Doomsday: I Build a Space Fleet

Chapter 136 Pre-Battle Preparations - 1

When the drone returned to the transport ship, Ouyang Nian was leading some logistics personnel to maintain the factory's equipment.

Upon receiving the information, Platinum began using its unmanned combat units to set up defenses and ensure the safety of the factory during their journey to the naval base.

Three hours later, Ouyang Nian finished all the maintenance work at hand, but by then it was already dark. After discussing it, the two decided to take some logistics units with them and head to the naval base under the cover of night.

In order to get a better understanding of the situation around the naval base, Ouyang Nian took the test aircraft that had been maintained out of the warehouse. After confirming that it was fully powered, she used a portable terminal to integrate it into the fleet's command system.

After preparations were completed, with the assistance of the logistics unit, Ouyang Nian moved the drone to the end of the main road.

After the drone arrived, Ouyang Nian inspected it again. After confirming that the drone was in good working order, Ouyang Nian left the runway and then gave the drone the takeoff command.

The propellers on both sides of the wings began to spin, and the drone slowly glided forward.

As the propellers sped up, the drone's gliding speed increased rapidly. Then, 600 meters from the bend in the main road, the drone left the ground and slowly rose into the sky.

Once the drone reached an altitude of 6 meters, it turned off its navigation lights and, guided by its inertial navigation system, flew toward the nearby naval base.

After the navigation lights were turned off, Bai Jin and Ouyang Nian rode their electric motorcycles back to the transport ship.

After boarding the ship, the two went straight to the bridge. After confirming that their communication with the drone was normal, they controlled the transport ship to retract the folding ramp at the stern.

Subsequently, with the assistance of the Cleveland subsystem, they successfully piloted the transport ship away from the dock and headed towards the nearby naval base.

The experimental aircraft flew silently through the night sky and soon arrived above the naval base.

Under the control of the onboard computer, the drone hovered above the naval base, with the electro-optical turret below the nose switching to low-light night vision mode to observe the situation below.

After the drone circled once, the photoelectric turret switched to thermal imaging mode to detect whether there was a moving heat source below.

Despite being concealed by the trees, the drone still detected several heat sources clustered together at the foot of the hill.

The drone then transmitted this information to the transport ship that was about to arrive at the naval base via radio.

After receiving the information, Platinum glanced at the approximate distance to the naval base and discovered that the naval base was not within the operational radius of the loitering munition.

Platinum then instructed the drone to continue observation, but to conserve resources, she did not send out the cormorant drones on the top deck of the ship for close-range reconnaissance.

After a flight of more than ten minutes, the naval base came within the operational radius of the loitering munitions, and Platinum dispatched two loitering munitions for reconnaissance.

However, the results of the low-altitude reconnaissance were not ideal. Due to the obscuring effect of the foliage, the loitering munitions were unable to confirm the type and number of these suspicious individuals.

However, Platinum was not worried about this, since the transport ship was carrying a large number of unmanned combat units.

With the assistance of the Cleveland subsystem, the transport ship successfully docked at the pier. The moment the folding ramp was lowered, the activated unmanned combat group orderly disembarked from the transport ship.

With the assistance of aerial units, these unmanned combat units quickly surrounded the suspicious heat sources.

As the encirclement gradually narrowed, the true nature of these suspicious heat sources was revealed to Bai Jin and Ouyang Nian.

The dogs, who had been huddled together, stood up and faced the approaching unmanned combat unit.

"It doesn't feel the same as I expected."

Looking at the green screen, Ouyang Nian scratched his head and said with some confusion.

"Compared to humanoid zombies, these dogs have a higher body temperature, intact bodies, but sharper teeth."

As the two were talking, the ten wild dogs pounced on the nearest unmanned combat units.

With several silent thuds, more than a dozen bullet holes appeared in the bodies of these wild dogs, and they collapsed during the charge.

After confirming that the danger had been eliminated, Platinum directed several unmanned combat vehicles to set up sentry posts near the wild dogs, while also sending out some unmanned combat vehicles to patrol along the fence surrounding the base.

After the unmanned combat units confirmed that there were no abnormalities in the surrounding area, the two of them stepped off the transport ship under the protection of more than a dozen unmanned combat vehicles and prepared to enter the bunker.

