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As Towin said, the new fleet establishment is an upgrade from the original establishment of the orbital fleet.

Although the original establishment of the orbital fleet is relatively chaotic, it also has the most basic establishment, that is, the orbital patrol fleet, which is composed of one capital ship and eight frigates, and as for the subsequent orbital alert fleet, the orbital defense fleet, and even the orbital attack fleet, which has only been planned and has never had an instance, are all expanded on this basis.

The new plan will no longer continue to use this kind of organization, but will be organized into a squadron of four warships of the same type, four squadrons into a combat group, and four combat groups into a battle group. In this way, the fleet will be able to flexibly organize itself freely according to different tasks, and will be able to organize more battle groups while ensuring that its combat effectiveness will not be affected.

In this way, the orbital patrol fleet, which was originally composed of one capital ship and eight frigate warships, will now increase or decrease depending on whether the patrol area is a high-risk area or a safe area, such as patrolling in a safe area where the capital ship group exists, and a patrol in a high-risk engagement area far from the capital ship group will be patrolled by a fleet composed of one capital ship squadron and four frigate squadrons, such a fleet of four capital ships and sixteen frigates. When encountering a surprise fleet of Sijing people that is not the size of the main fleet, they can even repel the opponent or hold out to the support of the main fleet.

The digital fleet in the GDI space fleet plan will be composed of battle groups or battle groups, which can be dispersed and deployed in peacetime, and can also be quickly assembled and grouped in the event of a major battle.

It's just that with such an establishment, the demand for capital ships is even higher, and each capital ship is equipped with four frigates in a ratio of one to four. This is also the reason why Towin would count the number of capital ships in his hands at the beginning, and come up with a new capital ship design for Lin Hai to decide. Compared to frigates, which can be manufactured faster and require less manpower, the capital ships are the focus of his new formation.

And because the sea behemoth-class heavy cruiser has lost its original main position due to the improvement of the shield of the Sijing people, and has even been discontinued until now, because Lin Hai has been guarding against the betrayal of other forces, he has never had the idea of retiring or handing over this class of capital ship to others, that is to say, the sea behemoth is one of the trump cards that Lin Hai has hidden to deal with other human warships - although it can't beat the starship of the Sijing people, but against the human being's own starship, the sea behemoth-class efficiency is still very high- Therefore, this class of warships cannot be included in the capital ship squadron program in Towin's new plan.

At present, there are only 82 Kodiak-class battle cruisers that can be used, and they can only be organized into 20.5 capital ship squadrons, equipped with 80 frigate squadrons, for a total of 342 starships.

This number is naturally unsatisfactory, and the size of the fleet is not even as good as the old formation, after all, the current GDI space fleet has the most frigate warships such as the Higra-class destroyers, but if there is no capital ship support, only relying on these frigate warships to fight head-on with the Sijing fleet, the loss rate will make any general crazy. This is an absolutely unacceptable loss for the GDI space fleet, which itself is too short of space warships to operate ships.

For this reason, if Towin wanted to continue with his new plan, he would have to increase the number of capital ships by a large margin. When he proposed this new aspect at this time, he naturally hoped that Lin Hai would help solve this problem together.

"The so-called solution, on the one hand, in addition to putting the Kunpeng class into production as soon as possible, on the other hand, can only continue to produce the old model of the Kodiak class." "It's just that it's still a matter of manpower." While the new ship is put into operation, we cannot waste manpower on the old ship, so it is necessary to hand over some or even all of the Kodiak class to the control of the natural person crew. But we can't really hand over the warship to outsiders, and they have to rely too much on us to be in our interest. ”

"What else can I do? The Kodiak class can be handed over to allies in small batches, but the number of items handed over will still be reduced. The coaxial pulse laser cannon was eliminated, the magnetic railgun reduced the capacitors, the reactor was replaced with a minimalist version, the armor and point defense guns were reduced, and the operating system was installed with a backdoor. "For Towin's problem, Lin Hai naturally can't come up with a better way, no matter how unwilling he is to give others his own good goods, but in the face of the bad reality, he is reluctant and has to make compromises.

Fortunately, although some compromises have to be made because of reality, it is not without maneuverability. Reducing the allocation of equipment is one of the means, and seizing command and control is another.

Of course, even if it is a capital ship after the reduction, the performance is not too bad, but compared to the original, it is impossible to defeat the original capital ship in a one-on-one battle. The capital ship after the reduction is only armor that is not as resistant as the original, the rate of fire and unit output power of the main gun are not as high as the original, there is no powerful pulse laser cannon, and the point fire power is only two-thirds of the original, but this configuration is still enough to deal with the starship of the Sijing people - it is nothing more than a little greater battle damage.

