It¡¯s hard to say what Ascendas Group does in other categories, but in terms of drones, Ascendas Group is not necessarily afraid of anyone in the world, not to mention in China. So Ascendas Group ended up fighting, and the anti-radiation drone project at the headquarters was There is no suspense anymore.
Zhuang Jianye also supported this with both hands. He had no choice but to do it. Lao Zhuang was not interested in attacking the company. He heard that the headquarters spent 400 million US dollars to buy six sets of "Harpy" unmanned aerial vehicle systems, which exploded at that time.
?? 400 million U.S. dollars were just stolen by Israel. It hurts Lao Zhuang¡¯s heart, so don¡¯t mention it.
¡°If it weren¡¯t for the nonsense that happened with Company H that caused so much trouble, Zhuang Jianye would have wanted to go abroad and file various legal lawsuits against IA Aviation Technology Company.
Therefore, we must do it, and we must do it in a way that even the "Harpy" drone can't catch up with.
Zhuang Jianye's will is the highest directive of Ascendas Group. In addition, Ascendas Group has not stopped making progress in drones over the years. It is still trying to expand the technical boundaries of UAV systems. However, the profits of the old platform were huge enough before. Ascendas Group did not Instead of taking out these technologies, they stored them as benign technical assets and waited for the right time to take them out to earn even more excess profits.
But this time it¡¯s different. The ¡°Harpy¡± drone has arrived at your doorstep. If you don¡¯t take out what¡¯s at the bottom of the box and declare your position as the world¡¯s leader in the field of drones, there will be no more drones in the future. There are so many foreign competitors who are kicking our noses in the face.
So Ascendas Group discussed internally, gritted its teeth, and devoted nearly half of its technical assets to create a true multi-batch autonomous controllable drone interactive mission system, the so-called drone swarm technology.
The core of this is the network construction and communication system settings between drones.
This is the most critical aspect of the entire UAV swarm technology, because the multi-batch UAV interactive mission system built by Ascendas Group is not simply a point-to-point, face-to-face flight to the target, mechanically completing a single task of so-called strike or reconnaissance. Task.
Rather, it has basic logical perception capabilities.
That is, it can freely switch between reconnaissance, assessment, cruise and attack, and can share its own situation with the rear control center and other UAV platforms while switching, so that other UAV platforms can adjust their missions based on the shared intelligence. attributes, and ultimately determine the next task situation.
In this way, the mission flexibility of the entire UAV system will be greatly expanded.
Take the army as an example. If the heavily armored troops are equipped with Ascendas Group's swarm UAV system, artillery can launch swarm UAVs during offensive operations and use their concealment and maneuverability advantages to attack enemy defensive positions. Conduct close-in reconnaissance, focusing on detecting weak links in the enemy's forward deployment and the deployment of enemy anti-tank firepower.
At the same time, the real-time image transmission capability of the swarm UAV system is used to form the command authority's dynamic situational awareness of the battlefield, thereby forming relative battlefield transparency.
On this basis, when the heavily armored forces begin to implement a battle breakthrough, the swarm UAV system can make use of the previous situational awareness. On the one hand, it can focus on attacking various types of enemy anti-tank firepower and open the way for the tank and armored units to attack. Eliminate threats; on the other hand, use air and maneuver advantages to attack time-sensitive targets, anti-slope targets, hidden targets, etc. that are difficult to deal with traditional firepower.
At the same time, it assists the rear artillery troops in artillery calibration and fire damage assessment. After the armored troops successfully break through, they will penetrate, reconnaissance, guide firepower and even directly attack the enemy's deep targets or flank targets according to the actual situation.
The army operates like this, and the air force operates resolutely. It can be used as a signal decoy to attract the enemy's air defense fire radar to turn on, consuming precious air defense firepower; it can also directly attack the enemy's air defense radar, clearing the way for one's own air power; it can even Directly participate in offensive operations and launch "suicide" air strikes against the enemy.
In short, Ascendas Group¡¯s swarm UAV system is not a traditional single mission mode, but a multi-functional, highly integrated multi-attribute comprehensive battle and tactical system.
Because of this, its practicality, mission scalability and final effect are several levels higher than the Israeli "Harpy" drone.
After all, the "Harpy" UAV is not even slightly inferior in flexibility. Although it can return and recover after an attack fails, and can hover over the target for a long time, it has certain functions of a UAV, but In fact, "Harpy" is essentially an anti-radiation missile and does not have multi-mission capabilities.
And the bees of Ascendas Group??UAV systems are not only anti-radar, but can also perform reconnaissance, guidance, electronic jamming, and even targeted elimination
The scalability is not ordinary.
However, to achieve this goal, traditional communication devices and network layouts are obviously unable to achieve this. This kind of dynamic real-time data transmission is beyond the capabilities of general communication systems.
At the same time, the confidentiality of communication must be good and the quality must be high, especially between drone platforms. The transmission must be fast and resistant to interference.
Ordinary civilian communication architecture will definitely not work.
To this end, Ascendas Group collaborated with several domestic scientific research units to jointly develop two sets of communication systems.
The first is a topological network distributed secure communication architecture similar to the Internet. There is a more appropriate collective name for this architecture abroad, which is the so-called data link.
Mainly used for communication and control between various UAV platforms and command centers.
The second is an ultraviolet secure communication system based on routing communication as the core, which is used for short-distance and rapid communication between UAV platforms.
On the basis of these two communication systems, combined with satellite communication and relay communication, a set of closed network structure is finally formed, thereby realizing the complex complexity of UAV nodes being both independent and dispersed, capable of performing tasks independently and operating collaboratively. system.
Of course, as a completely new system, many aspects are groundbreaking, and there are naturally some shortcomings, such as the communication channel problem of the data link. Since the domestic level of integrated circuits is relatively poor, it is not available abroad. The highest level of large scale integrated circuits and chips.
Therefore, Ascendas Group¡¯s swarm UAV system can only control five UAV platforms to perform tasks at the same time. If there are more, the computers produced by the Aviation Computer Research Institute will be overloaded, and at the same time, there will be differences between UAV platforms. Communications were mixed and the plane crashed.
Secondly, although each UAV platform has a certain degree of autonomy, it is limited by the limitations of algorithms and integrated circuits, and its autonomy is relatively limited. It cannot fully achieve independent target differentiation and autonomous control. In many cases, it requires the intervention of the rear control center. .
Finally, the size of each classification system is too large. Ascendas Group is stepping up research on miniaturization, but it is obviously not possible at this stage to install it on the "Harpy" drone, which is only one meter in length. This is why Ascendas The reason why the group finally chose zb-maxpro as the carrier aircraft platform is because the platform is large enough and easy to modify. Of course, more importantly, using zb-maxpro can quickly realize civilian use, thereby sharing Ascendas Group¡¯s high research and development costs.
After all, Ascendas Group is not a typical military-industrial enterprise. All technologies are not exclusive to the military. It is dual-use for both military and civilians. It is the right way to make money with both hands.
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