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Seeing Lin Hai's gesture, Towin nodded back to show that he understood, and then changed a document in his hand and began to explain to everyone: "Although I have been carrying out garrison missions in the space fortress, I am also responsible for handling and regulating the construction of the GDI space fleet, so I still have more detailed information and documents here." So, I will briefly introduce the construction of the GDI space fleet so far. ”

The GDI Space Fleet was formed on the basis of the Iron Eagle Organization's private space fleet. The GDI organization, which was formed by the strengthening of the combat rights of the original United Nations peacekeeping force system, was incorporated into this international military organization at the same time, and the Iron Eagle's own space forces naturally belonged to the GDI organizational structure, but because of the space fleet that had no other name, the Iron Eagle Organization, which was originally just a mercenary organization in the eyes of politicians of various countries, was instantly different in identity and status, and was no longer regarded as a civilian organization. It can be regarded as having the same status as those mainstream powers, and even surpassing country M in the minds of many people to become the most powerful official force.

It is also because only Iron Eagle has a space fleet and space starship technology, including country M and other major countries, are very clear that the Iron Eagle that has mastered space technology can not be used by them, nor will it be suppressed and threatened by them at all, but they are in this regard, but they desperately need the support and help of Iron Eagle, which is why in the matter of the GDI space fleet, the countries at the United Nations meeting agreed that the original team of Iron Eagle will dominate the most powerful armed force in human history.

Politicians are very clear in their hearts, if they do not give the Iron Eagle people this right, then not to mention that countries do not have access to all kinds of relevant support - including space orbital strikes and technical support - this is a problem that countries cannot solve now.

Want to grab someone's space starship? How to rob? Iron Eagle's fleet has been staying in space, and with the current space technology of various countries, it will launch troops into space with carrier rockets to exchange fire with a space fleet armed to the teeth? Or send special forces into space with rockets to steal? This is not a movie, and when the technology gap reaches this point, it is no longer possible to solve the problem with a good idea.

As for sending troops to besiege Iron Eagle's base on the ground and forcing Iron Eagle to hand over the fleet and all technical information? The power of an orbital ion cannon, everyone has already seen it, coupled with the orbital bombardment capability that the space fleet starship can perform, sending troops to besiege is equivalent to sending them to death, and human beings now do not have the ability to effectively attack space targets - except for the secret weapon platform that some companies have been hiding - the most conventional weapons of various countries are all kinds of long-range missiles that can fly into space, as well as strong laser weapons secretly developed by various powers, but these weapons are not used to deal with the Iron Eagle Space Fleet.

long-range missiles, which can be easily intercepted by the space fleet; Strong laser weapons, because they are land-based fixed platforms, it is difficult to lock onto starships flying at high speed in space, plus the starships of Iron Eagle already have strong laser weapons, and the strong laser weapons developed in this era cannot compete with Iron Eagle's starships in terms of firepower and quantity.

It was also after these many considerations that the politicians of various countries who were very unwilling had to agree that the Iron Eagle people would master and command the GDI space force - we didn't have it anyway, no matter how you tossed it, we could still get some benefits that we couldn't get by force.

And Tie Ying's side, with this kind of real power benefit, naturally there will be no more problems. As for the request of various countries for Iron Eagle to help improve human space technology after joining GDI, they also agreed - as for how to help, of course, it is also Tie Ying who decides, leaving the back door and making the back hand, even if Lin Hai does not remind him, there is still a Dr. Kane who is better at this, and what useful benefits countries want to get from Iron Eagle really depends on what Dr. Kane thinks.

When the GDI Space Fleet was first established, it was just the same size and number of starships as it had been when the Iron Eagle Space Fleet was in, with just a few old Kodiak-class battle cruisers and one or two Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers under secret construction. Qualitatively and quantitatively, only one fleet can be formed to fight.

Although in the following months, the Moon Dock and the Antarctic secret base provided the same number of Kodiak-class battle cruisers, more than doubling the number of human space forces, but compared with the Sijing people, this fleet is still only a defensive small fleet mainly responsible for defense, and it is absolutely impossible to blockade, guard, and alert the entire earth circle.

At that time, the problem affecting the size of the space fleet, in addition to the lack of manufacturing resources, was the problem of the speed of starship manufacturing and the personnel who operated the ship - the reason why Iron Eagle would simply agree with the Security Council to merge Iron Eagle's space fleet into GDI, in addition to the reason that Iron Eagle was directly in charge of the GDI space fleet, obtaining additional resources and additional crew members was also one of the important reasons - Lin Hai could only produce a total of 200,000 clones due to the problem of the number of clone soldiers.

200,000 clones, it seems that there are a lot of people, but when it comes to the world, these 200,000 clones are just a drop in the ocean, and ground operations are definitely not possible without tens of thousands of people, and the operation of starships also requires manpower - because there was once the problem of intelligent robot rebellion, the heavy equipment of the global defense force is not as high as imagined in automation, and most places still need a lot of people to operate those equipment - on the space fleet, tens of thousands of ship operators must be divided, and tens of thousands of manufacturing lines will be required, so calculated, In the blink of an eye of 200,000 people, there are not many people left.

