...Xu and Pei Chengyi personally directed the unjust attack on the Mariana Islands to the United States to send ground troops to Russia. From April to the end of the 7th of the month, the entire sky. The bomber troops of the Sky Army dispatched batches, 8 camels, consumed more than 10,000 cruise missiles, destroyed more than 4 targets, and lost bombers, and killed and killed pilots.

If light is judging from the loss and the results of the battle, the bombing operation of this sky is very perfect.

In fact, among this set of statistics, the most worthy of attention is the attack efficiency, that is, the ratio of ammunition consumption to the target of destroying. There is no doubt that the current attack efficiency is not only not high, but also scary. You should know that in all previous local wars, including the Middle East War directly confronting the United States, the attack efficiency of strategic bombers was several times that of this data, at least above the blur. Even if the intensity of local wars is limited, it is helpful to improve attack efficiency, in the previous combat operations, that is, in the bombing operations on the mainland battlefield, the attack efficiency has never been lower than habit, and basically remained above the silt. Some people may say that the mainland battlefield is facing Russia and the Pacific battlefield is facing the United States, and it is normal to have a low attack efficiency, but it is so low that it can only be destroyed by a force missile. It is very abnormal.

Given the circumstances at that time, the US military's perfect air defense and interception system did play a role.

The problem is that the main reason for such inefficiency in the attack is the Republic's army itself.

According to some news released after the war, the combat consumption on the mainland battlefield far exceeded previous expectations. Originally, Jizai was able to use the ammunition reserve for half a year. As a result, it was consumed in the first four months. You should know that the "ammunition reserve" here includes the ammunition produced by the Republic's arms companies during this period. That is to say, by the end of April, the cruise missiles in the Republic's arms warehouse will be sued. Of course, the actual situation is not the case. Because the consumption speed exceeded expectations. Therefore, at the beginning of the second distillation year, the Ministry of Defense adjusted its ammunition production plan and required arms companies to increase production capacity.

The problem is that when the production capacity cannot be improved rapidly, that is, the newly built factory has not been completed, the newly ordered production line has not yet been put into production, and the production line has already been running uninterrupted. To increase production capacity, the only way is to simplify the production procedures. In this way, the technical indicators of ammunition will definitely be reduced, that is, the performance of ammunition will be reduced.

That's true, on the Pacific battlefield, the cruise missile used by bombers is actually a "simplified version of the cruise missile.

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According to an investigation report released by the Ministry of Defense of the Republic after the war, the Republic's Tianjun, long before the outbreak of the war, had formulated a secret backup plan for the production procedures of precision ammunition, namely precision-guided munitions during the war. The Tianjun, the largest buyer of precision-guided munitions, will consume more than pre-war expectations. Inventory and insufficient production capacity are waiting for special circumstances. The core of this plan is to simplify the production procedures of precision ammunition by lowering tactical indicators, so as to quickly increase the production capacity of ammunition in emergencies and meet the needs of war.

Take the heavy cruise missiles specially used for strategic bombers. If they are not equipped with nuclear warheads, that is, they can reduce some unnecessary tactical indicators. For example, the composite closed-circuit guidance system can be simplified into the most basic control system, that is, an electromagnetic field strength overload circuit breaker can be used to automatically shut down the guidance system when forced electromagnetic interference, and the missile flies to the last few dozen kilometers according to the fixed ballistic, thus saving the complex and expensive closed-circuit guidance system, greatly simplifying the production process and improving production efficiency.

The problem is that the guidance system is simplified. The attack accuracy of the missile will definitely be affected.

More importantly, the advanced guidance system is also of great help in improving the penetration rate. It is still said that in the penetration stage, even if forced electromagnetic interference is encountered, a set of optical sensors on the missile will continue to work. When receiving high-energy laser irradiation, the missile will be avoided. After the evasion, the missile will be returned to the original ballistic, so that the missile has the ability to deal with the laser interception system. After simplifying the guidance system, these functions will no longer exist or be weakened, thus greatly reducing the missile's penetration efficiency in front of the interception system.

This can be proved by the US military's combat records.

