399 Loyal wingman

After the mission was completed, Chen Fei set up a plane back.

This task is very easy and the difficulty is even less than before, Chen Fei drove a J-16 to complete the ground bombing.

However, this is easy to understand. The advantages of the sixth-generation machine are too obvious and are simply crushing. Whether it is stealth performance or data processing capabilities, they are invincible in the world and have no opponents.

So today's task is actually not much challenging.

Take off, arrive at the designated airspace, wait, the target appears, enter the attack route, wait for the best time, lock, launch, and then return.

Chen Fei returned successfully.

In the next few days, Chen Fei started another test flight, which was the formation test flight, no longer fighting alone.

However, his formation test flight was different from the previous formation, because his wingman was an unmanned J-50.

Humanoid and unmanned have their own advantages and characteristics.

The unmanned J-50 has the advantage that it can maximize its super maneuverability, such as cruising at a speed of Mach 6, and flying outside the atmosphere easily without worrying about cosmic ray radiation. Moreover, when doing high-intensity maneuvering, there is no need to worry about the pilot's inability to withstand overload, and every performance can be maximized.

But the unmanned also has its own shortcomings, that is, the ability to perform complex tasks is relatively poor. Although the unmanned J-50 has always been manipulated, the further the distance, the more difficult the operator's control is. He does not have an intuitive feeling for many things. He can only analyze and summarize through various data and materials. This has a certain delay. It is okay to engage in ground bombing, but it is difficult to engage in air combat.

In addition, the battlefield environment is complex. Although the J-50 has strong anti-interference ability, it is not ruled out that it will penetrate into a complex electromagnetic environment. Once it enters that environment, the operator's control over the J-50 will be weak. No matter how strong the J-50's electronic warfare ability is, it cannot be stronger than the professional reactive forces. The power is there. If the obstacle cannot be overcome, once it enters that complex electromagnetic environment, the operator may lose the J-50.

On the contrary, the human-style J-50 has a higher survival rate in complex battlefield environments.

The current battlefield environment is not that simple, so some complex tasks still require the use of a humanized J-50. However, there are too few humanized J-50s. The main reason is that the number of pilots who can control this aircraft is too rare and the training cycle is relatively long. Therefore, after research, relevant departments believe that using an unmanned J-50 as a wingman and a humanized J-50 to perform missions together should be the most appropriate. They can give full play to their own strengths and make up for their own shortcomings.

Therefore, Chen Fei’s next task is to cooperate with his new wingman and carry out test flight work together.

Using drones as wingmans to be manned aircraft is not the first of our army, and it is not invented now.

The US Air Force is the originator of this field. They were secretly developing the xq-58a "Valkyrie" unmanned fighter jet a long time ago. He is the game-changing weapon.

The xq-58a is a long-range, highly subsonic drone. “It is a jet drone designed to fly with manned fighters and fly autonomously”.

It is reportedly very different from popular American drones (such as the MQ-9) because it is jet-powered and can (theoretically) fly supersonically, keeping it in sync with the F-16 or F-35 fighter jets.

With the advancement of military technology, the role of drones in the air battlefield is increasing, even surpassing manned aircraft, pushing the future air battlefield into the field of mixed manned and unmanned combat. In the long run, wide-area operations need to be completed by drones. UAVs follow manned aircraft to perform high-risk tasks such as air escort and sudden air combat, thus the concept of "loyal wingman" emerges.

Distributed air-controlled missiles solve the problem of firepower at the last minute, while the combination of loyal wingman and missiles solves the problem of maintaining missiles when they are delivered to various departments of the battlefield, forming multiple waves, layered and organized air power.

In addition, in addition to attack tasks, loyal wingman is also a link in the air battlefield, serving as a task such as detection, communication, interference, etc., organically connecting ammunition and aircraft, ammunition and ammunition to form a networked and intelligent interconnected strike system, changing the current one-way data channel connection between manned aircraft and missiles, and forming a future distributed air battlefield.

Generally speaking, wingman refers to an aircraft that follows the commander to perform tasks during the formation. The wingman should maintain a specified position in the formation, observe the air condition, and execute the commander to the commander.

