Black technology: a super empire spanning two worlds

Chapter 364 [Achieving Standardization Within Ten Years]

Several more rounds of testing followed, such as the power armor's aiming assistance system.

This can be considered a unique skill exclusive to power armor. With the support of the aim assist system, the soldier only needs to roughly aim the gun at the enemy and then pull the trigger. At close to medium range, the target hit rate is 100%.

The "faith shooting" technique, born out of a desire for self-protection among Africans, ensures their safety, but whether they hit the target depends entirely on luck.

With the support of this auxiliary aiming system, even those using the "faithful design" of African players will have an excellent target hit rate.

It is worth mentioning that Xiao Yu introduced to the military personnel that the team also designed a number of peripheral accessories for this exoskeleton power armor to meet different mission requirements.

For example, the tactical jetpack, a spare part, gives armed power armor a certain ability to leap short distances. When facing complex terrain such as high points and rivers, the tactical jetpack can be used to easily cross these terrains, further improving rapid support and rapid response on the battlefield.

A tactical jetpack can be used three times. During combat missions, once the number of uses is used up, the component is automatically unloaded from the power armor to further lighten the load and improve mobility. If the number of uses is not used up, the tactical jetpack can also be manually unloaded.

This set of equipment components is clearly positioned as a consumable.

"Comrade Xiao Yu, we need to speed up the mass production of power armor. The troops urgently need this kind of equipment." The military personnel from the army said this. The more he looked at the equipment, the more he liked it. He wished he could equip all 82 combined arms brigades of the army with it immediately.

With the support of this new equipment, the overall combat capability of the army will see an exponential increase. The firepower and combat capability of such a human-machine hybrid armored company are comparable to that of a traditional regimental combat unit.

Moreover, each power armor warrior can lead 10 purely mechanical power armor warriors to carry out independent combat missions, and can even fight head-on against the enemy's mechanized heavy armor forces without flinching.

This demonstrates the unimaginable improvement in combat capabilities; this is truly modern high-level warfare.

The battle between Big Goose and Little Mao right now is, in Dongda's eyes, a battle fought using tactics from seventy or eighty years ago, with all sorts of lane-filling monsters in front, only with some modern equipment.

If it were Tokyo University, even without J-36 Shenlong fighter jets or high-tech equipment like armed power armor, the difference would be enormous if they used drone tactics.

The fight between Da'e and Er Mao also involved the extensive use of drones on the battlefield, but in Dongda's eyes, that was just child's play. If Dongda were to take action, the scale of the drone deployment would be, without a doubt, an overwhelming swarm of locusts that would blot out the sky, enough to make anyone's scalp tingle just by looking at it.

Just look at the amazing scene of the University of Tokyo performing aerial shows with drones; you can only get a glimpse of the whole picture. If it were to actually fight, the scale would be more than ten times larger.

Military personnel visited Linzhou City to learn about the progress of the armed power armor project. After watching a series of live demonstrations of the power armor, they were reassured that there would be no problem with the armed power armor forming a formation for next year's military parade.

In the days to come, one of the project team’s major tasks is to go all out to mass-produce power armor. The production line is not yet at full capacity. As long as the production capacity is maximized, regardless of cost, it is not impossible to produce millions of power armor sets within a year.

Of course, the military certainly wouldn't need such a large quantity, since it's not wartime now. If it were wartime, with the full conversion of civilian to military production, it would be easy to produce a million sets a year.

In the following period, at the request of the military, Lingjing Technology took the lead in expediting the production of 100 sets of wearable exoskeleton powered armor and secretly delivered them to the military.

Because the military parade will be held next September, the military needs to get a group of soldiers familiar with this individual equipment as soon as possible, which is also a way for the military to further test the equipment.

Lin Baiyu, who was in charge of the project, also left Lingjing Technology and went to a secret military base to serve as a technical expert and guide soldiers on how to use the equipment.