According to relevant evidence collected after the war, from April 7th to month 2019, the US air defense forces and defense systems in the Mariana Islands shot down and intercepted nearly 60,000 targets of various types, of which more than 10,000 were intercepted by the intercept system. Even if there was some results in this battle, the Republic's Sky Army only admitted that the cruise missiles that were not missed were intercepted by the US military after the war, and at that time, the cruise missiles projected by strategic bombers were the intercepted range of the US military's defense system. If the calculation was halved, it was enough to prove that the simplified cruise missiles did have serious performance defects.

The problem is that during war, ensuring output is always much more important than ensuring quality.

To give a very simple example, during World War II, the "Black Panther tanks" produced by Germany were considered the best medium-sized tanks. The performance was far higher than that of the Soviet Union's Xiabi. However, their output was much lower than that of the concave. Even if it was not considered that the "Black Panther" had to face the concave rate of nearly old vehicles. Such a quantity gap was enough to make any performance advantage disappear.

Of course, the defects in sexual intelligence cannot be avoided.

It can be seen that during the war, the Republic gradually eliminated cruise missiles, replacing strategic bombers with relatively simple aerospace bombers and kinetic-energy ammunition. This is also closely related to the shortcomings of the cruise missile itself, especially the difficulty in significantly increasing production capacity while ensuring performance.

However, no one can deny that the bombing of the sky achieved decisive results.

Although only more than four targets in Dan were bombed, and more than half of them were mobile targets, namely vehicles, ships, and not infrastructure. But don't forget that the bombing range is so large. Even if all islands are included, the land area of ​​the Mariana Islands is only a square kilometer of concave square, which is similar to the urban area of ​​a city with a population of 10,000. In such a city, military targets and important infrastructure that are truly worth bombing will definitely not exceed Dan.

Judging from the bombing results announced by the Republic's Sky Army, after the bombing of the sky, the US military bases on the Mariana Islands were basically paralyzed. To be more precise, all the infrastructure exposed to the ground was destroyed or the value of restoration was lost. In other words, the Sky Army completed the bombing mission as planned. Although the Republic's intelligence system must have mastered the intelligence of some US underground facilities under the circumstances at that time. Moreover, the Sky Army also had ammunition to deal with underground facilities, but according to some information released after the war, the Sky Army did not bomb the underground facilities on the island.

It can be said that this is a relatively big mistake.

You know, for the landing troops, the real threat must not come from the ground, but from the underground.

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From a tactical analysis, before landing, the Republic's Navy must have the power to control the sea. At least during landing, otherwise the security of the amphibious fleet transporting the landing troops will not be guaranteed, and the offensive actions of the Marines after landing ashore will not be guaranteed. With the firepower of the Republic's Navy and Marines, if they can launch a landing battle, they will have enough ability to destroy the island's military facilities, or to be precise, ground military facilities. Not to mention, as long as there is an escort warship of an aircraft carrier battle group operating near the landing ground, they can use naval guns to destroy the ground military facilities on any island in the Mariana Islands. Relatively speaking, the US military's underground facilities are very strong, not something that the navy and the Marines can deal with. They must use powerful weapons, and this is also the strength of strategic bombers.

In fact, after the Marines landed, the biggest threat came from below the ground.

Later, for this matter, the Tianjun also dealt with several senior staff members who were specifically responsible for tactical planning.

In any case, this mistake cost both the Navy and the Marine Corps a considerable price.

When the bombers were fully deployed, the Navy's First Pacific Fleet and Third Fleet had also gone to the battlefield. The First Fleet was active in the western waters of the Mariana Islands, and the Third Fleet was active in the waters of the volcanic islands in the north. In this way, the relatively weak Third Fleet could be covered by shore-based aviation troops, while the First Fleet took on the heavy responsibility of seizing sea control and supporting the Marines to get ashore. At the same time, it had to clear the threats on the route for the amphibious fleet and transport fleets before the battle began, and ensure that the landing troops arrived at the battlefield.

What is somewhat incomprehensible is that the US Navy did not take corresponding actions.

