4. Pick-up
The VTOL of the recruit training base sent Ankang to the artificial star ring of the earth and left, after which Ankang took the military line in the orbital elevator to the surface to the surface and took an unmanned transport plane that had been waiting at the end of the military line to go to the military base he was going to, the Yangshan base belonging to the Shanghai Metropolitan Garrison District.
Isn't that the name really earthy?
The predecessor of the Yangshan base was a large deep-water port, but now that anti-gravity platforms have long been popularized, the deep-water port has little value to exist.
As one of the only ten remaining metropolitan areas on the planet, the Shanghai metropolitan area must also need some military bases around it to protect, so the original deep-water port was rebuilt into a large military base on the site of the deep-water port after the environmental reset was completed about 300 years ago.
Of course, there are still some ruins of the deep-water port period that have not been demolished as protection units, such as the sea-crossing bridge that connects the land and the Yangshan deep-water port that now catches the eye of Ankang... part.
BOOM~
Ankang was lying on the porthole again as he had been staring at Jupiter for the flare, because he seemed to have seen a big explosion on the site of the bridge just now.
With his inexplicably increased eyesight after the crossing, he found that hard speedboats were chasing each other at extremely high speeds on the sea, and on each speedboat could be seen a person wearing the active power armor of the UN Planetary Defense Force.
Exercise? Or hunt down smugglers or deserters?
For a moment, these thoughts popped into Ankang's mind, because at this moment they seemed to have come to reality.
The people on one speedboat threw out the Growler anti-armor missiles with a quadruple on their shoulders, but they were shot down one by one by the people on another speedboat with laser interceptors, but the smoke and flashes from the explosion and the more turbulent waves made Ankang unable to see what was happening on the sea.
Judging from the tracer bullets that flashed in the smoke from time to time, it seemed that the firearm was also used, but it seemed that the number of these tracer bullets in the smoke seemed to be a bit large.
In fact, Ankang only watched for a short period of time, after all, the speed of the unmanned transport aircraft is still very fast, after a short period of passing through the "firefight" place, the unmanned transport aircraft will be aimed at the combat area of the 20MM airborne electromagnetic gun back to the position of the Yangshan base.
The Yangshan base is very large.
This is the first thought of Ankang. The island on which the Yangshan deep-water port was originally built has already been filled, and further land reclamation has been carried out on this basis.
The size of the Yangshan base can also be seen from the fleet of planes that can almost be said to cover the sky and the sun that take off now, and the placement of these things is definitely not enough on the surface space, so it can be inferred that the size of the Yangshan base is not only reflected in the large area of the surface buildings, but also includes the underground space that may be even larger.
With his shallow knowledge during the recruit training period, An Kang could only recognize the S-26 unmanned transport aircraft among the fleets of transport planes he was riding, because he was now flying the same S-26.
And the equipment mounted under the S-26 may be surface warfare or amphibious warfare, and Ankang is completely black-eyed and unrecognizable.
With a shock, the unmanned transport plane that originally belonged to the Yangshan base landed on the airport.
Lifting the backpack, Ankang stepped out of the door of the unmanned transport aircraft.
The sun at the beginning of summer is not very scorching, nor is it very dazzling, and on the runway of the Yangshan base, which covers a very large area, an astonishing number of VTOLs and unmanned transport aircraft are taking off in batches with all kinds of unmanned war machines they carry.
Just as Ankang felt on the unmanned transport aircraft before, these groups will still obscure the sky for a while, but he can't figure out what is going on to use this drone force, which is not small in size.
"Yo, are you new over there?"
The familiar yellow nano suit, which is the standard dress of logistics personnel in the UN military in peacetime.
An Kang followed the voice and looked over, and the ground crew had already run over with two drones.
"Ah, yes, Private Ankang, will belong to the Third Fast Anti-Brigade of the Shanghai Metropolitan Garrison District" Ankang immediately saluted, who let the other side be a non-commissioned officer and he is still a private.
"Well, welcome to the Yangshan base, my name is Schiller, Schiller Carian, the leader of the third maintenance squad of the base." The face was very good at first glance, and after returning the salute, Schiller scanned Ankang with a PDA to confirm his identity.
Then he pointed to the transport plane that Ankang was on before and said, "Is there anything else on it?" I can help with the move. After saying that, he patted the two octopus-type maintenance drones he brought before. The sturdy arm slapped the robot octopus equipped with the suspension device and kept in close contact with the ground, but it could be seen that the robot octopus did not receive any damage, but shook off some of the dirt it had just picked up when it was repairing the unmanned transport plane.
An Kang froze for a moment, but immediately waved his hand
"No, that's all I have." After speaking, he raised the backpack in his hand.
Schiller, on the other hand, looked at An Kang with a surprised expression, as if he was very surprised that An Kang did not have any other additional salutes, but his surprised expression quickly retracted.
"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, because when other recruits come here, they basically bring big bags and small bags of things, so they are all picked up by people from our maintenance department, after all, we can use maintenance drones, and these little guys can just be used as bags."
Schiller waved over a self-driving vehicle and pointed to the car.
"Let's go, I'll take you to Colonel Liu Minghua, haha, don't show such a surprised expression."
Ankang was taken aback when he heard that he was about to meet the top supervisor of this base as soon as he came up, would the brigade commander take care of a private's report?
"Ankang, you have to know one thing, and that is that our planetary defense force army, well, the vast majority of combat units are actually drones."
Uncle Schiller sat in the driver's seat and stepped on the accelerator, and the two drones he brought with him floated onto the back of the car when it started.
He patted the car, then pointed to the maintenance drone behind him with his thumb and continued: "Don't look at this car is basically a machine structure, in fact, it is also a drone, of course, the same is true for the two little guys behind me." The equipment of drones has led to a significant reduction in the number of your combat troops, and of course for that reason it is still not completely unmanned. So, although our troop is a brigade, the number of people is not very large, unlike Starfleet. ”
I don't know where to find an e-cigarette, Schiller half-opened the mask of the nanosuit as a windshield, and explained with the e-cigarette and Ankang in his mouth that he had taken out before.
"Well, these are all basic common sense, didn't you know about it before you came to the army? Well-being. Oh, by the way, it's the play day of those stinky boys, did you see it when you came here before? ”
"Huh?"
Sitting in the back of the car, An Kang felt that he had really come to the wrong place, and the Planet Defense Force Army was completely different from what he imagined.