mtlumby2d Chapter 543 Cellular Drone
Chapter 543 Cellular Drone
Four teams gathered in the corner of the restaurant, black glasses and opened their laptops.
"Conditions are limited, let's just make do with it!" Black Glasses said, "I'm going to talk about the content of this mission now, listen carefully! We'll be stuck here for two or three days, so don't be idle and start work early!"
Everyone looked serious, and members of each team stretched their heads to look at the computer screen.
Song He and Xie Yuanxun were sitting next to the black glasses, twisting their necks to look at the computer at close range, clearly seeing everything.
"Let me introduce something first, honeycomb!" Black Glasses said, "its full name is cellular drone cluster!"
A video appears on the computer screen.
Several soldiers gathered on the forest grass, each carrying a huge backpack.
With an order, the soldiers untied their backpacks and pulled out a strange-looking black heavy weapon. It looked like a miniature rocket launcher. Many barrels were neatly arranged together, and the muzzles were like honeycombs.
Each soldier had nine gun barrels. They quickly put all the gun barrels together, wielded the engineer shovel to pile up the soil nearby, and slammed it to fix it. Then a spectacular group of simple rocket launchers appeared, with hundreds of black muzzles. Straight towards the sky!
The officer put aside a computer, entered continuously, and then hit the space bar!
The muzzles of hundreds of cannons vibrated, and they continuously sprayed out dark things, quickly flying towards the sky with a huge force, like countless ferocious bees rushing out of a honeycomb that had been poked out!
"Bah!" Black Glasses slammed the space button, and the video paused.
The screen stops just right, and you can see a lot of flying things frozen in the air, and the details are clearly discernible!
Everyone came closer to the computer screen to see that it was actually a rocket-shaped drone. When it was first sprayed out, it was still in the shape of a smooth rocket. But after flying to a certain height, the wings quickly unfolded and transformed into an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft!
Song He raised his eyebrows. He had heard of this thing. The earliest prototype was a cannon-launched drone. Tanks would carry one or two of them and shoot them out as artillery shells at critical moments. Foreigners regard them as treasures and can sell a lot of them at every air show and other events, but in China this thing is already very outdated.
But the cellular drone swarm in front of us has obviously evolved in form! It can be dispatched quickly in groups, and it seems to be very light, so infantry can carry a lot of them!
"Do you understand? Let's continue!" Black Glasses reached out and hit the space bar again.
In just ten seconds, hundreds of drones shot out!
The camera switched to aerial photography, and a group of drones were seen rushing into the sky and then dispersed, flying in all directions, like a flock of flexible birds, passing through the treetops of the forest and beginning to survey the nearby environment.
The camera cut again and returned to the officer's computer. All kinds of terrain information were rapidly expanded to the surroundings, and occasionally a red dot was marked. Soon there were more and more red dots on the screen, like a skin disease in the mountains.
The officer clicked on the red dot, and a photo taken by an unmanned reconnaissance drone appeared, showing artillery and armored vehicles hidden in the bushes, and occasionally a group of infantry.
Relevant information is listed below the photo, including infrared signals, identification of friend or foe, electronic environment, strike coordinates, equipment models determined by AI, etc. There are also a bunch of things that Song He can't understand.
"Bah!" Black Glasses hit the space button again to pause the video.
"Understood?" Black Glasses said, "This is a new combat mode that is being tested. Those rocket launcher-like things carried by infantrymen are code-named honeycombs. After being pieced together, they can quickly release reconnaissance drones and cast a net for reconnaissance. The neighborhood.”
Everyone nodded in unison. The video was so clear that even a fool could understand it.
"Keep reading, the complicated stuff is still to come." Black Glasses tapped the space again.
The camera returned to the original clearing. The soldiers dragged out many backpacks and began to take out the dark drones one by one from the backpacks and stuff them into the honeycomb like loading mortars.
The drones began to launch again, rushing into the sky with only a puff of light smoke, which dispersed as soon as the wind blew.
Song He's mouth turned into an O shape unconsciously. It seems that this honeycomb is a bit buggy. Can drones be continuously inserted into it and launched continuously?
The camera cuts again, back to the officer's computer screen.
A warning started popping up on the screen, the signal was weak!
The green dots of the first batch of drones that flew out began to dim, and the data return speed also plummeted.