Until March?, neither the Third Fleet, the Second Fleet of the US Grass Pacific Fleet nor the Seventh Fleet appeared in the Mariana Islands. The Third Fleet covered the transport fleet in the South Pacific between Australia and New Zealand, the Fifth Fleet protected the engineering troops working on the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific, and the Seventh Fleet retreated to Pearl Harbor and reorganized the reserve officers and soldiers who had just been mobilized. There is sufficient evidence to prove that the US military did not dispatch a fleet to compete with the Republic's Navy for sea control.

Of course, this does not mean that the United States will give up on the Mariana Islands.

Judging from the situation at that time, the US military did not send a fleet there, which was directly related to the situation of the war. That is, under the threat of the Republic's Sky Army bomber force, the US Navy did not dare to let the fleet approach the Mariana Islands rashly. No matter what, if more than four bombers were dispatched at the same time, plus several elusive submarines, any fleet would be difficult for any fleet to withstand the joint attacks from the sky and the sea.

In fact, during the bombing, the US military has been sending additional combat forces to the Mariana Islands.

On the Ming Blade Day, the US military deployed a super maritime base composed of their modular ships in the waters near Ponape Island in Micronesia. Then, it dispatched several vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, transporting combat supplies, weapons, equipment and military equipment to Guam, a thousand kilometers away day and night. According to the records of the US military, at least the women were transported to the Mariana Islands before the 7th of the month. The regional air defense missiles were all packaged in containers.

If it is done, it can be used after being transported to the launch position to match the fire control system. Otherwise, the regional air defense system on the island would not be able to shoot down nearly 10,000 targets. During this period, the US military transported at least ten thousand tons of ammunition and medicine to the island, and most of them were shells specially provided to the Marine Artillery Units. More importantly, the US military at least sent more officers and soldiers to the Mariana Islands, and basically all veterans were drawn from other Marine Units.

From this we can see that the US military not only did not intend to give up the Mariana Islands, but also prepared to defend the situation.

Similarly, the Republic's Navy will not retreat.

On the night of tomorrow 7th, firepower preparations before landing begin.

Compared with the early bombing, the firepower preparation before landing has a very clear direction, that is, it is aimed at landing islands or even a specific area on the island. For example, landing on the beach for firepower preparation, focusing on attacking enemies in the area, as well as enemy anti-logging facilities.

If the bombing of the Republic's Sky Army before this was considered pretty, then the Republic Marines chose to land on Saipan and designated the landing site as Cape Saipan, the northernmost corner of the island, which was very unexpected. You should know that kilometer south of Cape Saipan is the capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, namely Saipan. To be precise, Cape Saipan is a very famous tourist attraction in the suburbs of Saipan. It is also one of the three beach baths on the island that are open to tourists and have a full set of infrastructure. If it weren't for the outbreak of the war, at least tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world would gather here at the beginning of each month.

Undeniable, landing in the picturesque beach baths. What welcoming the Republic Marines is definitely not the tanned blonde beauty in bikini swimsuits, but the ruthless bullets and traps on the soft beach. Although it is difficult for the island defenders to predict that the Republic Marines would be so bold and landing in such a place close to Saipan City, that is, the defenders’ defense center, but the landing is so close to

For the land forces, it may not be difficult to get ashore. However, it is definitely not easy to gain a foothold after getting ashore. Not to mention anything else. After rushing to the beach, because the east-west width of the landing field is less than 1,000 meters, the Marines must advance southward and expand the depth of the landing field. Otherwise, more troops will not be allowed to land on the beachhead area. The area of ​​the beachhead will determine the number of landing troops. No Marine commander will let the officers and soldiers of a division squeeze on the beach less than a thousand meters.

The problem is that the defenders will definitely defend Saipan City in the urban terrain of the old Beiyunchuan, and the landing troops will follow in the future, "Zhoukai". It will be very difficult to attack a strong fortified city. It is not that there is no solution, but it only requires taking great risks, such as turning Saipan City into a battlefield and letting the old ten thousand citizens be buried with the US military.

Tactically speaking, it is not wrong to choose to first land on Saipan.

