From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 426: As an asteroid mining base, it is normal to have decomposition rays
"The enemy has switched to quantum encrypted communications and blue-green lasers. Now the electronic warfare virus attack won't be so effective. We can only try to interfere with their radar. However, once we enter visual engagement range, even if the radar is interfered, it won't have much impact."

In the core command room of A. Bawa Ku, Guterres frowned as he watched the approaching joint fleet.

Although the internal communications of the Combined Fleet were also subject to certain restrictions, it was still not seriously damaged and the real threat of more than 1800 warships still existed.

Moreover, the siege of the asteroid base was not complicated at all. The enemy commander only had to convey simple instructions, command the fleet to a suitable position, and then order an attack. In most cases, the subsequent battles were decided by each fleet on its own.

Guterres also knows that the training levels of most of the corporate fleets of these military-industrial complexes are not high. Even if the opposing fleet commander wants to conduct joint command operations, these ships with disorganized organizations may not be able to complete his orders.

Instead of trying some fancy moves, it would be better to give the opponent a good "turtle punch".

"The shortcomings of their low training level and poor joint combat capability have, in this case, caused them the least impact."

The corners of Guterres' mouth twitched involuntarily. The current situation was still a bit too abstract no matter how you looked at it.

The only good news was that the enemy fleet's maneuvering trajectory was exactly as predicted before the war, attempting to bypass the extremely wide and densely distributed asteroid debris belt and move towards the only 'gap' left by Atlas.

Thinking of this, the Vice Admiral of the Federation Navy activated a three-dimensional model of an asteroid base, then adjusted the angle to present the side that the Joint Fleet was trying to bypass in front of him.

On the rock wall covered with dense traces of excavation, an "equilateral triangle" with a side length of 5 kilometers occupies a part of the area somewhat abruptly.

Judging from the alloy base color that has been revealed without the need for surface plating, this thing should have been completed not long ago.

Guterres didn't know what this thing was because Amber and the others didn't reveal much to him and Van Fleet, so he only knew that this thing should be some kind of weapon of mass destruction.

According to the combat plan, when the joint fleet is forced to go around in this direction, it will be attacked by this weapon of mass destruction. At the same time, the three ambushed unmanned fleets will also launch attacks simultaneously, and Guterres will also assist in command at this time.

As for Van Fleet, who came from the army, he is of no use in this kind of space warfare for the time being, so Amber's arrangement is that in extreme cases, after the asteroid base is invaded, Van Fleet will organize the defensive operations.

Although the two knew that the reason why Amber did this was because several main commanders of Atlas were on Pella IV at the moment, so the A. Bava. Ku asteroid base lacked relevant commanders and temporarily brought the two of them in to deal with the emergency, but no matter what, it was not easy to achieve this level of trust under such circumstances.

"The combined fleet is expected to enter the attack range in one hour and five minutes!" The tactical information coordinator of the asteroid base reported as he displayed a countdown on the screen.

The tactical information coordinator's words basically explain the current state of space warfare - the observation distance and the effective strike distance are extremely unbalanced.

In the 'clean' universe, both warring parties can detect each other's traces at a distance of more than 100,000 or 200,000 kilometers. If a large fleet is networked and releases probes to assist in reconnaissance, it is not uncommon to capture an enemy fleet 350,000 kilometers away, which is nearly one light second away.

But at such a distance, the heavy particle cannon, which plays a major role in the battle, has an average speed of 3000 kilometers per second and takes more than seconds to attack a target kilometers away. The attack delay is even more exaggerated than that of battleships firing at each other in the ocean in ancient times.

Moreover, there is no such thing as "chasing and shooting" with directed energy weapons. As long as the opponent detects the firing in advance and slightly adjusts the trajectory to make an evasive maneuver, they can easily avoid the shooting of the heavy particle cannon - this is without considering how much killing effect the heavy metal particle jet can still have after flying 350,000 kilometers.

At the current level of human technology, the only effective attack at ultra-long distances is to use near-light-speed weapons such as high-energy lasers and charged particle cannons. However, the ultra-long attack distance also has a great impact on the accuracy and power of the irradiation. Not to mention that a very slight change in the angle of the ship's attack will cause a huge deviation in the irradiation focus. Even if it is a real "God of War Gunner" with a hit level of EX, the effect of the attack may not be satisfactory.
Therefore, at least in the world constructed by "Starry Sky OL", in fleet battles in space, both sides will begin to make continuous exploratory maneuvers after discovering each other from a long distance, to see if they can obtain a more advantageous attack position.

After a relatively long period of maneuvering, when both sides are within the optimal attack range, the main guns will confront each other with shields and armor, and the fleet commander will face a simple math problem regarding the total power of both sides.

Guterres glanced at the positions of the other three Atlas fleets on the star map. They were located in a space area 20 minutes away from the asteroid base.

After seeing this combat deployment before, the Vice Admiral of the Federal Navy had guessed that these three fleets were most likely the three unmanned fleets that defected on the battlefield.

After all, when they were on Pyra IV, Atlas's combat fleet had basically adopted an 'ALL IN' attitude.

But now, not much time has passed since the battle of Pella IV. This would tell the Vice Admiral that Atlas had assembled three more fleets in such a short time. He would definitely not believe it.

Every minute and every second before the official exchange of fire was extremely torturous for both sides. Fortunately, more than an hour was not a long time, and after 40 minutes, the Combined Fleet had adjusted its position and began to approach the pirate fleet from two divisions of the celestial sphere at the same time.

Soon, the combined fleet began to launch a large number of plasma torpedoes and missiles. These weapons were easy to intercept but had to be intercepted. Although it was generally difficult for them to achieve great results, they were used to attract the enemy to allocate some of their directed energy weapons for interception, thus completing their mission.

On the other hand, on the A.Bava.Ku side, a large number of missile silos hidden under the rock wall were also opened. Missiles and plasma torpedoes were released one after another like flowers scattered from the sky, and flew along the preset trajectory towards the side of the combined fleet.

Because in the previous battle of Pella IV, it was through the experiment on Guterres that Atlas' equipment research and development department confirmed one thing, that is, the plasma torpedo with stealth configuration and radar-absorbing materials has a much higher concealment effect than everyone imagined.

Perhaps because plasma torpedoes are considered a cheap consumable by most people, no one has ever thought about improving the technical level and manufacturing cost of this weapon, which has resulted in the low versatility of traditional plasma torpedoes for a long time.

But now, with the emergence of plasma torpedoes with stealth configuration and further improved concealment, there have been some new changes in the usage scenarios of this weapon.

At this moment, those more powerful anti-ship missiles were undisguisedly rushing to the front, attracting the attention of most air defense ships, and were basically intercepted.

However, the stealth plasma torpedoes following behind them at a certain distance maintained a very loose spacing and slowly penetrated into the outer air defense circle of the Combined Fleet without attracting their attention.

Because most of the air defense commanders were busy directing the air defense weapons groups to deal with the extremely conspicuous anti-ship missiles captured by radar and infrared detection sensors.

The attention of everyone else on the bridge was drawn to something else.

Directly in front of the fleet, the abrupt metal triangle on the Atlas asteroid base was slowly opening.

At the same time, George, the head miner of Atlas, was sitting nervously in a highly guarded space in the core area, with the 'core control component' of a large mining and refining core floating behind him.

"Mining Operations Department, disassemble the ray generator and start self-test!"

(End of this chapter)