But soon, the second batch of drones flew around, the signal suddenly got better again, and a steady stream of reconnaissance information continued to pop up.
"Bang!" The video paused.
"After the first round of drones are released, the signal will attenuate as the distance increases. Especially on the battlefield, where the electronic environment is complex, the signal will attenuate faster!" Black Glasses explained.
"So release the second batch of drones and catch up quickly!"
"It has two functions. The first one acts as a signal node, receiving the signal from the drone in front and transmitting it backwards. The second one is to reconsider the environment, check for leaks and fill in the gaps, and see if there are any enemy troops that were not discovered in the first round of reconnaissance. And observe in which direction the enemy troops discovered in the first round are moving and at what speed.”
"The process of casting the net is almost complete here. The next step is to close the net. This is the technical difficulty!"
The black glasses hit the space button and the video continues.
From an aerial perspective, the first batch of drones flying at the front suddenly began to slow down and then quickly turned around!
Groups of drones flew over the treetops of the forest, and the strong wind combed away countless fallen leaves. They quickly returned in the direction from which they came. At the same time, they reconnoitred the nearby situation again and continuously sent back data!
Soon, the second batch of returning drones and the first batch of advancing drones met and passed by each other quickly. The second batch of drones continued to move forward, with the trajectory exactly the same as that of the first batch of drones.
The camera returned to the forest glade where the soldiers were stationed, and the hives stood firmly in place.
The whistling sound came, and a large number of returning drones accurately returned to the honeycomb and got into the dark barrels!
Song He was dumbfounded, can he still return?
Outrageous!
You know, it’s easy to shoot a drone out of a cannon barrel, but after traveling thousands of miles to conduct a reconnaissance, it can still accurately return to the cannon barrel. This technology is quite astonishing! What terrifying accuracy!
The four teams that were watching also let out a low roar. It was obviously the first time for many of them to see this kind of technology. A layman watching the excitement and an expert watching the show. Ordinary people may not have any reaction after seeing it, but those present were all knowledgeable people. I know very well that this simple one-step return action contains such incredible technology!
Soon, all the first round of reconnaissance drones returned. The soldiers moved quickly to pull out the honeycombs from the soil. They dumped the returning drones and threw them on the lawn like garbage. Then they hurriedly removed them. The hives are fixed back.
As soon as the last honeycomb was fixed, the second round of drones returned and swooped down like a flock of predatory birds in the sea, plopping back into the honeycomb!
The soldiers moved quickly, put the honeycombs back into their backpacks, and used sacks to pack a large number of drones dumped on the ground. They ran away and quickly disappeared into the dense forest.
The video is over!
"You have reached this level now. You look beautiful, don't you? Do you feel very mature? Wrong! There is still a long way to go to meet the requirements of the army leaders!" Black Glasses said.
"We have to solve the following problems, take notes on them all!"
Suddenly there was a sound of taking out notebooks and cell phones, and everyone was ready. The next thing to be read out should be the work content.
"First, collision rate!" Black Glasses raised a finger.
"There will be a large number of collisions in the three stages of drone exit, drone mid-flight, and drone return. Collisions will cause drone malfunction or crash, and they must be minimized!"
"This video has just been edited, and many collision shots were not edited. The current average collision rate is 31%. 31 out of 100 drones will collide with each other. It is too high! Drones cannot be used during war. Play bumper cars in the sky!”
"Second, reconnaissance rate!"
"Currently, drones can only detect 80% of enemy forces, and 20% will always be missed. This number is too low. A heavy artillery can determine the outcome on the battlefield. Missing 20% is intolerable!"
“Third, off-site recycling!”
"This function has not yet been implemented, but the leadership requires it! What does off-site recovery mean? As the name suggests, the drone is shot out from one place, and the soldiers can run to another place to recover the drone!"
"The in-situ recovery mode in the video is too stupid! It is very dangerous to fight. Once the enemy finds the location of the drone, a round of artillery fire will cover it, and everything will be gone! So the off-site recovery function must be implemented !”
"These three are the most basic requirements, and there are more advanced requirements. To be honest, I feel that you guys are not good enough to achieve them, so everyone just needs to pass!" Black Glasses said, "Long live 60 points!"
"Now that we're done with the request, let's talk about some serious topics!" Black Glasses' tone suddenly became harsh.