Agriculture Maniac

Chapter 548 The Three-System Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Industry

In the Nanyang incident, France's attitude changed repeatedly, partly because Tijuana Group halved its costs for nuclear waste recycling and nuclear equipment cleaning.

It was also because he planned to take advantage of Singapore's reconstruction to gain access to Southeast Asia.

This concerns the Southeast Asian market, the Strait of Malacca, international shipping routes, high seas resources, and so on.

For example, before the Great Cataclysm in Southeast Asia, France had no foundation in Southeast Asia.

At this time, although the Strait of Malacca is an international high seas waterway and no toll is charged, the waterway is frequently under maintenance and congested, and cargo ships need to temporarily dock at service areas in Singapore and Malaysia.

The berthing period could be 2 days, 5 days, or 10 days to half a month.

During this period, the docked cargo ships need to pay berthing fees, and the goods on board, such as frozen food, will increase management costs every day.

Thus, on Indonesia's list of imported goods, a package of frozen steak from France costs 20% more than the same product imported from North America and England.

Furthermore, France has no influence in Southeast Asia, and its goods are subject to an average tax rate of about 28% in the region.

In contrast, the three major systems account for about 5%, North America about 12%, and England about 13%.

All these factors combined mean that French goods are priced up to 50% higher in supermarkets in Malaysia and Indonesia than similar products from San Francisco, North America, and England.

It can be said that it has no market competitiveness whatsoever.

There is.

Resources in the high seas are not necessarily valuable for exploitation just because they are discovered.

For example, you discover a natural gas field in the Pacific Ocean worth $1 trillion.

It sounds like a good thing, but the surrounding area is sparsely populated for thousands of miles. If you mine it and want to sell it, you need to spend a lot of money to lay a cross-sea pipeline. Considering the costs, risks, and so on, you will ultimately lose money.

For example, you might discover a natural gas field worth $1000 billion in the high seas of the Gulf of Thailand.

It may not sound like a large-scale operation, but you only need to hire one mining company and one pipeline company, and within six months you can transport natural gas to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, and so on, and eventually make money while lying down.

Therefore, there are plenty of high seas around the world, but all the valuable ones are located near 'consumption areas', or in other words, near 'places with people'.

Therefore, Europe and America have longed to see Southeast Asia.

However, France certainly cannot participate in Singapore's reconstruction projects, let alone obtain a ticket to Southeast Asia.

And it's not just France; North America, the UAE, England, including Japan, Germany, and many other countries, also cannot obtain it.

To quote the former Defense Minister of the Vietnam-Hong Kong-Macau Economic Circle, Rumsfeld: "Unless their fleet can sail into the South Seas!"

"Otherwise, all of you come over and pay up!"

This is the struggle of big capital.

This is also Yu Sanyuan's attitude.

The four major powers—Britain, the United States, and Canada—have strong opinions on this matter.

After all, everyone wants to establish a foothold in the Straits of Malacca in order to develop long-distance trade.

However, after the Combined Fleet incorporated the Marines Fleet, it became invincible in the South Seas.

Even if North America were to send its strongest Fifth Fleet, it would most likely suffer a crushing defeat.

Moreover, the Third, Fifth, and Seventh Fleets have returned to the North American mainland for rotational rest and are unlikely to return for at least three years.

Therefore, the four major countries, including Japan and South Korea, had to offer sufficient benefits to the Economic Commission for Vietnam, Hong Kong and Macao in exchange for the right to pass through the Strait of Malacca, the right to anchor, the right to operate, and the qualification for scientific research and investigation.

As for the new additions…

Nobody cares about it anymore.

...

North America, the Great Lakes region.

The white-haired old Morgan lay back in his wheelchair, watching a compilation of audio-visual materials from various intelligence systems.

The first was the South Pacific naval battle.

In the first round of attacks, the two sides' reconnaissance aircraft, early warning aircraft, unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and Starlink combat were all the same old tactics, with nothing much to study.

In the second wave of attacks, the Mariners deployed Super Panda carrier-based aircraft, which were modified from the F-14 Tomcat by the Smith family with the help of the Israeli aerospace industry.

Israel's defense industry, thanks to the accumulation of Jewish capital after the restoration of Israel, is generally superior to that of North America.

In other words, in the defense industry, federal capital needs to consider costs and then discard the 'best' and choose the 'most suitable'.

Under the leadership of the Jewish Restoration Movement, Israel spared no expense in adopting the best practices.

Therefore, in terms of sophistication, Israel's defense industry is superior to that of North America.

