Li Yao has been in the empire for a long time.
He has a deep understanding of the various types of main warships that the empire relies on to dominate the star sea.
He knows that two to three hundred years ago, the imperial military had a brief period of "revival of cannon and giant ship doctrine". .
Originally, as crystal armor design and Titan Soldier maintenance technology became more and more advanced, individual combat capabilities became stronger and stronger, and warships increasingly tended to combine firepower output platforms and comprehensive supply platforms, rather than being the vanguard of fighting hand-to-hand. .
A hundred or so masters, wearing crystal armor armed to the teeth, breaking into an enemy starship may destroy a starship costing billions or even tens of billions.
Even if they cannot destroy the opponent's starship, Our side will only lose a hundred or so masters at most - these masters can always kill many of the opponent's people before they die.
Under such a cost-effective disadvantage, it is obviously uneconomical to spend a lot of military expenditures to build larger-scale starships - it is better to invest resources in the construction of crystal armor battle groups and the repair and imitation of Titan soldiers.
However, the technology of crystal armor and giant weapons is developing, and the firepower output, psychic shield and unmanned operation technology of starships are also constantly developing.
"Big gun ship" has always been the dream of soldiers, and someone finally proposed—— When the crystal brain and spirit network technology When developed to the extreme, combat puppets, various forms of drones, and remote-controlled cosmic mines can converge into a raging tide.
Coupled with a sufficient number of naval guns, all enemies can be destroyed, including the most powerful crystal armor.
Including the Titan Soldier!
"The Titan Soldiers are by no means invincible.
As long as there are enough combat puppets and drones, and the firepower output from the naval guns is strong enough to form a continuous and airtight fire network, we will definitely defeat the Titan Soldiers!
"If it cannot be defeated, it is because there are not enough battle puppets and turrets, and the fire network is not dense enough.
If one hundred thousand turrets can be stacked on a starship, what kind of enemy cannot be destroyed?"
This was the argument of some artillery and shipbuilding advocates at that time.
And they didn’t just talk about it, they also conducted theoretical calculations and tests for decades in the empire’s most authoritative military laboratory, and proved their point of view in countless virtual battlefield tests—— Equipped with hundreds of thousands of psychic puppets and drones The 'super arsenal ship', which is equipped with a machine and equipped with at least 10,000 heavy naval guns, has indeed beaten ordinary giant warriors to shame.
Even if the virtual index of these giant warriors is increased to a level that can be controlled by the old monster who transformed into a god, It is difficult to break through the interception fire net of the 'super arsenal ship'.
Such a result could not help but make the imperial military tempted.
After all, the core cockpit of the Titan Soldier, that is, the research and development technology of the "Lingfu" is not yet mastered by the empire.
Even if they can imitate and piece together the hands, feet and weapon sets of the Titan Soldier, once the "Lingfu" is If it explodes, this giant weapon will be completely scrapped.
We don’t know how long the war between the Empire and the Holy Alliance will last.
If it continues for another thousand years, the empire’s Titan Soldiers will die one less, and the Holy Alliance, which has a large amount of prehistoric heritage, obviously controls a higher level than the Empire.
Unparalleled Titan Weapon repair and imitation technology.
If at the end of the battle, all the Titan Soldiers on the Empire's side are used up, but there are still some Titan Soldiers left in the Holy Alliance, it will be very embarrassing.
It was precisely under such concerns and stimulated by the "perfect performance" of the laboratory's virtual war that the imperial military launched a super arsenal ship construction plan.
The new super battleship was called "King Kong"!
The size, space, and firepower of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship are more than ten times the largest arsenal ship ever built by the empire in the past.
In fact, it is more like a combination of an arsenal ship, a comprehensive supply ship, and even a starry sky battle fortress.
In the original design idea, the military would cram into each King Kong-class super arsenal ship at least 30,000 turrets of various types, hundreds of the most advanced array-type fire control computers, and more than Five hundred thousand combat puppets and drones make them the "perfect battleship, the doomsday battleship, the ultimate battleship that can end all wars" that the designer boasted to the Senate!
Is the actual combat effectiveness of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship as amazing as the designers and contractors boasted, and is it able to lift up giant soldiers and fight them?
This question is destined to remain an unsolved mystery forever.
Perhaps, assuming that these King Kong-class super arsenal ships can really be built according to the highest standards, they can indeed sweep thousands of armies, be invincible, destroy the Titan Soldiers, and end all wars.
But before that, what it ended first was the empire's finances.
The entire construction process of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship is a very old-fashioned and sad story.
Perhaps the idea of "firepower comes first, and the sea of drones is invincible" is not wrong, but the designer's idea is too advanced and ambitious.
The designer greatly overestimated the development speed of the Empire's crystal brain level, and underestimated tens of thousands of them.
