Chapter 767 Spad
Since World War II, Americans have suffered from casualties. Several major wars during the Cold War have made the anti-war sentiment in the United States high. It was not until the First Gulf War that it was slowed down, but it also went to another extreme. People like to put firepower first in big and small battles. The routine of high-tech missiles is thrown high above the planes, and it is best to let an American die in war. But this means that more military investment is needed to develop more technology products instead of human combat.
As a single-soldier battle that is not or short of land operations, it has always been the target of the enemy's focus on care and the highest death rate. How to reduce their casualties is a major problem that needs to be solved urgently. According to American practice, how to use technology to improve individual combat capabilities has always been a major research topic in the US Army's military technology.
At present, the individual technical equipment that is considered to have the most promising development is military exoskeleton technical armor that can maximize the potential of soldiers. The US military found on the battlefield in Afghanistan that due to the rugged terrain and sparse roads, the US military's traditional naval and air advantages cannot be exerted at all. More often, US military teams need to travel across mountains and rivers to fight. Afghanistan's poor economy and long logistics supply lines have caused factors such as being in the inland, which have made most of the time American soldiers have to carry all their combat materials to fight.
According to statistics from the US military, every US Army soldier in Afghanistan has an average load of more than 30 kilograms, and the special forces have a load of up to 40 kilograms! In this case, not to mention combat, even if you cross mountains and ridges to reach your destination, it will consume all the soldiers' physical strength and will, resulting in a great decline in combat capabilities. How to get entangled with the Talibans who occupy the right time and place and live here for many years.
As a result, various plans to reduce the burden on individual soldiers and strengthen the supply of frontlines were proposed one by one. After rejecting most whimsical or too expensive plans, the US military stationed in Afghanistan believed that the most realistic way was to increase the weight on individual soldiers. The harsh terrain of Afghanistan made it impossible for all kinds of vehicles to climb over, and local soldiers even wanted to re-activate mules, horses and donkeys, which were considered long-time outdated, to serve as their partners. They could rely on manpower and animal power, after all, not a long-term solution.
Americans have always believed that technology can solve all problems, so mechanical mules that imitate natural donkeys and horses and mechanical exoskeleton armor that make individual soldiers more burdened have become popular research directions. Mechanical mules are actually robots that can accompany soldiers to fight, but there are still problems that cannot be passed in some particularly steep areas. In contrast, as long as people can climb, exoskeleton armor can play a role, which is obviously more advantageous.
The "hulc" (referred to as hulc) displayed by Yang Xing is an exterior mechanical armor designed to imitate the characteristics of the human body's structure. The purpose is to enable soldiers to carry about 90 kilograms of weight and travel in various terrain at a speed of 10 kilometers. It hardly puts a burden on the soldier's body. It not only allows soldiers to complete a series of actions such as crawling, squatting, lifting weights, and reducing musculoskeletal damage caused by soldiers lifting heavier combat loads.
The entire system consists of mechanical legs made of titanium alloy, drive devices and control computers, as well as weight-bearing parts and heat dissipation units on the back. The mechanical legs are designed according to the hulc and have a simple structure. There is a hydraulic transmission device inside and a structure that can be bent like joints. After wearing the Hulc, soldiers can not only carry heavy objects and walk freely, but also squat behind the bunker to shoot, or run at high speed with heavy objects on their backs.
Of course, as an experimental product, it also has the biggest problem, which is that it consumes too much power. Even if Yang Xing wears it to the podium in just a few minutes, and demonstrates that he has lifted more than 100 kilograms of things and penetrated a few wooden boards, he consumed half of the battery with his carrying battery. Obviously, he is still a bit far from being truly practical.
However, the design and manufacturing capabilities of Zhongxing Group indeed amazed the audience. It also aroused the interest of many countries to visit military and police. It is a blessing for the United States to fight terrorism in recent years. In recent years, the international war and security market have become increasingly prosperous. Zhongxing Group has also actively involved in this field under the instructions of Yang Xing. Although it has no intention of producing lethal assault weapons, it has made great achievements in the research and development of logistics support, biochemical detection, non-lethal weapons, etc., and has become one of the important players in the market.
Besides, the boundaries between attack and defense weapons in modern warfare are very blurred. The Hulc in front of him said to serve the battlefield logistics, but it can carry more than 90 kilograms. It punches through the thick door panel, and soldiers wear it as a real invincible iron king. It is no problem to kill people. He can also use heavy weapons, which are also dangerous weapons. Just when Yang Xing finished displaying this Hulc, a dark shadow in a remote corner of the venue called: "You see the scene just now. He is too dangerous, let's do it!"
