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"I'm also a temporary worker?" Suddenly amused by Lin Hai's description, Liu Yan couldn't help laughing, "Hey, if something happens in the future, I will be the one to blame?" ”

"What do you think we have here? Still need you to take the blame? Lin Hai sneered disdainfully, and then continued to explain Liu Yan's new work, "Don't think that the matter of resources is a trivial matter, during this period of time, we have built a large number of starships and perfected that fortress, and the consumption of minerals is extremely huge. Most of the minerals that we mine ourselves and provide from various countries are invested in these, but because of the attacks and destruction of the Sijing people during this time, they have been unable to keep up with the consumption. Also, you already know about the global energy market crisis caused by oil extraction problems in the Middle East, but we have focused on country Y and are ready to deal with it after the war is over, and now is the right time. ”

"The crude oil exploitation in country M has basically stalled under the sabotage of the Sijing people, and the situation in country E is similar, the people of country E are unable to defend all the important sites, and they can only prioritize the protection of important cities. The safest place is currently only country Z, where in addition to the fact that country Z has enough military strength to defend most important locations, but also because the defense center of the iron eagle is also placed there - who called us Z people - but unfortunately country Z itself can not supply so much crude oil, it is not enough, and crude oil is not only used for combustion, other industrial products also need a large number of crude oil derivatives to manufacture, so human beings cannot do without crude oil, and the lack of crude oil also affects ourselves. Taking Lin Hai's words, Liu Yan also said some things he had mastered, "This is why in addition to mineral production, we also have to stabilize the supply of crude oil." ”

"Exactly." Lin Hai nodded and said, "The atomic remodeling technology owned by our automatic factory, although it can artificially synthesize most of the raw materials, but the cost is extremely high, and now that country M is in a war, the supply of organic resources is also greatly affected, and the output of our own photosynthetic farm should give priority to the supply of food lines, and it is impossible to put all of them into industrial production, so it is necessary to reduce the consumption of some material synthesis." ”

"I understand this, but I don't quite understand why I want to go to the Middle East, and I am also responsible for the new equipment test I just mentioned, is there something wrong with this?"

"Because you have been in the Middle East for a long time, whether it is stationed or fighting, the time is not short, for that area, you also have a lot of experience, our other middle and senior officers, of course, I specifically refer to the original team of Iron Eagle, everyone else has important work can not leave, now it seems that only you can take a trip to the Middle East to stabilize the local crude oil extraction and test our new equipment. Because it is a new equipment, or the equipment developed by our technical department itself, to a certain extent, it is necessary for internal personnel to conduct actual combat tests under the condition of confidentiality, and you are the most suitable person at present. ”

"I've only been in the Middle East for about half a year, so that's a lot of experience? Forget it, it's not a big deal," Liu Yan shook his head, "What are you talking about new equipment?" It also needs to be run by core personnel. ”

"A set of individual armor." Lin Hai threw the data board that he had been fiddling with to Liu Yan, and then said, "You know, although our current individual equipment has three major types of equipment, namely power armor, power armor, and power exoskeleton, they also belong to the three types of vehicles, heavy armor, and light armor. The wolf warrior power armor we are now equipped with, a small mecha operated by a single soldier, positioned as an anti-infantry fire unit, weak armor, moderate firepower, and good mobility, but the size is still larger than that of infantry, and in urban warfare, it is still vulnerable to infantry attacks with anti-armor weapons and greater damage. The power exoskeleton provided for light infantry is indeed very lightweight, not bulky, and can also allow the infantry to carry more weapons and ammunition, providing faster speed for the infantry, but it is quite insufficient in defense, at least in the face of the plasma weapon of the Sijing people, the bulletproof armor module attached to the exoskeleton can hardly play its due role. It's okay for a soldier using an exoskeleton to deal with the rebels who are also humans, but when facing the Sijing troops, if they don't react fast enough to dodge those high-energy rays and plasma clusters in time, they won't die. In this attack on London, the inadequacy of the exoskeleton was manifested. ”

"What about power armor?" Liu Yan looked at the contents of the data board that Lin Hai gave him, and talked to Lin Hai wholeheartedly, "Isn't this thing a combination of the characteristics of the first two types of armor, and equipment with better comprehensive capabilities?" ”

"The cost, man." Lin Hai spread his hands, his face full of reluctance, "I also thought about equipping all clone troops with power armor, and using power armor as the standard individual equipment of clone troops. But the result? Until now, only the orbital airborne troops are fully equipped with power armor, while only a small number of elite troops in the ground forces can be fully equipped with power armor, and other units can only continue to use armored combat uniforms. Even the Earth Army in another time and space can't equip all soldiers with power armor, and we can only equip our own troops, and it is a fantasy to equip all human troops around the world with power armor. ”

"Is the cost so high?" Liu Yan looked up at Lin Hai with some surprise, he didn't care about logistics production, and he didn't know the production of all the advanced equipment inside Tieying.

