Six Hundred and Thirty Fifth Simple Situation

The nuclear-powered engine gave the Second Fleet far greater mobility than before, but compared with the alien warships, the expeditionary fleet only had a slightly stronger linear acceleration ability than the alien warships, and was inferior to the alien warships in other aspects.

Gao Kai made up his mind not to confront the enemy head-on, and ordered the fleet to flank the enemy. In this way, the propulsion of the main engine can be exerted, and the idle tail turret can also be used to strengthen the firepower of the expedition fleet.

Both the enemy and the enemy fought and fled. The expeditionary fleet was always outside the effective range of the alien warships. Although the thin light left some traces on the human warships, it was far from the level of damage. hurt.

However, the focused fire of the laser cannons on the human side caused considerable damage to the aliens.

The two sides were in a stalemate for a while, and the aliens probably felt that it was meaningless to continue the fight, so they voluntarily withdrew from the battle, drawing an end to the battle that lasted more than four hours.

The aliens returned to Europa, but the expeditionary force could not withdraw. While monitoring the enemy's movements, the fleet sent lifeboats to search for the surviving pilots.

The orbit of the expeditionary fleet was higher than that of Europa, and the speeds of the two sides were not synchronized. After a period of operation, Europa had moved a certain distance from the wreckage left on the battlefield, and the aliens attached to Europa The fleet was beyond its reach, creating the basis for rescue efforts.

However, many pilots stranded on the battlefield have already flown away, and the distress signals on the pilots were interfered by the complex electromagnetic environment. Slowly identify survivors and victims.

The fleet that detoured back to the mothership joined the fleet shortly after, and brought back a dozen lost pilots.

The aircrew refueled the fleet as quickly as possible, and then all fighters joined the search and rescue team.

The search and rescue work lasted for more than two hours, and only more than 30 pilots were rescued in the end, one third of them were exposed to high doses of radiation and their condition was worrying.

The lack of treatment conditions on the battleship, the military doctor had to give the pilot an emergency injection of hibernation, and wait for the pilot to return to Earth before giving treatment.

The other pilots had been hiding in the wreckage of the fighter plane and did not come out, so they narrowly escaped.

This result made Gao Kai extremely dissatisfied. After reporting the whole process of the battle to the command center, he sued him severely and demanded that the military severely punish those responsible.

I personally know that the radiation intensity around Jupiter exceeds the standard. Why is the radiation protection ability of the flight suit so poor?

In fact, the radiation protection ability of the flight suit is already very good.

Only slightly worse than a heavy space suit.

It's not that the military doesn't have better protective equipment, but the pilot must control the plane in the cockpit. If the flight suit is too thick and heavy, it will restrict the pilot's movements and affect the control of the plane.

On the battlefield where every second counts, a slight negligence can mean the difference between life and death. Even if the military equips pilots with the best defensive flight suits, whether the pilots want to wear them is another matter.

This matter was finally resolved, but the protection of pilots has also been valued by the military, but after searching, the military found that the most protective individual equipment is power armor.

It is not difficult to equip the pilot with a suit of power armor, and the pilot does not need to carry so many weapons and armor. He can equip the aviation unit after a reasonable load reduction on the basis of the space version of the armor. The problem is that the space version of the armor uses brainwave control and requires a period of training. Then you can master it.

The military is divided into two factions on this issue. One faction believes that pilots only need armor protection, and flight armor does not need to continue to use brain wave control; the other group believes that it can take this opportunity to vigorously promote brain wave control to replace traditional manipulation. Way.

Brainwave control is not something that everyone can master. Powered armor is at least a human form, which can be controlled like a body, but fighter jets have nothing to do with human figures. The familiarization process is much more troublesome than power armor.

In the end, the former still has the upper hand. After all, the active pilots all use the traditional control method, and they should still control it. It is hard to say how many people can pass the test.

However, under the vigorous efforts of another faction, the military also agreed to conduct experiments on brain wave control. If it finds practical value, it will not be too late to promote it.

Brain wave control may be an epoch-making invention, it may be the direction of future development, or it may be a revolution in equipment manipulation, but this thing is still a new thing, and neither the military nor the civilians have much acceptance, and there is no basis for promotion .

Before you learn how to walk, don't think about how to run, just wait for the technology to continue to develop.

In any case, Gao Kai never thought that his complaint would have so much impact. The only thought in his mind was to get rid of the aliens as soon as possible and then lead his army back to the voyage.

It's just that the next step of the plan has to wait a few days before it can be implemented.

The reason for waiting for a few days is to wait for Europa to fly farther.

The current situation of Jupiter is not complicated. A large number of small satellites have been cleared by the expedition fleet, and there are only about 20 satellites left. The aliens have carried out key development on several Galilean satellites. Through the telescope, you can see that these satellites are conspicuous. alien buildings.

However, the distance between Galileo’s satellites and Jupiter is too close. The highest orbit of Callisto is only about 1.8 million kilometers, while the orbit of Jupiter is getting higher and higher. The current orbit height is about 8 million kilometers. Four times the height of the four-way track also has a turn.

It is not an easy task for the alien fleet stationed on the Galileo satellite to rush to Europa.

Europa is the one with the highest orbit among the current satellites. It is more than 11 million kilometers away from Jupiter, and the orbit of Europa is more than 3 million kilometers away, which is seven or eight times the distance from the earth to the moon.

Even for an alien fleet, it would take several hours to fly this distance. It is said that the expeditionary fleet can directly attack Europa, and there is no need to worry about the enemy forces on Europa.

However, space is not only unobstructed for human beings, but also for aliens. Alien fleets have been exposed to human eyesight, so why isn’t the human fleet always under the surveillance of aliens?

No matter what actions the expedition fleet takes, the aliens will be able to respond in time, and the possibility of a sneak attack on Jupiter is very small. I am afraid that the alien fleet on other satellites will have already taken off to Jupiter before the fleet approaches Jupiter. Wei Zero.

It's fine if the battle goes well, the expedition fleet can withdraw before the arrival of the enemy's reinforcements, but Io is the home of aliens, so how can it be so easy to fight?

Once the battle is unfavorable, the attacking Jupiter zero fleet is likely to be entangled by the alien fleet, and if the battle falls into a stalemate, the expedition fleet is likely to be dumped by the alien fleet.

So it's safer to wait for Europa to fly farther away, at least it can delay the arrival of the enemy for a few hours.

If the supplies carried by the fleet had not been exhausted, Gao Kai would rather wait for a while, and it would not be too late to attack after Europa flew far away.