I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 771 - 669 Synthetic Combat Operations

The two-month training period ended quickly; so fast that Elwin felt he hardly had many hearty meals, only having sampled half of the rich Flame Country dishes at the cafeteria.

For Bob, however, these two months were significantly solid. During this time, he was almost always enclosed in the training Power Armor every day, to the point where he even started hallucinating that the Power Armor was a part of his body.

In fact, it wasn’t just Bob; many soldiers undergoing training experienced similar hallucinations.

This was primarily because the Power Armor and Exoskeleton provided significant strength augmentation. Wearing them for extended periods gave people the illusion that their own strength had genuinely increased by that much.

Particularly for soldiers wearing Power Armor, who might have only been able to lift objects weighing just over a hundred pounds, after wearing the Power Armor, they could easily lift over a ton. A twenty-fold increase in strength could easily lead to such illusions.

This also led to this newly formed Joint Peacekeeping Force experiencing a substantial number of non-combat attrition even before hitting the battlefield.

Some of the soldiers who experienced hallucinations mistakenly believed that their physical bodies could achieve the output of the Exoskeleton or Power Armor. After removing the gear, they attempted the same feats, resulting in muscle strains, fractures...

This forced the multinational joint command of the force to bring in a large number of psychologists to counsel and adjust them while also consulting the Flame Country unit, nominally part of the same force, on how to overcome this issue.

However, surprisingly, the Flame Country rarely faced such issues. Even though Flame Country’s Exoskeletons and Power Armors outnumbered those of European countries and had been in service longer, it was rare for their soldiers or civilians to injure themselves due to such illusions.

Psychologists carefully analyzed and finally concluded that Europeans, by nature, were more direct and revered strength. Hence, after a massive increase in strength, their confidence also soared, creating psychological illusions.

But Flame Country people were more reserved, not flaunting strength but seeing it as a tool, maintaining a clear understanding from the start. Thus, they seldom had the illusion that the Exoskeleton or Power Armor’s strength was part of their body.

This result left European countries exchanging puzzled looks. However, since the problem was identified early, it was eventually resolved. The Joint Peacekeeping Force finally completed the entire two-month training and could now perform peacekeeping duties alongside Flame Country’s forces.

Those dispatched for peacekeeping duties were two synthetic regiments from Flame Country and a mechanized infantry regiment composed of European countries.

A total of thirty small Land Ships were allocated to them and dispatched to European countries as company units, establishing a new security line behind the front lines to maintain order in various countries.

The synthetic regiment is a new organizational method from Flame Country, modeled on the military reform from brigade to regiment before the catastrophe.

As the country with the strongest infantry combat capability on Blue Star, Flame Country has gradually abandoned the traditional organizational methods of past combat and adopted a composite force with integrated multi-branch combat.

A composite force means organizing mechanized infantry, tanks, artillery, and even missiles into a unified attack group for combat use.

Unlike traditional organization methods where a single branch was used, requiring coordinated command in multi-branch joint operations, affecting combat efficiency.

This brigade sent to Europe is a composite brigade with a directly-commanded artillery regiment and nine directly-commanded battalions as its main combat force.

Among the nine directly-commanded battalions, beyond the communications, engineering, and repair battalions, the remaining six consisted of four armored infantry battalions and two tank battalions.

However, with the introduction of new equipment, the functions and arms of the troops have substantially changed. For instance, armored infantry battalions are now equipped with Exoskeletons, no longer riding armored vehicles but switching to small Land Ships, while tank battalions have replaced tanks with Titans.

Since this is a collaborative operation with European countries, Flame Country also adjusted the organization of the troops, rebalancing forces on a company basis from the original organization pattern.

Each small Land Ship carries a company’s worth of combat troops, with additional driving, medical, and repair teams.

The joint unit organized a reinforced platoon of mechanized infantry, composed, as per Flame Country’s suggestion, of three squads equipped with Exoskeletons and one squad equipped with Power Armor.

Flame Country’s two platoons are entirely different. Combined, they consist of six squads: one squad equipped with Power Armor, one with Titans, and the remaining four are regular soldiers equipped with Exoskeletons.

Thus, on such a Land Ship, there are two Power Armor squads serving as heavy firepower units, while the Titan assumes the role of a tank, with seven Exoskeleton-equipped infantry squads cooperating with the Titan under Power Armor fire cover to implement combined arms operations.

Such a force, along with the support of the Land Ship, boasts formidable combat capabilities.

Ample for confronting alien invasions at the frontline, deploying them for security maintenance seems a bit overqualified.

Yet this allowed this peacekeeping force to indeed play an extremely impactful role.

Thanks to the high mobility of the Land Ships, even though the force was split into company-level combat units, these units, relying on their powerful combat capability, swiftly crushed most of the separatist forces within European countries, stabilizing the domestic security environment.

Of course, due to limited manpower, they could only stabilize most major settlements, leaving some regions beyond their effective reach.

Even with their robust fighting capabilities, the company-level is the smallest unit into which they can divide. Going further down, although the force retains enough combat power to defeat a separatist faction, they cannot effectively control a region.

Therefore, the Joint Peacekeeping Force could only stabilize security in primary areas and conduct periodic sweeps in non-actual control zones.

There was a benefit, at least: once this batch of joint forces completed their month-long security mission and rotated back to the frontline, the new arrivals would have enemies to gain practical combat experience during their missions.