The Plane War Begins from Wandering Earth

Chapter 276 275. Arms Race
No one knows the combat effectiveness of the colonial armed forces better than him, a senior commander of the federal government army who came from a colonial galaxy.

Before the ban on arming colonial galaxies was lifted, the so-called colonial military combat effectiveness was a complete joke in front of the federal government’s military.

The "Clandaff Rout" gave the federal government a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of its own army and the Arach Zerg troops.

To the extent that now, many front-line military commanders of the expeditionary force will passively carry out the offensive deployment tasks issued by the expeditionary force headquarters without the air fire support of the starship forces.

If the main force of the federal government army can't do it, then those colonial galaxies are even less likely to do it.

It is no wonder that the newly appointed commander of the expeditionary force would have such doubts.

In fact, even with detailed "battle result report video images", many front-line officers of the expeditionary force still refused to believe that the colonial cannon fodder troops they had always looked down upon could achieve such a record.

There are miracles in this world, but the Redemption Army is just an exception.

If even those insignificant colonial armed forces can kill everyone on the Zerg colony planet.

So what is the need for the federal expeditionary force that the federal government has spent massive amounts of manpower, material resources and financial resources to build?

But there is no if, even if the expeditionary commander sent the most stringent and picky "Performance Verification Committee" to investigate.

The huge number of Zerg corpses on the battlefield cannot erase the contributions of these colonial galaxy armed forces.

During the investigation of the "War Record Verification Committee", the colonial armed forces' weapons and equipment similar to those of the Redemption Army, as well as a large number of almost completely "copy and paste" biochemical clone troops, finally allowed the expeditionary command to find the key.

After the "Whiskey Post Victory", the Redemption Army not only received attention from the P Star Front Command.

The think tank of the expeditionary force represented by the Psychic Strategic Force, and even the expeditionary force headquarters, were all very interested in this sudden Redemption Army.

The quality of the soldiers is extremely high, and they are not inferior even to the elite troops of the Federal Expeditionary Force.

Even more shocking are the elite warriors in the Redemption Army who are wearing "metal can helmets".

They were able to fight head-on against Zerg forces that far outnumbered their own on the battlefield without any heavy firepower support.

What’s even more outrageous is that they were able to win the battle.

After the Battle of Whiskey Post, the Redemption Army announced that the number of casualties was more than 35,000.

In fact, this also includes the statistics of wounded soldiers, and the actual number of soldiers killed is only more than 10,000.

The Redemption Army would not tell the expeditionary headquarters that more than 90% of the casualties were among the indigenous troops at the bottom of the United Government Army's combat power sequence.

As for the much-watched "Metal Can Troops", the Redemption Army announced that nearly half of them were killed or wounded, resulting in heavy losses.

But in fact, the "casualties" here even include cases such as grenade launchers jamming, chainswords wearing out, and Legionnaires' eyes becoming bloodshot due to overload injections of "cardiac stimulants".

In fact, not a single official knight in the Redemption Army was killed in the battle, and some were not even seriously injured.

not a single one!

The coalition government forces will never make the same mistake facing the same enemy.

However, even though the Redemption Army had exaggerated their losses as much as possible, their achievements still amazed the entire expeditionary force.

No matter how arrogant the soldiers of the federal main force were, they had to admit that the soldiers of the Redemption Army might be stronger than them in terms of military quality and personal combat power.

Equipment factors are also an important aspect.

The Redemption Army has military equipment and vehicles that are very different from those of the Federal Mobile Infantry Regiment.

Even without the heavy firepower support of the starship forces, it can still achieve a good combat-damage ratio.

Just as the expeditionary troops were thinking about the reasons behind the Redemption Army's performance.

The frenzied offensive actions of the armed forces of the colonial galaxies, as well as the results of their successful actions, shocked the expeditionary force no less than those brought by the Redemption Army.

The colonial cannon fodder, who are like rotten fish and shrimp, can charge head-on into the insect-killing swarm troops as if they had taken medicine after being equipped with the same weapons and equipment as the Redemption Army.

Clear out those annoying insect swarms.

If the main force of the Federation Expeditionary Force can also possess the weapons and equipment of the Redemption Army...

In the expeditionary force, there are more and more soldiers, troops, and even senior officers who have such ideas.

A soldier's goal is to win battles.

