"Even if the Qiang-5 flies low, the pilot is careless, and has no intention of being shot down, it does not mean that the anti-tank missile can have some air defense functions...... Just the range and the height of the shot, it is difficult to achieve. If it is developed, the cost will be astronomical, and the cost will be higher. A missile expert in his fifties said.

Anti-aircraft and anti-tank are two different functions.

Anti-aircraft missiles have higher requirements for speed homing/guidance, and the missile needs to be able to fly higher and faster.

The requirement for anti-armor missiles is attack power.

"Everyone understands this, Comrade Xie Kai, isn't it a little inappropriate to engage in a missile with such a function?" Zhu Guangyuan asked, "There is a big difference between the tandem warhead of armor-piercing blasting and the fragmentation of anti-aircraft missiles. ”

As he spoke, he looked at Zheng Yucheng and a group of people from the management committee.

Xie Kai's words largely represent the management committee.

Everyone knows that in order to increase the probability of shooting down a target, the anti-aircraft missile now almost belongs to the range of piece killing, the missile has been chasing the target, detonating when it is close to the target, and using the high-speed fragmentation generated when the warhead explodes to attack the aircraft.

Anti-tank missiles, unlike them, are completely obliged to hit the target.

"Nope. Xie Kai shook his head and said, "What you may want is to develop a missile that can be anti-aircraft and armor-piercing." After successful development, it can be used directly...... And I propose to have more range of use according to the battlefield environment, which is based on the situation of replaceable warheads. That is, missiles are the same except for the warhead......"

Everyone was stunned.

They really didn't think about it.

Long-range missiles, which can replace nuclear warheads or conventional warheads, can be portable missiles, can be used so troublesomely?

"Under this model, the R&D cost will indeed be much less, and the R&D difficulty will be much lower. However, the requirements for engine work efficiency are higher......" Zhu Guangyuan said with a frown.

Replacing the warhead is easy to say, but it is also very cumbersome.

MANPADS, mainly a portable one, requires a missile warhead that can be quickly replaced, and cannot affect performance.

Different warheads, different combat methods, anti-aircraft missile engines and guidance methods, etc., are different from anti-armor missiles and ground-attack missiles......

"Yes, Comrade Xie Kai, even so, we still need to improve the overall design and all technologies in front of us, and find a balanced performance data, which will not take a short time. ”

"Now, what else do we have besides time? The base does not need to quickly come up with results that have not been greatly improved like other units, and apply to the higher authorities for funds for continued research and development. Zheng Yucheng said.

The expert, who said that it would take a short time, immediately turned red.

They all think about problems in the way they originally think, and they don't think about it, and they really don't think about it now.

"Let's discuss it and see if there's a problem. Wang Guilin also asked.

Xie Kai reported on the actual combat situation, 20 rounds and 20 shots, 300 orders were obtained, and the Iraqi purchasing team was about to arrive, but this missile was not considered a success.

Needs improvement.

In the test at the weapons test site, it was possible to penetrate 480 mm of average armor, and the effect was very reluctant.

This kind of function, which is left alone after launch, is prone to interference in a complex battlefield environment, and is not very stable.

None of this, in the counterinsurgency war in Burundi, showed itself.

If you don't improve, you will smash the signboard that you have built up with great difficulty.

What's more, more than $50 million has been sold now, which is enough to support a long period of research and development.

A group of experts expressed their opinions and argued, and Zheng Yucheng and others did not speak, just sat on the side and listened and watched.

Soon, after discovering the attitude of the superior leader, Zhu Guangyuan sighed, the above decided, if you don't do it, you have to do it.

Those who are in favor are the original researchers of 404, and those who are opposed are the seconded personnel from various aerospace departments, and there is a clear distinction.

Seeing that Zheng Yucheng and the others had become a little impatient on their faces, Zhu Guangyuan hurriedly quieted everyone down, "Comrades, the new requirements are very difficult, this is objective. We should not refrain from conducting research in this area just because of difficulties, and it is the spirit that our national defense science and technology workers should have in rising to the occasion. ”

Everyone didn't think so, but when they saw Zhu Guangyuan, a leader who was easy to talk, his eyes were cast on Zheng Yucheng and other higher-level leaders, they immediately understood.

Even the seconded personnel did not speak.

