On the 23rd, the weather was sunny with no wind and five clouds.
Everyone got up early in the morning. After eating some big meat buns made by some villagers who were staying overnight, everyone hurried to the test flight site.
These days, except for those who are on duty at the test flight site, everyone else has been staying at the homes of villagers in villages not far away.
Although the accommodation conditions are relatively poor, the villagers are quite enthusiastic and the food is pretty good.
Today is the day of the test flight, so in addition to Wu Hao and Zhao Hongzhe's research team members, there are also some other helpers.
These people will be scattered at various observation points within a radius of dozens of kilometers in order to observe and record first-hand data.
In addition, they have installed cameras on nearly a hundred drones to record the flight attitude of the entire fleet in multiple directions.
In addition, the research team also relied on the advantages of the military services to apply for relevant UAV reconnaissance assistance from the Air Force. During their testing, they will observe and record the flight test process of the entire UAV cluster from the air.
Of course, this is not all. There is also a mobile radar unit on the ridge not far away, searching and detecting the flight data of the entire drone cluster.
In addition to helping record relevant data, it is also a targeted test. They also want to know what the status of such a high-density drone cluster is in the radar. The entire test condition can be described as very luxurious.
"Are you ready?" Zhao Hongzhe sat under the tent and asked everyone.
"Everything is ready and can start at any time!" As the on-site general dispatcher, Gao Feihang replied loudly.
Zhao Hongzhe waved and said: "Then let's start!"
"All departments are getting ready, the 'Crazy Bee' system is activated, the drones are activated, and networking begins!"
"Report from the flying field, all drones have been started and in good condition!"
"The connection is successful and the upload of the 'Kangfeng' system has begun."
"The system has been uploaded and started to load. 10%, 20%, 30%... 100%, the system has been loaded and started to restart."
"After the restart is completed, the data shows that a total of 3,482 drones are in normal condition and 12 are faulty. Within the allowable failure rate of 1%, the next step can be taken."
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 issue orders: "Attention all departments, the drone is about to be released.
5,4,3,2,1, let go!"
"Report from the launch site, the first unit of drone has started launching!"
When everyone gathered in the control center heard this, they all picked up the telescopes they had already held in their hands and started looking.
I saw a drone launcher placed on the ridge in the distance and began to rapidly launch white drones outwards.
A drone was ejected and then quickly flew into the distant airspace.
At the same time, a new order came from the command and control center: "The drone swarm began to assemble in the No. 3 airspace!"
As the order was issued, a satellite map appeared on the large display in front of everyone. Some small blue dots appeared on the map and were moving. This was the flight trajectory data sent back by the drone cluster.
It took about ten minutes for more than 3,000 drones to be launched, and then gathered into a huge fleet in Airspace 3. These drones were like a group of densely flying birds, hovering in the sky. Through the telescope and the high-definition video images transmitted from the observation point below Airspace 3, everyone can clearly see the flight status of the entire fleet.
"Report, the comprehensive photoelectric reconnaissance data of the Air Force drones has been transmitted."
"Get it on the big screen!" Zhao Hongzhe waved his hand.
Under the gaze of everyone, video images captured by high-altitude drones appeared on the big screen.
I saw a huge group of drones circling in an elliptical shape in a relatively open valley.
"Zoom in!"
Zhao Hongzhe pointed at the screen and said to everyone: "Look, the entire structure of the drone cluster is still very complete, and the spacing within the cluster is also well controlled."
"It's not bad, and all the data performed well!" Yang Xuehai stared at the data on several screens and said with a smile.
"Then let's start the next project. Let's try to test a few more today." Zhao Hongzhe waved his hand and said with satisfaction.
What could make him happier than the preliminary results of this project at this moment? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glance at Wu Hao sitting beside him, and the corners of his mouth turned up.
"The next test content is a simulated cluster autonomous attack test."
As the command to fly high was issued, the controller immediately marked five points on the satellite map. Each point was different in size and distance.
As the command was uploaded to the drone cluster, five teams were separated from the entire fleet. Through the monitoring information data, Wu Hao and the others could clearly see the number and flight direction of these separated drone teams.
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The number of these five squadrons varies, ranging from thirty or forty to one or two hundred. Based on the size of these marking points, the five drone squads have also made corresponding selections. p>
All of this is controlled independently by the drone cluster, and the control center just issues a few target points to the cluster.
Bang bang bang bang...
Everyone clapped when they saw this. The fact that the drone cluster could do this means that their technology has been more than half successful.
"Lift 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 teams began to change directions and flew towards Airspace No. 7.
"The main drone cluster began to conduct terrain matching and autonomous route selection tests."
This test content requires the drone cluster to achieve low-altitude or ultra-low-altitude slightly low flight with the support of satellite navigation and digital terrain matching navigation technology. And independently select the flight route according to the terrain. p>
This is a bit like the function of automatically planning navigation routes in the navigation software we use, but the difficulty is not at the same level.
The automatic route planning in the navigation software is based on the selection of existing road routes. In other words, 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 cluster is to plan N alternative routes in areas where there are no routes. It also needs to consider factors such as terrain, distance, and climate information to make the optimal choice.<
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As the order was issued, the circling drone cluster on the satellite map on the screen had turned into a long queue and began to fly towards the marked area. At the same time, several planned plans also appeared on the map.
