Homo sapiens.

The problem is to ask a college student who graduated from 211 to move bricks. Even if the college student is willing, his parents and people around him will probably make irresponsible remarks in secret.

Therefore, the HR department of Homo sapiens company goes to Huaguo to recruit people. Anyway, there are millions of graduates every year, and there are always people who are willing to come to Luzon for money.

Many people under Fang Bai came here like this.

Of course, because Flying Fish Company involves a lot of secrets, the employees will be further screened. The employees who are assigned to Flying Fish Company are basically family members who are in the control area of ​​Sapiens Company.

Fang Bai looked at the unmanned aircraft that used motorcycle piston engines as the core on the assembly line, with some weirdness on his face.

More than a dozen technicians are busy around the plane.

He turned his head and said in a low voice, "Manager Paul, isn't this reduction too much? It is estimated that there will be problems two or three times."

Paul didn't care: "It doesn't matter, it's enough to fly two or three times."

"Two or three times?" Fang Bai is not a fool. Once he heard this standard, he knew that this kind of drone was probably positioned as a fast-moving consumer product.

The question is, which company or organization will purchase this disposable drone?

The answer is obvious.

This Typhoon 1 UAV has a body length of 4.6 meters and a wingspan of 3 meters. With a turbocharged gasoline piston engine, the maximum flight speed can reach 531 kilometers per hour and the cruising speed is 360 kilometers per hour.

Its maximum flight radius is 1200 kilometers (one-way), and when carrying a load of 100 kilograms, the flight radius is about 300 kilometers.

Fangbai's designs are all in accordance with the company's requirements, that is, as cheap as possible, using civilian parts as much as possible, and the cheaper the better.

Now this Typhoon 1 UAV, according to his experience, if it is mass-produced, it is estimated that the production cost of each unit will not exceed 3000 US dollars.

Of course, he didn't know the cost of the intelligent control system of this drone, so it was difficult to estimate the cost of this aspect, and he did not include the cost of the load.

But even so, the cost of 3000 US dollars for one is extremely cheap, only the cost of a dozen motorcycles.

Reservation asked: "When will the low-altitude flight test start?"

"A week later, we have prepared 10 prototypes, which can be tested in large quantities, but what about the programmers?" Fang Bai reminded.

Paul is confident: "Don't worry! We plan to contract this part of the work to Spiral Corporation."

"Will the secret be leaked?" Fang Bai knew the level of secrecy within the company, and if there was a leak, they would be very troublesome.

Paul calmly replied: "Spiritus is also a subsidiary of Homo sapiens, and the level of confidentiality is higher than ours."

"I see." Fang Bai suddenly understood.

Fang Bai, who used to work in DJI, knows very well that the core of drone technology is actually sensors, chips and control programs.

As for the flying fish company in his eyes, other components are purchased through outsourcing, except for the sensors, chips and control programs.

When he was exposed to that set of chips and sensors for the first time, his jaw almost dropped.

Because the performance of that chip is too powerful, the floating-point computing power reaches 3 gigaflops per second, and the built-in storage capacity is 500T, which is almost a small supercomputer.

The advantage of such terrifying computing power is that the control precision of the drone is very high and the response speed is very fast. As long as a suitable control program is installed, many difficult control tasks can be easily accomplished.

This is like Musk's Falcon rocket. The engine technology it uses is actually not advanced, but with its super chip technology, it has completed the parallel control of a large number of engines.

Homo sapiens' chip technology is an order of magnitude stronger than the electronic chips currently on the market.

A biochip the size of a fingernail can achieve a floating-point computing power of 3 gigaflops per second, and it also has a built-in storage capacity of 500T and ultra-low energy consumption.

Fang Bai knew that with the support of this kind of computing power, the potential of Typhoon UAV is absolutely huge.

The ultra-low-altitude cruise and low-energy flight that he thought were impossible before can be squeezed to the extreme with the violent support of computing power.

Regardless of the fact that the Typhoon 1 UAV has a maximum flight radius of only 1200 kilometers.

In fact, there is a very large waste of power. It is entirely possible to continuously adjust the flight posture and detect the airflow, temperature, and wind speed in the surrounding airspace, so that the drone can obtain a flight effect similar to that of an unpowered glider.

At present, the farthest flight distance of gliders controlled by humans can reach more than 2000 kilometers.

Wearing a typhoon drone with a small supercomputer, will it lose to humans?

As long as there are enough flight tests, plus data from wind tunnel tests and computer simulations, the Typhoon UAV will definitely fly farther than a glider controlled by humans.

As for the problem of poor flight speed, ultra-low altitude and stealth coating can solve the problem. As long as it is not discovered by the opponent, it is no problem to fly slowly.

