Chapter 179

The whole audience was shocked by this remark!

68 dollars, which is almost half of the price quoted by the other three companies. What's more incredible is that the maintenance cost is only 3000 dollars for a single flight. God, is this still a plane?

From the beginning to now, hovensky, who has been calm and calm, has a rare face of disbelief and asked the first question of the whole game: "Mr. Liszt, are you sure of the number you give?"

"Yes, Mr. hovensky, the unit price of our aircraft is 680000 US dollars, and the cost of a single flight is controlled at 3000 US dollars, or even less."

"No way!" As soon as Liszt finished his reply, the powerful Norton refuted: "the cost of a single sortie is $3000, and the cost of fuel and pilots alone is more than $3000. Don't you need ground maintenance for your aircraft? Necessary parts replacement? So Liszt, you're lying, you're competing maliciously. "

Norton's words are strong, but they resonate with the people present, because in their impression, the cost of a single sortie of 3000 US dollars is too much fun. Even the cheapest small plane costs about 5000 US dollars, unless it's a glider, it's cheap. But how can the Ministry of justice use a glider as a tool to combat smuggling?

So all eyes were focused on Liszt, especially the two congressmen in front of him, whose faces were not good.

Liszt didn't panic. Instead, he looked at the angry Norton. He immediately gave a mild smile and asked, "Mr. Norton, how much fuel do you think an 18 kW two cylinder small gasoline engine needs?"

Norton was stunned when he heard the words. He didn't respond yet, but Mary Johnson was surprised to say: "18 kW dual cylinder small gasoline engine, oh my God, how do you get people to heaven?"

"No, they didn't take people to heaven, because they didn't use people to go to heaven at all, because they made drones!" It's still livingster who has a quick mind and reacts immediately.

However, the last drone immediately surprised everyone in the venue. The difference is that the surprise reaction this time is a little different from that just now. There is a bit of surprise in it. The drone and the piloted aircraft are bidding for the purchase order of the Ministry of justice. Once this happens, they seem to witness a history.

So for the first time, the invited media reporters focused on Liszt.

Liszt, however, nodded as expected: "yes, livingster is right. The discovery we are bidding for - type 1 aircraft is a pilotless aircraft, which is the latest cutting-edge technology product built by H Airlines after eight years. In a word, my evaluation is - Cross era!"

"Can you tell us the specific performance of the next Discovery-1 UAV?" The question was raised by a bold reporter in the back row.

Lister didn't answer, but turned his eyes to hovensky, a member of the house of Representatives and an official of the Ministry of justice. Obviously, the group of big men also wanted to hear how the new thing was, so they indicated that hovensky was OK.

After getting permission, Liszt went to the center of the venue and unfolded a pre prepared enlarged picture of the Discovery-1 UAV. The staff on one side immediately took out an easel with tacit understanding, fixed the enlarged picture of the Discovery-1 UAV, and then put it in a place where people on both sides could see it.

Soon a strange looking drone appeared in front of the crowd. The reporter in the back row immediately raised his camera, and the flashing sound of the shutter immediately covered the whole scene.

Hovensky had to take out a drum and beat it a few times to make the venue quiet again. Liszt pointed to the enlarged photo of the UAV and said, "our Discovery-1 UAV is 4 meters long, 5.6 meters wingspan and 1.1 meters high. It uses an 18 kW dual cylinder gasoline engine with a maximum takeoff weight of 224 kg, a practical ceiling of 8000 meters and a maximum speed of 260 kmh It cruises at 120 kmh, with a radius of 246 km and a endurance of 4 to 6 hours... "

Lister pause for a moment, ready to continue to introduce the basic performance of the UAV. As a result, a wrinkled congressman on the rostrum obviously lost patience, and the exit interrupted Lister's speech: "wait a minute, Mr. Lister, what we want is the patrol plane to combat smuggling and smuggling. We don't care about all kinds of data of your UAV, we just want to know what it can do It's not up to the Ministry of justice. "

"Yes, sir, if you don't tell me, I'll also introduce its superior performance. Here you are..." Liszt responded with a smile and pointed to a small round bag under the belly: "here is the core of the Discovery-1 UAV's target discovery. It uses the anasq-170 target acquisition system and anaaq-11 night vision system under the nose of the Apache armed helicopter, which just entered the army service last year.

Of course, it's impossible for us to be as advanced as the one used by the military. Our Discovery-1 is too heavy to carry. Therefore, we can only use its simplified anasq-180 target acquisition system and anaaq-15 night vision system. The general structure is the same as that of Apache. It inherits laser range finder and calibrator, forward-looking infrared system and daytime TV Camera and laser calibrator, as well as the most advanced night imaging device.... "What did everyone listen to on the spot? The UAV of H Airlines uses the same photoelectric detection system on the AH-64 "Apache" armed helicopter, which is the latest service of the U.S. Army. All people subconsciously feel that it's reliable. They may not know how to discover THE-1 UAV, but they can't help but know "Apache".

For the sake of the morale of the Chinese people, the U.S. military has done a lot of propaganda before and after the "Apache" service, such as what is the strongest armed helicopter in the world, the terminator of the Soviet tank torrent, etc. the explosive propaganda can be said to make the American people's ears heard. Even those who have long been concerned about armaments can recite the performance of "Apache".

Just because of this, when h Airlines used similar technology of Apache, they all felt that the performance of the UAV should not be wrong.

If the detection equipment of Discovery-1 UAV is reliable, the communication and navigation introduced by Liszt will make people feel more stable.

TDMA, which is similar to military data link 11, is responsible for command transmission; another CDMA communication technology is responsible for image transmission. At the same time, it is also equipped with the "Meridian" satellite positioning system and other auxiliary navigation systems being used by the US military.

So that the whole Discovery-1 UAV can control the flight with the control vehicle transformed from a truck, and get the detection photos and even images in front of it in real time.

After finishing his performance, Liszt stood up with a smile and concluded: "what's more, our discovery - No.1 is mobile and flexible. It doesn't need an airport, a section of highway, a piece of grassland, or even a piece of flat gravel ground to take off. It's really not good. A few meters long steel pipe can be welded with a guide rail, because we can also use rocket boost.

Maybe you don't believe it. No problem. If you are interested, after the hearing, I'll take you to Pennsylvania, which is adjacent to Washington. It's only about 40 minutes' journey. You know that Washington is no fly, so I have to arrange the flight demonstration there. "