Chapter 198 Digital Trend(1/2)
.It took two and a half months to get the original chip circuit, and it took time to get it through.
Then, combined with American and domestic technologies, we designed our own chip circuit diagrams, and took another three months to improve the manufacturing process and make the first set of samples, which was already late May 1995.
Among them, the main chips are produced by themselves, and a few electronic components are ordered from domestic military manufacturers.
The digital individual equipment redesigned and manufactured looks more simple and unpretentious. It is integrated with the military uniform. If it weren't for the telescopic camera on the helmet or the sunglasses display system, it would look no different from ordinary equipment.
During this period, the military model designed by Mr. He and his team were first produced by export models. It was limited to production capacity and could only provide 280 communication modules per month.
In terms of its production cost, this military communication module alone exceeds the price of the military purchasing a full set of equipment from Universal.
However, the military did not mean to have large-scale equipment for the time being.
They purchased a total of 1,500 sets of military digital equipment and stopped purchasing.
These digital equipment can be equipped with newly formed, the first digital unit of a domestic regiment, used to verify tactical play. The equipment of this regiment is not just digital individual equipment, including various tactical teams such as land aerial aviation, tanks, self-propelled artillery, armored transport vehicles, missiles, etc.
Although there is only one regiment, the sparrow is small and has all the internal organs. It is a miniature, full-function combat organization.
In order to provide various weapons and equipment for digital troops, domestic military manufacturers have basically mobilized. All weapons communications have been transformed to form a tight tactical network system.
The observed ground data of the digital soldiers in front can be directly transmitted to the battlefield command vehicle. The battlefield commander forwards the data to the land aviation, tanks, artillery, and heavy artillery positions in the rear. From the information transmission to the artillery support system, it takes no more than two minutes to provide accurate and effective fire support to the soldiers in front.
Digital troops, unlike digital soldiers, are a complete battlefield matching system, lacking fast and accurate information transmission, and lacking soul.
Therefore, the equipment of this digital test regiment exceeded the expenses of one division of other armored units!
This is why the military temporarily only installed one regiment for the digital equipment. We need to remodel the original old-fashioned equipment into a system that adapts to digital warfare, which is too expensive. Even if we need large-scale equipment, we can only change it step by step, batch by batch.
But Saudi Arabia has no concerns in this regard.
They couldn't wait for the improvement of Universal's digital equipment to come out, so they purchased two thousand sets of equipment from Universal in the first batch.
Saudi military all uses American equipment. The US military has always attached importance to data transmission.
Before the First Gulf War, they spent a lot of effort to integrate the communication information transmission between the coalition forces. Once the digital troops were installed, the Saudi military only needed to allocate the heavy equipment needed and soon formed a complete brigade-level digital troops.
They secretly opened a training ground in the south.
The herdsmen in nearby areas were persuaded to leave, with a range of thousands of kilometers, no one could enter (16k Novel Network, computer station www, 16k, cn updated the fastest) and conduct closed training for this digital brigade. All the officers and soldiers of this brigade were carefully selected and used as seeds of future expansion.
But not long after, the digital brigade was discovered by the US military patrol fighter planes passing here by accident. A media reporter obtained aerial photos of the US military through his friends from the Ministry of Defense and quickly published them. The secret that the Saudis tried to keep was exposed to the whole world overnight.
The news that the Saudis were equipped with the first practical digital force caused a huge shock around the world.
This shock is more important than the Chinese digital troops broadcast on TV at the beginning of the year. The military forces of various countries have paid great attention.
At the beginning of the year, Chinese TV broadcast the Chinese digital troops.
After the United States, China has also begun research on digital forces.
According to US military personnel, they purchased a set of equipment from Saudi Arabia. After research, the digital force launched by the Saudi military is also provided by China!
This shows that China is not only conducting digital troops experiments, but also achieving great success!
The key point of the digital force is not a technical problem. As long as each country needs it, any one can quickly integrate a set of equipment. The main limitation of the large-scale installation of digital equipment is still the cost!
A soldier's unit price of equipment of tens of thousands of dollars is worth more than one million US dollars, and all of them are replaced with digital equipment, and the total expense will reach hundreds of billions! With other supporting equipment, even the United States cannot afford it.
This is not counting. Digital equipment is easy to be damaged during training. Replacing and repairing these equipment every year is another huge expense.
From Moore's Law, we can see that the replacement of digital equipment is much faster than the elimination rate of conventional weapons!
A newly developed high-performance chip, when you decide to use this chip, design a system, until it is produced, then pass the acceptance, and when the troops start to accept equipment, it is already behind!
Digital troops are just gold-swalking beasts!
Therefore, although the concept of digital troops is very advanced and the combat efficiency is much higher than that of ordinary troops, at present, everyone is doing some verification on a small scale.
Without a large-scale war, no one can bear to invest huge amounts of money to build large-scale digital troops.
So, when it was discovered that Saudi Arabia had been equipped with a brigade-scale digital force, the whole world focused its attention on them and guessed how much they spent for this?
Fifty thousand dollars a set!
The Saudi military was discovered by someone and had to disclose some information in half and half. However, when asked about the price of each set of equipment, they bite it to death, and they bought it for $50,000 each.
They also have 50% of the shares of this set of equipment. If the unit price is higher, others still want to buy it, so they can also make profits when they become middlemen. If other countries think it is expensive, that's just right. Huanyu Company's production capacity is limited, and it will take more than ten years to supply Saudi Arabia's 130,000 units.
Home is round.
Most countries are mocking Saudi Arabia for being a sucker.
