Nightingale did have some practical value in reconnaissance. Imagine if Qu Sen had a reconnaissance drone with similar functions in the two exercises. Whether it was the first exercise to confirm whether the armored regiment's suspected target was the Blue Team's missile unit or to find the Blue Team's mobile communication relay station in the second exercise, it would save a lot of effort.
Han Zhenjiang also planned to use the drone as a supplementary means of reconnaissance for the armored forces. During the "Storm" exercise, the armored regiment ambushed the Blue Team's anti-armored fast counter-attack battalion. If the fast counter-attack battalion had a drone as a lead reconnaissance, then the armored regiment would have had no chance of success.
Han Zhenjiang's idea was good, but Nightingale was still not perfect. In order to ensure the endurance and controllable range, the size and weight of the drone were designed to be large. The burden on a single soldier was heavy, and carrying it was a problem.
Although the drone's cruising speed could reach 13 meters per second, which was very good for small drones, it was far from being able to keep up with the 60 to 70 miles per second mobile speed of the armored forces, let alone assault tanks and fast counter-attack vehicles.
After listening to Qu Sen's report, Han Zhenjiang was a little disappointed at first. But soon he heard that Wireless Institute 109 had taken over the follow-up research and development work. Qu Sen also got the title of an off-staff research institute, so Han Zhenjiang was excited again.
He asked Qu Sen to keep a close eye on the research progress of Institute 109. Once there were subsequent models suitable for armored forces, Qu Sen would inform him immediately. He would apply to the higher-ups to let the fifth division be the first experimental unit.
When he went shopping with Zhou Li and Li Ying in the evening, Qu Sen told the two of them about the "death" order that Old Han gave him. The three of them also lamented that the grass-roots troops were now stretching their eyes and ears, thinking about new equipment.
Research on the application of small drones in the military field had just been initiated, and two very representative combat division commanders were already eyeing it.
The three of them felt the combat division's strong interest in small drones, but they didn't expect that the various scientific research institutions also had a strong scientific enthusiasm for the application of this "little thing."
Institute 109, which was responsible for the subsequent development of the three drone models, originally wanted to get support from Institute 51 in terms of software. Who would have thought that after contacting them, they would find out that several laboratories in the 51 First High School had already started their own small drone development and research.
The leaders of the two units worked together and expanded the original research and development in three directions based on the ideas of Qu Sen and the other two to six. In addition, there were small-scale battlefield communication network relay, tactical battlefield communication interference, as well as wireless communication signal monitoring with anti-infiltration and reconnaissance functions. These were three areas of research and development.
For these six research and development directions, the two research institutes each had their own strengths. Research Institute 109 was in charge of hardware, while Research Institute 51 was in charge of software support. Because Zhou Li was originally a member of the University of Wuyi, after the project was established, the words "off-staff" in front of her researcher title were quickly removed.
A few days later, because the drone project involved technical support for communication interference and digital wireless connection, Professor Wu represented the Information Engineering University and officially joined the small drone research and development team. The original collaboration of two universities became a collaboration of three universities.
With the addition of Professor Wu, his students also became members of the project team. Needless to say, Zhou Li and Li Ying also quickly removed the words "off-staff" from their titles.
After all of this, only Qu Sen was left in the original three off-staff members of the project. However, there was no other way. Qu Sen's biggest task right now was to successfully pass the two years of cultural exams and perform well in the one-year internship. Then, he would successfully obtain his bachelor's degree certificate.
In the second half of Qu Sen's second semester of practical courses, the teaching of various network command platforms took up an extremely large proportion. Qu Sen had a very good foundation and rich knowledge in this area, so it was very easy for him to deal with it. On weekdays, he spent more than half of his time in Professor Wu's workshop to help.
A lot of people thought that he was Professor Wu's student.
Yue Jianjun was indeed a practical person. On Children's Day, he quietly ran back home to the Information Engineering University. However, Yue Jianjun was also a sly person. Before he went home, he secretly told his son on the phone that he came back to celebrate with his oldest son. He also told Da Peng to keep it a secret from his mother so that he could give Instructor Jiang a surprise.
Yue Jianjun was very confident in Da Peng's ability to keep secrets. In fact, Da Peng never had a bad record of keeping secrets. However, Yue Jianjun forgot that his son had already become close friends with a certain "little bastard" named Qu. Keeping things a secret from his mother did not mean that he had to keep things a secret from his friends.
Therefore, when Da Peng bragged to Qu Sen on the phone that his father would be parachuting back to accompany him on the first day of the sixth lunar month, Qu Sen instantly saw through Yue Jianjun's sinister intentions. After urgently discussing with Zhou Li, Zhou Li quickly found a suitable reason to take him to University 109 to see the hardware design of the drone project.
When Yue Jianjun, who was holding a grudge, saw Li Ying's innocent face in Professor Wu's workshop, although he did not show it on his face, no one knew what he was thinking.
Anyway, if it were not for Li Ying's alertness, Zhou Li's "Swift" and Qu Sen's "Qin Crossbow" would have been "borrowed" by Yue Jianjun using the excuse of bringing them back for his subordinates to familiarize themselves with.
Speaking of the three drones, when Qu Sen and the other two came back from winning the prize, the school originally planned to give them some bonuses. However, after considering that the three of them had already received the bonus when they won the prize, the school decided to give them a bonus. No matter how much the prize money was, the school was afraid that other students would have problems with it, so they rejected the idea.
However, when the three of them returned the remaining 80,000 yuan research funds to the school, the school leaders were really "touched". After so many years, they had only heard of project teams requesting additional research funds. They had never heard of funds not being used up and being returned.
The honest performance of the three of them left a very good impression on the school leaders. After some consideration, they simply bought the three of them back and rewarded them with the laptops that controlled the platform. Although the original three drones were taken back, the pile of spare parts was not mentioned.
The three of them fully understood the "unspoken words" of the leaders. After a private discussion, the spare parts of the "Swift" went to Zhou Li, and the "Hummingbird" went to Li Ying. As for the "Qin Crossbow", which had the highest cost and won the first prize during the competition, the two girls disliked it because it was too difficult to control. In the end, Qu Sen took advantage of it.
The excuse that Zhou Li took Qu Sen to "avoid the jinx" was also found from the "Qin Crossbow".
On the other hand, University 109 fully respected the original creators in the follow-up research and development. The derivative models of the three drones were still named "Swift", "Nightingale", and "Qin Crossbow" plus the research and development number.
Now, in order to pursue faster cruise speeds, the original four rotors of the "Swift" had been modified into a three rotor design with a larger motor and larger blades. The appearance also became similar to the hidden blades of the "Nightingale".
The appearance of the "Nightingale" did not change much, but the outer shell was streamlined. Coupled with more advanced blades and motor improvements, the silent performance was greatly improved.
Among the three drones, the "Qin Crossbow" had the biggest change. Qu Sen's idea of a "combat department" in the prototype design was realized, but the way it was realized was a bit special.
After the engineers of University 109 discussed it, they felt that the entire drone would be used to achieve the goal of attack. Although there was no problem in terms of cost-performance, it was still a consumption. Also, in a battle, it was good enough to have a backup drone. The possibility of bringing more than one backup drone at a time basically did not exist.
Then, after the drone attacked the enemy's sniper position, it basically said goodbye to the follow-up battlefield reconnaissance mission.
Therefore, the engineers of University 109 added an infrared guidance component to the "Qin Crossbow". It was also equipped with multiple small dual-rotor functional drones.
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