China's swarm drones cover the sky and the sun, and the unfathomable war potential behind it is still beyond the reach of Russia and Ukraine.
The latest test video of the domestic swarm UAV was revealed, and hundreds of UAVs can achieve synchronous lift-off and self-formation flight under the control of the system.
The video sparked heated discussions in the outside world, with some foreign netizens saying that the famous Hollywood sci-fi movie "Terminator" is becoming a reality in China, which also shows to a certain extent that China's drone technology has formed a dimensionality reduction strike advantage for other countries.
[Domestic drones form a swarm in the sky]
Recently, the topic of China's swarm drone technology has suddenly attracted the attention of many overseas military media and observers, because of a video of a domestic swarm drone test that has gone viral on the Internet.
In this video, the photographer recorded the footage of hundreds of swarm drones parked on the ground in a short period of time synchronously rising into the air and autonomously forming an air formation. In addition to demonstrating the ability to assemble their own teams, these drones can also use a dense formation formation of a long snake formation to quickly swim and fly in the air like a mythical dragon.
It can be said that this video fully demonstrates China's dominant position in the field of drones, so much so that many foreign netizens admitted in the video comment area that China is turning the famous Hollywood movie "Terminator" into reality.
[Domestic drones fly at high speed in a long snake formation]
What's more, this assessment is not an exaggeration on a technical level. China's technological prowess in this video is not only far superior to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but also to the world.
Why? Because it is not new to have hundreds of drones take off synchronously to form a formation in the air, it is this technology that has been very popular in recent years for drone light shows.
However, it should be noted that due to the limited computing power of the drone control system, most of these drones used for light shows will not fly at high speed during the show, or simply do not have the ability to fly at high speed.
After all, when the drone is flying at high speed, the airflow generated by the rotor will seriously interfere with the flight attitude of the surrounding drones, and it is easy to cause domino effect airflow interference in the high-density performance formation. However, it is almost impossible for the control system with limited computing power to adjust the flight control of dozens or hundreds of UAVs that have been interfered with in a short period of time, and the performance formation will go out of control under this interference.
[Drone flight show, each light is a drone]
Therefore, when performing drone shows, most performance agencies will limit the speed of the drone to a certain range and let the drone perform according to the set program. As a result, although the drones used in such performances can reach hundreds of units, the technology is not at all a swarm drone technology.
However, in the video circulating on the Internet, these domestic drones show us the formation ability of the drone when flying at high speed, and it is also the "long snake formation" formation with the most serious airflow interference. This is enough to prove that these drones do not rely on programming like performance drones, but have certain AI control and swarm networking capabilities.
[Hundreds of drones flying simultaneously]
Only in this way can the UAV in the formation adjust the flight control according to the flight status of other friendly aircraft, realize the synchronous movement of the flight trajectory of the long aircraft, and swim in the air like a mythical dragon. For countries that still rely on professionals to operate drones one-on-one, such as Russia and Ukraine, China's drones already have the advantage of dimensionality reduction.
This reality is obviously inconsistent with the view held by many people that "war will promote the rapid development of weapons technology", but in my opinion, this view itself is a false proposition.
The reason is very simple: the development of weapons science and technology requires not only actual combat experience, but also corresponding technological research and development and industrial production capacity. Coincidentally, the popularity of the Internet has allowed us to gain a lot of practical experience without directly participating in the war.
[U.S. soldiers using Chinese drones]
As for technology research and development and industrial production capacity, China, as a major industrial country in the world, has no shortcomings in these issues. And this also makes China the first country that deserves to be the first country for drones today, not to mention Russia, even the United States has to buy Chinese drones. Without China, they can't even afford a "small fight" drone war like Russia and Ukraine, let alone an intelligent drone war with China.
This is also the reason why the Pentagon is becoming more and more "anti-war" on the issue of China, China's drone technology has greatly enhanced the war potential of the PLA, and the US military in the Western Pacific is simply not capable of dealing with this potential threat.
It is worth mentioning that the video of the swarm drone that sparked heated discussions this time actually only shows the tip of the iceberg of China's drone technology and production capacity.
Because in the seminar on "UAV Construction, Development and Application" held by the Chinese Air Force in February last year, as many as 23 scientific research institutes, military industrial groups, local universities and private enterprises participated.
【Chinese Air Force Organizes UAV Seminar】
Each of them has a good UAV technology research and development and production capacity, maybe the swarm UAV technology shown in the video is just a unit to promote, no longer "advanced" technology, hundreds of UAVs are also built to demonstrate.
For the United States, this kind of industrial dimensionality reduction attack built by relying on multiple technical routes and production capacity is far more worrying than the aforementioned technical strike.
After all, the United States today does not lack cutting-edge technology ideas, but they lack the skilled technical personnel to develop these ideas and the industrial capacity to translate them into practice. As a result, many drone projects in the United States can only stay in the PPT stage for a long time, while China can rely on its own advantages to turn American fantasies into our reality little by little, just as we have turned Hollywood's "Terminator" into reality.