Chapter 583 Plasma Torpedo Decapitation

After Franklin and others left the negotiation venue and went to the lounge, Alex and others were still a little confused sitting in their respective seats.

After Amber said a few polite words and called on everyone present to give up their fantasies and face reality, she temporarily cut off the communication so that this group of "federal remnants" could discuss it among themselves.

Intuition told Alex, the former chief executive of the autonomous government, that Amber and Franklin and others definitely had other cards in hand, so they showed such a strong attitude.

To put it bluntly, they didn't intend to give Alex and others a chance to choose.

"They are really going too far. Even rabbits will bite when they are anxious. Don't these guys worry that we will fight to the death with them?"

The secretary general of the autonomous government said indignantly, and the thoughts and emotions of other people around him were similar to his. The other party's behavior was that they didn't take Bresk's fortified city defense and the tens of millions of citizens in the city into consideration.

"Yes! I don't agree to be driven out like this. This is my home, and my property is all here!"

"That's right. Why should I give up the three-generation foundation of my Lawrence family?"

"Count me in. I will die before I agree to be driven out!"

The local tycoons and big capitalists in the Rubion galaxy who have not yet escaped also roared in "righteous indignation". They knew very well what the fate would be if they were driven out, so they completely disagreed with the demands made by the Renaissance Alliance.

Then, a low voice attracted the attention of others.

"Maybe Mr. Franklin. No, it should be Mr. Amber behind him. He really didn't take the "trump card" in our hands seriously?"

The one who spoke was the new administrative deputy, who replaced Sam, who had close contacts with Atlas before. In order to "show loyalty", the new administrative deputy immediately cleared out a large number of people in the team who had close relations with Atlas.

The intensity of the cleanup was so great that it was much higher than the anti-corruption work carried out within the autonomous government.

After hearing what the administrative adjutant said, Alex stood up suddenly and walked straight towards the city defense commander who was attending the meeting.

"Warren, can we still monitor the situation in the planetary orbit?"

Alex's question obviously made the city defense commander Warren look embarrassed. After struggling for a moment, he spoke:

"Sir, we have basically lost the monitoring of the outer orbit of Rubion V. Most military satellites and communication satellites have been captured and destroyed by the enemy. So we can only monitor it through ground equipment observation, and the range is limited to the area that can be observed from Bresk."

Alex: "If the enemy wants to launch an orbital attack on us, can we give an early warning?"

"You mean?" City Defense Commander Warren also realized something. He quickly scanned the venue, and then couldn't help looking up at the ceiling, as if his sight could penetrate the roof and see the orbit of interest.

"It's just a guess, so I came to you to confirm it."

Alex signaled Warren to stay calm and not to react too much to cause panic among others, and the latter immediately resumed his expression management and quickly contacted the city defense headquarters.

The Atlas Group's unique operation of using conventional warships to provide close-ground fire support in low orbit has been included in the feature library before, and it has been confirmed that the movement of attacking warships can be observed from the ground.

So Warren also quickly contacted his subordinates to see if there were any such signs. Although according to the city defense procedures, the people in the air defense operations command will report to Warren as soon as they find abnormalities, but under the high pressure at the moment, the city defense commander feels that it is more reassuring to ask in person.

Soon, the air defense operations command received news that Atlas's warships did not enter the "prohibited line" set up by the autonomous government, and no traces of warships were found in low orbit.

Such a result naturally made Warren and Alex relieved.

But the latter still felt a little anxious when he thought of what Franklin and Amber said at this moment, and the threat in it made him feel a little uneasy.

"Maybe the other party wants to attack from the ground? Although there is no sign of orbital attack at present, the "fortress area" around the city has successively sent back warnings of enemy troop movements."

Warren guessed, and at the same time presented the picture on his portable command terminal to Alex.

Although the chief executive was not good at command, he could still understand the battlefield situation map. At present, it was obvious that the troops of the Renaissance Alliance had completely surrounded Bresk, and the front heavy troops had also entered the attack preparation position.

However, he still couldn't figure out one thing. Since the Renaissance Alliance was ready for a strong attack, why did they let Franklin come in person to take risks?

If his side "did not speak martial ethics" and directly detained Franklin and other negotiating representatives, Alex believed that the Renaissance Alliance would not make the decision to attack so easily

Unless they didn't want this leader anymore.

