ACT336: Aircraft carriers and UAVs

"Shhh...... I feel it, someone is criticizing me! ”

"Young Master, are you catching a cold?"

In the depths of the Great Domain Wall of the main star of the Shattered Star Region, Zhao Jian and the others who escaped from Jupiter had been hiding here for more than four months. At the beginning, out of the consideration of "just in case", Zhao Jian hoarded a lot of food and living materials at the combat readiness level on the maintenance station, and distributed them reasonably, which was enough for the more than 10,000 people under his command to support about 5 months.

Later, Zhao asked Thor to convert the large vacant area on the repair station into an ecological pasture, and built five 3,000-ton special water harvesting vessels to collect fresh water from rainfall areas. With these facilities, as long as Zhao Jian can control the population of his subordinates within 30,000, even if they hide here for the rest of their lives, it will not be a problem.

During this period of hidden time, Zhao Jian was not patronizing farming, and the expansion of his troops was also in full swing according to the plan. The special combat team, the aviation team, and the armored team have all significantly improved in terms of the number of personnel and weapons and equipment, and many black technologies that they did not dare to take out before have now been used.

So when Meng Zong on Jupiter was installing the divine core for the new battleship Hebei of the Tang Navy, Zhao Jian who stayed in the Shattered Star Zone was also taking his new aircraft carrier for the first sea trial.

Originally, Zhao Jian planned to build a light battleship similar to the Dunkirk class in France, but the design drawings were still a big problem. Zhao thought that designing a battleship should not be that complicated, until he had the pleasure of visiting the database of the Naval Design Bureau. Zhao Jian still vividly remembers the conversation he had with the administrator when he was faced with a whole warehouse of drawings......

"That's a lot of drawings! Which warships are these? ”

"It's a Heilongjiang-class battleship."

"Oh! Which one? ”

"All of them."

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After that, Zhao Jian gave up the idea of hand-drawn paper and used the stereoscopic projection on the maintenance station to design the ship, but with only the King Kong class and the De Fllinger class, which were old war cruisers from the First World War as references, the design progress can be said to be difficult. On the contrary, in terms of aircraft carriers, because of the previous experience in transforming the Feiyue and some advanced use concepts brought by the Zhao ship from the previous life, it quickly achieved results.

The new aircraft carrier is based on the captured "WO-class" as a reference. It's just that the shape is more angular, but the whole is the same as the WO class, and it has initially departed from the appearance of a "ship"! The standard displacement of the ship is 32,000 tons, and there is only a 120-person maintenance team as a standing crew, and the number of carrier-based aircraft has reached 3 wings and a total of 135 aircraft!

And this general-purpose fighter, named "Griffin" by the Zhao ship, can be arbitrarily converted between ship battle, ship explosion and ship attack according to the needs of different missions.

In terms of appearance design, this fighter is simply like a hybrid of the American F14 Tomcat and the Russian SU47 Golden Eagle "Ji", with a fashionable and friendless variable forward-swept wing. The two powerful engines are mounted behind the fuselage, so it's cold to look at. It will make people mistakenly think that it is a fighter that can fly backwards!

In terms of weapons, the Gryphon has three 20mm rapid-fire cannons in the nose, and the rear engine gives it more space to store ammunition in the front, each machine gun has 400 rounds of ammunition, and the fire is very sustained. The multi-functional pylons on the belly of the aircraft can be equipped with many equipment, including erosion torpedoes, ordinary bombs, rocket launch nests, etc., truly realizing the goal of one machine for multiple purposes.

These planes are usually hung vertically in hangars like dachshunds, and can be moved to the delivery port for catapult and take-off by means of an automatic conveyor belt during combat. The 135 warships could theoretically be released in 90 seconds through all 12 delivery ports around the hull, and the flight deck on the top was only used for landing or other operations.

It is worth mentioning. At the beginning, Zhao Jian also thought about using a jet type, but after the assimilation of the doppelganger crystal, the flight speed of the fighter has basically adapted to the combat needs of the Shattered Star Zone. In addition, it was also necessary to consider that the aircraft might be obtained by the enemy after being damaged in battle, so Zhao Jian changed back to the propeller.

Anyway, the carrier-based aircraft on his side can be unmanned. The positioning is a complete consumable, and if it is exhausted, it will be rebuilt, and the last thing Zhao Jian is afraid of now is to compare production capacity with others!

After the new aircraft carrier was built, the Zhao ship delivered it to Qinghai for use. It's a sign of trust. And in order to let Qinghai and other ship girls be familiar with their own hull and form a reliable combat effectiveness, the Zhao ship was completed on the day of the completion of the new ship. I pulled all my family funds and went out for training!

When Zhao Jian stood in the bridge of the command ship Feiyue, looking at the fleet that was moving forward in formation, he spontaneously felt a sense of self-confidence in his heart.

