"Coming?" When the convoy arrived, Zhang Deming came with several technicians to greet him.

"Didn't sleep last night?" Zheng Yucheng looked at Zhang Deming and the technicians around him with a haggard face, bloodshot eyes, and asked with a frown.

Zhang Deming nodded, "I'm afraid of accidents, when I drove over last night, I always drove at a low speed, and as long as I encountered an alarm, I stopped for inspection, and there was no problem and I urgently needed it." ”

"It's not going to work, it's not going to be a real problem. Xie Kai also had some heartache Zhang Deming and others, but they solved problems when they appeared, or solved small problems that were not problems at all, which was not a good thing.

Many parts, if there is a design problem, must be carefully analyzed after failure.

"We also know that this is not a concern about affecting the test results?" argued. "Why are there still foreigners? Not that they don't participate?"

"Pakistan is the investor, and it will definitely be produced in the whole process, and the Iraqis are the first users, and the field test in the past few days will determine whether they will place an order as soon as possible. Wang Guilin explained.

The Iraqis and Pakistanis had dismounted, it was already dark, and the tank training ground of the garrison regiment was similar to another weapons test site, belonging to a valley, surrounded by low hills and environmental protection, and the bottom of the valley in the middle was built with various obstacles, puddles, slopes, and even trenches.

The traces of the tanks on these obstacle courses stretch all the way to the surrounding hills.

The terrain of the training ground, after so many years of construction and transformation, has become extremely complex.

In particular, the reconnaissance unit of the garrison regiment went to the southwestern border to participate in actual combat and brought back some information about the fighting between the armored units of the two sides, and the training of the garrison regiment began to be adjusted.

After all, except for the grasslands in the north, many parts of the country are hilly, and the 79 main battle tanks and the old Type 69 equipped by the garrison regiment do not have much survivability to fight against more powerful tanks in the plains.

The headquarters is on top of a small hill next to the training ground, and the entire training ground can be seen at a glance.

"Wouldn't it be a problem to start testing and in such complex terrain conditions?" Musharraf saw for the first time the tank training ground of the garrison regiment.

He never imagined that the Chinese would make the entire test environment so complicated.

"We are mostly desert over there, so we don't need such a complicated environment at all!" Harry Moisan looked at such a complex terrain, but it was far from the desert environment, and raised his own question, "What about your tank prototype?"

"This is our tank training ground, and we have a lot of domestic test sites, all kinds of test sites in extreme environments. Only after we have completed our own test site, we will transfer to other test sites for various sub-tests in extreme environments......" Zhang Deming did not directly answer the questions of the two.

"There is no problem in testing in such a complex terrain environment, and the rest is easy!" Xie Kai said.

The improvement of the training ground, he also made some observations.

The 3rd generation tank is much more advanced than the Type 59, Type 69 and Type 79 equipped in China, especially with more power.

Even so, the entire tank was only 37 tons without reactive armor, although relatively speaking, the 730-horsepower engine was barely enough.

"What about the tank?" Xie Kai didn't see the tank either.

"At the entrance to the training ground. For testing, the garrison regiment selected several tanks for testing together, so that the contrast was more pronounced. Zhang Deming pointed to the entrance to the valley below.

The tanks parked at the entrance to the valley are hard to see with the naked eye.

I used a telescope to see clearly.

Unlike the green paint that is commonly used in China, the tanks of the garrison regiment have been replaced with brown desert camouflage that is more similar to the surrounding terrain.

"See!" Xie Kai held up the binoculars and finally found the 359 prototype car.

Among a bunch of Type 79 main battle tanks with hemispherical turrets, the 359 prototype with a wedge-shaped turret stands out from the crowd, especially since the body is also larger, and the barrel is longer and thicker, making the 359 tank far more powerful and domineering than the Type 79 main battle tanks with spherical turrets around it.

"It's time to go. Zheng Yucheng said to Zhang Deming.

As the commander-in-chief of the test, Zhang Deming picked up the walkie-talkie in his hand, "Let's go!"

Through the telescope, Xie Kai could clearly see that the 359 tank, which was originally parked there, had a burst of white smoke coming out from behind the buttocks, and soon, driven by the driving wheels connected to the engine, the tracks began to move, further driving the huge tanks to move forward.

If there is no comparison, nothing can be seen.

There are 3 Type 359 main battle tanks on the left and right of the 79 tank.

When the order to set off was given, the 359 tank was the first to rush out, and the powerful roar of the engine could be heard on the hillside.

Soon, the Type 79 main battle tanks on both sides were left behind.

"Starting at high speed?" Xie Kai frowned, "Didn't you drive over last night very carefully?"

