Talk:New Republic of the Pacific/@comment-12161342-20150708193850/@comment-12161342-20150708201037

''Defensive particle beam guns on the Solarfortresses open up on the Kamikaze drones, whittling their numbers down dramatically and resulting in only five Solarfortresses being impacted by the drones. Meanwhile, their heavy defensive 200mm railgun turrets open up, exchanging fire with the enemy Longswords. Both the Solarfortresses and Longswords are armored with signifigant weapons, so it soon becomes an aerial slugfest with both types of aircraft pounding away at each other.''

The Daggers, being outfitted with CMT drives, are much improved over the last engagement, though that cannot change the fact that they are quite old by modern standards, and therefore they suffer 40% casualty rates at the hands of the Hailstorm's AA and the smaller fighters.