No one wants to travel countless light years to reach a strange galaxy at the other end of the universe, only to end up huddled up in a defensive fortification.

He watched helplessly as the massive number of bugs that were synonymous with military achievement appeared, but he was unable to take any action.

Now even the colonial cannon fodder can jump in the face of the main federal forces and taunt them.

This is how they can endure it.

The reason why we cannot defeat the bugs on the battlefield is not because of the soldiers, but because of the equipment.

This is the general consensus among the soldiers of the Federal Expeditionary Force Mobile Infantry Regiment.

Countless expeditionary soldiers, along with middle and lower-level officers, demanded that the federal government update their armaments.

It is best to purchase directly from the Slade Galaxy, where the Redemption Army belongs.

At least it must reach or exceed the level of the armed forces of each colonial galaxy.

The equipment level of the Federation’s main forces is not as good as that of the colonial galaxy’s armed forces?

Is this even reasonable?
The federal government and the coalition government, as two similar military-political centralized systems, attach great importance to military merit.

The grassroots army mobile infantry soldiers are only thinking about killing more bugs on the battlefield and getting more military merits.

But the issues that senior military officers consider are much more complicated.

The main force of the Federation uses weapons produced in local colonial galaxies?
Wouldn't that be equivalent to publicly stating that the federal government officials responsible for arms procurement are incompetent and that the arms conglomerate that has received huge orders is worse than a remote colonial galaxy that has just transformed into the arms trade?
The military hegemony of the Earth Federation Government is an important reason why hundreds of colonized galaxies accept its rule.

There is no way the federal government would admit that the military equipment level of local colonial galaxies exceeds that of the Earth Federation.

Even in the expeditionary force, at least in the eyes of the soldiers of the Army Mobile Infantry Regiment, this has become a fact.

As the armed forces of various colonial galaxies conquered various Zerg colony planets, victories were frequently achieved.

The expeditionary force's Army Mobile Infantry Regiment became increasingly disappointed with the expeditionary force headquarters and even the federal government.

The middle and low-level officers and soldiers have no time to care about the blow to the federal government’s military prestige caused by the hot sales of the “Same Type of Arms as the Redemption Army”.

They just felt that something was wrong within the federal government, that corrupt politicians were colluding with greedy arms dealers to persecute loyal patriots like them who had shed blood and sacrificed their lives for the federal government.

As planned, the new interstellar marshal went to the Clandaf galaxy where the expeditionary force was located to begin his condolences.

The Redemption Army, a unit with a brilliant record, was naturally the focus of this trip. Marshal Meru personally visited Planet P and inspected the Redemption Army's fortifications and defenses.

Like other senior expeditionary force officers at all levels.

The Star Marshal was dismissive of the "so-called heavy firepower equipment" of the Redemption Army.

In the interstellar age, with the bonus of starship cannons, the heavy firepower of the army troops is not worth mentioning in the eyes of the starship troops.

The heavy equipment displayed by the Redemption Army was no different from that of the federal government's army.

However, the appearance of "individual heavy equipment" headed by heavy ceramic steel power armor left a deep impression on Marshal Meru.

Especially when they learned that these "metal cans" could actually fight in close combat with dozens or even hundreds of times more Arazi war bugs on the battlefield and defeat the enemy.

The military industry of the Slade galaxy, at least in the field of individual weapons and equipment, has been recognized by the top federal government officials.

During the condolence visit, Marshal Meru implicitly asked the head of the Redemption Army: Knight Commander Siegel, whether the Corinth family is willing to privately transfer the weapons and equipment technology related to the "metal cans".

This is equipment and technology that the front-line soldiers of the federal government's expeditionary force envy. How could the federal army's top brass not know its value?
Knight Commander Siegel casually used the excuse he had used to deal with representatives from other colonial galaxies to evade the question.

Does the “metal can” require the wearer to have extremely strong physical fitness to be able to fit it?

Even the soldiers of the expeditionary force's elite Army Mobile Infantry Regiment cannot meet the standards?
Naturally, no one believed this excuse.

Under the rule of the federal government, the number of people in the core areas directly under the jurisdiction of the federal government alone amounts to tens of billions.

With such a large population base, what kind of demanding soldiers can’t be found?

The interstellar marshal, who was already certain that the "metal can" technology was the most advanced secret of the Collins family's military industry, did not say anything else.

