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According to Vice Admiral Towin GDI, in fact, the GDI space fleet is very incomplete, with only three or four starships, which leads to the fact that when they deal with different situations, they can only go to the main fleet at every turn, which is a great waste of the starships that are not very sufficient, so that the GDI space fleet, which is obviously close to five hundred ships, has been in a state of insufficient strength and lack of manpower everywhere - there are too many places in the earth's circle that need to be guarded and too many routes that need to be patrolled by the fleet. Most of GDI's fleet is spent on these tasks.

So far, the only large starships in service in the GDI space fleet are the Kodiak-class battle cruisers, the Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers, the Higra-class destroyers, and the Archangel-class support ships that have just entered service.

These four starships, the Kodiak-class battle cruiser is the most versatile, it can be used against the universe or on the ground, and it also has the ability to carry a certain amount of carrier-based aircraft, but it is a relatively old design after all, in the face of the space force of the Sijing people, although it has also achieved a lot of victories, and even a single ship has successfully destroyed the Sijing planetary assault mothership, but it is actually a little insufficient, you know, usually the GDI fleet against the Sijing fleet, the vast majority of them are unmanned self-discipline fleets, Only the shipboard host is controlling the starship to fight, and the underpopulated Sijing people will rarely board the ship to command, at most they will send their servants to command the ship, and most of the time they will only stay in a safe place to remotely command the fleet to fight - Lin Hai was purely bumped into shit luck that time, and he would bump into a Sijing person who was interested in personally boarding the planetary assault mothership to command.

Kodiak-class battle cruisers, used to deal with the Sijing people have no one to command, only computer automatic control, and the starship with a rigid and regular mode of action, plus the assistance of those Higra-class destroyers, against the fleet of the Sijing people, the Kodiak-class can still come in handy, and even for a short time, but as GDI gradually understands the Sijing people—coupled with the information provided by the real Sijing captive alive—they understand that in the face of the increasing production capacity of the Sijing people, more and more starships are in service, the Kodiak-class battle cruisers, which are already insufficient in combat effectiveness for a single ship, are no longer enough.

This is also the reason for the appearance of the Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers. Different from the general-purpose role of the Kodiak-class battle cruisers, the Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers have been positioned as space operations from the very beginning, and they are starships that want to compete with the Sijing fleet for the supremacy of the universe, so their single-ship firepower is quite powerful, with a smaller hull than the Kodiak-class battle cruisers, but it has more powerful firepower than the battle cruisers, and is specially used to fight fleet battles.

Because of this positioning, the Sea Behemoth class is not as good as the Kodiak-class battle cruisers in terms of ground support attacks, and it does not even have the ability to carry any carrier-based aircraft - only a small number of escort aircraft used for escort shuttles, and the number is so scarce that they cannot be used to fight air combat at all - so in the various fleets of GDI, whether it is a warning fleet, a patrol fleet, or even a defense fleet, the sea behemoth is not included in the establishment.

GDI simply attributes this starship to a special fleet formation, which is the so-called fleet directly under the headquarters. In addition to not wanting to be touched by outsiders with these new starships, and the number of sea behemoths is still relatively small, the direct fleet has only one main task, which is to fight against the Sijing space fleet, specifically to fight with it, and other things will be handed over to other fleets to be responsible for - of course, the sea behemoth class also has a secret mission, which is to suppress it by force when some of their own fleets get out of control and attack their own side for various reasons, with their combat effectiveness, unless it is a whole orbital defense fleet defection, whether it is a vigilance fleet or a patrol fleet, will be quickly destroyed by them in a very short period of time.

This also led to the awkward position of the Sea Behemoth-class heavy cruisers in the establishment of the GDI space fleet, and the orbital fleet with heavy tasks basically could not count on those new starships.

And the Higra-class destroyers were originally used in the Lin Hai plan to prevaricate the countries of the earth to obtain space starship technology, and it was also a way to quickly increase the size of the fleet, after all, although these destroyers can also go to space, they can also fight with the Sijing starship for a few rounds, but from the perspective of battle damage, these destroyers are really just a bunch of cannon fodder, unless the number increases, it is absolutely impossible to use them as capital ships.

