The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5356

Chapter 5356 The Guns of Armageddon

When it came to warships, the Red Fleet usually fielded the strongest ones.

Unlike the mechers who liked to turn many warships into part-time mech carriers, the fleeters sincerely believed in the power of pure warships.

From the perspective of the people who controlled all of these impressive vessels, practically every problem could be solved with an excess application of firepower!

The bigger the guns, the better!

The greater the quantity of guns, the better!

It was not without reason why the Common Fleet Alliance back in the Milky Way built over a hundred thousand battleships over the course of many generations. Each additional battleship that measured over 1 kilometer long represented another security guarantee.

Warships tended to last for a long time as long as they were properly maintained. Periodic upgrades to their systems could easily keep them relevant for at least two centuries.

The Common Fleet Alliance therefore pursued a strategy of quantity accumulation back in the Milky Way.

Even though god mechs were so individually superior that it was difficult for the CFA to defeat them, they would probably get exhausted to death if they had to hunt down every single warship that the fleeters had ever built!

Combined with policy of keeping as much of their assets and infrastructure as mobile and temporal as possible, it was impossible for the MTA to rely on its god mechs to wipe out all of the warfleets of the CFA in any reasonable capacity!

Every decision had consequences, however.

The CFA's pursuit of quantity caused them to direct much of their research & development towards reducing the cost of all of these large and unwieldy vessels.

While the fleeters still allocated a lot of R&D towards innovating more powerful weapons and other ship systems, the lack of priority in this direction had caused the overall state of warships to stagnate over the centuries.

It was no surprise that the CFA never invested too much resources in the development of dreadnoughts.

The admirals who originally pushed for this initiative had lost their bet and got pushed out of power.

The remaining leaders within the CFA were all adherents to the quantity doctrine, so dreadnoughts had long been dismissed as extravagant wastes of resources.

If not for the fact that the fleeters had already expended an extravagant amount of top-quality resources to construct the ones that were still in existence, they would have been dismantled already so that the recycled materials could be used in more rational ways!

At this point, few people knew how many dreadnoughts the CFA had built, and even fewer people knew how many of them had been transferred to the Red Ocean.

This was critical information as the power shown by these amazing dreadnoughts were not that much worse from god mechs! The integration of hyper technology seemed to give every RF warship wings, but this was especially the case for dreadnoughts in particular!

This caused a lot of people to become reassured. They gained greater confidence in the Red Fleet's ability to hold the native aliens back and protect red humanity from extinction.

The critical question now was how many dreadnoughts the Red Fleet had at its disposal.

Clever minds who watched the astonishing live feeds already started to infer a lot of clues.

"This shouldn't be all of them. All of our god pilots have left human space, which means that they have fewer scruples about leaving their people behind. This can only be the case if the Red Fleet has stationed at least a handful of dreadnoughts in human-occupied space. There should be one for each major alliance, which means that there are at least three dreadnoughts that have yet to be unveiled."

No matter how many dreadnoughts the RF had inherited from its mother organization, each one presented red humanity the hope that ordinary humans could approximate the immense combat power of a god mech through mass production.

How easy was it for the fleeters to produce more dreadnoughts?

Could the RF produce another one of these amazing warships without the resources and infrastructure of its mother organization?

The answers to these questions had massive implications to red humanity!

Those who witnessed the unfolding of Operation Night Jazz watched the dreadnoughts more closely as they demonstrated their superiority.

Of all of the eight dreadnoughts deployed so far, the Guns of Armageddon that was assigned to the First Armada made the most astonishing impression!

The other seven dreadnoughts displayed all kinds of unique and unprecedented effects, but the Guns of Armageddon eschewed all of this in favor of maximum firepower!

All along her 18-kilometer long hull, huge gun batteries opened fire on the largest and toughest defensive installations.

Each of these powerful enemy assets had managed to withstand a lot of damage so far with the help of their powerful transphasic energy shields. Their larger sizes and more powerful generators enabled them to last long enough to serve as defensive anchors of the outer defensive sphere.

Each of them had to be destroyed in order for the First Armada to reach the Tenth Tide Station!

Unless a large formation of invading human warships concentrated all of their firepower onto these defensive strongholds, the powerful generators ensured their defenses remained in top shape.

Yet once the Guns of Armageddon began to unleash the power accumulated in her primary energy cannons, the tough segmented transphasic energy shields in the way exploded in an instant!

For whatever reason, whenever the crimson beams came into contact with the transphasic energy shields, the latter did not just get overwhelmed.

They exploded with great violence, causing all of the other nearby segmented energy shields to sustain severe damage as well!

This caused a lot of devastation to the alien strongholds as the damage inflicted by a single energy beam was already powerful enough to overwhelm multiple layers of energy shields at once!

"Fire!"

What amazed both humans and aliens was that the Guns of Armageddon only took a brief amount of time to fire her primary gun batteries yet again.

This firing rate exceeded that of every other RF battleship in the First Armada!

The targeted alien strongholds could do nothing aside from allowing the stupendously powerful crimson energy beams to strike at their weakened energy shields.

The strongest advantage of energy shields was that they could regain their integrity during a battle, but there was always a limit. _{freewёbn૦νeɭ.com}

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