Using the command system, the two opened the entrance at the dock with Lorraine's access privileges.

With the assistance of unmanned combat vehicles, the two men spent only two hours driving the forty 6x6 Warriors needed for the smoke screen deployment system back to the flagship.

After completing the collection work, the unmanned combat group patrolling the perimeter began returning to the transport ship.

The drones that had been circling in the sky only began their return journey when the transport ship was ready to leave the dock.

With the help of the intelligent flight control system, the first drone to return to the industrial base landed smoothly on the main road and was then towed back to the warehouse by the logistics unit waiting on the main road.

After receiving news that the drone had successfully landed, Ouyang Nian breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that there were no major problems with the drone's structure.

After the transport ship docked again at the industrial base, the two did not rush to unload the cargo. After confirming that there was nothing unusual in the surrounding environment, they both went to sleep on the transport ship.

Early the next morning, the two transported Warrior vehicles and the necessary materials for modification into the factory. After connecting the Cleveland subsystem to the control system, the unmanned modification of the Warriors began in an orderly manner.

Meanwhile, at the camp, Lorraine checked the training of the two-person transport crew and, after confirming that everything was normal, brought some electronic parts and tools to the bridge of the Sea Knight.

Upon arriving at the bridge, Lorraine and the workers continued to modify the Sea Knight's electronic systems to better suit Cleveland's command.

By noon, the modification of the electronic system was finally completed, the transport team and the loaders had completed their training, and the maintenance work on the No. 7 ship was coming to an end.

After the farewell meal, the transport team boarded the flagship, and the loaders boarded the Sea Knight. With the sound of the ship's horn, the two warships left the camp one after the other and headed towards the naval base not far away.

As the ship sailed, Lorraine personally handed out communication terminals and paper maps to the crew members.

The map shows the terrain within the battlefield area, their target locations, routes, and the time of their relocation.

These soldiers were already familiar with the information on the map, and the paper maps now being handed to them marked the mission information for each crew.

Lorraine called over several soldiers who followed him to the flagship's dining room to move the sealed food back to the mission module.

Subsequently, Lorraine distributed three food packages to each crew, which were enough to support each crew through 36 hours of heavy physical labor.

For the remainder of the voyage, the soldiers familiarized themselves with their mission information on the paper maps.

The moment the ship came to a stop, the soldiers skillfully formed a neat formation by vehicle crew.

The mission compartment door opened, and the boarding ramp had reached the dock.

Lorraine stood at the hatch carrying a box of signal flares and handed them to each soldier who was about to carry out a mission.

After distributing the signal flares, Lorraine went down to the dock and led the soldiers through the dock entrance to the bunker's vehicle storage area.

Subsequently, the soldiers drove trucks out of the bunker, transporting the already produced unmanned combat swarms to their designated positions.

After the soldiers left the bunker, Lorraine rode an electric motorcycle back to the bunker's command center and entered an activation code into the command system.

[Command system activated; automatic defense system initiating.]

While waiting for the system to activate, Lorraine started testing the data link, connecting the subsystems on the Sea Knight to the bunker's command system.

The new combat vessel has been connected to the command system and is transmitting data.

[Automatic defense system activated; long-range strike system initiating.]

At this moment, inside the naval base, a communication system slowly rose, its satellite antenna slowly rotating in an attempt to find any remaining satellite signals in space.

After the satellite signal indicator on the command center screen flashed several times, a message popped up saying that no satellite signal was found.

The long-range strike system is activated, with ample ammunition. There is no satellite signal; precision strikes require radio signal guidance.

Then, icons for 48 vertical launch units appeared on the screen. Clicking on them allowed you to see the ammunition loaded in each launch silo.

The munitions that can use radio guidance are highlighted, including heavy bunker buster missiles and two types of large loitering munitions with self-organizing network capabilities.

The other two types of munitions remaining in the other launch units are the Changkong-23 and Changkong-25 hypersonic anti-ship missiles.

After determining the ammunition loaded in the vertical launch unit, Lorraine first checked the stock of radio-guided munitions.

After confirming that there were sufficient supplies, Lorraine began to review the detailed data of the Changkong-23 and Changkong-25 hypersonic anti-ship missiles.