Chapter 857 Large UAV
The UAV that followed the Kolov peacekeeping troops to Mali this time was the Coyote II UAV developed by Sentinel Company.
This drone has been upgraded on the basis of the previous Coyote. Thanks to the use of more advanced batteries provided by the British Automobile Group, the Coyote II drone is larger and has Nearly 2 meters long and with a wingspan of 3.45 meters, it can carry more electronic devices and has a battery life of 3 hours!
And unlike the disposable Coyote UAV, the Coyote II UAV can be recharged and used multiple times after returning home.
This can provide the Kolov peacekeeping forces with more reconnaissance information and grasp the situation on the surrounding battlefield.
This time, the technicians who entered Mali with the Kolovi troops belong to Sentinel Company. They will conduct actual combat tests of the Coyote II UAV and accumulate data for the launch of subsequent military models.
Of course, the Coyote II UAV is still a small UAV, using batteries as power. Due to current battery technology, it is still unable to reach a height of more than 8 meters like the Predator UAV. scale.
However, Standard Defense has hired a team with extensive experience in fighter development through a headhunting company in the UK. It will combine Sentinel's experience in the drone field to develop large drones in the UK.
This UAV, internally codenamed Tiercel, will be powered by fuel and propelled by a turbine engine. Standard Defense is preparing to compete for military orders from the United States and Britain with this UAV.
Although BAE Systems is already developing the "Thunder God" drone project in terms of large drones, as far as Barron knows, as a technologically cutting-edge drone, the Thunder God's The cost is high - its test prototype costs up to 143 million pounds, so even if Britain and NATO are willing to purchase it, the quantity will not be too large.
This requires a large UAV that is more "cheap" and can meet basic needs. This is also the military procurement demand that Standard Defense Company is targeting.
In Standard Defense’s plan, the Tiercel UAV is basically benchmarked against General Atomics’ Predator UAV, and will reach or even surpass the technical data of this UAV——
The aircraft is 8.27 meters long, has a wingspan of 14.87 meters, has a maximum radius of action of 3,700 kilometers, a maximum flight speed of 240 kilometers per hour, a flight time of 24 hours over the target, and a maximum endurance of 60 hours.
The Predator is equipped with electro-optical/infrared reconnaissance equipment, GPS navigation equipment and a synthetic aperture radar with all-weather reconnaissance capabilities. It has a resolution of 0.3 meters at an altitude of 4,000 meters and a target positioning accuracy of 0.25 meters.
To this end, Standard Defense Company also hired many technical talents from the United States in the large-scale drone project established in England for Sentinel Company.
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This time when he came to Koro, Barron brought Julia Moore with him.
By the way, she could also get to know the situation of Natasha, who is currently expecting birth in Brita - in more than a month, the two children will be born.
Although you can get detailed information in London even if you don't come in person, for Yulia, who is a little anxious and anxious, coming in person can make her feel more at ease.
As mentioned before, during the last operation, Natasha was successfully pregnant with a pair of twins, a boy and a girl. Before giving birth, she needed to spend time in Brita, the capital of Colo.
Natasha lived in a guest room in Jupiter Tower, Barron's mansion in Britta.
There are dedicated maids and medical staff here to take care of Natasha. Of course, there will also be bodyguards responsible for protection and surveillance to ensure the safety of Natasha and the child in her belly.
In fact, before coming to Kolo, Natasha was still a little worried about the trip - after all, in her impression, Africa was very chaotic and poor, not to mention someone like Kolo. A country she had never heard of before. If we say it is slightly better, it may be South Africa. After all, if the cities in Africa are ranked at this time, at least three cities in South Africa can enter the top ten, which can be called the face of Africa.
But after coming to Bulita in Kolo, she finally felt relieved. The urban construction here was no worse than that in Ukraine. If it weren’t for the people she met in the city, If it was mainly black, then she would have no idea that this was a city in a small West African country.
And it can be clearly found that the mental state of these Kolo people is relatively good, a positive state with light in their eyes and hope in their hearts.
In fact, this is also thanks to the development of Kolo over the years - if we go back to before 2003, Kolo at that time was completely different from what he is now.
But even now, the Colo government still faces many challenges. The first is what they have been doing after the establishment of the new Colo government - enhancing national identity.
As we all know, almost all countries in Africa have been at war for a long time.
It can be said that it is very normal to see civil wars in African countries from various news reports - it seems abnormal that no country in Africa is fighting civil wars.
The main reason for this is that most African countries do not have a strong sense of national identity - when the European colonists came to Africa, they were still in slavery, and there was not much concept of a country. Instead, they were composed of individuals. Made up of tribes.
This can be seen from the map of Africa. The borders of modern African countries can be said to be drawn by a person holding a pen and drawing several horizontal and vertical lines on the map - the fact is almost the same. , the borders of most of these African countries do not have much historical heritage. They were determined by the colonists by drawing lines on the map at will.
This results in the fact that the same nation may often be attributed to several countries, and a country has several nations with deep conflicts with each other...
In addition, it has a very long history of being colonized. Historically, these countries all became independent in the global wave of national liberation in the 1950s and 1960s, but they are still deeply affected by colonialism - - Old colonial countries such as Britain and France still have the ability to intervene in Africa in various ways. For the sake of their own interests, they are not willing to see the stable development of these former colonies, so they can "make trouble" through inter-tribal conflicts...
< br>The consequence is that few countries in Africa can achieve long-term stable development and are always prone to get involved in wars.
Because of its small area, Kolo is considered a small country in Africa, but it still has many tribes in the country.
Even during the previous military government period, many tribes were "autonomous" to a certain extent.
That is, after the establishment of the new Kolo government, through economic and military disintegration, the Kolo government finally slowly dispersed these tribes - and at Barron's request, they compared The neutral policy of equality for all ethnic groups finally gave Kolo a certain integrity.
In addition, they have been promoting "compulsory compulsory education", which has been strengthening the sense of national identity and weakening the concept of nation. It is only now that it has some effects.
But it is still necessary to continue these policies.
In addition, the local black people in Kolo are more lazy than those in Eurasia, which is what the Kolo government has been guiding.
(End of this chapter)