Chapter 184 Yujing 01

Author: September Sauce

Chapter 184 Yujing 01

"What is this? A drone with a bomb load of 10 tons and a speed of Mach 1.9? Is it real or fake?"

In an office of the 611 Institute, Yang Wei held the phone receiver and asked in disbelief.

"Who mentioned it? Your brain is burned out? Ah? Chen Nian. Then it's okay."

"When will he want it? Is this project urgent?"

"That's fine, that's fine. Once the J-20B passes engineering verification and reaches mass production standards, we will start working on it here."

"Difficulty? It shouldn't be too difficult. The projects coming from him won't be too difficult anyway."

"I understand, I understand, I will do it as soon as possible."

"J-20B? The technology verification aircraft can fly now. What, who wants to use it?"

"Where is the military area? Then let them contact me."

"Okay, then I'll make some preparations here, but the performance will definitely not reach the design upper limit, and the variable cycle engine hasn't been developed yet."

"How long? Look at 606 Research Institute. They are currently doing joint research and development with 624, so there is no big problem."

After hanging up the phone, Yang Wei let out a long breath.

He thought he had paid enough attention to Chen Nian, but he didn't expect that his expectations for him were not enough!

After completing the design work of two domestic fourth-generation aircraft, he has now turned to drones!

Moreover, judging from his parameter settings for this drone, it is definitely not a bad product like the Global Hawk.

Ultra-high mobility, large bomb load, and stealth performance that is almost the same as that of the J-20

There is no doubt that it is aimed at the goal of manned/unmanned joint formation!

With this UAV, a comprehensive combat strategy for fourth-generation aircraft becomes possible.

Only one formation is needed to complete a series of tasks such as air sweep, ground penetration, and important target clearance in a single flight.

Whether it is combat efficiency or lethality, it can be qualitatively improved.

What's more, this thing can also be used as a self-exploding bomb truck when necessary, opening the door for subsequent formations.

I remember when the J-22 was first born, some people in China discussed that such a fourth-generation aircraft was useless except for kicking in the door. Without the support of the echelon formation, even if the door was kicked open, there was no way to carry out air strikes on the targets inside the door.

What we lack is flanker aircraft.

Therefore, the J-20 project has actually been questioned. Many people believe that when there is already a fourth-generation aircraft, there is no need to specialize in developing a carrier-based fourth-generation aircraft, and energy should be invested in the Flanker model.

What now? Isn’t the flanker coming soon?

Moreover, this unmanned Flanker is much easier to use than other manned aircraft.

After all, it does not need to worry about casualties during the penetration process, and the operating space is much larger.

Thinking of this, Yang Wei smiled happily.

Hey, this project has fallen into my hands again. The distance that was thrown away by 601 before can be regained all of a sudden.

However, the military region actually wanted to receive the J-20B in advance, saying it was going to be tested at sea, which he did not expect.

Has the situation on the sea become this urgent?

I heard that a second-hand warship was sent over two days ago, pretending to be a fishery administration ship.

It seems that the Navy has also emptied the bottom of the box, and has no choice but to let the Air Force come up to top it.

However, this is exactly the meaning of existence for scientific researchers like myself.

Be able to form a single breakthrough in your own field, use your own strength to make up for the shortcomings of the entire country, and help those fields that are temporarily lagging behind to overcome difficulties.

This kind of "heroism" truly fits your own fantasy of a hero.

After thinking for a moment, Yang Wei picked up the phone.

"Hey, Lao Yang? Is your PL-17 test almost finished?"

"Yes, I want to test the J-20B. You can send it over another day."

On the other side, NPU.

Chen Nian and Wang Jiancheng stood on the playground. Next to them were several remote-controlled model airplanes borrowed from the Model Aircraft Club.

Today is the time to actually test the AI ​​system of the "Yamai 01" drone.