However, the coalition aircraft stationed at various bases in Saudi Arabia have expanded their "patrol scope" since then. The markets of the digital brigades have shuttled and fro in the US, UK, France and China.
After all. This is the first time in the world that it has been a digital force in an established place. Who can take it lightly?
The Saudi military hates these uninvited guests very much, but it is difficult to drive them away. Under helplessness, they can only hide their strength and do more routine training.
It is also a tragedy that a country still cannot keep military secrets in its own territory.
Later, they were really harassed so that they could not train normally. The Saudi military gritted their teeth and discussed with the Chinese Embassy: transfer all the entire army to China for normal training. In the future, they will gradually let the Saudi army receive equipment in China, and after familiarizing themselves with the equipment, they will return to China as a whole.
Since then, the connection between the Saudi military and the Chinese military has gradually become warmer and closer.
The digital experimental team formed by China itself often conducts confrontation exercises with them. Both sides are familiar with tactical cooperation during confrontation. Learning how to fight against the same method is also a digital force.
At the beginning, both sides equipped with digital equipment.
After several confrontations, China's advantages were not obvious. It usually achieved the final exercise victory based on the soldiers' personal combat qualities.
But later, as military digital equipment gradually equips the troops, China's advantages began to gradually realize.
In combat under harsh conditions, China's equipment stability far exceeds that of Saudi Arabia. Whether in the scorching desert or the cold ice fields, China's digital equipment has no obvious decline in efficiency.
But Saudi Arabia is much worse.
Under high temperature conditions in deserts, if the equipment is turned on for more than two hours, the system will run slowly. If it exceeds three hours, the frequency of the system crash will increase rapidly, and the equipment will aging will also speed up.
Saudi Arabia once wanted to buy military models of Chinese military equipment, but was politely rejected by China.
They also knew that China would definitely not sell the best equipment to them. So although they were a little jealous, they could only sigh and wait for the launch of the export model of Universal Company, hoping that it would not be much worse than China's military model.
By March 1995, the second batch of Saudi Arabia's brigade also came to China.
They and the first batch used a mixed-editing method to exchange training and learned the tactics of digital equipment with the old and new ones. At the request of the Saudi military, China also sent instructors to teach Saudi soldiers to be familiar with the equipment.
It was eager to wait until early June that Saudi Arabia had been waiting for a long time to provide the improved and elite equipment to Saudi Arabia.
The improved and elite models are in the same lineage in terms of design ideas and belong to the same series.
The improved version is a simplified version of the elite version, and its performance is one level of quantity worse than the elite version. Moreover, the quality of the electronic components used by both parties is also different.
Elite components, except for communication modules, are all special military standards, just like those of the Chinese military.
The improved model uses industrial-grade products, which are twice as high as the commercial-grade product and two qualities lower than the elite model.
When Saudi Arabia used it, it also clearly felt the difference between the two.
In the desert area, the improved fault-free continuous use time is five hours, while the elite model is used for more than ten hours in a row, and there is no obvious loss of performance!
However, no matter what, the improved digital individual equipment is still much better than the initial version.
Saudi Arabia is very satisfied with the money, and it is not unfair to spend it.
After using and comparing, they adjusted the quantity of orders: the original improved model reduced 100,000 sets to 80,000 sets; and the original 30,000 sets of elite models also increased by 20,000 sets to 50,000 sets accordingly.
Saudi Arabia believes that with such a high and low combination, Saudi Arabia's combat effectiveness will be more than three times higher than before!
This order modification also added $300 million in revenue to Universal!
By October, the first batch of digital troops trained had basically formed an army and was transferred back to China. The third batch of soldiers receiving equipment were also set off for China.
As the number of people changing clothes on Saudi Arabia continues to increase, the outside world is unconfident about how many sets of equipment Saudi Arabia has purchased.
Some guessed it was 20,000 sets, and some guessed it was 50,000 sets, but no one would have thought that the Saudi military was preparing to equip 130,000 digital troops one after another!
The Saudi military's major dressmaking changes also shocked the United States, Britain and other countries.
Seeing a group of Saudi soldiers heading to China, they no longer believed the price of each set of equipment that Saudi Arabia claimed was $50,000.
A set of 50,000 US dollars. Even if you equip ten thousand people, you will have to pay 500 million US dollars!
No matter how many people can fight ten thousand people, their role on the battlefield will not be able to achieve the effect of controlling the situation.
Unless Saudi Arabia is crazy, it would never cost such a high price to equip a digitized force with a high or low effect.
But when it comes to the test troops, Saudi Arabia first equipped a digital brigade, which is enough to verify all tactics. Why bother to go to China to receive equipment one by one?
The United States, Britain and other countries are unable to sit still.
Putting aside costs, the more digital equipment the Saudi military buys, the more it means that China's real estate capacity is more than that!
Then once the West starts war with China, China will have the ability to quickly change clothes on a large scale and form a digital division, army, and even an entire army that scares the entire Western world!
Think about it, when you find that all the Chinese army on the opposite side are all digital warrior equipment. A whole digital legion is coming from the face to face, invincible and invincible, who dares to stand out?
The United States, Britain and other countries looked at the Saudi assembly line and sent soldiers to China in an established manner, and then drove back one by one, one by one, and felt a burst of shock in their scalp!
They are eager to test the combat effectiveness of this digital force.
In the name of responding to Saddam's threat, they demanded a joint military exercise with the Saudi military and called on Saudi Arabia's digital army to call on Saudi Arabia's digital army
After collective pressure from the United States, Britain and other countries, Saudi Arabia reluctantly agreed to Xi.
To be continued...