A complete set of user manuals has been specially developed, which includes the performance of the power armor, system functions, spare parts and reserves, logistics and support, etc.

Lin Baiyu's task was to compile the information into a booklet so that the soldiers would know how to use the power armor and ensure that all functions could be fully utilized.

As for what tactics will be developed around this new equipment, that's the military's specialty.

However, Lin Baiyu still provided the military with a complete set of close combat techniques for power armor equipment, as well as basic offensive and defensive tactics centered around this equipment.

This wasn't something Lin Baiyu figured out on his own; it was given to him by Xiao Yu, who then passed it on to the military. Xiao Yu explained that it was summarized from simulations using a large AI model, forming a systematic set of close-combat techniques and basic offensive and defensive tactics, which the military could use to verify its effectiveness.

In fact, it wasn't something Xiao Yu figured out, but rather an experience summarized from countless real battles and campaigns on the Blue Star world.

However, Xiao Yu obviously couldn't say that. He could only say that it was the result of AI simulation, and then use it in real-world exercises to test its effectiveness.

Once the military conducts a live-fire exercise, they will understand its value.

Undoubtedly, this will save the military a lot of trouble and time by allowing them to learn on their own, enabling them to quickly build up combat capability.

Meanwhile, the military selected a group of elite soldiers from the ranks to carry out secret missions, which were actually to teach these soldiers how to use exoskeletons and powered armor.

The emergence of this new equipment led the military to decide to form the strongest land combat force on earth—a human-machine hybrid powered armor unit.

If the J-36 Shenlong fighter jet is the face of the Air Force, then the human-machine hybrid force composed of exoskeleton powered armor is the face of the PLA Army, the elite of the elite.

The military has also begun actively preparing to upgrade army equipment around exoskeleton-equipped powered armor in order to build a stronger army group.

Of course, it doesn't mean directly expanding an entire powered armored army group.

Instead, each of the 82 combined arms brigades in the army is equipped with a powered armored combined arms battalion consisting of both human and machine units.

A combined arms battalion of human and machine powered armor consists of 100 powered armor warriors and 900 purely mechanical powered armor warriors.

A combined arms battalion consists of 1000 combat units. Each battalion comprises three combat companies, each equipped with approximately 10 to 12 powered armor warriors and 100 purely mechanical powered armor warriors, totaling 120 combat units.

Each power armor warrior is equipped with 10 purely mechanical power armor pieces.

The force consists of 82 combined arms battalions, with approximately 8200 powered armor soldiers and approximately 73800 purely mechanical powered armor soldiers.

In terms of budget, including a 5% profit margin for enterprises, the purchase price of wearable power armor is 2395 million yuan per piece, and the purchase price of pure mechanical power armor is 368 million yuan per piece. Purchasing 8200 sets would require 1963.9 billion yuan, and purchasing 7.38 pure mechanical power armors would require 2715.84 billion yuan, totaling 4679.74 billion yuan.

Including other spare parts, such as tactical jetpacks, and some power armor for replacement, the total budget reached approximately 5000 billion yuan.

Undoubtedly, this is an astronomical military expenditure, but it is not unbearable for the University of Tokyo at present.

The military will not arm 82 combined arms brigades in one year, but will complete the task gradually over several years.

Of course, this is peacetime. Wartime is a different story. When we are in a state of full combat readiness, we can ramp up production capacity and make all the marines powered and armored.

Furthermore, the military's long-term goal is to fully equip the army with power armor, and it plans to complete this goal in about ten years.

In other words, ten years from now, all soldiers in the army of the University of Tokyo will be equipped with a set of exoskeleton powered armor. This equipment is clearly intended to be standardized.

However, no economic conditions allow for full-scale maintenance at present, and it's not cost-effective either, given the high maintenance costs. Full-scale maintenance now would place too much pressure on logistical support.

However, equipping each combined arms brigade with a powered armor battalion is not a problem at present, and the military budget can fully support it.

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(End of this chapter)