With the fourth phase of the DA operation, after Hu Yan, as the commander-in-chief, gave the order, everyone returned to the absolute defensive force field of the Bahamut. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At the same time, a new batch of reinforcements from native species has also arrived on the battlefield.

When both the melee and guerrilla dragons, which were drawing attention and firepower from the enemy group, retreated, the pressure on the Bahamut increased wildly. Especially in this reinforcement, although it was not like the first wave in which a dozen appeared in one go, there were also five or six proto-species prosecutors.

The only one who can continue to kill and injure the proto-species prosecutor within the protection range of the absolute defense force field is Shino. However, it is impossible for Shino to kill all the proto-species prosecutors who attacked when they came to the Bahamut.

However, as time went on, the pressure on the Bahamut did not increase, but decreased. The reason for this, in addition to the crazy output of the crowd, is that at the same time as all the pilots return home, they continue to fly out of the bow sortie channel, which looks like Kallion, has no limbs, and is more similar to the body of a fighter plane.

The name of this organism is none other than Leon. And in the name of nobody, there must be no one who does not know the characteristics of this organism:

That's right, this kind of aircraft that looks like Kallion is an unmanned fighter body developed by the GM Research Institute!

As DC's main combat weapon, Leone's design is actually very good. Although the firepower and defense are quite weak, the maneuverability, which can be said to be exclusive in a production machine, is more than enough to make up for those two shortcomings. What's more, Leon's simple structure, standard modules, and extremely low cost make it a high-performance MS with the strongest mass production.

However, although Yukikaze also likes Leone's design, at the beginning, when the GM Research Institute cooperated with the EOTI agency, he said that Leon is a good mech, but it is a wrong way.

Compared to other airframes and design options, Leon's two most important indicators are the maneuverability of the Tesra thruster and the productivity of standard modularity.

To put it simply, Leon pursues a large machine sea strategy, when hundreds of Leons cover the sky, as long as the pilot's strength is excellent, then any kind of special aircraft can be hard in the face, unless Leon's attack can't even break the defense. A real-life example is the Brown Shut Guard, who was piloting Cosmic Leon, captured the Gulungast Zero piloted by Zenga in a single plane. Even if there is the assistance of Elzam and Zeng Jia's doubts, he will not deliberately let go when he faces an enemy who can kill on the battlefield.

As for the high-speed body restraint Gulengast series, the wandering tactics restrained Zeng Jia...... When it comes to the trump card of Zeng Jia's level, unless there is really a gap in technology and body, what characteristics and body can restrain Zeng Jia? Chopping Sword, Wind and Waves, One Knife Kills a Big Piece!

In the early days, Leon, which had high mobility, passable defense and firepower, and most importantly, its unrivaled mass production, indeed became the strongest mass production machine at that time. Although the undead are in the hands of good hands, one dozen two, one dozen three is considered a common thing, but the number of undead is only what is the number?

With the advancement of the times, because of the continuous outbreak of war, the continuous introduction of new technologies and new bodies, Leone's position suddenly became awkward. Until now, it can only rely on mass production, with the help of the huge number of airframes, to firmly occupy the lowest cannon fodder position, so that it will not be eliminated by the army.

The reason why Leone's current status is so low is because of the two standards that were set in the first place. Mass-production doesn't need to say much, this is true at all times, and without mass-produced mechs, don't compete for the position of the main machine, unless you can be like Shenlong, spanning an unknown number of generations.

The most important thing is the constant emphasis on mobility.

Is it good to use a high-mobility body that sacrifices defense and firepower? Just look at the White Knight, Hypelion, and Sebasta, where the ultra-highly mobile mech can still dominate on the battlefield. Even if the defense is not enough, as long as the opponent can't touch it. And focusing on the body, maintaining firepower and defense at a marginal level is also a good way to reduce costs.

But how many people are able to handle a high-mobility body? The pilots of Sebasta cannot be replaced, the White Knight can be controlled by anyone, and there will be no danger that the ATX plan will be abandoned, and the pilots of Hypelion need to be trained from the beginning, and if they are replaced by ordinary pilots, they will crash after driving for a few minutes......

