Warship of Great Power

On the top of the equipment truck, the pot-lid-like antenna began to transmit commands, and the drone in the sky changed its course again.

"This should be because the drone felt it couldn't fly, and then came back. Our drone is intelligent." Lahar continued: "However, now that it has been given new instructions, it cannot If I’m confused again, I’ll definitely fly over.”

This new command directly selected the route for the drone and flew through the canyon between the two peaks. This time the drone should not be confused at all. Fortunately, I went to the base in the north for testing this time. If I were in the company, the aircraft would soon be out of control distance of 250 kilometers. We could only set up a relay communication vehicle. It would be nice to have communication satellites in the future!

Full of expectation, Lahar looked at the screen.

The drone continued to fly north, getting closer and closer to the canyon between the two peaks, but suddenly, it turned around and came back!

It’s so weird!

Laharl was confused.

"What happened this time? This is really a thoughtful drone!" Imran said.

"The airflow on the mountain peaks over there is complicated. It is likely that it encountered bad airflow, which caused problems with the aircraft's condition." Rahal said: "When it flies through this area, it will definitely find other routes."

At this moment, the return status mark appeared on the screen again.

Returning again!

"Damn, what is it thinking? It's actually working against us! I don't believe it if it gives up its autonomous flight and uses complete remote control. It can continue to get angry with us!" Lahar's hand continued to tap on the keyboard.

The drone turned around and returned again. Just as it continued flying forward to its original position, suddenly, the altitude data began to change rapidly.

"The drone is losing altitude!"

"Maybe we encountered a special air current!"

"Quick, pull up immediately!"

Their operation had no effect. The bright spot on the screen finally disappeared, and a big red word appeared: crash!

"Damn it! Send out a search team immediately to find the wreckage of the drone!"

Unfortunately, the terrain there is complicated, and it is too difficult to search for the wreckage of the drone.

In a valley, the drone fell into a pile of parts. The nose part was the worst. The circuit board inside was torn apart, revealing many black squares, and there were dense wires next to them. These black squares were ceramics. The packaged integrated circuit has some numbers printed on it and the words Made in China.

If a professional comes here, he will be able to identify the model of the chip inside. The largest block is the M100 chip, which is a common flight control chip on Oriental drones. This is the most important chip and is responsible for the flight of the drone. and navigation, using a unique FPGA architecture. This chip is supplied to the civilian market, but because of its excellent performance, it is used by drones in many countries.

Generally speaking, when using this chip, it will be paired with a set of flight control programs circulated on the Internet. This set of programs can fly according to the aerodynamic shape of your drone by simply inputting some data, and match your drone. flight control cross-linking.

It is said that it was cracked by a certain computer expert. Anyway, everyone is using it and even using this set of flight control programs for secondary development. As for the internals of the program? No one knows, because this program is matched with the M100 chip. If you don’t know how the M100 chip works, you will naturally not know the principles of this program. Even if you decompile it and generate assembly code, you will not know the code. intention.

Because the chip is already a black box!

This was also the most heartbreaking thing for Mr. Huang in the 1980s, when his superiors decided to abandon very large-scale integrated circuits and go the buy-buy-buy route. From then on, the chip was a black box for everyone. Everyone knew about this chip. What is the interface and how to use this chip? However, no one knows what is inside the chip!

Now, the most powerful chip is Dongfang! Dongfang can produce the world's most advanced chips! For drones, if they want to have the function of intelligent flight, they must use chips produced by Dongfang. Although people in the industry don't say so on the surface, in fact everyone feels comfortable using it.

This chip can know how to use it, but no one knows what is inside the chip.

In addition to this kind of chip, there are other chips, such as communication chips. This kind of chip from Dongfang is also very advanced, and due to mass production, the cost is very low.

The reconnaissance drone captures images and even videos. This kind of data is very large. If you want to transmit it, it needs to be compressed. Otherwise, the amount of data will reach an astonishing amount. Just take ordinary 1080P For an image, 1920*1080*24 is the number of bits required. What is this number? 50 trillion! This is still a picture, and for the video to be clear, 25 frames per second are needed, which is a rate of 1.25G!

Even if fiber-to-the-home in future generations has a Gigabit network, it is already very impressive. This is still optical fiber. In the field of wireless communications, it is difficult to achieve the G level.

This requires image processing, that is, compression, or encoding. On computers, a general-purpose processor is used for processing, while on devices such as video recorders and DVD players, specialized hardware is used, that is, image processing chips. to proceed.

After compression, the amount of data may be reduced by a hundred times, or even a thousand times. For example, when the background of a large area in an image is blue sky, then just record the boundary of the image, and then put a color data. OK, the amount of image data will be greatly reduced.

In dynamic videos, images that have not changed before and after do not need to be refreshed at all. The original data can be used, which can also reduce traffic, and even only requires a 6-megabit network.

