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Chapter 349 Testing in Progress! (First Update!)

After being shaken a few times by Lin Yi, Fahrbad struggled to slap Lin Yi's hand away, rolling his eyes and saying:

"We don't have any standard artillery!"

"Therefore, your firing parameters are ineffective for us."

At this point, Fahbad's gaze fell on the drone, but he quickly looked away reluctantly.

Artillery is an extremely important branch of the army.

A war with artillery support and one without artillery support have two completely different outcomes.

The gas cylinder cannon that Lin Yi gave him, while enabling the Sadr Movement to establish an artillery force to some extent, was not a professional one.

Compared to professional artillery, they are nothing but a drop in the ocean.

In their hands, a drone with this level of performance is not as good as the kind of drones that were directly strapped with explosives and sent to crash.

After a while, his gaze returned to the drone, wondering how far its control range was.

If the control range is far enough, they can also develop a batch of drones.

wrong……

Fahbad slapped his forehead, realizing he had gone astray.

This stuff is useless against them, but it's effective against the Iraqi government forces, and the armed groups of Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt.

They could easily act as middlemen, shipping the goods to Iraq first, or even without shipping them to Iraq, they could negotiate with someone first, and once an agreement is reached, ship the goods directly from China.

You can make a lot of money as long as you find the right people.

Having made money, the Sadr Movement is able to arm itself.

But soon, he couldn't help but sigh again.

Because these kinds of people can't keep secrets at all.

If this thing ends up in their hands, it could easily fall into someone else's hands, which would be very troublesome.

I'll use it myself.

With a sigh, he turned around and whispered to Lin Yi:

"Can your parameter calculation be applied to some unconventional weapons?"

The next second, Lin Yi pointed to himself with his right hand:
"Don't worry, we will synchronize the parameters of the gas cylinder cannon at that time."

"That's good! That's good!" Fahbad said several times, then turned his attention to the person controlling the drone.

Next to the control terminal, Mao Xiaofei was still busy recording data.

More than 10 minutes later, he raised his head, stretched, and then picked up the walkie-talkie on his chest: "The second round of testing is starting. You two who were playing hide-and-seek can come back now."

The second round of testing began. Two burly men from the security department first dragged a piece of equipment off a pickup truck. After a routine inspection, the equipment was thrown directly next to the control terminal.

The device was turned on, and Mao Xiaofei brought the walkie-talkie to his lips:

"Special scenario test one: strong electromagnetic interference environment."

"Interference equipment activated!"

At his command, the person guarding the equipment turned it on, and as soon as the sound of the equipment running rang out, Mao Xiaofei took out his phone.

Unsurprisingly, there was no signal on the phone.

He then turned to look at the control terminal, where the signal position was flashing continuously on the screen.

The signal strength fluctuated repeatedly between the single red bar and the broken red bar.

High in front of them, four drones were still hovering there. The electromagnetic interference emitted by the new equipment had no effect on the drones.

This continued for about 10 minutes before the drone began to return to base automatically.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, it landed smoothly on the ground.

The equipment was shut down, and the drone took off again, but this time it flew a greater distance. Under the operator's control, it disappeared from everyone's sight in a flash and flew towards the surface of Taihu Lake.

When Mao Xiaofei finished recording the data and looked at the control terminal again, he only saw four large numbers displayed on the terminal.

23.45 kilometers.

24.77 kilometers.

23.63 kilometers.

24.53 kilometers.

Four drones flew in four directions, heading west and north.

After staring at the screen for a while, he calmly pressed down on the operator's shoulder: "If these four drones don't come back later, or if they crash into the water, you go and retrieve them!"

After making the threat, he didn't forget to give the drone operator a healthy smile.

Turning around, the jamming device was turned on again, and the signal display on the control terminal screen flickered again, flashing back and forth between the signal being disconnected and the signal being lost.

Seeing the flashing notification, Mao Xiaofei crossed his arms and turned his head, casting his gaze towards the northwest sky. His expression was calm, but the constant tapping of his index finger on his arm betrayed his worry.

