Although this exercise showed that when used for ground attack, the effect was not good in the face of bad weather conditions, and the effective detection distance was too short, but it was precisely because of this severe test in bad weather that the inherent excellent control mechanism of the Destroyer's latest target recognition system was undoubtedly revealed.

This is a very reliable product, the two prototypes of the target identification is accurate, especially the military commission bigwigs know that the exercise base deliberately adjusted the actual position of the preset target, which further highlights that this destroyer exercise is completely close to the actual combat standard, which is even more rare.

The military commission and all the bigwigs know that the ground attack of the Destroyer 1 and 2 cannot be harsh on DSM anymore, and the ground attack distance is too short, because the old model of J-7 is not an all-weather attack fighter in the first place, and the ground attack is not its strength.

This proves that the scheme of using the early model of J-7 to transform into a ground attack is not very suitable, and the future destroyer based on ground attack will still be modified by the new model J-7 in later production. Because the models after the J-7E have made great improvements in this regard, both in terms of bomb load and avionics are more advanced, and they are more suitable for ground attack after modification.

Several bigwigs of the Military Commission immediately made a decision, and the technology of the destroyer UAV has matured, and they instructed the general assembly to unify the acceptance and deployment of the transformation plan, realize the installation as soon as possible, and add a sharp offensive combat platform to the troops.

In this context, the General Assembly and the General Staff dispatched the corresponding expert group to form the acceptance team, and they strictly reviewed the existing technical standards of the Destroyer 1 and 2, and finalized the Destroyer 1 and 2 as Destroyer A unmanned fighters, while the ground attack type developed by DSM will be finalized as the Destroyer B.

The first batch of production orders is to complete the transformation of 200 Destroyer A within the year, most of which are equipped with naval and naval units, and the naval aviation units have begun to be put into large-scale training and installation, and it is expected that they will be able to form combat power in a few months.

A small number of them are assigned to various military regions as seed instructor training and tactical verification and evaluation of the new aviation special battalion of the Army Aviation to prepare for future ground attack training and installation.

Starting from 2018, the large-scale transformation of the Destroyer A/B is planned to complete the upgrading and transformation of at least 800 Destroyer A and 300 Destroyer B, and install them in the navy and army aviation to form combat effectiveness. By the end of 2019, the entire inventory of J-7 aircraft in good condition will be retrofitted and put into active service, becoming another killer feature for Army Airlines and Hainan Airlines.

Due to the maintenance of the original avionics hardware equipment as much as possible, the cost of this transformation is kept within 5 million yuan per Destroyer A, which meets the initial cost requirements of the final assembly, plus the production profit of DSM, the military will not pay more than 7 million yuan at most in the transformation of a Destroyer A, and the total cost of transforming 2000 to 2500 Destroyers will not exceed 20 billion yuan.

This cost can produce more than 100 third-generation fighters such as the J-10 at most, but don't forget that the J-10 also needs excellent pilots to fly in order to exert combat power, and the training cost of training a qualified combat pilot is as high as tens of millions of yuan, and the overall cost is much higher.

To be able to obtain such an excellent combat platform at such a small cost, which is almost the price of a cruise missile, is too well spent for the military.

For the army, with hundreds of destroyers, they will have sufficient confidence to deal with the land challenges of their neighbors, and have an overwhelming advantage in ground aviation firepower, plus they can form a theater joint combat tactical system with main battle tanks, forward wing dragons or Jingwei unmanned reconnaissance aircraft through data links to form a three-dimensional attack firepower, and there is no pressure on the opponent's main battle tank or armed helicopter group.

And for the navy, the significance is even greater, with at least more than a thousand Destroyer A drones, the fleet of the little devils does not want to get close to a radius of 1,000 kilometers off our coast, otherwise the missile plus the strike of the Destroyer A alone will be enough to wipe them to the ground.

In the first decade of the new century, with the addition of the 052 series of large destroyers and the J-10/J-11 series of third-generation aircraft, China's navy and air force began to surpass the little devils in terms of quantity and quality, relying on the land-based missile units that are far superior to the opponents.

The most important thing is to confront the intervention of old US bases and aircraft carriers, and now with this new killer feature, the navy has formed a Destroyer strike circle of more than 1,000 kilometers and a maximum of 2,000 kilometers, and there are many more tactical options than before, and the effect is more expected.

If a huge cluster of destroyers is dispatched, coupled with the DF-21 anti-ship type, submarines, J-11B, Flying Leopard and other third-generation aircraft to fight together, it is not a fantasy to be determined to eliminate one or two aircraft carrier-based formations in one fell swoop.

With the destroyer B type that can carry more than one ton of heavy weapons, you can choose a variety of combat methods, such as carrying a 1,000-kilogram heavy laser-guided bomb, as long as two or three break through the air defense line of the US aircraft carrier to attack the aircraft carrier, it is enough to severely damage, paralyze or even destroy it, compared with heavy air-to-ground or air-to-ship missiles, carrying this heavy missile is more cost-effective for launching a suicide attack with no return.

