weapons expert

These four hanging points have different functions. Not only can they mount short- and medium-range air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, one of the largest hanging points under the belly, and even two nuclear attack missiles of the same type as Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Of course, to a certain extent, such a function may never be used, but this weapon has many abilities that cannot be used in reality, and are only used as a show of strength.

Although the range of long-range missiles is far enough, they generally require certain hardware launch requirements. If they can be successfully launched on drones, this is definitely a big killer.

With this thing, any country will be afraid of three points.

Imagine a ghostly plane that can reach over your head without you noticing it, and then drop a large-yield nuclear bomb. What would happen?

Everyone is afraid of death, and no one is not afraid of missiles that will appear above their heads at any time. This is a kind of deterrent.

Of course, this is just to say that the UAV has this capability, not to say that this type of missile can be installed if it can be installed. It must have relevant supporting technologies. fired.

But those things can be done slowly, so Xu Ziling was not in a hurry, thinking that it would be good to get them out when he had time.

The control center is on the second floor of the terminal building. It is a trapezoidal hall of nearly [-] square meters.

When a group of people walked in, they saw that all the relevant personnel had already been prepared.

When the person in charge of the control center saw Xu Ziling and his party, he immediately greeted them.

"All preparations are in place, and experiments can be carried out at any time."

"Well, start right away and get the ground crew ready to leave."

Xu Ziling nodded, greeted everyone, and immediately walked to the front center.

The remote control terminal was designed and developed by him alone. This first flight is the most important experiment besides several taxiing experiments, and among all the people, only he is the most familiar with the remote control terminal, so this time the control It is from him.

This experiment is crucial. The University of Science and Technology laboratory represents the country to a certain extent, and it also has a cooperative relationship with the military in terms of satellite communications.

The military attaches great importance to this experiment. In order to ensure the progress of the experiment, they not only allowed the military factory to use a communication satellite, but also used a low-orbit high-definition reconnaissance satellite to implement real-time tracking for the entire flight. .

"All staff leave."

Xu Ziling sat down at the front desk where the remote control terminal was placed, and the staff began to notify the runway to clear the field.

"The satellite signal is transferred to the No. 2 large screen, and the control terminal screen is opened."

Xu Ziling ordered.

The satellites used this time are high-definition reconnaissance satellites, which can synchronize the images in real time, which saves a lot of things like using drones in the previous "Fierce Dragon" test.

On the wall in front of the control center, there are two huge electronic screens. The No. 1 screen is used to display the relevant data of "Shadow Dragon" No. 2, while the No. [-] screen is used to broadcast live satellite image synchronization.

"Yes!"

Upon hearing Xu Ziling's order, the staff responded immediately.

Soon the No. 2 screen displayed a picture, the image in it was exactly the scene on the runway in front of the terminal building, and the No. 1 screen also displayed the interface of the control terminal.

"Clearing is complete!"

Everyone's eyes were focused on the screen, and soon there was a report from the other side of the runway.

"The experiment has officially begun!"

With Xu Ziling's order, all the staff concentrated on their respective tasks.

And he himself started to activate the system, made a data link with the drone, then tested the communication, and checked the various data of the aircraft.

Although it was in his own hands, it was the first time that Xu Ziling was not nervous when he controlled the drone to take off. Even with the lions, he was full of confidence that the first flight would be successful, but this thing is too important. He was still a little nervous involuntarily.

Of course, he is not the only one who is nervous in the entire control center. It should be said that other people are more nervous than him, especially Mr. Huang and the others. They are holding their breath, their hands are clenched into fists, and their eyes are not blinking. Swipe back and forth between the two large screens.

"Activate 'Shadow Dragon One'!"

The drone itself has a set of high-definition camera equipment. After the control system is activated, the camera probes in several directions of the fuselage are turned on, and these images are simultaneously transmitted on the No. 1 large screen. After checking the aircraft, look at the transmission There were no abnormalities in the various screens that came, and Xu Ziling started to activate.

Screen No. 2 mainly displays satellite images, but the plane has not yet taken off, so it also displays video images from all directions of the airport.

When he said the command to start, the video screen directly behind one of the drones saw flames starting to spew out from the tail nozzle of the drone, and at the same time the audio collection equipment also transmitted the low howling sound of the engine.

