Chapter 819: Technological Explosion
Of course, video satellites are only one of the many applications of gaze imaging systems, and in other areas, especially in the field of military equipment, the use of this technology is really extensive, because many missiles are equipped with a set of gaze imaging systems, and the strike accuracy will be multiplied.
Take, for example, the most widely used air-to-air combat missile, in the past, the infrared guidance head used a scanning component, and although it has a strong ability to capture targets, it is susceptible to interference.
Especially in dog fights, the enemy fighter can easily avoid the incoming aerial combat bombs by making a large overload maneuver with the cooperation of thermal infrared decoy bombs.
This is not bad, if the performance of the infrared seeker is poor, when the weather is fine, the infrared combat bomb launched will not even chase the plane, but will crash headlong towards the source of the largest thermal infrared in the solar system - the sun.
The infrared combat bomb using the gaze imaging system technology is different, because of the use of continuous point extensive image collection, compared with the past scanning type higher definition, stronger accuracy, with more redundant task computer, so that the infrared seeker is like a human eye, easy to grasp the accurate position of the target, so that the missile is more reliable at the same time, the non-escape zone is further expanded.
Because of this, as long as this kind of missile catches the enemy plane and successfully hits it, no matter how difficult the enemy plane plays in the air ballet, there is only one thing waiting for it, and that is to be shot down.
This is the case with tactical-level air-to-air missiles, and strategic-level cruise missiles are also an important platform for the application of gaze imaging system technology.
In order to ensure the accuracy of cruise missiles, all countries without exception have installed a set of guidance systems called map matching on cruise missiles.
The simplest thing is to formulate the route of the cruise missile according to the different contour undulations of the terrain, and then set several key nodes, wait for the missile to fly to these nodes and use radar echoes to confirm the contour lines of these nodes, and then compare it with the data in the program, and adjust the route according to the comparison results.
The "Tomahawk" cruise missile used by the US military in the Gulf War used this method.
However, the preparation time for this method is too long, usually between 16 and 26 hours, and in addition, this method cannot be used in areas where the terrain is too complicated, otherwise it is easy to get lost and crash due to the accuracy of topographic surveying.
However, all this is not a problem at all in a desert area like Iraq, the rivers, highlands, and hills in the desert are the best route nodes in themselves, not to mention that the Americans also have the GPS buff in the sky as an aid, so they really want to fight how they want, and they have no scruples at all.
The question is whether all countries are as capricious as the US military, so it is not difficult to explore a better matching and contrasting effect, and even elementary school students understand that they can use exactly the same photos.
Aerospace experts naturally know this truth, and the question is how to solve the autonomous comparison of cruise missiles.
Collecting topographic data is simple, and this is what is done in ordinary remote sensing and mapping, and the difficulty lies in the matching and comparison of cruise missiles themselves.
In this regard, Tengfei Group, which has rich experience in the development and production of UAVs, is a leader in the first echelon in China, because a few years ago, Tengfei Group relied on the target-5 cruise missile special target missile to achieve the initial optimization of the cruise missile industry chain, and tried to make a breakthrough in terrain matching technology, and successfully developed a simple terrain matching technology that uses lidar imaging to match remote sensing terrain data.
Good results have been achieved in previous exercises and in the actual combat training of troops.
However, lidar has its own limitations, such as the weight of the whole system is too large, the ability to resist interference is poor, and it is greatly affected by the weather.
Therefore, it is okay to make a special target missile for the target-5 cruise missile, and it can be used as a cruise missile, and it may not fly to the target before it hits the street.
Because of this, Tengfei Group is not satisfied with the status quo of the classified product of the target-5 cruise missile, after all, the times are developing, human beings are progressing, although the purpose of Tengfei Group is world peace and human development, but how to achieve the ultimate goal without a little dry goods in hand?
In addition, during its recent visit to China, Pakistan visited the production workshop of the Tengfei Group's target-5 cruise missile, and the Pakistani military, which is working on the research and development of domestically produced cruise missiles, immediately became interested in this special target missile and hoped to purchase a batch of strategic bargaining chips for strengthening New Delhi...... Bah...... It is to raise the level of training of the country's air defense forces.
However, there is a requirement, that is, it is hoped that the terrain matching technology of the target-5 cruise missile will be further optimized, so as to increase its accuracy and reaction speed.
If this is put in the past, Tengfei Group really has no good way, you must know that the breakthrough of the technical level is not overnight, every three or five years of investment and accumulation want to see the results? Unless you dream, but even so, sometimes you may not even see a splash when you throw manpower and material resources into the target.
This is the disadvantage of R&D, the input-output ratio is difficult to control, and the risk is even higher and scary.
Although Tengfei Group has made rapid progress over the years, it has also encountered an insurmountable ceiling in technology, which has caused many factors, the most important of which is the lag in domestic basic science.
Therefore, when encountering high-end customers such as Pakistan, it is very likely that the Ascendas Group a few years ago will lose patience and eventually cancel the order because of the long-term research and development.
Fortunately, the super hairy bear in the north, the enemy of Western imperialism, the pioneer of the red banner of mankind, the master of the fighting nation, the awesome steel torrent, the real man of the Soviet Union, actually played with himself as a waste of firewood.
The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the collapse of the vast Soviet military-industrial complex, and a large number of talented Soviet technologists were left to their own devices because of the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century.
Some of them came to China, and among them were outstanding Soviet specialists who were interested in the Ascendas Group.
Viktor Bukharin, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, worked in the Lavochkin Design Bureau in his early years, participated in the joint astronomical deep space exploration project of the Soviet Union and France, and was responsible for the development of the most core optical equipment.
Later, he was transferred to the Soviet Southern Design Bureau in Ukraine to participate in the development of a new generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Soviet Union, and was responsible for the development of infrared optical guidance at the end of the split warhead.
As a result, before the whole project was completed, the Soviet Union was gone, Bukharin traveled to many places for a living, and finally came to China to be accepted by Tengfei Group, and then took out so many years of pressure box bottom trick - gaze imaging system technology, changed a big villa and a big luxury car in Xiping, and began the second half of his life without shame.