In order to expand the size of the fleet, it is naturally impossible to rely only on the clone troops, whose total number is currently limited to 200,000, and it is an inevitable trend to provide a considerable number of starships to the natural man troops. Originally, Lin Hai had a plan, that is, the capital ships were all controlled by clones, and the natural person troops with less high loyalty only operated cannon fodder-level frigates, and completed the expansion of the space fleet with this high and low combination, but with the subsequent battle with the Sijing fleet, those Higra-class destroyers operated by natural people can be said to be lost in every battle, no matter how beautiful the victory is, they will pay some losses, and these losses represent the disappearance of hundreds of human lives, and the supplement of the natural man space force, And it can't be replenished at any time, like a clone.

The Iron Eagle Organization, which joined the GDI joint organization, has provided space technology to various countries for less than a year, and it is difficult for countries to absorb and digest this knowledge, and even it is difficult for them to learn.

Even though the space technology provided by Iron Eagle is a mature technology, the standard for selecting spaceship crews is constantly declining, and there is no need to choose one in tens of millions or millions as before, but it is not just that anyone can become a soldier in the space force. Those who can become space force fighters in the new era are all elites, even if they are civilian personnel, they are also elites in their own departments. In addition to the education level is at least a university graduate, it is also necessary to have a certain amount of military service experience.

After all, in space, negligence cannot be left to man's will, and one carelessness, such as forgetting to close the hatch, or forgetting to turn off the power of a device, can pose a danger to the entire ship - although such things can be monitored by automatic equipment, and even automatically deal with such problems - the important thing is seriousness, and discipline.

The criteria for selecting ordinary crew members and ordinary soldiers are not low, let alone such a position as an officer or even a captain on a ship. The position of taking on the lives of the entire ship, as well as the safety of the battleship itself, is not something that can be easily guaranteed by academic qualifications, which requires more professional people. And it just so happens that there are no such people among the human resources provided by various countries.

It's not that countries don't want to provide such talents, but they want to only provide military officers, so that they can control a space fleet-level force in a short period of time, but they really can't come up with such talents.

Although it is often believed that the combat methods of space warfare are very similar to the combat methods of the planetary navy, which is not wrong to some extent, there is a difference in the end, even if it is a veteran in the navy, it is impossible to directly serve as the captain of a starship, let alone the commander of the fleet. They also need to undergo more professional training and physical examinations. Usually, the best admirals of various countries are either older and less physically than young, making it difficult for them to fight and live on starships that do not yet have artificial gravity; Either they are not too old and have excellent physical fitness, but they still need to receive more professional training in space knowledge, and the officers have much more to learn than the crew members - of course, whether there are any people operating in it, deliberately finding some excuse to prevent someone from becoming a space fleet officer directly, that's another matter.

In short, the time is too short, and there is a shortage of enough astronauts in human beings, even if they directly give starships to various countries, they themselves lack qualified manpower to operate these starships, not only the crew, but even the officers. At present, a considerable number of starships in the GDI space fleet, captains and some of the officers on the ships are also clones under Lin Hai, and they directly transfer capital ships such as the Kodiak class to personnel from various countries, in fact, these capital ships are still in the hands of Lin Hai.

This is also one of the confidence that he now dares to hand over the capital ship to others, and the reduced version of the capital ship is also one of them, and when the new ship comes out, this confidence will be further improved.

And the reason that really made Lin Hai loosely agree to provide capital ships with more powerful combat effectiveness to various countries, in addition to the establishment of space military academies in various places and the direction of solving the huge gap in human resources, there is another reason, that is, another group of uninvited guests from outside the solar system are also constantly approaching the solar system, and he urgently needs a fleet that can fight - at least hold out for a while, so that mankind can escape from time.

This opening can only be loosened, but it must be loosened in a controlled and orderly manner. The hidden Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers and the newly scheduled Kunpeng-class battleships are the ropes responsible for ensuring that the openings are not opened at will.

"Let's arrange it like this for now." "Although the number of capital ships is insufficient, the number of frigates is very large, and for the time being, the task fleet will be arranged in a ratio of one to eight according to the old establishment type." The Sea Behemoth class continues to guard the Moon and the Lagrange Fortress, and my guards are also dismantled and go to these two places, and for the next period of time, I will work on Earth until the new ship is commissioned. ”