"Start normally!"

"The power is normal!"

"The radar signal is normal!"

"The satellite signal is normal!"

"..."

As soon as the drone was started, the staff in charge of all parties soon reported that the signals were normal.

"Officially taking off!"

Hearing that all the collected reports are normal, and the drone has already passed the taxiing test, Xu Ziling directly gave the order to take off.

After finishing his mouth, his hands also started to move.

In addition to the system, the remote control terminal also has an analog manipulator used to control the flight of the drone. This thing is not much different from a gamepad, that is, a directional joystick and some buttons.

Xu Ziling pressed a few buttons on the remote controller, and the plane began to taxi.

In the satellite images, the drone also began to move forward on the runway, and the image transmitted by the camera probe under the belly of the aircraft itself showed that the runway was moving backwards.

Because at the beginning of the design, the use of drones on aircraft carriers was considered, so its take-off distance has certain requirements.

After the plane started taxiing, Xu Ziling immediately increased the accelerator, causing the engine to explode with strong thrust, and the tail nozzle in the picture also sprayed out a long flame, which made the high-definition picture also show distorted air. .

Continue to increase the speed. In less than two seconds, the power displayed on the screen exploded to the maximum power. At this time, Xu Ziling immediately pulled up the joystick, and the front landing gear of the drone immediately left the ground smoothly. Driven by the continuous strong kinetic energy, the rear The landing gear also began to lift off the ground.

Smooth liftoff!

In the satellite images, the departing arrow of "Yinglong No. [-]" usually accelerates on the runway, and then rushes into the sky.

Therefore, the UAV video screen also shows the distance from the runway and quickly becomes smaller.

Except for the relevant staff, the viewers were extremely excited and excited when they saw the pictures on the two screens.

Although there is no specific data so far, and the follow-up flight is still going on, but from the screen, they also know that the first flight test should be successful so far, and it seems that this take-off distance can be completely suitable for an aircraft carrier.

Looking at this, they didn't cheer, because they all knew that Xu Ziling was still operating the drone, and all the staff were still working on various intense data collection tasks. If these people were disturbed because of them, what would happen? It's just too serious.

Xu Ziling manipulated the drone to lift off smoothly. He was also happy when he was mentally prepared, and he wanted to cheer loudly. Unfortunately, the drone was still under his control, so he had to put this thought aside, seriously Keep an eye on the drone.

Under the control, the drone continued to lift off after leaving the runway, and when it reached a height of several hundred meters, Xu Ziling began to retract the landing gear.

And when the drone reached an altitude of 4000 meters, judging from the coordinates displayed on the big screen, it had already flown out of the Xingcheng urban area.

And at this time, just over two minutes had passed since the drone started taxiing on the runway.

Xu Ziling thought about it, and instead of operating the drone to perform various maneuvers, he set it at an altitude of 4000 meters and started a slow cruise.

"It seems that everyone has been busy during this time. Although it has not landed yet, I have to tell everyone that this first flight experiment seems to be successful."

Letting go of the joystick in his hand, he stood up and said something to everyone.

"Wow wow wow..."

Hearing this, everyone stood up and applauded excitedly.

"Well, thank you for your support, but it is still in the experiment, let's continue."

Xu Ziling pressed his hands down to stop everyone's applause, and called a staff member next to him to watch the control terminal, then left his seat and walked to the seat of Mr. Huang and the others.

"Mr. Huang, Mr. Li, let's discuss something."

Approaching, Xu Ziling said directly.

The drone was still flying in the sky. Huang Lao and the others saw that Xu Ziling was not looking at the plane, but ran over instead. They were puzzled when they heard that he had something to discuss.

But for what he said, they still attached great importance to it.

"What do you mean?"

The two old men asked at the same time.

"Presumably everyone will know that the various data are good after looking at the screen. I think that after the relevant tests are completed, I will try other functions? Such as range, air refueling and so on?"

"This..."

These are unplanned. Although the test items are not unchangeable, these test items such as aerial refueling are not what they want to test, and they need the assistance of aerial refueling aircraft.

Without the approval of the military department, it is still a problem for the drone to find the tanker.

So the two old men hesitated after hearing Xu Ziling's words.