Volume 9 Undercurrents Chapter 60 Military Transformation
After being stunned, Pei Chengyi picked up a few documents and sat down with Xiang Linghui in Jiaofu. [Full text reading]
"Look at the specific situation of the troops participating in the war."
"All sent?" Xiang Linghui picked up the first document.
"Those who can be sent have been sent, anyway, it's a big military training, and you can't waste an opportunity."
Xiang Linghui smiled, lit a cigarette, and opened the file.
In accordance with Yuan's orders, the General Staff spent two days adjusting the operational deployment and sent a large number of troops that should not have participated in the actual battle. It has even brought up several types of weapons and equipment that are currently being tested in order to test the actual combat capability of various new types of weapons and equipment.
After entering the century, a total of three military reforms were carried out.
It is an "information network" that started and was led by the United States. The reform mainly relies on a high-level information network to enhance the ability of various services and arms to coordinate operations. After completing this apple change. The various military forces and strike platforms are no longer separate combat forces, but the nodes that make up the military strike network. Tempered by the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, in the war in Iran. The US military's "information network military strike system" has displayed its majesty and smashed the number one military power in the Middle East with a devastating momentum. Prior to this, the Republic was still catching up with the United States in the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War and the East China Sea War, striving to build a modern military system. Of course, no matter how advanced a military system is, it has its inherent drawbacks, and it is impossible to perfect it. As the United States and the Republic successively summed up the changes brought about by the "information network" in the war, as well as the shortcomings exposed in actual combat. A new round of military reform is poised to take place.
The second is the "energy revolution" brought about by the "power revolution". "From the "information network" to the "energy revolution" in less than a few years. During the Iran War, the U.S. military first used a new generation of weapons systems on the battlefield, including the "Zumwalt" equipped with electrothermochemical cannons. class destroyers, treble cruise missiles, tilt-rotary-wing aircraft, and much more. In the ensuing Peninsular War. The Republic's next-generation weapons systems hit the battlefield, including the Qinling-class cruisers and the Taihu-class destroyers, which are equipped with rail-mounted electromagnetic guns. Hybrid submarines, a new generation of nuclear-powered warships, all-electric helicopters, all-electric combat vehicles, active electric collision jamming devices, electromagnetic bombs, and much more. These advanced weapons and equipment. can be included in the "Energy Revolution." Because these weapons and equipment are more or less using the most advanced propulsion technology and energy reserve technology, they are fundamentally different from the previous weapons and equipment, among which the electromagnetic cannon and the all-electric weapon platform are the most representative.
Compared with the "information networking" revolution. The impact of the "energy revolution" is even more far-reaching.
From the day of the birth of war, the energy level is the decisive factor in the fundamental nature of war. In primitive times, bows and arrows made full use of human bioenergy and became the deadliest weapons; In the era of cold weapons, cavalry used the biological energy of horses to become the combat force that dominated the victory; In the age of firearms, guns used the chemical energy of explosives to become the new king of war; In the industrial age, the steam engine became the main force driving war; Enter the era of mechanization. The internal combustion engine quickly replaced the steam engine with its higher energy utilization efficiency and became the main driving force of war. Subsequently, various energies such as external combustion engines, turbine engines, electric energy, and nuclear energy were used in warfare, and became the dominant force in warfare.
"Information networking" actually optimizes the way energy is utilized, but does not change the essence of energy.
The "energy revolution" has fundamentally changed the essence of energy that drives war.
It is precisely for this reason that many people compare the "energy revolution" with the "mechanized revolution" that preceded it.
Constrained by various basic technologies, the potential of the "energy revolution" is far from being fully realized. Taking the controllable fusion reactor as an example, although its application prospects are very extensive, the Republic has completed the first technical verification aircraft equipped with a small controllable fusion reactor at the beginning of the year in four, and the United States has completed the first technical verification aircraft equipped with a small controllable fusion reactor at the beginning of the year, so that the aircraft has "unlimited cruise capability", but due to the limitations of other related technologies, the application range of controllable fusion reactors is not extensive, and the technical verification aircraft of the Republic and the United States are too low in other performance indicators in addition to endurance, and they are not practical. In order to tap the potential of the "energy revolution", it is necessary to make breakthroughs in relevant technologies. Even according to the most optimistic estimates, it will be at least a few ugly years before a breakthrough can be made in a few key technologies that are of great significance and can have a major impact on the "energy revolution".
According to the law of military reform, the birth of new technology will inevitably give birth to new military reform.
This is the third military revolution that began in the Lunar New Year: the era of unmanned.
