Chapter 81 Drone Test Flight
Three days later.
Recruit training ground.
Tang Rui and Lin Chao stood at the gate of the training camp, ready to greet the superior leaders.
Private companies also have superior leaders?
In an ordinary private company, there is no superior leader, as long as they abide by the rules and regulations.
But the military-industrial complex is different.
Even if it's private, it's restrictive.
Let's say you produce bullets.
That's not what you can produce as much as you want.
Needless to say, Tang Rui is manufacturing a hypersonic stealth reconnaissance and combat integrated drone, a big killer like this.
Probably in a lot of people's minds.
Drones are all rotten and cheap stuff.
Even if it is a large drone, it is not very valuable, and it is not a top-notch equipment.
This idea is wrong.
Not to mention the black technology drone made by Tang Rui.
Even if it is a Reaper drone that does not have supersonic cruise capability, hand-to-hand combat ability, and a bomb load of less than 1.5 tons.
Eagle sauce sold 30 planes to the third brother, and also sold 3 billion dollars.
On average, it's 100 million dollars.
Although this price is caused by many factors, you have to admit that the price of high-end drones is still very expensive.
"Don't get distracted, people are coming."
Lin Chao said to Tang Rui, who was distracted.
Come back to your senses.
Tang Rui looked at Coaster who was heading towards them, and hurriedly sorted out his clothes and cheered up.
Coaster stopped.
The first to get off the bus was a chief of the Air Force with a golden bean on his shoulder.
Next are several professors from military research institutes, all of whom are above the fourth level of technology.
A group of seven or eight people got out of the car.
"Hello chief."
Lin Chao saluted and said loudly.
"Hello, Kobayashi, right?"
The chief returned the salute and spoke.
"Yes, Chief."
"Well, this handsome guy is Tang Rui."
The chief looked at Tang Rui and said with a smile.
"Hello chief, I'm Tang Rui, just call me Xiao Tang."
"Don't be nervous, my name is like thunder, just this time there is a chance, I will come over to take a look."
"Young and ignorant, let the chiefs worry about it."
"We wish you had a few more of you to worry about us."
A few sentences were finished.
Everyone came to the hangar and looked at the two drones on the ground.
The first glimpse of the drone.
Just two words.
Pretty.
Appearance is combat effectiveness.
This is definitely not a lie for the Air Force.
"Xiao Tang, these two drones, why is one of the air intakes on the top and one on the bottom?"
A professor asked.
"These two are verification machines, and I want to see which of the two air intakes is better, so I got one each."
Tang Rui said casually.
After listening to this, several professors only had one feeling, that is, the trench.
In their research institute, when they encounter this kind of design concept problem, the most they can do is to make a model and get it to the supercomputer to simulate.
It is impossible to build two real machines.
That's a lot of money.
"How much does this one cost?"
A professor asked curiously.
"Forget it, it seems to have cost a total of 183 million."
Tang Rui really didn't remember, he only remembered the total price, how much a separate equipment was, and how much a drone was, he just glanced at it, and he didn't take it to heart.
The professor smacked his lips and didn't speak.
"Don Jr., what are the performance parameters of this drone?"
After circling the drone twice, the chief came to him and asked.
"Theoretically, the maximum speed is Mach 8, the maximum altitude is 35,000 meters, the maximum cruising range is 12,000 kilometers, the maximum take-off weight is 12.5 tons, the maximum bomb load is 3.5 tons, and the full load fuel is 4.5 tons."
Tang Rui said simply.
However, he thinks that the drone, which has not been strengthened by the system panel, will fly to Mach 6.5-6.8 at most.
However, the drone that has been strengthened by him has absolutely no problem flying to Mach 8, and you can even try the black barrier of Mach 10.
"Really?"
After hearing this, the chief's eyes widened.
As a top military officer, he knows too well the performance of the Air Force's equipment.
As far as these parameters that Tang Rui casually broke out, they are really suspected of bragging.
And the bragging is still very big.
"When can I test fly?"
"Right now."
"Then try it for real."
The chief was a little impatient.
If the performance of these two drones is really the same as the parameters Tang Rui said.
That's just ......
It doesn't even need to be the same.
As long as you reach two-thirds, or half of the performance, it's great news.
Not to mention, the variable-cycle engine that they focused on before.
Tang Rui nodded after listening, sat down in front of the computer screen, and began to operate the drone.
Engine warm-up.
System self-test.
After doing all this, he turned on the communication system and began to call the tower.
"The fish pond calls the tower."
"The tower received, please speak."
"The fish pond applies to take off."
"Permission to take off."
Tang Rui pushed the throttle valve, lowered the brake, and tightened the lever.
Two drones, which began to glide at the same time.
That's right.
It's two drones.
Tang Rui controls one plane, and the other system automatically follows.
It's the equivalent of a fully automatic wingman.
The people present widened their eyes in surprise after seeing this scene.
Especially specialists from the military.
They know the intricacies better than others, because the military is currently organizing scientific research forces to carry out technical research on unmanned wingmen.
Unexpectedly.
They actually saw this kind of technology here in Tang Rui.
But at the moment they didn't speak.
After all, the real technical difficulty of unmanned wingmen is not how to take off with two aircraft, but how to achieve trajectory synchronization in flight.
After skiing for hundreds of meters, the two drones raised their noses at the same time and soared into the sky.
Tang Rui taps on the keyboard.
Put away the landing gear of the drone and open the Lombard lens.
"The tower calls the fish pond."
"Fish pond received, please speak."
"The radar will pick up your signal, and then please raise the flight altitude to 15000 and fly along the route to the test flight area."
"The fish pond is receiving it and is raising the height."
The drone controlled by Tang Rui was raised in a regular manner, and then flew according to the route planned in advance.
Ten minutes later.
Two drones came to the airspace for test flights.
Below here is a mountain range that is uninhabited, and the only place where people are inhabited is the radar station at the top of the mountain.
Next.
He can control the drone to his heart's content and fly in this test airspace.
As long as you don't fly out.
You can fly as much as you want, even if you want to crash.
"Don Jr., do you know how to maneuver?"
Seeing that the drone had arrived in the test flight airspace, the chief asked.
"Will do some." Tang Rui said modestly.
"Okay, then do some simple flight maneuvers first and test the performance of the drone."
"Okay."
Tang Rui pulled the joystick and began to control the drone to roll.
The chief, who was standing behind Tang Rui, nodded with satisfaction as he watched his operation.