Chapter 373 The Strongest Shield
Chapter 373 The Strongest Shield
Tengger Desert, or Tengger Prairie.
About 320 kilometers northwest of Minqin County, there are a few areas where desert ecology is still preserved.
The area is a desert ecological reserve with a radius of approximately 120 kilometers and is also a secret experimental site.
A specially modified passenger airship slowly docked at a building on the edge of the sand.
As the gate of the airship opened, more than a dozen people filed out.
Wang Lifeng glanced at the person in charge of the base and said, "Xiao Wei, long time no see."
Wei Hang, the head of the base with a serious expression, saluted everyone in the group.
Suddenly, a hand patted Wang Lifeng on the shoulder, and then asked in a low voice: "Old Wang, how is the project you were working on now?"
Wang Lifeng looked at his old colleague Zhang Jianhua without changing his expression: "There will probably be results by the end of the year, but the practicality remains to be verified."
"So fast?" Zhang Jianhua narrowed his eyes slightly.
"What do you think of that person's skills?"
Zhang Jianhua also thought of Project 33, but it was a scientific research project under Jiang Miao's name. Based on Jiang Miao's performance over the years, he estimated that this project had a greater chance of success.
Since everyone present was familiar with Project 33, Zhang Jianhua and Wang Lifeng did not have too many concerns and just subconsciously lowered their voices during the conversation.
The two followed the base director Wei Hang and walked into the base.
Since the project they came to inspect this time was not the one led by Wang Lifeng and Zhang Jianhua, neither of them took the initiative to ask Wei Hang, but instead whispered in the back about the part of the project they were responsible for.
"With that person in charge of research and development, the possibility of success of Project 33 is indeed very high. By the way, Lao Wang, some people seem to know about the person who proposed strict control of artificial intelligence." Zhang Jianhua said casually.
Wang Lifeng showed no surprise: "I know that he also knew that after the new law was announced, as a core consultant of the think tank, his actions in this matter would definitely not be concealed from those people."
"That's good."
"There is really no need to worry too much. As long as the Internet companies and artificial intelligence research and development institutions within the consortium have a little self-knowledge, they will not ask for trouble in this matter." There was a hint of coldness in Wang Lifeng's words.
If someone really wants to take advantage of the situation, he doesn't mind killing a chicken to scare the monkey.
After all, Jiang Miao's proposal was not for himself. You must know that Hailufeng Group also has an artificial intelligence laboratory and related projects. Jiang Miao's promotion of the rapid implementation of the strict control bill on artificial intelligence has no benefit to him.
Wang Lifeng has held countless internal seminars in the past few months. The information they have collected and the various results after simulation analysis all indicate a very scary future.
Once artificial intelligence enters the advanced stage, the possibility of losing control is almost over 99.99%.
It is precisely because of this terrifying deduction result and the almost 100% possibility of getting out of control that the various forces within the federation quickly reached a consensus and introduced restrictive bills on artificial intelligence with unquestionable efficiency.
In order to avoid strong opposition if the AI restriction bill was introduced alone, Jiang Miao also specifically included a biological gene restriction bill.
Therefore, Wang Lifeng did not suspect that Jiang Miao had any selfish motives in this matter.
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After a while, the group arrived deep into the base.
This is an underground command center filled with electronic equipment and display screens. There are more than a dozen staff members inside, all concentrating on their own work.
As a member of the observation group, Wang Lifeng and others were arranged to sit in the seats prepared on the side as soon as they came in.
After everyone takes their seats.
As the host and head of the base, Wei Hang took the microphone of his portable loudspeaker and introduced to everyone what was to be tested this time:
"Dear guests of the observation group, welcome to take time out of your busy schedule to come here. I am Wei Hang, the person in charge of the 309 base. Now I will introduce to you the products that we will test today..."
The standing monitor that was temporarily pulled up behind him immediately displayed pictures and some introductory content.
At the same time, the staff will distribute product brochures to the members of the observation group present, who are not allowed to take them away.
Wang Lifeng took the product brochure, placed it on the table in front of him, opened the first page, and saw the actual pictures of the product and the product overview.
In the picture, there is clearly a small missile. The reason why we can tell it is a missile is because there is the missile's size data below the picture.