"Of course, the manufacturing cost of the shell is not too high, but the most important part of the power armor, and it has the highest cost, is the various miniature electronic devices on it, as well as the skeleton frame and joint movement mechanism, these precision equipment, our automatic arsenal can only complete the manufacture of some of these components, and its main core components are manufactured by the precision equipment of the manufacturing workshop under the science and technology center and the space command center, and cannot be directly printed like ordinary tanks. In other words, the manufacturing technology required for power armor even exceeds that of most tanks and planes, and the cost of a single unit is more than that of a wolf warrior power armor, so we can't equip all of us with power armor. ”

"The most important thing is that power armor cannot be produced by other countries, and it is extremely inefficient to produce it ourselves, right?" Liu Yan nodded and said, "I understand what you mean, the new equipment should also be related to this matter, right?" But I remember that Future Tech also has a power armor of their own, right? What is it called Legion? ”

"That's right, they do have a power armor that Hartman developed himself. But the cost of that thing is higher than ours, and the manufacturing efficiency is more impressive, just like the construction of advanced fighter jets, which cannot be completed in a month. Lin Hai waved his hand and pointed to the data board in Liu Yan's hand, "What we need is individual equipment that is not too costly and has a high manufacturing efficiency, that is, a large output, rather than something that can only be used by elite troops." ”

"This is what they made up with Wang Hammer?" Liu Yan raised the data board in his hand, and the screen on it displayed a set of equipment, "Didn't call Dr. Kane to study?" ”

"Kane has enough work to do, and he has to be called to do this kind of trivial thing, so what else do I need from the rest of the technical department?" Lin Hai replied, "The set of equipment you want to test has not yet been named, only a temporary code name 'K' to call it, and only after the test is successful, it will be given an official number and name." ”

The new equipment on the data board, as Lin Hai said, is a set of humanoid armor that looks like a shrunken version of the wolf-warrior power armor, which is larger than the power armor used by the regional armorers, but the lower limbs are too short in proportion, the upper limbs are too thick and too long, and the shoulder armor and back are also full of various weapons and equipment, and there is a feeling of big head and short feet.

"This is the K-armor you want me to test?" Liu Yan swiped the data board screen, rotating the new set of armor and watching, "New low-cost power armor? It feels a little bulky and shabby. ”

"There's no way, we have to consider the combat effectiveness, cost, and production hours, so we can only ignore the appearance. In other words, all we need is a simplified mass-produced weapon that can be mass-produced in a short period of time and equipped with all units on the front line, the so-called high-grade cannon fodder. While it is not possible to equip all human armies with K-type armor, it is possible to provide a third of the combat personnel to use this equipment. ”

"What's the difference between this new armor and power armor and power armor?" Looking at the three-dimensional view of the new armor, Liu Yan asked, although he could study the data through the data call-up, he still wanted to hear the other party's opinion from Lin Hai's mouth, after all, this thing must have been developed by Lin Hai's order.

"Well...... this" Lin Hai thought for a while, organized the language, and replied, "You can think of this thing as a simplified and shrunken version of the Wolf Warrior power armor, or a simplified and enlarged version of the area power armor, in short, it is a simplified thing, and there is not much new technology on it." ”

"A compromise solution? It's all kinds of things that look tall but are simplified? ”

"That's it." Lin Hai spread his hands and said, "This new set of armor, the control scheme is carried out in the form of synchronous induction force feedback of power armor, but the mechanical structure is designed using the structural scheme of power armor, compared with power armor, there are many less joint running structures, and the flexibility is naturally not as good as power armor, nor as good as ordinary power exoskeletons, but it is higher than the wolf warrior power armor, but in terms of action speed, this new set of armor is not fast, and the fastest road can run at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, of course, in urban warfare and accompanying tank combat, This speed is still enough, after all, what we want is not some ultra-advanced elite equipment, but standard equipment that can arm ordinary soldiers in large quantities, which can be manufactured quickly, easy to maintain, and cheap and solid. ”

"Since this thing is very mobile, how do you use it? Power armor and power armor are both based on mobility, and the defense capability can only be enough, as long as it can withstand the fire of small-caliber weapons, but your new toy, it looks like the main armor is even thicker than the power armor, won't it have any impact on ourselves in the future? ”

"The armor looks very thick, especially the body, which is particularly strengthened, but you have to know," Lin Hai reached out and nodded on the model on the data board screen in Liu Yan's hand, "Our current opponent is the Sijing people who use plasma weapons, so the main defense objects of the K-type armor are naturally those plasma masses with extremely high temperatures." ”

"It can't be all ablative armor or ceramic armor, right?" As soon as he heard Lin Hai's words, Liu Yan understood that he still knew how the GDI, or the Iron Eagle Organization, dealt with the plasma weapons of the Sijing people.

"It should be said that it is a composite armor, which is mainly used to resist ultra-high temperature plasma weapons, and secondly, it also has the ability to defend against the shooting of small-caliber live weapons - but it cannot withstand the strike of our electromagnetic weapons." In the end, Lin Hai also reassured Liu Yan.