The name "Yujing" was given by Wang Jiancheng and comes from the "Book of Heavenly Officials" which explains astrology. In the book, the star official restrained the left leg of the white tiger represented by Rigel in the jade well to control this powerful tiger.

It is very appropriate to use it in the drone AI flight control system.

However, expectations are expectations and reality is reality.

At this moment, both Chen Nian and Wang Jiancheng were inevitably a little nervous.

After all, the results of computer simulation are one thing, but actually flying is another thing.

After the aircraft rises into the air, every disturbance in the airflow may have a significant impact on the input data, and may even exceed the AI's judgment limit, causing system failure and the risk of a crash.

Therefore, all they can do is to debug all the data as much as possible, set up all emergency procedures, and in the most extreme case, let the system directly alarm and disconnect the AI ​​flight control, and return control to the pilot waiting aside.

"How's it going? Is the system debugged?"

Looking at Wang Jiancheng who was still busy, Chen Nian asked.

Prior to this, they had modified the remote controls of the model aircraft. The remote controls used to control the model aircraft were all connected to the computer through circuit boards. The host computer was responsible for signal input. After being processed by the AI ​​program, the signal was output to the wingman remote control.

After signal relay, the control of the aerial model aircraft is realized.

This kind of control method will undoubtedly have time delay problems. If it is really a military drone, the time delay will be enough to cause major tactical movement deformations.

But fortunately, the flight altitude of model aircraft is low and the signal transmission time is short, so there is basically no need to consider this issue.

When military aircraft actually become available, just move the program carrier computer to the drone.

Anyway, Rainbow-8’s onboard computer will definitely have no problem running such a program.

Noticing Chen Nian approaching, Wang Jiancheng quickly stopped what he was doing and replied:

"Basically, there is no problem anymore. I have just finally debugged some parameters of 'Yamai 01' and increased the fault tolerance range. If there is a failure to follow, the wingman will automatically lower the altitude and fly around the field, and wait for the second command to be issued.

Try following again."

"In this case, the risk of crashing will be greatly reduced."

"Okay. But after the test, you have to delete this fault-tolerant program. After all, if it is actual combat, there is no difference between flying around and committing suicide."

"understand."

Wang Jiancheng nodded repeatedly. He checked the parameters one last time, then exited the control background, returned to the main interface of Yujing 01, and said to Chen Nian:

"No problem, you can get ready to fly."

His voice was slightly trembling. Chen Nian patted his shoulder comfortingly, turned to Fei Shou, who had been waiting for a long time, and said:

"Start flying!"

Following his order, all the pilots excitedly ran towards their model aircraft and launched the model aircraft into the air one after another.

Everyone had a look of anticipation on their faces. After all, this was their first time flying a model aircraft in this special way.

Without having to control it yourself, the aircraft can automatically follow a certain aircraft as the "flag bearer"?

If they didn't see this kind of story in reality, they would just think it was a plot in a science fiction novel.

To take a step back, even if it can be realized, the risks in the process are uncontrollable.

What if I crash?

You must know that every model aircraft is the result of their countless efforts. Let alone crashing the aircraft, even if it has a slight bump, it will be very distressing.

Therefore, when Wang Jiancheng found them at first, their reaction was unanimous, which was rejection.

In the end, Chen Nian was the one who saved face.

Last time, he adjusted the aerodynamic layout of the model aircraft for many members of the model aircraft club, which was a favor and also paved the way for today's events.

In addition, Chen Nian promised to compensate according to the assembly cost if the machine crashed during the process, so they finally agreed to the test flight.

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Of course, I was still a little reluctant.

But this reluctance disappeared after they arrived at the scene.

Good guy, who is really into aviation, who doesn’t love this thing?

Crashed the phone? Just crash it, play enough first before talking about it!

So, with this in mind, they watched the model aircraft taking off with intense eyes while excitedly discussing the status of the aircraft with each other.

"Holy shit, my remote control is disconnected and the AI ​​is taking over!"
To be continued...