Then, at the reminder of the accompanying senior federal military adviser, he asked questions related to the biological clone force.

Due to social ethical and moral issues, cloning technology has always been rejected by the public in the development history of the Earth Federation.

Except for a few militarized cloning projects led by the federal government, they have been suppressed by all sectors of society.

Compared with the biochemical clone army sold by the Slade Galaxy to various colonial galaxy forces.

The federal government's cloning technology is as different from that between apes and Homo sapiens.

What Marshal Meru really values ​​is the biochemical cloning technology of the Thraide galaxy.

If the combat effectiveness of the clone soldiers could reach that of the main forces of the federal government, or even just the quality of ordinary troop soldiers.

The federal government would no longer need “citizen soldiers” whose pensions were high and whose conscription was costly.

Buy it once and enjoy it for life.

This slogan not only enticed countless colonized galaxies, but also successfully attracted the attention of the federal government.

Knight Commander Siegel accepted all offers and said that the Thraide Galaxy would be happy to sell a corps of biochemical clones to the federal government.

But unfortunately, what the federal government wants is not the "fish" but the "net" used to "fish".

The production process of biochemical clones and the underlying design technology of control chips are the treasures that the federal government truly covets.

Marshal Meru claimed that he was willing to exchange a 200-year-old military firearms company in the core control area of ​​the United Government with the Collins family.

And when this condition was transmitted from the Clandaf galaxy to the Slade galaxy.

Before the coalition government could respond, Sam Collins was the first to become angry.

"Blackmail! This is blatant blackmail!

Biochemical cloning technology is an open-pit gold mine in the field of federal military technology!
Don't be fooled by the damn federal government!
They are a bunch of beasts who eat people without leaving any bones!

As someone who has studied abroad on the Earth Federation's home planet for many years, I know these 'vampires' too well..."

When Sam discovered that the Earth Federation Government was trying to encroach on the interests of the United Government, he was outraged and even angrier than any veteran citizen of the United Government.

Even Gust, who was responsible for protecting him, couldn't help but look sideways.

If the United Government is ready to formally declare war on the Earth Federation Government.

Gust had no doubt that Sam Collins would be the most loyal of the "guides".

The biochemical cloning technology has not been taken seriously by the United Government, but this does not mean that the United Government will allow the other party to master this technology.

All technologies that can enhance the military strength of the Earth Federation must be strictly blocked by the United Government.

After being rejected twice in a row, even Marshal Meru, a high-ranking member of the federal government who never showed his emotions, looked a little embarrassed.

"I am the Supreme Commander of the Federal Government, a Star Marshal whose words can decide the lives of hundreds of millions of people. I lowered my posture and personally gave you country bumpkins from remote colonized galaxies a chance to show your good will, but you didn't appreciate it?"

The Collins family didn't even leave any room for bargaining and simply refused.

Marshal Meru, with a gloomy face, felt humiliated. After finishing his condolences and commendations, he left in a hurry.

Not long after, the Earth Federation Government officially announced that it would carry out a comprehensive reform of army equipment.

Provides a series of weapons and equipment updates including individual jet backpacks, individual tactical nuclear weapon launchers, individual mechanical power armor, etc.

And this equipment renewal operation will be carried out first in the Expeditionary Army Mobile Infantry Regiment.

The military-industrial tycoons and corporate organizations that are closely tied to the federal government have considerable technical reserves in the field of military equipment.

But considering reasons such as "consuming low-quality population and cutting federal welfare spending", "low-quality and high-priced individual military products with high return rates", etc.

A considerable portion of the cutting-edge military technology of these military-industrial tycoons often only remains at the design drawing and laboratory stage.

The "high-quality and low-cost" military products sold by Slade Industries to various colonial galaxies were like a catfish, completely stirring up the stagnant market monopolized by several federal military-industrial conglomerates.

They had to start innovating and providing the federal government's military with better and more powerful customized products, at least that's what was written on the federal government's military procurement orders.

The price has doubled as a matter of course.

In addition, in order to deal with the possible "safety risks" of biochemical cloning.

The "Clone Management Amendment Bill" initiated and promoted by Marshal Meru of the Star Region was officially passed.

The Earth Federation Government attempted to prohibit the development of bio-clones in the military field through legal means.

A competition between the federal government and local colonial galaxies has gradually come to the fore.

(End of this chapter)