Chapter 90 Xiao Qiang's Wonderful Ideas(1/2)
"Know yourself and your enemy, and you will win every battle. Modern wars are the battle for information transmission. The success rate and timeliness of information transmission most directly determine the outcome of a war! The first thing we need to solve is this problem!"
Xiao Qiang's first words when he saw Director Zhou laid the foundation for the preparation for this high-tech exercise.
Major General Zhou and the scientists here did not object to this.
In the early days of our army, due to low communication capabilities, we could only use radio remote control. Once the troops were spread out, they could not even find the shadows until the agreed contact time. The highest commander could only give limited strategic instructions after the form of the battlefield and changes in the enemy and us. After the generals in front were transmitted back, they would give limited strategic instructions: capture a certain area, block the enemy, strive to gain control of a certain area, etc. Moreover, the command was also vague, and there was little resoluteness to be implemented. In terms of commanding the enemy, the generals in the front would decide for themselves.
By the early 1980s, during the Southwest Border Battle, our army had generally equipped military walkie-talkies to command the form of the battlefield, and had a clearer understanding, clearer instructions, quickly adjust the troops, and make targeted plans.
It can be said that all soldiers will not have different opinions on the importance of information.
Xiao Qiang also understood this deeply.
To be honest, the domestic military has never had a very clear concept of what high technology is and how it is considered a war under high-tech conditions.
Since its establishment, our army has been built with millet and guns, bit by bit.
At the beginning of the founding of the country, he used inferior equipment and armed Americans to fight in North Korea and fought a high-intensity war in a limited area.
Since then, the tactical thinking of spiritualism has long become the main aspect of military construction.
Due to well-known reasons, when the country is in a state of chaos, when the United States and the Soviet Union have always been thorny in their eyes, and when even the country's economic construction cannot be carried out normally, talking about military modernization is a huge joke in itself.
There are always two thinking between the top leaders: Soviet-style army building and American-style army building.
Most of the older generation of generals had witnessed the Soviet army in World War II, and the volley of thousands of cannons were concentrated to fire, forming the steel flame hell. There is no doubt that this spectacular scene can indeed leave a very deep impression on people's sensory stimulation, and was talked about by people many years later.
But Xiao Qiang himself is a supporter of American military-style idea.
The Soviet Union's ten thousand cannons fired together, which was very majestic and mighty, but its efficiency was really low. It relied on endless coverage bombardment, and used the power of thunder to crush the enemy to ashes.
However, how much resources does this consume?
The inevitability of high-tech weapons lies in their accuracy, and because of their accuracy, in fact, it has greatly saved national resources and reduced battlefield consumption. Because what it consumes is more important is technical reserves! It is an invisible crystallization of high-tech!
Rather than crude large-scale intensive products.
As for the expensiveness of high-tech weapons, Xiao Qiang, who retains some memories of his past lives, has the most intuitive understanding.
In his vague memory, the production capacity of China in his era shocked the world. No matter what product is, it was expensive before China participated in production. Once China's production reached a scale, the price of that product would drop sharply, thus becoming a consumable that most people can afford.
At the beginning, this situation was not prominent because it was mainly concentrated in downstream labor-intensive industries.
However, with the technological innovation of domestic manufacturers and the replacement of production lines, electronic products quickly fell from the altar of price. Decades later, the United States, Britain and other countries could only hold some of their core technologies tightly and defend the defense line.
Therefore, Xiao Qiang has absolute confidence in the future of the country, which is different from most people in this era.
They have no idea about how the future will develop, whether the reform can achieve results, and how much results can be achieved. In the words of the No. 1 leader, it is called "crossing the river by feeling the stones."
Confidence is Xiao Qiang’s greatest reliance.
Since China has strong productivity many years later, why should we take the path of Soviet-style army building and waste a lot of manpower and material resources on the development path that will inevitably be eliminated by the times?
Using one hundred or two hundred shells as the target of covering shelling, a tactical missile solves the problem. How much pressure will this reduce for the army's logistics?
How many more civilian products can be produced by the saved resources? How many people can employment be promoted?
So he took this opportunity to firmly grasp the right to interpret high-tech wars, and decided everything with one sentence of information, laying a footnote for the discussion meeting carefully organized by the National Defense Science and Technology Commission.
