If you wanted to take aerial shots before, you had to take a helicopter. Not only was the cost high, but the stability of helicopter shooting was not as stable as that of drones specially used for photography.
The person responsible for filming this military parade must be the camera crew from CCTV. Obviously, the drone products of Shangtong Trading Company have begun to be gradually used in other fields.
This is different from the initial need for strong support from brother companies. At that time, drones were still a new thing, and professional drones were expensive. Naturally, few people were willing to be the first to try it out.
Fortunately, all of his companies are not short of money, and he also trusts his own drones, so he has spent huge sums of money to purchase many of them, especially Qing Ning Entertainment Company and two agriculture-related companies. Supported.
Nowadays, drones have been widely used in professional photography and agricultural production, but other fields are still unsatisfactory, although Shangtong Trading Company has also developed and produced cost-effective products.
However, the majority of ordinary people do not know what the purpose of buying a drone is. It is simply for high-altitude shooting. It seems that there is no need to buy it. After all, there are not many people who have strong demand.
However, it is not without demand. Like many travel self-media people, there is a huge demand. After all, many scenery and aerial shots are more shocking and can better reflect the charm of tourist attractions.
It's just that this market is not big. The size of the civilian drone market in the previous life was only one to two billion US dollars. Obviously, this kind of market size is not that huge within the commercial and trading company system.
Therefore, if you want to expand the drone market, you still have to rely on the commercial production field. Personal hobbies alone cannot support the huge civilian drone market, at least commercial trading companies will not be satisfied.
Fortunately, domestic film and television production, agricultural production, construction surveying and mapping and other fields are now highly intensive, which provides more opportunities for the application of new technologies.
Take agricultural production as an example. If it is a small household production and operation model, naturally they will not be willing to spend high prices to purchase drones for agricultural production because the cost is too high.
But the intensive agricultural production model is different. The purchase of drones can be used almost all-weather and non-stop. Naturally, the cost of use is reduced, and more operating profits are generated due to improved efficiency.
Therefore, these two categories are now the largest market for civilian drones of Shangtong Trading Company, accounting for more than 90% of their total sales revenue of civilian drones, while the individual purchase market only accounts for less than 10%.
Faced with this situation, in fact, in addition to increasing publicity and promotion efforts, the most important thing is to provide more cost-effective products so that ordinary users do not have too much purchasing pressure.
Although last time he proposed to develop lower-priced products, with the lowest price even reaching 2,000 yuan, most people may still think twice about buying it.
Therefore, facing this problem, Shangtong Trading Company is preparing to launch civilian drone products with a price of less than 1,000 yuan, which can meet the basic shooting needs of ordinary users.
Of course, such a drone product will naturally not use too high-end technology, such as the global satellite communication system networking function, and its endurance will not be particularly strong. Due to the low cost of materials, the high-altitude stability will certainly not be particularly good.
After all, you get what you pay for. If you want a cheaper price, you naturally need to save costs elsewhere. The overall performance and quality cannot be compared with high-priced products.
For example, the lowest-end products they currently launch can last about 8 hours on a full charge. For most tasks, there is no need to worry about battery life.
But if you use a conventional battery, the battery life is only one or two hours. If it is a mini drone, it can only last about half an hour.
He supports Shangtong Trading Company's approach. Although it needs to maintain a high-end brand image, market share is more important.
Since Shangtong Trading Company's drone project was basically successful, other companies have entered the industry, although they cannot be compared with Shangtong Trading Company's products for the time being.
But you must have a sense of crisis in advance, and you cannot wait until your competitors have grown stronger before you think about strategies. They are preparing to launch product launches, which is a very effective strategy.
Because most of the products of other companies will be concentrated at the lowest end, they hope to form a price difference and compete for markets that Shangtong Trading Company does not cover.
Shangtong Trading Company is naturally unwilling to make its competitors live too comfortably. After they also enter the low-end market, it is estimated that a large number of companies in this industry will close down.
Zhao Yi supports this all-size-fits-all strategy, because companies without monopoly ambitions will eventually become more and more mediocre. Only companies that always think about monopolizing the market can always be dynamic.
The only thing he was worried about was that after monopolizing the market, he might lose his aggressiveness, so he established a Xuantian Technology Company and established an innovation workshop.
