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Chapter 73 Swarm Requests Operational Orders

[—150 swarm drones, 30 of which are carrying high-explosive bombs; 500 FPV drones; and 1800 infrared drones.]

"The Blue team has 800 people; provide the Red team with this number of drones..."

Lin Dong sighed: "Although it's not the 20 to 1.2 ratio planned in the actual exercise, this is giving the training Blue Team too much credit."

[Beep—The exercise has been reset and will resume in twenty minutes. Both sides, please return to your respective defense zones and prepare for combat!]

buzzing-

A red notification appeared on the screen.

One by one, the drones began to be taken over by the system and returned to base.

The armored tanks that were engaged in fierce combat separated again.

The soldiers who had "fallen" on both sides got up again, picked up their guns, and quickly returned to their own camps.

Forty soldiers serving as logistics support staff at the command post carried fully charged batteries and replaced the batteries for drones that were consuming a lot of power.

At this moment, the commander of the Red Team.

A two-star officer approached Lin Dong, raised his hand in salute, and said, "Hello, classmate. I am Qi Jingchuan, the commander of the Red Force. I am here on orders from the training command and am asking for your instructions!"

"Uncle, you don't need to do that."

Lin Dong pulled over a chair and gestured for the other person to sit down: "I also got to play with drones for more than a month in advance thanks to my dad. Let's share our experiences."

"So they are Chief Engineer Lin's family members."

Upon hearing this, Qi Jingchuan's expression became even more respectful. He sat down and said with a headache, "We've been playing with these drones all day, but we just can't seem to find the knack for it. We've tried many tactics, but none of them have worked."

"Uncle, you're used to being frugal and thrifty during your training, and you've developed a habit of cherishing new equipment. You can't overcome your mental barriers."

Lin Dong smiled and said seriously, "Actually, the tactics for drones are very simple. Just treat them like flying grenades and wreak havoc on them."

The presence of such drones on the battlefield makes them cheap consumables; they are meant to be used to indiscriminately, not as high-end equipment for continuous use.

Lin Dong understood Qi Jingchuan and the others' mindset, as well as the reason why they hadn't been able to find the knack for drone warfare.

After all, everyone in the world is sometimes blinded by a single leaf.

In his previous life after his rebirth, the cost of drone-related sensors dropped significantly in 2010, and various drones began to appear on the market in 2013. By 2015 and 2016, drones had become popular and essential tools for countless photography enthusiasts.

Although during this period, various countries used drones in weaponry.

However, they tend to develop in the direction of high precision, high-end, and functional.

No one realized that the real application of this thing on the battlefield was to make it cheap, cost-effective, and disposable.

It wasn't until the 2022 Sino-Canadian War that all sorts of small motorcycle drones, foam-winged electric ducted drones, and cheap plastic multi-rotor drones carrying bombs flew everywhere.

People only then truly realized the terror and disruptive potential of this thing on the army battlefield once it became cheap.

The cost of an army soldier's life has evolved from tens of thousands of dollars for an average of 15 rounds of ammunition, and tens of thousands of dollars for an average of ten artillery shells, to a few hundred dollars for the first-generation drones, and then further to tens of dollars for cheap drones...

"Trying to treat it like a cheap consumable, to be sprayed on anyone you see?"

Qi Jingchuan was stunned for a moment, and then, as if he had just imagined something, a deep shock appeared on his face.

"I told them that I would finish this exercise in five minutes."

Seeing Qi Jingchuan's expression, Lin Dong understood that the other party had initially realized the combat methods of the drones: "These more than 100 soldiers of the Red Team don't need to do anything else at the beginning of the exercise. They should take a good look at the combat methods of these drones later."

"Wait five minutes, then help launch the FPV drone to search for any stragglers from the Blue Team. Finally, take over the exercise battlefield."

"Eliminate the blue team in five minutes? Eight hundred people?" Qi Jingchuan's eyes showed disbelief.

Although he had just realized the terrifying nature of drone warfare.

