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Chapter 130 Hummingbird Drone

"Traditional UAV aeronautical engines all use turbofan engines. The principle of this engine is to use the air in the intake port to absorb it, compress it through the compressor, and then fully burn the fuel in the combustion chamber to generate The high-temperature and high-pressure gas is then ejected through the turbine to generate thrust."

While Lu Zhou was talking, a holographic screen appeared in front of Lu Chen in the air, demonstrating for him the working principle of a traditional turbofan engine.

Although Lu Chen has a computer background, he is also a science and engineering major. With Lu Zhou's explanation with such pictures and texts, he instantly understood the operating principle of the turbofan engine that was widely rumored in the outside world.

"Then, what is the plasma effect you mentioned?"

Lu Zhou was puzzled, and he tapped on the position of the compressor and combustion chamber of the turbofan engine.

"Boss, look here."

The holographic image has changed again, "...we will change this part into an ionization chamber, using the powerful electric energy of the lithium-sulfur battery to create a super-strong electric field to push the flow of ionized charged particles, thereby generating thrust. "

After listening to Lu Zhou's introduction, Lu Chen was startled, isn't this a Hall thruster?
No, to be precise, it should be a modified Hall thruster. The Hall thruster needs its own propellant as the working fluid, and the thrust is so small that it is usually only a few Newtons.

But this electric aviation engine can propel the drone and fly in the atmosphere. One can imagine how powerful it is.

Not to mention that compared with the thrust of the fifth-generation fighters, it is at least the thrust level in tons.

Lu Chen didn't understand the too-professional question, so he asked directly: "Just tell me, what is the maximum thrust and afterburner thrust of this aviation engine?"

"The maximum thrust of this electric engine is 75KN, and the afterburner thrust is 107KN."

Lu Zhou spoke in an orderly manner.

"Is it so small?"

"Uh"

Lu Zhou originally thought that Lu Chen would praise him, but ended up saying this.

Because Lu Chen knows the thrust data of the fifth-generation fighter jets, taking the F-22 fighter jet as an example, the maximum thrust of its single engine is 104KN, and the afterburner thrust is 156KN.

The F-22 fighter has two engines, so its maximum thrust is 2X104KN.

This is currently the most powerful engine in the world.

Judging from this data, it is obvious that the electronic aviation engine developed by Lu Zhou is not as good as others.

Seeing Lu Chen looking at him with the eyes of not being discouraged and continuing to work hard, Lu Zhou almost felt sick.

"Boss, the thrust of the electric aviation engine we developed is indeed not as good as that of the F-22 engine, but the thrust-to-weight ratio of our whole machine is much higher than that of the F-22!"

Lu Chen is not a military enthusiast, nor is he an aircraft expert. He really doesn't know much about this kind of things.

Seeing that Lu Chen was silent, Lu Zhou continued to explain: "The plasma engine we developed can make the drone's thrust-to-weight ratio reach 20."

As if afraid that Lu Chen would not know the concept of a thrust-to-weight ratio of 20, Lu Zhou continued: "The thrust-to-weight ratio of F-22 is only 1.1."

Thrust-to-weight ratio, as the name implies, is the ratio of thrust to aircraft gravity. Under the same conditions, the greater the aircraft's thrust-to-weight ratio, the stronger the aircraft's performance.

"The hummingbird drone we developed has a maximum combat radius of more than 2000 kilometers. The hummingbird drone weighs 200 kilograms and can carry up to two air-to-ground or air-to-air missiles, with a maximum load of 175 kilograms.

In addition, due to the super thrust of the plasma engine, the hummingbird drone can easily perform supersonic cruise. In addition, our hummingbird drone has the latest stealth material researched by our team, plus its small size It can be said that the Hummingbird drone is the most stealthy aircraft in the world”

Lu Zhou impatiently showed Lu Chen the various performances of the hummingbird drone, because it was a drone that their research and development team had worked hard for a year.

He was afraid that Lu Chen would be disappointed with this drone because of his unclear explanation.

But when Lu Chen heard this, how could he be disappointed by it, he couldn't believe his ears.

Originally, he just wanted Lu Zhou's R&D team to make certain achievements in the electronic aviation development, and he would use the technology editor to further improve it.

As a result, the opponent directly held back a king and exploded.

The maximum combat radius can reach 2000 kilometers, supersonic cruise, the world's first stealth capability, advanced electronic control system, fire control system, and radar system.

That's right, this is why Lu Chen always believed that the T-1 robot was not a military weapon.

When the intelligent core is used in the military, it should be unmanned military equipment such as drones, unmanned tanks, and smart missiles.

For example, this hummingbird drone is equipped with an intelligent core specially developed by Lu Li's team, the hummingbird intelligent core.

With it, a drone can truly be called a drone.

Don't look at the current drone technology in the world. In fact, these drones should be called remote control aircraft.

What do you mean?
In other words, all of these drones require manual remote control.

for example.

Now there is a Rainbow UAV that needs to perform a combat mission. First, the controller will give it a combat goal, and the UAV will sail according to the combat goal. What about human opportunities?
It will transmit the scene it sees back to the base, wait for the command of the base personnel, and then take action.

In this case, the rainbow drone will basically be cold.

In other words, the intelligence level of drones in the world is infinitely approaching zero.

In addition, there is also the situational awareness technology of drones, which is also far behind.

All in all, modern drone technology is far less powerful than everyone thinks.

For example, the famous UAV tactics of Aya and Asia were actually because these two countries did not have any air defense system, nor did they have air power such as fighter planes.

That's why we can see these stupid drones ravaging the military targets on the ground, which seems to be invincible.

If this is placed in a country with an air defense system and air force, this group of drones will be wiped out casually.

After listening to Lu Zhou's introduction to the hummingbird drone, Lu Chen wished he could build hundreds or even thousands of them right away, to supplement his "weak" military strength first.

"By the way, have you developed the missile on the hummingbird drone?"

"missile?"

Lu Zhou froze for a moment, "There are no missiles!"

"No missiles?"

After hearing this, Lu Chen's face darkened immediately, "What's the use without missiles?"

He pointed to the manufactured prototype in the laboratory, and couldn't help but say.

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhou was even more aggrieved: "Boss, I am researching drones, and the weapon modules are not under my control!"

Seems to make sense?

(End of this chapter)