Xuantian Technology Company usually develops its own business, but when it feels that the company has serious problems, it may start to invade their industry, thus forcing the company to carry out reforms and regain its vitality.
Even if Xuantian Technology Company wins in the end and other companies close down, the meat will still rot in the pot, and the loss to him will be minimal. He feels that this strategy is actually very effective.
Last year, Innovation Workshop was testing the waters for the first time, and with its many styles and models of self-balancing vehicles, it grabbed a lot of short-distance travel transportation business.
In the field of traditional bicycles, many innovative products have also been launched, subverting people's inherent impression of bicycles, and designing bicycles to be high-end and classy.
It is also divided into different brands and models, covering the mid-to-high-end market, and provides very good services to many consumers who have money but do not have their favorite products.
Previously, a bicycle cost less than 100 yuan, but the price of the bicycle products of the Innovation Workshop started at least 500 yuan, and even reached as high as 500,000 yuan.
Bicycles priced at 500 yuan only have exterior design and mechanical structure design, and the materials are all common materials, while ultra-high-priced bicycle products all use special materials.
For example, carbon nanomaterials that are still being studied all over the world are naturally very expensive according to the cost of carbon nanomaterials in other countries, and may not even be able to be produced.
But for Cornerstone Materials, carbon nanomaterials are not actually very high-end. They can already produce them in large quantities at very low prices.
However, in addition to being provided to special industries, the sales price of their carbon nanomaterials is still very expensive, because this is a monopoly market, and naturally the price will not drop so quickly.
For example, the price of low-resistance and high-strength carbon nanomaterials they provide to the power grid for long-distance power transmission is not particularly high. If it is too high, even the National Grid cannot afford it.
But in the general market, the prices are obviously different, and different carbon nanomaterials also have different prices, and the profit margin is very scary.
As for the materials sold by our brother companies, the price is different from the external price. It is an internal supply price. Although the price is also high, it is definitely much lower than the price publicly sold in the market.
Just like some of Shenlong Automobile Company's current luxury car products, the body or interior decoration uses carbon nanotechnology materials, and the price is naturally very high.
In fact, there are many types of nanomaterials, not just limited to carbon nanomaterials, and carbon nanomaterials are not actually top-notch, but they are relatively cheap and lightweight.
In the high-end civilian field, nanomaterials have been widely used. Even the high-end civilian drones of Shangtong Trading Company use carbon nanomaterials.
Not only in the civilian field, but also in the military field, nanomaterials have also begun to be widely used, but they are not simple carbon nanomaterials, but many composite nanomaterials.
Although carbon nanomaterials have many advantages, their disadvantages are also relatively obvious, that is, their ductility is relatively poor. If they are broken, they are difficult to repair and can only be replaced as a whole, which is much more troublesome than ordinary metal materials.
It is only used in the high-end field, because customers who can afford high-end products can also afford repairs. The high maintenance costs are too heavy a burden for ordinary people.
By the same token, in the military field, maintenance costs also need to be considered. Military equipment itself is very expensive. If the maintenance costs are also very high, no matter how good the performance is, the market size will be very limited.
The drone product he helped China Military Industrial Company develop uses nanomaterials on a large scale. Not only is its overall weight less than 30% of conventional military materials, its overall performance is also greatly improved.
Of course, the cost of such a drone is also very high, but compared with the performance improvement, the cost has increased significantly, which is acceptable.
Just like military drones, their cruising speed can easily reach Mach 5 or above. Conventional missiles are not as fast as these military drones. Not to mention their stealth performance, even if they are discovered, they will be difficult to intercept.
When my country's third-generation military aviation products were designed, nanomaterials had just been developed, so they were not widely used, and the design would not be changed in the future because there was no great need.
However, the fourth generation of military equipment will use various nanomaterials on a large scale, because our country's nanomaterial research and development and preparation technology are now very mature, and the cost is no longer so unattainable.
What's more important is that the emergence of various nanomaterials can effectively replace conventional military materials, and the performance is not improved at all. It is very cost-effective for military equipment.
Just when Zhao Yi was thinking a lot, my country's military drone products were the first to enter the military parade. This was something Zhao Yi did not expect and thought it would be arranged later.
After all, there are too many types of military equipment on public display this time, many of which are very advanced. Compared with these conventional military equipment, drones are special military equipment.
