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Chapter 703 Test Results Are Out
At this moment, three groups of missiles entered the launch window one after another.
The Sky Eye system, fire control supercomputer, and trajectory correction model simultaneously take over the ballistics.
The cold data scrolled across the edge of the screen like a white waterfall, and the only sound in the command center was the rapid clatter of keyboards.
boom!
In the central area of the Kona satellite landing site, thirty-six plumes of flame successively tore through the gray sky.
However, only eleven missiles were actually used to verify tactical parameters.
The remaining twenty-five missiles all entered the mid-course standby phase, with the onboard AI remaining silent and ready to be redistributed to targets at any time.
The first group of missiles took off first.
Guided by the Sky Eye system, the three missiles were launched in three trajectories—upper, middle, and lower—and head-on towards the two plasma worms that had just fired.
On the track, the two enormous, dark purple beasts were still slowly recharging.
The three fleshy sacs swelled and contracted, with dark red electric light flowing through the gaps in the shell, like three living reactors floating in space.
"Thirty kilometers from the target."
"Twenty-five kilometers."
"The energy response at the target surface has increased!"
The next second, the plasma worm's head and translucent ejection sacs on its sides swelled up again.
A dense barrage of blue and white beams swept out, completely blocking the frontal advance route of the first group of missiles.
As the beam of light swept across the screen, the surveillance footage was burned with a patch of white noise, as if someone were scraping everyone's retinas with sandpaper.
The first missile was hit by two beams simultaneously, its outer shell instantly melted through, and the warhead was forced to self-destruct before it could reach the optimal distance.
The second missile made three consecutive maneuvers, but was still hit by a fan-shaped barrage of fire, and exploded in its trajectory into a short burst of white light.
Inside the Tian Shu Command Center, data was being updated rapidly.
[Close-range beam duration: 3.2 seconds.]
The first batch of jet capsules contracted.
The target's local energy response decreases.
Han Niba didn't blink and immediately said:
"Press the third round and test the interval between firings."
"receive!"
The third missile, trailing a long plume of flame, deliberately maintained a frontal thrust, like a steel nail driven straight into the head of a behemoth.
Five seconds.
Seven seconds.
Nine seconds.
The jet capsule that was just fired did not inflate again.
It wasn't until the tenth second that the earliest contracting cyst re-emerged with blue light.
Just as the staff was about to record the conclusions, a new energy reaction suddenly popped up on the screen.
It wasn't the same spray tank from before; it was another close-in weapon system that hadn't fired yet!
A blue-white beam of light swept out from the side of the abdomen.
Before the third missile could even get the so-called "ten-second window of opportunity," it was instantly shredded by another barrage of fire.
The command center fell silent instantly.
The staff officer in charge of weapons analysis immediately changed his expression and corrected the data.
"It's not a full ten-second cooldown!"
"A single close-in weapon system cools down in about ten seconds, but the target can control the spray pods to fire in batches."
Another staff officer followed up:
"It doesn't need to unleash its full firepower all at once."
"By reducing the interception density and retaining some of the jet capsules, we can maintain close-range, gapless defense."
That's the real trouble.
If the Plasma Bug misses its close-range defense beam every time, Da Xia can still seize a ten-second window to force his way in.
But it will hold back its attacks, reducing its firepower while maintaining its defenses.
Trying to steal a chicken?
The other side simply welded the chicken coop shut!
Han Niba's voice grew even colder:
"Continue, second group, flank from behind."
"yes!"
The second group of four missiles traced a huge arc outside the orbit, using the weak gravity of the Kona satellite and their own attitude engines to make corrections, and cut into the tail ends of the two plasmaworms.
On the main screen, four missiles, like four dark red steel needles, silently pierced the propulsion chamber of the giant beast's tail.
There were significantly fewer jet bladders there, and the blue and white light spots were much sparser.
Several staff officers' eyes lit up.
"Weak rear defenses!"
As soon as the words were spoken, the first plasma bug's massive body suddenly began to roll to the side, adjusting its fighting stance.
It uses its tail-end propulsion chamber to eject a thin stream of plasma, forcefully turning its thousand-meter-long body sideways so that its back and flank close-in defense organs are aligned with the direction of the incoming missile.
The next instant, the sparse beams at the tail fired first.
The fire net on the back followed closely behind to fill the gap.
The first flanking missile was grazed by the tail beam and deviated from its trajectory.
The second one was about to pass through the gap when it was intercepted by the fire net that came from the side.
The third one held out the longest, less than six kilometers from the target's tail, but the plasma worm flipped over again and managed to turn its side fire net around.
boom!
The third missile was detonated prematurely.
The explosive flash struck the plasma bug's tail shield, creating only a ripple on that semi-transparent layer.
The fourth missile immediately changed its attack angle, attempting to penetrate the area below the propulsion chamber.
However, the plasma worm suddenly ejected a stream of chaotic plasma from its tail, which acted as both a propulsion and a tail flick, forcefully deflecting the missile's trajectory by half a degree.
Half a degree, nothing can be seen on the ground.
In close-range engagements on orbit, that was enough to make it miss the optimal penetration point.
"Flanking maneuver failed."
The staff officer spoke in a low voice, quickly analyzing the situation:
"The tail is not an absolute blind spot, but the beam density is lower in close-range defense."
"The target can adjust its posture to turn the fire nets on its sides and back toward its tail."
"The propulsion chamber can also create short-term disturbances to interfere with terminal guidance."
"In conclusion, plasma worms do not have any stable defensive blind spots."
Han Niba stared at the replay on the screen.
The behemoth was enormous and its posture didn't change quickly, but it was still able to close the gap in its tail after adjusting its direction in advance.
This shows that going around the back is useful, but going around the back with a single line is not enough.
The goal is to prevent it from turning around in time, to make it vulnerable to being caught off guard if it tries to focus on its head, and to get cut if it tries to focus on its tail.
Han Niba continued to issue orders:
"Third group, test the shield."
"yes!"
The third group of four missiles immediately took over the orbit.
This time, the entire missile body no longer carries an explosive warhead.
One of them was equipped with an electromagnetic pulse module, another with a high-energy fragmentation cloud, and the last two were replaced with dark black kinetic energy armor-piercing warheads.
Their target is the three most bloated fleshy sacs in the middle section of the plasma worm.
If the front end is the attack organ and the rear end is the propulsion organ, then the middle section is most likely the energy storage area.
"The electromagnetic pulse bomb has entered detonation range."
"Detonate!"
A blue-white arc of electricity exploded on the track, like a spread-out electric grid, fiercely enveloping the middle section of the plasma worm.
The plasma worm's protective shield appeared instantly.
The translucent ripples spread along the carapace, keeping the electric arc and high-temperature radiation at bay, without even disrupting the rhythmic undulations of the central fleshy sac.
"Energy impact ineffective."
"The shield has a strong defensive effect against electromagnetic pulses, high-temperature radiation, and the light and heat of explosions."
No one in the staff was surprised.
If the demons didn't even have this much wealth, they wouldn't be worthy of defeating the Kona civilization to the point where they could only defend their home with artificial intelligence.
The second high-energy fragmentation bomb then exploded.
A large number of pre-fabricated fragments were ejected by the explosion, like a high-speed rain of metal, crashing into the plasma worm's protective shield.
The shield reappeared this time.
But it wasn't as easy as blocking an electric arc.
Some fragments were deflected, some fragments slowed down drastically, and a dozen or so pieces pierced through the shield and embedded themselves hard into the dark purple armor.
On the screen, a string of tiny black and red blood flowers exploded on the middle section of the plasma worm's skin.