While the two men hesitated, the half hour that Franklin left for them passed quickly. However, all parties in the autonomous government wanted to protect their own interests, so they could not reach a consensus at all.

When Franklin brought the members of the Renaissance Alliance to the meeting place again, he saw the former autonomous government members and the chaebols and capitalists who were still in dispute, and his face turned black.

"There is no hope for these people."

After whispering this, he turned around and left with the delegation members without saying anything more. This time, he did not go to the lounge prepared for them, but walked out of the autonomous government administrative building directly.

"Wait."

After seeing Franklin and others leaving, Alex wanted to keep them to continue the discussion, but he was still a step too late.

Watching the Renaissance Alliance disappear at the door, the city defense commander Warren quickly approached Alex and asked:

"Should we send someone to take down these people first? They don't have many guards, and the combat units we deployed near the administrative building can completely deal with them."

"Although I don't want to do this, let the troops quickly resolve the battle and don't cause any additional trouble."

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"'Red Baron' calls 'Mother Nest'. There are still 10 minutes before entering the attack orbit. The final strike order has not been received yet. Do you need to slow down and stand by? Over!"

"'Mother Nest' calls 'Red Baron'. It is recommended to reduce the ground speed by one-fifth!"

"'Red Baron' received, start to reduce speed, over!"

After the temporary communication ended, Manfred pulled the propulsion mode lever of the combat boat back to 'Back One'. After feeling a thrust in the opposite direction from the boat body and confirming that his ground speed had dropped by nearly one-fifth, he pushed the lever to the middle 'neutral'.

In Manfred's view, the driving experience of a heavy armored combat boat is more like driving a boat in most cases.

Only when entering the battle and entering the "dogfight", when the throttle and joystick are mainly used for control, it is more like a "space fighter".

However, this mission does not have so many thrilling links. Manfred only needs to drive his combat boat into the predetermined orbit within the predetermined time and throw the modified plasma torpedo at the predetermined bombing point.

Rather than an orbital strike mission, it is better to say that it is a special express delivery mission.

If there is still a garrison fleet defending on the orbit of Rubion V, even if the heavy armored combat boat driven by Manfred is turned on in the stealth mode, it is actually difficult to sneak into such an important area over Bresk.

Because after entering the low orbit, whether it is the friction between the hull and the outer atmosphere, or the environment at the junction of the edge of the atmosphere and the cosmic background, which is not conducive to "stealth", the heavy armored combat boat will be captured by the infrared sensor of the warship on the orbit.

This is also the reason why the aerospace bombers and near-space attack boats eventually withdrew from the stage of history. When there is a warship with strong detection capabilities in a higher orbit and can "name" with a near-light-speed weapon such as a charged particle cannon, the survivability of these aircraft that once dominated the low orbit is infinitely close to 0.

But this will bring the situation faced by the Renaissance Alliance back to the comfort zone of the aerospace bombers.

After all, it is easy to capture the signs of a warship descending to a low orbit to launch an attack, but it is not so easy to capture an aircraft such as an aerospace bomber with its own stealth and stealth capabilities from the ground.

It's just that Franklin can't take out the aerospace bomber for a while. If there are exhibits in the major aerospace museums on Rubion V, he will try to drag these "antiques" out and remodel them.

Unfortunately, these museums don't even have collections of near-space aircraft.

At this time, the Armament Procurement Department responsible for docking with the Atlas Group stated that the heavy armored combat boats purchased from Atlas Military Industry seemed to have low-orbit flight capabilities.

In addition, in the manual of MA-01B block5, there is also an appendix about the "teaching" of adding orbital strike capabilities to plasma torpedoes. The whole process is very simple and easy to understand~

Rebuilding a set of shells for torpedoes with high heat-resistant materials - it is not difficult for the Renaissance Alliance, which already has a certain industrial system and all the data of plasma torpedoes.

Then put a set of intra-atmospheric control components on the torpedo, and replace the attack seeker with a four-in-one integrated guidance mode of stars, satellites, images, and inertia.

In this way, a plasma torpedo with basic orbital strike capabilities has been transformed.

Although in terms of attack accuracy, this temporary emergency product is definitely not comparable to a dedicated orbital strike missile.

But if it hits a target as big as a building, it is actually not a big problem.

