Although the Zerg mobilized a total of less than 60 troops in the European battlefield, plus other war zones on the earth, the Zerg's current front-line army is about a million, but who knows whether their arsenals on the moon and Mars are now empty or full of insects infestation.

Not to mention interstellar wars, even in World War II, the small friction between the Soviet Union and Germany caused tens of millions of military and civilian casualties on both sides. In the later period, the troops mobilized by both sides far exceeded the 1000 million mark. Now the more than 300 million regular troops plus There are millions of reserve troops, obviously conservative.

There is no way, all kinds of planning projects in China are rushing to launch in a hurry, rushing to upgrade technology and equipment. Although the army is also an indispensable highlight, but before the large-scale frontal attack of the Zerg on the Republic, tens of millions of troops were directly raised. Still too wasteful.We must know that the more technology develops, the more expensive it is to arm a soldier. Unless the unmanned chemical factory technology is fully mature, the cost will drop significantly.

However, it seems that it is still barely enough. The large and small cities and villages in the country are subcontracted by the reserve forces, armed police, and militias. A huge strategic mobile force composed of group armies.

Just like Dongye after the Liaoshen Campaign, at least in East Asia, it will be a huge "Dinghaishenzhen" armed force.

If the Zerg wanted to break through the double interception network composed of clustered nuclear weapons and reach the ground, they would have to pay huge casualties. On this basis, it is obviously very difficult to defeat this huge strategic mobile corps in the East Asian area.

It's just that this is a passive strategic defense after all, which is to delay the domestic climb of the technology tree. To really win, you must attack strategically.

As Taizu's military thought expounded:

The main purpose of strategic defense is to preserve the vital force, and on this basis, appropriately kill the enemy's vital force to change the balance of forces between the enemy and ourselves; the main purpose of strategic offensive is to destroy the enemy's vital force, and on this basis, try to reduce our own casualties as much as possible.

Strategic defense must be based on a proactive campaign and tactical offensive, and you must not fight to stand still; strategic offensive does not exclude partial defensive campaigns, and the enemy's forces cannot be coordinated in time and space by separating and blocking reinforcements. , in order to better destroy the enemy.

And defense is ultimately a preparation for counter-offensive, because strategic offense can completely destroy the enemy and win.

At the same time, apart from the army accounting for 40% of this group of million-level soldiers, the navy air force and the rocket army accounted for roughly the same proportion, and they all ushered in an expansion of their establishment.

The air force is under a lot of pressure on the air defense of the country, especially for Southeast Asia and South Asia, which may face the performance of Zerg, and must be prepared for large-scale cross-border support.At the same time, according to the research progress of suborbital fighters, the first batch of suborbital troops is also under preparation.

Needless to say, the navy, the protection of ocean routes, and even the inevitable landing and anti-landing fights with the Zerg on some important islands, reefs and regional nodes.Although with a series of energy breakthroughs led by domestic nuclear fusion, the demand for earth's fossil energy is declining, but it is undeniable that even if cars don't burn oil, the current chemical industry still needs raw materials.The upgrading of the domestic industrial system is now on the table of the Grand Consul, but obviously it will take time.

The Rocket Army is an important strategic Great Wall facing the Zerg. Whether it is the strategic interception of the orbit, or the first wave of fire washing after the Zerg lands, it is very important.Among other things, with such a large area of ​​the country, the establishment of the required interception and launch brigade requires a large number of soldiers.

This is only the first batch of military expansion operations. After the completion of this year's conscription plan, further conscription will be made next year depending on the development of the war situation.Of course, more than 100 million young and middle-aged people have entered the army, and the gradual operation of the war economy industry is absorbing a huge amount of labor. This is very important for a country where the economy has been hit hard and unemployment has begun to show signs.

I have heard about the previous companies. While the public-private partnership is in place, the country is still working hard to expand and raise funds to create a new military and heavy industry group. On the one hand, it will expand employment opportunities, maintain the healthy operation of the domestic economy, and prepare for a long-term war.After all, everyone needs to have jobs, income, food and clothing, and only then can wars be fought.

On the other hand, today's military-related industrial needs are a bit stretched based on the industrial capabilities of the former republic.Among other things, the formation of more than 100 million cutting-edge troops, as well as the replacement of the original troops, require a large number of cutting-edge weapons. The central government is now tightening its belt and ordering production, but the production capacity is insufficient, and the factory workers are not enough. This is embarrassing.

