My fintech empire.

Chapter 1273 [Cost is not our concern, and neither is your concern]

Xingyu Technology Headquarters.

At this time, a commercial drone flew out from the company's R&D base and flew everywhere outside the company's headquarters.

The person controlling the drone was actually inside the R&D base. A Xingyu Technology staff member was wearing a MIX device to control the flight of the drone. Qin Feng and several military personnel who came here were also wearing a MIX device.

"…How can we be sure? After opening the app, there will be an electronic sandbox with everything displayed." Qin Feng introduced to the military personnel at this moment that this is a function already available on the MIX device. In fact, many functions can be directly applied in military scenarios.

"Don't you need to look in the mirror?" said the military personnel.

"That's right." Qin Feng nodded.

At this moment, they are sharing the same scene, and what is presented to them from their first-person perspective is a sand table topographic map.

One of the military personnel said: "I suggest that this helmet should have some coordinate functions."

Qin Feng immediately answered directly: "That's no problem, it's very simple, we can just write a program to do it."

In the following period of time, Qin Feng discussed with several military personnel present about the various applications of MIX equipment in military scenarios. Several military personnel nodded from time to time, with very satisfied expressions on their faces.

The greatest significance of this product in military use lies in its high efficiency and significant improvement in battlefield perception, that is, the efficient capture of real-time intelligence information on the battlefield.

With the help of this device, soldiers can quickly and accurately obtain real-time information intelligence on the battlefield environment, so they can respond faster and deploy efficiently.

For example, quickly know the location information and action intentions of comrades, the location information and action intentions of the enemy.

For example, in a battlefield environment, whether it is an unmanned reconnaissance aircraft in the sky or a reconnaissance satellite in space, real-time information on the battlefield is transmitted to ground troops. The soldiers on the ground can directly mark the enemy and friendly coordinates in the first-person perspective through the MIX headset, which is intuitively presented in the perspective of each soldier, greatly enhancing the battlefield information visualization capability.

Even through several walls, trenches and winding ditches, you can still know where the enemy is. This battlefield perception ability is comparable to turning on a map perspective plug-in.

Another major capability of this product is the integration of other intelligent unmanned equipment. It is like an operating platform and a perception platform. The field of view information obtained by the drone can be presented in the first-person perspective. At the same time, this platform can also be used to control the drone, including other unmanned equipment, thereby greatly improving the combat capability of individual soldiers and thus greatly improving the overall combat capability of the troops.

Including exoskeleton equipment, they can also be integrated and linked.

At this moment, Qin Feng said in an orderly manner: "For military use, both the software and hardware levels must be modified. The built-in battery of the headset can be removed and placed in a tactical backpack. Other hardware is also separated from the headset and integrated into a small, removable host box weighing no more than one kilogram that can be carried on the body, with a cable to connect the host box to the headset."

"In this way, more cameras and sensor components can be installed, such as infrared cameras, thermal imaging, night vision, etc., which can be integrated into the head display, cutting off some civilian things and integrating more software and hardware auxiliary combat tools without significantly increasing the weight."

Several military personnel also nodded in agreement. This is a major difference between military and civilian use. The military does not need a built-in battery, and can even separate some hardware from the head-mounted display, and then integrate it into another small host and put it in a tactical backpack and carry it directly.

If it is for civilian use, you definitely can't do it this way. Who would want to carry a small host box?

This is not the case for military use. A small host box weighing about one kilogram is nothing for a single soldier who often carries dozens of kilograms. And this is not just a pure addition. The integration of the head-mounted display device will also reduce the weight of other peripherals.

For example, goggles are no longer needed, as the head-mounted display itself is a very good pair of goggles. With such integration, the overall weight reduction of a single soldier may be far greater than the one kilogram of the small host box. The saved weight can be used to carry other equipment or more weapons and ammunition, thereby increasing the sustained combat capability on the battlefield.

Even without adding other equipment, the reduced weight will reduce the soldiers' physical exertion, which is also an improvement in combat effectiveness.

After a while, the military personnel said: "This head display must be able to be integrated with the combat helmet, and the head display and helmet can also be separated. It is best to be able to be uniformly adapted to the existing helmets."

Hearing this, Qin Feng replied: "It is no problem to integrate and separate it, but it may not be possible to adapt it to the existing helmets, because the existing combat helmets were not designed in this direction at all."

Several military personnel thought about it and nodded. One of them smiled and said, "This is not a big problem. It is not difficult to redesign a combat helmet to match it."

Finally, Qin Feng talked to several military personnel about the cost of the military version of the MIX headset, and said frankly that if it were to be improved and upgraded to military standards, the cost would rise sharply, because civilian and military use are two completely different scenarios, and the required standards are also completely different.

The rising cost does not come from components such as chips, but from other hardware modules. The military version does not require an overly high process. The higher the process, the more likely it is to be damaged or not run smoothly, which is a very fatal thing on the battlefield. It is more important to be durable, stable and able to adapt to complex and changing battlefield environments.

At this moment, Qin Feng said in a deep voice: "The specific cost still needs to be calculated, but I roughly estimate that the cost of the military version will be no less than 50,000 yuan per unit."

When several military personnel heard this, they smiled at each other. One of them said immediately: "Cost is not a problem for us to consider, and neither should you. Just make the product and meet the acceptance standards, and you don't have to worry about anything else."

This cost price is not cheap, but it is not very expensive for the military either. It even feels quite cheap. Compared with the combat effectiveness improvement that this equipment brings to the troops, it is worth the money.

Military items cannot be calculated using the same accounting logic as civilian items.

As long as it can be done, we will purchase it even if it is 100,000, let alone 50,000, and there is no shortage of military funds now.

After a while, one of the military representatives asked, "When can the military version be finalized and put into mass production?"

Hearing this, Qin Feng answered confidently: "There are basically no technical difficulties that need to be overcome for the MIX headset. The technology is inherited from the same source, that is, some adjustments to the integration issues and the appearance of the industrial design, and some hardware additions and subtractions. It will be finalized within half a year and can be mass-produced next year."

At this point, Qin Feng paused for a moment and couldn't help asking, "But how big can the military's purchase be?"

A military representative said: "As long as the reliability and combat performance of this equipment are finally confirmed and meet the acceptance standards, it will be put into service on a large scale and will take about three years to achieve regular use."

Qin Feng couldn't help but get excited when he heard the word "regularization". That meant that it would become the standard equipment of the troops. The quantity would be huge, and the procurement scale would definitely be in the seven figures. That would be a military procurement order of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

……

(End of this chapter)