After a while, the drone still hadn't returned. He turned his head slightly to look at Lin Yi:
"Shall we skip this test and move on to the next crash simulation test?"

"Wait a minute!" Lin Yi leaned against the pickup truck bed and responded calmly.

About 10 minutes later, four black dots appeared in the sky, which was almost visible to the naked eye.

In just over ten seconds, the four black dots landed in front of the group and then slowly descended.

The moment the drone's propellers stopped spinning, Mao Xiaofei exhaled the breath he had been holding in his chest.
"Collect data, replace battery, turn on GPS and turn off test in 10 minutes."

Ten minutes is just a blink of an eye. The four drones took off again, and when they reached a similar distance to before, Mao Xiaofei decisively ordered the satellite signal to be cut off and the jamming equipment to be turned on.

The jamming equipment has started operating.

This time, even the operators completely let go, holding their heads in their hands, leaning back in their small chairs, and lazily looking at the northwest sky.

As Lin Yi looked towards the northwest sky, Fahbad came to his side and whispered:
"You turned off the satellite signal while simultaneously turning on the jamming equipment."

"Isn't the drone in the same condition as the one you sold to us before?"

"Can it fly back?"

“Okay!” Lin Yi nodded seriously, looked at the northern sky for a while, and then turned to Fahbad to explain:
"The batch we gave you was a special model, designed so that it would never return."

"This batch, however, consists of fully-fledged drones with more system functions."

"One of its functions is to disconnect the satellite signal and return to home in a strong interference environment."

"This feature is quite cumbersome on small drones, since places with strong interference are not easy to access."

"But if this technology is applied to large drones, like the America Reaper drone, it will work very well."

Just as he finished explaining, Fahbad suddenly pointed to the northwest sky. Lin Yi also looked up and saw four drones slowly approaching in the direction Fahbad was pointing.

Upon approaching, the drone did not land immediately, but hovered in the sky for a while before slowly landing.

As the propellers stopped spinning, Mao Xiaofei, who had been holding his breath the whole time, finally opened his mouth and exhaled all the air from his lungs.

He quickly turned off the signal jamming equipment, reconnected the four drones to the control terminal, and began reading the flight logs. It was 20 minutes later when he finished reading the logs.

He approached Lin Yi with the flight log: "Boss, the drone's flight attitude malfunctioned the instant the GP... satellite signal was lost, but it quickly regained control of itself."

"Then it will automatically return to home."

"Aside from the problem with flight attitude, everything else is the same as the initial settings."

"We need to go back and thoroughly examine the flight attitude control code."

"Do we need to continue testing?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi looked up at the sky. Although the sun had begun to set, it was still a long time before it got dark.

You can also do testing, and you can also do the nighttime testing while you're at it.

He nodded: "Continue, begin the no-fly zone control test."

"Okay!" Mao Xiaofei tucked the flight recorder under his arm, turned around and walked back to the control terminal. After taking control of the terminal from the operator, he leisurely took out a USB flash drive from his pocket and plugged it into the control terminal.

The control terminal begins reading data from the USB drive, and finally a dialog box pops up:

[Has the no-fly zone been established?]

After clicking "Confirm," Mao Xiaofei began setting up the no-fly zone based on the data from the previous flight.

The no-fly zone was set up in just a few minutes.

He unplugged the USB drive and turned to look at the operator:
"Let's see if we can control the drone to take off."

After instructing the operators, Mao Xiaofei took out his phone and made a call to the people remaining at the company:
"We are currently conducting no-fly zone testing. Please take a look at the database."

"The database should contain the no-fly zone map that was just uploaded."

"Remember to save the data after the test is finished!"

The operator nodded, turned off the drone, restarted it, and reconnected it to the control terminal.

He used the control terminal to send the takeoff command to the drone. The drone's green indicator light started flashing. After a brief period of rapid flashing, the green indicator light turned red and began playing sound effects.

[WARNING: Drones are prohibited from taking off in this area!]

[Repeated: Drones are prohibited from taking off in this area!]

[Repeated: Drones are prohibited from taking off in this area. Forced takeoff may result in damage to the drone, which is not covered under warranty. Do not operate!]