"Xiaoling, do you remember? Five years ago we only had a small 3,000-ton cargo ship, and now we have a powerful fleet, which is incredible! ”

"Young Master, wasn't it the time you found the pit five years ago?"

"Yes! If it weren't for Star Castle, I wouldn't be here now. That's right! What is the situation with the simulated confrontation of the air team, and are the results in? ”

"Just decided the winner...... The drone fleet is all wiped out again. ”

"Tsk, even if it's a consumer, this combat power is worrying!"

This time out of the training, Zhao Jian paid the most attention to the "auxiliary system" carried on the griffin fighter, this kind of device that can play the role of intelligent AI, is related to the actual combat ability of his carrier-based aircraft in an unmanned state.

Under normal circumstances, even if an aircraft carrier can provide assimilation for hundreds of fighters at the same time, if you want to control it yourself, it is ideal to control five fighters at the same time. Therefore, the naval aviation that is being developed in various countries is still piloted by human pilots.

And the reason why WU Sauce, who was happily captured on Zhao Jian's side, was able to control more than 40 fighters at a time was because of the amplification effect provided by the "hat" on her head, and on the other hand, it was because there was a "mystery" in the claw fighter on her ship.

When the first Talon fighter had just been captured, Zhao Jian once thought it was a pure drone, but later they completely disassembled it and found that there was a brain of an unknown creature inside the fighter. In other words, these planes are actually "intelligent", and the way WO Jiang controls them is mainly to give orders rather than control them personally.

So Zhao Jian, who was inspired by it, asked Thor to use the emergency system of the maintenance station as a reference to develop an AI automatic flight device, which was installed on the carrier-based aircraft to replace the small doppelganger who was difficult to entrust to control the aircraft.

However, in this training camp, Zhao Jiantong asked manned aircraft and drones to conduct simulated battles, and found that the actual combat power of automatic AI is far inferior to that of human pilots. Mao Zi pilots, who have fought against drones, said that the flight level of these drones is good, and many actions are more accurate than humans, especially in high-risk bomb dropping, with a success rate of almost 100%, which even the best trump card under Zhao Jian can't do.

However, in the "human-machine battle" using the same aircraft, these AIs have exposed the problem of being "too rigid". This problem is mainly expressed in the fact that the AI's flight style follows the rules, and it is easy for people to figure out the rules and then find a way to deal with it.

In several simulated battles before and after,Except for the first two times when the manned and aircraft side was defeated,The further back the drone hits, the more passive it becomes,The latest group confrontation was even beaten an ugly 4:0,The pilot who has a clear understanding of the opponent's bottom said that there is no pressure to abuse these AIs。

"! If the combat effectiveness is so weak, no matter how many there are, it will be a turkey! ”

Looking at the simulated battle report handed to him by Hongling, Zhao Jian scratched his head in distress, and at this time, the "Qinghai" sent a communication, and as soon as the holographic projection came out, Qinghai said concisely.

"It's too weak."

"I know."

Although Zhao Jian asked Thor to come up with AI, and even installed an automatic tracking system for the erosion torpedo, making it as capable as a missile, the low IQ of the AI is a big problem.

Ancient people also had artificial AI technology, such as Thor itself is the product of this technology, but the problem is that there is no relevant facilities in the repair station, and another solution is to use the brain of a high-IQ creature as a processor for an automatic system, like a claw fighter. In this regard, Zhao Jian has already determined that apes other than humans are not suitable, so there will be too many residual "wild instincts".

So in the case of not being able to accept the use of human brains, Zhao Jian has no other way.

However, Qinghai, who sent the communication, believes that Zhao Jian does not need to be so obsessed with allowing automatic AI to conduct independent operations. Compared with the flexible human pilot, automatic AI also has the advantages of being fearless to death and high bomb delivery accuracy, which is exactly what is most needed for a ship-based attack aircraft.

Therefore, Qinghai built a man-machine division of labor, and the three wings on her ship, one of which was manned, carried out the tasks of air defense, reconnaissance and escort of the fleet. The other two wings use automatic AI to carry out bombing missions such as ship and ground attacks. In this way, the natural stay of the automatic AI will not affect the overall combat effectiveness so much.

"Hmmm! It's a good idea, it seems that I'm too tendoned, thank you Qinghai. ”

A military salute was given to Zhao Jian, and Qinghai cut off communications. This ship's wife is no longer a problem with loyalty now, but the new problem is the other party's playing card face that has a fight with the machine, which can be said to be the "first facial paralysis" under Zhao Jian's command. And this is another consideration for Zhao Jian to hand over the aircraft carrier to the other party for use......

The little doppelganger she assimilated is also this Feel! (To be continued......)