Chapter 838: True Dual-Use Technology
It's hard to say about other categories of Tengfei Group, but in terms of UAVs, Tengfei Group is not necessarily afraid of anyone in China, even in the world, so Tengfei Group is in contention, and there is no suspense about the anti-radiation UAV project at the headquarters.
In this regard, Zhuang Jianye also raised his hands to support, no way, Lao Zhuang didn't fight in his heart, I heard that the headquarters spent 400 million US dollars to buy six sets of "Harpy" UAV systems, and they were blown up at that time.
400 million US dollars, just like that, was earned by Israel, the pain in Lao Zhuang's heart, don't mention it.
If it weren't for the bullshit with Company H back then, Zhuang Jianye would have gone abroad and filed various judicial lawsuits against IA Aviation Technology Company.
So it's going to be done, it's going to be done, and it's also going to be something that the "Harpy" drone can't catch up with.
Zhuang Jianye's will is the highest instruction of Tengfei Group, coupled with so many years Tengfei Group has not stopped in UAVs, and is still managing the expansion of the technical boundaries of UAV systems, but the profits of the old platform are rich enough, Tengfei Group did not take out these technologies, but as benign technical assets to store, waiting for the right time to take out more excess profits.
Otherwise, all the uproar will be shaken out, and people's imagination will be satisfied at once, how will they make money in the future?
But this time it's different, the "Harpy" UAVs are forced to the doorstep, if you don't take out the things at the bottom of the box, and swear your position as the leader in the world UAV field, there will be no more foreign competitors in the future.
As a result, Tengfei Group discussed internally, gritted its teeth and heart, and took out nearly half of its technical assets to create a real multi-batch autonomous and controllable UAV interactive mission system, the so-called UAV swarm technology.
One of the core is the network construction between drones and the setting of communication systems.
This is the most critical aspect of the entire UAV swarm technology, because the multi-batch UAV interactive mission system built by Tengfei Group is not a simple point-to-point, face-to-face flight to the target, and mechanically completes the so-called single task of strike or reconnaissance.
Rather, it is to have the ability to perceive basic logic.
That is, it can freely switch between reconnaissance, assessment, cruise and attack, and can share its own situation with the rear control center and other UAV platforms while switching, so that other UAV platforms can adjust their mission attributes according to the shared intelligence, and finally decide the next mission situation.
In this way, the mission flexibility of the entire UAS system is greatly expanded.
Taking the army units as an example, if the heavily armored units are equipped with the swarm unmanned aerial system of the Tengfei Group, they can be launched by artillery during offensive operations, and use their concealment and mobility advantages to carry out close reconnaissance of the enemy's defensive positions, focusing on detecting the weak links of the enemy's forward deployment and the deployment of the enemy's anti-tank firepower.
At the same time, the real-time image transmission capability of the swarm UAV system is used to form the dynamic situational awareness of the battlefield of the command organ, so as to form a relative battlefield transparency.
On this basis, when the heavily armored units begin to carry out a breakthrough in the campaign, the swarm UAV system can use the previous situational awareness to focus on attacking all kinds of enemy anti-tank firepower on the one hand, opening the way for the impact of the tank armored detachment and eliminating the threat; on the other hand, it can use air and mobile superiority to attack time-sensitive targets, anti-slope targets, and concealed targets that are difficult to deal with with traditional firepower.
At the same time, it assists the rear artillery units in conducting artillery calibration, fire damage assessment, and waiting for the armored units to successfully break through, and infiltrate, reconnoitre, guide fire, and even direct attack on the enemy's deep targets or flank targets according to the actual situation.
In this way, the ground forces can also be resolute in their operations; they can be used as a signal to lure the enemy's air defense fire radar to turn on and consume valuable air defense firepower; they can also directly attack the enemy's air defense radar to clear the way for their own air power; and they can even directly participate in offensive operations and launch a "suicidal" air strike against the enemy.
All in all, the swarm UAV system of Tengfei Group is not a traditional single mission mode, but a multi-attribute integrated campaign and tactical system with multiple functions and high integration.
Because of this, in terms of practicality, mission scalability and final effect, it is several levels higher than the Israeli "Harpy" UAV.
After all, the flexibility of the "Harpy" UAV is not a little bit worse, although it has the ability to return and recover without attacking results, and can hover in the air over the target for a long time, with a certain UAV function, but in fact, the essence of the "Harpy" is still an anti-radiation missile, and there is no multi-mission ability.
The swarm UAV system of Tengfei Group is not only anti-radar, but also can engage in reconnaissance, guidance, electronic jamming, and even targeted killing......
Scalability is not ordinary.
However, in order to achieve this goal, the traditional communication device, the network layout is obviously not achievable, and there is no way to this dynamic real-time data transmission is not something that the general communication system can bear.
At the same time, the confidentiality of communication must be good and the quality must be high, especially between various UAV platforms, which cannot help but transmit fast and anti-interference.
Ordinary civilian communication architectures are bound to fail.
To this end, Tengfei Group has jointly developed two sets of communication systems with several scientific research units in China.
The first is the distributed secure communication architecture of the topological network similar to the Internet, which has a more appropriate general name for this architecture in foreign countries, that is, the so-called data link.
It is mainly used for the liaison and control between the UAV platform and the command center.
The second is the ultraviolet optical security communication system based on routing communication as the core, which is used for short-distance rapid communication between UAV platforms.
On the basis of these two communication systems, combined with satellite communication and relay communication, a set of closed network structure is finally formed, so as to realize a complex system in which UAV nodes are independent and scattered, and can perform tasks independently and cooperate in operations.
Of course, as a whole new set of systems, many places are groundbreaking, and there are naturally some shortcomings, such as the communication channel of the data link, due to the relatively poor level of integrated circuits in China, and the highest level of large-scale integrated circuits and chips cannot be bought abroad.
Therefore, Tengfei Group's swarm UAV system can only control five UAV platforms to perform tasks at the same time, and if there are more, the computers produced by the Aeronautical Computer Research Institute will be overloaded, and at the same time, there will be crashes between UAV platforms due to mixed communications.
Secondly, although each UAV platform has a certain degree of autonomy, it is limited to the limitations of algorithms and integrated circuits, and its autonomy is relatively limited, and it cannot completely distinguish targets and autonomous control independently, and in many cases it is necessary for the rear control center to intervene.
Finally, the volume of each classification system is too large, Tengfei Group is stepping up miniaturization research, but want to install it on the "Harpy" UAV with a length of only one meter, it is obviously impossible at this stage, which is why Tengfei Group finally chose ZB-MAXpro as the carrier aircraft platform, because the platform is large enough, and it is easy to modify, of course, more importantly, it can be quickly civilized with ZB-MAXpro, so as to share the high R & D costs of Tengfei Group.
After all, Tengfei Group is not a typical military enterprise, all the technology is not exclusive to the military, military and civilian dual-use, grasp with both hands, and make money with both hands is the king.