Furthermore, in order to curb the unlimited expansion of the Zerg on the earth under the current situation, and the underdeveloped countries are defeated too quickly, it is necessary to provide them with a large amount of weapons and equipment, and in terms of the intensity of the Zerg war, what advanced Tanks and planes are all consumables.

This makes the gap even bigger.

This is also an important reason why the country has been adjusting the economic operation mechanism instead of entering the wartime system, because the wartime system itself is an economic control measure, a temporary policy of "saving expenditure" in an emergency, and cannot expand social productivity itself. , expand social wealth, and strengthen the production capacity of military and heavy industries.Now, for the long-term war with the Zerg, what is needed is a complete economic operation system that can be virtuous, and a set of wartime economic guidance.

You must know that the stronger the fight, the stronger it refers not only to the research and development of science and technology, but also the strong social productivity and social wealth that transform science and technology into engineering technology and produce high-tech weapons as consumables.Otherwise, even if you directly own an entire star fleet, how many days can you afford to support it?

It is conceivable that with the spread of war on the earth and the disintegration of the global economic division chain, all countries in the world will turn to militarization under the pressure of survival, and the military heavy industry itself does not generate wealth, and it is a bottomless pit for non-industrial countries. At this time, how to reconstruct a global economic system that allows all human beings to operate in an orderly manner against the Zerg with a huge responsibility at this time is also a huge topic, which requires the great wisdom of domestic economists.

As far as China is concerned, it is only an early stage of factory closures, and it is not serious.However, the vast retail industry and small and micro enterprises, especially the service industry, have now shown a huge response to the changes in the world economy, and have begun to close down in large numbers. At the same time, it is already a very troublesome problem to mesh them into the huge heavy industry system of the Republic Army, transform their labor into the value of the weapon industry that eliminates the Zerg, and at the same time provide them with income guarantees for basic necessities of life.

The economy of a big country, be it peace or war, is a highly sophisticated machine that cannot tolerate sand. This statement is true.

Chapter 101 Exoskeletons and New Weapons

In the capital, a secret shooting range under the jurisdiction of Northern Ordnance Industry is currently under full martial law, and many new equipment that will be installed are undergoing tests here.

The company has also gone through layers of inspections all the way in. The reason is very simple. Since learning about the spores, the country has immediately adopted a comprehensive investigation from top to bottom, and since May, it has promoted mass-oriented spores to the whole people. The joint defense and joint control operation is just like the fight against the epidemic. There are armed militiamen or policemen with live ammunition standing guard at the gates of all public places, and special personnel are responsible for inspections.

As long as the activities are in the country, there will be layers of screening sooner or later.Every street also has a patrol force in case of emergency, no one knows what the Zerg will do if they are discovered.

Inspections are required every day, and everyone has to pass the customs. This is a measure that has been rolled out across the country.

It's also very simple, and you don't need any high-tech machines. Anyway, just touch your spinal nerves and you're done. Infrared scanning is also effective for these spores that belong to organic organisms.

Well, it's a scary thing to say, but it was indeed prevented by such "down-to-earth" means.

Not many people were cleared out in the earlier investigation. The current focus of the Zerg is not in East Asia, and now there are very few reports of infection.

However, the treatment of these infected people who have been screened out is still a problem. In Europe and the United States, which are already frightened, they may be killed on the spot. At the end of April, the news of the infection of the leadership of the NATO Command in Europe broke out, which confirmed the folk legends about the infected people. Many people experienced those weird "defectors" when Germany fell. .This has also become a major scandal. People who have no military common sense know what the relationship between military leadership being infiltrated by the enemy and defeat is.

However, on the one hand, the various research progress on Zerg in China can be said to be the fastest in the world. On the other hand, the explosive development of medicine also shows that the damaged nervous system of these people has the possibility of repairing, and it is very large.It's just that apart from the death cases that were not rescued in time, there are cases of vegetative people whose brain nerves are still paralyzed after cloning and repairing the spinal nerves.

Prevention and control requires both prevention and treatment. If it can be prevented and cured well in the future, and even the infection mechanism of these spores can be thoroughly understood, then the threat of these spores will be greatly reduced.

Of course, as the only two warships of the Republic, the Sentinels are still very polite, they just use their instruments to sweep them. It’s just a formality, and the spores are not yet able to pierce the thick armor plate and infect non-human organisms. nervous system.

The shooting range is testing several types of light weapons equipment today, and they are basically determined to become the Army's standard light weapons equipment in the next few years.