The small drone system is used as a manned combat aircraft of the wingman to improve the overall combat effectiveness. The long aircraft expands the total ammunition volume by controlling the weaponized small drone; the stealth aircraft avoids exposing its own position information by allowing the wingman to perform tasks that are most easily detected; the wingman acts as a long-range sensor, "shooter" or bait to improve the flexibility and survival of the long aircraft, thereby expanding the ability to perform long-lasting operations in high-risk environments.

But there are also some problems, such as how to effectively help pilots make decisions, how to form a close team with pilots to work together, and how to manage the pilot's work burden.

The US Defense Preparatory Research Projects Agency is developing a combat management system to "fastly integrate data to provide the information needed for decision-making, rather than all information, so that all distributed systems can work together." In order to realize the "loyal wingman" technology.

The "loyal wingman" technology is different from the cluster technology.

The loyal wingman can follow manned aircraft, implement intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, air occlusion (interception), strikes on enemy integrated air defense systems, offensive anti-aircraft operations, micro unmanned system command and control tasks, or serve as a weapon carrier to increase the number of airborne weapons of the attacking party.

The "loyal wingman" has self-defense capabilities, so it has a certain ability to survive in a medium- and highly threatening environment. In addition, the "loyal wingman" may also be a large drone used for cargo transportation or as a tanker.

"Loyal Wingman" has the following two main advantages: UAVs have the characteristics of low cost, no casualties, strong adaptability, and flexible configuration. By providing loyalty companions and entering dangerous environments, they provide strong protection, reconnaissance, perception, interference and strike assistance for manned aircraft. Combined with the improvement of unmanned autonomous cognition capabilities, unmanned "Loyal Wingman" can reduce the cognitive workload of combatants, so that they can focus on complex planning and combat tasks, and respond to transient and changeable battlefield environments with faster response speed.

It can be seen from this that the unmanned wingman was not the first J-50.

However, there is no doubt that the J-50 is definitely the master of the culmination, especially the loyal wingman technology, which is so advanced that it is beyond the reach.

Chen Fei took off with his drone.

Because all the take-off control is left to Bingbing - the wingman's artificial intelligence system is completely subordinate to Bingbing at the level - so this take-off is very wonderful. The two fighters flew up almost in the same posture, and the distance, speed, and angle of attack when they were pulled up were exactly the same. Even the most ace pilot combination of the Bayi Flight Show Team could not fly such a wonderful posture. It has to be admitted that in this regard, artificial intelligence has completely outperformed the pilot.

After the two planes took off, they completed the formation in the air and then flew to the training airspace together.

The wingman is located on the right side of Chen Fei, at the upper right side, ten kilometers above him. The parallel line between the two aircraft is exactly fifty kilometers away. Ordinary wingmans, that is, the wingman between pilots, will not be so far apart, but the J-50 can. The distance of fifty kilometers is also a very short distance for unmanned wingmans. He can break through the speed of sound in more than thirty seconds, and then quickly accelerate to Mach 6. At this speed, there is no problem with fifty kilometers.

The two planes flew toward the target airspace together.

After flying for a while, Bingbing reported: "Col. You are about to enter the training airspace. The two holes have found the attack target. Please indicate what to do next!"

Chen Fei took a look at the multi-function monitor, and the situations detected by the wingman were already displayed one by one.

Because the wingman is unmanned, he is not exactly the same as Chen Fei's fighter jets. Whether it is weapon mounting or equipment settings, it is different. The two fighter jets complement each other. For example, the radar of the wingman is stronger and has higher power than Chen Fei's one. In addition, the electronic warfare system is also stronger, which just makes up for Chen Fei's shortcomings, because his fighter jet is human-type. Not to mention, if the power of radar and electronic warfare equipment is too high, radiation alone can make him unable to stand it. But now, there is no one on the wingman, and no matter how strong the radiation is, it is okay.

Moreover, the wingman and his plane, whether it is laser cannons or microwave cannons, have a cooling time, but if the two planes cooperate with each other, I attack when you cool down, and you can open fire immediately after I attack, which happens to be seamless.

