Chapter 825: Zenith—Type 1 Starlight Navigation System
In the absence of GPS accurate navigation guidance and the lack of terrestrial radio navigation equipment, relying only on the old-fashioned inertial navigation device on the TY-6 drone, it was possible to get close to the visiting coast guard aircraft at a distance of 50 meters and swagger to take pictures.
That's it, and then it passed through the airspace with dense routes, approaching the Rush patrol ship that was about to visit the Yangtze River Delta like an embroidery needle, and continued the so-called "aerial photography" business.
All of this is naturally displayed in real time on the large screen of the ground control unit, and not only that, but on one side of the screen, the area that was originally a GPS signal has been replaced by an ever-changing longitude and latitude value.
All of this shows an indisputable fact, that is, the TY-6 UAV can still have the ability to accurately navigate normally without relying on GPS satellite navigation, and realize the ability to perform multiple tasks in the middle and far seas.
At this time, Chen Fang and the others were shocked, followed by irrepressible excitement.
The TY-6 UAV has a completely autonomous and controllable mission action capability.
Aircraft with GPS navigation capabilities can also be autonomous and controllable, after all, the pilot is a person from his own country, and he can fly how he wants, who can control it?
The problem is that GPS is not your own thing after all, the terminal is in the hands of others, which is like an egg pinched by someone's fire tongs, and there is nothing to do with daily activities.
After all, the boarding and inspection incident in the Arabian Sea is too vivid, especially when a foreign power turned off the GPS signal at a critical moment, causing the ships sailing here to lose their course and can only float aimlessly on the sea.
That lesson is too profound, the problem is that it is useless to be profound, people have it, you don't, except to be crushed by others, to be hit by people's dimensionality, there is no way at all, after all, slogans can't hurt people, condemnation can't hit people, only the strength of the hard Bangbang is there, so that people can be respected after being feared.
Therefore, the beauty of this world is only on the surface, and the deep-seated logic is still that the strong are respected.
It's just that the road to the strong is so easy to walk, just take the maritime surveillance department that Chen Fang is about to join, the lessons of the Arabian Sea are profound, but GPS should be used, no way, who makes no similar substitutes at this stage, even if the country has begun to demonstrate the independent construction of satellite navigation systems, the problem is that such a large system project has not been very effective in twenty or thirty years.
Could it be that the maritime surveillance department will work hard for 20 or 30 years for the sake of the domestic satellite navigation system, and will not go to sea to safeguard national interests?
Therefore, in addition to scolding the mother, holding the GPS baby has to continue to baby, even if the GPS signal often fails, and may even be artificially choked, then you have to knock out your teeth or swallow blood in your stomach.
Because of this, when Chen Fang and others saw that the TY-6 drone was out of control due to the interruption of the GPS signal, they gloated and gloated, but they still had a strong sense of helplessness in their hearts.
If you want to patrol normally at sea, you can't avoid GPS after all, it's like a tight spell on Sun Monkey's head, and you can't hide at all.
As a result, Tengfei Group's TY-6 UAV not only avoided the tight spell, but also was more chic and elegant than the newborn Sun Monkey in Huaguo Mountain.
And this is of great significance to most of the powerful departments in China, including the maritime supervision department where Chen Fang and others work.
Regardless of the rest, let's talk about maritime law enforcement patrols, how big the domestic sea frontier is, if the core technology of navigation, which involves fundamental interests, is all pinned on GPS, it is equivalent to hanging from a crooked neck tree, and the people will not do it, how can this truth not be understood.
It's just that there was no replacement before, and I had to treat GPS as a sweet tooth.
But now, the TY-6 UAV is completely free from the shackles of GPS, and its status has risen sharply, so that those who are not used to seeing Zhuang Jianye's style and question the performance of the TY-6 UAV have to face up to this new product that is enough to change the strategic change in the domestic navigation field.
Therefore, the expensive price of 8.86 million yuan for the TY-6 UAV is not important, and the low-level configuration of 10 million yuan is not important, everyone is concentrated in one point, that is, what kind of navigation device is used on the TY-6 UAV, whether this navigation device is replicable, and whether it can be applied on more and broader platforms.
"Yes!" Zhuang Jianye replied very simply: "Our Zenith-1 starlight navigation system is suitable for all kinds of aircraft, ships, submarines and even some large ......vehicles."
Since Chen Fang and others were completely attracted by the navigation ability displayed by the TY-6 UAV, Zhuang Jianye of course focused on the needs of customers.
If this is such a powerful department as the navy and the air force, Zhuang Jianye will inevitably have to tell the most critical application of the Zenith-1 starlight navigation system behind his conscience.
What is it?
Long-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, of course.
Before the end of the Cold War, there were only two countries in the world that actually equipped long-range ballistic missiles and cruise missiles with starlight navigation systems, one was the Soviet Union and the other was the United States.
At this point, mankind's long-range missiles have officially entered the era of precision guidance.
Because the starlight navigation system is combined with inertial navigation to form a starlight \\inertial navigation composite guidance mode, the probability of a long-range ballistic missile with a circumference of more than 5 kilometers is rapidly reduced to less than 500 meters.
With the progress of processing technology and the improvement of the accuracy of components, the accuracy of long-range missiles has made breakthroughs again and again, for example, the Minuteman series of intercontinental missiles of a large country outside the region, although it has been discontinued for many years, the internal guidance system will be upgraded every few years to ensure the accurate destruction ability of this series of missiles.
In particular, the new upgrade plan that began in 1992 upgraded the original MK5 Starlight Inertial Navigation Composite Guidance System to the MK6 Starlight Inertial Navigation Composite Guidance System, and the circumference probability of the Minuteman ICBM at the maximum range of 12,000 kilometers was further increased from the previous 280 meters to an astonishing 160 meters.
You must know that the vast majority of short-range missiles in the world today have not yet reached this kind of accuracy, which shows how terrible the Minuteman missiles are.
And this is only the achievement achieved with the support of the MK6 Starlight \\ inertial navigation composite guidance system, which has neither GPS support nor terminal guidance similar to the Pershing II missile's radar image matching.
Because a foreign power found in the deduction that in a tragic nuclear war, whether it is GPS or radar image matching, it will be subject to serious electromagnetic interference, resulting in a complete interruption of the signal.
Only completely undisturbed inertial navigation and starlight navigation can function properly in a nuclear war like one day.
Yes, starlight navigation, like inertial navigation, is a stable navigation mechanism that is completely unaffected by the outside world, because its anchor is a star in outer space, and the relative position of several stars to the earth is used to calculate accurate navigation information.
Therefore, this navigation technique is not only undisturbed, but also more accurate than inertial navigation, after all, the position of the star is fixed and not disturbed by acceleration.
It is precisely because of the advantages of stability, accuracy, and anti-jamming that starlight navigation has become a secret core secret of the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.