Therefore, the F-14X Super Panda carrier-based aircraft deployed by the Mariners Fleet has superior combat performance compared to the F/A-18 Hornet.

In particular, the AIM-54 Phoenix long-range missile carried by the Super Panda is a 'flamingo' improved with three new materials.

It means more ferocious and more brutal.

In contrast, the Combined Fleet.

In response to the Super Panda, the J-11 Ultra carrier-based aircraft, which had been trained on a cement-clad aircraft carrier for five years, was deployed.

This is the first carrier-based aircraft from the East.

According to intelligence analysis, its prototype should be the J-10 carrier-based prototype.

The relevant plan was launched in 01, with participants including Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group and Shenyang Aircraft Industry Group under China Eastern Airlines, and Sanyuan Heavy Industry and Sanyuan High-Tech Group under the Sanyuan Group.

The prototype's parameters are no longer of any reference value.

The current parameters are approximately:

Single-seat, twin-engine, manufactured using a three-component composite material.

It is 13.8 meters long, has a wingspan of 11.2 meters, a height of 3.6 meters, a sweep angle of 62°, and a wing area of ​​32 square meters.

With a thrust of 232 kN, a takeoff and landing run of less than 50 meters, an electromagnetic catapult run of less than 40 meters, a maximum speed of Mach 2.8 at high altitude, and a maximum speed of Mach 1.6 at low altitude.

It has a service ceiling of 2.3 meters, a combat radius of 1300 kilometers, and a range of 3000 kilometers.

Takeoff weight 21 tons, payload 9 tons, thrust-to-weight ratio 1:1.

It is equipped with three command and combat platforms and multiple radar systems from the East, but the modernization of the aircraft's avionics is probably stuck about 3 years ago.

Or rather, apart from improvements to the airframe and armament, the J-11 Ultra carrier-based aircraft project seems to have stalled.

General Electric Chairman Jack Welch began by saying:

"According to insiders, the three departments collective withdrew all R&D personnel as early as the end of 02 and stopped allocating funds."

"Especially recently, it is said that Yu Sanyuan planned to sell this project to India in order to recover the 3500 billion yuan of red currency invested in the early stage. However, the opinions of the superiors in the East were different, and the mainstream still advocated aircraft carriers. In the end, Yu Sanyuan's proposal was rejected."

Old Morgan picked up the remote control and focused the image on the culprits behind the destruction of the Mariners fleet: the drone carrier and the amphibious assault ship.

"Real combat proves everything; this battle demonstrates that aircraft carriers are indeed outdated."

Welch shook his head and denied it, saying, "No, it should be the advantage of the system, or in game terms, it should be called equipment setup."

"???"

"Just like a rogue in a game, your equipment focuses on attack and critical hits, my equipment focuses on agility and evasion, and his equipment focuses on defense and life steal. If the three of us go to fight a boss, we each have our own advantages. If the three of us play PvP, we each have our own advantages. If we want to maximize our own advantages, we also need to match our respective focuses in subsequent gameplay, such as pets, secret skills, etc."

Old Morgan understood and nodded.

Welch continued, "The biggest advantage of Tri-Tech is the graphics card matrix and Tri-Vacuum tubes. In the past few years, they have developed databases, large models, and Tri-RF chips around these two things. They then upgraded to The Tower Starlink, Tri-Combat Platform, and then cloud databases, central processing units, and Tri-AI."

Old Morgan seemed to be thinking. "You mean, our technology lacks a backbone, and the free development of various capital groups has led to the current chaotic state of our military?"

"Not only is it chaotic, but it is also difficult to form a system. Moreover, just like Yu Sanyuan complained about the Windows system being too redundant, the underlying layer of our command and combat system is very complicated, far less concise and clear than the three command and combat systems."

Welch then switched the scene to drone warfare, saying, "So even if the Marine Fleet is equipped with the best drone swarm system, a single unit can only command a maximum of 20 drones, or in other words, with the help of American AI, each Marine can operate a maximum of 20 drones. In contrast, considering the personnel configuration of warships, the Marine Fleet, which is larger than the Fifth Fleet, can carry a maximum of 20 drones."

The camera then switched to the drone carrier and slowed down the footage to "look at the three systems in contrast."

"The three types of drones are divided into quadcopter mini drones and jet-powered mini drones."

"The former does not require a launch platform. The guide rails inside the aircraft carrier send the containers to the deck or to the sides of the ship. Once the containers are unfolded, these layered quadcopter mini drones will automatically fly toward the target."

"A single container can hold 2500 drones, and the drone carrier can deploy 200 containers at a time, which is equivalent to releasing 50 drones at once."