Compared with Leon, which emphasizes maneuverability, in fact, ordinary pilots are more suitable for comprehensive balance, can make a certain degree of adjustment, and can also change according to the battlefield environment. In this regard, look at the exchange ratio between Leon and the undead when the pilot is of the same level.

And an even more important factor is, how maneuverable can an average pilot be? How strong is the acceleration that ordinary humans can control?

In the 21st century, the fastest speed of an aircraft has reached Mach 10! But the speed of a conventional fighter did not exceed Mach 4! (Goddess of Aurora and the like, basically not for combat use, and in fact, it can already be called an aerospace vehicle, pseudo)

The human body is extremely fragile, and even with layers of protection, the amount of g-force it can withstand is extremely limited. It's not that the OG world can't let pilots withstand the terrifying G-force, after all, when the White Knight and other mechs are maneuvering, they will inevitably generate a lot of G-force. However, you must understand that Leon is a mass production machine, a mass production machine that pursues mass production!

Pure White Knight and Hypelion are special machines, theoretical testing machines, and out-of-print machines that don't think about cost at all!

Therefore, in order for the pilot to fight against the more powerful G-force, it is necessary to increase the construction cost of Leon. And if there is no additional investment in this area, even if the mobility of the aircraft can be higher, but no pilot can do it, which means that it does not exist.

And if the pursuit of mobility is abandoned and the defense and firepower are strengthened, then in addition to the increase in cost, Leon will also have to be redesigned, so to speak, which declares Leon's defeat.

To put it simply, these two paths are contradictory existences. Unless a new black technology is born one day, such as the production cost of the shield generator is suddenly reduced to a point that Leon can afford, these contradictions will become more and more serious as the times move forward, making Leon's existence even more embarrassing.

To illustrate here, the Machine-Sea Tactic is not a bad tactic, and there may not be a better tactic than the Machine-Sea Tactic for a mass-produced airframe. But Leon's disadvantage is that he is too ineffective, and his defense is so weak that any body can be killed with a single blow. There is also the problem of space, although the sky is large enough, the battlefield is not necessarily big, and the space required by Leon, as a high-mobility body, is naturally impossible to go anywhere. Coupled with Leon's paper-thin defense, once the number of mechs on the battlefield is too much, those ordinary pilots basically don't have to think about killing the enemy, and how to protect themselves in the chaotic sky is the first priority.

Just like pilots, the training of pilots is simply not like infantry, just pick a random person and fire a gun. Small countries and weak countries are simply unable to train their own pilots, or few are reluctant to go to the battlefield. And once a big war breaks out, Leon, who has the above two weaknesses, can be said to be a big death~ film, while perfectly completing his cannon fodder tasks and missions, it is meaningless to let a large number of pilots die. (At this time, on the front line of the federal government, Leon's loss rate was about to make the front-line commander cry, but no matter how much money was invested, he couldn't win...... ）

In fact, this contradiction is very easy to solve, that is, to replace Leon from a manned body to a drone body, and then these contradictions can be solved in one go, and by the way, it can completely liberate the full potential of Leone:

Cannon fodder? The drone body is not cannon fodder, what is cannon fodder? Not enough defense and firepower? Just cannon fodder to fill the battlefield and contain the enemy, what do you ask it to do? Dying too much too fast? There are still hundreds of units on the production line, as long as there are raw materials and funds, there is no need to worry about casualties at all! Maneuvering too high and g-force too strong? Rest assured, this is a drone and there is no need to think about this at all......

So, with such a road ahead, how could GM Research Institute go astray? In addition to the TD program group, which is dedicated to preparing for interstellar voyages, the research on the Leon series, the GM Research Institute has been researching and developing from the beginning with unmanned standards.

At the level of drones, in fact, the most difficult lies in programming, just like in the hands of pilots of different levels, even the undead will have completely different performances. The performance of the drone, in addition to the body itself, is the most important thing is AI.

