The next level of description of the system unfolds.
[Crusader Kings module has completed modernization adaptation.]
[Large-scale event Archetype: Grand Tournament.]
[Traditional benefits include: improving the prestige of the organizer and participants, strengthening the legitimacy of rule; easing the pressure on rulers, knights and vassals; identifying high-Martial Valor characters; accumulating experience in riding combat, infantry combat, archery and strategy competitions; obtaining honorary artifacts and special talents; improving relationships, creating friendships, enemies, marriage contracts and new political factions.]
[Additional benefits from modernization: centralized testing of airframes, Driver, maintenance systems, tactics Data Link and transnational ordnance standards.]
[Warning: In large-scale competitions, some people will get injured, some will cheat, and some will invest more than the war profit for national honor.]
Lin Cuo stared at the last line for a moment,
"Isn't this a normal manifestation of great power competition?"
The system pops up another estimated cost.
That number was enough to give an ordinary Member States financial officer a heart attack on the spot, but it didn't make Lin Cuo hesitate much.
The luxury assets confiscated since Palace Coup, the military expenses recovered from the military administration Purges, war bonds, emergency financing, and the newly restored cash flow of major military industrial groups have caused a rare phenomenon to appear on Regent Council's books - there is temporarily more money than senior engineers, precision equipment and high-purity strategic materials that can be immediately invested in construction.
What's really scarce is time, people, and stuff that can handle high power.
Southern Ocean also temporarily quieted down.
To be precise, those who were able to rely on private armies, local banks and local communication systems while defying Luoyang have died in this southern expedition of Purges and Li Xingke. After being arrested or transferred from key positions, the remaining young officers, technocrats and local chiefs may not have outstanding average abilities. Most of them are only eleven to fifteen in the system, but they have an advantage that Great Han has never been able to stably confirm in the past.
Loyalty.
This is perhaps the most unreasonable benefit of Paradox System in national governance.
If the ability is insufficient, you can take exams, train, and transfer, or you can let the system restrict a person with medium ability to a position that will not destroy the overall situation; a general with extremely strong ability, but is prepared to sell the entire military region to others at a critical moment in exchange for political chips, is the real danger that cannot be compensated for by work processes.
At least until the next round of BETA lands, loyalty is more urgent than genius.
The new Southern Ocean chiefs did not dare to modify the unified timetable without authorization, nor did they dare to transfer military expenditures to private banks. The twenty-seven regulations, unified ordnance standards, theater horizontal coordination rules and Imperial Audit left by Li Xingke began to really operate. Local initiative did decline. Many people instinctively asked for instructions when encountering problems that were not written into the regulations, but it was better than everyone interpreting orders according to their own interests.
Lin Cuo looked up at Jiang Lihua after reading the system's last review of the hosting conditions.
"Your Majesty, we now have money, people, a free railway and a group of people who need something else to see."
Jiang Lihua was sitting on a high-backed chair, and the hand that had just pressed his temples had not yet been fully withdrawn.
"There are still many wounded, many unfinished pensions, and the next batch of monsters that may fall."
"That's why it's more important to hold a martial arts tournament. It can enhance my Great Han's prestige, relieve pressure, and allow those nobles who were originally preparing to duel with each other on the border to compete for a trophy in front of the referee and the audience."
"Are you ready to let the country treat war as a game?"
"No." Lin Cuo answered quickly, "I want the country to know that weapons will not only appear next to the death list, Driver can compete in front of everyone, engineers can get applause for repairing the fastest, and the country can lose a game without losing a city."
Jiang Lihua thought for a while, held his sleeves, hesitated for a while, and his voice became softer unconsciously.
"What if someone dies during the game?"
"We can set safety rules, but even then, someone is bound to get hurt."
In the next few days, Ordnance Standards Committee has regarded the competition as an irresistible global equipment census.
The anti-BETA version of the KMF transformation plan was approved first.
Kashgar proves that if the mass-produced airframe continues to pursue the ultimate high speed of the ace machine type, the price will only fall on structural life, armor, ammunition and Driver load. When Assault-class actually launches a charge, most ordinary KM No matter how fast F is, it is impossible to compete with a giant creature at 170 kilometers per hour in the open field for a long time; and a machine that pursues extreme speed to thin armor and reduce ammunition will lose all speed advantages as long as it is slowed down by Tank-class.
As a result, production models are allowed to actively reduce peak speeds and extreme cornering capabilities.
The saved mass, energy and maintenance life are all reallocated to frontal and leg armor, larger ammunition compartments, independent cooling, directional Shield and battlefield data Relay, and the anti-BETA firepower type begins testing 90mm and 105mm short-body pipelines A few heavy-duty models use 120mm-class weapons with limited range of fire. They do not pursue close combat with the ace KMF, but follow behind the Tank and Infantry fronts, specifically dealing with the Assault-class that is slowed down by obstacles and exposed on the side.
The caliber of the cannon was also re-discussed. In the past, 25 mm was enough to deal with ordinary KMF armor and light targets. However, in the face of large groups of Tank-class, it often required continuous Marksmanship to completely stop its activities. Thirty-five mm was determined to be the mainstream anti-group caliber. A small amount of 40 mm high-explosive and programmable ammunition was used to clear trenches, corpse piles, and small individuals hidden in Fortress-Class's body.
Everyone finally began to accept the fact that in the next war, not every machine needs to be the protagonist.
Gao Hai originally grew out of construction machinery and industrial robot technology, and now it is returning to its origin.
