Military Technology

On the 23rd, the weather was fine, no wind and five clouds.

Early in the morning, everyone got up. After eating a few big meat buns made by the villagers, everyone hurried to the test flight field.

These days, except for those who are on duty at the test flight field, everyone else has been staying at the homes of villagers not far away.

Although the accommodation conditions are relatively poor, the villagers are relatively warm and the food is not bad.

Today is the day of the test flight, so in addition to Wu Hao and the others and Zhao Hongzhe's research team members, there are also some other helpers.

These people will be scattered at various observation points in a radius of tens of kilometers in order to observe and record first-hand data.

In addition, they have installed cameras on nearly 100 drones to record the flight attitude of the entire fleet in multiple directions.

In addition, the research team has also applied for relevant UAV reconnaissance assistance from the Air Force by virtue of the advantages of the military, and will observe and record the flight test process of the entire UAV swarm from the air during their test.

Of course, that's not all. There is also a mobile radar unit on a ridge not far away, searching and detecting the flight data of the entire drone swarm.

In addition to helping to record relevant data, it is also a targeted test. They also want to know what the state of such a high-density drone swarm is in the radar. The entire test conditions can be described as very luxurious.

"Are you ready?" Zhao Hongzhe asked the crowd while sitting under the tent.

"Everything is ready, you can start at any time!" Gao Feihang replied loudly as the on-site general dispatcher.

Zhao Hongzhe beckoned and said, "Let's start then!"

"All departments are ready, the 'crazy bee' system is activated, the drone is activated, and networking begins!"

"The release field reports that the drones have all been activated and are in good condition!"

"The connection is successful, and the uploading of the 'Crazy Bee' system is started."

"The uploading of the system is completed, and the loading starts. 10%, 20%, 30%... 100%, the system loading is completed, and the restart starts."

"After the restart, the data shows that a total of 3,482 drones are in normal state, and 12 are faulty. Within the allowable failure rate of 1%, the next step can be performed."

After hearing this, Gao Feihang looked at his teacher, and Zhao Hongzhe nodded lightly at him.

Gao Feihang took a breath, and then continued to give orders: "All departments pay attention, the drone is about to be released.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, let go! "

"Report from the launch site, the first unit of drones has started to launch!"

When everyone gathered in the control center heard the words, they picked up the binoculars they had long held in their hands and started to look at it.

I saw the drone launcher placed on the ridge in the distance, and began to quickly launch white drones outward.

A drone was ejected and quickly flew into the distant airspace.

At the same time, a new order came from the command and control center: "The drone swarm begins to assemble in Airspace No. 3!"

As the order was issued, a satellite map appeared on the large display in front of everyone, and some blue dots were moving on the map. This was the flight trajectory data returned by the drone cluster.

It took about ten minutes, more than 3,000 drones were launched, and then gathered into a huge fleet in Airspace No. 3. These drones hover in the air like a flock of densely-flying birds.

Through the telescope and the high-definition video images sent from the observation point below the No. 3 airspace, everyone can clearly see the flight status of the entire fleet.

"Report, the comprehensive photoelectric reconnaissance data of the Air Force UAV has come over.

"

"Received on the big screen!" Zhao Hongzhe waved his hand.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, a video image captured by a high-altitude drone appeared on the big screen.

I saw a huge swarm of drones, circling elliptically in a relatively open valley.

"Zoom in!"

Zhao Hongzhe pointed at the screen and said to the crowd: "Look, the entire structure of the drone swarm is still very complete, and the distance inside the swarm is also well controlled."

"It's not bad, the data is also performing well!" Yang Xuehai smiled as he stared at the data on several screens.

"Then let's start the next project. Let's try to test a few more today." Zhao Hongzhe waved his hand with satisfaction.

At this moment, what could make him more happy than the preliminary results of this project. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Wu Hao who was sitting beside him, and the corners of his mouth turned up.

"The next test content is to simulate a cluster autonomous attack test."

With the issuance of Gao Feihang's order, I saw that the operator immediately marked five points on the satellite map, each of which was different in size and distance.

As the order was uploaded to the drone swarm, five squads were split from the entire swarm. Through monitoring the information data, Wu Hao and the others can clearly see the number and flight direction of these separated drone teams.

The number of these five squadrons varies, ranging from thirty or forty aircraft to one or two hundred aircraft. According to the size of these marked points, the five drone squads were also selected accordingly.

And all this is controlled autonomously by the drone swarm, and the control center just issued a few target points to the swarm.

clap clap clap...

Everyone applauded when they saw this. The fact that the drone swarm can do this part means that their technology has succeeded more than half.

"Remove the attack mission and order these five teams to fly to Airspace No. 7 to assemble!" Zhao Hongzhe ordered.

"Yes!"

As the five target points on the map disappeared, the five drone squads began to change direction and flew towards Airspace 7.

"The main drone swarm began to conduct terrain matching and autonomous route selection tests."

The content of this test is to require UAV swarms to fly at low altitude or ultra-low altitude with the support of satellite navigation and digital terrain matching navigation technology. And according to the topography, choose the flight route independently.

It's a bit like the ability to automatically plan navigation routes in the navigation software we use, but it's not a level of difficulty.

Automatic route planning in navigation software is based on choices made on the basis of existing road routes. That is to say, there are already existing routes, and the navigation software just selects a route with a shorter distance, better road conditions and no congestion.

The technology in the drone swarm is to plan N alternative routes by itself in areas without routes. It also takes into account factors such as terrain, distance, and climate information to make the best choice.

As the order was issued, I saw that on the satellite map on the screen, the circling drone cluster had turned into a long dragon and began to fly towards the marked area. At the same time, several planned plans appeared on the map, as well as a flight route that it chose independently.