In the movie "Angel Fall", President Morgan Freeman was fishing, encountered a drone "swarm" attack, well-trained, well-equipped presidential guard in the face of the swarm of drone swarms, but there was no power to fight back, in an instant, the whole army was destroyed, successive explosion scenes made people stunned, both inside and outside the screen, everyone for the first time to appreciate the power of the drone "swarm". Now, this drone "swarm" made by CG, made by Chinese has turned it into a reality.
Drone swarms in the movie Angels Fall
Such weapons have been made a reality by my country
According to media reports, recently, the China Electric Power Research Institute of China Electronics Group showed a video showing that the unit carried out the relevant test flight work of the land-air collaborative fixed-wing UAV "swarm" system, which verified the ability of the land launch and air-dropped fixed-wing UAV "swarm" to carry out various tasks such as ground detection and precision strike.
China's practical UAV "bee swarm"
A real-life drone salvo
A drone salvo in the movie
From the picture point of view, the UAV "swarm" exhibited by the China Electronics Section is almost exactly the same as in the movie "Angel Fall", using a truck chassis equipped with a 48-piece launcher, and a dense salvo can throw 48 UAVs into the air for accurate formation, formation change, ground detection and precision strikes. Of course, drones can also be deployed in the form of helicopter hovering and maneuvering.
Drone container and truck chassis in our country
It opens like this
Launch box in the movie
In fact, according to the november 2017 test of China Electricity And Power, this fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle system can project up to 200 drones at a time, forming a large-scale "bee swarm" and doubling the strike effect. Looking at the world, although the United States also has a similar fixed-wing drone "bee swarm", it is not as good as ours in terms of scale and practicality, and the Israeli "Hubby" drone is a product of the previous generation, and the performance is too outdated.
Aerial marshalling of unmanned aerial vehicles in China
A swarm of drones in the movie
Of course, the drone projected in this test is very different from the movie "Angel Fall", and its shape is similar to the "spring knife" cruise missile launched by the US military in the early years. During the 2018 Zhuhai Airshow, China also launched a product similar to the "spring knife", called Rainbow 901, which was set next to the Rainbow 7 flying wing drone, and Xiaobian had photographed it there for a long time. Rainbow 901 patrol missile can use container "swarm" launch mode, can also be like a mortar single shot, the most critical is that it is disposable, does not account for the establishment, can even be a hand, used up to throw, greatly improving the infantry combat firepower, changing the infantry combat style.
Unmanned aerial vehicles tested by the UAV swarm in china
U.S. Army Spring Blade drone
Rainbow 901 has a variety of launch methods
After having the "spring knife" and rainbow 901, many of the previous combat modes have been completely rewritten, such as the so-called artillery anti-slope in the past, which can find a relatively safe place, and now it does not exist, a large number of cheap "spring knives" and rainbow 901 are always hovering above the enemy's head, the target as long as it appears, it will be rooted down, invincible, ground personnel face great pressure, I believe that friends who have played "Battlefield 4" have a deep understanding.
Such drones hover overhead at all times, making people invincible
And this time the UAV "swarm" practical test, involving the focus is not rainbow 901, but the intelligent control of the large formation, the technology involved in the marshalling, collision avoidance, positioning, and optimization path are very complex, and the more the number of UAVs in the group, the more higher the technology is needed. Previously, CEC once had a group of 3,000 rotor unmanned aerial vehicles "bee swarms", creating a world record that no one can break until today, and now, they have once again created a world record of 200 fixed-wing UAVs "bee swarms", and can be put into actual combat at any time.
The focus is on formation control and intelligence
It can be imagined that in the future sea crossing and landing operations and border self-defense counterattacks, our unmanned aerial vehicle "swarm" will be a kind of "dimensionality reduction strike" like existence. A "swarm" of 200 drones at a time, combined with large communication relay and reconnaissance drones, unmanned boats and unmanned vehicles, will plunge enemy soldiers into the despair of surrendering and finding no one.
This scene has become a reality