Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 100 Major Zhong Cheng
Zhong Cheng didn't care to celebrate the final victory with everyone, he steered Jingwei No. [-] to fly back carefully.

Because at this time, the power of Jingwei No. 3 is less than [-]%.

The running all the way for more than 20 minutes before was nothing, mainly because the mad shooting of the laser cannon consumed a lot of power in the final stage.

In fact, Jingwei No. 5 took advantage of the exercise. In order not to cause harm to personnel, the power of the laser cannon was reduced to [-] kilowatts, which saved more than half of the consumption, otherwise Jingwei No. [-] would have been lying down.

The power is still not enough!
When Jingwei No. [-] staggered and flew back to the Red Army's position, the heads of the Paradise Beach headquarters had already rushed over.

They made a special trip to see Jingwei No. [-].

In the monitoring screen, the Jingwei No. [-] on the battlefield is as strange as a ghost, coming and going like the wind, and it is impossible to see the real face clearly, which arouses great curiosity among us.

Later, the commanders of the Blue Army also came by helicopter, and they were also interested in the Jingwei No. [-] that made them fail.

Even the UAV R&D personnel headed by Wang Xing admired the performance of Jingwei No. [-], saying that this is the real UAV!

In this military exercise, Jingwei No. [-] became the most dazzling star!

In the next three days, a summary meeting of the military exercise was held at the headquarters of the Paradise Beach military exercise.

During the meeting, the highlights and problems in this military exercise were discussed and deduced, and the respective gains and losses of the red and blue sides were discussed. Of course, the focus was on the two performances of Jingwei No. [-] in the military exercise.

It is rare for the participants to unanimously agree that UAVs represented by Jingwei No. [-] will play an important role in future wars, and it is an inevitable trend to replace fifth-generation and sixth-generation fighters.

Some people even say that the Jingwei unmanned fighter jet already has the embryonic form of a seventh-generation fighter jet.

The air force, army and even the navy have actively expressed their hope that the Jingwei unmanned combat aircraft will be included in the order of battle of the service, and the sooner the better.

Zhong Cheng did not attend the whole meeting. He and the project team held a separate meeting to discuss the performance of Jingwei-[-] in the military exercise, and listed a lot of items that need to be improved. The most important are three problems.

The power problem must be solved first, which involves the improvement of Kuafu power battery, Zhurong electric pusher and laser cannon. It is very difficult to greatly improve the battery life, but it is only a matter of time.

The second is the problem of control. Everyone has discovered that Jingwei unmanned fighters must maintain high combat performance, and the requirements for control personnel are too high.

That is to say, if Zhong Cheng can display the great power of the Jingwei unmanned fighter, it will be far behind if he is a different person. Let alone fighting three "Zhan-20", even flying at ultra-low altitude and high speed will not be able to do it.

The automatic navigation system must be improved so that the automatic navigation system can assist manual control and reduce the requirements for operators.

There is also the issue of anti-electronic interference. In this military exercise, for the sake of safety, the director department deliberately avoided the contest in this aspect.

But this aspect is the biggest weakness of the UAV. Once the communication of the UAV is interfered, the UAV can only rely on the automatic navigation system like a fool, and basically loses its combat capability.

The latter two problems are all automatic navigation problems. To put it bluntly, the performance of the computer system in the UAV cannot keep up, and it cannot complete such complex real-time data processing.

At this point in the discussion, everyone turned their attention to Gui Bin, "How about the photonic computer?"

Gui Bin replied embarrassingly, but there is no clue yet.

Zhong Cheng stopped the ridicule of Liu Yuzhu and others, saying that after the Spring Festival, he would shift the focus of his work to the research and development of photonic computers.

He and Gui Bin worked together to tackle the problem of photonic computer technology, and the others continued to improve the Jingwei unmanned combat aircraft.

Strive to make substantive progress before the mass production of Jingwei unmanned fighter jets. They cannot hand over such immature products to the military.

2 month 15 day.

On the last day of the military exercise summary meeting, the military exercise headquarters commended the units and personnel participating in the military exercise.