Special military equipment is usually displayed at the back. The reason why it is arranged in this way may be because of military drone technology, and our country is unique.
There are not a few countries currently researching drones, but there are only a few successful ones, because if you want to develop usable military drone products, you need a lot of technical support, and without one, you will not be able to form effective combat effectiveness.
Military drones, for example, require efficient positioning systems and communication systems. These are the most basic. Otherwise, after the drone is released, it loses contact and cannot come back, which would be ridiculous.
If you want higher combat effectiveness, you also need high-level artificial intelligence technology, which can allow drones to face more complex battlefield environments and complete combat missions independently.
This will be an important reference indicator in the field of military drones in the future. Obviously, our country's military drone products have reached a level where they can completely get rid of human control and can face complex battlefield environments.
However, foreign military drone technology does not even reach the level of manual background control. Technically, it is still far behind ours.
Such military drone products are naturally one of the most important weapons among the many weapons for my country's national defense. It is understandable that they should be displayed in advance.
There are many types of military drone products displayed this time, including reconnaissance drones, combat drones, bombing drones, and even transport drones.
It can be said that in the field of military drones, our country has formed a complete drone system, which can replace conventional air power and complete a complex and large-scale conventional military operation.
And because military drones were developed relatively late, many new technologies have been developed, and Zhao Yi is also heavily involved. In fact, the performance has far exceeded the third-generation air force equipment equipped by our country.
It's just that the quantity of equipment in our country is not very large at present, because the price is naturally much more expensive than the third-generation air force equipment. After all, the performance is there.
Not to mention comparing with the third generation military equipment, even compared with the fourth generation conventional military equipment, these military drone products are not bad at all, because they are built according to the fourth generation air power.
At present, our country has sufficient capabilities to meet its national defense and security needs with its advanced third-generation conventional military equipment. Naturally, the demand for these advanced military drone products is not so urgent.
However, as my country's economy continues to improve and national defense expenditures continue to increase, these advanced military drone products will continue to be purchased in the future.
In fact, unmanned military equipment is the general trend in the future. Not only drone products, but also unmanned tanks, armored vehicles, unmanned naval ships, etc. will be the direction of future development.
It's just that the time is still short, and Huaxia Military Industrial Company does not have that much energy and time to fully unmanned. Even these military drone products can only be completed with Zhao Yi's personal participation.
These military drone products using vehicles are all miniaturized products and are generally used for reconnaissance and small-scale attack missions.
But even for this kind of drone product, the price still reaches 100 million yuan, which is very different from the price of drones in our traditional concept.
Although the price seems to be much more expensive than the current conventional air power, in fact, in the same functional field, the price is not very high, and it still has a great cost advantage.
For example, the high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft sold to the military by Huaxia Military Industrial Company costs up to 4 billion yuan, and its performance is much more advanced than that of Yingjiang's SR-71. After all, this reconnaissance aircraft was a product of the 1960s.
However, in the field of domestic air force equipment, it is considered very expensive. For example, the long-range strategic stealth bomber has the most advanced technology in the world, and the price is only about 2 billion yuan.
From here we can see the cost advantages brought by using unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, and unmanned aerial vehicles can achieve super-speed cruising capabilities that are difficult to achieve by conventional aircraft, and their survivability is actually stronger.
The acceleration that humans can withstand is certain. The greater the acceleration, the higher the quality of the driver required. For the military, the cost of training high-quality drivers is not necessarily much cheaper than purchasing equipment.
Therefore, even if the price of drone products seems to be relatively expensive, in fact, it still has great advantages compared with conventional military equipment. This is why he judged that unmanned military products will be an important player on the battlefield in the future.
After the display of various military drones, the next step is the army equipment. The beginning is the advanced armored force, which displays our army's most advanced light tanks, heavy tanks, electronic interference armored vehicles, battlefield environment reconnaissance armored vehicles, information link armored vehicles, etc. wait.
But there are as many as seven or eight types of these tanks and armored vehicles, all of which have very advanced and unique functions. When combined, they can support the operational needs of the modern information-based army.
Since he proposed the concept of information warfare and the construction of a space-ground integrated information chain, our military's military development has gradually evolved in this direction, and now it has a very good foundation.
