbital strike is really impossible to use. The uncontrollable error of nearly 10 kilometers creates the "Schrödinger's attack point".

Of course, this error is better than the charged particle cannon, which has produced the amazing effect of "turning cannon" in atmospheric experiments.

Of course, the most important reason is also because the two countries have entered a period of peace, and each is more focused on its own development and internal stability.

And to quell the rebellion on the planet, it is obviously enough to use a controllable orbital attack ship to "lay eggs", and there is no need to continue to develop in this area.

Therefore, whether it is the Federation or the Star Dragon Empire, the development of orbital strikes, or the entire military field, has actually stagnated for many years.

The combat and training outlines of the troops have basically not been updated too much. Every year, some details are changed over and over again.

"'Gungnir' project, the final actual combat test, the whole project is completed!"

"The attitude stabilization system of the whole ship is normal, and the orbit height deviation is within the controllable range"

"The subsystems of the weapon unit are operating normally. The fusion furnace and energy circuit self-checks are completed, and all indicators are normal"

"The attack landing point is solved, and the deviation from the expected landing point is 5.42 meters."

"The attack effect evaluation is waiting for the ground force to upload"

The ship-borne control personality 'Athena' of the Hermes reported the test results one by one in a sweet female voice.

As part of the 'High Energy Earth Orbit Attack Plan' - the Gungnir project, Athena is also the only ship-borne control personality in the Atlas fleet that has accepted Lilith's 'upgrade' and has relevant auxiliary capabilities.

Her main role is to assist the warship to stabilize its posture during the ground attack, and continuously solve the attack channel to ensure that the attack error is within an acceptable range.

As Cliffs said the words "the test was successful" through the ship-wide broadcast, the entire Hermes ship was boiling.

However, Captain Cliffs was still lost in thought while completing the ship-wide broadcast and commanding the Hermes to return to high orbit.

As an experienced naval captain, he knew very well what the success of this test meant.

Although the current warships need to undergo a lot of modification projects to perform this mission.

But Cliffs knew that after the news and related videos were passed to major military research institutes, this kind of earth orbit strike technology would spread in a maximum of one year.

Maybe it will become the "standard" function of the next generation of warships.

"Pandora's box was opened by us."

When the atmosphere on the Hermes was boiling, on the ground front, both the coalition forces and the imperial forces were shocked by this blow like "the wrath of Thor".

There was even a moment of silence on the entire front.

When four bright beams suddenly appeared in the dark night sky, they seemed to be imprinted on people's retinas. Even if they closed their eyes, they could still vaguely see the attack trajectory that was like a "heavenly punishment".

And the fireball that rose up like a small sun afterwards made all the people who saw this scene in both sides' troops imprinted in their hearts forever.

As mentioned earlier, the kinetic energy of the heavy particle cannon when attacking is a very outrageous number.

Even now that the initial velocity has been reduced, the kinetic energy calculated based on the mass of 2000 grams of bismuth metal is still an astronomical figure.

Not to mention, this is a salvo of four main guns of the light cruiser.

The heavy particle cannon used by HCP has an acceleration track of only 8 meters after it is unfolded.

On the Dragoon-class destroyer, the acceleration track length of the HIPW series heavy particle cannon is 60 meters.

And the heavy particle cannon equipped on the Griffin-class light cruiser such as the Hermes has an acceleration track directly reaching the level of 150 meters, and the diameter of the track is also larger.

When the four main guns on the bow fired at an initial velocity of 500 kilometers per second, the damage caused on the ground was basically equivalent to that of a small-yield tactical nuclear weapon.

Not only was it extremely powerful, but it was also clean and harmless.

As the huge fireball and shock wave that rose into the air slowly disappeared, the commander of this imperial brigade-level combat team also found that the soldier card of an armored combined battalion near the landing point had been marked with a "cross" on the command terminal.

This means that more than 95% of the personnel in this battalion have no detectable vital signs, and the vehicles have also been offline in the data link.

In this case, it is usually believed that this unit has been completely wiped out.

When several other affected imperial battalion-level combat units nearby were still urgently gathering their troops to confirm the damage.

The Atlas mixed composite brigade, which had recovered from the shock, launched a formal attack and impact.