His problem is also the problem of the people around him.

"There was no problem with low speeds. Zhang Deming replied. After finishing speaking, he picked up the walkie-talkie and asked the experimenters in the sample car, "No. 1, I am No. 0, how many gears are limited, how much is the engine speed, how much is the oil temperature, is there any abnormality?"

"No. 0, I'm No. 1, now I'm in third gear, speed 28, engine speed 1754, oil temperature 52, everything is normal......"

"Keep accelerating! Get ready to hit the slope. Zhang Deming said without hesitation.

The Type 79 main battle tank was thrown down at the beginning, and by this time it had gradually begun to catch up with the 359 prototype.

Less than a kilometer from the beginning of the entrance to the valley entrance, there is a slope of more than 30 degrees and a length of more than ten meters.

If the power is not good, you must slow down and downshift, and use the engine power to climb over the slope.

However, for the battlefield, as long as the tank slows down in the event of such an obstacle, the danger of being hit will be greatly enhanced, otherwise, the power performance of the tank will not be so important.

"Receiving, third gear, speed 33, rpm 2320, oil temperature 75, indicating normal ......"

A news report came over the intercom.

"Boom~", the 359 tank, which took the lead, rushed over the slope at a very fast speed, and then fell heavily on the other side and rushed down at a faster speed.

The hanging hearts of the people who watched as the tank fell after rushing over the slope, and continued to move forward and backward without the slightest pause, relenting.

Don't have problems at the beginning.

The Type 79 main battle tank in the back, before going up the slope, obviously paused, which was reflected by the driver hitting the brakes and slowing down the gears outside.

Compared to the speed and indomitable momentum of the 359 tank, it is obvious that the Type 79 main battle tank is much weaker.

"Go ahead and test as previously planned. Zhang Deming saw that he succeeded in rushing the slope, and he was obviously relieved.

It's not a problem for the tank to just drive on flat ground, these tests have been done before.

The model of the 359 workshop, which had been tested for the powertrain of a full-scale model a few months earlier, did not have any problems.

The original model, which weighed 39 tons, had no problems.

The research team's biggest concern is not whether it can drive and the ability to pass obstacles, but whether the entire tank complex will be constantly bumped in the off-road process and whether there will be accidents during high-speed maneuvers.

"Roger!"

After rushing the slope, the tank's ability to fly over the trench at high speed was tested.

The design of the trench is the same as that of the slope, the difficulty at the beginning is very small, the slope is small, the length is short, and the speed is not too fast.

The trenches began at one and a half meters wide and gradually increased, requiring tanks to pass through these obstacles at a high speed.

Tanks driving at high speeds are not as assisted as excavators.

It's all about its own performance and the driver's proficiency.

Watching the 359 tank fly over the trench, up and down at high speed, bumpy past the washboard road, nothing was wrong.

Over time, the first field tests of the 359 tank continued.

The higher and higher speed made the whole field resound with the roar of the tank's powerful engine, and the further back it went, the higher the speed of the tank.

As the speed increased, the tank's tracks crushed the dirt and gravel that lacked moisture, and heavy smoke and white smoke from the tail exhaust pipe began to envelop the entire tank proving ground.

The crowd watching also began to become enthusiastic.

The 580-horsepower engine of the Type 79 main battle tank roared constantly, but it could not catch up with the 359 tank at all in the off-road field, and was left far behind......

In front of a circular curve of nearly 70 degrees, he actually accelerated and rushed up, and when cornering, the driver slammed on the brakes, and the tank weighing dozens of tons moved sideways, completing a drifting action.

"Beautiful!" Xie Kai praised heartily.

"Won't this affect the service life of the tank?" asked Harry Moissan, worriedly, "shouldn't the regular performance data be tested first?"

"We started testing the regular performance data on the model three months ago. Colonel, here the experiment, is all about obtaining further test data. Zhang Deming explained.

There's no way around it.

Their time is too tight.

Xie Kai wants to mass produce and deliver to customers faster, and all kinds of tests are indispensable, so this is the only way.

Other domestic tanks often take several years from prototype to finalization, and the 404 lacks several years.

Iraqis can't afford to wait, and neither can 404.

"Colonel, don't you think it's a muscle tank of speed and furious?" Xie Kai asked Harry Mosan.

Harry Moissan, shaking his head, "If you can shoot at the same time as jumping over obstacles at such a speed, this is the real Fast and Furious!"

Xie Kai did not answer, because the 359 tank in the distance, which had already passed through various obstacles at the bottom of the valley and was rushing towards the hillside along the inherent road, began to turn the turret as it went, and at the same time, the barrel of the gun began to raise high......