What's more, the plasma warhead of the plasma torpedo used for anti-ship is powerful, and the high-temperature plasma fireball produced by the explosion has a greater effect in the atmosphere than in space.

So unless you want to use this thing to kill someone by kinetic energy, you don't need to worry too much about hitting the target.

When Franklin heard the news, he was ecstatic and asked the Armament Procurement Department:

"Why didn't you say it earlier? It means that there has always been an aerospace bomber in our combat sequence, and it is even equipped with a dedicated orbital strike weapon?"

The Minister of Armament Procurement: "Then you didn't ask before."

You see, this world is a huge "grassroots team".

After this 'interlude', this secret strike mission finally fell to the heavy armored combat boat strike team.

"Find the most skilled and courageous pilot from your unit. He has an important combat mission!"

Then, the candidate for the driver unsurprisingly fell on the already well-known ‘Red Baron’.

The waiting time was long, and in this last period before entering the attack track, Manfred felt like a whole day had passed.

Since there could be no other enemies on the track at this time, Manfred became bored and stood still after turning on the automatic warning device of the combat boat.

Until the call from the 'Brother's Nest' rang again.

"The 'Brood' called the 'Red Baron' and has received the strike order. It is transmitting the order through the tactical network and is preparing to strike!"

After hearing this long-awaited voice, Manfred was excited. After seeing that the combat ship's combat system received an attack command transmitted through the tactical network, he immediately replied excitedly in the encrypted communication:

"The 'Red Baron' called the 'Brood'. It has received the attack command and has started to execute the ground attack operation. Repeat! Start the execution of the ground attack operation!"

After saying that, the young combat boat pilot directly pushed the propulsion mode operating lever to 'Forward 2'. MA-01B block 5, which was slowly approaching the attack track according to inertia, suddenly burst out with a burst of blue light from the propulsion array at the rear. The entire combat boat rushed out directly, and the ground speed on the holographic instrument skyrocketed in an instant.

Manfred in the cockpit, with the help of the combat auxiliary AI, controlled the combat boat to quickly enter the planned attack trajectory.

Like all things that are dropped from orbit, plasma torpedoes that attack the ground do not hit straight down, but have to go through a specific attack trajectory.

As the first half of this track, the heavy armored combat boat is not only responsible for carrying the torpedo, but also must give the fish sufficient initial speed when launching it.

Manfred, who had rehearsed the entire process many times in the simulator and actually dropped a full-size fish model on the other side of the planet, skillfully controlled the combat ship into orbit, and then pressed down as much as possible At the same time, it allows fish to have faster speed.

But this acceleration was obviously not infinite. Soon Manfred felt a kind of "lift" coming from underneath the combat boat, and the combat auxiliary AI also issued instructions that the bomb could be dropped.

As the Red Baron took a fierce photo of a group of people, the heavy armored combat boat performing the bombing mission was re-bounced by the atmosphere. At the same time, a strange-shaped plasma torpedo also ejected from the semi-buried hanger. Detached from the rack.

"Bomb drop completed! Repeat! Bomb drop completed! Notify ground units near the attack coordinates to avoid!"

Amid Manfred's report, the plasma torpedo re-entered the Earth's atmosphere at an astonishing speed of over Mach 30. The modified front end caused a strong plasma effect under the violent friction with the high-altitude atmosphere.

In an instant, a plasma sheath with a temperature of several thousand degrees Celsius formed around the plasma torpedo. This layer of high-temperature plasma not only gave the plasma torpedo a natural stealth barrier, but also made it almost impossible for ground radar to accurately locate its exact location. At the same time, it also poses a severe test to its internal precision instruments.

However, Atlas's military industry department has already taken this into consideration when designing this modification. Inside the plasma torpedo, the 'charge' is slightly reduced to free up a certain amount of space, and multi-layer insulation materials and advanced thermal management systems are used. Working together, we strive to ensure that core components can still operate stably under extreme conditions.

And this plasma torpedo could not hide for too long. Although the plasma sheath interfered with radar detection, the surface temperature of the shell became extremely high during the friction with the atmosphere, and it was quickly detected by infrared on the ground. unit found.

"Warning! Unidentified high-speed target detected. Suspected orbital attack missile! Assigned temporary number Echo1!"

