Chapter 505: How strong will the Alliance fleet be in 4 years?

Chapter 505: How strong will the Alliance fleet be in four years?
The empire didn't like using aircraft carriers, but Gu Hang had no prejudice against it.

In other words, he has no conditions for prejudice now.

No matter how you say it, the Zhuge class is also a battleship-level warship.

What happened to the aircraft carrier type? Why is it so expensive? What’s wrong with not conforming to the mainstream?
The class is here!

If Gu Hang wants to build a big ship of this level, he may have no chance until he saves up the next million-level ten-draw.

What's more, just because it doesn't conform to the mainstream style of the Imperial Navy doesn't mean it's weak.

Similar to the previous Command-class, the core component of the Zhuge-class is also the ejection deck, which is used to 'launch' fighter jets directly into the face of enemy ships.

However, what is different from light aircraft carriers like the Command-class is that heavy starry sky aircraft carriers like the Zhuge-class can launch more than just three types of fighters of different sizes.

It can shoot a patrol ship in the face.

What should you do if you want to achieve a miraculous victory when a small boat defeats a large ship?
If you use firepower from a distance, you will definitely send as many as you can, and you will not be able to break through the defense. With one shot, you will be smashed to pieces together with the ship and shield.

If that doesn't work, having a patrol ship drive in hard will be more unbearable than any cannonball blast.

If a Crazy Shark were to be thrown in the face, even if the opposite was a serious battleship, it might not be as simple as being frightened. There was indeed a high probability that the Crazy Shark would be sent away.

Even if it is a little more extreme, if the construction is a little more extreme, the Zhuge class can even launch a destroyer over!

It's just that the cost is a bit high, and the destroyers are very expensive. The situation of the Zhuge class being converted into a catapult destroyer is too extreme. In order to adapt to this, it is almost impossible to save other combat power. After ejecting a destroyer, the available space left is too small. The battle becomes a one-shot deal with no endurance, which is not appropriate.

However, in order to cooperate with the aircraft carrier in ejecting the ship, the corresponding launched warship also needs to undergo some special design.

Gu Hang actually calculated according to the technical specifications. The largest ejection deck can really launch the Shark-class destroyer that is most commonly used in the alliance.

The Mad Shark is only five or six kilometers long, while the Zhuge-class is larger than the 21-kilometer Retribution-class, reaching a length of 26 kilometers. With its hangar modified and its ejection deck modified, it is possible to swallow a mad shark.

First of all, the flexibility and speed must be maximized. After ejecting, it will not directly enter the opponent's shield or void shield. It is still necessary for the patrol ship to rely on its small and flexible characteristics to find a better output position, or even simply get into the shield of the enemy's large ship.

But if it's close to the face, it's hard to say. A slow-firing heavy torpedo is a deadly thing. And the distance is close, so it is difficult to intercept.

There is no need to think about defense. Just pay attention to the energy shield and hull armor so as not to be easily destroyed by intercepting firepower. Otherwise, no matter how well it is done, it is just a small patrol ship sent to the enemy fleet. No matter how thick the shield and armor are, the result will not be significantly different.

On the contrary, in fact, it is not impossible for a few more patrol ships to do what Crazy Shark can do.

Secondly, the burst of firepower must be strong enough. For this purpose, the continuity of firepower and ammunition load can be completely sacrificed, because these things are meaningless and their survival time is not long at all. It is better to bring more cannonballs than to bring big ones that can hit big ships in one go.

As long as it can hold on until the patrol ship launches all the firepower it carries, if it is destroyed, then it will be destroyed.

Under this overall idea, the alliance will finalize a new patrol ship type called the 'Swordfish' in the near future.

To put it bluntly, it is a self-destructing ship. It is thin, fast and flexible, and has no durability. It does not even have the ability to sail long distances or pass through astral tunnels. The only advantage is that it can destroy a whole ship's firepower in a matter of minutes. This firepower includes 8 Air Ax missiles, 4 Dongfeng Fen, and two torpedo missiles modified from Dongfeng Fen. This kind of torpedo missile has very weak penetration ability, but its hit rate when released at close range is definitely guaranteed, and it is also good at penetrating shields and armor. The most critical thing is that the power of its explosion is almost five times that of the normal L-shaped missile like Dongfeng Fen.

This means that if it is not intercepted, one shot can kill a cruiser; if it hits a large battleship, it can also severely damage the opponent.

From this perspective, the Zhuge class, which can continuously launch 8 patrol ships and thousands of fighter planes, is still very powerful.

If it were a one-on-one battle, Gu Hang didn't think that the alliance's current flagship, the 'Yuhuo Xingxing', could handle a Zhuge-level attack, and would almost certainly be blown up.

Unless both sides bring a huge escort fleet, the outcome may still be a matter of uncertainty.

However, the Zhuge-class cost is also more expensive than the Retribution-class; if the cost of thousands of fighters and eight special attack ships are also included, it will almost reach 80 billion.

Construction took eight years.

Even if the first one has the blessing of a black box, it will take four years before the first Zhuge-class aircraft carrier can be completed.

But if you think about it this way, the strength of the Alliance Navy will be greatly improved by leaps and bounds in four years.

If all shipbuilding plans go smoothly, the alliance will have five top-notch main battleships by then. Among them, the battleship class is the battleship Yuhuo Xingxing, plus the first Zhuge class aircraft carrier that has not yet been named. In addition, there will be three battlecruisers, two of which will be Holy Grail class built by the alliance; and one will be the flagship of the current Yunluo fleet. Although it belongs to the Imperial Navy in terms of sequence, in fact, it is impossible for the Alliance to let go of the Yunluo Fleet that has been swallowed.

It was a 'Changlong-class' battlecruiser. Its performance was not particularly different from that of the Holy Grail-class in all aspects. It was slower but had thicker armor.

In addition to these five main ships composed of battleships, aircraft carriers, and battle cruisers, the Alliance will be able to make up almost thirty ships if all the Pegasus Fleet, Yunluo Fleet, Alliance Fleet, and new ships produced in the future are taken into account. A moon-class cruiser.

Not to mention other types of destroyers and frigates.

Such a fleet is, to be honest, very powerful.

Gu Hang doubted that after four years, when the main fleet of the Eastern Space Territory comes out for a walk, will it be able to defeat my fleet?

Can you, Iron Fury Stone, assemble five more battleship-level ships?

Well... it should still be possible, but at least the alliance's navy has the ability to fight to the death with the opponent.

Satisfied, Gu Hang now just wants to focus on growing up.

Digest the entire Dragon Eagle Star Territory, save money, trade time for the quality of the navy, plus the army that will become stronger by then, coupled with the Phoenix Chapter, Sisters of Holy Mercy Lily, Glory Guards, Storm Mage Group...The Alliance also has a series of high-quality troops available.

Coupled with the integrated Dragon Eagle Star Region, which has become rich and powerful with the strengthening means exchanged by Gu Hang's various gift points, he will become a strong man in this entire region.

However, the peaceful growth time that Gu Hang longed for did not come.

Only in the third month after he returned to the Dragon Eagle Star Territory, the 'Princess Rebellion' officially broke out.

(End of this chapter)