Lena's weapons test also went well, and when everything was done, Locke and Lena flew together in an ultra-luxury private airliner over the Pacific Ocean.

"Now PPDC has a total of nine bases around the world, but basically all of them are in the hands of various countries, and the only one that is completely under our control is the one that has just been completed in Kuda, Malaysia." Lena said.

PPDC's bases around the world are known as the Crushtop Base, and they are also where the Mecha Hunters are maintained and stationed, and the first eight bases are the same as in the plot, in Hong Kong, Lima, Anchorage, Tokyo, Vladivostok, Sydney, Panama, and Los Angeles.

The dominance of these bases is said to be in the PPDC, but in fact, the several major powers that funded the construction can greatly influence the relevant bases and the corresponding mech hunters.

It's like if there is a chrysanthemum beast approaching Los Angeles, and the PPDC side can immediately send two mecha hunters to come to support, which is much faster than the Philippines and other places to react to an attack.

There is a reason for this, the mecha hunters supported by these two mechs are nominally built by PPDC with technology and manpower, but it is the United States that pays the lion's share.

In the same way, if Huaxia Shanghai was attacked, Shaolin Ranger and Storm Crimson would be able to attack immediately, because these two mecha were made in Huaxia and provided to PPDC for use.

Although all Mecha Hunters above the name must be managed by the PPDC for combat arrangements, in fact, if you think about it, you know that the member countries that contribute the most power cannot really be selfless.

The manufacturing cost of a mecha is comparable to that of an aircraft carrier fleet, and the maintenance cost is also expensive, especially since the mecha hunter has to constantly fight against the Kaiju Beast.

Every time the Mecha Hunter goes out, it is a big gamble, it can continue to increase its own record, or it may fall in the next battle with the Kaiju Beast.

Even if you win, you will lose more or less, and each repair will cost enough money to build a large surface combat ship.

Don't look at the few mecha in the plot, they are used over and over again, in fact, except for the mecha hunters under construction, there are twenty-eight mecha that PPDC can call at any time now, as far as Locke knows, there are currently eight mecha completely scrapped, and there is no possibility of repairing them.

Of course, this loss is mainly the first and second generation mechas, because of the lack of understanding of the Kaiju Beast and the immaturity of technology, it is normal for it to be scrapped in a year or two in the battle with the Kaiju Beast.

As the strength of the Kaiju Beast continued to increase, the mecha hunters had to upgrade as well, but fortunately, with the improvement of technology and the understanding of Kaiju Beast, the battle damage rate also began to decrease.

According to Locke's calculations, the average lifespan of each mecha is about four to five years, such as the Chernoalpha in the plot is constantly tinkering and upgrading, not to mention persisting for ten years without war damage and retirement, which can be said to be a miracle.

This time, the Guda base that Locke is going to start construction began more than a year ago, and it was just preliminarily completed half a month ago.

was able to independently lead the establishment of a base, which naturally experienced a lot of open and secret battles, but because of the general trend, the most important thing is to give up the money, and Locke still found an opportunity.

As the wormhole steadily expanded, the frequency and intensity of Kaiju attacks continued to increase.

At the beginning, everyone created a mecha hunter and successfully defeated the Kaiju beast, and various major countries also began to research and manufacture their own mecha hunters, and now the fifth generation has completed research and development, and it is being manufactured, or it will be installed soon.

It's just a short period of five years, and the mecha of the Hunter project has been updated for five generations, and the speed of such an update can be said to be incredible.

After all, the first generation of mecha hunters was the first experimental mech, and even with the latest technology from the member states, Locke provided new metal technology and reactor technology to solve the most critical material and energy problems, but there were still various problems.

To put it simply, in terms of weight, the weight of the first generation of mecha hunters is generally more than 7,800 tons, while the second generation has been reduced to about 5,000 tons, but the combat power has increased instead of decreasing.

Even in the third and fourth generations, the weight of a top-notch mecha hunter has been reduced to around 2,000 tons, while the combat effectiveness has been significantly improved!

In fact, this is all due to the continuous upgrading of mecha design, as well as the materials used to make mecha hunters.

Even the latest division, with 2,000 tons as the dividing line, divides about 1,700 tons of flexible, assassin-type mecha hunters, and more than 2,000 tons, which focuses on armor to fight mecha hunters head-on.

The first generation of mecha was launched in 2014, the second generation of mecha was developed and released in 2015, the third generation of mecha famous Dangerous Wanderer appeared in 2016, the fourth generation of mecha Tempest Crimson was released last year, and the fifth generation of mecha Eureka Raider was also completed in the second half of this year.

The speed of mecha renewal is more than half a year ahead of the original plot, and in the original plot, the fifth-generation mecha is also the pinnacle of mecha hunters, and there will be no new mecha hunters for a long time in the future.

Why is it that the previous technological update can be said to be the same every year, but after the fifth generation of mechas, it is suddenly difficult to give birth?

Especially with the passage of time, the frequency of attacks by Kaiju Beasts has become higher and higher, and not only has the number of mecha not increased, but even many mecha hunters have been damaged and damaged in high-frequency battles, and there is still no plan to build a new mecha.

Even according to the changes in the situation that Locke has seen, although the plot has been affected by him and has changed in all aspects, now the major powers have the momentum to reduce their investment in the Mecha Hunter project.

Fundamentally, there are two reasons for this, the first is technical barriers, and the second is economic problems.

Technology sharing was common in the early years of PPDC's existence, as if the Lee Group provided basic industrial intelligence technology, new metal material technology, and the original version of Titan reactor technology.

Therefore, when the first and second generation of mecha hunters were built, it was because scientists from all over the world worked together and shared all the technology to build one hunter mecha after another at the fastest speed and maintain the situation.

After the emergence of the third generation of mecha hunters, each member state began to choose its own research direction, choose different mecha technology development directions, and at the same time, there began to be technical barriers and secrecy.

The generation of technical barriers has also led to the fact that the original Big Bang-like scientific development has become difficult to further improve, and with the passage of time, the research of mecha in various countries has gradually encountered various problems, which is also one of the important reasons why the sixth generation of mecha has been difficult to produce.

As for the economic problem, it is because everyone's economy is not good, or even very poor, and it is at this time that the Li Group saw the opportunity and got the right to establish and dominate a base.

(End of chapter)