In the "unmanned era", there is only one key technology, that is, neural network computers. Although in the era of electronic computers, the United States has developed a large number of unmanned combat equipment, such as the "Global Hawk" and "Predator" that fly in the air, the "pack horse" that runs on the ground, and the advanced unmanned submersibles that swim in the sea. However, with the discontinuation of the United States' righteous ridicule project, it was proved that the performance of electronic computers could not meet the minimum needs of war, that is, the intelligence of electronic computers was not enough to replace the human brain. This is indeed the case with the Ten Feuds, whether it is the "Present Ball Eagle" or the "Dark Star", it is not an unmanned weapon in the basic sense, and it must be remotely controlled by the personnel in the rear.
In July of the secret year, the first neural network computer was born in the Republic, and the first neural network computer in the United States came out only two months late, announcing the arrival of the era of neural network computers. Compared with electronic computers, the biggest feature of neural network computers using bionic technology is that the degree of intelligence is greatly improved. Although the performance of the first generation of neural network computers is not advanced, because in order to reduce the difficulty of driving, the Republic and the United States both choose to use insects as the simulation object, the Republic is based on the locust nervous system, and the United States is based on cockroaches, but with the advancement of technology, the potential of neural network computers is limitless. In fact, even a neural network computer based on the nervous system of an insect is 100 million times more intelligent than a computer with a computing degree of 100 million times per second!
After the successful development of the neural network computer, the Republic, like the United States, chose to apply it first in the military field.
The two countries have invested huge sums of money in research and development, which cannot be commercialized for the time being, mainly because the computing power is not as good as that of electronic computers, and it is also for military purposes.
Neural network computers with a higher degree of intelligence are fully capable of becoming the "brain" of unmanned combat platforms, replacing the position of the human brain!
When developing a new generation of unmanned combat equipment, the Republic and the United States chose essentially the same.
Based on the neural network computer and combined with the powerful computing power of the electronic computer, the "Neural One Electronic Computer System" is formed to build a control system for unmanned combat equipment, so as to comprehensively improve the intelligence of unmanned combat equipment and gradually replace the existing manned combat equipment.
The first to be exhibited will definitely be unmanned combat aircraft.
After more than two years of opening, in August of the year, the "Brahma" unmanned fighter invested and developed by the Air Force and Navy of the Republic of China made a test flight. In order to overcome the arms race, the United States lowered the design indicators of the technology verification machine so that the blade, which is also controlled by a neural network computer, will be completed by the end of June. It's just that the luck of the United States is really bad, and at the end of the month, the blade crashed while testing low-altitude flight performance.
Compared with the brother sword, the biggest feature of "Brahma" is that it has basic combat capabilities.
In other words, the Air Force and Navy of the Republic do not want a pure technical verification aircraft, and as early as the beginning of the four, the first technical verification aircraft of the Republic of China for neural network control systems has already been flying. It's just that the investor is not the military, but the "Yanhuang Jige Xiao" led by the Military Intelligence Agency, and the test flight work was only secretly carried out many times, and then transferred to ground tests, but real weapons
Platform.
What's more, "Brahma" made a total of mouth racks.
Although only 4 "Brahma" are equipped with extremely expensive power systems, and the other 8 are either control system test platforms or static tests, and are not equipped with power systems, the existing 4 "Brahma" have already had basic strike capabilities after completing various gross line parameter tests and weapon system control tests, and can carry basic ground and air ammunition to strike ground and air targets for combat tests, which is also the content of Wufei.
The sophistication of "Brahma" is also reflected in its power system.
The knife is equipped with a new generation of turbofan motors developed by the United States to improve the Stone series fighters, "Brahma." It is equipped with the "Inhalation Ionization Electromagnetic Gyration Push System" developed by the 6th Navy and Air Force of the Republic of China and the Celestial Soldiers for the next-generation air-space combat platform. In other words, Brahma is used not only to verify the control capabilities of neural network computers, but also to verify the new generation of propulsion systems, "although there is a high risk in doing so." However, it can reduce the cost of opening very well. The two new technologies are integrated during the technical validation phase. It can reduce the time it takes to build a standard weapon platform. Enabling new technologies to be equipped on a large scale at the fastest possible time.
The "inhalation ionization electromagnetic gyratory propulsion system" is not much of a laugh with the third military revolution. Rather, it is a natural continuation of the "energy revolution". The biggest feature of the propulsion system is that it relies on the strong power provided by the composite battery, and the inhaled air is ionized and gyratorized, and most of the electric energy released before ejection is charged into the composite battery through the power recovery system, so as to generate thrust. Compared with the conventional turbine motor, because it is not the air that propels, but the charged ions generated after the ionization of the air, the mode of action is not an ordinary reaction force, but an electromagnetic force, so it is not limited by mechanical conditions. It can maximize the amount of electrical energy stored in the composite battery.
New technology brings more powerful combat effectiveness.
It's just that Xiang Linghui and Pei Chengyi don't know how strong the combat effectiveness of the new equipment is, because the test data on the test site cannot replace combat operations on the battlefield!