Double Helix of Dajian Doujin

When we first saw flocks of birds surrounding us, we were in awe.What bright colors, dazzling brilliance, wonderful sounds, and ethereal fragrances.Those birds surrounded us, each a different form, a new creature, a new wonder.I followed one of them closely, but it was all in vain: their existence depended on the ever-changing shape.Imagine this: a wave-like, ever-changing herd, each participating in this wondrous metamorphosis parade.They are our prophets, our messengers, our saviors.Standing among these birds, we must have been terrified by their greatness; but actually, we felt more hopeful.At this moment, I feel our most essential meaning: divinity in the group, redemption in change, one life, countless changes. ——Ranto Sedabe "Legendary Birds"

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(continued from previous chapter)

Since the birth of the strike chain theory, revolutionary changes have taken place in the construction of the national army, as shown in the following:

1. Blurring of the boundaries between the armed forces of the sea, land and air.Generally speaking, we call the troops fighting on the planet’s ground the Army, the troops that use aircraft without living facilities the Air Force, and the troops with aircraft that have living facilities the Navy.Yet in many operations, especially those conducted on planetary surfaces, the three services can be said to be interdependent.Ground forces rely on air and space forces for fire support, while air forces and navies rely on intelligence provided by ground forces to attack.As for the operations of troops between the stars, the army and the air force are completely dependent on the naval forces as the delivery platform.It can be said that interstellar warfare makes the naval forces using large space vehicles the core of all arms.The essence of the blurring of the boundaries between the three services is actually the result of the redistribution of roles with the naval force at the core.

2. Non-linear motorization.In the past, no matter how fast a combat unit was going from one place to another, its movement had a path that was either straight or curved.We call this linear maneuvering.Non-linear maneuvering means that the movement trajectory of a combat unit is no longer a continuous line, but only has a starting point and an ending point, with no path in between.Behind this is a large number of applications of hyperspace technology.

3. Redistribution of the combination of the three elements.The three elements are the reconnaissance, command, and attack just mentioned.Due to technological progress, there have been major changes in what elements a unit possesses and what level of capabilities it possesses.There are both decentralized and centralized changes.For example, ordinary soldiers in the army mainly focus on decentralized changes.Reconnaissance, command, and attack are all distributed to different units.UAVs, on the other hand, have become concentrated, that is, performing reconnaissance missions and strike missions.Of course, the so-called elements refer to the main aspects. In fact, almost all units have the ability of the three major elements, but when the entire legion is fighting, they only reflect their main aspects.

These are general aspects.Specific to the military, there are still differences.

For land units, the tendency to disperse elements is stronger.In fact, the Army has seen the biggest changes.The most fundamental reason for this is that Army troops, especially soldiers with citizenship rights, are often located close to the enemy, and they are under many unfavorable conditions such as weak self-defense capabilities, insufficient firepower, and lack of intelligence.Decentralized layout can be beneficial to the survival of army units.In particular, it solves the problem of insufficient intelligence and insufficient firepower of the army troops.

For the Air Force, it is relatively balanced.Air units generally have a higher speed, and can carry more powerful weapons at the same time, and fire at the enemy from a safe distance.Therefore, intelligence is particularly critical.So, for the Air Force, decentralization is primarily focused on intelligence collection.Although command and attack are often separated, the distance is not too far.Or the integration of attack and reconnaissance.

The least changed is the naval unit.Since the naval forces are mainly responsible for deep space operations.Although the vast universe is vast, it is not as complicated as the ground.Therefore, it is very suitable for the wide-area search of large detection equipment, rather than the precise search of small detection equipment.Coupled with large-scale can bring a huge firepower advantage.Therefore, for many years, the Navy has been taking the route of centralized layout.A spacecraft often integrates many elements such as firepower, protection, mobility, and command.In particular, the Titan-class battleship, which is the flagship of the fleet, is not only the command ship of the entire fleet, but also has a series of weapons of mass destruction such as iron cavalry aircraft, doomsday weapons, and long-range detection systems such as giant graviton radars.It can even be said that a single Titan battleship almost concentrates more than 30% of the combat capabilities of the entire fleet.

Given the Navy's deviance from the development of strike chain theory, many military experts have their own opinions.From questioning the strike chain theory to questioning the development direction of the modern navy, etc., it can be said that the benevolent has different opinions, and the wise see wisdom.The following is my view on the development direction of the contemporary navy as the proponent of the strike chain theory.

When talking about the navy, I would like to analyze why the army can transform so quickly and successfully.

As just mentioned, the Army has an innate requirement for the combat mode advocated by the strike chain theory.Insufficient self-carrying capacity and insufficient defense capabilities are all inherent requirements for the development of the Army.In the end, all these deficiencies are fundamentally avoided or transferred in various ways.

For example, the issue of firepower.Soldiers carry insufficient firepower, so they carry communication equipment and put heavy firepower weapons on the vehicle.Especially today when long-range precision strikes are highly developed, the heavy firepower weapons of the army are in the sky, not on their own.This solves the problem of insufficient firepower.

Another example is defense. The defense problem seems to be an armor or shield problem.It seems that having infantry carried in vehicles with better protection is a feasible solution.But in fact, any vehicle on land is difficult to compare with a spaceship.Therefore, the Army finally adopted drones and other equipment for detection, using spacecraft or other sky vehicles as heavy fire weapons, and concealing the command line itself.Thus avoiding close encounters with the enemy.

