Max would have loved to have many more of the Drone Fighters, but they lacked the pilots to send as many as he would hope to use into battle. A few hundred was a good start, and could control the airspace over a grid sector without much trouble, but with ten thousand of them, he could enforce a no-fly zone over an entire continent, making it much easier for his Mecha to deal with enemies, and eliminating all possibility of the enemy openly maintaining supply lines.
Humanity's Greatest Mecha Warrior System
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