Homo sapiens

Good news for Garfield and others.

Actually there are three.

The first is that after intensive research, under the technical guidance of Li Qingye, the recently integrated Ministry of Military Industry has begun to produce products.

Utilize the existing civilian industrial chain system in East and Southeast Asia, such as civilian drone companies, civilian piston engine companies, and civilian electronic parts companies.

The first "cruise missile" - Typhoon 1 cruise missile - was quickly pieced together.

Luzon, Visayas.

On the west coast of Panay Island, near the Nantu Mountains, there is an unknown town - Culasi Town. This town is backed by mountains and faces the Sulu Sea.

Just over half a month ago.

The Homo sapiens company is internally affiliated with the Ministry of Military Industry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and has established the 101 project here. Externally, it is a pesticide aircraft manufacturing company invested by the company, which is called Feiyu Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

In fact, this company does plan to introduce three drone production lines and two piston agricultural aircraft production lines from China.

At present, a small airport, a test field, and an assembly factory have been initially established here.

Inside the assembly plant of Feiyu Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

Chief Engineer Fang Bai was hired from China by the Human Resources Department of Homo sapiens. He was originally a complete machine integration engineer at DJI.

If Homo sapiens had not provided a settlement allowance of US$500,000, as well as a one-stop family immigration service, plus a basic salary of US$120,000 per year, he would not have immigrated to Luzon and built airplanes on such a deserted island. .

However, after arriving, he adapted quickly, mainly because there are many Chinese among his colleagues, including five fresh graduates this year who came from China through technical immigrants.

Since the situation was explained during recruitment, Feiyu Company does not accept employees with non-Luzon nationality because there are some confidentiality techniques within the company.

Regardless of Luzon's backward development, the problem is that China's current college students are very seriously involved in involution.

It's easy to find a job, such as moving bricks at a construction site. If you work hard, you can earn tens of thousands of dollars a month.

The problem is to ask a college student who graduated from 211 to move bricks. Even if the college student is willing, his parents and people around him will probably make irresponsible remarks secretly.

Therefore, the human resources department of Homo sapiens Company specially goes to China to recruit people. Anyway, among the millions of graduates every year, there are always people willing to come to Luzon for money.

Many people under Fang Bai came here like this.

Of course, since Feiyu Company involves many secrets, employees will be further screened. The employees who are assigned to Feiyu Company are basically all members of the family within the control area of ​​Homo sapiens company.

Fang Bai looked at the unmanned aircraft using motorcycle piston engines as the core on the assembly line, with something strange on his face.

A dozen mechanics are busy around the aircraft.

He turned his head and whispered: "Manager Paul, is this reduction too much? I think there will be problems after two or three times."

Paul didn't care: "It doesn't matter, it's enough to fly two or three times."

"Two or three times?" Fang Bai was not a fool. As soon as he heard this standard, he knew that this kind of drone would most likely be positioned as a fast-moving consumer goods.

The question is, which company or organization will purchase this kind of disposable drone?

The answer is obvious.

This Typhoon 1 UAV has a body length of 4.6 meters and a wingspan of 3 meters. It is equipped with a turbocharged gasoline piston engine and can reach a maximum flight speed of 531 kilometers per hour and a cruising speed of 360 kilometers per hour.

Its maximum flight radius is 1,200 kilometers (one way), and when carrying a 100 kilogram payload, the flight radius is about 300 kilometers.

Fangbai's designs are all in accordance with the company's requirements, which is to be as cheap as possible and use civilian parts as much as possible, and the cheaper the better.

According to his experience, if the current Typhoon 1 UAV is mass-produced, it is estimated that the production cost of each unit will not exceed US$3,000.

Of course, he did not know the cost of the intelligent control system of this drone, so it was difficult to estimate the cost in this aspect, and he did not include the cost of the payload.

But even so, the cost of 3,000 US dollars per unit is extremely cheap, only the cost of a dozen motorcycles.

Reservation asked: "When will the low-altitude flight test start?"

"In a week, we will have 10 prototypes ready, and we can do a lot of testing by then, but where are the programmers?" Fang Bai reminded.

Paul was confident: "Don't worry! We plan to contract this part of the work to Spiral Company."

"Will the secret be leaked?" Fang Bai knew the level of confidentiality within the company. If there was a leak, they would be in great trouble.

Paul replied calmly: "Spirospira Company is also a subsidiary of Homo sapiens, and its confidentiality level is higher than ours."

"That's it." Fang Bai understood immediately.

Fang Bai, who once worked for DJI, knows very well that the core of drone technology is actually sensors, chips and control programs.

In his eyes, Feiyu's other parts are outsourced, except for the sensors, chips and control programs that are in-house.

When he first came into contact with that set of chips and sensors, his jaw almost dropped.

Because the performance of the chip is so powerful, with a floating point calculation power of 3 gigaflops and a built-in storage capacity of 500T, it is almost a small supercomputer.

The benefit of such terrifying computing power is that the control accuracy of the drone is very high and the response speed is very fast. As long as a suitable control program is installed, many difficult control tasks can be easily accomplished.

This is like Musk's Falcon rocket. The engine technology it uses is not actually advanced, but with its super chip technology, it has completed the parallel control of a large number of engines.

The chip technology of Homo sapiens is an order of magnitude better than the electronic chips currently on the market.

A biochip as big as a fingernail can achieve 3 gigabit floating-point operations per second, has a built-in storage capacity of 500T, and has ultra-low energy consumption.

Fang Bai knows that with the support of this kind of computing power, the potential of Typhoon drones is absolutely huge.

Ultra-low-altitude cruises and low-energy flights that he previously thought were impossible can all be supported by the violent power of computing power to squeeze the potential of drones to the extreme.

Don’t look at it. The maximum flight radius of the Typhoon 1 UAV is only 1,200 kilometers.

In fact, there is a huge waste of power. By constantly adjusting the flight posture and detecting the airflow, temperature, and wind speed in the surrounding airspace, the drone can achieve a flight effect similar to that of an unpowered glider.

At present, the longest flight distance of human-controlled gliders can reach more than 2,000 kilometers.

Will the Typhoon drone wearing a small supercomputer lose to humans?

As long as there are enough flight tests, coupled with wind tunnel test data and computer simulation data, the Typhoon drone will definitely fly farther than a human-controlled glider.

As for the problem of insufficient flight speed, ultra-low altitude and stealth coating can solve the problem. As long as it is not discovered by the opponent, there is no problem no matter how slow it flies.

What's more, Fang Bai also has a solution to solve the problem of speed, that is, before approaching the target, the Typhoon drone adopts a low-speed gliding mode. When it approaches the target's predetermined range, it quickly switches to a rapid sprint mode, squeezing the power of the engine at any cost. .

Anyway, he already knows the company's thinking. The Typhoon drone is a disposable product. If he doesn't squeeze the power of the engine like crazy, can he still keep it for the New Year?

It's just that he is a little worried in his heart. He doesn't know the purpose of the Homo sapiens company to develop such a thing. After all, the relationship between Luzon and America is a bit complicated.

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