Xiao Qiang's conclusion was undoubtedly passed. He was wearing an eight-one-brimmed hat and comforted him.
He was wearing a military uniform, which was specially prepared by Director Zhou for him.
The army is a collective, a disciplined unit, and a department whose sense of collective honor exceeds everything. If Xiao Qiang was an ordinary civilian or a student under twenty years old, he would be unreasonable to point fingers at the room full of soldiers.
So, he was wearing a military uniform and a lieutenant colonel uniform. In this sense, he is now the temporary representative of the military.
However, which of the senior veteran scientists of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission are not technically above the colonel? There are also several veteran scientists who carry Venus on their shoulders, and are technical officers at the general level! Xiao Qiang, a small lieutenant colonel, seemed insignificant under the siege of so many generals.
But what the army emphasizes is obedience.
As a special military officer, his lieutenant colonel is only in the military class. At the temporary administrative level, as long as Director Zhou does not interfere, this is the biggest here.
Xiao Qiang took advantage of the moment when everyone was united in their understanding and immediately distributed the task.
His mission is to build a real experimental unit, which has always been based on existing technology and strives to reproduce the experimental unit of the high-tech unit in his memory - a purely digital unit!
Of course, this can only be a digital force with extremely rough technology.
It is impossible to have a ready-made GPS positioning system, nor can it be equipped with such a system for every soldier.
His plan was to hand over the positioning task to the special walkie-phone operators that every class would have. So many scientists have made comprehensive improvements to the existing walkie-phone system of our army.
Many heavy and thick electronic parts have been removed, and as long as they can be replaced by integrated circuits, all integrated circuits will be used!
A shoulder-mounted surveillance lens was installed on the walkie-talkie. This thing is not small yet. With the efforts of the manufacturer, it is as big as a brick and weighs three kilograms.
The electrical signals transmitted by the monitoring lens are specially encrypted by a chip and highly compressed, and are broadcasted to the outside with a military amplifier, similar to live broadcast on a TV station, but only a receiver equipped with a decryption chip can be restored to a video signal.
Is this kind of video image? I can only say that it is careless and just use it as much as possible, but it is still much better than not.
The improved special walkie-talkie has achieved the ability to synchronize voice and video signals, with a total weight of 25 kilograms, of which the military battery weighs 15 kilograms. There is no way to support the normal operation of the amplifier, and the battery consumption is much larger than that of ordinary walkie-talkie. This is also the meaning of the question.
The squad locator is limited to power, and the transmission distance is only twenty kilometers, and cannot cover the entire battlefield. After entering the rear of the enemy, it is even more impossible to transmit timely information.
This requires a relay system.
Xiao Qiang's relay system is very interesting. He chose a military transport aircraft. After modification, it can serve as a battlefield information transmission node.
And, more interestingly, according to him, it was not an airplane, but a satellite!
The number of satellites in China is still limited, and it cannot reach the luxury of being specially allocated for an exercise. But under Xiao Qiang's insistence, everyone accepted his point of view - we play the role of foreign troops, we do not have so many satellites, but foreign countries have them, their satellites are spread throughout outer space and connected to a network.
We do not have enough satellites, but we can use native methods to simulate the existence of satellites, so that the aircraft can hover in the sky of 15,000 meters, forming a role in relaying information to the ground.
The central idea of the positioning system is positioning.
This, Xiao Qiang was thinking of a local solution.
He knew that later satellite positioning systems used special satellites to form networks around the world, and through the difference in the angle of the signal and the specific algorithms to determine the precise position of the signal.
This positioning is not a difficult problem to solve in the country.
The difficulty lies in how to find so many satellites to locate?
Xiao Qiang found the Continental Aviation Group and called twenty helicopters. After modification, he turned them into twenty signal receiving agencies and forwarded them to high-altitude relay aircraft (satellites). The relay aircraft then transmitted this information back to the ground command center.
The ground command center is the top priority of this positioning system.
He found the Great Wall Company, which developed China 386, from the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, and asked for their assistance.
The first famous product of Great Wall Company is called Great Wall 0520. It is actually a complete set of compatible machines that simulate IBM-PC based on the famous 286 chipset.
But don’t look at Xiao Qiang’s previous life, such as graphics cards, sound cards, etc., all kinds of messy things were purchased with supporting cards. If you buy them yourself, you can complete them alone like building blocks.
