Chapter 1018 The second generation battlefield sweeper micro-unmanned attack aircraft
[Modified version] After handing over the work, Wu Hao's main purpose of coming to the Northwest Research Center this time has been completed. However, his work here is far from complete, and there are still many things waiting for him.
The Aviation Technology and UAV Research Institute is the earliest scientific research team, laboratory, and research institute established by Haoyu Technology. It can be said that Wu Hao and Zhang Jun both came from this scientific research team.
Therefore, this research institute is also the most important and core key research institute in the company, with a very high status.
Their intended research direction is in aviation technology, drones, and cluster array control technology.
A series of the company's previous drone products came from this research institute, including the previous '嫇徯' large-scale intelligent attack drone.
The institute itself is based in Anxi, but there are some projects that cannot be tested or carried out in Anxi. So they are placed here, such as the Pirufuji intelligent attack drone.
One of the purposes of Wu Hao's visit this time is to inspect the progress of relevant research projects.
The person who received him was Zhou Yonghui, the head of the institute who was very familiar to Wu Hao but relatively rare.
This is an old man in the company, and he has grown up with Wu Hao and the others. So the two of them were not polite when they met. They exchanged a few words and then got down to business.
"How is the progress of the Fujia intelligent attack drone?" Wu Hao asked directly.
Zhou Yonghui nodded and said: "The progress is good. The Air Force likes it very much and has urged us several times to speed up the progress. It is expected that as soon as summer, we can deliver several prototypes to the Air Force for trial use.
In addition, the Navy is also very interested in this drone and has sent people to contact us. However, the Navy's mission and usage environment are very different from the Air Force, so a greater degree of research is needed.
Adaptability improvement and optimization.
In addition, the Navy also hopes that our Fuji intelligent attack drone can autonomously take off and land aircraft carriers or even amphibious assault ships."
When Wu Hao heard this, he couldn't help but said: "They thought it was a helicopter, and they even took off and landed an amphibious assault ship. What were they thinking?
Even for an aircraft carrier, it is very rare and very difficult to achieve completely autonomous takeoff and landing. This requires perfect cooperation between the aircraft carrier's takeoff and landing facilities and the aircraft.
Not only do we need to improve drones, we also need to improve the entire takeoff and landing command and control system of the aircraft carrier."
"That's what I told them, but this time the navy is very determined. The general directly led the team here." Zhou Yonghui said with a wry smile.
Wu Hao was at a loss when he heard this, and then nodded helplessly and said: "Let the project team communicate with them, and we will cooperate fully. Fortunately, as for drones, aircraft carriers are not something we can play around with."
"You're right, that's what I told them." Zhou Yonghui nodded.
That's good. Wu Hao sighed, and then asked him: "I heard that the second-generation battlefield sweeper micro-unmanned attack aircraft project is making good progress and has been put into the experimental testing stage."
"Yes, that's right." Zhou Yonghui immediately made a gesture of invitation: "Please come over here. We have conducted several tests at the test field of the base and achieved good results. Knowing that you are here today, we
Everything is ready."
"Oh, really, then I'll wait and see." Wu Hao smiled when he heard this. Sure enough, the old man was considerate.
The base's testing ground is right next to the base, not too far away. It covers a relatively large area, located in the sand between three sand dunes, and is about the size of seven or eight football fields.
It looks quite big, but deep inside this vast desert, this area is nothing.
In fact, they have a larger shooting range, but it's still some distance away from the base.
The weather at the test site in the afternoon was still relatively warm, and the wind had become lighter. After a while in the sun, I was still slightly warm.
Wearing sunglasses, Wu Hao and the others came to the testing site. On a high platform made of concrete in front of the testing site, there were several tables with various equipment placed on them.
Zhou Yonghui held something about 40 millimeters thick and 200 millimeters long, which is four centimeters thick and 20 centimeters long, similar to the shape of a missile, and said to Wu Hao: "Mr. Wu, this is the second generation missile we have developed."
Battlefield Sweeper micro-unmanned attack drone.”
"So small?" Wu Hao looked at what Zhou Yonghui was holding and said in surprise.
Zhou Yonghui said with a smile: "In fact, we can make it smaller, but we only have to consider many aspects such as range, flight time, and the weight of ammunition carried. So we made the current 40 mm caliber and 200 mm long similar to a missile.
shape."
"40 mm thick, this caliber seems to be consistent with the caliber of our commonly used grenade launchers." Wu Hao asked with a smile.
"Hahahaha, I knew I couldn't hide it from you. Yes, it is the same caliber as our grenade launcher. The reason why it is designed like this is mainly to make it easier for soldiers to hang a grenade launcher on their gun during daily use, or
A specialized grenade launcher is used to launch it."
"This design is good, taking into account the convenience and versatility of troops." Wu Hao praised with a smile.
Zhou Yonghui smiled and nodded: "At the beginning of the research and development, we carefully visited the grassroots troops using our first-generation battlefield cleaner micro-unmanned attack aircraft, and collected information about the first-generation battlefield cleaner micro-unmanned aerial vehicle from the grassroots officers and soldiers.
Lots of great advice and comments from Attack Aircraft.”
Among them, the most common issue is the portability issue. Officers and soldiers generally reported that although this thing is very good and practical, it is very inconvenient to carry and takes up too much space. I hope we can carry it more often.
After integrating so many opinions, as well as our own research results, and after repeated trials, we chose this intelligent unmanned attack aircraft that adopts a launchable method."
"Very good, but what about its range, flight time, and power? Have they been reduced?" Wu Hao asked a question that he was more concerned about.
Zhou Yonghui smiled and shook his head: "No, it has not decreased, but has increased relatively, and we have also improved on this basis.
In this regard, we still need help from the army and the military industry system, which solved many of our problems.
Of course, it also depends on the improvement of our own battery technology, which allows us to still obtain sufficient power even when using smaller batteries.
Therefore, the airborne time has been greatly improved, so the autonomous air cruise attack function of the unmanned attack aircraft has also been added.
After the unmanned attack aircraft is launched, it will fly to the target airspace and hover, searching and screening local ground targets. When the target is detected, it will automatically lock and simultaneously send the target data information to the command and control personnel.
After the command and control personnel issue the attack order, the unmanned attack aircraft will immediately plan the attack route and conduct the attack independently.
Of course, we can also leave the entire process to the drones to complete independently. In other words, we can leave it alone after launching, and fly one or several or dozens of these battlefield sweeper micro-unmanned attack aircraft.
Go to the sky above the target area and think independently to detect and attack the enemy target."