In any case, it is definitely unrealistic to log in to Guam first. You must know that Guam is the island with the largest military density in the entire archipelago and the island with the most sound defense facilities. From another perspective, if the Marines were able to take Guam in one fell swoop, they would not have mobilized so much. Although no one would deny the combat effectiveness of the Republic Marines. However, in the early stages of the war, the Marines' combat effectiveness would definitely not be much higher, and the combat style would be even more impossible to be as fierce as the ones behind. They could not log in directly

Guam must first occupy an island that is enough to become a base for attacking Guam, that is, an island with a large area that can accommodate enough marines and ammunition resources. Of course, from the perspective of logistics support, especially transportation safety, the island should be close enough to Guam. In this way, only Rota Island, Tinian Island and Saipan Island meet the conditions. Rota Island is closest to Guam, but millions of tons of ammunition are stored on the island, even if the Republic is not considered

Congress used the island as a springboard to attack Guam. Out of confidentiality, the US military would detonate the ammunition depot before it was lost, and sent the Republic Marine Corps officers and soldiers to the sky with ammunition that was no less powerful than a strategic nuclear warhead. It also allowed Rotawu to disappear from the sea. The defense strength of Tinian Island will not be much lower than that of Guam, and there are also a lot of ammunition and drug resources on the island. If it is annoying, the US military will definitely make the same move. Relatively speaking, there are the fewest defenders on Saipan Island, and it is affected by the many residents on the island.

There are too many ammunition reserves, and before the US military commander makes a suicide decision, he must think about the old tens of thousands of civilians on the island. Of course, Saipan is not without its shortcomings. The biggest problem is that it is too far away from Guam, and there are Tinian and Rota Island in the middle, so before entering Guam, the Republic Marines have to consider whether to occupy Tinian, or use heavy weapons deployed on Saipan to focus on Tinian and Rota Island, causing the US troops on the island to lose the threat.

Objectively speaking, attacking Saipan first is definitely related to training the Marine Corps.

Although historically, the Marines came from the Republic Army, and the Air Force came from the Army, and only the Sky Army had little to do with the Army. However, compared with the Army, the Marines' history was not so brilliant, and it can even be said that the Marines were in an optional situation. In many local wars over the past years, the Republic Marines had only performed well during the East China Sea War and the Japanese War, and those two wars were basically irrelevant to the Army. It can be seen that in the war led by the Army, there was no Marines involved at all. Or the Marines could not play the protagonist at all. It must be admitted that the Republic Marines lacked war experience, especially the experience of large-scale wars. In fact, in terms of scale, the Republic Marines were not only much smaller than the United States Marines, but also lower than that of France and Britain in terms of force ratio with the Army.

It can be said that even if the officers and soldiers of the Republic Marine Corps are not afraid of death, they cannot let them shed blood and sacrifice in meaningless battles. In this way, the Marine Corps gain experience in combat with slightly lower intensity, learn from teachings, and cultivate a group of veterans with rich practical experience. Considering that the Marine Corps has irreplaceable importance on the Pacific battlefield, the Republic authorities have to carefully cite the previous few landing operations, that is, to ensure the intensity of the battle, and to minimize casualties, so that those officers and soldiers who have never been on the battlefield know the true face of the war.

It is obvious that Saipan is definitely the ideal battlefield.

Even if there are enough enemies, there will be no excessively tragic battles.

Of course, another key factor in reducing combat casualties is timely, accurate and powerful fire support. Not to mention the Marine Corps, even on the ground battlefield, the Republic Army, with rich practical experience, can only defeat the enemy with strong fire support.

That's how other support forces rushed over when the fleet was preparing for firepower before landing.

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From the distance between Yasuo, the first thing is to do is the fire support fleet behind the fleet, that is, the two fire support fleets composed of scattered firepower ships. Here, in addition to the six ships that attacked the Russian Far East naval base after the war started, there were also those that were completed and put into service at the end of March. Although the six newly put into service have been appropriately improved, the advantages and disadvantages of the firepower ships have not been summarized. Therefore, the changes are not very large, and the main performance is not much different from the six ships built before the war. Even the firepower equipment is exactly the same.