Including a set of mature exoskeleton armor family, titanium alloy heat-resistant armor module used by tanks, gun family using 12.7MM full power bullets, and some strange new infantry weapons and squad unmanned weapon stations.

These are all cooperative projects between Northern Ordnance Industry and Enterprising Science and Technology. As a naval enterprise, it seems that it has little to do with it, but many things in it will be related to her equipment improvement in the future.

For example, this UNSC armor material B-grade titanium alloy has amazing thermal and dynamic resistance. After being strengthened at the micro level, it is also very useful to consume and fight against the projectiles of ion weapons.It's a pity that the black technology of A-grade titanium alloy has not been pointed out yet, otherwise the large-caliber main gun of the star warship can also withstand a few hits, and the effect will be very good when facing the Zerg's plasma projectile caliber.

Another example is these large numbers of unmanned weapon stations that can be carried and released by individual soldiers, or even distributed by rocket launchers like mines, and the miniature self-destruct aircraft clusters are all good helpers in the face of insect swarms, and companies behind them can also carry them.

The test equipment is all excellent soldiers of the army, and their adaptability and combat effectiveness to the equipment are very good. Just like the test flight of the fighter plane, we must try our best to see whether the human beings who are flesh and blood can improve the performance of these equipment. Take it to the extreme.

This set of exoskeletons is a whole family, numbered ZGZ-263, which is the "26-year main battle exoskeleton armor project No. 3".Its development is inseparable from the powerful probabilistic simulation of human body movement by quantum computers, the black technology support of enterprises, and the trial data of army exoskeletons in the European battlefield.

There are assault models, special warfare penetration models, heavy firepower infantry models, reconnaissance models, command models, etc., each with its own emphasis on strengthening, and there are also a large number of such as sniper helmet modules, weapon station integrated control command terminals, heavy titanium alloy plug Various plug-in components such as boards and so on can be added by themselves according to task requirements.

It is equipped with a powerful active power output as standard. The per capita upper body boxing strength starts at 1.5 tons, and female soldiers can also hit a record of more than two tons.A battery can guarantee 72 hours of operation at full power. Normally, a battery can run for a week.The battery is not too big, it is as big as a 95 rifle magazine, and two or three are enough.

There are also powerful aiming aids, especially in conjunction with the new guns with data connection capabilities, which are comparable to game-like aiming aids and exoskeleton-assisted arm aiming, and soldiers' combat effectiveness can be generated faster.

Except for the infiltration type and the heavy firepower type, these exoskeletons are all EXO-style semi-covered designs, which can be better combined with existing large war equipment and armor systems to achieve a balance between combat effectiveness and economic costs.The permeable type is of course fully covered due to the optical color-changing design of the whole body.The heavy firepower type looks like a small Gundam, with heavy defense plug-ins all over its body, new grenades and heavy machine guns, and a heavy ammunition depot on its back. It is the ceiling of individual firepower output and the firepower core of the team.

The new gun family is code-named QBZ-26, with a caliber of 12.7MM. Assault rifles, short bursts and precision marksman rifles are the three core models. Penetration, projectiles are all tungsten core.

Well, the way the so-called Republic handles tungsten...

In addition, although the new gun family has a modular design, it is quite free to temporarily modify the firearms, but it does not have a machine gun model like the old 95.The machine gun is a separate model of 14.5MM, which is standard for heavy exoskeletons.

Generally speaking, the design idea of ​​the new generation of rifles is to pursue high power and large caliber, and except for some special units in the army, they will hardly be equipped with pistols and submachine guns. Facing the Zerg, the secondary weapons must be the old rifles from before. The bones are all magnetically attracted to the back, and it is easy to carry firearms and ammunition, so there is no big problem.Or just use the new type of large-caliber shotgun, which has fatal lethality and powerful stopping ability against warrior bugs within 15 meters.

However, as the representative of heavy firepower, Enterprise and Befa themselves do not need exoskeletons and light weapons. What they are more curious about are two new types of grenades.

One is a grenade launched by a pistol-like launcher. The prototype UNSC's M363 sticky detonator can adhere to the surface of most known objects after hitting the target, and then pull the trigger again to detonate.Because the blasting department uses a new type of charge, the power is extremely powerful. Although the size of a light weapon is large, the explosive power is not inferior to an AT4 rocket. It is divided into armor-piercing bombs and pre-fabricated fragmentation bombs. The effective range is 60 meters. Use it It is silent and easy, and it is ridiculously accurate, and it can carry a lot of ammunition. You can imagine how much the army soldiers who love the bobbin will love it. This team does not carry twenty or thirty rounds. I am sorry for the weight of the exoskeleton. Portability.

