The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 324 Sixth Master
"At this price, it's quite worthwhile."

It is extremely rare to receive praise from Sixth Master's team. It's not that they can't see the advantages of Double-Tailed Scorpion, but rather that they are reserved. As members of Sixth Master's team, they have their own pride.

"Can we fly now?"

The liaison officer shook his head: "Wait a moment, the Air Force is making arrangements to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of your drone."

At this moment, a pilot walked up to Liu Hua and said, "Engineer Liu, I have been ordered to take over from you and fly this drone."

Do you play video games?

The pilot paused for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't know how. I've never played video games."

Liu Hua waved his hand: "Then you are definitely not a qualified drone pilot, at least not before you received training. Even the people from the No. 1 drone team would be better at piloting it than you."

The pilot had no choice but to look at the liaison officer with an inquiring gaze. The liaison officer nodded: "Listen to Engineer Liu, after all, he is the designer."

The pilot did not leave, but stood behind Liu Hua, preparing to learn how to operate the drone up close.

The liaison officer asked Liu Hua curiously, "Why did you ask the pilot if he had ever played video games?"

"Because the operation of drones in the future will be very similar to video games," Liu Hua said with a smile. "When drones become the mainstream on the battlefield, when you recruit soldiers, you will look at whether the kid has experience with video games, and it would be best if he has won an award."

"That's nonsense. Playing games is a waste of time and energy. Who holds a competition specifically for video games anymore?"

Liu Hua said with certainty: "Yes, in the future there will not only be major competitions for video games, but also world-class competitions, just like the Olympics."

"Absolutely impossible. If all the kids are playing video games, who will go to school?"

Liu Hua didn't argue with him, because from God's perspective, he simply said, "Any industry that wants to succeed cannot do without knowledge, including games."

The liaison officer received a notification from the Air Force that everything was ready except for the final push.

After a brief glide, the fully fueled Twin-Tailed Scorpion suddenly shot into the sky, and Liu Hua continuously manipulated it with the joystick to perform various maneuvers.

"The delay isn't much."

The Wuzhen team said enviously, "This aircraft has better reconnaissance capabilities than ours."

Liu Hua was a gaming expert in his past life, though not the most skilled. Although he had forgotten most of it in this life, after practicing for a while, his skills have returned to about 70-80%.

The pilot stood by and watched Liu Hua skillfully push the control stick, making one incredible move after another, sometimes even turning back to show off to the pilot.

"You can't do that maneuver when you're flying a plane, can you?"

The pilot could only nod helplessly: "Yes, firstly, our aircraft cannot yet reach such strength, and secondly, humans cannot withstand such high maneuvering overload." "That is the advantage of drones. Because there are no pilots, once drones are designed, they can be designed to be as fast as possible, preferably so fast that missiles cannot catch up. As long as the structural strength of the aircraft is sufficient, there is no need to consider the human factor."

The pilot nodded at first, then shook his head: "No, no, it's too fast. My eyes can't keep up. It's just blindly crashing around. That could be fatal in combat."

“If the human eye can’t keep up, then let the computer do it.” Liu Hua said with a smile: “The ultra-high-speed drone, equipped with artificial intelligence, will assist the pilot at critical moments. The computer’s computing speed is at least much faster than that of a human.”

"That makes sense, but I don't know what artificial intelligence is."

Liu Hua smiled and said, "There's a TV series in America called Knight Rider. The computers in the cars are called artificial intelligence. They can analyze data and perform various combat maneuvers, plan routes, and even drive cars for people."

The pilot didn't know what Knight Rider was, and neither did the liaison officer. But he took it to heart; he memorized the name of the TV series Knight Rider, planning to look it up when he got back and find out what artificial intelligence was.
Seeing that the plane had been flying for half an hour, the contact person asked, "Was the plane empty or fully loaded just now? Should we drop something to check?"

"What are you thinking? We were just empty." Liu Hua said irritably, "Besides, how to drop things and how to add external devices are your own business as an air force. Do you think I have the right to research that?"

"Even if we couldn't do more research, you still managed to develop the airplane." The liaison officer said with a smile, "What's wrong with doing a little more research? We're on the same side, we're not going to cause you any trouble."

"Preparation is the key to success, and lack of preparation leads to failure." Liu Hua shook his head: "We still have to follow the rules. At the beginning, I was promoting this as a model airplane. But what model airplane can actually drop bombs and launch missiles?"

The team members were amused. The leader said cheerfully, "This is our specialty. You can rest assured to entrust the aircraft to us. We will definitely be able to develop the drone bomb bay and external attachments within six months."

“That’s right. For professional matters, you need to find professionals to do them. You’ll have to trouble Sixth Master’s team with this.”

The leader asked curiously, "Why do you call H-6 'Sixth Master'?"

"It's been twenty years since the first flight in 1968. He's a senior figure, and with Sixth Master's great abilities, it's not an exaggeration to call him 'Master,' is it?"

Everyone around burst into laughter. Liu Hua continued, "Our country has no other skills. It takes three years to build a new one, three years to repair an old one, and three more years to patch it up. You've already upgraded the 'Sixth Aircraft' to the 'H-6D.' It wouldn't be right if you didn't upgrade it to 'EFGH' next. You should at least go through all twenty-six letters of the alphabet."

"That's quite a bold idea. How difficult is it to improve an aircraft?"

Liu Hua waved his hand: "It's okay. Researchers have unlimited creativity. I estimate that the J-6 that comes out in another 10 or 20 years will be completely different from the current J-6."

"Since we have two different aircraft, why don't we design a new model?"

"A new model, the next-generation bomber?" Liu Hua shook his head: "I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but the next-generation bomber needs to have an ultra-long range, good stealth capabilities, a large payload, and preferably be supersonic. This isn't something that can be achieved just by making improvements; it takes thirty or forty years of hard work to develop it."

After flying for about an hour, Liu Hua's drone landed at the airport, and the surrounding technicians rushed over, taking various equipment to conduct all sorts of tests on the aircraft.

Liu Hua stood up and said to the liaison officer, "I'll leave everything to you now. I can retire now."

(End of this chapter)