The above two types of problems actually exist in the navy as well.

Larger ships undoubtedly carry more powerful weapons and better protection.It seems that the small spaceship only needs to tell the large battleship where the enemy is.In reality, however, this often doesn't work.Because the environment in space is too simple, it is not as complicated as the situation on the ground. There are no situations where small units or units close to the enemy can find the target, but those units carrying heavy weapons cannot find the target.

Another important reason is that for army units, their battlefield is also the surface of the planet.Of course, it still looks quite big, but compared with the light-year as the measurement unit of space, the size of a planet can be simplified into a particle.

Too small a space means that the firepower of long-range weapons can be easily projected to any corner of the battlefield.So, the strike chain is able to work.

Therefore, in most cases of the navy, the entire fleet that received the order went to the theater together to fight on the same battlefield, and small spaceships could hardly pose a threat to large warships—especially flagships.On the ground, not to mention an infantry, even a walker drone that can only cast Tier 3 magic can easily pass through the strike chain and destroy a large number of targets.

"There are people above" can be said to be a true portrayal of the army and air force, and the "people" above can still manage things.So, as the "person" at the top, what should the naval force do?

What's more, although small spacecraft cannot pose a threat to the flagship, it has now been confirmed that the giant magic circle arranged on the ground in the form of a doomsday weapon can threaten all warships near the planet, including Titans.And even without these, the energy consumed by large warships every time they go to a war zone millions of light years away is astonishing.These problems also need to be solved by strike chain theory.

The real intention of strike chain theory is to rationally distribute units with various functions in space so that they can fully develop and develop their strengths without worrying about other constraints.For example, heavy firepower units need to be enlarged, so we should place them far away from the enemy, so that they don't have to worry about the problems of large targets and insufficient mobility caused by large-scale.

As mentioned earlier, firepower and delivery capabilities are the premise, and information is the core of operation.Now the core is guaranteed, but there is a problem with the premise.Here, I must point out that information, firepower, and delivery capabilities can actually complement each other or promote each other.Strength in one aspect can make up for insufficiency in other aspects to a certain extent.But I must also point out that this compensation is not infinite.The Navy has a similar problem.

Therefore, how to make firepower carriers such as lasers, missiles, and high-energy particles reach places several light years away is the key factor in cracking the development of the navy's reverse strike chain theory.

In response to this problem, the most cutting-edge research conclusion is that the fire carrier is transmitted through wormholes.

The specific process is that the small spacecraft searches and finds the target, opens the wormhole, the large spacecraft activates the weapon, and the firepower carrier passes through the wormhole to destroy the target.

The above is also one of the recent movements to improve the firepower of small spaceships.The tiny wormhole doomsday weapon jointly developed by Caldari and Gallente Design Bureau is such a weapon.

In addition, there is the miniature doomsday weapon system developed by the Emma Design Bureau. The goal is to create a mass doomsday weapon with the Holy Pawn-class strategic cruiser as the carrier.A group of small spaceships are used to provide energy, and the domain is used as a launcher to launch a doomsday weapon.

As mentioned above, we are more inclined to the development of weapons and equipment itself. Besides, academically, these issues are more strategic.But in practice, strike chain theory also has important implications for tactical operations.Or we can put it this way, how you want to fight, you will formulate what kind of tactics, and you will develop corresponding weapons and equipment around the realization of such tactics.

What is the purpose of war?Save yourself and destroy the enemies.Preserving yourself is the first priority, but only by destroying the enemy can you save yourself better.The dialectical relationship here is to actively destroy the enemy on the premise of keeping yourself first.So, since we always put self-preservation first, why do some of us still fight bravely and fearlessly in war?The answer is that this preserved "self" does not refer to the individual, but refers to our entire collective.Only in a collective, it is meaningful to emphasize preserving oneself and destroying the enemy.Otherwise, everyone would be a deserter.

Since we talk about collectives, collectives must have division of labor and collaboration.Compared with the concept of unreliable weapons, strike chain theory emphasizes a kind of cooperation.This is the concept of logical integration mentioned earlier.And those unreliable weapons that overemphasize macro integration emphasize the role of individuals.They strive to make individuals perfect in all respects, which is undoubtedly difficult and wastes a lot of resources.

For example, in response to the information exposure problem brought about by the attack.For those unreliable weapons, they mainly rely on their own passive defense capabilities, and only find a way in the last step of the enemy's three steps.Therefore, once the attacks of these units cannot effectively destroy the enemy, and their own defenses cannot effectively defend against the enemy's attack, these units will be in an embarrassing situation where they cannot destroy the enemy, nor can they protect themselves or escape.

But the tactics under the guidance of the strike chain theory are committed to fundamentally avoiding the enemy's attack on our side.Please note that the biggest difference between this fundamental avoidance and those unreliable weapons is that the strike chain theory really separates self-protection from destroying the enemy. Even if we do not destroy the enemy, the enemy's attack power far exceeds our defense capacity, we are still in a safe state.This is the biggest difference between the two sides, and only in this way, the battle will not become a gamble with an unknown future.

Okay, the time for today’s program is up. At the end, I would like to summarize the significance of the strike chain theory for weapon development in one sentence: as we continue to understand the law, fundamental solutions to problems will inevitably emerge, even if they spiral upward The law of development will make us seem to return to the original point at a certain moment.

Thank you all for watching.