"It takes 35 seconds to recover the container, 40 seconds to replace the container, and 80 seconds between each release of the drone and the previous release. This means that 1 million drones can be released in 100 minute and 20 seconds."

"In this naval battle, the drone carrier deployed a total of 8 batches of containers, with an estimated 400 million quadcopter mini drones involved."

"At the same time, the amphibious assault ship released 'jet mini-drones'."

"At the instant of release, at least 2500 small electromagnetic rails rose from the deck of the amphibious assault ship. Resembling cannon barrels, they were about 5 meters long and angled upwards at 45 degrees." "Below the electromagnetic rails, this chain-like structure is likely the bomb bay for the three types of UAVs; one UAV is launched via the electromagnetic rails, and another is immediately added..."

"It takes 1 second to eject one aircraft and 2 seconds to replenish it."

"This is equivalent to launching 1 jet-powered mini-drones from 2500 electromagnetic rails within 3 seconds."

"200,000 aircraft per minute, 1 million aircraft per 5 minutes."

"These jet-powered mini drones are about 0.68 meters long and weigh about 3.5 kg. Although they are drones, they are actually similar to our spring-loaded folding knife drones. They can fold their wings and transform into AI mini cruise missiles, which can then hit the target at supersonic speeds."

"If they had gathered first and then rushed toward the target together in a short period of time, any defense system would have been saturated instantly, so the Marines only managed to intercept a small portion."

After Welch finished speaking, he pulled up some data, "It's worth noting that 500 million drones is roughly the monthly production capacity of New Sanyuan Heavy Industry..."

"How much?!" Old Morgan stood up in surprise.

"A month, or... half a month, a week."

"???"

“Really, Mr. Morgan.”

"Don't joke with me like that."

"You might not believe it, but this is just the weapons production capacity of Sanyuan Heavy Industry. If you include the Sanyuan Electronics Industry, the industries in the surrounding towns and villages, and the Sanyuan Toy Factory, Dongfang's drone production capacity in 05 should be 1.5 million units."

Morgan Sr. stood there dumbfounded. "What are they building so many drones for?"

"First, there's drone-based pest control and fertilizer application in Agriculture 3.0; then drone-based surveillance in public security systems; next, drone-based dispatching in transportation systems; and then aerial photography, toys, competitions, performances..."

As Welch spoke, he pulled up data on the three-series drones. "Furthermore, if we include electric components, such as the parts we use to manufacture drones – the three-series electric toothbrush, and sex toys that can also be modified into core drone components… once wartime begins, the three-series civilian drones can be converted for military use, and in about a month we can achieve the same annual production capacity as we do now."

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"The booming drone industry is due to the support of Sanxi Technology and Sanxi Database."

Welch opened another screen, “Just like a character in The Sims, as long as you know the basic operations, move the keyboard and joystick, and practice a few more times, the background data can be used through the AI ​​big model to allow you to use the light industry at will and make the character present the effects you want.”

"So, in the drone industry, as long as you know the basic operations, move the keyboard and joystick, and practice a few more times, the AI ​​big model will allow you to control the drone at will."

"Similarly, the command and control platform has powerful 'distributed parallel processing capabilities,' and with the help of professional AI models, a single professional drone operator can operate at least 200 drones."

Welch switched the camera again, "For example, the Spring Festival Gala at the factory, the drone show at the Shiliying headquarters, a total of 50 drones were used. Because it was a live broadcast, in order to avoid signal interference, all the operators gathered on the elevated platform, about 1700 people."

"Therefore, developing drones into weaponry and then developing drone aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships becomes an inevitable choice for the three systems."

"Otherwise, they would need more time, more funding, and more resources to develop aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft that they are not familiar with."

"Therefore, the three systems collectively and decisively abandoned carrier-based aircraft."

After going through so many twists and turns, old Morgan finally understood what a 'system' meant.

"Technology, industry, weaponry... even games are all interconnected, progressing layer by layer, and continuously evolving."

Welch nodded. "The three departments' collective promotion of private economic development is actually a search for new paths, new industrial chains, and new operational systems, also known as ecosystems. If successful, the world will undergo unprecedented changes."

"What about us?"

"We're following along, but... we can't catch up!"

Upon hearing this, old Morgan raised his head, looked at his loyal subordinate who was also gray-haired, and noticed his increasingly severe dark circles under his eyes in recent years, and remained silent.

“Mr. Morgan, in general, building systems and ecosystems is the inevitable direction for future development. We need to increase investment, otherwise we will soon fall behind.”

