Global monopoly of technology

During the three days at the National Defense Military Strategic Science Academy, Luo Sheng basically guessed some of the military's decisions.

Because this year is not only the first year of the military-civilian integration strategy, but Luo Sheng in the field of artificial intelligence is currently the best nationwide. The Blue Coast Laboratory is known as the "Bell Laboratory" of the East. In recent years, scientific and technological achievements have been successively developed. Continuing began to emerge, and it is receiving 40 billion US dollars in research and development funding every year.

It is no exaggeration to say that many national-level scientific research institutions in China are envious, as are other scientific research institutions in the world. Scientists will not make money, but scientific research requires krypton gold.

Only Luo Sheng has achieved both, gaining technological advantages through scientific research investment, excellent international competitiveness through technological advantages, high profits through core competitiveness, and high profits to feed back scientific research investment, thus forming A benign blood circulation.

Luo Sheng is also quite curious about the three areas the military intends to give him for the development of artificial intelligence military applications.

Yang Hongyi handed a top-secret document that he brought to Luo Sheng, who unpacked the document and opened it for a glance.

Luo Sheng was surprised when he saw it: "Three aspects: sea, land and air?"

Yang Hongyi nodded.

Luo Sheng stopped talking, browsing one by one, understanding the content before talking.

Unmanned submarine for naval projects.

It can also be called an unmanned underwater vehicle or an unmanned underwater vehicle, that is, a military vehicle that sails underwater without being piloted by remote control or automatic control.

The military’s assessment is that with the development of unmanned submarine vehicles and related technologies, this military vehicle has a powerful space to perform tasks such as mine clearance, reconnaissance, intelligence collection, and ocean exploration. It can also be used in future naval battles. Used as an underwater weapon platform, logistics support platform and other equipment.

At the same time, the military also assessed its advantages and limitations.

Advantage:

Compared with submarines, unmanned submarine is an unmanned combat platform, so it can greatly reduce the casualties caused by war; its small size and other stealth high-tech applications make its stealth performance higher than that of submarines; Uses, low cost, and large-scale deployment.

Limitations:

Poor endurance limits the scope of use of unmanned submersibles. The lithium battery used has technical defects such as easy to catch fire, and the navigation function needs to be improved.

Powered exoskeleton for army projects.

The military's assessment is that military-powered exoskeleton is an emerging force on the battlefield in the future, and it is an auxiliary equipment to cooperate with human soldiers.

Advantage:

Military-powered exoskeleton can improve soldiers' battlefield survivability in the execution of combat and dangerous tasks, and has the advantages of high intelligence and high combat effectiveness.

Limitations:

Without the combat capability under complex conditions, the environmental adaptability is difficult to reach the level of independent combat, and it largely depends on the operations of human soldiers.

However, in the long run, with the development of intelligent traction mechanization and informatization to a higher level and higher level, the development potential of military power exoskeleton is huge, its intelligence will be higher, the weapon platform will be more complex, and the environment will be more suitable. The survivability will also be stronger, and the modes of war that can participate will also be diversified.

A swarm of drones for the Air Force project.

The military’s assessment is that the drone swarm is composed of a number of low-cost small drones equipped with multiple mission loads. They refer to the collective behavior patterns of bee swarms and other insects to coordinate and complete specific operations under human wisdom or supervision. task.

Advantage:

During combat, drone swarms can be specialized and can perform a variety of tasks; each drone has a relatively single function, and assembly line production can greatly reduce R&D and procurement costs; it can increase the number of battlefield sensors and attack weapons, so that the military can The local battlefield has the advantage of the number of aerial equipment. A large number of drones can paralyze the enemy's air defense radar, consume a limited number of high-cost air defense ammunition from the enemy, and exchange for a high-yield battle damage.

Limitations:

Because drone swarms have higher requirements for collaboration and autonomy, it is necessary to establish a new intelligent control mode for managing large-scale swarms. Therefore, they are faced with key technical challenges such as overcoming cooperative combat algorithms, communication between cluster individuals, and remote intelligent control.

Yang Hongyi saw that Luo Sheng had almost understood, and immediately said: "These three military research projects, the military is most valued by the drone swarm project. In the future, the drone swarm may tow aerial combat equipment to show a cheap body. The characteristics of globalization, platform autonomy, and load miniaturization may have a subversive impact on the development of future aviation equipment system, but this is also the most difficult..."

Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile when he heard Yang Hongyi's last sentence. It may be the most difficult in others' eyes, but it is the easiest for him. The core technology is artificial intelligence technology, which is the degree of intelligence. .

And now it is no exaggeration to say that Xiaona's intelligence is already competent enough.

Luo Sheng closed the document and looked at Yang Hongyi and asked, "Is this an internal bidding project? Are there any other institutions involved?"

Yang Hongyi replied: “There are other institutions involved, but they are all part of the modules, mainly the hardware section, mainly supporting the system, and the system software level, especially the artificial intelligence section, is unavailable. If you do not connect, there will be no one. received."

Luo Sheng didn't think much, and said directly: "No problem, I took these three projects."

Hearing this, Yang Hongyi's spirit was slightly vigorous, because he heard from Luo Sheng's tone of a strong confidence, which is not possessed by the heads of other institutions, and referring to his technical achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, The future can be expected.

After a while, Luo Sheng added: "But I want to know the size of the military's procurement? I have to know this because it involves the issue of the balance of research and development costs."

Hearing this, Yang Hongyi couldn't help but look back and forth. Luo Sheng's words interpreted a very crucial signal, that is, he never thought about asking the state to grant him subsidies for research and development.

This shows that he not only has to take over the project, but also does not lose money without receiving state subsidies for scientific research funds. This is a model similar to Boeing. What equipment does the military want? List the important indicators. , And then let related companies bid, and purchase after the product is developed.

In this way, the state subsidy for scientific research funds is eliminated, because the enterprise itself bears this huge expenditure.

Yang Hongyi smiled and said: “You don’t have to worry about procurement. Now the country is rich, military expenditures are growing at double digits every year, and a large number of active weapons and equipment are old and need to be updated. Military enterprises, especially high-tech and high-quality military enterprises. A company, even a country that loses money will not allow it to fail. Have you ever seen the Americans allow Boeing to fail?"

Luo Sheng nodded, and couldn't help but smile: "That's true."

Yang Hongyi added: “Secondly, the military is not allowed to do business. The military has no right to intervene in your business activities. However, after the relevant state departments will comprehensively assess national security, military enterprises can also be approved to develop export-oriented weapons. equipment."

Exporting foreign trade is the big business of blood, and military exporting is the huge profit among the huge profits. Everyone knows that the export of a weapon and equipment of the United States can easily reach more than 400% of profits.

More importantly, as long as you sell a foreign trade-type weapon and equipment, it means that you will be able to ensure your income from droughts and floods every year, because the logistic maintenance of a piece of equipment is there, and the lifespan of a piece of equipment is often counted. Years or even more than ten years.

Obtaining the relevant qualification license is the legal international military industry trade. Without the qualification, it means arms smuggling, and it is a prison.

But even so, getting the relevant qualifications does not mean that the product will be sold to whomever you want to sell. The country has the final say on how to sell the product, and the company has the final say. The export trade of military products is different from the export trade of ordinary civilian commodities. Such things related to national security and international relations need to be strictly monitored.

Even if the North American military giant Lockheed Martin, its F-22 stealth fighter is wanted to buy in all countries around the world, the price depends on you, and Lockheed Martin also wants to sell it, but the corner building and the White House cannot export without nodding their heads.

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