It has a length of 2.43 meters, a diameter of 0.16 meters, a wingspan of 0.71 meters, and a weight of 108 kilograms.
"The range of this thing is 50 kilometers? How is it possible?" Zhang Jianhua on the side was surprised.
Wang Lifeng was also a little shocked. After all, for a missile of similar size, the effective range can reach about 15 kilometers, which is almost the limit.
Zhu Liangcai, who led the project, turned around and said with a smile: "My two old friends, are you surprised?"
"Don't hide it, kid."
"Yes, open my eyes." Zhang Jianhua asked, stretching his neck.
Zhu Liangcai leaned on the back of his chair and said, "Do you remember the nitrogen explosive developed by Jinling University?"
"You mean, the propellant of this missile uses all-nitrogen compounds?" Zhang Jianhua narrowed his eyes again.
"That's right. Just two months ago, the large-scale synthesis process of all-nitrogen compounds was finally completed. Combined with the previously completed slow-release process, the effective range of rockets using all-nitrogen compounds as the main propellant can be increased by about 2.2 times."
Wang Lifeng remained silent, still looking through the documents in his hand.
There is indeed some relevant content above about total nitrogen compound additives.
Of course, the improvement in rocket range is also related to other new materials, such as lighter and higher-strength materials, which can make the rocket shell thinner and allow more propellant to be filled inside the rocket.
This interception air defense missile, named "Sky Shield 1", is the first mass-produced product in the Sky Shield series of air defense missiles.
There are two other enhanced versions at the end of the product brochure, Sky Shield 100 with a range of 2 kilometers and Sky Shield 250 with a range of 3 kilometers.
The reason why Wang Lifeng and others came to observe this product was not because of its small size, light weight and long range.
Rather, this series of air defense missiles has low cost and high interception efficiency.
Taking Tiandun 1 as an example, the estimated cost of this model on a large-scale assembly line is 2.6 yuan per piece.
The estimated cost of Skydun 2 is 6.8 yuan per piece, and the estimated cost of Skydun 3 is 12.4 yuan per piece.
As for its high interception efficiency, it is mainly due to its special interception mode.
Unlike the near-explosion destruction and shrapnel splashing of traditional interceptor missiles, the interception mode of the Sky Shield series is net capture and detonation. After the Sky Shield series is launched, the high-strength silicon carbide nanotube net stored in the warhead will explode at a relatively close position to the target.
其中天盾1的捕网半径为1.2公里，天盾2的捕网半径为2公里、天盾3的捕网半径为2.5公里。
The exploded high-strength capture net will be set up and waiting. As long as the incoming flying object rushes into the net, it will not only be entangled by the nanonet, but the outer shell of the flying object will also be cut under the interaction force. The net is also tied with miniature strong total nitrogen explosives, which can cause a violent explosion.
This is also the core means of the Sky Shield series, which can achieve high-efficiency interception of incoming flying objects.
Compared with traditional near-explosion destruction and shrapnel splashing, this kind of interception in net mode has a larger coverage area, and it is almost impossible to escape within this coverage area.
And because the net is made of a fine mesh of silicon carbide nanotubes, it makes it almost impossible for the flying object's radar system to detect its presence.
In other words, once the Sky Shield missile explodes in front, the flying object's radar system will instantly lose its target, and the system can only rely on manual experience or the learning of a large amount of data to automatically determine the possible location of the capture net.
This situation is very unfavorable for incoming flying objects.
After all, things that the radar system cannot lock onto make it difficult for pilots or remote control from the ground center to make the correct judgment in the first place in a rapidly changing confrontation.
What's more, the Sky Shield series is very cheap.
Especially when used to intercept drone swarms, if the drone swarm is dense, one Sky Shield 1 can sweep away a large number of drones.
Wang Lifeng chuckled without even looking up and said, "It seems that the development of drones in recent years has made the threat of drones increasingly serious."
"The drone industry in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is indeed developing well now," Zhang Jianhua agreed.
Since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Asian Treaty Organization completely decoupled, they have begun to redevelop in many industries.
For example, the steel industry and electrolytic aluminum industry, which were previously transferred to backward areas due to deindustrialization, have redeveloped part of the metallurgical industry in the North Atlantic Union without regard for environmental protection, despite incomplete production equipment and a shortage of skilled workers.