In particular, the many information-based modern military equipment prepared by Huaxia Military Industrial Corporation for this purpose provide a good foundation for the construction of our country's modern army and make system construction very easy.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that our country's armaments were relatively weak in the past. The elimination of backward military equipment does not put much psychological pressure on the military, and naturally it can be replaced much faster.
If there is a good armament foundation before, no matter how advanced the new equipment is, it will not be eliminated in a short while. After all, these are money, and it is naturally reluctant to throw them away directly. It will take a long time to gradually replace them.
An almost complete change of equipment like ours is relatively rare, and it is also an important reason why our country can complete the military construction required for modern information warfare in such a short period of time.
After the display of tanks and armored vehicles, there was a display of our army's logistics equipment. This had never happened before. It was the first time in a domestic military parade and it naturally attracted the attention of many people.
Whether it is a modern war or an ancient war, logistics is an important aspect that tests the potential of war. However, ancient wars often rely on war to support war and use local materials, which is still very different from modern times.
It is very difficult to obtain local materials for modern warfare. Naturally, it is necessary to establish a complete logistics equipment system that can support diverse war needs.
Huaxia Military Industrial Company naturally attaches great importance to this area, but the logistics equipment they are personally responsible for developing and producing is not particularly large, and the coverage rate is far less than that of other aspects.
Because of many logistics equipment, other companies have better conditions, such as battlefield medical vehicles, which are developed by Chinese pharmaceutical companies and are even more qualified.
Because Chinese pharmaceutical companies can not only provide various instruments and equipment for battlefield medical needs, but also provide advanced medical systems and intelligent diagnosis and treatment methods.
The most important thing is that China Pharmaceuticals and Tiangong Precision Instrument Company have cooperated to develop a high-precision automatic surgical medical vehicle that can automatically complete 99% of surgical work, even faster and more accurately than manual participation.
It can be said that this kind of automatic surgical medical vehicle is the most advanced medical vehicle in the world. It can not only provide timely treatment to the wounded, but also greatly reduce the pressure on medical personnel in the later period.
The larger the war, the greater the role this kind of vehicle plays. Even though this small vehicle is very expensive, the internal selling price is as high as 500 million yuan, and the external selling price is as high as 1 billion yuan. .
Because the technology is too advanced, even if it is sold cheaply, it will not be worth the price of the technology used here. It not only involves ultra-high-precision instrument manufacturing and medical equipment manufacturing.
It also involves high-level artificial intelligence and advanced medical diagnosis technology. In the face of these many leading technologies, the external price of 1 billion yuan is actually not very expensive.
You must know that the high-end examination equipment used in hospitals costs more than tens of millions of yuan. In fact, their sophistication is not as high as this car.
In addition to these two automatic surgical vehicles, there are also automatic disease inspection vehicles, automatic diagnosis and treatment vehicles, etc. The technical content of these vehicles is much lower, and the price is naturally much cheaper.
But it also plays a great role in reducing the pressure on logistics and medical care. Even when combined, the effect is even better and can reduce more than 90% of the pressure on logistics and medical care.
In addition to medical care in the later stage, the most important part is catering. Naturally, highly automated equipment has been implemented for this purpose, which can reduce more than 95% of the logistical catering pressure.
In the future, the work of the cooking class will not be about cooking, cutting and washing vegetables, but how to use these equipment and how to repair and maintain these equipment. The work pressure and intensity will be much less, and the proportion of technology will be very high.
This kind of thing is not within the scope of China Military Industrial Company, so there is no need to insist on participating. Instead, the main research and development work is handed over to companies with stronger capabilities to complete it. Even the vehicle platform is not provided by them.
This is because Shenlong Automobile Company is stronger than Huaxia Military Industrial Company in terms of vehicles. Although it is a civilian enterprise, its research in various land vehicle fields is very deep.
Even the tanks and armored vehicles developed by Huaxia Military Industrial Company have many patented technologies from Shenlong Motors. As long as the existing technology is sufficient, Huaxia Military Industrial Company does not need to reinvent the wheel.
Therefore, these logistics equipment are basically not developed and produced by Huaxia Military Industrial Company, but they are completed under the guidance of Huaxia Military Industrial Company because their concepts of modern logistics support are the most advanced. (End of chapter)