Chapter 36: The Falcon Rotorcraft! The Air Tricycle!
“Little brother, did you receive the chicken frame I sent you?”
“Little brother, are you there? Are you there? Are you working hard recently? Come visit me sometime, let’s see who has better shooting skills!”
“Little brother, little brother, today's luck is terrible, I almost jumped into a manure pit! Well, almost, just almost!”
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Compared to Zhong Xian Chao who didn't even know how to send gifts, Zhao Jian Jun was clearly a chatterbox.
In recent times, his ‘harassment’ was countless.
The various ‘local specialties’ he sent never stopped.
Like the famous chicken frame from Fengtian, the Lao Longkou white wine, Liaochong carp, Liuhegou fragrant melon... a whole room full of good things, made Chen Jin Chao think back to the time when Zhong Xian Chao didn't send anything! At all!
Indeed, people who receive gifts may not remember who sent them, but they will definitely remember who didn't send them.
Of course, this was just a joke.
Zhong Xian Chao, that crazy fellow obsessed with military research, could remember Chen Jin Chao's birthday. On his birthday, he hand-crafted a ‘Weishi’ model as a gift, obviously not the way Chen Jin Chao jokingly described it.
But Zhao Jian Jun was also excessive, as time passed, the things he sent became increasingly strange.
There was even a time when he sent a regiment commander's armband.
Chen Jin Chao hurriedly asked if he had sent the wrong thing.
But Zhao Jian Jun said that this was the armband of Xu Chang Guo, the regiment commander of the Second Regiment, who had lost to him in the last military exercise and then lost to him in the martial arts competition. This was a trophy, and Chen Jin Chao had a share in it.
Helplessly, Chen Jin Chao accepted it, placing it beside the bottle of twenty-year-old Moutai.
Wouldn't this cabinet become increasingly large in the future?
Chen Jin Chao was stunned, wouldn't it become a museum of small stories about the history of military development then?
Besides that,
Zhao Jian Jun often dragged Chen Jin Chao to the military base for target practice.
As a man, who could resist such temptation?
After several target practice sessions, Chen Jin Chao had his fill.
“Jin Chao, how is it? Any inspiration?”
“Am I a god? Just touch a gun, and I can turn it into a laser gun?”
Chen Jin Chao was helpless.
Just like Zhong Xian Chao's crazy obsession with rocket launchers, Zhao Jian Jun also had a fixation on the improvement of airborne equipment and combat capability.
“You’re really good at reading people!”
“Hee hee hee.....”
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People can't stay idle.
After Chen Jin Chao followed up on the research and development of the Weishi rocket launcher and the Mountain Cat all-terrain assault vehicle, the engine and non-ferrous metal laboratories were also on track and running smoothly,
The restless factor within him seemed to emerge again.
With no suitable projects coming to him, Chen Jin Chao took the initiative and found a direction he was most interested in lately and delved deep into research.
The direction of research was automation engineering and flight control technology.
This direction, broadly speaking, was about airplanes, fighter jets, and narrowly speaking, it was about the unmanned aerial vehicles that changed the shape of warfare in the later generations.
For this purpose, Chen Jin Chao set up a small laboratory of his own, deeply researching various technologies within it.
It was also a blessing to be at Harbin Institute of Technology, with so many ‘geniuses’ in reserve and a strong foundation to support project advancement.
In other schools, it's really not necessarily possible to build a professional flight control laboratory.
A cold fact, the drone technology and robotics technology of a certain mysterious Eastern superpower are not the most advanced, not the well-known company in Xinjiang.
That was merely a spin-off application in the civilian field.
When the Xinjiang company was still researching flight automatic return control technology, the research team at Harbin Institute of Technology had already developed a prototype that could control drones with mind power, and their various advanced unmanned aerial vehicles had already been adopted and procured by the military.
Even more exaggerated, the globally unique robotic arm on the Tiangong space station at that time was also developed by a school-affiliated enterprise of Harbin Institute of Technology.
The construction plan for the lunar base was also proposed by the research team at Harbin Institute of Technology.
Later, after Chang’e-6 took samples on the far side of the moon, when soil samples were allocated to various universities, netizens all made jokes - ‘Harbin Institute of Technology doesn't care how much soil they get, they don't even need it, they can go up and collect it themselves.’
It was this terrifying research strength that made Chen Jin Chao's flight control laboratory progress pleasantly.
It also successfully settled into the small park, becoming the third laboratory under the ‘Chen Jin Chao Military Self-Research Group’, and it also had preliminary research results and independent development capabilities.
It was at this time that Chen Jin Chao exchanged the rotorcraft technology in the system mall and proposed the ‘Falcon Rotorcraft’ project.
This was a new type of weapon equipment similar to the ‘Cat Cat Car’.
It was successfully developed in 14 years and appeared in the public eye in 19 years.
It was affectionately called ‘Air Tricycle’ by future netizens.
Its structure was simple, the cost was very low, it looked like a helicopter, but it only had the rotor on top of the head, without the tail rotor like a helicopter.
It was small and compact, could only seat 1-3 people, but the load could reach 300 kilograms, the flight speed reached 185 kilometers per hour, the air stay time was 4 hours, and the altitude reached 4000 meters.
Exaggeratedly speaking, its structure was so simple that a rural grandfather who understood a bit of mechanical knowledge could make it with wood and a motorcycle engine, and successfully take off.
It was also easy to learn, compared to the strict training required for helicopter pilots, rotorcraft pilots only needed a few days of simple training to fly.
When there was wind, take off on the spot.
Without wind, it could also achieve lift-off on a 20-meter simple runway.
Even if the engine stopped in the air, it could safely land through the rotor, earning it the nickname ‘Never Falls’!
And this ‘open-top helicopter’ that looked like a cat cat car, was also simple and brutal, if placed on the battlefield, it could also play a remarkable role.
Besides what everyone could immediately think of, special operations.
Rotorcraft could improve the mobility of troops, it could carry out reconnaissance, anti-armor, aerial search, aerial mapping, and other tasks.
Small and compact, low-altitude flight, fast movement speed, rotorcraft could avoid enemy radar while transporting supplies and returning wounded.
Even in the future battlefield, if it was suppressed by electromagnetic waves, this simple and brutal rotorcraft could still operate normally.
After all, the simpler something is, the less it is affected and the less likely it is to experience various failures.
Just like everyone's mobile phone in the future, the computing power of the chips in it far exceeds the chips of spacecraft that fly into space, but mobile phone chips or more advanced chips obviously cannot be used in spacecraft, simply because they are prone to failures.
Therefore, in a sense, this weapon has significant strategic and tactical significance.
Its application concept in military use is also extraordinary.
Therefore, Chen Jin Chao took it out as a separate project and started development.
It was both ‘spend little money, do big things’, and also to accumulate technology for flying-related projects in the future.
Of course, Chen Jin Chao's ‘Falcon Rotorcraft’ project wouldn't be as simple as the performance and function of ordinary rotorcraft.
Look, the two hardpoints under the rotorcraft are a re-emergence of Chen Jin Chao's ‘radical’ thinking.
Not only the hardpoints, Chen Jin Chao also installed a long muffler on the exhaust pipe to make it silent!
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