Things have to be done one by one. As the supreme commander of the Red Dragon Fleet, Lu Yu once had too many things to distract him from, and it was impossible to fully cover everything.

For example, the efficient and convenient reconnaissance weapon of cruise drones was not noticed in time before.

Now that the responsibility of military command has been handed over to Nord, Lu Yu began to upgrade and strengthen the fleet's hardware checks and flaws.

In order to better complete the task, Lu Yu led Sims to form the Fleet Academy of Sciences together with the trained technicians and the trained personnel.

The core technology of the drone is already in Lu Yu's mind. He and Sims joined forces and created five prototypes in just three days.

After screening according to actual combat needs, Sims began to build a production line under the guidance of Lu Yu.

Although it may be faster to manufacture by their two ‘builders’, it will be detrimental to the development of the fleet in the long run.

If the two of them, the Reincarnationists, forced the fleet's technological level to rise too quickly and the fleet's technicians could not keep up with them, once they left the dungeon as Reincarnationists, the entire fleet's system would begin to collapse.

So the production of drones is both agile, and on the one hand, Sims uses the established production line and takes some technicians to seize the time to build the first phase of networking drones.

On the other side, Lu Yu led his several of his proud disciples to teach some excellent technicians based on the basic principles.

Such teaching has involved many basic sciences, and we should learn as much as possible about the knowledge from 0 to 1, such as the production of materials used, theories of the semiconductor industry, etc.

Even after leaving, humans can continue to retain the ability to manufacture semiconductor chips, solar materials and other high-tech products.

Lu Yuju's strength in the Academy of Sciences and even the entire fleet, while cultivating talents, also established various micro production lines. Even if the output is small, he had to make some attempts to retain these scientific and technological capabilities.

The fleet's military operations entered the expansion stage of the code-named "Keep Plan". When the Ark Fleet was advancing towards a kelp resource field located in the former Asia-Africa Continental Bridge area, the first phase of the drone reconnaissance network also began to be established.

Three large drones started flying at high altitudes with the assistance of helicopters. They will cruise at a high altitude on the established route at a speed of more than 300 kilometers per hour, so as to provide the fleet with global intelligence.

At the same time, more than a dozen medium and small drones also cover the target areas of fleet military operations and the target areas of key defenses.

However, the reconnaissance near southern Africa was not successful, and the four drones sent were all discovered and destroyed by ground air defense.

Although the reconnaissance of the kelp resource field also lost two drones, the remaining drones successfully gained the lead for the fleet.

The kelp resource field is a small pirate fleet, with two multi-functional arks with displacement of about 3,000 tons, and a wolf-headed flag flying. They guard a floating platform for mining kelp.

Since the drone cruised more than 600 kilometers ahead of schedule, the military operation seemed targeted and allowed Nord to direct the battle in artistic form.

Twelve jet attack aircraft carrying anti-ship missiles were divided into two flight teams and four attack teams, and took off from the joint fleet more than 300 kilometers away from the target.

The two arks left behind in the resource field were not very strong in air defense capabilities. After several rounds of air defense missiles, they were successfully disintegrated by the attack aircraft formation.

Then the four attack teams launched a precise strike like a surgical scalpel. The principle of the strike was to lose its ability to combat and sail without sinking, so that the fleet could support and recover it.

If you don’t care about the advance preparation time of war, there is also the time for planes to sail at sea.

The battle lasts only three minutes from the beginning to the end.

The aircraft and enemy ships encountered each other, and the enemy ships launched air defense missiles. The aircraft's missiles and rocket attacks basically destroyed the combat weapons of the two warships.

The pulse bomb paralyzes the power systems of the two warships and targets the attacks to destroy the power systems of the two warships.

Then there is the airdrop of the flyer to persuade the surrender, and the Marine Corps boarded the ship...

The part of the Marines boarding the ship by helicopter is also a small highlight. This time it was the Marines' first landing operation, and all the elites sent were sent.

These elite soldiers were wearing Lu Yu's special suit. With this fierce suit that could defend against a nuclear explosion for three seconds, all the Marines turned into super warriors.

The entire combat operation was in order, and the fleet did not care whether the two warships were seriously damaged. It would be enough as long as they could be dismantled into raw materials.

After all, it is now confirmed that except for Lu Yu, a model worker, there are still a few Ark fleets that can use luxury goods such as high-performance materials for all Arks.

The Red Dragon 2 ship entered the kelp resource field as planned and presided over the kelp collection and resource collection work. For this reason, Sims also personally led the technicians to enter the waters on the Red Dragon 2 ship.

The Marines took all the two Ark warships, a total of more than 500 prisoners, back to the main battleships of the Joint Fleet, and the prisoners' working group members specially carried out education and transformation.

The main force of the joint fleet was directly lined up near the resource field, with the courage to wait for the rabbit to find the fighter.

So much so that when a pirate fleet that had arrived had originally received a distress signal, he actually chose to retreat without fighting.

Taking advantage of this period, Lu Yu took his initially established submersible and flew to the resource field.

The average ocean depth here is only more than 200 meters, which just resolves the embarrassment that Lu Yu does not have reliable deep-dive materials.

The precious materials he was trying to extract were nothing else, but the "sand" soil that was once very valuable on the earth.

To be precise, it is actually the silicon and other elements in it.

These elements are essential for semiconductors and other technologies, but it is definitely not enough to capture other warships or seawater alone.

Taking advantage of this harvest, Lu Yu presided over the construction of an auxiliary supply ark with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons and two multi-functional transport ships with a displacement of more than 200 tons.

The auxiliary supply ark is used to transport some supply materials, and can also accommodate small multi-functional transport ships and speedboats, and tow small floating platforms used to collect resources or perform maintenance work.

Operations not only make profits, but also expose problems.

The first battle of the 'Keep Plan' exposed the embarrassment that the fleet did not have the special aircraft carrier when it used aircraft as its main attack weapon.

A round of twelve aircraft actually requires three main battleships of the Nord Fleet to operate at the same time.

So Lu Yu and Nord made a bold decision to transform a battleship into a special aircraft carrier to improve the fleet's air combat capabilities.

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Chapter completed!