I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 745 - 643: The Military’s Counterattack Plan

A large amount of supplies and technology transported back from Europe naturally reached Chen Xin’s ears.

However, he didn’t pay much attention to this matter.

On one hand, it would take a long time for the country to digest these returned technologies, and on the other hand, the military is currently planning a counterattack to eliminate the alien creatures in the Dongting Lake Region.

The huge problem the counterattack faces is how to penetrate underground and handle those alien creatures that can crawl onto ceilings in tunnels.

For humans, the enormous physical gap makes it difficult to combat alien creatures in narrow spaces, especially when they’ve lost their advantage in numbers and support from heavy firepower. The power disparity between humans and aliens is akin to an average person trying to knock down a bull with bare hands.

Moreover, once they enter underground tunnels, they need to consider ammunition supply, logistics support, and other issues.

The military is gathering its elite forces for the counterattack plan, intending to arm them with Heavy Mechas, and, like last time when Chen Xin went deep into the alien creature’s nest, cooperate with the Titan units to clear out the underground alien creatures.

But even so, the military still hopes to acquire more powerful weaponry.

At the very least, units of heavy armor should be able to provide cover and fire support for regular infantry, both resisting alien attacks and serving as effective fire platforms.

This is not an easy goal to achieve.

Although Titans can be equipped with shields to be used as heavy armor units, it is limited by Titan’s own design, and they cannot truly be considered heavy firepower units.

While handheld short-barreled cannons and heavy machine guns can show good destructive power, there’s still a gap compared to the heavy firepower the military hopes to obtain.

Due to Titan’s design limitations, the amount of ammunition they carry is limited. On conventional battlefields, as long as logistics keep up, supplying ammunition is not an issue.

The modular ammunition box designed by Chen Xin ensures that even during the fiercest exchanges on the battlefield, they can complete reloading in an extremely short time without affecting operations.

However, ensuring ammo supply in narrow, rugged, deep underground tunnels becomes quite problematic.

Therefore, what the military needs is a combat unit that can be used in underground tunnel environments and can consistently and stably exert firepower advantages. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

And this is not an easy requirement to meet.

Based on current battlefield experience, the intensity of combat with aliens has even exceeded that of World War II battlefields, with heavy machine guns often exhausting an ammo belt and then changing to the next one within half a minute, continuing until the barrels turn red.

In the current environment where temperatures reach tens of degrees below zero, to heat a heavy machine gun barrel to red, imagine how many bullets it takes.

If not for Flame Country’s longstanding fear of insufficient firepower leading to a massive domestic ammo stockpile, they would be worrying about this enormous ammunition consumption now.

Now it’s resolved somewhat, as all the nearly expired ammo piled up over the years has been used up, significantly relieving storage pressure on logistics.

However, when planning a counterattack, ensuring ammunition consumption becomes a very serious issue.

If this issue isn’t solved, the military clearly can’t realize their plan to counterattack and clear out alien creatures.

To solve this issue, the military naturally first thought of Chen Xin.

In the military’s view, Chen Xin is almost becoming a magical, problem-solving figure; any need can be solved as long as it’s mentioned.

Especially after the Land Fleet’s emergence, the military sees Chen Xin as nearly omnipotent, and some ideas and plans that previously couldn’t be realized due to being too imaginative or grand are now being reevaluated by the military, aiming to find some feasible ones to show to Chen Xin and see if they can be realized.

Of course, for those overly imaginative plans, the military only has the idea, and hasn’t actually taken action on them.

The most pressing issues now are ensuring ammunition supply and fire support in underground environments.

Fire support is not too difficult to resolve; a high-quality self-propelled artillery platform can solve the problem. The only slightly tricky part might be the movement chassis issue.

Given that Chen Xin and others have explored alien-dug tunnels once, with their rugged and winding paths, current military tank and self-propelled artillery track chassis, as well as armored vehicle wheel chassis, are clearly unsuitable for navigating such environments.

But this point is easy to solve. When Chen Xin developed mining-use Titans, he once made a multi-legged platform simulating spider-like ecological structures, originally designed for use in mines, which is quite suitable for modification as a firepower platform chassis.

As for the firepower platform itself, it can be modified from existing military vehicle turrets.

This kind of work can be accomplished by ordinary weapon designers without needing Chen Xin’s personal intervention.

Once the vehicle chassis problem is solved, the ammo supply problem is also solvable, by simply modifying the chassis into a transport platform.

In fact, when receiving the military’s request, Chen Xin had already come up with many ideas, including concepts for various sizes and models.

Small ones can be made into Spider Robots carrying one to two ammo boxes, specialized in delivering supplies to frontline combat units and capable of operating both in groups or individually.

Larger ones can be the size of a handcart, also robots, capable of different functions, both transporting ammunition and serving as fire support platforms by equipping heavy machine guns.

Even larger ones can be car-sized, requiring a driver, similar to Chen Xin’s earlier concept of Spider-like Titans, which can carry a large amount of weapons and ammunition and directly serve as heavy firepower platforms.

The design of these three sizes of vehicles perfectly meets military needs, even making the medium and small robots usable in other environments beyond just underground.

This is why the military, upon seeing these two robotic designs, already wants them distributed across all forces.

With Chen Xin’s various advanced technological equipment becoming widespread, military logistical supply needs have become different from before. Individual soldiers can carry more and more weapons and ammunition due to Exoskeleton and Power Armor loads, but supply volumes also need to increase substantially.

This has made the military very optimistic about these small and medium transport robots that can autonomously deliver ammunition to the frontlines.