ATPnovel Chapter 247 The Artillery Bombardment Begins
Chapter 247 The Artillery Bombardment Begins
As the countdown to the completion of the sonar buoy deployment dwindled, Lorraine ordered the main and secondary guns of each ship to begin producing plasma gas to fill the gas chambers.
The moment the encirclement was complete, Xu Ling controlled the flagship to activate its afterburner, while Lorraine and Platinum were tightly strapped into their seats by the retracting seatbelts.
As it moved forward, the flagship slightly increased its altitude, leaving itself enough room to maneuver.
At this moment, the fleet maintained an inverted triangular formation. From a horizontal perspective, the two escort ships were sailing 400 meters diagonally in front of the flagship, while from a z-axis perspective, the two escort ships were slightly lower than the flagship.
When the ships spotted the biological warship on the sea surface, the plasma-filled chambers opened, propelling the shells into the range of the heavy artillery.
With the acceleration of countless electromagnetic coils, the muzzle velocity of all the shells reached 8 kilometers per second.
Almost simultaneously, two 1200mm shells and one 2100mm shell were launched into the bio-warship.
Immediately afterwards, the shape of the bio-warship underwent slight deformation, and dazzling flames shot out from the opening.
接下来各舰的副炮和380毫米电磁炮全力开火，将8枚600毫米穿甲高爆弹和30枚380毫米穿甲弹轰向了那艘生物战舰。
Immediately afterwards, the two frigates began to turn to the left and right. During the turn, the frigates also launched four drones and 2000 mm heavy anti-ship missiles stored in the catapult compartment.
When the ship turned completely sideways, the chaff launchers on the sides fired a series of specially made smoke grenades, successfully obscuring the shapes of the three warships.
These specially manufactured smoke bombs contain a certain amount of aluminum foil strips and some highly diffusing prismatic glass, which can interfere with the opponent's radar signals and scatter the opponent's lasers.
As expected, more than ten lasers shot out from the remaining hull of the enemy ship. After passing through the thick smoke screen, only one extremely thin laser struck the ship's mirror armor.
[Flagship E Zone 1038 and 0924: The mirror armor of these items experienced localized heat damage (26.2%), but the armor itself remained undamaged.]
【2001号舰 B区0169号镜面装甲局部受热28.4%， C区0597号镜面装甲局部受热32.4%，装甲无损伤。】
【2号线b区 0285号镜面装甲局部受热30.2%， C区0584号镜面装甲局部受热33.8%，装甲无损伤。】
The damage to the three warships appeared on the screen in front of Platinum, who then spoke.
"All ships are in normal condition."
Platinum then continued to control the other two warships, launching attacks on the bio-warship through the smoke.
Although the smoke screen mixed with aluminum foil strips successfully interfered with both sides' radars, the three warships, with the help of the command and reconnaissance aircraft on standby in the air, seemed to have X-ray vision, and dense 380mm shells pierced through the smoke and accurately hit the surface of the bio-warship.
Although 380mm high-explosive shells were continuously detonated by lasers in mid-air, the resulting cloud of explosions became a cover for those large anti-ship missiles.
Under Cleveland's control, these two-meter-diameter missiles maneuvered nimbly in the air, frequently weaving from one cloud to another to evade incoming laser beams.
At this moment, the eight medium-sized drones ejected by the frigate quietly crept into the air defense zone of the biological warship from low altitude.
Chapter update reminder: Chapter 247, the shelling begins. Read here.
After some probing, Lorraine obtained intelligence that the defenses in the low-altitude area were weak.
Subsequently, Platinum, as the weapons officer, activated the 2800mm heavy missiles loaded on each ship.
Eight 2800 mm heavy missiles launched from the bow of each ship flew low into the air, preparing to follow the drones and launch an attack on the biological warship from low altitude.
The drone swarm, acting as the vanguard, continued to advance, casting seemingly random plumes of smoke into the air.
Under Cleveland's control, these anti-ship missiles, temporarily fitted with mirrored armor, moved in pairs, nimbly weaving through plumes of smoke, evading the bio-warship's laser interception, and successfully reaching the bio-warship's close-in defense zone.
Faced with the dense lasers, these drones, acting as vanguards, came in handy. They used their bodies as shields to block the missiles, and used the remaining smoke to create long, thin trails in the air.
Using these extremely limited obstacles, Cleveland controlled the missiles and, at the cost of one explosion, successfully reached the surface of the biological warship.
As even brighter streaks of fire shot out from the holes in the sword, the stern of the biological warship suffered a devastating blow.
Immediately afterwards, a 2100mm heavy shell flew out of the smoke and slammed heavily into the severely damaged stern area of the biological warship.
After an explosion, the tail of the biological warship broke off from its body.
But then, ten strange creatures resembling flying lizards flew out from the broken hull and headed straight for the flagship behind the smoke.
They are extremely agile, and their resistance to attack and recovery capabilities are also extremely strong. A direct hit from a 130mm rapid-fire naval gun is required to disable them.
Seeing that the remaining eight flying lizards were still heading straight for the flagship despite the intense interception fire of the two escort ships, Lorraine ordered Platinum to stop the two escort ships' interception and instead focus all firepower on the biological warship.
He then activated the spaceship's super-maneuverability mode, and the entire cockpit began to descend, with the anti-G devices inside the armor and the external anti-G seat activating simultaneously.
At the same time, four plasma nozzles at the bow emitted bright blue flames, causing the flagship to veer to the left. Subsequently, the plasma thrusters and thermonuclear engines on the outer hull flaps began to operate at full power.
The entire warship began to maneuver rapidly upwards at an angle. By the time the eight flying lizards emerged from the smoke screen and appeared in the flagship's radar range, the flagship had already completed its turn and was flying upwards at an angle away from the biological warship.
At this moment, the 130mm rapid-fire electromagnetic guns positioned on the port and starboard sides of the ship, capable of firing at the stern, were firing at full power, with ring-shaped cutting rounds and proximity cluster munitions being fired from the barrels, doing their best to stop the movement of these eight flying giant lizards.
Subsequently, the chaff launchers on both sides of the ship began to operate, spitting out one after another smoke bomb laced with flares towards both sides of the ship.
As a thick cloud of smoke enveloped the flagship, four 2800mm heavy missiles and 48 highly maneuverable medium-range air defense missiles were quietly launched into the smoke by the launch unit.
Once the flagship had adjusted its posture and flown out of the smoke screen, the eight flying giant lizards were already positioned diagonally below it.
Immediately afterwards, the triple 380mm gun turrets located at the bottom of the ship rose up and launched a high-explosive shell attack on the relentlessly pursuing Flying Lizard from below.
However, due to their overly obvious attack intent and deliberately slowed rate of fire, the eight flying lizards easily dodged the incoming shells and, under Lorraine's guidance, disappeared into the smoke.