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Chapter 82 Cheetah II

On July 1, Zhou Rui, led by Xing Yan, once again visited the military region.

The two men, together with the soldiers, watched the entire live broadcast of the Long March 6 rocket's launch and recovery in the conference room.

The moment the first stage of the core landed steadily in the center of the landing site, applause erupted in the conference room.

After the live stream ended, everyone surrounded Zhou Rui and Xing Yan as they arrived at the training ground.

The tarpaulin on the back of the truck was lifted, and twenty oversized military green equipment boxes were carried out by the soldiers and neatly lined up on the cement ground next to the training field.

The lids opened one by one, revealing not the gray-black passive mechanical arm from last time, but a complete exoskeleton suit.

The frame, made of titanium alloy and carbon fiber composite, gleams coldly in the sunlight, and the torsion springs at the joints are closely arranged, making it look a size larger than the previous generation.

Twenty soldiers selected from various companies were already lined up.

They were the winners who defeated all other opponents.

After the lieutenant in charge finished reporting to Xing Yan, Xing Yan nodded. The twenty men turned around at the same time and walked to their respective equipment boxes to prepare to put on their gear.

When Zhou Rui walked up to the soldier at the front of the line, he saw that the soldier was about to fasten the belt buckle of the exoskeleton onto his body.

Zhou Rui stopped the soldiers' actions, turned around to face everyone, and began to explain each point one by one.

"This active exoskeleton armor is named Cheetah II. Unlike the passive mechanical arm from last time, this is a complete full-body system."

He took out the leg skeleton from the box: "Due to the current energy density of batteries, the load-bearing structure of this exoskeleton is still mainly in a passive mode."

The frame itself uses a composite structure of titanium alloy and carbon fiber, which can provide basic mechanical support without the need for electricity.

Over the past six months, I have received a lot of feedback and reviewed your daily training data.

My assessment is that people who undergo high-intensity strength training over a long period of time do not lack muscle strength.

Therefore, the design approach was adjusted this time.

The function of "auxiliary muscle groups" is no longer the design focus; the current focus is on "strengthening the bones."

Zhou Rui pointed to the main force transmission rod on the side of the exoskeleton's thigh: "This rigid force transmission structure can bypass 80% of the impact force when landing and transmit it directly to the ground through the exoskeleton's support structure, bypassing the knee and ankle joints."

High-strength torsion springs are also installed in the hip, knee, and elbow joints.

When you make explosive movements such as punching, elbowing, jumping, or kicking, the spring will first help to accumulate power, and then release it simultaneously at the moment you exert force.

An attack launched in this way can exceed the limits of the human body's natural reaction speed.

"The function of the 'accessory muscle groups' is still there, but the amplification intensity has been reduced."

As Zhou Rui spoke, he lifted up the transmission links on his shoulders and waist: "So even if the battery is completely dead, the exoskeleton's skeletal support, impact transmission, and spring energy release functions will not be affected at all, and you can still wear it to fight for a long time."

The energy source primarily powers the chips and sensors inside the helmet, not the system itself.

After speaking, Zhou Rui picked up a set of palm-sized battery cells from the equipment box: "The back of the armor has four sets of symmetrical slots of varying heights for inserting battery cells."

The battery cells themselves are made of ternary lithium.

It supports fast charging and hot-swapping. If the battery is damaged or runs out of power during a battle, you can simply unplug it and replace it with a new one.

If necessary, the battery cells can be removed and thrown out as high-energy explosives. The detonation logic has been preset in the system; I'll teach you how to operate it later.

Then, Zhou Rui held up a ceramic plate and said, "Modular multi-angled beveled ceramic plate can effectively defend against 7.62mm bullets and 155mm grenade fragments."

Beneath the ceramic plate is a distributed shock wave absorbing layer, which, together with the rigid force transmission structure, can effectively protect internal organs from impact damage.

The backplate, besides providing heat dissipation and battery protection, can also withstand stray bullets.

Zhou Rui took the last item out of the equipment box; it was a helmet.

He held it in his hand and turned it over so that everyone could see the internal padding and wiring.

He pointed to several modules that had been integrated together and said, "You should be very familiar with what's inside the helmet. Most of it was taken from your existing individual soldier equipment and re-integrated."

The system features a binocular enhanced HUD, a 360-degree millimeter-wave radar array, a directional sonar microphone array, and a fusion imaging channel combining visual, infrared, and low-light night vision technologies.

He handed the helmet to the soldier in front of him, who accepted it with both hands.

"The core of the helmet is a SoC chip, combined with our own distributed computing architecture."

Teams of three or more automatically form a Mesh local supercomputing network.

Each Cheetah chip will be automatically added to this computing power pool, and all computing power will be uniformly allocated.

Within the coverage area of ​​this network, the system can analyze the data transmitted back from millimeter-wave radar and sonar arrays to perform real-time modeling of the entire battlefield.

It can also detect personnel's breathing and heartbeat vibrations through walls, and then mark the real-time location of these targets on the battlefield model of the HUD.

All calculations are performed within the mesh network, requiring no external servers and generating no radio frequency signals that can be intercepted.

After the explanation, the twenty soldiers quickly completed their uniforms under Zhou Rui's guidance.

As soon as the power was turned on, the HUD inside the helmet lit up almost instantly. The system self-check appeared first in the center of their field of vision, with the prompt text scrolling upwards rapidly. Then, a three-dimensional wireframe model appeared out of nowhere, blocking their view.

That's a model of the training ground beneath their feet.

Immediately afterwards, red dots began to appear inside the model.

One after another, they appeared densely packed.

Each red dot represents a human target, labeled with distance, orientation, posture, and real-time heart rate.

The twenty people remained silent for several seconds.

Because this level of information density is something they've never encountered before, they're a bit bewildered.

"Use hand gestures to control it while at rest."

Zhou Rui raised his left hand, pinched his thumb, index finger, and middle finger together, and then drew a checkmark in the air.

"Doing this allows you to temporarily hide the battlefield model. You can bring it up again using the same gesture when needed."

Twenty soldiers mimicked his movements a few times.

After practicing for about five minutes, everyone had mastered some basic gestures.

Zhou Rui took one last thing out of the equipment box, held it in his hand, and turned around so everyone could see it clearly.

It was a quadcopter drone that looked almost exactly like the DJI Inspire 1, with a matte gray body, folding arms, and a gimbal with integrated optical and infrared cameras mounted on the bottom.

"This drone is a consumer-grade product released last November."

We took it and made some modifications, replacing the original communication module and flight control chip, and also recalibrating the mounted sensors.

"We'll make do with this for now; the official, dedicated model will be designed from scratch after all the test data is collected."

Zhou Rui handed the drone to the soldier next to him, instructing him to hold it between his thumb and forefinger and lift it up: "This drone is your eyes on the battlefield; I call it the Scout Bird."

Now, try connecting it with your helmets.

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