The other is a drum-type large-scale grenade launcher, which can basically replace the tube, with an effective range of more than 200 meters and great power.There are also many types of projectiles. There is also a new type of projectile that can cooperate with the ability of the exoskeleton to find the enemy after firing. It can be semi-automatically searched within 50 meters. The launch can also hit the enemy with the locking ability of the exoskeleton.

It can be clearly found that the changes in the combat effectiveness of these individual squads basically rely on breakthroughs in exoskeletons.

Although these weapons are obviously of an emergency nature, and the technology tree in China is climbing very fast, it is estimated that they will be replaced in a few years, but in this way, it is also conceivable that once these weapons are equipped with the Army on a large scale, the Army's 200 million How strong the soldiers will be in suppressing is almost directly improving the combat effectiveness of a whole generation of light infantry. With the strong army quality that is already number one in Blue Star, it can obviously form a quality advantage or even suppress the Zerg in the frontal battlefield for a period of time. ability.

The weapon testing team is working hard to test the new equipment. They are trying their best to tap the potential of the new equipment and discover the defects and deficiencies in use. However, it is obvious that these equipment are not at the level of technology that has just been put into practical use. Performance should be researched and improved little by little over time.

They are the products of mature technology, especially the exoskeleton. It may not be very simple to use it to the limit at once.

The researchers of the Northern Ordnance Industry recorded the performance of the weapon, recorded various data and suggestions, and at the same time couldn't help but laugh. After all, such performance and performance, as a research and development personnel, who is not happy, and can't go back and praise it. Have fun.

At this time, the enterprise also noticed Befa's look eager to try, and quietly approached him and asked, "Beifa, do you want to try it? I can still speak a little bit here."

A certain white hair is still a little proud, um, these things are related to him, seeing Befa come in, his eyes are full of curiosity that he tried hard to suppress and the urge to try it himself, and he feels a kind of stinky joy in his heart.

"I want to!" Befacco replied very decisively without being twitchy, "Commander, I want to try!"

PS: I will post a few pictures here as a reference. As usual, the pictures are only used as an aid, and I have to adjust the actual parameters.

Chapter 102 Northern Ordnance Industry and Styx

Facts have proved that although these equipments are already very advanced, the individual capabilities of the ship's mother are still beyond their limits. At least Befa was reimbursed for the right arm of the exoskeleton together with the target after exerting force.The high-performance titanium alloy exoskeleton material still failed to withstand the bombing of the ship's power output.

However, Befa still likes these equipments very much, because it really brought her a novel experience, which is completely different from the concept of World War II soldiers in her impression, and it is already a bit of a prototype of an interstellar soldier.

Of course, this performance really startled the people of Northern Ordnance Industry. Although they knew a little bit about the situation of these two female soldiers, they still couldn't help but be amazed at the superhuman performance of the human-shaped creature.Surprises are surprises, the data that should be collected is still indispensable.

Compared with Befa who had a lot of fun playing with individual equipment over there, the company cared more about some new concept weapons and Zerg's war experience, which made her very concerned about these unmanned, low-level equipment that can operate in swarms. Cost consumables.

For example, the PT-3 "Tarantula", which is about the size of a primary school student, this automatic turret can fire 14.5MM projectiles with high precision and high intelligence. The rate of fire can be adjusted from 600 to 5000. Unified command on the battlefield.The improved model can also undertake the battlefield support of 40MM artillery, the maximum can reach 60MM, and perform the function of mortar.

Low cost and easy to carry, troops can be deployed in large numbers at any time to form a low-cost forward machine gun fire network or a battlefield small-caliber fire support system that is not afraid of loss.

Another example is the unidentified "Elf" swarm suicide drone, which is about the same size as a fat house eagle. This is something inspired by self-demolition bugs. The data link docking capability of the exoskeleton, the cluster flight on the ground or the formation into a small space in formation—such as an underground hole—suddenly attack, with extremely high lethality, high-performance explosives, cloud explosives, white phosphorus bombs, etc. Pick the medication for the killing department.This thing itself is not worth much, and the cost has been as low as less than 100 yuan each. After the industrial system is upgraded, this thing may really be the price of cabbage.

