There was no countdown, no nervous countdown, as the operator completed a series of parameter settings in the ground control system, and with a simple click of the confirmation button, the two J-7 modified Destroyer drones suddenly started at the same time and began to make a loud roar.

Destroyer 1 took the lead in starting slowly, through the autonomous driving system, identified the take-off runway, corrected the take-off direction and began to accelerate continuously, through the huge force of the powerful engine burst output, so that the Destroyer 1 only taxied on the runway for a few seconds to accelerate to more than 200 kilometers per hour, after the use of unmanned driving, the take-off acceleration does not consider the human load capacity at all, so as soon as it enters the runway, the engine is turned to the maximum, so that the take-off process and distance are shorter than manned.

The Destroyer One soon soared into the air, piercing the sky like an arrow, then turning into a smaller and smaller dot that faded into the sky leading to the north.

Destroyer 2 followed closely behind Destroyer 1, taxiing at the same speed the moment Destroyer left the ground, and completed the take-off maneuver just seconds after Destroyer 1 took off, almost following the path of Destroyer 1 towards its target.

"Destroyer 1 and 2 took off normally and are now under aerial surveillance." With the sound of an operator's report, the surveillance footage in the three locations now switches to the images transmitted back by Destroyer 1 and 2.

"The take-off is very beautiful, if the actual combat can achieve this take-off speed, a runway can take off at least 60 planes in ten minutes, this speed is too useful for actual combat," said Lieutenant General Lu Haiqing, deputy chief of the General Staff of the General Staff who was watching the live situation of the exercise in Beijing, "This means that at a forward position of 300 kilometers to 500 kilometers, our army can receive air fire support in almost half an hour." ”

"Yes, the army and navy have picked up treasures this time." Major General Wang Shengyang of the Operations Department of the General Staff next to him echoed, "On the army side, if a group army is equipped with 30-60 such destroyer drones, I think it is stronger than adding an armored division in terms of heavy firepower output, especially in terms of concentrated firepower, it can completely form a three-dimensional attack with the main battle tanks and artillery." It's so helpful for attacking fortifications and opening up enemy gaps. ”

"By the way, Minister Wang, how long does it take to refuel the Destroyer's ammunition?" Lieutenant General Lu Haiqing, deputy chief of the General Staff Department, who had previously expressed his feelings, suddenly thought of another question and asked Wang Rongdao, who was accompanying him. This question is important because the J-7 itself has a fairly limited ammunition load, and if the ammunition is replenished too slowly, it can greatly affect the uptime.

"Deputy Chief Lu, according to the current research and development progress, intelligent mechanical operation supply in ammunition and fuel replenishment has been realized, and the process completed by an aircraft is less than half of the previous time." Wang Rong replied.

"So much improvement? How did they do it?" Lieutenant General Lu Haiqing was a little surprised, in his impression, it seemed that it would take a lot of time to reload the J-7's weapons and ammunition, and it was quite remarkable that it could be shortened by half.

"They will improve the ammunition pylons to make them more suitable for automatic ammunition refueling vehicles, and since some routine inspection items for fighters are now being carried out simultaneously in the ammunition and refueling process, this return to duty is very fast. DSM company in the intelligent research is indeed in the forefront of today's world, they cooperate with the 132 factory engineers soon came up with a high degree of intelligence of the small loading vehicle, basically through the manipulator to complete the original need to be completed by manual work, this improvement effect is very good, I think our other aircraft should also consider the introduction of their technology for corresponding transformation. Speed up logistical replenishment. Wang Rong said.

"This matter is very meaningful, and then you must promote it as soon as possible in the general assembly, this is a place where you can improve your combat power with a small amount of money." After listening to Wang Rong's explanation, Lieutenant General Lu Haiqing nodded and gave clear instructions on this.

Shortening the logistical supply time can increase the attendance time of the aircraft, and of course, it is a great improvement to the effective combat time of the fighters.

As soon as the two chatted like this, more than ten minutes quickly passed, and the Destroyer 1 and 2 had already flown more than 300 kilometers.

"The No. 1 relay station has received the wireless signal of Destroyer 1 and Destroyer 2, and the communication link has been established, and the communication is now normal." The first wireless mobile relay point, set up hundreds of kilometers away, soon reported that the images transmitted by the fighters on different ground monitoring systems in the three places were seamlessly switched without almost no stagnation.

"It seems that we don't have to worry too much about the communication part," looking at this good actual test result, Xiao Qianguang said to Duke with satisfaction, "This relay system is small in structure, easy to install on small motor vehicles, ships, and drones, and for the battle in the area we determine, we can temporarily set it up to ensure that the destroyer can maintain high-speed wireless communication." ”

For Duke, this is expected, after a long period of transformation and upgrading, the wireless communication technology proposed by Billem has become more and more mature, and the original more worrying long-range wireless communication problem does have many ideas that can be solved.

"Even in terms of secure communication, it still needs to be strengthened, and our current security and confidentiality strength is still not enough, and it is easy to be cracked by opponents." Duke continued Xiao Qianguang's remarks that although the secrecy of secure communication through the language of the Billem Sky is very good, if there is to be a large-scale military, Duke must fully explain this mechanism, which is difficult for Duke to accept now, because it is difficult for him to explain why such a new language was suddenly invented.

So Duke now has to switch to a new encryption method, and in terms of the new generation of wireless technology, the current focus is to develop a new encryption mechanism that can make this communication method have the same effect as communicating in an alien language, which is still relatively difficult.

The Destroyer crossed the Qinling Mountains at supersonic speed, flew over the Loess Plateau, and began to gradually approach the preset target. Judging by all the previous performances, the Destroyer is almost impeccable, even if it has now flown more than a thousand kilometers, the fuel shows that everything is normal, and there is still almost a small half left, enough to maintain a distance of seven or eight hundred kilometers.

For the group of generals and colonels of the General Staff and the General Assembly, they are already very satisfied with the combat distance of the Destroyer. Although the combat exercise carried only two land-attack missiles, the valuable payload was allocated to a secondary fuel tank.

Because this is a naval destroyer, it is enough to launch a round of attacks, with KD-88 air-to-surface missiles or "Eagle Strike"-83K air-to-ship missiles such as big guys, ordinary destroyers, one hit can hit it hard, even an aircraft carrier can not withstand the blow of several such heavy missiles. Of course, if you want to break through a system like Aegis and attack a destroyer or aircraft carrier, you need to launch more missiles to break through the line of defense under a saturation strike.

But that's another question.

The Destroyer only provides such a new combat platform for the navy, and there are still many topics to be studied in terms of tactics in order to truly form an effective combat force.

But as they got closer to the target, the image from the Destroyer began to blur, just a white dense cloud, and other than that, almost nothing could be seen, and there was still light snow in the target area under the clouds, in such a harsh environment, would the Destroyer be able to accurately find the target?

The hearts of the R&D personnel and military personnel in the three places who watched the exercise began to tense almost simultaneously, except for Duke.