In the first half of this year, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's steel production capacity increased to about 1.3 million tons, and its electrolytic aluminum production increased to 2400 million tons.
There was no way out. After the two sides completely decoupled, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization forced its internal companies to re-develop these metallurgical industries.
Especially with the addition of Lucia, they managed to achieve a certain recovery in the metallurgical industry.
It is precisely because of the recovery of the metallurgical industry that the North Atlantic Consortium has also received considerable support in the production of the drone industry.
After all, the production of many industrial products ultimately depends on the basic industrial strength of the force, and the production capacity of products such as steel, electrolytic aluminum, copper, titanium, plastic, glass fiber, carbon fiber, as well as energy and chemical raw materials such as electricity, coal, natural gas, and oil determine the final scale of a force's industrial products.
Without strong basic industries, there would be no industries such as automobiles, shipbuilding, airplanes, and drones.
This is the same for any force.
After all, no force can guarantee the production of other derivative industrial products without basic raw materials.
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"…The test will begin shortly. Please turn to the large screen in the control center."
Hear Wei Hang’s reminder.
Wang Lifeng, Zhang Jianhua, Zhu Liangcai and others also turned around and looked at the big screen in the command center. Everyone stopped discussing and waited quietly for the test to begin.
Soon, a large number of drones could be seen on the big screen, attacking the test base from low altitude.
Wang Lifeng and others were not surprised by this radar that can see low-altitude targets, because this radar was finalized last year.
The working principle of this radar is different from that of traditional electromagnetic wave reflection radar. It uses the principle of magnetic induction line reading.
Because all atoms generate magnetic fields, even atoms that are said to be non-magnetic have their own specific magnetic fields.
Through this principle, combined with bionics research on birds, the research institute has successfully developed a device that can accurately lock the magnetic field of an object.
The only drawback of this device at present is that it is too large.
For example, the three magnetic field radars installed inside the test base have a volume of 1497 cubic meters and weigh approximately 2741 tons.
Therefore, this type of radar can only be deployed in fixed bases on land at present, and it is difficult to install on ships or aircraft.
However, this type of radar has another advantage, which is that its energy consumption is very low because its working mode is passive sensing rather than active sensing.
At this time, outside the base, three magnetic field radars had deployed their magnetic field sensing panels.
Using the data from these magnetic field sensing panels, the data analysis system automatically calculates the magnetic field conditions within a surrounding 500 kilometers.
Hundreds of drones that suddenly flew in from low altitudes were almost non-existent to conventional radar detection.
However, in the detection feedback of the magnetic field radar, it is almost glaringly conspicuous.
At present, an impenetrable layer of magnetic field radar has been deployed in the border areas within the Asian Commonwealth. Any flying objects attempting to penetrate into the territory of the Asian Commonwealth from low altitude will be unable to escape from this layer of magnetic field radar.
Just like these drones at this moment.
The moment these drones were locked by the magnetic field radar, more than a dozen Sky Shield 1 interceptor missiles were fired from the launch vehicles.
A few minutes later.
These Sky Shield 1 missiles exploded near the target.
The flying drone was instantly entangled in the airtight high-strength net. No matter whether it was a fixed-wing drone or a rotary-wing drone, it looked so pale and powerless in front of the net made of silicon carbide nanotubes.
The drones either became entangled and fell, or were blown to pieces by the high explosives carried by the capture net, and the fragments fell into the desert.
Immediately afterwards, more than a dozen drones were released from inside the base.
Under the guidance of the magnetic field radar, a comprehensive encirclement and elimination campaign was launched against the invading drones that had escaped the net.
Although these defensive drones involved in the encirclement were equipped with machine guns, the remote-controlled staff did not use them, but instead continued to launch small nets.
The high-strength silicon carbide nanotube net is extremely lethal to drones. Once a drone is entangled in it, it will almost certainly die.
Under the joint attack of Sky Shield missiles and defense drones, all 300 simulated invading drones were wiped out, and no invading drone could approach within 100 kilometers of the base.
Everyone in the observation group was quite satisfied with the effect.
(End of this chapter)