In the third week, Augustus' class began to formally learn how to operate the CMC-200 power armor. To be honest, the first try made them feel extremely disappointed.
The power armor used for training is all old models that have been eliminated from the battlefield. The surface of the armor is covered with scratches and marks left by shrapnel. Some parts of the armor are seriously damaged, and the internal servo and padding are covered with a layer of frost.
of soot.
Armor mutilations are so common that recruits have some understanding of the fact that some armor is missing arms or legs.
These tattered power armors are very different from the bright steel armors on the recruitment posters, as if they are antiques from centuries ago.
After getting the power armor, Augustus had to clean the oil and soot inside, and use perfume to cover up the foot odor and sweat odor left by the previous user. If this was disgusting enough, some people also
Hardened vomit and other unnameable objects were found inside his helmet.
The power armor of the Federal Marine Corps is maintained by specialized armor technicians. Usually each platoon is equipped with one armor technician and two assistants. The main force and the special tactics team will be equipped with more professional technicians, but the entire recruit training camp
There is only one class of technicians.
Maintenance of armor and weapons is a compulsory subject for new recruits, even if all they can actually do is polish and oil the armor.
The first thing Augustus learned was that he had to have a good relationship with the armor technicians in his team.
On the battlefield, powered armor is the only guarantee for the lives of Marines, and no one wants it to have problems. If there is only one technician in his unit and there has been a conflict between them, then no one will know about his powered armor.
Will the life support system suddenly fail?
Or more simply, there is an electromagnetic grenade directly in the battery unit of the power armor.
Compared with the latest experimental special-purpose armor such as 230, 230F-X series and 250E, as well as the CMC-300 that will be installed on a large scale in the Marine Corps in the future, CMC-200 is used to stabilize the cold fusion filter element that powers the servo system.
It's very problematic, the failure rate fluctuates around an astonishing 0.9%.
For the unlucky old man whose armor is trapped in a steel prison due to power system shutdown on the battlefield, such a failure rate is a nightmare that will happen 100% of the time.
This power armor still has many flaws from the old era. For example, the connection gaps between its various armor plates are fatal flaws. The seams between the two pieces of armor at the knees lack strong protection, and the servo system has several inches of thick wire.
Cables and Marines' environmental combat suits cannot protect against bullets accelerated to supersonic speeds.
As long as the angle is right, broken shrapnel and bullets bounced off the armor may insert into the seam from above, cutting the Marine's leg in half.
At the same time, the cooling tower on the back of the CMC-200 for heat dissipation still uses mid-century technology, which makes its working efficiency far different from the latest products of the Tarsonis Brubaker military industrial enterprise.
Regardless of these shortcomings, power armor is still an epoch-making weapon in warfare. Its strong armor can ignore all light weapons firepower. All caliber rifles and shotguns in the Earth Age can only leave scratches on the armor.
They are also resistant to chemical, biological weapons and nuclear radiation. People must deal with these iron cans just like tanks and heavy armored vehicles, using anti-tank guns and heavy weapons to smash the relatively more fragile helmets of the Marines and blast them to pieces.
The skull of a Marine.
In the territory of the Tyranid Federation, local armed groups in the fringe areas usually still use the weapons that their grandfathers used for hunting, and even the most powerful automatic rifles are not enough to penetrate the protection of the Marines.
First.
According to the diary of the local security officer, a company of federal marines could easily defeat a large rebel army, and it was a one-sided massacre.
Marines have become the most common combat force in the science sector, and it will be another century or so before power armor technology flows into the hands of private armed forces or mercenaries and pirates.
In 2488, such technological barriers were enough for the Tyranid Federation to suppress the Kaimorian army that lacked power armor and gain an advantage in the war.
Before being exposed to these powered armors, the training camp sergeant will give each recruit a power armor training manual. The compiler of the training manual is an army general.
The Admiral kindly tells the recruits at the beginning that operating the CMC series of power armor is not much more difficult than using their father's exoskeleton harvesting robot.
However, every recruit seemed to have returned to their infancy when they first put on these iron sheets and lost the ability to walk. Beginners with uncoordinated hands and feet could not even crawl on the ground. Even the best-performing recruits could not
I could only stagger a few steps.
Of course, it won't take long for the new recruits to adapt to this change.
CMC power armor has a set of spine-like built-in skeletons, which can bear the burden of the armor itself for the Marines inside, so that they will not be crushed by its own gravity. The use of ceramic composite armor makes the weight of the power armor itself less
Smaller, even the heaviest medieval full-body plate armor on Earth would not be heavier than these power armors powered by fusion energy.
The tactile feedback system inside the power armor ensures that the Marines can operate flexibly. It can accurately transmit the Marines' movements and other operations to the entire power through the servo system embedded under each piece of armor and connected by cables.
The armor prevents Marines from being dislocated or sprained due to the uncoordinated response of various parts of the power armor and the human body.
Marines must go through continuous training to make the power armor truly become a part of their bodies, so that the armor weighing more than one hundred pounds can be as easy as skin.
This is no easy task for the Federation recruits who have just come into contact with these new toys, but fortunately they still have a full eight weeks to learn how to skillfully operate the power armor. And according to experience and data, even the dullest recruits can
Let the armor become a part of their body within two weeks.
Both the training manual and the virtual noncommissioned officer in charge of recruit training emphasize the same point: If you can't make power armor your external organ, your third and fourth hands and feet, in a short period of time, it will bury you.
's grave.
Augustus has never touched any harvesting robots. His only impression of the power armor of the Terran human marines in the Koprulu sector comes from Tychus in the CG version of StarCraft 2 Wings of Liberty.
Like all new recruits, Augustus acted like a drunken duck when he first put on his power armor.
Although Augustus didn't believe that the veterans were born to operate power armor, they were still scolded by the instructor who supervised them: "My eighty-year-old grandmother can dance ballet in this outfit!"
In the eyes of the instructors, the ugly behavior of the new recruits is as incredible as a newborn fish that cannot swim. In the face of their roars, any complaint will be regarded as a provocation to the superiors. The only thing the recruits can say is "yes, sir"
.yes,sir.".
If "yes, sir." is not shouted loudly enough and the enunciation is not vigorous and full enough, then the instructor will immediately question whether they are energetic enough: "Why can't I hear the voices of you maggots?"
At this time, Augustus and his comrades could only answer in unison over and over again: "We love the Marine Corps! Being a soldier is the most glorious!"
"We are weapons of war! We pray for death! We long for war!"
In the next three weeks, the first thing the recruits do when they get up every day is to quickly tidy up their house. Then they will board a military transport truck with a personal information card with a personal number. Then the military transport truck will send the recruits
On the power armor assembly platform in the barracks, the armor is assembled piece by piece by modularly programmed robotic arms.
The training will last all day, and the recruits will not be able to take a short break until they are too tired to move or when Colonel McBrick makes a surprise inspection of the Marine Corps' ideological teaching results.