Relatively speaking, another support force that stays outside the battlefield seems more important, which is the maritime base.

At that time, the Republic's Navy mobilized a total of three maritime bases. Among them, the "Changxing Island" that had participated in the attack on the Kamchatka Peninsula was the "Changxing Island" which had participated in the attack on the Kamchatka Peninsula. The sea area near the north latitude was the "Taiwan Island" maritime base composed of necessary module ships. The sea area near the Yudu, north latitude and 2 degrees was also the "Hainan Island" maritime base composed of module ships. Because the Republic's Navy had only had the fourth-generation maritime bases in total, and the other three third-generation maritime bases were in other directions, it can be seen that the Republic's Navy mobilized almost all its forces to attack the Mariana Islands.

Maritime bases are just platforms, not combat weapons.

In order to play the role of the maritime base, the Republic's Navy spared no effort to mobilize two wartime structures. The specific scale of the tactical aviation team is larger than the wing. The specific scale is determined by combat needs. It can be a wing or a dozen wings. It is deployed on two fourth-generation maritime platforms, and also mobilized support airlines and deployed on the "Changxing Island". According to the combat records of the Republic's Navy, these three airline teams have a total of various aircraft near-knife stands, including about four tactical fighters, vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft, as well as early warning aircraft, anti-submarine patrol aircraft, electronic reconnaissance aircraft and other supporting and auxiliary aircraft near-knife stands. Not to mention how much role so many fighters can play. The pilots and crew members of these aircraft alone have exceeded the slums, and the people!

Of course, it cannot be used. Yiqin and Jiangzhun should measure the combat effectiveness of these three air fleets.

The reason is very simple. These three air fleets actually moved the reserve force. Among the multiple fighters, some are old fighters sealed before the outbreak of the war, only many heavy fighters dedicated to air defense are the latest models. Many vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft are even older models. Even if the main performance indicators are not behind, the dispatch rate is still relatively good than the active model. In fact, the dispatch rate is one of the main performance indicators of the transport aircraft. Among the more than 0 support aircraft, in addition to the anti-submarine patrol aircraft and early warning aircraft, the others are even old and old. Some are even quasi-military aircraft requisitioned by the civilians. For example, there are two electronic reconnaissance aircraft that are used by the civil aviation department to test ground navigation radar for improvement, and their performance is much worse than that of military electronic reconnaissance aircraft.

As mentioned earlier, in large-scale wars, quantity is more important than performance.

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No matter what, the Republic's Navy has understood this truth.

In fact, the U.S. Navy also understands this.

When the Republic Navy deployed maritime bases to the front line to enhance its naval power, the U.S. Navy was doing the same thing, that is, to send a second maritime base to Micronesia, south of the Mariana Islands. Although this is just a large maritime base composed of non-module ships, not a giant like the Dixie maritime base, but with the "big maritime ship" composed of modular ships that were previously active in the waters and several US military bases in Micronesia,

The number of fighter jets the U.S. Navy can invest will definitely not be much less than that of the Republic's Navy. Of course, the U.S. Navy must solve one problem, that is, how to get it out and multiple fighter jets. You should know that before the war broke out, the United States did not seal off a large amount of equipment that had been sealed off and sealed off like the Republic, and could only give or sell most of the equipment that was retired to the Allies. For this reason, the solution that the U.S. Navy thought of was to requisition combat aircraft from allies.

According to the US Navy's combat records, by the 8th of the RAF and the Royal Navy's Dao Fighter, the RAF and the Royal Navy's auxiliary fighter, the Mexican Air Force and the Navy's fierce fighter, as well as the RAF and the Royal Navy's fierce fighter, plus the sight fighter of the US Navy, and the 8th of the US Air Force supported the 8th of the US Air Force, a total of 80th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90th of the 90

Two of them are about the persuasion of fighter jets being sent to sea bases and to military bases in Micronesia. Because the US military does not need to send additional ground troops to the Mariana Islands, there is no need to transport materials to the front line. Theoretically, if the US military can seize air supremacy and transport forces and materials to the front line, then the Republic's offense has failed, so the US military does not need to send tactical transport aircraft and too many support aircraft to the front line for the time being.

