The ship slowly drove out of the space dock, and Li Xin also boarded the ship with senior officers.

Cruisers are also considered large ships in space.

Generally, cruisers are divided into three sections: bow, core, and stern.

There are three modular designs to choose from for the bow: a cannon bow, a missile bow, or a salvo bow.

The core can choose from four module designs, namely the hangar core, which is usually equipped with space carrier-based aircraft, giving the cruiser a certain aviation combat capability.

These carrier-based aircraft can carry out air strikes, reconnaissance, and interception of enemy carrier-based aircraft.

The second type is the giant cannon core, which is equipped with heavy large ion cannons, neutron cannons, etc. The weapons are powerful and consume a lot of energy.

There are also salvo cores and missile cores.

At the stern, there are generally two modules to choose from. One is the salvo stern, which is equipped with a variety of small and medium-sized weapons, such as medium-sized plasma cannons and electromagnetic rail guns.

You can also choose close-range defense weapons, rapid-fire and energy weapons to defend against enemy carrier-based aircraft, or attacks from missiles and space torpedoes.

The other is the gunboat core, which is usually used to carry small gunboats or drones. These small aircraft can patrol around the cruiser, detect and attack approaching enemy small ships and carrier-based aircraft.

Generally speaking, it is to increase the combat flexibility of the cruiser.

Among the batch of cruisers currently being built, the modules selected by Li Xin are the same.

The bow of the ship is a cannon bow with five large weapon slots, three of which are heavy plasma jet cannons with a range of about 300,000 kilometers.

Two of them are heavy rail guns, which are kinetic energy acceleration guns with a longer effective range of 350,000 kilometers.

It has a longer range, a much faster rate of fire, and can fire more shells, but the shells fly slower.

Whether it is used to attack enemy ships or to block the movement of ships, it is useful.

The cruiser core is the hangar core.

Of course, the hangar core of a cruiser cannot be compared with that of a battleship and is smaller.

But it can also carry thirty space carrier-based aircraft, their ninety unmanned wingmen, or thirty Ranger mecha units.

Although it is impossible to deliver carrier-based aircraft and mechas directly into the battlefield like an aircraft carrier or a mecha mothership, it is still much better than having the mecha troops ride on a temporary mecha mothership every time.

In the core of the hangar, many small and medium-sized short-range weapons can be carried on the periphery, such as large-caliber rapid-fire cannons and small multi-barrel laser cannons to defend against enemy carrier-based aircraft, space torpedoes and missiles.

At the stern, the salvo stern is chosen, which can carry five medium-sized gamma laser cannons.

It has a range of 250,000 kilometers and a fast speed. Although its power is not as strong as the large plasma jet cannon on the bow, it can basically lock onto the enemy and fire, which is equivalent to hitting the enemy.

It is very useful for attacking destroyers and frigates.

After all, the medium-sized guns used on cruisers are equivalent to the main guns of destroyers and are a full circle larger than the main guns of frigates.

The cruiser built this time is the Justice-class cruiser.

It is 2,500 meters long and needs to carry a crew of 8,000 people.

Among them, at least five hundred are genetic warrior guards, who are responsible for responding to enemy boarding battles or carrying out their own boarding battles.

The remaining more than 7,000 people are mainly crew members of various levels, weapon operators, and logistics personnel.

The ship under Li Xin's feet is the flagship. Compared with the other ships, this one is larger, reaching 2,800 meters.

It is mainly equipped with more armor, more void shield generators, and stronger communication and command systems.

The long shuttle-shaped battleship flew out of the space dock and joined the fleet docked in the Walker galaxy.

At present, the number of all ships under Li Xin’s command has increased a lot compared to a year ago.

The number of destroyers has increased a bit, and now it has reached 90, because the space dock in the Walker galaxy has been building cruisers for the past year, and most of the production capacity has been used.

Only some newly expanded docks can be used to build destroyers.

The number of frigates has increased a lot, because the space docks in the Tianjin Four Star Systems are producing frigates non-stop, and the docks are also constantly expanding. Every four months, a new batch of docks will be added to the production and construction.

Three more batches of frigates were produced this year, with 54, 64 and 74 ships in each batch.

With the addition of these cruisers, the total number of ships under Li Xin’s command is.

10 Justice-class cruisers.

There are 3 Obedience-class destroyers and 83 Conspicuous-class destroyers.

There are 10 Basic-class frigates and 349 Fang-class frigates.

The number of torpedo boats remains unchanged at 16, and no such ships have been built in recent years.

This brings the total number of ships to 475 ships of various levels.

It is certainly inappropriate to keep so many ships in the Walker galaxy.

At the beginning, it was just to fool these guys in the Yaru Alliance. Now that the strength of the fleet has increased, there is naturally no need to fool them anymore.

Therefore, Li Xin divided all the ships into two parts.

Two fleets were formed, named the Third Assault Fleet and the Fourth Assault Fleet.

Currently in the Walker system is the Third Assault Fleet.

This fleet includes fifty destroyers, one hundred and thirty frigates, and Li Xin plans to add thirty torpedo boats.

This batch of additional torpedo boats is also under construction.

So now among the ships in the Walker galaxy, there are 196 ships of various levels.

Now these ten newly built cruisers will be directly added to the Third Assault Fleet.

So when all the ships arrived, the ships of the Third Assault Fleet would be ten Justice-class cruisers, fifty Conspicuous-class destroyers, one hundred and thirty Fang-class frigates, and thirty Roar-class torpedo boats.

In the future, Li Xin also plans to add another fifteen cruisers to the Third Assault Fleet.

The other ships are now all in the Tianjin system in the capital, where they have formed the Fourth Assault Fleet.

However, none of the ships here are fully staffed, and they all need to be replenished later.

The star base and space dock at Tianjin 4 can reach the standards for building cruisers in at most half a year.

Therefore, this half year is used to replenish the various types of ships in the two fleets.

In the future, these small and medium-sized ships will no longer be built, and the number of cruisers in the two fleets will be replenished first.