The ammunition delivery type eliminates a weapon arm and replaces it with a long-stroke robotic arm and modular shelves; the battlefield recovery type strengthens the winch, cutter and towing structure; the engineering type carries blasting, bridging and obstacle clearing tools; the medical type can drag the cylinder Cockpit and the casualty cabin directly back to the rear; the command type gives up half of the space inside the body for data processing, Artillery calibration and unmanned equipment control.
Smaller service aircraft have also entered the Archetype stage. They are less than half the height of the Gao Hai. They have four short legs and wheel sets, and are as low as a mechanical animal walking close to the ground. Ammunition boxes, optical cable rolls and maintenance modules can be hung on the back. The official name given by the engineers is Multi-Legged Battlefield Logistics Transport Platform. After the experimental model was installed in the army, a new name was added, Kitty Vehicle.
The name spread throughout the experimental units within half a day, and no one remembered the official name anymore.
Drones are not something that has never appeared in this world. Mines, factories, pipelines and floating platforms have long used remote inspection equipment in large quantities. Britannia also has Unmanned Decoy and automatic reconnaissance aircraft. It is just that the military culture of the KMF era has long been superstitious about excellent Driver and high-performance airframes. Small unmanned systems that are cheap, fragile, and have no knightly aesthetics have never entered the core of combat.
The strong interference inside HIVE changes this, and the wireless system will lose the signal, so use a wired connection.
The first batch of Wire Kite Drones drag thin optical fibers behind them and can fly along Vertical Shafts, buildings and trenches, sending optical images, heat signals and laser warnings directly back to wired terminals. Ground tracked unmanned vehicles carry several kilometers of optical cables and lay them as they travel, transforming the command network from radios that are easily interfered with to the limited connections in positional warfare that Great Hans are good at.
Lin Cuo is very satisfied with this retrogressive progress.
"Problems that cannot be solved by advanced technology usually mean that the frontline's imagination is not big enough!"
Half an hour later, Rakshata saw the new job Lin Cuo had prepared for him.
She was sitting at the console of Penglai Testing Institute, with the long pipe in her hand suspended in mid-air. In front of her were Shen Hu Mech Sancheng wreckage data, IS Auxiliary Core battle records, Luminous Shield generator, Radiation Fluctuation structure, and a draft of a new machine body with an annoyingly long name.
"Shinkiro·Bird of Paradise number Executive Office decisive battle type." She finished reading slowly, "Are you planning to stuff three research institutes, two technologies and a damn woman into one machine at the same time?"
Lin Cuo is sitting opposite her. Most of the fixed structures of his left arm have been removed. In a few days, he can completely resume normal activities.
"That's why you are required to be responsible for the overall design."
Rakshata took a puff of cigarette, and his red eyes moved from the drawing to Lin Cuo's face.
"You just blew up a Shen Hu."
He waved his hands indifferently, looking rich and wealthy.
"For this Regent, it only means that the old design has been verified in actual combat and I need a new body."
She didn't want to waste time with Lin Cuo. This Regent always had a way to achieve her goals, so why not study the core interface of IS.
At the bottom is the black box that no one really understands yet, PIC, Passive Inertial Canceller, which is written into every IS Core as a basic physical function. There are 467 cores that have publicly existed in the original world, all from Shino-no-no-no-no-no? One person, E, has received core research from the best scientific research institutions around the world for many years, but they still cannot explain why it is able to eliminate the body's own inertia, maintain Absolute Defense, and complete adaptive calculations that almost possess will.
The AIC developed by the Germany team is completely different. They just found the PIC's external output and control interface, and expanded the passive field originally used for the body's own balance outwards, turning it into Active Inertial Canceller System that can stop enemies, fix targets, and control local movements.
This means that what can really be tackled is to start from the peripheral system, measure the field changes of the PIC, establish non-invasive observation equipment, unify the interface between the core and the external frame, Shield, power, weapons and control suits; study how the AIC amplifies, directs and stabilizes the output; turn the IS's Absolute Defense, Sakuradite superconducting energy power transmission system and energy protection into an industrial system that can be produced, repaired and continued to improve even without beam intervention.
Lin Cuo gives a more direct requirement.
"I don't want a national technology that can only continue to exist when she is in a good mood. Of course she can continue to be the world's number one genius, but if one day she disappears, gets injured, or runs after an alien rabbit, Great Han's entire technology line cannot stop."
Rakshata was too lazy to discuss this logic with him. He took a puff of cigarette and asked directly, "Sir Regent, how many people are you going to give me?"
Lin Cuo has pushed through the national technical population review system, and there are almost endless lists behind different majors.
"In addition, Martial Arts Tournament of the world has entered the preparation stage, Lloyd Earl will definitely bring a new version of Lancelot."
Rakshata's fingers stopped on the pipe.
"How do you know he will come?"
"Because I am going to tell everyone in the global live broadcast that Lancelot has relied on the maintenance department twice in a row to prove the sustainability of the Britannia industry."
She finally raised her eyes, Lin Cuo smiled very sincerely.
"Don't you want to compete with Pudding Earl again in front of the whole world? Whoever wins will be more qualified to define the standards for the next generation of anti-BETA mobile weapons."
Rakshata looked at him for a long time, then picked up the pipe again.
"I can be responsible for the core body and technology research."
"Very good."
"Not for you."
"Of course, it's for India."
"It's not just for India."
"I understand, it's for science."
Rakshata slowly exhaled a puff of smoke.
"To shut up that Pudding Earl."
Lin Cuo nodded with satisfaction.
"This is the pure academic spirit that can promote the progress of civilization."