Blackbird Heavy Industries had lost their intercontinental ballistic missile launch capability.
Not only had the five ballistic missile silos been destroyed, but many of the intercontinental missiles around the silos had also been destroyed.
It wouldn’t be easy for them to rebuild this capability in the short term, and there was no need to worry about this problem for at least a few months. Whether rebuilding the missile silos or replenishing the number of missiles, it was not something that could be completed overnight.
Before the star warriors destroyed those missile silos, at least 500 intercontinental ballistic missiles had been launched toward various locations in the Alliance. Most of the missiles were still aimed at Revival City, Weixing City, and the front-line troops; in addition, a total of eighty missiles fell on Beigu City, Gaota City, and Beigong City (renamed from Extreme North Industrial City).
Other places were not hit by missiles.
It was estimated that regions further east, such as Skaaro City and Xiongya City, were beyond the range of Blackbird’s cruise missiles.
As for places in the Beiqing Valley Region, where the population was sparse, there was no point in bombing farmland with missiles; areas in Central Province, Gaota Province, and Central-North Province, although some had industrial value and absolutely no air defense forces, the industrial distribution was scattered and intelligence was unclear, so it was not cost-effective to bomb them, and they were not attacked.
Weixing City and Revival City faced the highest frequency of attacks, but most missiles headed their way were intercepted, especially Weixing City, which wasn’t hit again after Gu Hang personally went there to help intercept the missiles that the ‘Reflector’ air defense system failed to block.
However, when he went to Weixing City, Revival City became unlucky, and despite the bombardment in several waves, a few missiles still fell, hitting blocks, residential areas, and factories.
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But all in all, the loss was still relatively controllable. Air raid warnings were sounded over both cities early on, with evacuations where needed, and those who could stay home did so. Even if some residential areas suffered war damage, destroying two buildings, casualties were kept under fifty people.
The worst situations were in Beigu City, Gaota City, and Beigong City.
Although Beigong City had some air defense systems left over from the Extreme North Industry Group, they were certainly not comparable to the ‘Reflector’ in quality, and the interception efficiency was not very good.
As for Beigu and Gaota, they lacked any air defense systems at all and were purely subjected to the bombing.
According to post-attack statistics, these three cities, hit by dozens of missiles, had a total of over five thousand casualties!
This was after every city that raised an alarm after the first wave of missile strikes had evacuated people, ceased production, and hidden in bomb shelters if they could, or shivered at home if they couldn’t.
Despite that, the casualty toll was still heavy for the Alliance.
Current preliminary, rough estimates indicated losses totaling millions Tax Currency, from population to buildings to industry to goods.
Gu Hang was deeply pained by this.
What he found most distressing was the loss of population. With five thousand casualties, even if more than three thousand were only injured and at least half of them could, after some time of medical assistance, eventually recover their ability to work, it was still a huge loss.
But he nonetheless had to be grateful that the star warriors had done an outstanding job. In the shortest time possible, they had eliminated the threat of Blackbird’s intercontinental ballistic missiles to the Alliance.
The bombardment from five hundred missiles had resulted in a loss of one million Tax Currency. Of course, Blackbird’s ammunition reserves were far more than that. If they really let that number multiply by ten, then a loss in the tens of millions would be inevitable.
Beigu City was the capital of the Beiqing Valley Province, an important hub for food processing and distribution in the Alliance; Gaota City was a significant base for resource collection and primary processing, and also an energy base.
Just the destructive attacks on these two places alone resulted in losses far exceeding ten million, not to mention that Beigong City, having inherited the assets of the Extreme North Industry, was nearly the Alliance’s second-largest industrial center.
It could be said that the star warriors’ sortie had saved the Alliance at least twenty million Tax Currency in losses and saved countless lives.
This incident also served as a wakeup call to Gu Hang and provided a profound lesson for the Alliance.
Under his directive, Weixing City had already begun to focus on expanding the production lines of the ‘Reflector’.
Four models, vehicle-mounted, air defense, naval gun, and orbital… all were to be scheduled for production.
The models were arranged from smallest to largest.
The vehicle-mounted model was already in mass production, used on Lion Tanks and Wind Falcons; the air defense model had previously been produced in small quantities, but now production had to be ramped up; the naval gun model was also entering production, needed for the future ‘Voyager’ ships of the Alliance, even if these ships didn’t even qualify as patrol vessels, but at least they could be equipped with one naval gun-type Reflector.
The orbital model was both for ground-based anti-orbit warfare, capable of shooting laser cannons from the ground into space, giving the Alliance a means to respond to orbital strikes in the future, and for construction on starports, transforming them into armed Star Fortresses.
Even Tadeusz had already received a task from Gu Hang to start preparing a cover for the Alliance’s whole orbital air defense system, primarily relying on the ‘Reflector’.