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[Ukrainian Ranger]

Revise J-31 by improving\replacing its engine, electronics and radar. Ask Japan and South Korea to help us. Try to keep the cost the same

[TopHat]

Giving our ground troops a fighting chance seems more important to me than improving our fighters right now.
Design new small arms rounds (for currently-used PLA weaponry) optimized against the Alien Warriors' carapace.
This hopefully counts as a revision since we're simply modifying ammunition for existing weapons, but we'll need Ebbor's confirmation on that. If it can't be done, +1 to UR's J-31 improvements

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I don't think that better small arms bullets will have a noticeable impact. Assault rifles\machineguns are still far inferior to lasers.

Not letting them to land gives us more chances to actually hurt them and I prefer to focus on that for this turn. Also J-31s used for ground support can deal with their armored infantry.

[10ebbor10]

Changing ammunition fits into a revision action. Modifying the entire weapon fits into it as well.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

To speed things up.

The plan

Making holes in carapaces and Getting allies.

Spoiler: Revision (click to show/hide)

Design new small arms rounds optimized against the Alien Warriors' carapace. Focus on 12.7×108mm Russian\Chinese caliber.

Spoiler: research (click to show/hide)

Study enemy lasers and laser theory.

Spoiler: production (click to show/hide)

 China Production Line 1 : J31 [5] >  To China protection force
China Production Line 2  : HQ-9\HX-1 [2] > to China protection force
China Production Line 3 : Type 095 Submarine [1/1]
East Asian Production Line 1 : HQ-9\HX-1 [2] > To East Asian Russian protection force
South East Asia Production Line 1 : Produce anti-alien ammunition and standard 12.7mm PLA machineguns\sniper rifles and supply Chinise(25% of produced) South American(50%) and African(25%) armies for free. 
If this action is illegal then produce 2 more HX-1 for China protection force

Spoiler: suggestions to our generals (click to show/hide)

China protection force > keep protecting our homeland
East Asian protection force > Negotiate with Russia to move there and protect them against alien attack. If failed to get their permission then keep protecting East Asia. If sucessful work on improving relations with Russia 
Type 095 Submarine > Patrol South American coast
Airforce\East Asian patrol > Patrol Japan, Korea, Eastern Chinise coast, Vladivastok. Be ready to counter-attack into nearby zones if necessesary.
Oceanian protection force > Spread thinner and protect Indonesia and Philippines

Spoiler: reasoning (click to show/hide)

Better bullet can help. I think we got enough trophies in Indonesia to try.
Russia as ally is good to have and we need to send our diplomatic general from a region that supports us anyway.
One production line for South America\Africa is unlikely to help them much but it should help our diplomacy because we assist poor armies

[TopHat]

I can get behind that.
+1 to all of the above.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Any other votes\proposals?

[TopHat]

Hmm. Adding Anti-Laser theory to the research might be pushing it a bit, but it'd be very nice if we could get it. Maybe as it in as an extension in case we get a good roll?

Also, we should probably beware of hurting the prestige of whoever is in charge of Russia at the moment by implying they would be incapable of defending themselves (but anything can backfire so it's worth a shot). Maybe ask India if they say no?

[evilcherry]

How about Australia and NZ? IRL its the only really "friendly" country in the whole Asia-pacific Region.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I think researching laser implies some insight in anti-laser armor that we may use in the next design. Furthermore I prefer low-tech anti-laser armor for our first vehicle because we want to produce a lot of them. Water layer in armor and smoke generators are good enough for the first generation of vehicles. If we will be lucky in laser theory then another possibility arises - Stationary air-defence lasers powered by compact nuclear reactors. I don't think that HX-1 will stay deadly for a long time. Revising some laser to our special unit (submarine) is another thing that we may do in future.

As for trying to go for India. I am not a fan of many "if then" in an action. We order our loyal and diplomatic general to negotiate with Russia. If he fails, then he stays in his current position and next turn we may try again with India or Central Asia or South America or Australia and NZ or whatever. Russia is a major military power and getting alliance with them will boost our abilities.

[Baffler]

I'm fine with all of that, but I think patrolling Russian territory is a bit premature before we've made an arrangement with them. They're capable enough to leave be for now, and it spreads our troops too thinly IMO.

[10ebbor10]

Revision : Extreme high power Rounds

A series of rounds designed for higher efficiency against the alien invaders, noted for being considerably more powerful and destructive. However, they tend to inflict serious wear on the current generation of guns utilizing them.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

 South East Asia Production Line 1 :Produce anti-alien ammunition and standard 12.7mm PLA machineguns\sniper rifles and supply Chinise(25% of produced) South American(50%) and African(25%) armies for free. 

10ebbor10, is this production action legal? Will it have any effect? Do we have any need to produce ammunition?

[10ebbor10]

Yes. No. Yes, but not this ammo.

[10ebbor10]

Research :

Study enemy lasers and laser theory.

Progress goes slow. Most of the lasers recovered (not many) were damaged, and what we could discover didn't help that much. While we understand the basic principle of their laser weaponry, we can, at this time, not replicate the compact power source. In addition, combat observation indicates that the laser heat up tremendously while firing. Not a problem for the aliens, but any of our systems will need a rather big cooling system.

Gained : Primitive laser technology

Production

China Production Line 1 : J31 [5] >  To China protection force
China Production Line 2  : HQ-9\HX-1 [2] > to China protection force
China Production Line 3 : Type 095 Submarine [1/1]
East Asian Production Line 1 : HQ-9\HX-1 [2] > To East Asian Russian protection force
South East Asia Production Line 1 : Produce anti-alien ammunition and standard 12.7mm PLA machineguns\sniper rifles and supply Chinise(25% of produced) South American(50%) and African(25%) armies for free. 
If this action is illegal then produce 2 more HX-1 for China protection force

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Chinese Protection Force (Umar)
[8/20] J-31
[14/20] HQ-9
    -[6] HX-1

East Asian Protection force (Zhou)
[7/20] J-31
[12/20] HQ-9
    -[4] HX-1

Oceanian Protection Force (Mao)
[7/20] J-31
[8/20] HQ-9
    -[2] HX-1

Reaction Air Force  (Lin) -
[14/20] J-31

Naval detachment (Deng) -
Type 095 "001" Nuclear Submarine