Chapter 458: Critical Issues

Although the media hyped Duke, the new richest man, extremely hot, Duke was at the center of the storm and did not feel it at all, he refused all the interview requests of financial reporters, and all the interviews in this regard were pushed to Cai Siqiang to deal with, because there was a problem with the fire control system of Dong Feng's tank research and development, and Duke had to rush over to study what the reason was.

Dushi Special Machinery Systems Company inherited the research results of domestic tanks, so Dong Feng took over and organized an expert group to develop a new generation of main battle tanks based on the 99A3 improved model, so at this stage, Dong Feng received several 99A3 from the military for testing and verification.

According to the advice of experts, the first generation of the main battle tank of Duke special machinery should focus on improving the three parts of 99A3 fire control, power and armor, because the advantages of Duke lie in electronic systems and materials, processing technology, etc., based on the high-speed target recognition and prediction system developed by Duke, coupled with a highly intelligent theater joint tactical system, which can allow tank clusters to concentrate firepower to knock out the most threatening targets on the battlefield, and then gain tactical advantages.

It cannot be said that there is a mistake in this idea of concentrating firepower to ensure that one hit is a hit, and it has also demonstrated tremendous power in previous exercises, and the opponent who has not installed this system under the same conditions has almost been defeated. But soon Duke's tactical idea was found to be a loophole, that is, if the way of active sacrifice to attract firepower, Duke's system will expose the flaw of firepower waste.

That is to say, in order to ensure that a hit is a hit, it is usually encircled and destroyed with double or even triple firepower, if under the condition of sufficient ammunition, this method obviously has unparalleled power, but the ammunition base of the tank is always limited, if it is wasted too much, it is obviously a big problem, and there is time in the shell loading excitation, when the opponent attracts the firepower in a clever way, and the real killer weapon is placed somewhere else, then often this system will lose its advantage.

After all, the danger identification and judgment of this system comes from the information of the situation of the enemy and the enemy on the battlefield, and the enemy's attack location information has a high priority, so no matter how intelligent the system is, it cannot be separated from the grasp of the real situation on the battlefield.

Therefore, in a simple decisive battle between tanks and tanks, perhaps the opponent can take advantage of some environmental conditions to make our army unable to observe the real battlefield situation, so as to effectively offset the power of this joint tactical system, because without a source of information, the system is equivalent to turning a blind eye.

Dong Feng's tank team also quickly realized this weakness, so they incorporated the small UAV newly developed by Duke into this tactical system, using the small UAV as the aerial eye of the entire tank formation to form a three-dimensional observation system to provide more reliable enemy information for the entire offensive group.

Drones are smart and hidden, and it is very difficult for tanks to hit them in the case of high-speed movement, so this combination can be called a perfect match, originally in the case of a small scale, this system performed very well, but in the face of a large-scale battlefield, this system has problems.

After countless dynamic target information was transmitted to the theater joint tactical system, the system was dynamically adjusting dangerous targets at any time, and when this adjustment reached a certain frequency, Dong Feng's team found that it was actually equivalent to not aiming at the target.

That is to say, in the case of battalion or regiment-level tank battles, the system will work well and efficiently, and will automatically prompt and destroy dangerous targets when they are found; However, when the scale rises to the division scale, hundreds of tanks are fighting, and the entire battlefield situation is mastered by drones, the system becomes extremely inefficient, and there is a great problem in aiming at the opponent, because dangerous targets are always changing.

Duke carefully looked at the results of simulated operations on different scales in the research center, and when the number of tanks in the melee between the two sides exceeded 200, this problem began to appear, and more than 300 tanks became more prominent, basically losing the effect of intelligent selection of combat objects, and had to switch to manual operation.

When designing this algorithm, Duke didn't think that there would be hundreds of tanks fighting against each other, so the test did not instruct Kerry to simulate a variety of large-scale combat scenarios.

This solves this critical overflow-like problem without compromising the integrity of the entire system.

After this bug was revised, Duke revised the electronic warfare system that had been equipped in the whole army through Qin Tairan's patch, Duke was very glad that this bug was discovered at home, if it was really found on the battlefield, it would really kill many people.

After this incident, Duke has paid great attention to and vigilance about military product development and testing, and requires the project team to go through a variety of extreme scenarios before the end of each project, even if that scenario now seems to have little practical significance at all, Duke will also ask to test the performance in this scenario, although some of the problems found are limited to cost and may not need to be modified.

But with these test results, Duke can at least give the fighters an idea of what kind of problems can arise in a certain situation and what can be done to avoid them, so as not to be overwhelmed when they do occur.

Under the principle of Duke, the main battle equipment created by Duke Special Machinery has strong reliability, although in order to achieve this goal will pay several times the test cost, so that the research and development cost of Duke Special Machinery is much higher than that of competitors, but the extremely high reliability of its products makes all this pay a good return, in the battlefield, it has to save how many lives.

In order to make the simulation test more realistic and larger, Duke once again expanded the computing power of the R&D center, not only applying for a supercomputer center built with the latest domestic technology, but also single-handedly tripling the size of the super minicomputer cluster, for which Duke will pay a price of billions of yuan.

After the completion of the whole project, Dushi special machinery will have the largest and most advanced computing center in the domestic military enterprises, and the various simulation applications developed in this system can make each product have an extremely perfect simulation test environment in the design stage, find a variety of problems in advance, and greatly reduce the probability of problems after the product is finalized.

(Thanks to the book friend "lornaml" for his reward)