Standard Terra Calendar 972.M41, Bracato Galaxy, Ulanhuda
After a decade, he visited Ulanhuda again, Soshiyang was amazed by the development of this forging world.
Ulanhuda fixed himself on the orbit of the satellite of Luogong, the parent planet of the former Crimson Sword Team. On the one hand, he used the energy of the star and on the other hand, he helped to directly obtain metal raw materials from planets that had been destroyed in the earth's crust. After no longer wandering, Ulanhuda also unfolded its internal dock in orbit, allowing it to have the ability to build and repair large warships.
Now Ulanhuda is no longer a lonely world in the past. There are huge orbital facilities in its equator and poles, shaped like a forming beehive, and those cargo spacecraft that keeps going back and forth are like hardworking bees.
In the dock, there are more warships. In the past, Ulanhuda was a huge mobile fortress, and there was no strong demand for the fleet. It only maintained a small-scale exploration fleet. Now, after the stability, the demand for the fleet has risen sharply. The dock is almost constantly being built for a moment and even saved some "useless rituals" to speed up.
However, in addition to Ulan Huda's own fleet, the dock also has to bear orders from the Astral Knights.
The first stop for Soshiyang to arrive here was to check out the already built warships.
"...Legislature Commander, so far last year, all system tests of nine new star frigates have been completed, mooring tests have been completed, and void navigation and subspace navigation experiments have been completed, and they have reached full service status."
Standing inside the shuttle, through the huge semicircular observation window, Soshiyan, wearing ritual armor, overlooked the warships anchored side by side in the dock, like soldiers waiting for inspection, and all the lights on the hull were lit.
Building a new star-class frigate was Soshiyan's requirement. After so many years of battle, he deeply realized that traditional dagger-class frigates or other frigates were not suitable for the current Astral Knights, because these frigates themselves still use "transport" and "assault" as their main purpose, and their own combat capabilities are not strong.
But now the Star Knights are still in a state of too many ships and fewer people. It is impossible for those small ships to have space Marines stationed to defend, so they must have enough self-protection ability to face the enemy.
The new star frigate meets this requirement very well.
This type of frigate is a small light spear ship. It plays a role that is very similar to the Flame Storm-class frigate in the Imperial Navy fleet. It is a combat ship with pure blood. It has a light spear turret installed on its ridge, which can shoot at the front and both sides. It also has two sets of weapon array turrets installed on the bow. The engine is also more powerful than the Fire Storm-class frigate, making the physical space speed of the new star-class frigate twice that of the Imperial Cruiser.
This high speed and maneuverability also enables the new star to quickly reach favorable shooting positions and use light spears to attack, and then quickly retreat before the enemy reacts and counterattacks. The tactics of wolves hunting can be used to attack the enemy's single large and medium-sized battleships.
But the disadvantage is that it cannot carry ground troops to land or transport ground troops to other ships. Therefore, this ship is quite controversial in the empire because its existence does not meet the tactical requirements of the Astartes's sacred sacred sacrificial responsibilities, destroys the balance of power within the empire. For a long time, the Imperial Navy and the Inquisition have had fierce debates about the existence of this class of ships, and once prohibited the Astartes' war team from building and possessing this type of frigate.
Although the ban ended in vain, in order to avoid trouble, most battle groups still chose the more "Holy Classic" dagger level. Therefore, in the 41th millennium, new star ratings have become relatively rare in the Space Marine Fleet.
But Soshiyan felt that this kind of warship was very suitable for the current Astral Knights, or the Immortal Army, because the reason why the small ships in the past lost huge losses in naval battles was that they had poor self-protection capabilities and were not equipped with spacemarines. Not only could they not launch a close-range jumping tactic on the enemy, but they also had to avoid being attacked by the enemy jumping.
Then rather than do this, arm them to the teeth.
"According to your needs, we have further armed these new stars, adjusted the distribution of the superstructure, and added an additional plasma bomber to the front end of the ridge, allowing it to have stronger firepower at close range, and the ship's power distribution system has also been improved to fully supply the energy of the plasma bomber."
As the shuttle height decreased, Soshiyan saw the huge plasma turret located on most of these frigates, which were very "flat ridges" and the front end of most ships in the Empire. This was the technology he "introduced" from Rizana, which was also considered an additional reward for Ulan Huda.
“Great upper deck design, cuts a lot of unnecessary buildings, only retains the bridge and church, giving both the ridge main guns an excellent range of firing.”
"In addition, we have also adjusted the dock's point defense system."
"Oh, what adjustment?"
"In the past, the point defense system of the imperial warships has always adopted the mode of independent operation and shooting, resulting in slow reactions and increased errors and serious firepower waste. Especially in the face of small and fast targets, this time we tried the black iron core technology obtained from Zhao Akada. This technology was originally used for combat aircraft soldiers, which can allow combat aircraft soldiers to have better reaction speed and a certain degree of independent combat capabilities. At the same time, different black iron cores can also be integrated into a larger unified network. These characteristics are used in ship point defense.
The defense system has played an unexpected effect. Each point defense turret can independently calculate parameters and can also be coordinated in a fire control contemplator system to form a concentrated firepower advantage... In addition, you can see that the new star-level 36-door defense automatic weapons are mainly distributed on the side and below the hull. This is the area where enemy fighters and jumping vehicles are most frequently attacked. In the past, the Empire point defense firepower was mainly distributed on the bow and stern of the ship. This is not a reasonable arrangement, so we have also made adjustments."
“Ulan Huda’s superb skills are impressive.”
Soshiyan made a proper praise, and a smile appeared on Banguli's gloomy face, who seemed much "small".
"In the future, we need more Ulan Huda type new star frigates. There will be many orders for the dock, and the dock can continue to be expanded."
As he said that, Soshiyang turned sideways and looked at the White Holy Temple commander Alash.
Chapter completed!