What's more, Fang Bai also has a solution to solve the speed, that is, before approaching the target, the Typhoon drone adopts the low-speed gliding mode, and when it approaches the predetermined range of the target, it quickly switches to the rapid sprint mode, regardless of the cost of squeezing the power of the engine .

Anyway, he already knew the company's thinking. The typhoon drone is a disposable item. If it doesn't squeeze the power of the engine like crazy, can it still be kept for the New Year?

It's just that he was a little worried in his heart, and he didn't know the purpose of Homo sapiens company to develop this kind of thing. After all, the relationship between Luzon and America is a bit complicated.

Chapter 88 Comprehensive Sensing

the other side.

Zhang Hao, who also serves as the technical executive officer of Spiral Information Technology Company, is also busy with his work.

As one of the managers, one of the few programmers who has mastered programming technology, Zhang Hao's status in Homo sapiens company is higher than that of his younger brother. After all, his younger brother Zhang Wei is not a member of the spider web, obviously separated by a layer.

At this time, Zhang Hao was in charge of the information department of the security department, and concurrently served as the technical executive of the spirochete information technology company.

Spiral Corporation was established half a year ago. It has two core businesses. One is to build an electronic computer software design company on the surface, and the other is to secretly develop its own biological computer software.

Among them, the application software of ordinary electronic computers is not difficult for Zhang Hao, especially those commercial software, anyway, it is to "learn" as much as possible from the existing commercial software.

There are more than 100 programmers responsible for this aspect, and they learn from other commercial software for one task.

The core technology research and development team led by Zhang Hao and others, with a total of more than 30 programmers, is responsible for developing software based on the biological computer system.

These more than 30 programmers are the Spiral Corporation's own people. After all, everyone who has access to the biocomputer needs to be implanted with biochips and other preventive measures to ensure their absolute loyalty.

Although there are differences between biological computers and electronic computers, the software frameworks are similar, which is mainly to facilitate the rapid transplantation of some useful electronic computer software to biological computers.

In particular, Li Qingye combined the characteristics of electronic computers and biological computers, and created courses such as "Fundamentals of Pseudo-electronic Software Programming", "Fuzzy Control Mode of Biological Computers", "Transplantation and Adaptation of Electronic Software", etc., which have been passed through their brains. The chip was deeply implanted in the minds of Zhang Hao and others.

Now they can independently develop part of the biological computer application software.

However, some of the industrial software involved recently caused them some headaches.

Mainly, the design of industrial software requires a large number of professional scientific researchers and experimental data support. This is also the fundamental reason why Western industrial software is very powerful, because their accumulation is strong enough.

As for Homo sapiens, it cannot be said that there is no accumulation of industrial data, but it is also equivalent to nothing.

After all, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

Zhang Hao has a very headache now. After all, no matter how the software simulates, it needs the support of real industry and experimental data. He is not an aerodynamicist, and he is really helpless in the face of aircraft simulation test software.

Fortunately, Li Qingye gave him a suggestion.

At this time, Zhang Hao brought five programmers to the town of Kulasi on Panay Island.

When Fang Bai heard that the technical executive officer of the spirochete company was coming, he quickly put down his work and came to accompany Zhang Hao and others in person.

Hearing Zhang Hao's request, Fang Bai also understood that the two sides need to cooperate to overcome some difficulties.

At this moment, Zuo led them to the wind tunnel testing building of Flying Fish Company. This is the mini wind tunnel system that Flying Fish Company is currently developing. There are 10 mini wind tunnels in total, which can test aircraft weighing less than 10 kilograms.

Fang Bai reminded in a low voice: "Manager Paul, this kind of wind tunnel can only test small drones, and our large drones cannot be tested here."

But Paul was unmoved. He asked the soldiers on the side to push out a trolley with dozens of boxes containing sparrows, swallows, seagulls, and dragonflies.

"This is?" Fang Bai didn't understand Paul's operation. Although human fixed-wing aircraft imitated animal wings, it was difficult for birds to collect accurate data in wind tunnel experiments.

Paul put a sparrow into the mini wind tunnel, and after commanding the wind tunnel to start, the sparrow began to soar in the wind tunnel.

Then the technicians operating the wind tunnel constantly changed the airflow, wind speed, and temperature, and the sparrow continued to soar until the sparrow was exhausted.

Paul took out the sparrow, injected it with a special nutrient solution and drugs to relieve fatigue, and let it rest in the cage.

At the same time, a special optical fiber signal connector was connected to the sparrow's head.

Zhang Hao and others, who are proficient in biological computers, quickly read the flight data of the sparrow just now. After synchronizing the time with the data of the wind tunnel just now, they quickly discovered many interesting models and data.

"This..." Fang Bai was shocked.

Paul wrote and said: "We don't have enough accumulation in aerodynamics. The core database of industrial software for Westerners is not open to the outside world, and it is easy to leak secrets during the use process. Therefore, we can only rely on ourselves, using birds and insects. As a test object, first quickly accumulate a batch of flight data, and the large aircraft will be tested after the construction of the large wind tunnel is completed."