This 6M bandwidth is much easier to achieve. No matter how poor the communication technology is, it is impossible to fail to meet this need.

The image processing chip is also Made in China.

Asan boasts of its advanced drones, and the most advanced technologies used on them are all from the East! Of course, for a certain purpose, they will not tell what chip is used in it. What they need is to build an advanced drone to satisfy the military. After all, drones have also been a trend in recent years. .

But this time, as the test drone crashed, their drone could only continue to stand still.

When their drone crashed, the drones on the 055 warship also began to land.

Without anyone operating it, the drone relied entirely on the precision landing guidance radar. It flew steadily along a 45-degree angle to the tail of the ship, and landed directly on the harpoon system. The test of this drone ended with perfect results again!

055 changed course and began to return. When the sun rose from the east, the warship finally returned to the port.

A satellite flew overhead, and soon the news spread to the other side of the ocean.

"This morning, the Renhai-class returned. It seems that it was dispatched at night. If our speculation is correct, the experiment last night should have been conducted by the Renhai-class."

"Yes, our Standard 3 is still under testing, but the Oriental's Red Flag Nine has actually been successful!"

Although they have performed standard 3 interceptions before, those were all pre-arranged. But this time, were the Easterners' actions pre-arranged, or did they rely on their own ability?

Everyone looked ugly.

"Humph, when we were doing it before, they protested every day, saying something about destroying the balance. We thought they were just talking nonsense like before, but we didn't expect that they actually did the same thing! It's really ironic. mean."

Everyone was talking about it, but Swift just stared at the scene outside the window in a daze.

"Swift, don't you want to say a few words?"

Swift turned around and looked at his companions: "Just now, I was thinking about something."

"What's up?"

"Qiongzhou No. 3 Shipyard, the batch of Luyang-3 destroyers should be almost completed outfitting, right?"

After hearing what he said, everyone was very curious.

In order to expand production scale, Mingzhou Group built a third shipyard in Qiongzhou, next to the naval fleet base. After the third shipyard built the slipway, it started construction of several 052DLs at the same time. The construction progress was very fast. Surprisingly, after these warships were launched together, the outfitting dock next to them was also built, and they started outfitting together, and the slipway became free. After all, there were only so many people working on it.

For large shipyards, it is common for the slipways to be empty, especially since this shipyard is obviously building warships for the Navy. It is impossible for the Navy to allocate large amounts of money to continue construction, but now...

"You're saying that the Qiongzhou No. 3 Shipyard may build a batch of Renhai-class ships at the same time?"

Everyone was frightened by this idea. What a terrifying scene it would be to build the Renhai class at the same time!

It shouldn't be that bad, right?

"Will the Orientals build a batch of Renhai-class people at the same time? It shouldn't be possible, right?"

Swift sneered: "Humph, I lack the courage to face reality."

June 1, 2005, capital, Gongzhufen, Huanglou.

"Dad, why did you call me back in such a hurry?" Qin Tao walked directly into his father-in-law's office: "Does this impatient man plan to let me spend Children's Day with Xue'er?"

After saying that, Qin Tao picked up his father-in-law's teacup on the table and took a big sip. Yes, Longjing. The second cup was just right.

"Would you like another drink?"

"No."

"Okay, let's go."

"Where to go?"

"meeting room."

"Another meeting? Alas, as soon as the leader comes to power, he becomes the boss, talking here and there, all with his mouth..."

Wu Shengli rolled his eyes at him: "What did you say?"

"I didn't say anything. Dad, let's go to the meeting. I just like meetings."

In the conference room, many people came one after another and greeted Qin Tao sitting there.

"Mr. Qin, we meet again."

"Mr. Qin, you have gained weight recently."

Qin Tao smiled and said hello, looking at the people who came in one by one. He just had a meeting. Is this a meeting just for him? My father-in-law is also serious about saying hello in advance without revealing the content.

"Okay, everyone has almost arrived. Let's have a meeting now." Wu Shengli looked at everyone gathered and began to chair the meeting: "The content of our meeting is mainly about the Qiongzhou Shipyard starting construction of seven 055s at once. plan."

Construction started at the same time, seven 055s?

Qin Tao was also startled and looked at his father-in-law with surprised eyes.

Wu Shengli had a proud smile on his face, "You guys, you didn't expect that our navy would also have a lot of money. We have already decided to build seven ships at a time!"

Including the first ship, there are exactly eight ships. Each fleet is divided into two ships, and two more ships can be spared to perform various tasks!

Just to shock Qin Tao, Wu Shengli did not reveal the contents of this meeting in advance.

At this time, Wu Shengli's tone was very relaxed: "Taozi, tell everyone whether Qiongzhou No. 3 Shipyard has the ability to build seven warships for us at one time."