After coming to 404 for so long, I also know that this unit is different from theirs, and the research projects are almost all decided by the management committee, and the solutions provided can make R&D take a lot of detours.

"Everyone has no opinions, right?" Zheng Yucheng saw that everyone was no longer discussing, looked around, and asked.

Xie Kai couldn't help but despise him.

If people have opinions, can they say it?

Long Yaohua didn't expect that the working mode of 404 was so rough and direct.

"Since there is no opinion, let's start the work in the direction proposed by Comrade Xie Kai. Zheng Yucheng immediately decided, "I know that everyone has opinions in their hearts, and they all accept them." This is developed according to customer needs and is market-oriented. The investment must be recouped, otherwise it cannot be continued. Please remember that our project is not a national grant!"

This was said to Long Yaohua.

It is not to ask for funds, but to tell the superior leaders that if the R&D funds we raise ourselves cannot be transformed into the market after the success of technical research and the R&D funds are recovered, the follow-up R&D will not be possible.

Long Yaohua listened to a meeting and roughly understood the performance of the missile developed by the 404, knowing that it was the top in China, but he really couldn't object.

Long Yaohua, who had a complicated mind, followed Zheng Yucheng and a few people out of the technical conference room, visited the Missile Research Institute again, learned about the development of related technologies, and was also a little smacked at the expansion speed of the entire 404.

"You are expanding so fast, you are all new recruits, will there be no problems in the team running-in?Will this affect the progress of research and development?" After Long Yaohua came out, he asked Zheng Yucheng and Wang Guilin.

The two shook their heads.

"Chief, this is actually better, our technical personnel are not from the same unit, they are all technicians and experts in various related fields of research and development. When I came to our side, I communicated with colleagues from brother units every day, and the problems of R&D in each unit were easily solved...... Xie Kai said.

This was discovered by 404 after poaching people in various units.

People who can enter 404, whether it is technology or work attitude, are very good, they are all people who simply do technology, in their eyes, only technology.

As for the managers of other units, they don't want any here.

There is no problem that managers don't understand technology, anyway, in 404, managers are for the project research and development services, once there is a problem, the management personnel are not in place to cooperate with the progress of research and development, etc., will be held accountable from top to bottom.

This is also a new method improved by the factory director responsibility system and the technical agreement of the seven specialties in the 404 base.

"Chief, the new model of the 359 tank is coming out soon, do you want to take a look?" Wang Guilin suddenly asked Long Yaohua.

"Oh, the 359 tank has an improved model so quickly?" Long Yaohua was a little surprised, "This is naturally going to take a look." ”

Wang Guilin was talking about the new model, not the improved model, Long Yaohua instinctively understood that this was a modification of the 359.

"What have been the improvements? How much has the data improved? How much has the cost increased?" On the way to the Armored Vehicle Research Institute, Long Yaohua asked a series of questions.

Zheng Yucheng and Wang Guilin both did not answer.

Seeing this, Xie Kai became happy.

The missile tank, which I have been looking forward to from the beginning, is finally about to be completed, maybe there are problems with performance and other aspects, as long as the time is given, there will be no problems.

Workshop 359, after the original espionage case, was rectified.

Now the production of new tanks and even other equipment of new design schemes has been transferred to the already discontinued furniture factory and has become an experimental workshop.

Mo Ying became the director of that factory.

The current 359 workshop is very different from before, there are armed guards at the door, and a large area around the workshop has been leveled, and there are traces of crawler crushing everywhere on the ground.

After checking the pass for the guards, the group was put into the workshop.

"Huh, such a big change?" Long Yaohua entered the workshop and saw that only a tank was parked alone in the middle of the entire workshop, and the surrounding staff were busy with their own affairs.

This tank also uses a wedge-shaped turret, but it is much longer than the turret of the 359 tank, but the barrel is much shorter, and the tail of the turret is even a little protruding, which looks a little weird.

Long Yaohua was extremely familiar with the 359 tank, and it was obvious at a glance that this was not a 359 tank at all.

"Chief, this is a new type of tank that is completely different from the 359 tank, not only has a strong precision ground attack capability, but also has a certain air defense capability, especially for those low-altitude helicopters that threaten tank clusters......" Zheng Yucheng called Li Ruixiang, the person in charge of the workshop, over, and Director Li, who was in his forties, introduced the tank in front of him with a smile.