If the drone has AI on it that meets or even surpasses the tactical level of humans, then the combat effectiveness of this aircraft will definitely exceed expectations!

The major military companies in the OG world are not unaware of this, but the problem is that the masters of body engineering in the OG world are one after another, but there are almost no geniuses in AI programming (as a classic black technology, the OG world does not even have an artificial intelligence...... The principle of the android to which Lamia belongs is to obtain a mature human body that has grown up at a high speed through cloning, and then ~ a flesh and blood machine born after mechanical transformation, rather than an anthropomorphic machine that is not purely mechanical).

Therefore, compared to all kinds of increasingly powerful and anti-natural special machines, the AI at this stage cannot be compared with the most ordinary pilots, and using this level of AI is just a waste of money and resources.

But the GM Institute is different, there is a programming genius who is enough to become a super-nova star - Airi Kayaba!

As an expert in quantum engineering, he designed the epoch-making first generation of brainwave sensing devices, an achievement that is enough to make Elle's name go down in history. But at the same time, for the sake of her dream, Ellie has completed all the design and programming of the game SAO alone, from the lowest self-maintenance system to the most superficial NPC, it can be said that Ellie has reached the limit of programming.

In Kiriko-chan's words, "If you don't have this data, this place would be a different world." "If it weren't for the fact that it would refresh on time, no one would have thought of it as an NPC at all."

Therefore, the AI of the drone does not need to worry much at all, Xuefeng writes the basic rules, Anne writes the body control program, and Ellie writes the tactical choices and various response plans, so that the drones of the GM Research Institute can fully undertake and perfectly complete all tasks on the battlefield.

Most importantly, the AI developed by GM Research is not a stand-alone AI that can be networked!

In other words, this AI is an existence that can grow and evolve by constantly learning on the battlefield!

As long as you experience enough battles, then this AI can completely replace humans and become the real protagonist on the battlefield!

However, it is a pity that the drone body that attacked this time: unmanned Leon did not carry AI that can be networked. It's not that it hasn't been developed yet, but because at this stage there are no servers on hand that can become the core of this network.

Optical quantum computers, that is, Bahamut and other machine mothers, can indeed become the core of this network, but now there is simply no machine mother who still has enough computing power margin to become the core.

But even so, after compiling and modifying the data and intelligence obtained in the previous battles, the unmanned Leon at this time still exerted its combat effectiveness close to the limit.

Because it does not carry humans, there is no need to consider life-sustaining equipment at all, and while saving a lot of space, the entire body is also completely designed in the most efficient way, using the fighter as a model to reduce the burden of AI, coupled with the research data obtained by the TD planning team, so as to obtain ultra-high maneuverability that surpasses the prototype Kallion.

In addition, because it is also a drone, there is no need to consider the problem of defense at all, and while weakening the armor to the extreme, it has obtained enough firepower to be able to cause a lot of damage to the native species. As for survival? Martial arts in the world, only fast is not broken!

What's more, when necessary, no one Leon can use suicide tricks to kill and damage the enemy as much as possible. As long as tactical objectives can be achieved, all actions, including self-detonation, are permitted.

With these advantages, no one Leon completely suppressed the native species that had experienced a big sweep and reinforcements had not yet arrived in a short period of time after the attack.

However, at the cost of the more than 100 mechs that attacked, only about 50 mechs were left alive in a short period of time. Although the killing efficiency is very high, the attrition rate is also amazing.

This is one of the reasons why Hu Yan and other commanders did not put no one Leon into it at the beginning of the battle, but waited until now. And the extremely limited number of unmanned Leons, coupled with the status of mass-produced UAVs, will not play any role at all if they are not invested on a sufficient scale in key battles.

Because, the production line installed on the Bahamut at this time is simply unable to produce unmanned Leon, to put it simply, the unmanned Leon that appeared ~ in this operation was all moved into the Bahamut Gnaku before the operation began.

No one Leon can't be replenished at all, with one less one!

PS: Wait a minute to modify (to be continued.) )