But Fang Bai asked excitedly: "Paul, can the sensors on birds and insects be installed on aircraft?"

"..." Paul's biological chip calculated, and replied after a few minutes: "Yes, but it needs special coating and chip support."

"Great, if this is the case, then we can design a large number of scaled-down aircraft models. Although the small models cannot be 100% equivalent to the prototype, at least we can quickly accumulate data and eliminate some inappropriate aerodynamic layouts."

Fang Bai obviously noticed the special sensors on these test animals. Their accuracy and coverage are almost equivalent to the entire surface of the aircraft to detect feedback information.

This technique is simply terrifyingly strong.

You must know that the current high-precision detection equipment and sensors cannot completely cover the surface of the aircraft. They can only do one point at a time, and then give a rough simulation data after secondary processing by software.

The special sensor in front of him is actually accurate to a few microns, and it covers the entire surface.

Fang Bai saw that on the screen, in the flight model of the sparrow, every microsecond showed very dense changes. After zooming in more than ten times, he could see the airflow, air temperature, lift, and drag of each area above.

Why do human aircraft need huge power?Instead of flying like a bird?

The reason is that the attitude control of ordinary aircraft is very difficult. If it is to be designed to be as precise as a bird, the computing power required for its attitude control must break through the sky.

But this problem is not a problem for Flying Fish, because Flying Fish's parent company can provide chips with very powerful computing power.

In this way, Fang Bai's mind was opened.

Instead of smashing the aerodynamic layout of the current aircraft, why not directly engage in bionics, imitating the wings of birds, and directly exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses.

Various small attitude control motors and small wings are added to the fixed wing to take advantage of the computing power of the chip.

That kind of sensor can make the bionic design of the wing more convenient, and it can also quickly obtain a lot of basic flight data.

Fang Bai's suggestion was approved by Zhang Hao.

After Paul reported it to Li Qingye, he also felt that this plan was good.

Although precision-controlled aircraft will lead to an increase in manufacturing costs, this is also the only way for cruise missiles to increase their range.

After all, in order for cruise missiles to hit North America, the cost of the aircraft must be increased.

Li Qingye asked Paul to expand the size of the mini wind tunnel according to Fang Bai's proposal, and at the same time design the miniature aircraft model on a large scale to accumulate enough data for the flight software.

There is a high-precision whole-body data collection system, which makes the mini wind tunnel very cost-effective and reduces some initial investment.

While large wind tunnels are still essential, mini wind tunnels will last at least for a while.

Chapter 89 Earth Plane

The far side of the Pacific Ocean.

America.

Decatur, Illinois.

Like other small American cities, the population here is only 10,000+, but it is favored by many large companies.

A Latin American man was driving a pickup truck, and there were some small cages in the car. Inside was a group of big rats, chattering and eating dog biscuits.

His name is Hook. He immigrated to America from Mexico half a year ago. On the surface, he is a small businessman engaged in import and export trade. He mainly purchases some medical supplies from America and exports them to southern Mexico.

Since America's management of exporting drugs and medical supplies is very loose, Hook's business is only a few hundred thousand dollars, which is very inconspicuous, and naturally it has not attracted attention.

It has been more than half a year since he moved to the suburbs near the city, and he even bought a pet supply store in the city.

The mouse in the pickup truck is actually Hooker's pet. The employees and neighbors in the store all know that Hooker likes to keep mice.

It's just that they don't know that Hook likes to raise mice, not because he really likes it, but to deceive others.

He drove a pickup truck to a hillside not far from the city, and began to set up a tent for barbecue and camping.

The hillside has a wide view, and the cold wind in autumn and winter does not seem to affect Hook's interest. He is sitting by the fire and holding a telescope at the same time.

In the lens, a building appeared in his eyes.

That is the headquarters of ADM, one of the four major grain merchants in ABCD.

At this time, Catherine Adams, who had just returned to the headquarters from Southeast Asia, was reporting to President Jayne Martin in the conference room of the headquarters building.

Catherine said confidently: "Mr. President, the food war plan against Luzon has already started. The Fernando family and the Lopez family will pay the price for their disobedience."

Jayne took a sip of black coffee: "Children always have a rebellious period, just give them a good beating. I heard that Garfield from Fernando is competing with Aston from the Marcus family, right?"

The secretary on the side nodded: "Yes, Mr. President."

"Then what are you waiting for? We should let dear Mr. Aston serve us instead of the self-righteous Mr. Garfield on stage." Jayne's eyes were filled with cold malice.

Catherine suggested: "Malaysia's Guo and Sing Tao's Temasek Investment may be able to help a little bit, after all, their influence in Southeast Asia is not small."