novelsite Chapter 45: Who Dares to Fight?
Chapter 45: Who Dares to Fight?
For a full ten minutes, viewers watched the live broadcast of the deployment to confirm whether the navy had any new weapons or equipment!
It was incredibly boring, but I didn't dare leave, afraid of missing the first appearance of the new weapons and equipment.
Ten minutes later, the tedious and uninteresting delivery finally came to an end.
At this time, the four Type 075 amphibious assault ships deployed a total of 80 Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicles and 40 Zhen Tao ground effect vehicles.
This deployment efficiency is world-class.
At the same time, this also proves one thing: the number of Xuan Nu Sky unmanned combat aircraft is definitely more than 88!
However, at this moment, the audience is not concerned about the deployment efficiency of the Type 075 amphibious assault ship or the number of Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicles; they are only concerned about what the next new weapon will be.
The audience quickly got the answer.
There are no new weapons and equipment, only weapons and equipment that are neither new nor old: drones!
Even so, the audience involuntarily slowed their breathing and stared intently at the screen, their eyes widening.
Because, so many, so many, so incredibly many, so overwhelmingly many!
After the Type 075 amphibious assault ship upgrade was completed, all ships in both fleets, including the Type 075 amphibious assault ship upgrade, simultaneously launched the drone swarm deployment program, beginning to systematically drop various types of drones into the air in batches.
Military reconnaissance version, reconnaissance and strike integrated version, and extended-range civilian version;
Miniature individual soldier version, light patrol version, heavy assault version;
Fixed-wing high-speed configuration, rotor hovering configuration, vertical takeoff and landing configuration;
Deck taxiing for takeoff, electromagnetic catapult acceleration, individual soldier hand-launched launch, etc.
All sorts of drones, in all sorts of ways, swarmed into the airspace from various ships, gradually gathering into a huge dark cloud.
What's even more staggering than the variety and quantity of drones is their configuration: apart from a few civilian-modified observation drones, all the rest are fully armed and ready for combat!
Some are equipped with aerial bombs, some with precision-guided missiles, and a large number of fully integrated suicide attack drones!
The sheer number and the configuration make it seem like they're about to go to war!
Suddenly, the live stream split into six segments, with two parallel lines dividing the view into two perspectives: an aerial view and a direct view of the sea.
One aerial view shows an active volcano with a snow-white summit, while the other aerial view shows an island lake that is half shaped like a round sun and half like a crescent moon. The two sea views correspond to the island where the active volcano and the lake are located, respectively.
The last two shots are grouped together, showing the same mixed fleet accelerating away from the other side from two different angles.
"Whoosh~"
After seeing the six images clearly, the audience suddenly stood up, some excited, some sweating profusely, clenching their fists and holding their breath: Is a fight about to break out?!
Moreover, they're fighting on three fronts simultaneously!?
"Tsk~" "Phew~"
After what felt like an eternity, several minutes later, viewers either spat in annoyance or breathed a sigh of relief: the camera started moving rapidly, and the drones and ground effect vehicles were moving away from the target. It seemed they were just observing and not actually fighting.
The next second, the scene switched again, merging into one, and the audience was once again stunned by what they saw.
In the distance from the fleet, from the sea to the sky, countless drones hovered in the air at intervals of less than half a meter, forming giant, three-dimensional squares!
On the square, a swarm of fixed-wing drones circled and hovered within the square's boundaries, resembling an aerial vortex!
The scene switched for the third time, this time splitting into three parts: one showing a massive swarm of drones, another showing a group of Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicles and Zhen Tao ground effect vehicles, and a third showing a bird's-eye view of both from high above.
Before the audience could even process what was happening, the Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicle and the Zhen Tao ground effect vehicle simultaneously accelerated, hurtling toward the swarm of drones at an extremely high speed.
At the same time, the drone swarm was simultaneously engaging the enemy head-on and launching precision-guided missiles.
Before the audience could even gasp in surprise, a barrage of missiles struck the Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicle.
There was no sound on screen, but the audience seemed to hear the deafening explosion in their minds.
There was no smoke from the explosion, because before the smoke could spread, the powerful airflow of the Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicle had already dispersed the smoke, and the Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicle continued to rush towards the drone swarm unscathed.
Then, the audience's minds went blank as they stared blankly at the screen: the Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicle and the Zhen Tao ground effect vehicle plunged into the drone swarm, then charged forward recklessly, leaving behind a trail of explosions and drone debris, ultimately penetrating the entire drone swarm intact and plowing up more than half of the massive drone swarm.
Meanwhile, the surviving drones were also violently shaken and lost control due to the airflow from both.
Once the surviving drones had stabilized, the Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicle and the Zhen Tao ground effect vehicle had already turned around and launched another attack on the drone swarm!
Once, twice, three times... Xuan Nu's unmanned aerial vehicle and Zhen Tao's ground effect vehicle destroyed all the drones with their bodies without firing a single shot or cannon!
Before the audience could catch their breath, countless streaks of light suddenly lit up the distant horizon, landing precisely on the fuselages of the Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicle and the Zhen Tao ground effect vehicle, exploding into a continuous stream of starlight.
Following the trail of light, they discovered that the source of the light was their own fleet.
Those streaks of light were tracer bullets used to correct the trajectory and guide the target!
It was just that the fleet's fully automatic close-in weapon system fired at too high a rate, causing the tracer rounds to intertwine and stick together, resembling streaks of light piercing the sea and sky.
So, their own fleet is actually conducting a saturation attack on the Xuan Nu and Zhen Tao formations?!
Could it be that the Xuan Nu and Zhen Tao formations have gone out of control?!
Before the audience could think any further, the Xuan Nu and Zhen Tao formations charged straight toward the fleet amidst a hail of bullets.
A barrage of bullets rained down, streaks of light exploded continuously, four kilometers, three kilometers, two kilometers, one kilometer... The Xuan Nu and Zhen Tao formations approached the fleet unscathed!?
The next second, the Xuan Nu unmanned aerial vehicle began to dive towards the fleet, and the Zhen Tao ground effect vehicle also increased its altitude and aimed at the warship.
Upon seeing this, the audience involuntarily held their breath, clenched their fists, and stared intently at the screen. Some prayed silently, while others cheered silently on. Everyone held their breath, waiting for the final outcome to be revealed.
"Whoosh—!"
Before long, some audience members jumped up and cheered, while others collapsed into their chairs, exhausted.
The outcome is decided!