Han Rushan nodded and said: "The 'Dark Sword' project was indeed frozen for various reasons, but now the situation is different, due to the breakthrough of Matrix Digital in artificial intelligence technology, we decided to restart the 'Dark Sword' drone project......

"Restart the Darksaber Project?"

Yang Lin was slightly stunned.

Everyone in the conference room didn't feel much surprised by Han Rushan's speech, obviously they knew it in advance.

Han Rushan nodded and briefly introduced the implementation of the "Dark Sword" UAV project to Yang Lin.

One of the many high-tech projects proposed in the development of China's aviation industry in recent years, the "Dark Sword" UAV belongs to the concept of the fifth-generation (Russian standard sixth-generation) fighter, which is still in the pre-research stage.

At the end of October 2006, the "Dark Sword" unmanned combat aircraft made its first public appearance at the Zhuhai Air Show, causing a sensation.

You must know that even now, most of the world's UAVs have chosen subsonic aerodynamic layout, but the "Dark Sword" UAV has adopted an arrow-shaped wing body fusion layout similar to the B-2 and F117 hybrid in aerodynamic design, the fuselage part presents an arrow-shaped triangle in the vertical direction, the flat streamlined fuselage and wing smoothly transition into an overall lift surface, and the fuselage design can form an overall layout suitable for high-speed and large overload maneuvering flight with retractable front wings, conventional wings, and tails.

Because of this, the Darksaber UAV has supersonic speed, ultra-high maneuverability and low detectability, in addition, it also has strong long-range detection and comprehensive electronic warfare capabilities, which is mainly used for future air-to-ground operations, and is a concept aircraft for the next generation of fighters.

Due to the unique design of the Darksaber UAV, it is completely different from the current UAV development trend, and it is also different from the popular B-2 stealth bomber flying wing type UAV (including X47 and European Neuron) design, which has UAV air combat capabilities. This makes the development of the dark saber much more difficult than that of ordinary drones.

Whether it is a variable-cycle engine, a new airborne phased array radar or an optical flight control system, it needs to be redeveloped, which is a great challenge for China's aviation industry.

Fortunately, Chengfei has accumulated strong technical strength in the J-20 project, which gives them the confidence to challenge the "Dark Sword" UAV.

Of course, more importantly, Matrix Digital's breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology provides a glimmer of possibility for the development of Darksaber UAV.

If there is no matrix digit. I am afraid that the "Dark Sword" UAV will be silent for another ten years before it can be put on its journey, but now, due to the excellent performance of the MIX instruction set chip and matrix language in the military UAV project, the military has seen the possibility of the "Dark Sword" project starting in advance.

Yang Lin nodded thoughtfully and said, "Minister Han, in this way, do you want Transwarp Technology to also join the research and development of the Darksword drone?" ”

Han Rushan nodded and said with a smile: "This is natural, but we prefer that Mr. Yang can personally provide technical support for the Darksword project!" ”

Yang Lin's eyes flashed, and he immediately understood what Han Rushan meant.

In fact, Matrix Digital provides the MIX instruction set chip and matrix language development tools to the outside world. All belong to the castrated version, and at most the anthropomorphism of a set of intelligent systems can only be increased to about 90%, and it will be difficult to go up.

This kind of anthropomorphism is okay when applied to civilian projects, but when applied to military projects, there are many shortcomings.

This is also the reason why the Chinese government allows MIX instruction set chips and matrix language development tools to be exported abroad.

On the Pterodactyl II project, the matrix language development tool provided by Yang Lin to Feilong Aviation Industry Company is an optimized version, which can increase the anthropomorphism of the system to about 98% at most. Such an intelligent control system is enough for a UAV for ground attack and reconnaissance missions. But for a drone for free air combat, it seems somewhat insufficient.

According to Yang Lin's estimates, if the drone wants to really engage in free air combat, the anthropomorphism of its flight control system must reach at least 99.9%, which is why Han Rushan and they found Yang Lin, because they all know it. It is very likely that Yang Lin has more advanced artificial intelligence technology in his hands.

Yang Lin smiled and said: "Minister Han, the Dark Sword UAV should be a secret project, so I just joined it, it doesn't seem to be appropriate." And as you know, I also need to juggle the development of Matrix Digital and Transwarp. I often go abroad, and I don't have much time to develop intelligent combat systems for UAVs, so I'm afraid it's difficult for me to join the Darksaber project. ”

Han Rushan didn't seem surprised by Yang Lin's answer, and looked at Yu Chen and smiled: "Mr. Yang, please rest assured, we will not force you to join the research and development of the Dark Sword, we only hope that you can provide technical support for the research and development of the Dark Sword." As for the leak, we don't have to worry about it, you have the world's most advanced artificial intelligence technology in your hand, if you want to leak secrets, the value of this technology is many times greater than the Darksaber drone......"

Yang Lin couldn't help but hesitate a little and said, "This ......"

Han Rushan saw that Yang Lin was already a little moved, and immediately added weight and said: "Mr. Yang, if you are willing to join the Darksword project, we can hand over the leadership of the Darksword project to Feilong Aviation Industry Company for research and development, and the research and development funds will be allocated by the military." In addition, if Transwarp is willing to increase its capital in Dragon Aviation Industries, we will in principle allow Transwarp to hold no more than 50% of the shares of Dragon Aviation Industries. ”

Yang Lin was taken aback, he never thought that Han Rushan would actually offer this condition.

You must know that the dark sword UAV is different from the Pterodactyl UAV, the dark sword UAV as the next generation of main combat aircraft after China's J-20, its research and development cost is dozens of times higher than that of the Pterodactyl UAV, if it is handed over to the Flying Dragon Aviation Industry Company to lead, its profits are unimaginably high.

More importantly, Han Rushan actually agreed to break the convention and hand over an important national defense and military industrial enterprise into private hands, and if Yang Lin owned 50 percent of the shares of Feilong Aviation Industry Company, it meant that he would have the real dominance of this company, and the meaning behind it was self-evident.

Yang Lin lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then raised his head and looked at Han Rushan and said, "Minister Han, the stakes are very high, I need to think about this matter carefully before I can give you an answer, I hope you can understand!" ”

Han Rushan and Yu Chen looked at each other and smiled: "This is no problem, we can give Mr. Yang a month, I hope Mr. Yang can give us an accurate answer after a month, whether Mr. Yang agrees or not, we will not force Mr. Yang to do things." (To be continued.) )