The plan could not keep up with the change. At noon on the second day of the trip, when the convoy was traveling near "Oriental Fort Irwin", the situation suddenly changed and mud and water began to fall from the sky.
"The line of sight is seriously blocked, stop moving forward."
After stopping, the security team in the car quickly got out of the car, took down the large tent from the supply truck behind, quickly opened it, propped it up, and fixed it in place.
After the tents were pitched and the cooking truck had no time to move, the security personnel in charge noticed a convoy of military vehicles appearing in their field of vision.
"Squadron leader, someone from the army is coming..."
The former squadron leader from a secretive unit of the PLA quickly prepared the corresponding information and drove up to meet him.
"Qingyan Airlines, escort a batch of equipment to Hulunbuir..." The squadron leader skillfully placed the information in front of the patrolling guards.
"Unmanned reconnaissance aircraft? There are also approval documents from the Air Force and the Air Traffic Control Center..." After checking the information, the guard quickly picked up the walkie-talkie, "After checking, it is the escort convoy of Qingyan Airlines, and the escort is a drone...
"
"Wait a moment……"
The squadron leader passed Zhou Yan and Xu Chongsheng who were approaching and winked: There is something going on inside.
"Please wait a moment, our leader will be coming over soon..."
About ten minutes later, a camouflage-colored Jeep Commander stopped in front of everyone.
The car door came and two 23 cents came out.
Zhou Yan and Xu Chongsheng looked at each other: the highly qualified leader of the mechanized infantry regiment.
"Comrades, are you escorting a large drone?" After saluting the military salute, the regiment leader, who seemed a bit familiar to Zhou Yan, went straight to the point.
"Three reconnaissance and attack integrated drones, together with the fuselage and ground control equipment." Xu Chongsheng felt that there was no need to hide them. "However, these are to be transported to Hulunbuir for test flights..."
"Oh..." the team leader nodded, "Since we plan to do a test flight, where will the test flight take place should not affect the effect, right?"
"That's what I said..." Xu Chongsheng smiled, naturally understanding what the other party had in mind.
"We can provide a venue, and we can also solve the air control problem. We just need a little help from you..."
"Mr. Zhou..." Xu Chongsheng looked back at Zhou Yan.
"Okay!" Zhou Yan thought for a while and glanced at the familiar group leader opposite, "Our drone is a component, and the assembly site requires 25 meters long, 25 meters wide, and a height of more than four meters.
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"That's no problem!" the regiment leader thought for a moment, "Comrade, this is considered a military project, and all personnel should have received confidentiality training..."
"The classification level is all confidential or above..."
"Then I'll trouble you about your equipment and personnel..." The group leader smiled honestly, "Go to our venue?"
"You stay behind," Zhou Yan looked back at the squadron leader and then at Xu Chongsheng, "Operation, assembly, bring the drone and maintenance equipment, we will take them away, other personnel, stay put and standby."
"Well..." the leader thought for a while, "If you have family members, you can bring them with you. Anyway, the drone assembly site doesn't have access to any equipment..."
Then, the entire fleet was "requisitioned".
When we arrived at the location, we found that it was a large steel structure warehouse with a high level of building protection.
After arranging the "family members", Zhou Yan and Xu Chongsheng began to assemble the drone manually...
On the side, the regimental leader and political commissar looked on with smiles.
"Lao Man, I have reported the identity documents of the personnel. Unexpectedly, the predator was caught before the exercise even started." The political commissar looked at the information just fed back in his hand with a smile, "Cheng Lidong, father Cheng Yuan
, it turned out to be the chief of staff of the Yunzhong Security Area, Xu Chongsheng, the former deputy general manager of AVIC Chengdu Aircraft, and this Zhou Yan..."
The political commissar glanced at Zhou Yan quietly: "Graduate students, reserve officers, agents of the Third General Staff Office. And this Qingyan Airlines has a product that is close to being finalized. Let the captain guess the use..."
After hearing the name, the leader's eyes lit up: "The power system of the carrier-based early warning aircraft?"
"Well," the political commissar nodded, "this Qingyan Airlines still has two brushes..."
While the two were talking, the rainproof roof of the container responsible for assembling the logistics maintenance vehicle of the drone was untied, the arms on all four sides of the container were flattened, and the hydraulic rod support was deployed to form a small platform.
The back half of the container is filled with various professional tool boxes, while the front part is a small crane.
"Their tools are quite professional..."
After the crane's boom was deployed, the airline workers opened the container containing the drone based on the electronic keys provided by Zhou Yan and Xu Chongsheng.
Watching the workers skillfully lift out the boxes containing the drone's wings and chassis, place them on the open space, and start assembling them, their curiosity was piqued.
However, the assembly process was obviously a bit beyond the two people's expectations.
After the fuselage is hoisted into the air by a crane, the control cables are connected, the landing gear is deployed with data cables, and placed on the ground, with the cables fixed.
The installation of the wing is a little "troublesome": after lifting it with a lifting strap, insert it into the reserved brackets on the fuselage, and the rest of the work is to tighten the screws and connect cables...
"Is this the end?"
Although the regiment leader and political commissar are well aware of the benefits of modularity, they still find it a bit incredible to see the fool-like assembly now: the assembly takes less than an hour, which is of great significance for combat weapons.
After reassembly, pull the cables and do a power test.
"Equipment assembly and testing completed!"
After receiving the feedback from the assembly team, Zhou Yan smiled and drove up to the two quarters and threes who were watching the excitement: "Two leaders, you can start the next step of the work..."
"Then do it!" Captain Man replied cheerfully.
The political commissar on the side was thinking more than the group leader: "Mr. Zhou, do you need our cooperation?"
"Indeed," Zhou Yan chuckled, "As you know, fuel transportation is troublesome and takes a long distance. Therefore, for this test flight, we originally planned to refuel from the test flight site..."
"Fuel number, and the required quantity..."
"The same model as the helicopter, at least 3,000 liters..."
"The fuel consumption of helicopters is not that high, right?" Captain Man's eyes were full of doubts, "I see that the engine of your drone is not that big, so why is the fuel consumption so high?"
"This is the normal fuel consumption of three aircraft," a seductive smile appeared on Zhou Yan's face. "At the beginning of the design, we configured the formation function for the UAV, and this time we came out with electronic warfare equipment.
The pod and three-machine formation can not only achieve radio communication interference, but also have radio detection capabilities..."
"When paired with ground-attack missiles, does it become an anti-radiation missile?" Commander Man's eyes lit up, "This function is good, and we can accept the high fuel consumption. Old Ding, tell the logistics department of the director that we have added equipment and require additional equipment.
Fuel, two cars..."
In less than half an hour, two tank trucks appeared in the factory.
After refueling, the drone ground test begins.
For this trip, the team already carried test equipment. However, due to the limited quantity of equipment, the drones could only be tested on the ground one by one.
Just as the second drone began to be assembled, Zhou Yan, Xu Chongsheng and Wu Zhengxun had already followed the drone and the ground control cabin to a temporary field airport not far from the factory, preparing to "release their ideals"...