After Welch finished speaking, he switched to video footage, "Furthermore, don't be fooled by Tijuana Corporation's defeat. In reality, their technology surpasses ours. This raid on Old Brooks' Carlisle Corporation demonstrated their level of land warfare capabilities."

In the scene, a dozen or so sailors, equipped with luxurious weaponry comparable to the ground weapons of the three systems, wielding modified M16s, are like omniscient and omnipotent cheaters, slaughtering more than 400 security guards of the Carlisle Group.

No need to aim, just sizzle.

No need to turn your head, just hiss hiss hiss.

Without needing to crouch, they charged forward while firing, and within seconds they seized the main hall of the Carlisle Group's office building and the server room where the monitoring system was located.

Old Morgan stared in disbelief. "This scene looks familiar."

"The Black Fat Man Commando?"

"Yes, genetically optimized human."

"Back in 02, the Smith family obtained the three-line gene optimization technology and hired twenty fat black men. At that time, it was also revealed that the Smith family used Native Americans on their private lands for experiments, which later led to the emergence of 'Sailor'. However, our side has made no progress in the field of gene optimization to date."

Welch sighed and continued, "Besides the 'Sailors,' Tijuana Corporation's light weaponry is also very advanced, and it is suspected that it possesses an AI command and combat system that is no less advanced than the third series."

"I cannot support a capitalist group dominated by religious lunatics."

"The problem is that Tijuana Corporation is at odds with the Brooks family, and the oil tycoon provided intelligence to David."

"If we can't take down David, can't we at least take down the oil tycoon?"

Welch paused for a moment, then nodded seriously. "Then I'll go prepare the takeover plan?"

"Ah."

"Should we try to win over the Bush family?"

"There is no need to win over the pieces. As long as they stay in the right place and play the role they are supposed to play, there is no need to pay attention to them."

“Yes, Mr. Morgan.”

...

February 3rd, the sixth day of the first lunar month.

Construction site on the west side of Jingshi Road.

early morning.

The construction site broadcasts the morning news.

First, there's the domestic situation.

With the combined fleet gaining complete control of the South Seas, the East also adjusted its foreign policy.

such as:

"Beijing has released the 'East Africa Policy Document,' which aims to declare the goals and measures of East Africa's policy toward Africa, plan for cooperation between the two sides in various fields in the future, and promote the long-term stable development of East Africa relations and the continuous advancement of mutually beneficial cooperation to new heights."

such as:

"The capital city gave a grand reception to the visiting delegation of the second prince of the oil country. The two sides reached a new round of cooperation in the Great Hall of the People, which aims to promote the further development of the economies of both sides and facilitate exchanges in crude oil extraction, refining and trade."

Foreign news, on the other hand, is more 'important'.

such as:

"The South Pacific tsunami was sudden and an unprecedented marine disaster. According to data provided by research institutions from multiple countries, as well as analysis by renowned meteorologists and geologists from multiple countries, the disaster originated from an unstable fault zone about 3500 meters underground in the Strait of Malacca."

"It collapsed under the pressure of the undersea currents driven by the warm Pacific Ocean, causing strong tremors in the Strait of Malacca."

"The orange-red halo that illuminated the entire sky at that time was the light transmitted from the seabed after the collision of the underwater fault lines..."

"Following this disaster, countries around the world actively engaged in relief efforts..."

"Among them, Sanyuan Agriculture donated 200 million tons of food to the disaster-stricken areas of South Vietnam, 50 tons of food to Cambodia, and 30 tons of food to Myanmar and Bangladesh... Please watch the report from the disaster relief material transfer site."

"Hello everyone, this is the freight area of ​​the Hang Gaixi Transportation Hub. In front of us are at least 150 heavy-haul trains fully loaded with containers, preparing to depart for Southeast Asia. Now let's interview the escorts."

"Hello, comrade, are these supplies being sent to disaster-stricken areas in Southeast Asia?"

"Yes."

What's inside this?

"Besides food, there are also tents, building materials, special precast cement slabs, and various construction equipment for the reconstruction in Singapore."

Yu Yang listened to the radio while eating breakfast.

The factory secretary rushed over and reported, "Just now, the oil tycoon suffered a sudden cardiac arrest and died despite all efforts to save him."

"Furthermore, the First and Second Fleets, originating from North America, have issued patrol notices to the economic zones of Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Macau, and will visit Hong Kong in approximately 10 days."

Yu Yang stopped chewing, pondered for a moment, and said, "Submit a cruise notification to North America. The Joint Fleet will visit the Gulf of Mexico in about 10 days."

"This will leave Southeast Asia empty."

"That would require the First and Second Fleets to dare to come over."

(End of this chapter)