A clear and articulate voice came from the drone. Mao Xiaofei smiled and joked with Lin Yi, "I think this voice should be a little sweeter."

"We can add a voice pack later, 10 yuan each." Lin Yi, channeling his shrewd businessman nature, started coming up with a bad idea.

Upon hearing this, Mao Xiaofei nodded thoughtfully, stuffed his phone into his pocket, and walked toward the control terminal.

I plugged the USB drive back in, deleted the previously marked no-fly zone for drones, and redrawn a new no-fly zone.

This time, the no-fly zone was extended to the hillside in front.

After marking out the no-fly zone and unplugging the USB drive, the drone took off under the operator's control and then flew towards the no-fly zone under control.

After flying for a short while, the drone detected a no-fly zone, its underlying code logic was affected, and the drone came to a standstill.

In everyone's view, the drone that was flying forward seemed to have hit a wall, and began to hover in the air, moving up, down, left and right, but just wouldn't move forward.

In front of the control terminal, the operator forcibly pushed the joystick, forcing the drone forward.

Even when the control stick was pushed all the way, the drone did not move forward an inch.

When he forcefully pushed the control stick again, the drone returned directly to the ground.

Once the drone propellers stopped spinning, Mao Xiaofei and three others went forward, picked up all four drones from the ground, and carried them to the other side. They then signaled to the operators to take off and begin flying around the no-fly zone.

Fahbad watched them operate, and at the end, he decisively asked Lin Yi:

"I don't quite understand why you set up something like this."

"For safety!" As he spoke, Lin Yi snapped his fingers, then spread his arms wide and gestured forcefully:
"No country's government would want this thing flying around its territory with impunity."

"Therefore, we must set up no-fly zones to help the authorities determine which areas are permitted to fly and which are not."

"Only in this way can our products be sold all over the world."

The explanation made Fahbad lower his head and begin to think about the key points.

To be fair, if it were just the drone they were using, he probably wouldn't have cared.

After all, that thing is just a big firework that goes up into the sky. Once it's up there, you don't need to worry about it. Just throw it at one place.

Whether it's accurate or not doesn't matter, whether it hits anyone or not doesn't matter, what matters is that this thing flies over and explodes.

This is the most important point.

However, the drone being tested now has significantly enhanced controllability. In urban areas, such a drone, equipped with some gear, could easily wipe out an elite squad.

If used for destruction, it will be even more powerful.

No-fly zones should indeed be established.

But soon, a new question popped into his mind.

What if the restrictions of the no-fly zone are bypassed?
It's not impossible!
On the ground, if you want to prevent someone from entering a certain place, you only need to build a wall.

No-fly zones for drones are essentially a type of electronic fence.

Code can have bugs and can be compromised.

He looked up at Lin Yi and asked, "If someone cracks the logic code of the no-fly zone, what would you do?"

"It's very simple!" Lin Yi snapped his fingers, then spread his arms wide, striking a pose like a villain arrogantly explaining his plan:

“Our underlying code is bound to the hardware. Once it is detected that someone has tampered with the logic code, the code mines we have planted will be activated, causing a direct overload. While burning out the hardware, the data will be transmitted back to the satellite, and the satellite will then transmit the data back to the database.”

"Information about the relevant buyers will also be locked in the database."

"Of course, that's only one aspect."

"This is just a regular no-fly zone."

"Beyond the no-fly zone, there is also an air defense zone."

"If someone tries to use a drone to force their way into an air defense zone, the drone's code will bypass the overloaded hardware and directly connect to the satellite and database."

"Transfer control of drones from the controller to the database."

"As control is transferred, the drone will return to base and take back the gifts that people wanted to send via drone."

"You should be able to understand what I'm saying!"

Born in a land of constant warfare and having spent his childhood amidst conflict, Fahbad was naturally able to understand what Lin Yi was saying.

Hearing Lin Yi say this in person, he was not disappointed at all; on the contrary, he was very happy.

If that's the case, then his last bit of hesitation about reselling drones is gone.

(End of this chapter)