After all, the former requires several million yuan each, and the latter only needs several hundred thousand yuan, a price difference of an order of magnitude, if the destroyer is allowed to launch an attack on the aircraft carrier formation, with thousands of air-to-ground or air-to-ground missiles, most of them may be shot down by the enemy's various anti-aircraft fires on the way, and they will be wasted in vain, and the cost-effectiveness ratio of the entire operation is too low.

Therefore, the navy can completely speculate on the opponent's anti-aircraft firepower through simulation, and for the destroyer who rushes to the forefront to assume the role of cannon fodder to attract firepower, it can even bring nothing, or just bring a sufficient amount of cheap explosives, if it is lucky enough to escape the opponent's anti-aircraft fire, and carry the tonnage of explosives on board to impact the aircraft carrier or destroyer, it is no less than a bombshell effect, but the price is even lower.

The second echelon is dominated by 1,000-kilogram heavy laser-guided bombs or heavy aerial bombs, carrying 1,000-kilogram laser-guided bombs such as the "Thunder"-3, which can be accurately thrown on the target after breaking through the anti-aircraft fire. Even if only a handful of Destroyers break through the defenses, a bombshell of this caliber is not something a destroyer or carrier can defend against.

Only then did the third echelon consider bringing expensive air-to-ground or air-to-ship missiles with long-range attack capabilities, and under the condition of accurately calculating the attack time, let the missiles reach the target almost simultaneously with the large clusters of destroyers of the first and second echelons to form a saturation attack, which can greatly increase the probability of breaking through the opponent's air defense firepower, and this tactic is relatively simple and easy to implement, and the cost is controllable.

Of course, the premise is that there is an accurate early warning system to guide the destroyer to launch an over-the-horizon attack, and this work is handed over to the airborne early warning aircraft and the Chinese version of the Global Hawk "Shadow" drone that Duke will develop, which will detect the exact location of the opponent and guide the destroyer to launch a fatal blow.

For DSM, this order from the military is a big deal, they simply don't have so many workers, and they don't have the corresponding factory to do the hardware dismantling and transformation work, but Dong Feng is not worried about this problem at all.

Chengfei, Shen Fei, Guifei and other enterprises that originally produced J-7 have ready-made production lines, sufficient manpower and experience to do this, especially Chengfei, their leaders have long been eyeing this piece of fat, and the engineers sent out to assist in the upgrading are not only high-level, the number of people, and everyone comes with a task, to summarize the experience gained in this upgrading, and train for large-scale transformation.

Therefore, on Dong Feng's side, the bulk of the hardware transformation of the first batch of orders was handed over to Cheng Fei, while the electronic system and ground monitoring system were completed by DSM itself.

In 2017, those who are interested in the military will find that this year is simply changing with each passing day, there has been a blowout development, and the army, navy and air force are constantly receiving improved new equipment.

The first thing that started was the transformation of the army's 99 series tanks, followed by the transformation of the theater joint combat tactical system, plus the Pterodactyl and Jingwei unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, which have basically been transformed and equipped by the seven main group armies, and the remaining dozen or so group armies will also complete the transformation according to this standard in the next year.

In this way, unknowingly, the combat power of the main army group army in China has been reborn, if you add hundreds of Destroyer B drones that will be equipped in the next year, it will make the army like a tiger, after completing the equipment of the special aviation battalion of the army aviation, there will be no problem for each main army to pull out and resist a heavy main armored division of the US army alone, as for the Ah San Army, well, the open Ah San is always invincible, let's not mention it.

The same is true of the changes in the Navy and Air Force, the new aero engine Taihang-20A has been finalized, and the power of the third-generation and fourth-generation aircraft has been greatly improved by a grade, but the production and manufacturing capacity has not been raised for a while and a half, and it has not been able to be transformed on a large scale, but after the installation of the theater joint combat tactical system, which is a combat power multiplier, the existing third-generation fighters are no better than losing to any opponent in cluster combat capabilities.

Once the supply of new engines comes up, the main fighters will be upgraded and replaced, and with the new model of large shadow drone detection system that will be put into operation at that time, the air power in Asia can go sideways.

The Navy has also completed the replacement of the new theater joint combat and tactical system, and in terms of power drive, the two destroyers have been very successful in the test of refitting the HNA Reactor, and now the main nuclear submarines and new types of destroyers and frigates have begun to fully replace the power of the Lotus Stack S-type reactor, once the nuclear power refitting is completed, it will strengthen the almost unlimited power of these main systems of the Navy, not to mention, it can also save a lot of valuable ship space and install more weapons and equipment.

It can be said that the army, navy, and air force are all in the important process of comprehensive upgrading.