Chapter 482: Old Trees Grow New Branches

Automatic target identification is not the only big problem in the software aspect of the J-7 UAV transformation, after solving this problem, Duke is also facing the problem of solving the fire control system, because in the future J-7 UAV to remove air-to-air combat missiles, and change to hang air-to-ground missiles and air-to-ship missiles to carry out attack missions on ground targets and ship targets, these missiles are not available in the J-7's original fire control system, so all need to be redeveloped.

Although these air-to-ground missiles and air-to-ship missiles originally had supporting systems, these old fire control systems were based on the original semi-automatic and semi-manual operation, which was no longer suitable for the needs of the J-7 UAV fully automatic intelligent attackIt's not something that a genius can do.

The front cluster intelligent target recognition system can be solved by adding and modifying tens of thousands of lines on the basis of the original, and the entire new fire control system can only be done with millions of lines of source code, Duke is able to come up with a framework of tens of thousands of lines, and then write the most core and complex part into a general fire control core algorithm SDK, which almost solves the core of the fire control system in those complex algorithms, and most of the remaining functions are easy to implement but very cumbersome and time-consuming. Assign to the following R&D team to complete.

In this way, the project team is fully capable of quickly developing on top of the framework provided by Duke, after all, if the nearly one million lines of source code are allocated to two or three hundred people, there is not much that needs to be implemented to allocate to each person.

That is, Duke has a lot of money, a lot of people, and is willing to invest, and now hundreds of people have been dispatched to work on this thing in terms of software alone, and the good module design makes Duke be able to see new progress every day, and the cloud application R&D management platform is used, which makes this thing extremely confidential, and the bottom personnel can see and use things that are within the scope of minimum permission, and the realization is very basic functions.

Only integrators have access to more information, and these integrators are usually senior engineers who are transferred by military research institutes to assist in research and development, and they have strict confidentiality disciplines.

It is with such a cloud application R&D management platform that Duke can confidently and boldly realize military-civilian collaborative development, and mobilize the company's R&D resources to greatly accelerate R&D progress.

In terms of software systems, the research and development led by Duke is progressing rapidly, and new things can be seen every day, as if there is no problem in Duke's eyes.

In this case, Dong Feng, who is responsible for mechanical transformation, feels pressure, in fact, the assembly provides him with almost the best group of engineers in China to develop and manufacture the J-7 series, a group of skilled engineers from the original J-7 production line of the 132 factory, they are very excited and work very hard.

Led by Deputy Chief Engineer Zhao Jie, they found out all the things on the J-7 that were useless on the drone, such as the cannon, cockpit instrumentation, pilot's seat/ejection life-saving system...... All these things that are useless to the drone were removed, and after such a major operation, the three J-7 series aircraft saved valuable space and load capacity.

The original bomb load of only 500 kg of weapons has suddenly increased to more than 1,000 kg after such a toss, which allows the J-7 to now be able to mount big guys such as KD-88 long-range air-to-surface missiles or YJ-83K air-to-ship missiles, which were originally unbearable.

These were originally heavy-duty high-power missiles that needed to be mounted by third-generation aircraft such as Flying Leopard (JH-7A/JH-7B) fighter-bombers, and now they can also be mounted on J-7 UAVs after dismantling a large number of equipment.

Because this means that the combat power of the J-7 UAV has been substantially improved, after the KD-88 long-range air-to-surface missile or YJ-83K air-to-ship missile is mounted, the J-7 UAV has begun to have the ability to strike at the US aircraft carrier.

The KD-88 air-to-surface missile warhead is a penetrating warhead weighing 185 kilograms, with a range of up to 180 kilometers, which is really the best target for the KD-88 missile for the aircraft carrier, which is a giant in the sea.

Similarly, the YJ-83K air-to-ship anti-ship missile has the ability to fly close to the sea, the level flight height is generally about 20 meters at sea level, and it can reach 5-7 meters after the end, when the J-7 UAV carries KD-88 and YJ-83K to attack large ships such as enemy aircraft carriers at the same time, it can form an upper and lower flanking attack, so that aircraft carriers and other air defense systems are unable to defend against it.

Although the J-7 UAV is still some distance away from the transformation, it can carry the KD-88 air-to-surface missile and YJ-83K air-to-ship missile, which completely makes the J-7 UAV qualified to become a real aircraft carrier killer in the future, because from the perspective of attack distance, the transformed J-7 UAV can perform a kamikaze attack with no return, so that its maximum unilateral combat distance is more than 1500 kilometers, and an auxiliary fuel tank can even exceed 2000 kilometers.

With such an ideal combat range, this is the best even among the current military third-generation aircraft, and it is difficult to find a second suitable replacement other than the Flying Leopard series.

Now Xiao Qianguang and they are looking forward to the J-7 UAV in the intelligent automatic driving system can have excellent performance, if he has the ability to automatically find and identify attack targets, intelligent completion of effective attacks on the ground or ship targets, then it is equivalent to the huge number of J-7 inventory aircraft from quasi-declared waste like magic to be transformed into a strategic strike weapon, which is an old tree with new branches.

Thinking of this extremely tempting possibility, Xiao Qianguang and the others suddenly felt that the price of the transformation did not necessarily have to be limited to the range of 5 million yuan, as long as the cost of the transformation was cheaper than the new production of a medium-range missile, it would be worth thousands of dollars. After all, compared with medium-range missiles, the modified J-7 UAV is much more flexible in combat, not only can it be recycled and reused in most occasions, but it can also be mounted with different weapons to perform various tasks.

For example, in the case of air supremacy, it is completely possible to let the J-7 UAV carry out uninterrupted ground target bombing missions, which is compared with manned driving, one does not need to consider the safety of the pilot, and the second does not need to consider the limit of the pilot's fatigue operation, with extremely high combat efficiency, compared with the use of missiles to complete the same combat mission, the cost of guided bombs is obviously much lower than the cost of missiles.

Thinking that the military may now obtain such a cost-effective combat platform, for Xiao Qianguang, the specific person in charge of the general assembly, it is really an unexpected surprise this year, if the research and development is successful, this year they can finally deliver an ideal heavyweight product to the navy that urgently needs a ship attack platform.

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