Recently, Taiwanese media quoted Polish technology media reports that a Twitter video reflecting the battle scenes of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict showed that Ukrainian special forces used the Revolver 860 attack drone produced by Taiwan Orangesen International Co., Ltd. to throw 3 mortar shells on the southern front of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, hit and destroyed a Russian Shturm-S storm anti-tank missile tank. As soon as the news came out, the Twitter account was naturally "listening to the sound of frogs", and many "people" applauded it and pointed out that "it showed the powerful unmanned combat power of the 'National Army' and had a certain deterrence to the other side." For these ignorant nonsense reports, Libing wanted to say three points: First, this is really not a high-tech product; Second, Orange Society International is actually a brand agent of DJI in Taiwan; Third, the People's Liberation Army's drone is the strongest in the world.
Taiwan drone strikes Russian tank scene map
1. Taiwan drone is not a high-tech product
In fact, Taiwan Revolver, which achieved "results" this time, has achieved "war results" The 860 attack drone is actually a civilian drone that is particularly unavailable on the table. The drone adopts a 4-arm and 8-rotor design. It is actually a copycat cargo of DJI drone, which is no different from most agricultural drones that have been popular in my country. However, the drone replaced the load position on the belly of the civilian drone that was originally used to load cameras or pesticides with a weapon cabin. The weapon cabin can carry up to 8 60mm mortar , and it is equipped with a rotary firing device similar to a revolver, which becomes a weapon.
Because when the mortar shell is fired from the air, due to the fragile attitude maintenance of the aircraft and the uncontrollable instantaneous recoil, the ballistic after the launch is extremely unstable. The airborne fire control computer cannot give accurate launch calculations in advance. This device is actually just to push the shell out of the weapon compartment. The 60mm gun cannon itself can only carry out small-scale killing of military vehicles and personnel with relatively fragile protection measures, and has no effect on combat units with certain armor protection. The Russian storm anti-tank missile tank encountered this time happens to be a military target with almost no protection, so the blind cat hit the dead mouse and achieved very difficult "fight results" and made Apple fans feel excited.
▲Revolver 860 Attack Drone
In fact, netizens who have watched the Russian-Ukrainian war video may have noticed that many Ukrainian troops use drones to throw mortar shells at Russian tanks and even tanks and , but the mortar shells in these videos fall almost freely. Before throwing, the Ukrainian drone operators with skilled operation estimate the height and angle, and there is no fire control measures. This also means that in fact, any four-rotor drone can achieve similar results with shells. This Taiwanese counterfeit DJI drone product does not have any technological content.
2. Taiwan Oranges International is DJI's agent
. Finally, I talked about Taiwan Oranges International Co., Ltd., which produces the drone. This is actually not a serious company. The English name is DronesVision. Looking at the company's official website, you can see that it was established in 2010. It was an agent of famous drone brands such as DJI, Freely, and T-Motor. Until 2014, after four years of business development, it was estimated that it had copied a lot of supplier technologies through agents, so it began to develop drones and anti-drone products by itself, a typical technology plagiarism company.
▲Taiwan Orangesen International official website clearly stated that it is a DJI agent
So far, all the company's drone products are multi-rotor configurations. The main products are AR-1 armed drone that can carry guns, TR-2 reconnaissance drone that carries reconnaissance payloads, Revolver860 attack drone and DR-860 transport drone for bomb drops. In addition, anti-drone systems, deep learning drone platforms, drone motors and electric regulators are also in the product sequence.
▲Orangesen International Product Array
If these products have some technical content, they are the deep learning drone platform. This thing is mainly to use drones to automatically distinguish and identify some military targets. But in fact, for the mainland, companies represented by DJI basically launched the same mature product around 2017. Because DJI monopolizes more than 70% of the global drone market and has accumulated absolute advantages in artificial intelligence training data, the current DJI deep learning platform product quality is definitely unique in the world. Looking at the official website of Orangesen International, it can be seen that the company only produced it in 2021. It is no exaggeration to say that its technology has been leading by DJI for 2-3 generations.
In fact, the fact that Oranges International supports drones is a gimmick hyped by Taiwanese media, because the drone itself was sold to Poland by Oranges International, but Poland later resold to Ukraine. Orangesen International itself is a small-scale private enterprise with only a scale of tens of millions of assets, and it dares not mess with Russia at all. After learning about this, a statement was issued on the official website to refute the rumor, which stated:
" Recently, some media reported it directly without verifying the facts of the company, which may be misleading. Orangesen International Co., Ltd. hereby clarify that the company has never donated drones or related counter-weapons and any products to the Ukrainian government, military or civil charity group ." The mentality of trying to avoid the troubles of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is evident.