What surprised Zhong Cheng and others was that while the Jingwei UAV project team won the collective first-class merit, except for Liu Yuzhu, who was already a captain, and Jiang Yan, who was a major, the ranks of everyone else were raised by one rank.

Zhao Wei and the other five were promoted to captain, while Zhong Cheng was promoted to major.

Zhong Cheng took over the "two bars and one star" major epaulettes, collar badge and appointment documents from the chief of No. [-] in the Eastern Theater, feeling extremely excited.

At this time in 11, he became a second lieutenant officer, and in only four years in 15, he was promoted to three ranks, fulfilling the dreams of countless soldiers, stepping into the threshold of a school-level officer, and becoming a senior officer in the Chinese National Defense Forces.

This is the affirmation of his contribution by the country and the army!

The 27-year-old major is certainly not the youngest in the Chinese Defense Forces, but he is one of the youngest.

Majors who are younger than him may only be geniuses like Ye Wenxin who have transferred from a Ph.D. to the army!
Of course, the rewards they get are not just the promotion of military ranks. The bonuses they get range from 100 million to 200 million, but the bonuses are paid by research and development, and Red Star Company pays the bill.

Just as everyone was preparing to retreat back to Beishan and celebrate on the way, Zhong Cheng received a notice from Director Qian to fly him to the capital to attend an important meeting on February 2.

This year, not only can't participate in the annual commendation meeting of Red Star Company, but also go home for the Spring Festival and celebrate the New Year!
But Director Qian told him that this meeting is a continuation of last year's UAV project review meeting, and will ultimately determine the future deployment plan of UAVs in the military, which is crucial to the subsequent development and production of Jingwei UAVs.

Only then did Zhong Cheng let go of his complaints and no longer evade.

April 2st morning.

Zhong Cheng's motorcade picked up Director Qian and Director Luo and rushed to the military airport on the outskirts of Fangcheng City.
Zhong Cheng and Director Qian went to Beijing for a meeting, and Jiang Yan and Liu Yuzhu went home. Jiang Yan's home was in the capital, and Liu Yuzhu's home was in the northeast, so they happened to be on the way.

Others sent three daily Titan electric off-road vehicles with Jingwei No. [-] back to Beishan. If they hurry up, they can go home before the New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year.

The air force arranged a Y-8 medium-sized four-engine turboprop medium-range multi-purpose transport aircraft, which can be used for various purposes such as airdrop, airborne, transportation, lifesaving and sea operations.

The prototype is the An-12 transport aircraft designed by the former Soviet Union's Antonov Design Bureau. It has a take-off weight of 61 tons, a load of 20 tons, and a range of more than 5600 kilometers. When transporting personnel, it can take 96 fully armed soldiers at a time.

The personnel of the Eastern Theater Command, including the heads of No. 8 and No. [-], will take this transport plane back to the station. Together with the personnel of several research and development institutes, the Y-[-] is almost full.

Chiefs No. [-] and [-] asked Director Qian and Zhong Cheng to sit next to them, and then chatted along the way.

The two chiefs asked Zhong Cheng whether the power system of the Jingwei unmanned combat aircraft could be used on large aircraft, such as this Yun-8. If it can achieve one-tenth of the flight performance of the Jingwei-[-], it will be a disaster. .

If troops can be placed anywhere accurately, quickly and covertly, then our army can be renamed the "flying army".

Zhong Cheng told the truth, not yet.

The use of the power system, especially the Kuafu power battery and the Zhurong electric pusher, is not a simple one plus one equals two. It is okay to drive a drone weighing two or three tons, but to make a large aircraft weighing hundreds of tons fly at the speed of sound, technology There are still too many obstacles.

However, given him a few years, it will definitely be resolved.

At the end of the chat, Chief No. [-] expressed emotion that the development of Jingwei UAV technology will fundamentally change the composition of various arms of the National Defense Forces, and the concept of the Army, Navy and Air Force will be blurred in the future.

The curve overtaking of China's military forces begins with the Jingwei unmanned fighter jet.

(End of this chapter)