Chapter 1271 [Cost is not something we consider, and you don’t need to consider it either]
Xingyu Technology Headquarters.
At this time, a commercial drone flew out from the company's R&D base and flew everywhere outside the company's headquarters.
The person who controls this drone is in the research and development base. A staff member of Xingyu Technology is wearing a MIX device to control the flight of the drone. Qin Feng, including several military personnel who came here, are also
Each is wearing a MIX device.
"...How to determine? After opening the application, there will be an electronic sandbox with all the displays." Qin Feng introduced to the military personnel at this moment that this is a function that is already available on the MIX device. In fact, many functions can be used in military scenarios.
Apply directly here.
"Don't you need to look in the mirror?" the military personnel said.
"Yes." Qin Feng nodded.
At this moment, they are sharing the same scene, and what is presented to them from their first perspective is a sand table terrain map.
One of the military personnel said: "I suggest that this helmet should have some coordinate functions."
Qin Feng immediately answered straightforwardly: "This is no problem, it's very simple. You can write a program to do it."
In the following period, Qin Feng communicated with several military personnel present about the various applications of MIX equipment in military scenarios. Several military personnel nodded from time to time, with very satisfied expressions on their faces.
The greatest significance of this product for military use lies in its high efficiency and greatly improved battlefield awareness, that is, the efficient capture of real-time intelligence information on the battlefield.
With the assistance of this equipment, soldiers can quickly and accurately obtain real-time information on the battlefield environment, allowing them to respond faster and deploy efficiently.
For example, quickly know the location information of comrades, the action intentions of comrades, the enemy's location information, and the enemy's action intentions.
For example, in a battlefield environment, whether there are unmanned reconnaissance aircraft at high altitude or reconnaissance satellites in space, real-time information on the battlefield is transmitted to ground troops. Soldiers on the ground can directly view the situation from the first perspective through MIX headsets.
Marking the coordinate positions of the enemy and ourselves is intuitively presented in the perspective of every soldier, which greatly enhances the ability to visualize battlefield information.
Even through several walls, several trenches and winding trenches, you can know where the enemy is. This kind of battlefield awareness is comparable to turning on a map perspective plug-in.
Another major capability of this product is the integration of other intelligent unmanned equipment. It is like an operating platform and perception platform. The field of view information obtained by the drone can be presented in the first perspective, and can also be viewed through
This platform is used to control drones, including other unmanned equipment, thereby greatly improving the combat capabilities of individual soldiers, and thus greatly improving the overall combat capabilities of the army.
Including exoskeleton equipment, it can also be linked and integrated.
But at this moment, Qin Feng said in an orderly manner: "For military use, the hardware and software must be modified accordingly. The built-in battery of the head display can be removed and placed in a tactical backpack. Some other hardware is also separated from the head display and integrated.
It becomes a small removable host box of no more than one kilogram and is carried on the body, with a cable connecting the host box to the head-mounted display."
“In this way, more cameras and sensor components can be installed, such as infrared cameras, thermal imaging, night vision, etc., which can be integrated into the head display, cutting off some civilian things without significantly increasing the weight.
, can integrate more software and hardware auxiliary combat tools."
Several military personnel also nodded in approval. This is a big difference between military and civilian use. The military does not need a built-in battery, and can even separate some hardware from the headset and integrate it into another small host.
Carry it directly in a tactical backpack.
If it is for civilian use, then it must not be done like this. Who wants to carry a small host box?
This is not the case for military use. A small host box of about one kilogram is nothing to a single soldier who can easily carry dozens of kilograms. Moreover, this is not just an addition. The integration of the head-mounted device will also reduce the weight of other peripherals.
For example, there is no need for goggles. The head-mounted display device itself is a very good goggle. With such integration, the overall weight of an individual soldier may be reduced by far more than the one kilogram of the small host box. The weight saved can be
Bring some other equipment or more weapons and ammunition to increase your continuous combat capability on the battlefield.
Even if other equipment is not added, the reduced load will reduce the physical exertion of the soldiers, which is also an improvement in combat effectiveness.
After a while, the military personnel said: "This head-mounted display must be integrated with the combat helmet, and the head-mounted display and the helmet can be separated. It is best to be able to be uniformly adapted to existing helmets."
Upon hearing this, Qin Feng replied: "It's no problem to integrate and separate it, but I'm afraid it can't be adapted to existing helmets, because the existing combat helmets were never designed in this direction at all."
Several military personnel thought about it and nodded. One of them smiled and said: "This is not a big problem. It is not difficult to redesign a combat helmet to adapt to it."
Finally, Qin Feng talked to several military personnel about the cost of the military version of MIX headsets. He also bluntly said that if they were to be improved and upgraded to military standards, the costs would rise significantly, because civilian and military use are two completely different scenarios.
The requirements standards are also completely different.
The increase in cost does not come from components such as chips, but from other hardware modules. The military version does not require an excessively high manufacturing process. The higher the manufacturing process, the easier it is to be damaged or not run smoothly. This is a very fatal thing on the battlefield. It is durable.
Stability and the ability to adapt to complex and changing battlefield environments are more important.
At this moment, Qin Feng said in a deep voice: "The specific cost still needs to be calculated, but I roughly estimate that the military version will cost less than 50,000 yuan per unit."
When several military personnel heard this, they looked at each other and smiled, and one of them immediately said: "The cost is not a problem for us to consider, and you don't need to, as long as the thing is made and meets the acceptance standards, you don't need to consider other things.
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This cost price is not cheap, but it is not very expensive for the military, and it even feels quite cheap. Compared with the improvement in combat effectiveness that this equipment brings to the troops, it is more than worth the money.
Military things cannot be calculated using civilian accounting logic.
As long as it can be done, let alone 50,000 yuan, it will still be purchased even if it is 100,000 yuan, and there is no shortage of military funds now.
After a while, one of the military representatives asked: "When will the military version be finalized and mass-produced at the earliest?"
Hearing this, Qin Feng answered very confidently: "There are basically no technical difficulties in MIX headsets that need to be overcome. The technology is the same, that is, integration issues and some adjustments to the industrial design of the appearance, and some additions and subtractions on the hardware.
The prototype can be finalized within half a year and mass production can begin next year.”
Having said this, Qin Feng paused for a moment and couldn't help but ask: "But how big can the military's purchase volume be?"
A military representative said: "As long as the reliability and actual combat performance of this equipment are finally confirmed and it meets the acceptance standards, it will be installed on a large scale and it will take about three years to achieve permanent deployment."
Qin Feng couldn't help but perked up when he heard the word "standing equipment". It meant that it would become standard equipment for the army, and the quantity would be huge. The procurement scale would definitely be in the seven-digit range, that is, tens of billions or even thousands of dollars.