"Of course there is no problem. There are ten slipways over there to build seven 055s. There are still three slipways available. It will be no problem to start building three more 052DLs." Of course Qin Tao will not be shocked. What does this mean? Ten ships together. It's okay even if the construction starts. Our Mingzhou Group has never seen any big scenes!

"Okay, then it's settled."

good?

When did the Navy become so generous? Those 052DLs are about to be outfitted and ready for sea trials. The Navy will build three more ships! If every slipway is empty and ten ships are built together, how much will it cost?

Seeing Qin Tao's shocked expression, Wu Shengli was very proud: "What, are you in trouble?"

"No!" Qin Tao swallowed and said: "As long as the supporting manufacturers are strong, we will definitely not delay the construction ourselves. The worst we can do is send more manpower."

Their shipyard mainly welds ship hulls. Starting from the cutting and rolling of steel plates, it has been automated. It is almost all done automatically and does not require much manual labor. Therefore, if we just talk about welding ship hulls, it does not matter if there are twenty ships. , as for the required steel plates, Mingzhou Steel Plant can also provide them.

However, this is not just a matter of building a shell. There are a lot of weapons and equipment installed in the warship, many of which are produced by supporting factories.

The gas turbine needs to be matched, the electronic equipment needs to be matched, and the sailor beds inside are all produced by specialized factories. They start so many at once, can the supporting factories keep up? If they can't produce it, then they won't be able to complete the task, and the construction period will be delayed. The Navy shouldn't cause trouble to us.

"Supporting is not a problem." Wu Shengli said: "The first is the gas turbine. A total of 34 UGT25000 gas turbines are needed. The relevant units have been working overtime recently and already have eight units in stock. During the construction of the warship, they will use the remaining supporting gas turbines All produced.”

055 is fully-combustion powered. One vessel requires four gas turbines. Seven vessels require twenty-eight. The remaining three vessels are diesel-fueled alternating power. One vessel uses two gas turbines, which is six. In this way, thirty Four gas turbines are a huge challenge for gas turbine manufacturers.

You must know that the production of this kind of gas turbine is complicated, and the production factory cannot open a new production line just because there are more orders. If there are fewer orders in the future, the production line will be scrapped. They can only maintain a normal production frequency. Now, they need to do it once With so many gas turbines provided by China, manufacturers have already begun to adjust production capacity.

"Among other equipment, the most important one is the radar system. Now, the domestic radar industry is developing rapidly. The T/R components above are completely handled by specialized manufacturers. 14 of them purchase and reassemble these components. There is ample production capacity, and they can produce as much as the navy orders."

The navy is at ease, everything is ready! Qin Tao was also very emotional.

"Okay, since there are no problems with the supporting equipment, then our Mingzhou Group has nothing to say and just build it." Qin Tao said: "We promise to complete the mission and let's make dumplings on a warship!"

Put the dumplings, all the chatter and gulu into the pot, and build a warship to put the dumplings. This scene only appeared during World War II.

"Then, let's discuss the construction costs. Mass construction brings cost advantages. Is it okay to reduce the price by 20%?" Wu Shengli said.

Just now Qin Tao thought that the navy was too generous, but in the blink of an eye, the navy came to negotiate the price!

Mass production of any product can reduce costs. Back then, Ford introduced the assembly line to cars, which immediately greatly increased the production capacity of cars and reduced the price by a large margin. Big things like warships can also be built in batches.

Take the ship hull as an example. The cutting and rolling of each steel plate requires setting up relevant machines. If seven ships are built together, then setting it once can be repeated seven times. It is better to set it once and only use it once. Modification is naturally much faster.

The same goes for workers' operations. Each worker can have his or her own project in charge, and work on the same project on seven warships. Practice makes perfect, which can greatly save time. Or if several workers are responsible for one of the subsystems, the outfitting will also be done. Much faster.

Of course, this puts forward higher requirements for management, but management is originally the strength of Mingzhou Group, so they will not be afraid of this.

Even so, a 20% price reduction would mean that the profits of their Mingzhou Group would be greatly reduced, and my father-in-law would cut it off with this knife.

"What's wrong, Taozi, what does your expression mean?"

"Dad, competition can bring lower prices. Otherwise, our Mingzhou Group will not need the 055 design fee. We will contribute the design drawings and let several brother units bid. Whoever gives the lower price will be let." Construction, how about it?”

It is absolutely impossible for these brother units to offer prices that are 20% lower!

"Competition is of course competition, but our competition is not this kind of competition mechanism. Your Mingzhou Group has successfully bid. If you don't want to build it, then share it with other shipyards. The expenses and other matters should be handled by your Mingzhou Group. Our Navy will never ask how much you earn from the general contracting of the group."

Qin Tao was speechless.

"As long as these batches of 055 are built, we can then discuss the modification of the 055 with a larger displacement." Wu Shengli continued, obviously knowing what can catch Qin Tao's weakness.