Three full years have passed since the selection of the commander of the First Army Corps.
The speed of development of the Federation in the past three years is simply astonishing. Now that the development of brain-based medicines is popularized among the people, various general technologies have exploded like a spurt, with new technologies released almost every day.
Of course, this only refers to general technology, most of which are civilian technologies, and key technologies are not so easy to break through.
However, even so, the general technology of the Federation can compare with the mid-to-late stage level 3 civilization, which is already a very remarkable thing.
You need to know which general third-level civilization has not experienced thousands or even tens of thousands of years before it can reach the mid-term or even late-stage level?
However, more than ten years ago, human beings had just entered the stage of third-level civilization. In just over ten years, they have already crossed the path that other civilizations have followed for thousands of years.
In fact, if we want to be more serious, it should only take five years. After all, the Federation began to popularize brain-based drug development five years ago, and only then did the technology explode.
In terms of key technologies, there is not much progress compared to three years ago, but whether it is energy shields, jump engines, energy weapons, etc., it is actually no weaker than the early level four civilization.
Of course, if you want to compare it with the old level four civilization, the gap is still quite big.
Not to mention anything else, let’s talk about energy weapons. The main guns of the Federation’s warships are now slightly stronger than those of the Oaks Empire’s Aegis Battleship. You must know that the Aegis Battleship is a castrated product sold to it by the Babawi Empire, and Baba’s
There is a huge gap between what the Wei Empire itself uses.
It is worth mentioning that the composition of the battleships of the two major armies of the Federation has once again undergone major changes. The battleships have become more unified. In addition to the flagship, the current main fleet of the Federation only has one type of battleship, which is the killer whale-class battleship. As for the main aircraft carrier fleet,
It is no longer equipped and has been eliminated for use by local security fleets.
And the culprit behind all this is the mecha.
As I said before, today's mechas are completely useless when facing level four civilized battleships. After all, the weapons are too small and the power is too weak!
You can't let a mecha carry a battleship's main gun, right? After all, the caliber of a battleship's main gun is more than ten meters, who can carry it?
And even if you can carry the main gun, do you still need to carry a battleship-level nuclear fusion device with you? Otherwise, are you sure you have enough energy to fire?
For this reason, there was a time when the idea of no longer developing mechas and canceling the mecha establishment in Starfleet became popular. The Federation at that time really almost threw the mechas into the garbage!
However, there was also a lot of opposition at the time. After all, mechas were not simply used to attack warships, but were used more for planetary airborne operations and to contribute to fortress raiding operations, etc.
Speaking of which, since the introduction of energy shields, the federal fleet has never used mechas to engage in ship-to-ship combat.
Therefore, the final result is to temporarily retain the mecha establishment and retain the mecha research and development team, but no longer set up a carrier carrier specifically for mechas, because this is a waste of fleet establishment.
Instead, the mecha legions were dispersed within each Orca-class battleship. It is precisely because of this that at the beginning of the design of the Orca-class battleship, a mecha depot and corresponding ejection ports were designed inside it.
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Nowadays, each Orca-class battleship carries a squadron of mechas, which is 300 units, which is the same as Lin Fan's flagship Ouranos.
One advantage of this change is that the entire fleet of mechas has not been reduced, but it has saved 2,000 warships. At the same time, the number of killer whales built has also increased from 432,000 to 480,000!
In other words, after the main force of the Federation is fully established, it now has one 10-million-ton heavy battleship (the flagship of the legion commander) and 11 8-million-ton heavy battleships (the commanders of the second to twelfth fleets).
flagship), and 240,000 Orca-class battleships.
In terms of personnel, the standard personnel of each Orca-class battleship is 892 people. Of course, this is only the personnel to maintain the operation of the battleship. In addition, there are 300 mecha divisions and 500 ground staff.
Therefore, each standard main fleet has a terrifying full strength of more than 30 million men, while a full army requires a full 400 million men to operate.
If it were more than ten years ago, humans would definitely not be able to provide so many people to support the two legions. After all, the two legions will require a full complement of 800 million people, plus local security fleets, ground troops from various planets, and star ports.
, fortress and other personnel, if they don’t have more than one billion, don’t even think about it.
What is the concept of more than one billion? Today, the entire human population only has a population of 15 billion, and there are more than one billion soldiers, which is one-tenth of the entire human population.
The most important thing is that Starfleet cannot just bring in random individuals, it needs more than one billion highly professional talents of the right age!
This was originally an impossible thing, but the emergence of genetic enhancement agents made it possible!
Many retired soldiers who were in their 60s, 70s, or even 80s have had their lifespans increased and their physical functions have continued to recover after using genetic enhancement drugs.
Most elderly people can return to their physical functions of thirty or forty years old after using it, so a large number of long-retired veterans quickly returned to the Starfleet after simple training.
In today's federation, let alone two large legions, even if it wants to fully staff four large legions, it can still gather enough people if it is squeezed.
In addition, in recent years, the Federation has transformed into a veritable powerhouse by selling equipment to the Kabat Empire and the Io Federation, and Star Fleet wages are now notoriously high.
Besides, who can resist the temptation of giant ships and cannons? Who doesn’t have the dream of sitting in the captain’s position and commanding a battleship or even a fleet? Who doesn’t expect that one day he can become like Liang Xingchen or Lin Fan?
The human military god?
Well, the most important thing is that once a media went to the Io Federation to conduct an interview, and the content was about the conditions for choosing a spouse for girls from the angel tribe.
So, the girls said that they don’t like cowardly men, they only like brave men on the battlefield!
Later, when this interview was broadcast in the federation, the recruitment points on all planets in the federation were almost destroyed by crazy crowds.
Moreover, don’t think that only human men do this, there are even a large number of women who also participate. It can only be said that the angel girls are really unisex!
In short, these series of things mean that the Federation has no shortage of soldiers at all.
Especially now that the new intelligent industrial robots have completely liberated the labor force.