It can be seen that both sides are actively carrying out final preparations.

On the night of the 8th of the Ming Dynasty, the fire strike of the Republic County Navy reached its peak. According to combat records, before dawn, the various participating forces of the Republic Navy threw nearly 10,000 tons of various types of ammunition on Saipan and adjacent islands, including tens of thousands of tons of bombs and missiles invested by the aviation troops deployed at the maritime base. Before dawn, the fire strike ushered in the final climax. In just a short minute, the six firepower ships supporting the fleet dropped all the ammunition, including tactical ballistic missiles, as the shelling lasted for one night, so all the remaining shells were fired within the last minute.

At about the morning of the battlefield time, the first troops of the Republic Marine Corps boarded Saipan.

As the officers and soldiers of the 7th Land War Brigade's Battalion stepped on Saipan, the US military understood what the Republic's Land War thought was going to land on Saipan and why they chose to land on the north of Saipan City, because the Republic's Marines did not use traditional landing tactics, but launched an attack in a low-altitude assault like the invincible Republic Army, that is, the landing war was launched with three-dimensional landing.

In fact, there is nothing strange about three-dimensional landing operations.

Although, before the New Year, because only helicopters and inclined rotary wing aircraft with very limited carrying capacity could send the Marines ashore, it was difficult to deliver heavy equipment to the landing troops. In the harsh landing operations, it was almost unimaginable that the landing troops would not have heavy equipment. According to the experience summarized by the US military in World War II, tanks and amphibious tanks were the key forces that determine the success or failure of landing operations. But in the middle of the century, with the light weight of heavy equipment and the large-scale equipment equipment of vertical take-off and landing transport aircraft with excellent carrying capacity, there were no technical obstacles in the landing tactics of sending the Marines ashore in the form of "no wet feet". In fact, in an era when the army was mainly engaged in low-altitude assault, it was not strange that the Marines would take a low-altitude assault express train.

Since there is no need to rush to the beach, the obstacles set by the US military on the beach have no value.

More importantly, low-altitude assaults do not have much restrictions on landing sites, and it can even be said to be without restrictions. That is, the landing troops can decide the landing site based on the battlefield situation, rather than having to go ashore on a certain beach. Because in the early fire strikes, all the US military's ground military facilities were blown up. Therefore, when the Republic Marines launched an attack, it was difficult for the US military to resist effectively, and it was impossible to stop the Marines from landing. In the idea, when the US military had to huddle underground and in the city, the Republic's Navy could dispatch unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and accurately grasp the every move of the US military on the island without considering threats. Allow the Marines to invest in the most ideal way.

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This landing battle fully demonstrated the characteristics of the Republic Marine Corps.

Even decades later, many people are still commenting on this landing operation and treating it as a model for island landing operations.

Ultimately, the Republic Marines played their strengths and avoided their weaknesses and made full use of their own advantages.

As mentioned earlier, in the large-scale local wars that led to the century-old Maeda Nian, the Republic Marine Corps had almost no chance to perform. Even if they were on the stage, they rarely became the protagonist, and there were not many opportunities to engage in large-scale wars. The problem is that this does not mean that the Republic Marine Corps had not fought a war. The Army specifically pointed out that the Huijie Army was an army that dealt with large-scale wars. If the Lizhou used the army, it often became the main feature of the war, that is, if the army was not used, it was often designated as a conflict. Therefore, unless it was forced or had limited goals, the Republic authorities would definitely not use the army. The problem is,

The Republic faced many external threats. There were many opportunities to use the army, especially small ground forces. At this time, the Marines came in handy. According to the official announcement of the Republic, after the years, after the Middle East War, the Marines participated in the combat operations of the Marines many times that of the Army in the past few years. That is, most of the time, the Republic authorities regarded the Marines as the only ground forces that could be used at will. Not to mention anything else, in the military operations in the African region, even if they needed to go deep into the mainland, the Republic authorities never considered the army, but used the Marines.

It can be seen from this that the Republic Marines are a unit that is very good at conducting small-scale combat.
To be continued...