wavenovel Chapter 74 Swarm Sweep
Chapter 74 Swarm Sweep
Accompanied by the swarm's notification, a notification appeared on the screen indicating that the exercise had begun.
Rumble!
The roar of tank engines immediately echoed from the exercise battlefield outside, followed by the simulated whistling of artillery shells.
Lin Dong quickly entered more than a dozen combat commands into the swarm drone's combat interface and finally pressed the Enter key.
The bee swarm has received its combat orders and is now launching an encirclement and suppression operation!
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz—
Suddenly.
A buzzing sound came from the drone parking platform not far away.
The buzzing sound amplified dramatically the next second, as if countless bees were fluttering their wings, ready to take flight.
A gust of air blew by.
Under the shocked gazes of everyone.
On that day, 150 drones, which were all in the middle of the sky but no one could start, suddenly shot into the sky.
Di-
The 120-inch high-definition projector on the sunshade was activated, projecting a dual map combining infrared and ultrasonic images onto it.
call! ! !
The next second, a fierce gust of wind swept up above the sunshade.
The swarm of 150 drones suddenly dispersed, forming a drone bridge in the air with six drones in each unit, spaced approximately 200 meters apart front to back and 40 meters apart side to side...
"This is--"
Xu Qingling watched the drone bridge flying in the sky, maintaining a distance and randomly flying up and down within a 10-meter range to avoid potential attacks.
Something suddenly occurred to her, and she turned to look at the 1800 obviously rudimentary infrared drones still on the drone parking platform.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
Suddenly, the quadcopters of these drones began to spin, emitting a sound like the buzzing of worker bees.
The next second, 48 drones suddenly took off.
With a simulated bomb suspended from its belly, it rapidly accelerated to 180 kilometers per hour and flew into the sky along the drone bridge.
Five seconds.
The 48 drones flew a distance of 200 meters.
Immediately afterwards, a second batch of 48 drones took off simultaneously and began to fly along the trajectory of the first batch of infrared drones, along the bridge of the swarm of drones, buzzing as they flew into the distance.
One batch, two batches, three batches...
In just one minute, nearly 600 drones took off and flew into the distance under the guidance of the swarm of drones.
On the 120-inch projector, the map, which wasn't very high resolution, had already extended three kilometers.
One by one, signal points marked with warnings by the swarm system and emitting obvious heat sources began to emerge in the infrared image.
At the same time, what also emerged was a dense array of drone positioning signals representing our own forces, stretching across the sky like a bridge for three kilometers.
One infrared drone after another flew over here, immediately detected the infrared signals below, and began to pounce on them like mad dogs.
In addition to forming the drone bridge, there are 70 distinctly different swarm drone signal points. These drones are arranged in groups of three, forming a three-by-three formation in the air, and fly towards the marked warning signal points in the distance.
These swarms of drones are like they're going hunting, with each drone also guiding and carrying four infrared drones.
Once a drone approaches within about 100 meters of the warning signal point, one of the infrared drones carried by the swarm will swoop down...
Finished!
Upon seeing this scene displayed by the swarm system, Zhang Yihao, Xu Hua, and the others exchanged glances, and a thought involuntarily arose in their minds.
The blue team is truly finished!
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"Hurry! Hurry, hurry! It's getting dark. Take advantage of the drone pilot's reduced observation ability! Quickly advance and infiltrate!"
"Keep the armored and artillery attacks going, cover our advance!"
"We, the Blue Team, have a numerical advantage—800 against 160. Without drone surveillance or harassment, we must completely crush the Red Team this time and capture Qi Jingchuan!"
The exercise began, and night slowly fell.
Under the cover of night, the blue team's squads quickly formed infiltration formations and rushed towards the red team's position.
They had only advanced less than two hundred meters when suddenly, a buzzing sound filled the sky.
"After only one day of training, the Red Team's drone pilots have already adapted so well, able to deploy so quickly even late at night?"
One of the squad leaders paused, looking up at the sky in surprise.
It was simply because night had fallen, and none of the combat drones would turn on their navigation lights to actively reveal their location.
They could only hear the buzzing in the sky and discern the general direction, but they couldn't see where the drone had arrived at all.
"Be careful, something's not right."
A highly experienced second-class sergeant, who had participated in numerous live-fire exercises, lowered his head and reminded his nearby teammates.
They are now in a flanking formation, with everyone only about three meters apart, so they can communicate without radios.
At this point, he had already sensed that something was wrong.
That is, apart from the buzzing of drones, the Red Army's armored vehicles and tanks were completely silent, and the Red Army's artillery did not fire a single shell.
Although the Red Team only had one-fifth the number of people and equipment of the Blue Team, they still had some armored tanks and artillery, so it was impossible for the battle to start without any movement.
"team leader!"
Beside him, a soldier in his twenties frowned: "The sound of this drone is different from the drones we hear during the day..."
hum!
He hadn't finished speaking.
Suddenly, the buzzing sound in the sky became incredibly sharp, and powerful gusts of air rushed down from the sky.
"Get down!"
The captain's expression suddenly changed, and he immediately roared, and everyone quickly lay down on the ground.
boom--
A drone, traveling at over 200 kilometers per hour, suddenly swooped down towards the center-left position of them.
Sizzle! A gust of wind rippled through the air.
When the drone was still more than ten meters above the ground, its motors overclocked and it drifted laterally at a large angle to decelerate.
The entire fuselage came to a stop almost skimming the ground, landing on a relatively flat spot, and then the simulated bomb under its belly emitted billowing white smoke.
Pop! Pop pop pop!
The next second, the exercise sensors attached to all five members of their tactical squad exploded one after another, emitting white smoke that signified their deaths.
[You have been eliminated! Please pack up the enemy drone and retreat to the safe zone according to the exercise regulations. Remain silent and do not communicate with other combat personnel!]
"Air... air blast!"
The captain listened to the system prompts in his headset, then looked at the drone billowing white smoke not far away, and swallowed hard.
The five members of their team lay down the moment the drone swooped down.
In such a situation, if it were a ground-impact explosion, the angle of the ground would shield the two people closest to the explosion's epicenter from being hit by shrapnel, making it impossible for all five to die.
Only air burst.
When the drone dives to a certain height above the ground, the detonation device is activated to create an airburst.
Because there was no ground cover, the bomb fragments completely covered all five of them, which is why the system determined that all five of them were killed in action.
Buzz! Buzz buzz buzz—
At this moment, the buzzing sound overhead suddenly intensified, with countless buzzes resounding throughout the night sky.
Then, the buzzing became sharp, and streaks of sound fell in all directions like shooting stars.
Before long, the sharp buzzing gradually subsided and the distance between them slowly increased. Like a swarm of artificially bred night wasps searching for food, they were spreading deeper into the blue team's territory according to a pre-set plan...