I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 751 - 649: The Problems Faced

"Are you still using 3D printing equipment to produce electromagnetic rifles? Do you have plans to build a dedicated production line?" Chen Xin followed the staff’s footsteps as he toured the massive industrial base, while also posing new questions.

The staff nodded and said, "In fact, we are already building one. The building modules you see are intended for the production line. The reason we are using 3D printing equipment for production is that we made the 3D printing equipment first, and the frontline urgently needs rifles, so we had these 3D printers stepping in."

Once the production line is completed over there, electromagnetic rifles will be produced there, and the 3D printing equipment here will shift to manufacturing exoskeletons, power armor, and Titans."

As the European countries agreed to Flame Country’s demands and conditions, exports of power armor and Titans naturally also became part of the aid agenda.

Although the European Defense Line currently needs electromagnetic rifles the most, with even a lesser demand for exoskeletons, the European countries are well aware that this is only temporary.

As Flame Country transferred the technical documentation of the export version of electromagnetic rifles to Germany and other European countries, allowing them to also produce this weapon, the production capacity of electromagnetic rifles is continuously increasing, supplying more rifles to the frontline every day.

Once the demand for electromagnetic rifles is met, the demand for powerful equipment like exoskeletons, power armor, and Titans will naturally arise.

Therefore, after having obtained Flame Country’s promise to supply power armor and Titans, the European countries had already submitted demand orders to the Fleet to Assist Europe, even though the production plans were currently focused on electromagnetic rifles, and production cannot happen until the electromagnetic rifle production line is completed and the 3D printing facility is freed up.

After going around the base, Chen Xin finally gained a comprehensive understanding of the industrial site. Admiring the staff’s achievements, he also showed concern by asking, "Are you facing any issues that need solving? I’m here to solve problems for you; you can mention any issues."

"Currently, our main problems are the shortage of raw materials and the lack of daily necessities. As for production and construction, there aren’t many issues." Knowing why Chen Xin came to Europe, the staff naturally didn’t hold back, straightforwardly revealing the major problems faced by the Fleet to Assist Europe.

While discussing these problems, the staff explained to Chen Xin: "3D printing technology is indeed excellent, but since acquiring this technology, everyone wants to manufacture everything, almost desperate to build a complete industrial system right here. However, Germany lacks oil as a raw material for chemical production, and coupled with this mine’s limited output, the available production materials can’t currently meet the production needs.

Even though Germany provides part of the raw materials, they also have to meet their own production requirements, so the fleet primarily relies on self-sufficiency."

At this point, the staff couldn’t help but feel helpless. For large-scale industrial production, the most troubling issue is undoubtedly the shortage of raw materials.

Reality isn’t like a game where you find a resource patch, send a mining unit to extract it, and a couple of resources satisfy all needs.

Even after simplifying the electromagnetic rifles through multiple processes, the types of raw materials required are reduced but still include over a dozen kinds, a significant portion of which are chemical products that need to be preliminarily processed into components before they can be used in production.

The lack of raw materials is indeed a huge challenge and restriction, causing headaches for the staff of the Fleet to Assist Europe.

They have contemplated solving this issue, even though Germany seemed reluctant, European countries were willing to open more mining areas to the Fleet to Assist Europe.

The problem is that the fleet currently lacks both manpower and mining equipment; even if new mining areas are obtained, they cannot be exploited.

The shortage of daily necessities is even more understandable. Europe is currently at war, where all resources are focused on the war effort, significantly affecting production of daily necessities. They are struggling to have enough to eat themselves, let alone spare resources for the Fleet to Assist Europe.

Had the fleet not considered this issue beforehand and arrived with adequate supplies and enough self-sufficiency, they would likely have had to request logistical support from the homeland.

This situation prevents the fleet from expanding the production scale, as scaling up production requires more manpower, which in turn means higher resource consumption.

Since they can only ensure the consumption of current personnel, they must consider logistical issues. Deploying personnel from the homeland is simple, but clearly also increases the fleet’s resource consumption.

After listening to the staff’s issues, Chen Xin nodded to indicate understanding: "I understand the problems you mentioned; they are not difficult to solve."

There are indeed solutions to these problems, and domestic resource transportation is certainly one method. Now, with freight land ships available, they establish a stable logistics route between the homeland and Europe, making it not so difficult to transport supplies from the homeland to Europe to ensure the fleet’s operation.

However, the carrying capacity of freight land ships is limited, and they need to transport other supplies as well, so they cannot use all of them for logistics support. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Therefore, the fundamental solution lies in leveraging the Flame Country’s traditional skills: reclaiming land, farming, and self-sufficiency.

However, this cannot be resolved by the Fleet to Assist Europe alone.

Although they have set up growing greenhouses, clearly it’s insufficient to meet the fleet’s logistical consumption needs if they wish to expand production scale.

For Chen Xin, however, this is actually the easiest problem to solve.

As for the shortage of production materials, that indeed requires mining.

Realistically, resources cannot be conjured from thin air, nor does a single mineral satisfy all production needs, which would be neither scientific nor magical. Thus, mining and establishing sub-mines have become the primary problem Chen Xin needs to solve for the Fleet to Assist Europe.

Upon fulfilling the demand for production materials, enabling the fleet’s industrial base to operate at full capacity and produce more weapons and equipment, it naturally enhances support for frontline operations, allowing European countries to hold on longer.

Regarding how to mine and establish sub-mines, Chen Xin believes that some game settings might provide him with good references.