In the following days, Tang Rui stayed at ho and worked on manufacturing firefighting drones.
With the Multi-Drone Coordination Intelligence Program, the performance of the firefighting drones improved significantly.
Moreover, this improvent was more effective with a higher number of firefighting drones.
Of course, there was a limit to this performance enhancent, which was capped at 112 drones.
Similarly, the minimum number of drones for this performance enhancent was six.
The effectiveness would diminish when the number of drones deployed on the battlefield fell below six.
However, with the assistance of the Multi-Drone Coordination Intelligence Program, once enemy targets were identified, the drones carrying the "fire extinguishing agent" would be the first to charge into the fire scene.
And the drones carrying equipnt would be the last to join the charge, following the algorithm's allocation.
The firefighting drones would operate in groups of six, continuously exchanging positions based on the algorithm's distribution.
To ensure the existence of the complete minimum baseline, there wouldn't be any silly situations where drones equipped with optical lenses or radar were directly hit first.
On Thursday, while Tang Rui was at ho building drones, he received a call from Mr. Zhang. The prototype of the drone he designed for the police order was already manufactured, and the costs of various accessories were calculated. The next step was the test flight. However, Mr. Zhang did not provide the avionics system and required Tang Rui to import it himself since avionics was not sothing simple. If bought separately, it would be quite expensive.
After hanging up the phone, Tang Rui put down his tools and went to take a shower, also tidying up his appearance. He hadn't been out for the past few days, so he hadn't bothered much about his appearance. However, since he was going to Mr. Zhang's place later, he thought he should pay so attention to it.
Half an hour later, a handso young man reappeared. Tang Rui looked at himself in the mirror and instinctively narrowed his eyes. He looked too handso, so handso that it was dazzling.
After changing into suitable clothes, Tang Rui carried his laptop and drove to the Light Aviation Power Company. When he arrived at the company's entrance, Mr. Zhang's secretary was already waiting there. After exchanging so pleasantries, she led Tang Rui to a product display hall outside the assembly workshop.
"Junior, take a look. Does it et your requirents?" Mr. Zhang pointed to the drone next to him and smiled, saying.
Beside him was the just-completed prototype.
"It's perfect, Senior! The engineers in your company are really good." Tang Rui looked at the drone and happily exchanged complints with him.
"This is the basic parater of the drone. Take a look first."
"Okay."
Tang Rui took the folder and began to flip through the paraters written on it.
Aircraft Length: 2.214 ters.
Aircraft Height: 0.834 ters.
Wingspan: 4.200 ters.
Max Width of Fuselage: 0.423 ters.
Max Height of Fuselage: 0.442 ters.
Weight: 320 kilograms.
Power: 1 unit of 40 horsepower piston engine.
Avionics system...
Tang Rui briefly looked through the basic paraters of the drone, and as for the model and performance of the equipnt listed afterward, he couldn't be bothered to read them.
If he tried to read everything, he wouldn't have ti for anything else today.
"Senior, once the avionics system is installed on this drone, will it be able to take off?"
Tang Rui asked.
"Of course, everything is ready. As long as the system is imported and checked for any issues, we can proceed with the test flight," said Zhang Zhipeng confidently.
For this type of drone, there was no difficulty at all in manufacturing it at their company. The reason it took them a few days was mainly due to the drawings. The blueprints provided by Tang Rui only included the design for the body and internal equipnt, and there was nothing else.
Drones were also aircraft. Every single screw on them had its paraters. Therefore, the employees at the design institute had been working overti for the past few days.
"Alright, I'll import the avionics system now," Tang Rui said, and he opened his laptop, connected the data cable, and began importing the program.
"Senior, how much did it cost to manufacture this drone?" Tang Rui asked.
"Take a guess," Zhang Zhipeng replied.
"Two million?"
"Even if you gave two million, this price wouldn't have passed in the eting," Zhang Zhipeng said irritably. "You must have been dreaming if you thought you could buy a drone for two million."
"Hehe... How much exactly?" Tang Rui inquired.
"It's at the end of the docunts. Take a look for yourself," Zhang Zhipeng replied.
Tang Rui picked up the folder again and flipped to the last pages.
Oof. It was two full pages of the equipnt price list.
The final calculated cost was 2.62 million per unit, excluding the manufacturing fee.
"Senior, with the manufacturing fee, how much is it per unit?" Tang Rui asked.
"That depends on how many units you want to manufacture. The more you order, the cheaper it will be. If you order a small quantity, it will be 2.8 million per unit. For larger quantities, we can negotiate. This is already the lowest price I can help you get," Zhang Zhipeng explained honestly.
He hadn't deceived Tang Rui. Manufacturing a drone would cost him 180,000 each, which was already giving him face because they were classmates. Otherwise, if it were a small order, only a few units, they wouldn't have even bothered taking up such a job.
"Thank you, Senior," Tang Rui expressed his gratitude. Zhang Zhipeng was soone he could truly rely on when he needed help.
After a while, the avionics system was successfully imported. Tang Rui opened the operating system, started the drone, and began the self-check.
An engineer beside him also ca over to watch, afraid that Tang Rui might accidentally damage the drone.
After half an hour of testing, they confird that there were no issues with the system, and all functions were working properly.
"Senior, could I test-fly it here?" Tang Rui asked.
If he couldn't test-fly it here, he would have to apply for airspace permission.
"It's possible, but you can only fly it at low altitudes, not exceeding 2,000 ters, and within a range of no more than 10 kiloters."
"Beyond that, you'd have to apply to the authorities, which could be quite troubleso."
"It's enough. Just a simple test to see if there are any issues."
"Let's go then."
Without Tang Rui needing to do anything, the nearby staff mbers drove a small trailer and towed the drone to the small runway outside the factory area.
The runway wasn't very long, only suitable for taking off and landing small aircraft, but that was normal since they mainly manufactured this type of aircraft here.
Following Zhang Zhipeng, Tang Rui arrived at the sturdy tower at the edge of the runway.
By this ti, the drone had been towed onto the runway and was being fueled.
After a few minutes, Tang Rui saw the hand signals from the ground staff. He pushed the throttle forward and released the brake.
With the propellers spinning rapidly, the drone began to move forward on the runway.
However, the speed was nowhere near that of a jet aircraft. But considering its lightweight design, the 40-horsepower engine was quite powerful.
After rolling for several dozen ters, the drone reached the required takeoff speed, and Tang Rui imdiately pulled the control stick.
The drone slowly took off.
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