Chapter 480 - 451 Rattlesnake Electromagnetic Cannon

[Combat Directive: Bosaso observes the battle.]

Gu——

On the coastline, Wakanda Prince T’Challa swallowed hard.

"...Bosaso Harbor must be under attack by now."

No one spoke.

All 12 electromagnetic guns had been fully deployed.

All electronic devices were completely powered down; neither satellites nor any other radar could detect the hidden ambushers here.

Certainly, there were AWACS planes in the sky—it was a sure thing.

Although coexisting on Earth, the military strength the Mei Army possessed was overwhelming to many nations.

Honestly, though this country had waged many wars in the past decades, considering the global average, perhaps they truly had achieved a balance to a certain extent.

Otherwise, no country could withstand such an onslaught.

Of course, modern times were different.

Now that Rocksen Energy had completed its monopoly, almost causing internal class imbalance, and was waging even greater wars, they were no longer utterly defenseless.

However...

T’Challa looked towards the distant harbor, where his people lived another ordinary day in poverty.

Today, the world’s most advanced technology would force them to understand a broader world.

It was just unfortunate it had to be this way.

"It’s about time, release the drones!"

On the shoreline, Wakanda soldiers pulled off the camouflage cloths as the cargo holds of the armored transports slowly opened—

The drones, like bees leaving the nest, surged into the sky with the latest turbofan engines!

T’Challa tentatively turned on the wireless communication, and indeed, it was as Lille had predicted:

The wireless signal was extremely unstable; it was definitely not a problem with network technology.

Using hacker technology to attack presupposes one thing: you have mastered the relevant communication protocol— in other words, your target has the intent to communicate with the outside.

But war is different. As long as the hardware supports it, the jamming devices carried by aircraft carriers can produce super noise, covering nearly all usable frequency bands, leaving no wireless device unimpeded.

They were here to destroy.

Thankfully, these drones were also very advanced.

[Peregrine Drone]

[Carbon Fiber Composite Material, Stealth Coating, Electric Propulsion, High-Power Turbofan]

[Top Speed: 120 kilometers/hour]

[Description: Reconnaissance drone equipped with built-in AI to autonomously complete targeting tasks, fully isolated from outside interference]

[Short Pulse Infrared Laser will lock onto the target; the variable frequency laser has point-to-point transmission capabilities]

[Development Laboratory: Advanced Mechanical Laboratory]

[Developer: Dr. Tums]

[Reward Technology Points: 500]

[Current Technology Points: 14000]

Enemies appeared on the sea surface, but with a distance over a hundred kilometers, visual locking was entirely unreliable.

The drones formed lines in the air, and the gunners’ eyes were fixed on the sky:

This soldier from Wakanda had been previously blown to a cripple, but now he had a new eye.

An optical analysis Prosthetic Eye of the same model as the Vortex Gang’s "Eyes of Golden Flame".

[Name: "Hawkeye" Electronic Imaging Optical Analysis Prosthetic Eye]

[Carbon Fiber, Ceramic Main Body, Nanoscale Hand-Grinded High-Precision Sensors]

[Description: Analyzes tiny changes in multiple optical instruments, built-in AI filters and analyzes complex optical variances, can also do point-to-point laser information transmission, enabling "action based on subtle signals".]

[A military-grade Prosthetic Eye with almost no risk of being hacked, the sole downside is that for everyday use it’s far outshone by prosthetic and natural eyes.]

[Developer: Lille]

[Reward Technology Points: 500]

[Current Technology Points: 14500]

As the drones reached their positions, T’Challa was certain the enemy had spotted these little guys.

But they would definitely overlook these "little guys".

The close-in weapon systems fired, but the Falcon drones were highly agile; at the very least, they could hold out until the gunners received precise location info...

The gunner wore a massive helmet, fitted with an information processing chip, and plugged directly into the electromagnetic gun as an interface device.

His Prosthetic Eye became like a telescope, a long lens in a colorful world, capturing a color beyond normal human observation...

Watching the ships draw closer, the heavy ship guns turning, the transport planes nearing, T’Challa clenched his hand—

"Do you see them?"