Yang Xing's appearance in Hulc once again aroused the audience's appetite. Yang Xing said that the theme of this World Congress is "cheap and not cheap". Hulc is a very expensive and threatening device, and more displays new products that are friendly, environmentally friendly and creative. As expected by many technology magazines, it is a new 3.5-inch capacitive touch screen with larger resolution and supports five-point touch.
The most attractive thing is that it has adopted a new science operating system upgraded to version 1.5. Although the new system sounds a bit difficult to describe, it supports multi-task parallelism and runs faster under the new arm chip. Relying on the new display chip to solve larger 3D game images, players still cannot put it down. Many people say that the performance of the phone's gaming performance is close to the first generation of ps game consoles.
Although many competitors have coveted the hot sale of the phone this year and launched many products that imitate the appearance and functions of the phone, they still cannot shake the dominant position of the phone smartphone. The emergence of the phone2 undoubtedly left a big drop in the opponent, but what excites ordinary consumers even more is that although the price of the phone2 is still high and the price of 10,000 yuan is still a steady stream of people placing orders, but at the conference, a "Star Wars" system (no authorization fee) was launched, the screen uses a cheap TFT LCD panel, and the area has been reduced to 2.8 inches and the resolution has been reduced, and the price is less than half of the phone2, which has excited many viewers who are short of money.
In addition to using the phone2 to attract the attention of the audience, Yang Xing also demonstrated another product he called revolutionary at the conference, but it caused quite a bit of controversy. This "tablet computer" called "spad" was considered "just an enlarged phone" because its chip and operating system are no different from the phone2. It only expanded the screen to 10 inches and increased its weight to more than 700 grams, but it was much thinner than the new generation of fantasy Internet access.
But young people who like to be innovative like it at first sight, unlike the Internet large-screen DMP video player launched by Nebula Electronics before. The spad is obviously a computer, almost compatible with most of the software for the Sphone2, Xingdong Network also released a new toolkit, allowing developers to develop dedicated HD version software for the spad.
With the support of the latest graphene lithium polymer battery, it can continue to surf the Internet, watch videos or play games for more than 10 hours, leaving a few streets behind laptops that can only use batteries for less than 3 hours in the same era. The most eye-catching thing is its large display with an IPS panel that is exactly the same as the Sphone2, with a resolution of 1024x768, which is comparable to netbooks. The protective surface and gorgeous colors provided by Corning Glass are particularly impressive in your hands.
In fact, the concept of tablet computers has long existed. In 2000, Microsoft proposed the term "tabletpc", which defined it as "an all-around PC based on Windows operating system and integrated paper and pen experience", which attracted many manufacturers to follow up. At that time, Zhongxing Group, which had a good relationship with Microsoft, also launched several follow-up products.
However, because the hardware technology level was not yet mature at that time, and the WindowsXP operating system used by "tabletpc" was designed for traditional computers and was not suitable for tablet computers. The basic form of "tabletpc" is still mainly used for laptop computers. Using rotating screens to implement stylus operation not only increased the design difficulty, making the notebook thicker and heavier, but only simple writing function could not arouse the interest of ordinary consumers. The expensive tabletpc market was narrow and only won the favor of a few commercial customers.
But this spad is undoubtedly different from "tabletpc". Many critics believe that Yang Xing has redefined the concept and design ideas of tablets. It is similar to the simple operation of the phone, easy to use and multi-touch, which greatly increases the interest of more ordinary consumers. The price is less than 7,000 yuan, which is comparable to the price of ordinary laptops. However, the thinner and long-lasting selling point undoubtedly makes consumers feel that it is very popular. Viewers who have personally operated it believe that the spad is a product with huge market demand. There are endless people consulting and watching the spad at the exhibition, becoming the most popular product in the conference.
Yang Xing also followed the trend when launching the spad, because he received news that Apple was resentful of the idea of snatching the multi-touch phones by him in advance. Jobs was planning to develop an "ipad" to seize the initiative. Although he was guilty of being ahead of him again, Yang Xing, who was very shameless, couldn't wait to launch the spad to occupy the market. His biggest advantage is that he had experience in his previous life, and he didn't have to explore slowly in the dark, and he made a "perfect product" in one step. Compared with the iPad in his previous life, the spad has greatly improved and ease of use, and success is a natural result. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!