The construction time of the Grace-class light aircraft carrier is close to that of the Justice-class cruiser.
Both of them use the same type of hull construction.
After the Xingyuan fleet was equipped with the Elegant-class light carrier-based aircraft carrier, the last gap was made up.
Such a powerful fleet can establish a solid defense line at medium and short ranges with frigates and destroyers during battle.
Frigates and destroyers can intercept attacks from enemy ships, carrier-based aircraft, and mechas.
The escort ship, as the absolute force of medium-range strike, has an attack range of 400,000 kilometers and heavy firepower, which can definitely make the enemy lose their way.
Ten light carrier-based aircraft carriers, with full firepower, can even launch a total of 12,000 carrier-based aircraft.
This is not a small number on any battlefield.
Finally, there is the most powerful Phantom-class battlecruiser, with an ultra-long range of 900,000 kilometers. Even the battleships of the Yelong Empire are no match for it.
After the Xingyuan Fleet was split up and reorganized by Li Xin, it would take about two years to replenish all the required ships.
This is already a very fast speed, mainly because the ships that need to be replenished are mainly small and medium-sized ships.
A Fang-class frigate only takes a few months to build and can be easily and quickly constructed.
The slowest one is the light carrier-based aircraft carrier, which takes about a year.
At the same time, all the industrial worlds in the entire Moranok star field are producing carrier-based aircraft at full capacity.
Unlike battleships, after a battleship is produced, it still needs suitable crew members and soldiers to drive it.
Carrier-based aircraft are much simpler.
Pilots of carrier-based aircraft can be selected from among the elite clones that have been cultivated.
From the beginning of their training, they are infused with the combat experience of excellent carrier-based aircraft pilots, which makes it easy to increase the number of troops.
Moreover, not all carrier-based aircraft require pilots. A large number of unmanned wingman aircraft serve as additional combat power for carrier-based aircraft forces.
In the previous interstellar wars, the dominance of carrier-based aircraft forces over the entire battlefield has been demonstrated.
The killing effect of carrier-based aircraft is no less than that caused by the main guns of battleships.
Even more than the achievements of the mecha troops.
Of course, the main reason for this is that in these battles, Li Xin deliberately controlled the frequency of the mecha troops' deployment, and they mostly fought defensive counterattacks around large ships.
This is the only solution.
Insufficient manpower remains the main problem facing the Galaxy's defense.
This does not mean that there is a shortage of basic labor workers, but rather that there are insufficient numbers of elite psychics.
Even though the human population now has 40 billion, it is still a bit small compared to the current population of Galaxy Defense and even all the planets with life.
Currently, there are twenty-seven life planets under the Galaxy Defense Group, including humans, Dalhash, Nok, and Vilon.
These races are the life groups that make up the Galactic Defense Group, and their total number exceeds 160 billion.
Among them, the main race, humans, only has 40 billion people, and the rest are alien races.
This is a very dangerous number in itself. It is not easy for Li Xin to kill all these alien species like Qi Yun, a commander with racial mysticism.
It is impossible to allow these alien species to join the space force.
If we only rely on human psychics, the losses from years of war will definitely be huge.
Moreover, Li Xin is constantly expanding his fleet in preparation for war.
The production capacity of warships now far exceeds the speed of training suitable psychic crews.
It can be said that as long as there are qualified psychics, Li Xin can form a fleet.
Foreign races dare not use it, even the Dalhash tribe, which took the longest to conquer, was forty years ago.
But psychics live long lives, and this generation of psychics has not died yet, so Li Xin dare not take the risk.
Therefore, the most suitable armed force to be expanded is the carrier-based aircraft unit that has sufficient combat capability and does not have to worry about losses.
Not only are these industrial worlds in the Moranok star field producing carrier-based aircraft, but factories on other planets that are capable of producing carrier-based aircraft are also producing them.
A large number of logistics ships are loaded with completed carrier-based aircraft and the weapons and ammunition they need.
The main fleet is still within the star fortress defense line in the Narbor star field.
After thinking for a long time, Li Xin sent two Star Fleets, the Seventh and Eighth Star Fleets, to the Vilon Star Region to reinforce the Ahmed battle group.
The rest of the Xingyuan fleet continued to stay by his side, ready to deal with the Yelong Empire.
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While the Galaxy Defense Group is making large-scale preparations for war.
Several other civilizations in this star field were also busy.
They were all forced to start an arms race.
First was the Tanni Empire, which allied with the Saswell Confederation and together received military assistance from the Yeron Empire.
Although Brown Yellon of the Yellon Empire did not directly send troops to declare war on the Galaxy Defense Group.
But they don't have a good attitude towards the Galaxy Defense Group.
After all, Li Xin also destroyed two battle groups of the Venom family.
When it comes to causing trouble for the Galaxy Defense Group, the Yelong Empire leaves no room for maneuver.
They first provided a series of military assistance to the Tane Empire.
This assistance is divided into several types, including combat training and officer command assistance.
There were also finished products of the fourth-generation heavy weapons that were sold directly to the Tany Empire.
Although the fourth-generation main guns were not sold, the Yelong Empire sold a batch of finished third-generation main guns to the Tanni Empire.
In this way, at least at the level of battleships and cruisers, the warships of the Tany Empire are constantly being upgraded and have a combat capability of about three and a half generations.
The Saswell Confederation allied with the Tenny Empire, and the Yeron Empire also provided them with military assistance.
Although the Yelong Empire has not yet declared war on the Galaxy Defense Group, Li Xin already feels like a thorn in his throat.
This was the main reason why Li Xin declared war on the civilizations of the Tani Empire before he had completely digested the Moranok Star System.
Now the original small trouble has evolved into a big trouble.
In this situation of mutual threats, Li Xin had to make concessions and began to provide military assistance to Zhun's sole remaining entity and the Wilk race.
It is impossible not to provide assistance. If we do not provide assistance, the Tenny Empire and the Sassville Confederation can easily destroy the fleets of these two countries.
These two vassal civilizations cannot play a role in restraining the Tany Empire.
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