For a tank, armor used up the most material, yet it was also the simplest thing to manufacture.
You could tell from the blueprint that the Leman Russ tank was basically one big box. To build it, they only needed to press steel plates, cut them into different shapes, then weld or rivet them together.
The Steel Mill and rolling machines aboard the Mining Mule could produce enough steel plates for thirty or forty Leman Russ tanks in a single day.
After the workers welded them into hull frames, Camel-type Shuttles transported them to the Golden Road for precision processing.
Although the Mining Mule could produce thirty Leman Russ tank frames a day, the precision workshop aboard the Fortune could only make ten sets of engines, transmission systems, gun barrels, fire-control systems, optical sights, electronic equipment, and so on per day. That kept production down.
Some specialized components, such as large Bird Spectrometers and Plasma Guns, could not be manufactured by the Shipboard Factory at all.
At times like that, Li Qinwu had to use the Fitness Teleportation Technique. He first returned to Agricultural Planet 496b, opened a Portal, sent the equipment into the Vault, returned to the Fortune, then opened another Portal to take it out and package it under his own label.
Overall, any advanced equipment the Shipboard Factory could not produce, Li Qinwu simply brought in from elsewhere through Portals.
Ten tanks a day were steadily delivered to the surface and handed over to the representatives of the Flower Shield Council.
More than half a month later, all the vehicle hulls had been delivered. Those tanks and armored vehicles were assigned to the Iron Cavalry units under their military command.
After all, this was space medieval times. Calling tanks Iron Cavalry was perfectly reasonable.
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