Chen Fei took a look at the multi-function display screen, and on it, a drone group of five aircraft formations was swimming in the target airspace.

There is no need for Chen Fei to do anything. Artificial intelligence has automatically numbered five small drones, target number one, target number two, target number three.

Chen Fei looked at it and immediately said, "Bingbing, order the two caves to enter the inside of the target route and occupy the height."

"clear!"

Chen Fei said again: "We enter the left rear of the target, be highly consistent, and be prepared for laser cannon attack!"

"Okay Colonel!"

Two J-50 fighters immediately flew to the target airspace at high speed.

Soon, Chen Fei ordered: "Two holes, microwave cannons, two blocks, one shot!"

boom!

A microwave radiation hit the target cluster.

The electronic devices on the drone were suddenly paralyzed.

The three drones swayed for a while, then lost their target and fell toward the ground.

But two more planes have been flying tenaciously.

Chen Fei continued to order: "Two caves, four targets, shoot by yourself!"

After issuing relevant instructions, Chen Fei said: "Bingbing, Target No. 5, one level, fire!"

call out!

A laser shot out, and the two-meter-long drone suddenly broke out from the middle and turned into two pieces.

The first task is completed, and the other tasks continue.

A week later, Chen Fei's test flight mission ended successfully.

Of course, this does not mean that the J-50 is flawless. After studying the wreckage of the alien aircraft, experts from Chengfei Factory found several places that others did well and re-formed a new upgrade plan. However, most of these upgrades are software-based, especially in artificial intelligence, which almost does not need to change the hardware and appearance.

Everything was ready, Chen Fei drove the J-50 and took his wingman back to the Sanjiang Military Base together.

After leaving the space tunnel, Chen Fei contacted the base: "Base, I am a ghost, and I am now ordered to report to you!"

Ghost is Chen Fei's current code name. He is now flying the J-506 generation aircraft, so his code name is Ghost.

"Ghost, our radar cannot find your location. Please turn on the Longbo lens and let us see you!" The base command came from the command.

In fact, Chen Fei did not open it on purpose, he just wanted to try the stealth effect of the J-50.

Our army's radar troops at Sanjiang base are very strong, and the most advanced anti-stealth radar is also installed here. To be honest, ordinary aircraft, even if it is J-20, and even if it does not turn on the dragon-bo lens, the ground warning radar can be seen at a glance. But now, the facts have once again proved that the stealth performance of the J-50 is really excellent, and even our army's most advanced anti-stealth radar cannot be detected.

good!

very good!

Chen Fei couldn't help but be happy.

After calming down his emotions, he said: "Bingbing, turn on our Longbo lens and simulate the J-20 radar spectrum."

"Understand, turn on the Longbo lens and simulate the J-20 radar spectrum." Bingbing replied.

Soon a certain place on the J-50 fighter jet opened, revealing a more clever Longbo lens. After a while, the electromagnetic pulse swept from the ground warning radar was reflected by the Longbo lens and reflected into a characteristic reflected signal unique to the J-20.

After three or four seconds, the ground command post said: "Ghost, I saw you, please land according to the landing route!"

"I understand!" Chen Fei replied.

He looked at the eyepiece on the helmet, and Bingbing had already shown the new landing route. Chen Fei looked at it and his landing route was different from before. His landing route was specially set up by the base for the J-50. Chen Fei had already had a batch of four unmanned J-50s to serve at the base. However, Chen Fei's one of the human J-50s was the first. The base still attached great importance to the J-50s and built an airport for him, and specially set up takeoff and landing routes. On the one hand, because the J-50 is too large, especially when the full load bomb is full, the general runway is not suitable for his takeoff. Another factor is that the J-50 is the sixth-generation aircraft of our army after all, and it is the secret weapon of our army, so his confidentiality work requirements are very high, and another better airport is needed to implement it.

Chen Fei took a look at the navigation map and there was no problem. He said to the artificial intelligence: "Bingbing, land according to the landing route."

"clear!"
Chapter completed!