Vol 2 Chapter 1837: Automated hard pipe refueling and hose refueling technology

This set of automatic aerial refueling technology is divided into aerial refueling technology and aerial refueling technology. In fact, these two sets of technologies do not have much hardware improvements, mainly in terms of control systems.
Now our refueling technology, in addition to the hard tube refueling technology that requires the cooperation of the tanker and the refueling fighter, the hose refueling technology, generally speaking, has a relatively limited impact on the tanker. The main reason is the refueling fighter, which requires the pilot to be precise. Manipulate to receive the oil hose.
Limited by the influence of speed, airflow, and flight attitude, this is very difficult for the process of receiving fuel, and not all pilots have this skill.
Hearing Wu Hao's words, everyone present nodded one after another. Indeed, the current conventional refueling technology is hose refueling. Because the hose floats with the airflow, the technical requirements for the pilots when docking refueling are very high, so not all fighter pilots have this skill.
Panning everyone's reaction, Wu Hao went on to preach: "If we are developing this aerial automatic refueling technology, we will also divide it into two sub-projects for research.
One is the hard tube refueling technology, which requires the cooperation of the refueling machine and the refueling fighter aircraft, and the technical difficulty is very high.
The other is hose refueling technology, which does not have high requirements for refueling machines, and it is mainly used for refueling fighters.
In fact, this technology is simple and very simple, that is, we have added a set of automatic refueling program to the automatic control system of the fighter. By collecting and learning the data of all manned fighters when refueling, and learning and training from it, Obtained this aerial automatic refueling control system.
Let me first introduce the hose refueling aspect. We install a small system on the tanker. When the fueled fighter approaches, this small system will automatically start and transmit relevant flight data information of the tanker to the fueled fighter.
At the same time, there is also a positioning device on the taper sleeve at the top of the refueling hose, which will always send its own spatial position coordinates to the refueling fighter.
The fueled fighter jet will immediately switch to the automatic refueling procedure. At this time, both the pilot in the fighter jet's cockpit and the controller behind the drone need to stop their actions.
Based on the received data signals, the oil-receiving combat opportunity controls the fighter aircraft to accurately dock the refueling hoses to achieve refueling.
During the entire refueling process, the oiled fighter will always accept the relevant flight attitude data of the tanker and control the fueled fighter to be consistent with it.
In this way, even if the tanker is affected by the strong air current, and the flying attitude speed is changed, the fuel-receiving fighter aircraft connected to the refueling will be adjusted accordingly to maintain normal refueling.
This is hose refueling, and in hard pipe refueling, this technology is more important.
Everyone knows that because it is a hard-pipe refueling, the cooperation of the refueling machine must be closer. Therefore, this system can keep the two aircraft consistent during the hard-pipe refueling and receiving process.
Unlike hose refueling technology, hard pipe refueling technology can actually be seen as the reverse.
Just like the hose refueling technology, after the fueled fighter is transferred to the automatic refueling program, the fueled fighter immediately starts to adjust the flight attitude according to the relevant data and information of the tanker, and then gradually approaches the refueling hard pipe.
When the fueled fighter arrives in the relevant area, the automatic refueling system will control the refueling hard pipe to connect the interface to the fueled fighter that flies to the predetermined position, thereby realizing air refueling. "
Hearing Wu Hao's introduction, everyone couldn't help but talk. There are those who support and praise, and naturally there are those who oppose worry.
Those who support it, of course, have taken a fancy to the huge development potential of this technology, which greatly promotes the improvement of the fighter's combat effectiveness.
Those who oppose worry are worried that the refueling process is very dangerous, the two fighters are very close, and the tankers are expensive to build, and they are filled with fuel. Once the calculation is wrong, there is a collision, the loss will be very huge.
There is no need to say anything about the fighters, it is just such an aerial tanker, which is expensive to build and few in number. Even the rich and oily Mi Air Force, there are not many, let alone us, it can be said that it can not afford to lose.
So everyone raised a lot of questions about the safety and reliability of this technology, and some even questioned him directly.
In this regard, Wu Hao was not in a hurry, but rather calmly answered: "First of all, what I want to say is that our aerial automatic refueling technology is very safe and reliable. In this regard, pilots will never be able to reach it. .
No matter how good a pilot is, mistakes will occur, but system procedures will not. Even if it appears, the probability is very low, much lower than that of pilots.
Secondly, in terms of safety, we have designed a set of emergency response procedures, which will be automatically activated in crisis situations, such as active departure, active avoidance, weighing ‘sacrifice’ and so on.
When there is a very dangerous situation, if it is a drone, this emergency response system will take the initiative to avoid it. If it cannot avoid it, it will actively ‘sacrifice’ to ensure the safety of the tanker.
Of course, if it is a manned fighter, the pilot can take over the control at any time during the whole process.
In fact, the concept of unmanned refueling machine was not first proposed by us. Mi Jun has already proposed related schemes and has already conducted experiments.
Compared with their unmanned tanker solution, our aerial automatic refueling technology is more realistic, more in line with the current development needs of the Air Force, and more secure and reliable.
This set of aerial automatic refueling technology can be used not only on drones and unmanned refueling aircraft, but also on our current tankers and conventional fighters.
With this technology ~EbookFREE.me~ then the improvement of fighter combat effectiveness will be very huge. Other aspects are not mentioned, but the efficiency of automatic refueling in the air is beyond the reach of manual refueling.
Moreover, this technology also lays an important technical foundation for the development of future unmanned tankers. Can we even make unmanned improvements to the active aerial tankers to achieve unmanned long-term airborne services?
For some large-scale and high-intensity missions, the retention is very huge, which is equivalent to an additional air logistics supply center. "
Hearing what Wu Hao said, many people present smiled and shook their heads. What Wu Hao said is too far away, and what they are looking at is the actual application of this set of aerial automatic refueling technology in the current and future stages.
And among them, what impressed them the most was that this set of automatic aerial refueling technology could be retrofitted and upgraded on top of active fighters. In this way, all fighters that have the ability to receive fuel in the air can benefit from it.
And in many cases, it is not the lack of equipment and technology in this area, but the lack of talents in this area. With this technology, it will be able to greatly ease and reduce the technical difficulty of pilot refueling training in this area, so that more pilots and fighter jets can have the ability to refuel in the air.