Chapter 297 05.0296: "Anti-Ship Mount"

"Boss! Boss! The stinky shrimps are launching a sneak attack!" shouted the big guy, the green captain's deputy.

"Collect the formation, ignore those lagging geese, and cut through the middle of the shrimp formation!"

"Yes, boss!"

The formation of the greenskin fleet was adjusted again.

The surrounding garbage ships quickly moved closer to the rock, forming a diamond-shaped charge formation. Their anti-aircraft firepower overlapped, greatly improving the efficiency of intercepting torpedoes and bombers.

Facing the oncoming enemy ships, the 25th Gothic Squadron began to turn and circle back in a ∩ shape, giving the slightly damaged left wing a break for repairs, and allowing the right side with an activated automatic loader to face the greenskin fleet, delivering even more intense firepower.

All the fleet's light spears fired at the single junk ship. Although there were adamantium armor plates blocking the front, no matter how large the armor plates were, they could not stop the multiple and repeated cuts of so many light spears.

The bow of the leading garbage ship was hit so hard that its face collapsed, and perhaps its "bridge" was inside. After the third round of salvos penetrated the armor of the monster face, the route of the garbage ship began to become obviously out of control, and it crashed into the garbage ship on the right side of the diamond formation at an angle.

Horatio watched the greenskin's movements.

The war rock following closely behind rudely rammed the out-of-control garbage ship, tearing it into a pile of scattered scrap metal, breaking it into pieces, and pushing it aside to clear the way for the formation to continue charging.

Just by looking at the horrific force of the War Rock hitting the garbage ship, Horatio could imagine the horrific consequences if this thing hit an Imperial Navy cruiser.

Perhaps it would not break the strong adamantine keel in half, but it is entirely possible that one side of the armor belt would be completely dented and several gun crews would lose their combat capability.

Through the air intelligence control system, Horatio discovered that thanks to the efforts of the interception squadron, the enemy aircraft fleet had been reduced by more than half.

Although the threat posed by enemy aircraft to the Starhawk bombers had been reduced, the bulky Starhawk bomber formation still found it difficult to get close to the greenskin fleet.

The tail of the greenskin fleet also began to spew out surging flames at this moment, while emitting thicker and thicker black smoke.

No one knows what they put into the engine to allow such a heavy ship that is not designed for linear acceleration to go so fast.

Faced with the approaching threat of the greenskin fleet charging at an accelerated speed under the firepower of macro-cannons, the "kite tactic" is currently the best and only option for the Gothic 25th Fleet.

Under the coordination of the commodore, the fleet began a coordinated acceleration maneuver.

This is not an easy task. First of all, the commander must be familiar with the maximum acceleration of each ship and the current engine status of each ship.

The limit acceleration of the slowest ship in the formation is taken as the benchmark, and the engine afterburners of all ships are kept the same.

This is the only way to maintain a coordinated speed without disrupting the battle line.

Otherwise, the ships with slow extreme acceleration will be left far behind and become lone prey.

On the other hand, the greenskins have a unified command under the abominable alien named Kaguk.

But the big guys on the garbage ships were already hungry for the approaching prey, and their green-skinned guys had already prepared boarding weapons and the powerful machine gun they called "Big Daka".

They only wanted to board the ship first, burn, kill, loot and fight to their heart's content, rather than eat the leftovers of other big guys.

In the face of such a lack of communication and various ulterior motives, it was no surprise that the greenskin fleet became disconnected during its accelerated charge.

The diamond formation began to disperse, but for the Starhawk bombing formation, although the enemy ships were somewhat dispersed, at this distance, the bulky bodies still found it difficult to break through the 'no man's land' created by the anti-aircraft fire of both sides.

"It takes time to accelerate to the specified speed, but the enemy ships are approaching too fast! We must find a way to stop the enemy fleet!" Lieutenant Sterling reported to the brigadier general through the detection data sent by the lookout department.

"Aviation Department, is there any solution? We need the Imperial Navy to buy us some time to maneuver."

Horatio looked at the parameters in front of him. This was the Thinker array that the Communications Department, with the help of the Mechanical Priest, had linked to the brigade director on Captain Fasha's body and barely converted into an aviation command console. It was not easy to use and there was a delay, but it was barely usable.

The Fury has excellent maneuverability and is much faster than the Starhawk bomber, while also having ground-to-ground and anti-ship capabilities.

In a sense, the Fury is currently the most likely option to destroy an enemy ship's engine with low casualties.

"217 Interceptor Group."

Horatio's voice came from the loudspeaker above the shuttle apron.

"For the next attack, mount the Death Strike Missile. Mission objective: destroy the engine system of the nearest junk ship."

Captain Faxia, who had just returned to the port for repairs, looked at the loudspeaker from which the voice came and replied to Horatio, "Yes, sir, we will complete the mission."

Under the command of the mechanical priest and the blessing of the dangling nano-aromatherapy burner, the death-strike missiles dragged by mechanical slaves entered the shuttle apron.

The names of Empire weapons usually refer to a broad category rather than a specific model.

Just like Fury refers to this type of void interceptor ranging from 70 meters to 40 meters.

The same is true for the Death Straight Missile.

It is used by both the Imperial Naval Aviation and the Astra Militarum.

Although the models and even the appearances are different, the name "Death Strike" is used to refer to this large ground-to-ground and anti-ship missile.

Unlike the version of the Star Army uniform on the Chimera territory, it has 4 boost engines and looks very rough and bulky.

The Navy's Death Strike Missile has the Navy's logo on it, is painted white, and looks very slender.

This is because there is no wind resistance in the void, so there is no need for additional engines to increase the range.

When the Navy fights within the atmosphere, it also launches such weapons directly from the sky.

This saves the process of using a liquid-boosted rocket to launch the missile into the altitude, and then starting the missile's main engine to fly towards the target.

Therefore, the naval version of the Death Strike missile only has the missile body, without an additional liquid booster engine.

This also makes the Imperial Navy's version of the Death Strike missile look more compact and compact, allowing more of them to be hung on the hanging points.

The white paint was the Mechanicus' secret fireproof coating. It was said that a small amount of saints' ashes were added to the coating to prevent the missile from exploding and destroying the entire fighter plane.

Two slaves dragged the missile, and with the help of the implanted special hydraulic mechanical arms, they lifted the huge Death Strike missile one after the other and installed it on the mounting point.

The entire loading process was not long, and the 217th Interceptor Squadron quickly completed the replacement and mounting.

"Pilots, the Emperor is watching you. Complete the mission, and then, come back alive." Horatio's voice was heard by every pilot in the squadron channel.

"Yes, sir, I will live up to the Divine Emperor's wishes!"

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