When the various troops bypassed the periphery of the orbital strike kill zone, some vehicle drivers and HCP pilots saw the ground near the landing point had become glass through their respective observation equipment.

There were also armored vehicles, HCPs and other units that were like melted butter.

Although the "sound, light and electricity" effect of the orbital strike just now was extremely shocking, and the damage that was seen with one's own eyes could be said to be full of power.

But when they knew that this orbital attack, like divine punishment, came from their own fleet, the morale of all the people in the mixed synthetic brigade was greatly boosted.

And this counter-charge assault operation was just as Lieutenant Memphis had guessed before. The spearhead of the attack was actually the brigade-affiliated HCP company led by Amber.

5 kilometers away from the armored combined battalion annihilated by the orbital strike, another armored combined battalion under the Imperial Armored Brigade Combat Team was urgently collecting the wounded and shrinking the formation.

Although they were not the target of the orbital strike, the scorching shock wave that swept across still put them in a mess.

Some units close to the attack point also suffered heavy losses.

It was at this moment that the front-line soldiers saw the picture that they would never forget.

In the flames and smoke of the explosion, an HCP with a red light on the head monitor appeared in front of them like a demon.

When the shadows of other HCPs gradually appeared in the smoke and dust, and formed an attack formation and rushed towards the front line in the flashing blue light behind them.

These imperial soldiers finally realized that the HCP of this coalition force had already killed them.

"All units, fire freely! Stop these HCPs!"

When the roar of the front-line commander resounded throughout the communication channel, the imperial army's front line finally became "lively".

Various ballistics, rays and beams swept towards Amber's HCP assault force.

Several imperial fanatics have jumped over the heads of their own mobile infantry, rushing forward with shields, and the electromagnetic rifles in their hands continue to shoot strings of orange-red fire lines.

On their full-circle display, a bunch of high-risk purple-marked HCPs are also marked. The combat assistance AI has marked the relevant models above these bodies based on the information in the database.

Zealot, Dragon Knight, Dwarf Bear, Steppenwolf

This logistical nightmare combination also makes these imperial pilots feel disdainful. This kind of civilian armed forces will not consider any commonality and coordination issues.

In this regard, Amber actually wants to explain that it is not that he does not want to be common, but because the order is too urgent, there is no time to change the equipment for the HCP troops, so they can only use what they have.

"Let's go and kill these miscellaneous troops!"

The commander of the HCP company of the Imperial Armored Combined Battalion said coldly in the communication channel, and then took the lead in manipulating the body to pounce.

"Pay attention to the battle formation and cooperate with the rear fire support"

Before the commander finished speaking, all the combat assistance AIs of the Imperial HCP on this front issued a warning.

When these pilots looked at the source of the warning, they saw that the opposite HCP raised a thick rectangular block on the weapon rack behind it.

At the same time that several small round covers at the front of the rectangular block were ejected, the combat assistance AI also thoughtfully marked the weapon type.

Six-pack 150mm plasma rocket launcher

"Fuck! Evade! Evade!"

When the Imperial pilots, with the cooperation of the attitude control system, urgently used the "step back" to stop the momentum of the charge.

A row of blue "light walls" appeared in front of them.

Just like the defensive tactical hydrogen bombs commonly used by fleets in space, the high brightness of the plasma fireball and the short-term electromagnetic shielding effect caused the combat auxiliary AI of the Imperial HCP to reduce the amount of light entering the cockpit and temporarily stop the detection of the front.

The plasma rockets carried by the HCP on the ground, in addition to attacking fixed positions, are actually difficult to hit in the civil war of the HCP, so in many cases they are used as "high-power smoke bombs" on the spot

"Pay attention to defense, the opponent may fire a salvo after the plasma fireball ends!"

While the Imperial commander spoke, these HCP pilots set up shields and increased the power of the deflection field.

But at this moment, a series of explosions that broke the sound barrier sounded, and then the Imperial pilots saw two teams of HCPs with swords and shields raised, rushing over smoothly on both sides of the light wall like mercury pouring out of the ground, like gladiators.

It was not until this time that the Imperial HCP commander realized that his troops were facing a group of lunatics.

A group of lunatics who skipped the stage of mutual fire and rushed directly into the battle line for hand-to-hand combat.