3. The backwardness of Taiwan’s drone industry stems from arrogance
. Behind the far behind the mainland’s drone technology is far behind the development of the entire Taiwan drone industry. The development of Taiwan's drones started early. In the 1990s, Taiwan's military began to purchase foreign drones for research and development. Taiwan's Zhongshan Academy of Sciences is the main research and development responsible unit. After 30 years of development, two major drones have been formed for police and military use. For example, "Tea Falcon", "Zhongxiang", "Rui Yuan" and "Tengyun" are all relatively famous products.
Logically speaking, Taiwan's semiconductor industry is very strong, and the level of drone development will naturally not be low. However, Taiwan's drone development strategy is wrong with the lack of mature civil drone brands, and has always ignored the cultivation of in this industry chain. But it should be noted that in peaceful times, the development and renewal of military technology were far behind civilian technology, and civilian products could only produce complete and superior drones through fierce competition and product trials in the trade market. These civilian technologies can be applied almost immediately to military drone , promoting a significant improvement in military drone performance. Now that China's military drone technology is unique in the world, it is closely related to DJI's global dominance.
▲ Taiwan-made drone technology is far behind mainland
. So far, Taiwan has not had a civilian drone product that can be proven internationally. Even under the competition of mainland brands such as DJI, Pegasus, and Ehang, Taiwan-made drones have no foothold on the island. Therefore, Taiwan-made drones have naturally become backward goods without any technical content, and have not solved the problem of low-level problems such as poor anti-interference ability and low signal quality. In fact, the fundamental reason for the backward development of Taiwan's drones is that Taiwan pays too much attention to the development of semiconductors and chips. Some industry makers arrogantly believe that semiconductors and chips are the "souls" of drones. UAVs are only the "applications" of semiconductors and chips. If they occupy the "soul", they can obtain the most profits of . In fact, this view is extremely wrong, because drones are a collection of engines, flight controls, machinery, electronic components, weapon systems, semiconductors and chips. They are a system project. Only semiconductors and chips cannot create drones of good quality. Of course, Taiwan's backward military drones are also a blessing for national reunification.
4. PLA drone is unique in the world
▲PLA drone is unique in the world, crushing the world
0 mentioned earlier that PLA drone technology is unique in the world, which is an inevitable result of the mainland military-civilian integration development strategy . So far, my country has developed the world's most complete model, the widest coverage and the richest strike capabilities. For example, since September this year, the People's Liberation Army has successively dispatched six military drones, BZK-005, BZK-007, TB-001, KVD-001, No-Reconnaissance-7, and Rainbow-4, to carry out patrol reconnaissance on Taiwan. Among them, three drones, BZK-005, BZK-007, and TB-001, are large-scale reconnaissance weapons, with a battery life of more than 30 hours. One drone can perform range monitoring on sea areas with a radius of more than 1,000 kilometers. The load is large-scale photoelectric pods and synthetic aperture radar. If more than 2 aircraft are dispatched at a time, it can perform range monitoring on South China Sea and East China Sea . KVD-001 is a small-range reconnaissance artifact that can be launched on-board, tracking and detailed inspection of targets within a range of 200 kilometers. Rainbow-4 is a medium-range drone that has a reconnaissance range of between short-range and long-range. If it carries weapon payloads, it can also directly attack after discovering the target.
In order to further make up for the problem that these three drones were discovered by the enemy, the Reconnaissance-7 adopted a high-altitude stealth design, which can covertly break into the enemy's air defense circle to carry out reconnaissance identification and guidance attacks on the enemy's aircraft carrier and other ships . In addition to a series of drones such as Winglong, Reconnaissance-8, Attack-11, and the booming drone peak group technology, it can be said that even the US military cannot compete with the People's Liberation Army in terms of drones, let alone the small Taiwan army.
In the future, once war breaks out in the Taiwan Strait, the PLA's drone swarm will be very likely to pounce on Taiwan as the first wave of attack weapons, blinding and destroying its radar and air defense missiles directly. The subsequent high-tech drones will serve as the second wave to monitor the entire island of Taiwan and clearing the remaining targets. By the time the PLA soldiers land, there should be no decent established troops on Taiwan. Even if there are, as soon as they appear, drones will come to greet them immediately.