"Brand new tank? Not a modification of the 359 tank?" Long Yaohua didn't believe it.

Went around the tank and even counted the load-bearing wheels of the tank.

That's right, it's still five pairs.

But looking at the huge turret, I always feel that there is something wrong with this tank.

There is no coaxial machine gun in sight, and there is no anti-aircraft machine gun on the top, just a tank gun?

Is the tail of the wedge-shaped turret extending all the way to the back of the tank, is this turret too long? Is it possible to change the ammunition compartment to the rear of the turret? This is not a good thing, the defense is not high enough.

For a while, Long Yaohua began to worry about this tank.

"Comrade Ruixiang, call someone over and show the operation to the chief. Zheng Yucheng said with a smile.

Then he winked at Xie Kai.

This thing was proposed by Xie Kai, and the Iraqis were more interested in it at first, but they have not communicated with it since.

As a project at the same time as the 359 tank, the 359 tank has already galloped on the battlefield and made a lot of fame, but this tank has just begun to produce prototypes.

Li Ruixiang beckoned to two technicians in their thirties not far away, and the two trotted over, climbed onto the hatch at the front of the turret under Li Ruixiang's low command, and got in.

Soon, the engine roared.

Long Yaohua frowned and watched, the tank did not move, and even the turret did not turn.

I was about to ask, but it turned out that the top of the turret of the tank was lifted upwards to turn into an anti-aircraft radar, and the tail armor was opened from the top, and finally unfolded, and three 2x2 missile launchers pointed at different points were raised.

"You put the missiles in here?" Long Yaohua looked incredulous.

Seeing this, if he doesn't understand anymore, there is no place for his old face.

"Chief, missile tanks. Xie Kai grinned.

When he first learned about Israel's Perry missile tank that had been hidden in the snow for 30 years, Xie Kai was constantly collecting information about this thing, but he didn't think it was useful, who let God give him a chance and was reborn in the eighties.

The Perry tank was only installed in the Israeli army in 85, and from the very beginning, Xie Kai had the idea to do this.

The purpose is to camouflage the missile launcher and hide it in the armored unit, so as to contain the natural enemies of the two tanks, the ground attack aircraft and the helicopter gunship.

"If such a tank is useful, if it is bombarded from the air, it will be killed before it can be effective. Long Yaohua smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Such a tank, the troops will definitely not want.

The price is high, and the cost of combat is not high.

"How can it be useless? Chief, think about it, our missile launcher is hidden in a large number of tanks, and the enemy's ground attack planes and helicopter gunships attacking tank clusters fly over, and this thing is directly deployed, the radar locks on, and the missiles are launched......" Xie Kai was very happy when he thought about this picture.

The Perry tank is equipped with 12 "Tamuz" missiles produced by the Israeli Rafael company in the 80s, which are mainly ground-attack missiles.

This missile tank, which can be studied by 404, not only has the ability to attack the ground, but also has the function of air defense.

"Yes, the air defense radar is folded at the top, the launcher and the fire control turret are folded at the tail, and the appearance is not much different from the tank in normal times, and it is impossible to find it without looking closely. Zheng Yucheng also said with a smile on his face, "Even the tank gun in front is just a missile launcher, and on both sides of the main armor, there are four anti-tank missiles in reserve, and the attack power is very good!"

In fact, it is to miniaturize the missile launch system and integrate it into this tank.

The only difference is that there are several different launch systems.

"How much does this tank cost?"

"The main reason for the tank is that the launch system and fire control system are expensive, and the cost is about 2.8 million, and there are 12 missiles in the tail and 8 in the front, which is not included in the cost. Li Ruixiang introduced.

"Iraq will be our first customer. Zheng Yucheng said.

At the beginning, the Iraqi side expressed a strong interest, seeing the physical and actual combat results, coupled with the relationship between Xie Kai and Ibrahim, the procurement problem was not big.

"Sell again?" Long Yaohua didn't know what to say.

Good things, how can 404 all be sold out?

"Chief, this thing is a combination of air defense, ground attack, anti-armor, plus missiles, how can one sell for five or six ......million dollars," Xie Kai said.

When Long Yaohua heard this, even when he got home, the corners of his mouth twitched for a while.

Five, six million dollars!

How much is a missile launcher?

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