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Chapter 71 Difficulty in Changing Mindsets

Ring ring—

At 4:20 p.m. sharp, the school bell rang throughout the campus.

As the sun set neared the end of the lunar month, rays of sunlight streamed through the window, casting dappled patterns of light while also carrying a slight heat.

Lin Dong packed his schoolbag, called to Xu Qingling, and the two walked side by side out of the school.

"Qingling, Lin Dong!"

The two walked out of the campus and waited for a while when suddenly, a shout came from behind them.

Huang Qingyao, Su Yue, Jiang Caiping, and Zhang Xuebin came out carrying their schoolbags.

"Are you also participating in tactical training for drone operation?" Huang Qingyao quickly caught up with them, looking at the two with surprise and delight.

"Yes, my dad said he wants to form another team of 200 drone pilots, each of whom can operate 20 drones. He said that we teenagers are more flexible in our thinking and can more easily test the effects of new equipment."

Xu Qingling answered with a smile.

As he spoke, he glanced briefly at Lin Dong beside him.

She understood the purpose behind the formation of drone pilots by military industry personnel and military families a couple of days ago.

The claim that young people have more flexible thinking and are better able to test the effects of new equipment is just a superficial explanation.

The real purpose is to increase the number of family members and children of drone pilots, thereby reducing the attention given to a particular individual.

"Each person controls 20 drones? How can you control so many?" Huang Qingyao asked in surprise.

"We don't require you to control twenty at once. Control as many as you can. If one explodes, switch to the next one." Xu Qingling briefly explained the pilot's control process.

"Lin Dong, Xu Qingling!"

Xu Qingling and Huang Qingyao had only exchanged a few words when Zhang Zihua and Li Tao came out with their backpacks. They called out to Lin Dong and the others from afar, then politely nodded to Huang Qingyao and the others.

"You two are a bit slow. It's getting late. Let's go over there soon so we can go home for dinner after training."

Lin Dong greeted Zhang Zihua and, carrying his schoolbag, headed towards the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) base.

"Lin Dong!"

Lin Dong hadn't walked far when Li Tao caught up first, turning around to ask, "I heard we're going to the field training ground with a thousand people participating in the training. Are we going to fight alongside them against the Blue Team?"

"Where did you hear such wild news?"

Lin Dong raised an eyebrow: "If the Blue Team hears you say that, be careful you don't get dragged to their camp and put through three days and three nights of rigorous training."

"What Zhang Yihao said, not what I said, that kid couldn't wait to ask for leave this afternoon and went to the base to participate in training."

Li Tao readily betrayed Zhang Yihao, then revealed, "I heard him say that the people in the army now privately call Uncle Lin 'Queen Bee,' a legendary queen bee."

Queen bee?

What a terrible name!

Lin Dong's lips twitched, and he suddenly felt incredibly fortunate that he was young, and that Comrade Lin Weiliang had taken over the task of handling the swarm drones.

Otherwise, as the exercise begins, swarms of drones will dazzle the world.

Lin Dong couldn't even imagine that in the future, when he stood in the spotlight and his identity was exposed, when he went out or appeared on the news, people would line up and call him "Queen Bee".

The group left the school and arrived at the Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) base. Led by a three-star officer, they traveled in an internal vehicle to a training ground dozens of kilometers away.

Rumbling--

Before even getting out of the car, the roar of the engine, the tremors of the earth, and the pungent smell of diesel exhaust filled everyone's senses.

Outside the window, a vast expanse of forest covering tens of thousands of acres had been transformed into a training ground.

On the ground, various armored vehicles and tanks sped by, while drones shuttled through the sky.

In addition, there are rows of simulated civilian houses and crisscrossing trenches, forming a battlefield that is incredibly close to reality.

The soldiers, dressed in combat uniforms designed for the exercise and wearing goggles, were engaged in fierce combat and firing using equipment specifically designed for the exercise.

"That's amazing!"

Li Tao stared wide-eyed, practically pressing his face against the window, watching the battlefield outside where the fighting was raging.

"Will we have to come here to train every day after school?" Huang Qingyao asked excitedly, looking out the window at the scene.

