After glancing once more at the information Durandal had sent, Xiao Ran put away his communicator, looked up, and continued, "Based on the current situation, we can tell from today's battle that the number of Dimensional Beasts must be terrifyingly high. At the same time, the next wave may very well bring the same number of dimensional passages, or even more. We need to make the appropriate preparations and arrangements."
"Given our current manpower, we no longer have enough forces to station small teams separately in every location. The Technology Department needs to come up with a solution to this problem. As long as we can detect them immediately and respond immediately, that will be enough."
"However, the ground strongholds whose mission objectives have already been established will not be changed any further. Instead, we will increase the forces sent to them. All other teams will return to the vicinity of the fortress, where they will be redeployed accordingly."
After saying that, Xiao Ran turned and nodded to Mwu. After returning the gesture, Mwu took over. "We currently have a total of 734 warships participating in this operation. Sixty belong to the logistics fleet. Although they possess a certain degree of combat capability, they are not part of the standard battle order."
"Of the remaining 660 warships, there are four large MACROSS-class Battleships, twenty Aircraft Carrier-class Battleships, and 240 new Small MACROSS-class Battleships. All remaining vessels are older small MACROSS-class models of three different types. Other than the logistics fleet, nearly the entire fleet consists of MACROSS-class Battleships."
To be honest, MACROSS-class Battleships were truly useful. Heavy firepower, rapid firepower, barrage firepower, mobility, flexibility, speed, functionality, and carrying capacity—they excelled at all of them. Not only were they versatile, their upper limit was also quite high. With specialized ship equipment,