When Yang Lin and the others arrived in Zhaonan City, Han Rushan had been waiting for a long time, and he was accompanied by a lieutenant general, a major general, and the heads of the other two Baicheng bases.

Han Rushan introduced each other, and Yang Lin learned that the one called Jiao Jiuming Army Lieutenant General Army. The deputy director of the Commission's equipment development department, the major general is Wei Jie, the newly established army chief of staff, and the remaining two are Fan Qichen, director of the Baicheng Test Center, and Yang Jiaming, chief engineer.

Yang Lin didn't expect the military to attach so much importance to it. The Deputy Minister of Equipment Development of the Commission appeared at the same time.

However, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that the "Dark Sword" project can be regarded as the cutting-edge combat power of the Chinese military's future conventional operations, and its importance is undoubted.

And through the cooperation with Transwarp Technology on the Pterodactyl UAV, they have tasted the sweetness, if DJI's tactical UAV can really be installed on a large scale in the army troops, then there is no doubt about the improvement of the army's combat effectiveness in the future.

Even in internal military discussions, it has been suggested that artificial intelligence technology should be applied to the Long Sword series of cruise missiles.

Imagine the strategic significance behind a cruise missile capable of actively evading enemy anti-aircraft missile interception and even automatically looking for high-value targets.

If these cruise missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads, they can even reach the combat effectiveness of those medium-range ballistic missiles, and the strike accuracy is far beyond that.

But now there is no other way, after all, Transwarp Technology belongs to private capital, let it go deep into the development of strategic weapons such as the Long Sword cruise missile, and the cooperation between the two sides has not reached that level, and the internal resistance at the top is too great.

China is not the United States. No one dared to put such a project in the hands of a private enterprise, even in the cooperation of the "Dark Sword" UAV. There is a lot of opposition at the top.

At least Han Rushan knows that the reason why the military agreed to cooperate with Transwarp Technology this time. It was because the Great Elder spoke up that it would become so smooth.

Of course, in cooperation with Transwarp, the military still has another layer of thought.

With the artificial intelligence technology currently in the military's possession, it is very difficult to develop cruise missiles that can actively evade enemy interception. Therefore, the best way is to improve the level of artificial intelligence technology of AVIC and Aerospace Science and Industry Group through cooperation in the "Dark Sword" UAV, and wait until the artificial intelligence technology of these military enterprises meets the requirements of the military. It doesn't make a lot of sense anymore.

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"Mr. Yang, hard work!"

"What is this, but Minister Jiao and Chief of Staff Liu can come over in person, Yang is flattered!"

"Haha, if you can see the performance of the 'Shadow' drone, you don't need to make this trip!"

The crowd burst into laughter.

The "Shadow" drone is a platoon-level tactical drone provided by DJI for the military.

Although the drones developed by DJI are civilian products, they are rare weapons in China that have experienced actual combat.

Just at the beginning of this year, the Syrian opposition claimed to have intercepted a small unmanned reconnaissance aircraft through radio jamming and exposed the aircraft, as well as the photos taken by the aircraft. Later, netizens found out. This drone was actually developed and produced by DJI, and was publicly exhibited at the Nuremberg Toy Fair in Germany, such a toy drone, the price of such a toy is 4,000 yuan on Taobao.

After the news came out. It immediately aroused heated discussions among netizens, and netizens expressed their pride!

China's toys have become high-tech products in the eyes of small countries, which shows that our real military products will be even more powerful. The future of the world must be our China, and our Chinese's creativity and imitation are the first in the world. U.S. imperialism and its lackeys, just do something beneficial for peaceful coexistence, and stop thinking of any crooked ideas to contain our Chinese dragon...... Comments like this can balabala a whole bunch in the back......

Exactly, though. This DJIPhantom drone used by the Syrian government army for battlefield reconnaissance is indeed a toy, its cruising flight time is only 10~15 minutes, the effective remote control distance is only 300 meters, and the survivability on the real battlefield is limited.

And the "Shadow" drone is completely different.

The "Shadow" UAV adopts an eight-axis linkage lift mechanism, and the flight time of full-charge cruise has also been increased to about one and a half hours, which can meet the reconnaissance needs of combat units within a radius of 10 kilometers.

In addition, this drone is also equipped with a multi-mode camera that can rotate 360° freely, with conventional and infrared modes to meet the needs of night operations.

And thanks to the installation of an artificial intelligence flight system, it can actively avoid obstacles, will not be interfered with and intercepted by enemy electronic warfare, and the intelligent power management system allows it to return to the take-off point before the power runs out to meet with the manual remote control device.

This manual remote control device is equipped with a Beidou satellite navigation system, and if necessary, the self-destruct device on the drone can be activated.

Even if the remote control device is captured by enemy forces, the "Shadow" drone will self-destruct at its own discretion when it returns.

Yang Lin had already sent the relevant technical information of the "Shadow" drone to Han Rushan and them, so they didn't ask much, and the group exchanged a few words of greeting, and then entered the internal guest house of the Baicheng base.

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The Baicheng base is located near the Horqin grassland at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Jilin, but in recent years, with the deterioration of the grassland environment, the desertification of the grassland near the Baicheng base has become more and more serious day by day.

Unfortunately, Yang Lin and they encountered this kind of weather situation, on the second day of their arrival at the Baicheng base, there was a twelve-level wind blowing on the grassland, and the sand and dust covered the sky and the sun, and in desperation, Fan Qichen and Yang Jiaming, directors of the Baicheng test base, had to cancel the original test plan.

It wasn't until the third day that the weather improved.

However, this improvement is only compared to the previous few days, and the real weather conditions are still bad.

The low temperature of minus 18 degrees Celsius and the force 7 wind are still a big challenge for the "Shadow", which weighs less than 30 kilograms.

Fortunately, the sand and dust are not as serious as a few days ago, at least Yang Lin can walk outside without wearing a mask.

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun in the north had set in the west, and in another half an hour the sky would be completely dark.

The "Shadow" UAV ushered in the first test mission - to search for an armored unit hidden in the depths of the steppe within a radius of ten kilometers. (To be continued.) )