Light-years away is always quite short for a human ship, and when the IFF recognizes the Comer as a friendly and the Task Force confirms its first communication, the Comer, the Second Supply Fleet, is within a minute of a few light-years between the two supercarriers.

In the originally empty space, there was also the empty space between the two supercarriers, and the dark gray jump channel exit flashed for a short time, and then four huge ships jumped out of the jump into normal space.

The main body of the Supply-Class Rapid Combat Support Ship is a cylinder that resembles an early colonial satellite, but it is evenly attached around it, but it is common to have a cruiser-sized attachment bag, and there are three attachment areas. The gap between each external area, which is often referred to as the thin neck part, is where the most important supply facilities of the fast combat support ship are located, of course, because the "cylinder" is the huge volume of the main hull, there are still some warehouses that keep relatively important items inside, but the supply facilities still occupy most of the space.

After the huge hull comparable to the Lanzhou entered the normal space from the jump passage, the empty space between the two supercarriers seemed to be filled up at once.

The four fast combat support ships are distributed in the shape of "Tian", and the complex coordination and supply work begins as soon as they enter normal space.

According to the data confirmed by each other early on, when the four fast combat support ships jumped out of the jump channel, the traction beams of both sides acted on the hull of the other side at the same time. Meantime. The outer packets that were originally attached to the main hull of the cylindrical ship began to transfer the predetermined supplies to the "thin neck", while the outermost part of the supplies that could withstand short-term space voyages, such as damage management materials, were directly launched to the supercarrier it was going to after being calculated and adjusted by the ship's onboard computer of the fast combat support ship.

Quite a few of the bulky items are launched directly from the unfolded bundle towards the supercarrier. A series of other household supplies and delicate items are then delivered to the supercarrier several kilometers away through a dedicated supply facility at the "Thin Neck". In fact, most of the time spent on replenishment is spent on supplying these materials, and the alignment of supplies and the adjustment of ship attitude are also the most time-consuming.

Unlike small boats and small boats, the space between two ships that are more than 50 kilometers long is actually very small, and it is likely that if the steering is deviated, it may cause collisions and other accidents.

"I didn't expect it to be the second supply fleet."

An officer standing on the observation deck who happened to have nothing to do looked at the cylinder outside and sighed.

Rapid combat support ships are built to make up for the shortage of materials for ordinary supply ships in the process of maneuvering operations in supercarrier formations.

In the cosmic age, especially for a long time after the advent of the Leap Engine. Humans believe that ordinary supply ships are enough to complete the replenishment of the fleet.

However, when the Confederacy and humanity, between humanity and humanity learn war through war and the advancement of technology, the scale, intensity, and length of space warfare are getting longer and longer. The UNSF gradually found that in many cases, the existing ordinary supply ships could not complete the task of replenishing the supercarrier formation in mobile warfare, which greatly affected the offensive ability of the human supercarrier formation, so a concept in the era of the home planet was brought up again - that is, the fast combat support ship.

The ability to keep up with the maneuvering aircraft carrier formation, excellent concealment capabilities, and rapid replenishment capabilities are the characteristics of fast combat support ships that distinguish them from conventional supply ships and cargo ships, although it still seems that it still takes hours to complete the replenishment. But it doesn't take into account the question of whether it can be better. Fast combat support ships are a big step forward from ordinary supply ships and freighters, which can often take 10 hours or even tens of hours to replenish supplies.

When the second supply fleet began to replenish the task force, this information was naturally published on the fleet's intranet, so many Planetary Defense Force soldiers moved from various places to the observation platforms in different places, including Ankang himself.

After taking a look at the fast combat support ship that looked like a colonial satellite from the "Gundam" series, Yasu ran to a port full of curiosity to see what was in the supply cargo.

Unlike the "shipping ports" of fast combat support ships, which are composed of eight main ports, supercarriers receive supplies from large and small ports on the sides and in front and behind, that is, where carrier-based aircraft enter and exit.

Although these "ejection ports" are covered by layers of armor in combat conditions, leaving only a "gap" for carrier-based aircraft to eject and recover, under normal conditions, part of the outer armor can be expanded or moved away to form a wider opening for large ships and cargo to enter and exit. The entrance is an all-powerful stance that separates the interior and exterior of the ship.

This general-purpose carrier port was widely adopted after the UN built the first Chunfeng-class supercarrier.

Drone cubes stacked on top of each other like canned sardines "slowly" floated from outer space to the port, outside the floor-to-ceiling observation window in front of Ankang's eyes. One after another, drone blocks entered the port from outside the universe through the all-powerful stand. Then, with the assistance of anti-gravity towing equipment, the existing carrier-based aircraft recovery line is placed and quickly contained in the hangar, where these "drone blocks" will be disassembled, returned to their positions, and inspected for the first time.

Under the action of the traction beam, the drones used to supplement the previous combat wear and tear are accelerated and finally decelerated, as if ants are moving, they set off from the fast combat support ship and float through the "busy" space into the port.

The XJ-22 series carrier-based fighter that had saved Ankang's life before also appeared in front of Ankang's eyes, and a piece of "sardine canned" was neatly stacked with at least dozens of such fighters and formed a huge cube.

"Huh? I didn't expect so many recreational supplies to be shipped, forget it, as long as there are a little more types of vegetables for lunch. ”

In a group of combat-related machines, there will always be boxes of transport boxes about the size of those drone blocks with different agricultural planet logos printed on them. (To be continued.) )