Woodhorn Building.

In a conference room, the then Minister of Defense, several generals and a technical adviser were present, and they all looked intently at the big screen in the conference room.

The display screen was replaced with a photo every once in a while, and it was the picture of the exercise taken by satellite in the northwest of China.

Although the satellite photos are very clear, they are still a little blurry in the face of high-speed moving targets, but the problem is not big, and the technicians have made some repairs to these satellite photos when they send the data to the Pentagon.

The then Minister of Defense withdrew his gaze, glanced at everyone and then looked at the technician: "How many drones are there?" ”

"Mr. Minister, judging from the information in the photo, I'm afraid there will be no less than 5,000 drones."

“What？”

A general who was staring at the photos on the screen immediately turned his head when he heard this, stared at his eyes and said in shock: "No less than 5,000? ”

"God! This is crazy. ”

This number has caused a big shock in everyone's hearts, drone swarm technology, Lao Mei is naturally increasing its research, which is a major trend in the future.

Lao Mei is deeply aware of this, as early as two years ago, began to study the concept of UAV "swarm" operations, including the "Quail" plan, the "elf" plan, the "loyal wingman" plan, etc., and even thought of using the UAV "swarm" suicide interception of nuclear bombs.

When the nuclear warhead strikes, the drone swarm only needs to hover on the pre-meridian route of the nuclear warhead, and the kinetic energy generated by the collision will make the electronic components inside the nuclear warhead find destruction, so as to prevent the explosion of the nuclear warhead.

But so far, the technology in North America can only control less than 200 drones for swarm flight, and it was once thought that it was far ahead in this field.

And sending this intelligence information over today is tantamount to a slap in the face for Lao Mei, and the other side of the ocean has already played the scale of thousands of planes?

This gap cannot be explained by a single star.

In fact, the UAV "swarm" combat command platform developed by the Cote d'Azur can control and coordinate far more than that, and can coordinate up to more than 100,000 UAVs to organize a battle.

The previous exercises were just to control costs, and there was no need to engage in such a big battle, and the exercises also had to be budgeted, and the purpose of the test could be achieved.

Even so, Lao Mei has been taken aback by now, because she realized the gap between the two sides.

"Find out which agency has the technology not?"

"It is being investigated, but as far as the current speculation is concerned, the probability of the Cote d'Azur is very great, because the biggest difficulty in UAV swarm technology is artificial intelligence and cloud computing and the distribution and processing of data, which are the strengths of the Cote d'Azur and Bluestar Technology."

"Damn, how can this damn company again!"

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Three days later, the Woods Point Bureau released an article on the "National Defense Strategy Report" that was produced overnight.

According to the report, the Woods aims to "compete, deter, and win" in an increasingly complex global security environment. At present, "long-term strategic competition" has resurfaced, which is the core challenge to the prosperity and security of the country, and this long-term strategic competition mainly comes from the other side of the ocean.

The report further describes that North America's military competitive advantage "has been and continues to erode in every area of combat readiness: sea, land, control, space, and cyberspace."

Over the past nine fiscal years, Cap Woods blames Congress's "capping" of defense spending, cutting defense spending and chronic funding scarcity, which has done more damage to its own combat capability than any "enemy."

Well, by implication, the enemy is on Capitol Hill.

The report also said that the Woods must modernize the "key combat capabilities" of the Magnesium Army to build a "more lethal, adaptable and rapidly innovative integrated armed force" and cannot expect to use yesterday's weapons and equipment to achieve victory in tomorrow's conflict.

To put it simply, this article summarizes the main point of the report: making money——!

It's not going to pay for it, when will it be?

After the release of this "National Defense Strategy Report," a new piece of information was publicly released in the afternoon of the same day, and this information was a drone swarm exercise on the other side of the ocean that was captured by satellites a few days ago.

The news of the global military sector was quickly swiped by this news, and the domestic media also quoted and reported it, and this matter would not have been known if it had not been made public by the Woodhorn Bureau.

Domestic military fans were overjoyed, but they didn't expect their own drone swarm technology to have developed to this point, and the year before last they were still envious of the news that Lao Mei could control more than 100 drones to work together, and felt anxious that they had not made any breakthroughs in this field.

Unexpectedly, when I woke up, I found that I was even better than Lao Mei, and a large number of military fans began to analyze the photos released by the Wujiao Bureau.

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Science and Technology Complex Building.

"Master, the 3rd sent him an email report on his latest job in Silicon Valley." Cortana's voice echoed in Luo Sheng's private office.

Luo Sheng directly opened the list of email contents, and said quite unexpectedly: "The efficiency is quite fast, and the company has been established in less than four months and has the ability to launch a beta version of the product, which is good." Cortana, send an order to No. 3 to raise the nominal cost of the drone to at least $30,000 per unit, and the price is not less than $50,000 per unit. ”

Cortana: "Understood! ”

The so-called "No. 3" is the android No. 3, which is a chess piece arranged by Luo Sheng to go to Silicon Valley to start a business, and his identity over there has been arranged, a Canadian-American scientist who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his name is Marcus Lyle.

In the past three or four months, Marcus Lyle arrived in Silicon Valley with the export version of the second-level drone technology developed by Luo Sheng and started a start-up technology company called "Lyle Binary".

The highest level is to penetrate into the enemy's interior, and it would be interesting to let the Woods Branch come to purchase the military products of the Lyle Binary Company.

However, Luo Sheng's biggest purpose is not this, but to transfer the military technology he developed to the Horizon Security Company, and he can't sell it clearly and can't sell it, so he can only take the line of Marcus Lyle to gradually develop and expand the actual armed forces of the Horizon Security Company.

But at the same time, we have to suppress the Lyle binary company, to achieve the last time the technology, the price is more expensive, so that it will not come to grab the sales of genuine products, otherwise Lao Mei will definitely use his hooligans to force big dogs to buy, and the sales of genuine export foreign trade products on the Cote d'Azur will definitely be affected.

In order for the Lyre Binary Company to be perfectly integrated into North America, it cannot be a sole proprietorship, it must accept local capital investment, and if it is not suppressed, the actual profits will have to be divided by Wall Street.

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