I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 836 - 734

While Chen Xin was busy with the construction of the new city district, other domestic departments were not idle either.

The end of the domestic war brought about national strategic adjustments, where various demands and controls under the wartime model were lifted, and the focus of national development returned to people’s livelihood, which has indeed improved the country’s situation over the past few months.

Without the need to maintain high-intensity military operations and consumption, large amounts of steel no longer needed to be used for making shells but could be used to manufacture various machinery and production tools, improving production conditions...

The valuable transport capacity of the railways was freed up, no longer needing to deliver supplies to the front lines every day, allowing domestic supply levels to noticeably rise...

Factories no longer needed to produce military products day and night, and could revert to producing civilian products, increasing the variety of domestic supplies...

In short, although the country still has to bear the burden of aiding Europe and supporting the construction of the Middle East defense line, the overall situation is gradually improving. Various construction projects that were halted due to the war have resumed, significantly improving the lives of the people in the Flame Country over the past few months. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Even the aid to Europe has improved significantly due to adjustments in domestic productivity, providing Europe with significant advantages on the battlefield.

From the current war situation, if the aliens do not stir up any mischief, with humanity’s current status, it’s unlikely they would break through the European Defense Line, while the East European Defense Line and the Middle East Defense Line have a relatively low chance of being engaged.

However, the Flame Country and Lucia have no intention of abandoning the construction of these two defense lines. On the contrary, the two countries are accelerating the construction of these defense lines, aiming to take advantage of the Flame Country’s productivity being freed from domestic war to complete this defense line, designed to span the Eurasian continent, which could be called a new Great Wall.

This is not due to paranoia or a desire to waste domestic resources, nor is it simply to build a spectacle, but rather because countries that have fought with aliens know well that there is no reasoning with them, and one cannot have any illusions.

It would be better to spend a large number of resources on building a defense line that turns into a useless display than to abandon its construction because the current situation seems harmless.

Instead, one should take advantage of the current favorable times to quickly complete the defense system so that even if aliens manage to cause trouble, humanity would have the means to resist.

Moreover, it’s not just about the construction of defense lines. Each country is further strengthening its domestic military production and military construction. The Lucians even proposed organizing joint research among military research departments of various countries, bringing together technologies from all to develop military equipment that draws on the strengths of all and better fits the needs of modern warfare.

For this proposal, the European countries are very supportive. After all, Europe itself often involves technical cooperation between countries, posing no problem. Moreover, all the technology and equipment used against aliens come from the Flame Country aid, so they are not stingy with their own technology.

Regarding Lucia, they have actually already opened their technology library to the Flame Country once when they first received aid from them.

Furthermore, due to some past grievances and entanglements, the technology between the Flame Country and Lucia has a considerable degree of interoperability, so technical cooperation poses no problem.

However, the technology of the Flame Country is currently the most advanced among the three, so rather than a joint research project, it’s essentially benefiting from the Flame Country’s technology.

Yet, considering uniting all parties and the need to enhance the military strength of the other two parties to combat aliens, the Flame Country agreed to Lucia’s proposal for joint research.

After all, all military equipment in the three parties relies on the Flame Country to provide, demonstrating the advanced military technology of the Flame Country. Yet on another level, the military equipment production capacity of Lucia and European countries is being wasted.

If the Flame Country doesn’t give them the technology, they can only produce old-style equipment, and we’ve seen how effective those can be against aliens through actual combat.

If even the existing equipment could perform satisfactorily, there would be no need for countries to be entirely equipped with Flame Country equipment.

So this joint research plan was approved, and the Flame Country opened technical data for export versions of major equipment for confronting aliens, such as Power Armor, Exoskeleton Electromagnetic Rifle, and Titan, to Europe and Lucia.

Clearly, the countries couldn’t be stingy either; they all contributed whatever technology they could offer.

After all, during the disaster, everyone knew what bottom-of-the-box technology each country had. Although they didn’t have to give away everything, everyone could distinguish whether what was offered was good or bad.

So even if some countries wanted to guard their broom, others wouldn’t let them do so.

However, although each country offered its advantageous technologies, the development of new equipment is obviously not just about piecing together various technologies.

Before the disaster, the Indians researched main battle tanks, acquiring the most advanced mainstream technologies available, yet their product was an impressively expensive piece of industrial garbage.

Therefore, this joint research project primarily focuses on a series of equipment provided by the Flame Country, attempting to apply technologies offered by various countries to these existing pieces of equipment for improvement.

Besides these improvements, the joint research project naturally also aims to develop something new, achieving results to prove that this joint research project is not just for show.

To achieve this goal, there must be a large-scale project capable of producing practical results that play an important role on the battlefield.

However, finding such a large-scale project is not easy, because the series of equipment currently used by the Flame Country already covers most of the equipment used on the current battlefield, except for the Land Ship and Mobile Base, which have not been opened. Developing something new isn’t easy.

Thus, each country brought out some of their pre-disaster equipment development plans. Some involve upgrading current equipment, while others reflect more whimsical ideas.

Some plans are reasonable, but a significant portion reveals designers letting their imaginations run wild. While the creativity and ideas are indeed good and aren’t unfit for research projects, they are not suitable as the main focus of the entire joint research project.