The technical difficulty of integrating the turret into one body, or in other words, in order to get the Senate to approve the super battleship construction plan as soon as possible, from the designer to The largest arms contractors in the empire, as well as the stakeholders within the Senate, all showed a strong spirit of optimism, turning a blind eye to "minor difficulties" and throwing out a project that was by no means cheap.
But it has a budget that it can bear with gritted teeth, and an unequivocal guarantee that it will be able to achieve combat effectiveness within twenty years at most.
The Senate at that time agreed to this plan, and sixteen "King Kong-class super arsenal ships" were constructed in the dock at the same time.
This construction lasted... a full hundred years.
During this period, not to mention the natural and man-made disasters caused by various technical difficulties, the upgrades of crystal brains and combat puppet technology have repeatedly overthrown the original design and started over again.
The original plan and budget have long been thrown into the wasteland.
In the wastebasket, new construction costs were raised one after another.
In the end, the construction cost of each King Kong-class super arsenal ship reached more than twenty times the original budget!
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No matter how "militant" the real human empire is, no matter how eager the Senate is for the birth of super battleships, they will collapse in the face of such a budget and an elusive completion time.
"The King Kong-class super arsenal ship is the most powerful doomsday battleship in history, but it belongs to the Holy Alliance!
Just lying motionless in the dock, it will destroy the entire empire!"
Many imperial elders pounded the table and roared.
But apart from roaring, they have nothing to do.
Astronomical amounts of resources have been invested in this plan.
It is not necessary to sell the sixteen unfinished King Kong-class super arsenal ships as scrap metal now, right?
What's more, the fertilizer will not flow to outsiders, and the astronomical resource investment will not disappear out of thin air.
If it flows here and there, doesn't it flow to the hands of stakeholders, large and small?
Even these arrogant and glaring elders, banging the table and roaring, may not have benefited from it secretly!
In this way, the construction plan of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship turned into a never-ending black hole, dragging down the Imperial Army for a full hundred years - the Holy Alliance was able to take advantage of it, defeat the Black Wind Fleet, and occupy the Empire It is difficult to say that the entire five heavy industry worlds in the world have nothing to do with the weakening of this plan.
In fact, the outbreak of the post-war economic crisis was so severe that the King Kong-class super arsenal ship had a small contribution!
When the Holy Alliance's invasion of the Black Wind Five Realms broke out, all parties in the empire finally couldn't bear the endless delays.
The relevant contractors seemed to feel that many people would lose their heads if this continued.
Sixteen King Kong-class super ships The arsenal ship finally entered service.
However, due to the raging frontline war and serious lack of budget, the final construction of the sixteen King Kong-class super arsenal ships has not been completed, which is equivalent to "premature babies" with congenital deficiencies.
The designers and arms contractors are confident that if this happens Sixteen super battleships are unable to exert their theoretical ultimate combat effectiveness.
That is not their fault, but a matter of time and funding.
If they are given another thirty to fifty years and two to three times the funding, the King Kong-class super arsenal ship will It will definitely destroy all the giant divine soldiers!
Even the designers and builders were so lacking in confidence.
One can imagine the performance of these sixteen gigantic "premature babies".
On the real battlefield, they completely lost their aura of destruction and destruction on the virtual battlefield, but they exposed their clumsy and fragile weaknesses.
Moreover, because the cost was too expensive, the four Electoral Prince families were reluctant to let these super arsenals The ships entered the fiercest battlefield, and after only two of them were seriously injured by the Holy Alliance, the remaining fourteen super arsenal ships fled back to their home port in a hurry.
The King Kong-class super arsenal ship completely turned into a joke.
In the next hundred years, the empire's "big gun and giant ship doctrine" disappeared, and no new super battleships were refined.
The daily maintenance costs of sixteen "premature King Kong" alone were astronomical.
The figures were too much for even the four Electoral families to handle.
How could they be dragged into the dock to complete the actual construction?
So, today, a hundred years later, they are still premature babies who can only exert 30% of their combat effectiveness.
They were abandoned by the most elite super-first-class fleets of the four Electoral Prince families.
Instead, they were assigned to the next-level main fleet, with them as the core.
The "Eight Great Vajras" were created and put on the battlefield to exterminate the reformists.
"I know that the evaluation of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship is not very high, but that is caused by many factors.
In fact, even the unfinished premature babies can only exert 30% of their combat effectiveness.
As long as they are determined to fight to the death, they It can still make any enemy fearful."
Jin Yuyan smiled bitterly and said, "The poor performance on the battlefield against the Holy Alliance does not mean that they will be merciful to our escort fleet.
You just tried your best to temporarily deceive so many immortal cultivators, but you said a thousand Dao Yiwan, these sixteen King Kong-class super arsenal ships are the "Dinghai Shenzhen" of the alliance of the four major families.
If they cannot be completely defeated on the battlefield, no one will easily switch sides and join us.
"So, 'Black Wind King Li Yao', how are you going to change the next trick?
Where is your so-called 'Black Wind Fleet'?"