"Warning! Echo1 has entered the defense circle, start the interception program immediately!"

In Breske's air defense command room, sirens sounded one after another, and the red warning lights flashed. The automatic control system automatically activated the air defense program the moment it detected the torpedo.

"No. Where did this come from? No orbital attack ships were found in orbit?!"

The air defense commander stared in horror at the sudden appearance of Echo 1, and he suddenly fell into panic, because the automatic control system had just calculated the impact point of this 'orbital attack bomb' - the administrative building of the Lubion System Autonomous Government.

At present, more than 90% of the top officials of the autonomous government, as well as the leading plutocrats and capitalists, are all there to participate in negotiations with the Renaissance Alliance.

"Fuck, it's all over now"

The air defense commander, whose legs felt weak, almost stumbled to the communication terminal, and then tremblingly connected to the communication with the city defense commander Warren.

The latter happened to see the air defense siren at this moment. Seeing the communication coming in, he immediately asked:

"What's going on? Didn't I tell you to keep an eye on outer space? Where did the orbital attack missiles come from?!"

"I don't know, sir! You should take shelter quickly! This thing is coming towards your position!"

"What?!"

While the air defense commander was talking to Warren, dozens of interceptor missiles deployed in the ground and underground silos in Bresk were launched one after another. Their engines roared against the gravity from the planet, trying to accelerate the missiles to a speed of more than Mach 10 to intercept the high-speed moving threat target.

Then, several dazzling laser beams and charged particle beams also shot out from the laser weapon platform on the ground, leaving a series of hot tracks.

However, the design of the plasma torpedo is far more complex and sophisticated than imagined. After sensing the external threat, the plasma torpedo immediately started the maneuvering trajectory change program, and performed large-angle sideways sliding and diving at an astonishing speed.

These actions not only made tracking extremely difficult, but also successfully avoided most of the possibilities of direct hits. Even if it was irradiated by high-energy lasers and charged particle beams, the plasma sheath outside the torpedo and the shell with replaced materials were enough to withstand these attacks.

And there are not many such interception windows.

Just as the interceptor missile and the laser beam were about to touch the plasma torpedo, the last acceleration of the plasma torpedo thruster began, and the speed of the entire missile body suddenly increased again.

At this time, the atmosphere in the air defense command room was extremely tense. Everyone held their breath and watched every dynamic refreshed on the screen. The air defense commander's forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and he couldn't speak. He could only pray and wait for the final result.

On the other side, the evacuation alarm was also sounded in the Bresk Administrative Building. Members of the autonomous government, including Alex, almost rolled and crawled out of the negotiation venue.

But for a plasma torpedo that broke into the atmosphere at Mach 30 to launch an attack, it was too late to run now.

With the last interception window broken through, the plasma torpedo finally entered the irreversible attack stage and rushed towards the target at a nearly vertical angle.

Just a few seconds later, the plasma warhead was triggered and detonated while the plasma torpedo crashed through the glass curtain layer on the outside of the administrative building and the first layer of steel structure.

In an instant, a huge high-temperature plasma fireball expanded in the blink of an eye and completely engulfed the entire building.

The blue-white high-temperature plasma fireball formed by ionization at extremely high temperatures, its core temperature instantly reached tens of millions of degrees Celsius. Due to the high temperature characteristics of plasma, the space around it was heated, and the air produced a strong shock wave due to rapid expansion.

The first to be affected were the non-metallic materials on the outside of the building. The glass curtain layer instantly burst due to high temperature, and combustible materials such as plastic and wood quickly burned.

Although the steel structure as the main body of the building has good heat resistance, it also began to gradually soften and deform under such extreme conditions.

The entire building seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and then squeezed hard. The steel structure quickly lost its strength under the action of high temperature, and began to twist and break.

Starting from the top floor, one layer after another collapsed, like dominoes. A huge roar echoed in the city, and dust and debris flew all over the place where the administrative building used to be, forming a doomsday scene.

The plasma warhead attack did not last too long. When the dust settled, the autonomous government administration building, which once symbolized the power, had become a pile of melted ruins.

Franklin and his group, who had managed to escape to a safe distance within the limit of time, climbed up from the ground in a dusty state after the roar of the explosion ended and the plasma fireball extinguished.

"Fuck! Whoever wants to do this next time can do it."