"Not to mention these, the price of a single-shot air defense missile is also very expensive, and even a shoulder-fired individual guided air defense missile is not cheap.
So is there a lightweight field area air defense missile that is low in cost, simple in layout, quick in response and high in hit accuracy?
After setting this goal, we started working hard towards it. After thinking about many ways, in the end, we decided to return to our original business and focus on drones. "
"Settled on a drone?"
Everyone showed a puzzled look.
Zhou Yonghui nodded and said in a more serious tone: "Yes, put it on the drone and use the drone to deal with the drone."
"You mean to use drones as air defense weapons to intercept and attack incoming drones." Yang Fan opened his mouth to understand.
"Yes, that's what it means."
Zhou Yonghui said with a smile: "This is our specialty. Since we already have it, why bother riding a horse to find a donkey?"
"Using drones to attack opponent's drones is indeed a genius idea." Wu Hao affirmed with a smile and nod.
After receiving Wu Hao's affirmation, Zhou Yonghui's smile became even brighter.
"Yes, our attack drones in the past were all used to attack ground targets, but now we are just changing their attack targets from the ground to the sky, and replacing some ground targets with unmanned aerial vehicles. machine.
Although it is just a change in the goal, the difficulty has increased not just a little bit. Because air defense weapons require quick response, flexible maneuverability, and high hit rate.
If we don't respond quickly enough, the attacking drone will hit our position before we can lock on to the attacking drone.
If this kind of interception drone is not maneuverable enough, it will be difficult to keep up with the attacking drone.
If the hit rate is not enough, it will be almost impossible for anti-aircraft drones to attack and intercept those small and exciting attack drones in such a vast sky. "
"So in response to these problems, we began to gradually overcome and solve them. First of all, it must be a problem of rapid response, which means that we must have a rapid response, accurate and efficient early warning and search radar system.
We are relatively weak in this area, so we can only cooperate with relevant scientific research institutes. After receiving their relevant technical support, we immediately came up with a design plan suitable for our system and conducted targeted research.
Ultimately, this constitutes the air defense radar system of our light field area air defense system.
This air defense radar system can cover the surrounding airspace of thirty kilometers, and can promptly detect, track and lock some slow and slow targets that enter the airspace. This radar system can track and lock up to nearly a hundred targets at the same time. Select a dozen of the most threatening targets and guide the air defense drones to attack.
As for the issue of maneuverability and flexibility, in fact, our drones are not slow at all. They can reach a speed of nearly 400 kilometers per hour at the fastest, which can be said to be far higher than many current light drones.
However, this speed is still not enough, especially for some incoming attack drones that dive.
Therefore, we must improve and upgrade this air defense drone so that it should have faster speed and more flexible maneuverability.
After repeated research and experiments, we have set our goal on rocket city-increasing technology, which means that we plan to equip a propulsion rocket behind the drone, which can increase the flight speed, height, and distance of the drone. and excitement ability.
And this also constitutes the basic structure of our air defense interception drone. It consists of two parts, namely the attack interception drone at the front and the Zengcheng rocket propulsion device at the back.
After discovering and locking the target, the intelligent air defense system will launch the missile and, according to the guidance of the radar, guide the missile to attack the target drone.
After receiving the system command, the attack and interception drone will quickly ignite the rocket propulsion device at the end, pushing the attack and interception drone to launch. After maneuvering to a certain distance, or near the target, the rocket propulsion device at the end will It will fall off automatically.
At this time, the attack and interception drone engine in the front section drives the fan blades, and then pushes the drone to attack the incoming drone.
Another advantage of doing this is that after we find the target remotely, we can launch these attack and interception drones in advance and wait in the designated airspace.
Because it is a drone, it has more time in the air than ordinary anti-aircraft missiles.
Therefore, we can completely change the air defense strategy, first launch these attack and interception drones, and hover in the airspace through which these attack drones must pass.
When these enemy attack drones pass through this airspace, these attack and interception drones will launch encirclement and annihilation to destroy these incoming enemy attack drones.
Even during daily duty, several attack and interception drones can be launched to patrol the designated airspace and be on standby.
Once a suspicious enemy target is discovered, these attack and interception drones on standby can quickly launch an attack to eliminate the invading enemy.
It can be said that this will be a brand new combat style in modern air defense operations, which will greatly improve our defense capabilities against such slow and small targets.
Next is the hit rate, which has always been a headache for us.
The first thing we have to solve is definitely the problem of radar detection. We have to find the target first, so that we can track and lock the target, so as to guide the attack and interception drone to attack and intercept the target.
In addition to radar guidance, we also need to improve the ability of attack and interception drones to independently search and lock attack targets.
In this area, we have also introduced our most advanced AI image recognition and tracking technology. Discover targets through images, identify targets, lock on targets, and attack targets.
Compared with the previous AI image recognition and tracking technology, this time we have added a real-time dynamic target recognition and tracking system to the newly upgraded and optimized AI image recognition and tracking technology.
That is to say, the AI system is used to identify fast-moving targets in the image, thereby tracking and locking the target, and then guiding the attack target.
As we all know, these attack drones are very fast when attacking. How to discover these fast-flying targets on the screen and track and lock them in real time to guide the attack target. This was also the biggest problem we faced during the research process. Fortunately, we found another way to solve this problem well. "