Moreover, in order to limit some people from having some undeserved thoughts after getting the design drawings of the Higra class, these destroyers also have a lot of functional restrictions and low ground attack capabilities (shipborne space torpedoes do not have ground attack capabilities, and once a torpedo enters the atmosphere, those torpedoes will automatically self-destruct; Although the 450mm railgun can shoot at the ground, the accuracy will be several times worse than shooting at space targets), weak defense capability (in the face of the plasma weapons of the Sijing people, even the sea behemoth class specially used to deal with the Sijing starships has many deficiencies in defense, not to mention these destroyers), there is no aviation combat power at all (a small hangar can only be stuffed with one or two small shuttles to transport personnel), such a starship is equivalent to the light infantry of the army, although there are a lot of them, But they can't be expected to overwhelm the main fleet of the Sijing people.

As for the Archangel-class support ship, this is a good thing that can make up for the shortcomings of the GDI space fleet, but unfortunately the manufacturing time is too short, only less than ten are in service, and all of them are deployed at the moon base and space fortress, and the Earth Orbital Fleet can't expect to get its support in a short time.

Although at this time, Dr. Kane should design a few more starships for the GDI Space Fleet to fill the gap in the types of ships, but Dr. Kane obviously does not have the effort to design more kinds of starships - designing a qualified starship is not so easy, and it is not possible to design shapes, equipment, pipelines, etc., which can be completed overnight.

Dr. Kane was able to take out the Higra-class destroyer, the sea behemoth-class heavy cruiser and the Archangel-class support ship so quickly, just because these starships were originally in the Space Force of the Global Defense Force in another time and space, and there were prototypes, he only needed to copy them and make certain modifications, and naturally the new design drawings came out quickly, but his memory could not be used to memorize the design drawings of the starships, and he was not only responsible for two or three jobs, it can be said that he was in charge of several important research projects in GDIAt this time, he couldn't separate himself to manage a bunch of new projects.

But fortunately, in addition to him, there are other technical personnel in GDI, and Kane is not the only one in the technical department, although in terms of ability, those technicians who are trained on the basis of cloned artificial soldiers are far from being Kane, and they are even inferior to some natural people in terms of technological innovation, but they are more numerous, and there will be no barriers between the research groups, plus what they have to do is only make some technical adjustments on the basis of existing technology, which is not too difficult for them, So some of the improvements to the existing starship design, the new starship design that has not changed much, are also in charge of it - although the progress is not very pleasant.

It is precisely because of these factors that even Towin, a clone officer who has experienced a lot of space operations and has a lot of experience, can only rely on this little thing in his hand to make tactical adjustments, so that every starship can be used in the right position, and this work alone consumes a lot of his energy and time, so that in recent days, every space battle in the earth's orbit, he has no time to pay attention to, and all of it is handed over to his deputy, Colonel Targate, to be responsible.

In addition to the shortage of ships, what really restricts the combat effectiveness of the GDI space fleet is the personnel problem.

Although GDI has opened space fleet personnel training academies in many places to train crews, even if it is the shortest emergency short-term training, not all courses can be completed in a few weeks, and most of the crews sent by countries that entered the GDI space fleet in the early days have been trained by the space departments of various countries, and are either active astronauts or reserve astronauts, and some people, even if they are not astronauts, are also elite personnel in the air forces of various countries, and their physical fitness and knowledge are extremely high, so they can enter space after a few weeks of short-term training.

But after all, such people are only a minority, and after the existing elites are all called up by GDI, the newly recruited new cadets cannot complete all their studies as quickly as these first crew members, which makes the space fleet always have a huge gap in personnel.

Just like the Higra-class destroyers, the authorized crew is 100 people, but except for the early days when the number of starships was not large, each destroyer could be guaranteed to be full of additional personnel, and when the ships were large, the Higra-class destroyers basically carried half of the standard number of people, coupled with a large number of battle losses in later wars, the ground replenishment of the space fleet has been insufficient, resulting in many starships lying on the slipway without anyone to operate them.

According to Towin, if there are enough personnel, then the size of the GDI fleet can be increased by one-third on the current basis, and immediately reach the size of 600 starships - although the vast majority of them are only cannon fodder ships such as Higra-class destroyers that rely on numbers - such as the orbital defense fleet will no longer be just a temporary formation, but will be a regular establishment in the GDI fleet, and even the GDI space fleet can immediately make one, two, three, four, and five such a sequence of fleets. It is no longer necessary to locate the fleet formation because of different tasks.