The AI algorithm decoded the information amidst the frequency changes; a series of coordinate information appeared in the field of view—

"Seen them! We’ve got target info!"

In the jungle, soldiers eagerly pulled off the camouflage nets!

Below ground, the SCFR miniature reactors used for power supply kicked in, electric energy zoomed along the wires through the soil, and instantly reached all 12 electromagnetic guns hidden in the forest!

Zi——

Electricity surged into the coils, energy nearly reaching the material limits, buzzing and crackling!

[Name: "Rattlesnake" Electromagnetic Cannon]

[Description: The embodiment of the most advanced electromagnetic launch technology at the moment—if it can’t sink the enemy, we’re left at their mercy.]

[The warhead is coated with special materials that will be heated into plasma, with armor-piercing alloy beneath the high-temperature layer, achieving high velocity, high-temperature melting, and the strongest penetration power.]

[Hit the enemy.]

[Developer: Lille]

[Reward Technology Points: 500]

[Current Technology Points: 15000]

The nine-meter-long barrel was charged with electricity, the leaping electric arcs announcing it was ready!

It was time to pierce the enemy!

"Fire!!!"

Clack—

The trigger clicked softly.

Hundreds of thousands of amperes of current flowed through the coils, the special alloy of the shell ionizing rapidly under the action of high-voltage electric arcs and strong currents, with the hot blue halo enveloping the entire warhead.

This blue projectile accelerated drastically in the nine-meter-long magnetic rails, exploding out of the barrel with an initial speed of 2500 meters per second!

Boom!

The ground shockwave rippled in circles, sounding like thunder!

...

The Sixth Fleet’s cruisers turned their gun muzzles in unison—

"Captain, there are still civilians in the harbor area."

"I know," the captain nodded slightly, "but at least we don’t have to do it ourselves. Since you’re already here, you’ve taken the subsidy."

The soldier swallowed hard.

The captain stared in the direction of the harbor: "...We all know we’re hitting terrorists.

The people of Somalia, they fish and they’re pirates; they are the terrorists, fire."

"Roger that."

Bang!

Shree—

A piercing high-pitched whine cut through the sky, water spouting high!

The impact caused the large ship to rock visibly, the captain was stunned for a moment—

Enemy attack!

But where was the enemy?

[Crewman A: High water column on the port side!]

The ship’s captain immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie:

[Captain: Where’s the enemy?! What the hell is the radar not seeing?!]

[Crewman B: Nothing, there’s nothing on the radar! Only drones!]

[Crewman C: I see them! At 12 o’clock! 12 o’clock! They’re in the jungle!!]

[Crewman E: The transport has been hit!!!]

Boom!

In the sky, a transport plane filled with Iron Soldiers was hit head-on by the electromagnetic gun like a fly, immediately turning to scrap metal, smashed into the ocean by the massive kinetic energy!

[Captain: Dammit! 12 o’clock direction! Fire! They’re firing...]

Boom!

In one minute, 36 electromagnetic guns fired, one hit!

The navy on deck witnessed a horrifying scene:

The sky was covered with faint blue trajectories, and then the destroyers passing by them burst into a giant fireball!

The thousands of degrees Celsius plasma shell melted the ship’s body in an instant, and the powerful kinetic energy drove the remaining warhead to completely penetrate the ship’s body, shooting into the seafloor!

How could this be?!

The ship isn’t made of paper!

Boom!

The accumulated heat energy exploded, and the second round completely broke the ship in two! The ship’s structure really broke apart!

[Captain: I said fire, goddamn fire, understand?!]

[Fire Control: Turret A, 20 degrees southeast corner, fire—]

Boom!

The projectiles too fast for the naked eye to see continued to streak across the sky, screaming and explosions plunging the entire harbor into chaos.

But... where were the people?

The battle continued, but those trapped between life and death were lost in confusion: what could they do to survive?

Or should they just sit and wait for death, as the chances of living wouldn’t change much anyways?

Boom!

The harbor was blasted into the sky.

The transport plane swept through the explosion and headed straight for the artillery positions!

T’Challa gripped his rifle tightly, his helmet sliding off, and two fingers smeared with some red paint swept over the visor...

"Wakanda Yibambe."

All the soldiers made the same gesture.