Whether it is bringing a group of people in the empty space below the deck of the enterprise, or distributing troops in various forms such as helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft, and rocket launchers, a suicide storm of thousands of units can be formed in an instant.Individual squads can also bring two launch boxes, which can be operated in a fool-like manner. Without an exoskeleton, automatic homing can be set. After starting, the smart homing attack can be set directly according to the target.

Obviously, this thing can be exported to third world countries in large quantities like the 107 guerrilla artifact. It will be of great help to them in facing the Zerg, and they can afford it.

In this way, there are many types of these individual weapons and low-cost new-concept team weapons. It can be seen that the researchers of the Northern Ordnance Industry are not only absorbing technology, but also using their own whimsy to come up with a lot of strange things. The things, and they are all very practical equipment.

It can be used immediately in China. Looking back at a certain air show in the second half of the year, it can also greatly promote some cheap and easy-to-use things.

What is most panicking now is not the Middle East and Africa that have already been beaten, but a group of countries such as Central Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. They are generally weak in national strength and lack industrial capacity, and most of them are at odds with the United States. Western weapons cannot afford them. .

Don't think that the big enemy is now, and the capitalists in Europe and the United States will cut prices or give them away for free out of the common interests of mankind. On the contrary, when these countries face the threat of life and death and have to buy weapons, in the eyes of the military-industrial complex of the United States , They have become walking gold and silver mountains.

For capital, the most important thing is to realize capital appreciation; for capitalists, the most important thing is to increase personal wealth.As for the issue of life, it is not important, even if I am going to die tomorrow, it will not prevent me from making money today.

This is the effect of capital's alienation of human beings on capitalists.

It's a pity that here are all light weapons for individual soldiers. The company didn't see heavy ground vehicles, which are also the business scope of Northern Ordnance Industry. I heard that they have also made breakthroughs in this area recently. I don't know how the results are.

"Comrade Enterprise, long time no see. How is it? Are we satisfied with our shopping here?"

A familiar voice came from behind. The company looked back and found that it was Liu Xihong, the project docking director of Northern Ordnance Industry and Jinjin Science and Technology. He was very young, just 30, and he was a very capable guy. He had met with the company many times. .

"Very good. By the way, are these things going to be delivered to the troops soon?"

"Yeah, the battle situation is urgent, and these things are not bad. Let's equip them in batches first. Just in time, the industrial system will undergo large-scale high-precision and unmanned upgrades. These things will be cheaper than now."

"What is the cost now, for example, how many troops can be equipped with these exoskeletons?" Enterprises are very concerned about this issue. After all, no matter how good things are, if only a few troops can be equipped, the losses of soldiers on the European battlefield will still be repeated in East Asia. This is unacceptable to her.

Liu Xihong smiled confidently, and his tone was very proud: "Let's put it this way, comrades in the enterprise, in addition to the large amount of extra money required for a comprehensive refit this year, next year's military expenditure will only be 2.68 trillion*, but it can ensure that the entire army can use it well." These equipments are widely used, and they are popularized in large numbers.”

"Really? There are millions of people in the military expansion, and there will be 320 million active-duty main force not counting the reserves." The enterprise was a little unconvinced.

"I'm an old military worker, so I can still lie to you. The central government doesn't have any money left. The money has been calculated accurately."

Immediately, Liu Xihong changed the subject, approached the company mysteriously, and inquired: "Speaking of comrades in the company, Central Mashan is going to set up a weapon industry group under Jinjin Science and Technology, do you know?"

"Huh? What else is there?" The enterprise's face froze, and it began to pretend to be stupid very unskillfully.

"Hey, I said my comrades in the big colonel, you can't lie. Hey, what's the secret? Our military industry system knows about this. Everyone is in this system. No one has ordered it yet. news channel."

"Really? I thought you didn't know, but the boss repeatedly told me to keep it a secret, so that you old military workers don't think the central government is partial."

Then, there was silence between the two, and the atmosphere was very awkward...

"...Old Liu, are you lying to me..."

Old Liu kept silent, just laughed.

Realizing that he had made a mistake again, he was very ashamed and angry on the spot: "Okay, old Liu, you old boy, be careful. If you later transfer to a new group and help me, don't blame me for wearing small shoes for you."

"Don't bother, don't tell me! Big sister of the company, this is because our leader wants me to inquire about the news. I am just a wage earner. If there is a wronged person and a debtor, please don't trouble me." Old Liu looked pitiful. Di Yitong pretended to be pitiful, and then changed the subject again, "Speaking of which, what is the name of this new group, I know that the naming rights are all in the hands of the eldest sister, right?"

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