"I heard that military training in middle schools and universities in Guangxi Province is like this..." Su Yue's expression was also full of tension, but her eyes couldn't help but look out the window, with a hint of indescribable anticipation.

"You're here to be drone pilots, you don't need to go to the battlefield with guns like this... Of course, if you want to experience it, you can apply to join."

The captain said a few words and then called for everyone to get off the vehicle.

As soon as the group got out of the car, there was a sunshade at the corner ahead, and excited shouts came from inside.

"Charge! Charge! Charge! There's an enemy at three o'clock. I've locked onto the coordinates. Requesting artillery support to take him down!"

"Armored vehicles deployed; the armor-piercing forces ahead have been wiped out!"

"Zhang Yihao, there's a guy coming over with a big shotgun over there. Quickly, take your drone up high..."

"Xu Hua, you better watch your thing, the drones are going to crash!"

Lin Dong and the others took a few steps forward.

Under the sunshade, Zhang Yihao and six or seven family members who had arrived early that day, along with some Red Army soldiers, were sitting in front of computer screens, holding remote control handles, and operating drones that were constantly shuttling across the battlefield.

At that time, VR technology had not yet taken off.

FPV drone pilots are more like playing a computer-based war game, interacting and controlling the drone via a computer screen and a game controller.

"Wow, this is an FPV drone pilot?"

Seeing this scene, which resembled a row of people sitting in an internet cafe, Li Tao walked over and stared at the screen in front of Zhang Yihao, his eyes wide with disbelief.

"Why is this like playing a game? Oh wait, it's even more exciting than a game... This is playing a game under orders, a positive-energy game!"

Huang Qingyao, Su Yue, Zhang Xuebin, and the others who followed also showed surprise on their faces.

This scene was completely different from the battlefield they had imagined for the exercise.

"Lin Dong, something seems off..."

Only Zhang Zihua and Xu Qingling frowned as they looked at the scene under the sunshade. Xu Qingling even walked over to Lin Dong and whispered in his ear, "These drones don't seem to be working properly..."

"It's more than just something's not right."

Lin Dong turned his head to look at the drones constantly shuttling back and forth on the battlefield of the exercise, then looked at the screen under the sunshade, rubbed his temples and sighed.

"With so many pilots clustered together, it's fortunate that it's the first day of training and getting used to each other, and their experience and thinking haven't caught up yet, otherwise they would have been hit by cannon fire long ago."

This defensive awareness is completely nonexistent; as for offensive maneuvers—

Zhang Yihao and his ilk now treat drones like a game; their first instinct when controlling a drone isn't to kill enemies, but to pursue higher KDA (Kill/Diametry).

Furthermore, the drone pilots of these soldiers have not completely changed their mindset. They still regard drones as valuable items and dare not launch them, only conducting reconnaissance and pinpointing targets before calling in conventional weapons for attack.

They didn't realize that drones were actually the least valuable asset on the entire battlefield.

Instead of using drones for reconnaissance and pinpointing locations, then attacking with artillery or machine guns, it's better to just control the drones to crash into the target.

"What should we do then?"

Xu Qingling frowned slightly.

Although the job of an FPV drone pilot is indeed very similar to playing a game.

However, in actual combat exercises, pursuing KDA in this way is a completely wrong strategy.

Watching Lin Dong write the rules for the drone game these past two days, she understood that the job of a drone pilot is to find the enemy as quickly as possible and then get the drone to embrace the enemy as quickly as possible.

Use a drone to take down one of the enemy's men.

If there are enough drones and they move quickly enough, a regiment of a thousand or a division of ten thousand can be wiped out in less than half a day.

"Teach them a lesson, what else can we do?"

"Concepts and ways of thinking cannot be reshaped without being exposed to harsh truths."

Lin Dong shook his head, asked about the location of the command post of the officer who brought them there, and walked to Zhang Zihua's side, saying, "Zihua, help me go to the command building and find my dad. Ask him to reset the exercise training and also ask him to grant me command authority."

"it is good."

Zhang Zihua didn't ask anything, adjusted his glasses, and quickly ran towards the command building not far away.