But Lin Dong's confidence in sweeping the entire field and wiping out 800 blue team members in just five minutes still made him feel like he was in a dream.

"right."

Lin Dong nodded slightly: "Five minutes."

Thanks to the swarm drone system, image recognition, infrared and ultrasonic obstacle avoidance, and the previous communication and remote control technology, Lin Weiliang's "developed" multi-rotor drone is many times more powerful than the drones used in the two-mao battlefield ten years later.

After all, what level was China's electronic communication technology at? It was at the level of the early 21st century, or even the 1990s, while what level was China's electronic communication technology at...

Although in terms of first-person view clarity and anti-interference capabilities, wirelessly controlled drones cannot compare to the spider-like drones with fiber optic cables used in the Two Cent Army battlefield.

However, with the support of communication technology based on the previous 5G system, it is sufficient to cope with 99% of the army battlefield.

In addition, Lin Dong added laser communication as redundancy to the core swarm drones. This device will activate if communication suppression or interference is encountered.

This combines distributed computing and intelligent decision-making by the bee colony.

Unless the entire swarm of drones is destroyed, this thing will not stop until its energy is exhausted.

"I see……"

"I'll make the arrangements right now."

Qi Jingchuan nodded solemnly, stood up and saluted Lin Dong, then went to the other side to relay instructions to more than a hundred soldiers of the Red Army.

"Lin Dong, I've got it! This infrared drone can receive guidance commands from the swarm."

At this moment, Xu Qingling studied the performance parameters of the drones for a while, then seemed to have thought of something and leaned close to Lin Dong, winking: "So each swarm of drones is like an early warning aircraft, able to guide and command a group of minions, and that way they can wipe out 800 Blue Team members in five minutes?"

"Hmm, very smart."

Lin Dong looked at Xu Qingling as she pondered and said with a smile, "But swarm drones are not true early warning aircraft; their effective detection range is no more than 500 meters."

In addition, due to the limitations of chip computing power, each swarm of drones can only guide a maximum of 8 drones within a 100-meter range at a time.

If the final guidance accuracy still has a 3% error, it will drift 3 meters over a distance of 100 meters. If the distance is long, the position accuracy needs to be corrected multiple times. What would you do then?

"Is the guidance accuracy really that low?" Xu Qingling's eyes widened.

"On the army battlefield, with firepower coverage, how much precision do you want?" Lin Dong asked with a smile.

Using high-end swarm drones to guide infrared self-destructing drones, he did indeed get the technological inspiration from early warning aircraft.

However, compared to an early warning aircraft that can guide air-to-air missiles from thousands of miles away to lock onto a supersonic fighter jet and guide it to evade hypersonic air-to-air missiles.

Swarm drones lack high-precision radar and large onboard fire control computers. Relying on laser positioning, radio positioning, and image + infrared recognition, their guidance accuracy is far inferior.

of course.

Although the guidance is far inferior, it is more than enough for the firepower coverage of the army battlefield.

After all, the army doesn't have superhumans; they can't run at supersonic speeds.

"I can only guide 8 drones within a 100-meter range at a time. Facing 800 enemy troops and such a large battlefield... I need to figure out how to solve this."

Xu Qingling racked her brains to think.

She knew that since Lin Dong said that drones could solve the exercise training in five minutes, he could definitely do it, and there must be some tricks he hadn't thought of.

"Don't worry about it, I'll show you once and you'll see."

Lin Dong watched as Xu Qingling pondered for almost ten minutes without figuring it out. With less than two minutes left before the exercise was scheduled to begin, he smiled, patted her head, and reached out to turn on the computer in front of him.

"You all take off your FPV drones and operate freely. Leave the rest to me."

Lin Dong gave instructions to Xu Hua, Zhang Xuebin, Li Tao, and others, then exited the FPV drone access and remote control interface and switched to accessing the swarm of 150 drones.

[Beep—Drone swarm system activated, requesting combat orders!]