If you want to expand the size of the space fleet, personnel and resources are indispensable, but these are all extremely lacking in Iron Eagle. If Iron Eagle is just a civilian mercenary organization, 200,000 people are certainly enough, and a small space fleet is enough, but once you want to intervene in a global war, this person will definitely not be enough.

Of course, even if Iron Eagle is merged into GDI and has most of the command authority of GDI, the expansion of the space fleet has not improved much at the beginning, after all, the production of starships is limited, although resources are no longer a problem, but there is another process to convert so many resources into parts and equipment.

Even if Dr. Kane later optimized the production line, the time and process required to build a high-precision starship are not comparable to the production of a fleet of fighters, and those starships that are often hundreds of meters long cannot be directly integrated and "printed" on the production line like the tanks and fighters organized by the Iron Eagle.

To manufacture a starship, only a small number of parts can be directly "printed", and other parts need to be manufactured first, and then assembled, but those structural parts that need to be assembled can be directly integrated and printed into shape, without the need for an additional layer of manufacturing process, saving part of the manufacturing cost and time.

However, it also takes time to assemble these manufactured parts in one go, and despite the various mechanical equipment to assist in the assembly, it is not possible to assemble a starship twice the size of a surface aircraft carrier in a few hours, even with advanced manufacturing technology from another time and space.

In order to supplement this shortcoming, and also to consider preparing starships for the members of the space fleet provided by other human nations, Kane developed the Higra-class destroyers. This low-cost starship, which has been designed from the ground up to simplify production and operation, is all about winning cheap products by quantity.

It was also because of the emergence of this simplified and inexpensive version of the starship that could be manufactured in a week, even on the industrial production lines of various countries, that the number of GDI space fleets increased at a crazy rate. They only need to assign those Kodekyak-class battle cruisers to each fleet as the main force and flagship, and they can quickly form an orbital fleet, and the size of the fleet will be supplemented by those Higra-class destroyers who are just cannon fodder in the eyes of the original Iron Eagle team.

The GDI space fleet thus assembled is basically divided into three basic formations: the orbital alert fleet, the orbital patrol fleet, and the orbital defense fleet.

Among them, the orbital alert fleet, which is centered on a Kodiak-class battle cruiser as the flagship, is supplemented by six to eight Higra-class destroyers, and its main task is to be on standby at a certain far-earth orbit position, providing early warning tasks for the ground or the surrounding area, preventing the space force of the Sijing people from having the opportunity to raid the ground area, and occasionally providing a certain degree of fire support for friendly forces on the ground. The combat effectiveness of such a fleet is naturally not high, but it will not be completely wiped out in an instant after being attacked by a surprise attack, and it will not even send an alarm message, it can only be said to be quite standard, and it will not waste too much of the strength of the GDI space fleet.

The orbital patrol fleet, consisting of one to three Kodiak-class battle cruisers as the core of the fleet, and then four to eight times the number of these battle cruisers to configure the Higra-class expulsion to form a fleet that patrols a fixed route according to a predetermined route, this kind of fleet combat effectiveness is only a little higher than that of the alert fleet, when encountering a small Sijing fleet, especially the Sijing fleet, which is only one-third of the size of the patrol fleet, it can engage and have a higher chance of victory, once it encounters a larger Sijing fleet, Such a patrol fleet can only immediately retreat to avoid the battle, in order to reduce unnecessary losses, and at the same time call in its own main fleet to come to support. In addition to the fact that the number of Kodiak-class cruisers serving as the core of the fleet is still insufficient, the Higra-class destroyers, which serve as the main force of the fleet, are also insufficient because the number of personnel who can serve as crew members is not enough to meet the demand.

As for the last kind of orbital defense fleet, it is the latest fleet formation of the GDI space fleet, and there is no fixed establishment, usually just when needed, a number of orbital vigilance fleets or patrol fleets are mixed together, and then the GDI command designates a certain ship as a temporary flagship to command the entire fleet, so such an orbital defense fleet usually has more than six Kodiak-class battle cruisers, as well as dozens or even hundreds of Higra-class destroyers, and the combat effectiveness is quite strong. Not only can it engage the main fleet of the Sijing people head-to-head with multiple planetary assault motherships, but it can also defend a large area of orbit to prevent the enemy from launching orbital airborne or even orbital strikes on the earth.

The orbital defense fleet also needs starships of such a scale when it is compiled, so even with the current scale of the GDI space fleet, it is impossible to form several such large fleets (according to the current standards of human planetary civilization), so such a defense fleet, only after GDI believes that a certain area will carry out a relatively important combat operation, will such a fleet be temporarily formed, which can not only provide orbital security over the area, but also provide support for ground forces. It can even threaten and contain the main force of the Sijing fleet, and the GDI side naturally wants to compile a few more of such fleets, or turn this kind of establishment into a regular formation, rather than a temporary establishment.