In this era, everything is not ready-made. Display drivers need to be designed by yourself, boards need to be designed by yourself, motherboards need to be designed by yourself, and everything needs Great Wall Group to understand all these technologies thoroughly and redesign and manufacture them, so that Xiao Qiang will admire him after learning about it.
He found Great Wall Group, not because he wanted their 386, but because he hoped that with the help of the giant machine research experts of the National Defense Science and Technology Commission, he built a battlefield computer center with hundreds of 386 chips.
The reason why Great Wall Company is the leader, rather than the giant machine experts, is that it is considered that Great Wall Company has thoroughly studied the technology of this chip, and with the help of giant machine design experts, an effective computer system can be formed.
Giant computers, which are called domestically, are called supercomputers abroad.
When the computer system was finally built, Xiao Gan was shocked: three parallel host systems needed three heavy military trucks to carry.
This is a truly giant machine.
The three hosts each have tasks: one is the data information database, which transmits the information database data after receiving the data request; the other is the service processing system, which processes the incoming service requests. If the information needs to be provided, it will be forwarded to the service requester after being allocated from the data system.
The last system is the central computing unit, which calculates the form of the battlefield based on existing data and under the requirements of the program.
In a sense, this system has reached the standard of quasi-megapixel.
Its main responsibility is to receive data from relay satellites, conduct analysis, determine the location of each signal source, and their identification number.
At the same time, there are ten small ground radar stations on the battlefield, and the role they play is the enemy's early warning aircraft.
That's right, although it's funny, Xiao Qiang can only use native methods to solve the equipment of foreign military forces, which is also the reality of domestic military technology! In response, scientists from the National Defense Science and Technology Commission just patted Xiao Qiang's shoulder after hearing these incredible ideas and sighed heavily.
If we have enough satellites and early warning aircraft, how could we use such a stupid method to get the early warning aircraft to go to the ground and do simulation?
The early warning aircraft goes to the ground, and there is a signal source. There is also a transport aircraft in the sky, simulating the tactical actions of the early warning aircraft. Under the escort of a team of fighter aircraft, it can either approach and detect, fly high to command, or retreat to avoid the opponent's fighter aircraft, and do a full set of actions!
Once the early warning aircraft is determined to be shot down, the entire battlefield radar network will be closed immediately, no longer providing radar information, and no longer providing guidance support for the fighter.
The radar signal is transmitted to the battlefield computer center. After vector terrain analysis, a set of terrain overview is formed to help the generals of the command center make correct judgments.
The processing capabilities of the battlefield computing center are very powerful after everyone's practice.
In addition to processing these data, there is also 16% of the redundant computing power. He was found by the National Defense Science and Technology Commission to inspect Xiao Qiang's work and the slim collusion of the University of Zheng, and immediately told the 1102 Factory, which manufactures the battlefield confrontation simulation system. The other party quickly made a batch of improved equipment, making full use of all the computing power of the computer system, and achieving the goal of laser battlefield confrontation to make the battlefield realistic as much as possible.
Moreover, after the computing center system was officially put into operation, experts from the National Defense Science and Technology Commission's giant machine research have re-proposed a set of design drawings for the computing center. This time, it is based on the 386 processor and a regular giant machine design plan.
Xiao Qiang did not turn it into a physical object, but reorganized this set of information and included the experts' supercomputer design plan in the mysterious space. This is a technical reserve, and it will be used sooner or later!
He tried his best to make such a big set of things and provided full imagination.
In terms of scientific and technological capabilities, everyone present, including Director Zhou of the Science and Technology Commission, is ten or a hundred times better than him, but no one thought of using such a method to achieve the role of simulating a high-tech battlefield system.
Some people may have thought of it, but because of the insufficient level or the application was not valued, it failed. But Xiao Qiang's luck was obviously good. He took advantage of the military high-tech exercises and the opportunity of the imperial military commissioner to successfully implement the entire military-industry coordination project and developed this system.
But no one knows the purpose behind his development of this system.
Xiao Qiang made it clear from the beginning: "A tactical squad is a closed group; a platoon is equivalent to the control center of several systems; while a company is equivalent to an independent processing system. Only by uniting a company can it form a battalion-level combat structure. This time, the high-tech positioning system is based on a battalion-based experimental unit. Each level should send a request to the next level and react after obtaining the feedback signal."
To be continued...