Homo sapiens

Chapter 87 Flying Fish Company
Good news for Garfield and others.

Actually there are three.

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

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

Quickly put together the first "cruise missile" - Typhoon 1 cruise missile.

Luzon, Visayas.

Near the Nantu Mountains on the west coast of Panay Island, there is an unknown town—Kurasi Town. This town is backed by the mountains and faces the Sulu Sea.

Just over half a month ago.

Internally, Homo sapiens is attached to the Military Industry Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where Project 101 was established. Externally, it is a pesticide aircraft manufacturing company invested by the company. The company is called Flying Fish Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

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

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

Inside the assembly plant of Flying Fish Aircraft Manufacturing Company.

Fang Bai, the chief engineer, was recruited from Huaguo by Homo sapiens company's personnel department. He was originally a complete machine integration engineer of DJI company.

If Homo sapiens hadn’t offered a settlement fee of $50, a one-stop immigration service for the whole family, and a basic salary of $12 a year, he wouldn’t have immigrated to Luzon to build airplanes on this deserted island .

However, after coming here, he got used to it very quickly, mainly because there are many Chinese among his colleagues, and among them, there are five new graduates this year who immigrated from China through skilled immigration.

Since the situation was explained at the time of recruitment, there are some confidential technologies in Feiyu Company, so employees who are not of Luzon nationality are not accepted.

Regardless of the backwardness of Luzon's development, the problem is that the current college students in Huaguo are very serious.

Finding a job is easy. For example, go to a construction site to move bricks. 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 in secret.

Therefore, the HR department of Homo sapiens company goes to Huaguo to recruit people. Anyway, there are millions of graduates every year, and there are always people who are willing to come to Luzon for money.

Many people under Fang Bai came here like this.

Of course, because Flying Fish Company involves a lot of secrets, the employees will be further screened. The employees who are assigned to Flying Fish Company are basically family members who are in the control area of ​​Sapiens Company.

Fang Bai looked at the unmanned aircraft that used motorcycle piston engines as the core on the assembly line, with some weirdness on his face.

More than a dozen technicians are busy around the plane.

He turned his head and said in a low voice, "Manager Paul, isn't this reduction too much? It is estimated that there will be problems 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 is not a fool. Once he heard this standard, he knew that this kind of drone was probably positioned as a fast-moving consumer product.

The question is, which company or organization will purchase this disposable drone?
The answer is obvious.

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

Its maximum flight radius is 1200 kilometers (one-way), and when carrying a load of 100 kilograms, the flight radius is about 300 kilometers.

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

Now this Typhoon 1 UAV, according to his experience, if it is mass-produced, it is estimated that the production cost of each unit will not exceed 3000 US dollars.

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

But even so, the cost of 3000 US dollars for one is extremely cheap, only the cost of a dozen motorcycles.

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

"A week later, we have prepared 10 prototypes, which can be tested in large quantities, but what about the programmers?" Fang Bai reminded.

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

"Will the secret be leaked?" Fang Bai knew the level of secrecy within the company, and if there was a leak, they would be very troublesome.

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

"I see." Fang Bai suddenly understood.

Fang Bai, who used to work in DJI, knows very well that the core of drone technology is actually sensors, chips and control programs.

As for the flying fish company in his eyes, other components are purchased through outsourcing, except for the sensors, chips and control programs.

When he was exposed to that set of chips and sensors for the first time, his jaw almost dropped.

Because the performance of that chip is too powerful, the floating-point computing power reaches 3 gigaflops per second, and the built-in storage capacity is 500T, which is almost a small supercomputer.

The advantage of such terrifying computing power is that the control precision 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 actually not advanced, but with its super chip technology, it has completed the parallel control of a large number of engines.

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

A biochip the size of a fingernail can achieve a floating-point computing power of 3 gigaflops per second, and it also has a built-in storage capacity of 500T and ultra-low energy consumption.

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

The ultra-low-altitude cruise and low-energy flight that he thought were impossible before can be squeezed to the extreme with the violent support of computing power.

Regardless of the fact that the Typhoon 1 UAV has a maximum flight radius of only 1200 kilometers.

In fact, there is a very large waste of power. It is entirely possible to continuously adjust the flight posture and detect the airflow, temperature, and wind speed in the surrounding airspace, so that the drone can obtain a flight effect similar to that of an unpowered glider.

At present, the farthest flight distance of gliders controlled by humans can reach more than 2000 kilometers.

Wearing a typhoon drone with a small supercomputer, will it lose to humans?

As long as there are enough flight tests, plus data from wind tunnel tests and computer simulations, the Typhoon UAV will definitely fly farther than a glider controlled by humans.

As for the problem of poor flight speed, ultra-low altitude and stealth coating can solve the problem. As long as it is not discovered by the opponent, it is no problem to fly slowly.

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

Anyway, he already knew the company's thinking. The typhoon drone is a disposable item. If it doesn't squeeze the power of the engine like crazy, can it still be kept for the New Year?

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

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