"We don't have much experience in this area, we don't have a lot of experience to draw on, we don't have enough people...... We are only a production and backup unit. ”

Chu Xingyuan spoke out about the current difficulties.

Technical experience, the 2135 factory really does not have much, and usually does not encounter such a large-scale new research and development task.

Liu Yue's requirements are not similar projects in China.

Domestic rocket artillery, there is no long-range rocket artillery of such caliber, and in the field of missiles, it is not used.

The maneuver of the Great Dongfeng is the use of a towed chassis, and small rocket artillery is not used......

Manpower, even less.

In the past, many of the workers, peasants and soldiers college students did not have a solid foundation, and there were not too many who could afford the design task, and there were few newcomers in the base in recent years, which was even more scarce.

The automobile factory in the base produces all the cars that transport the Great Dongfeng.

The DF-3 can be launched in a maneuver, that is the use of a towed chassis, the range is long, and there is no need for too high a field capability.

The Dongfeng-5 belongs to the silo launch, and there are not many requirements for the chassis.

The second-generation DF-22 has just begun to be established......

There is a great demand for vehicles in China, but because there is no project, there is no task.

The production capacity of a factory like 2135 is not bad, but the technical research and development ability is not strong.

Although the new launch carrier vehicle required by the 2186 factory does not need to carry a bulky missile like the Dongfeng-3 weighing tens of tons for transfer, the requirements for mobile launch are higher.

"It is a fact that there is a shortage of manpower, and this can be reported to the headquarters and applied to the headquarters organ...... You can't stop designing because you're short of manpower. I have a sketch here, of course, which I drew from a non-professional point of view, on demand......"

Liu Yue knew that it was not easy to quickly come up with a design that met the requirements.

Just the 8X8 chassis is not something that can be developed in a short period of time.

All kinds of techniques need to be demonstrated, experimented.

The 273-mm multiple launch rocket system is too short, and if there is no new chassis, they will not be able to complete various tests because they do not have a vehicle.

Tracked?

There is no need to think about it.

The crawler type does have a high ability to pass through the field, and it can be entered on any terrain.

But the speed is not high, and even maintenance is much more troublesome.

With the rapid construction of domestic infrastructure, the highway mileage will be the first in the world in the future, crawler, will not be allowed to go on the highway, and there is also a special trailer, which is troublesome.

Prepare for a rainy day, now and think about the future.

The market for the 273-mm MLRS is not aimed at domestic troops, and at most a series of performance experiments will be carried out in China, and there will not be much equipment.

This thing is good, but it is expensive, and it is not an option for troops who have no money at all.

The real use is to enter the international market!

For some small countries, the 273-mm MLRS with a range of up to 120 kilometers can be directly used as strategic equipment.

The price is not known how many times cheaper than a missile of the same range, it is more powerful, and it can form a fire cover......

"There are several companies specializing in the production of missile-carrying vehicles in the aerospace system, and Tai'an's technical strength is relatively strong, so I can cooperate with them. ”

Liu Yue is still very familiar with Tai'an, which has not yet developed a chassis that can carry giant logs.

This is the main R&D and production unit of domestic special vehicles in the future.

If he can get his hands on the Minsk chassis, he naturally doesn't have to worry about anything.

Minsk, the leader of the global special vehicle manufacturing industry. This special vehicle plant provided a variety of missile carriers to the Soviet Union and Russia, which could carry heavy Topol-M and Yars ICBMs to play off-road in the muddy wilderness of Siberia!

And in 20 years, this unit will also establish a joint venture with the aerospace side to develop special vehicles.

This is history for Liu Yue, but he knows this history.

Between countries, there are only eternal interests, not eternal friendship.

Minsk entered China in order to make money.

The Russian military, which is the largest purchaser in Minsk, has been opposed to Minsk's provision of heavy-duty and super-heavy-duty TEL chassis technology to the Wanshan plant, a joint venture with Aerospace, for the sake of its own strategic interests.

Advanced technology will not be provided, at the beginning because of the Minsk technical support of Wanshan, and finally by the domestic special vehicle manufacturer Tai'an!

The DF-31, a missile weighing tens of tons that has not yet begun to be established, has very harsh requirements for the chassis if it wants to be deployed in all areas.

At the beginning, due to the lack of a suitable TEL chassis for a long time, the Dongfeng-31, the country's most powerful express delivery device, could only make do with a trailer-mounted chassis.

This also leads to poor through-field performance and can only be deployed in areas with good road conditions.

It simply cannot be compared with the Soviet mobile-launched missile with the Minsk chassis.

Fortunately, Tai'an has come up with it, which is better than the Minsk one, and even because it has learned the experience of the Minsk chassis that is too high and can easily lead to overturning, the design has been improved a lot......

Liu Yue has no chassis to choose from, and he can't wait for Minsk to establish a joint venture with China, so it is better to let Tai'an enter this research in advance as soon as possible.

The new chassis of 8X8 is already an extremely high challenge for domestic special vehicle manufacturing.

Once completed, experience will be gained for the development of a stronger chassis in the future.

"Their skills over there are not much better than ours......" Wei Hongtao frowned and reminded Liu Yue.

They are not willing to cooperate with other units.

Since the Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee, most of the military production plans have been cut off, and the various units in the military industrial system have fewer tasks.

Who wants to give it to someone else?

"Why don't you find the leaders of the headquarters and seconded a group of technical personnel from there?" Secretary Yang Qimeng tested Liu Yue's thoughts.

Liu Yue knew what Wei Hongtao and the others thought.

The competition within the base is fierce, not to mention the units outside.

Liu Yue doesn't care about these, there is competition, there is motivation.

In the past, when eating a big pot of rice, the development of technology was slow.

He doesn't care if Tai'an is still there in the future, anyway, as long as there is an advanced and suitable chassis to use.

"Whether it's secondment or collaboration, I just need a chassis that meets the needs. The shorter the time, the better, the stronger the chassis performance, the better, and there must be a high through-field capability......"

Liu Yue's attitude is clear.

It doesn't matter if you dig people up, or if you annex other factories, anyway, I just need a chassis that meets the requirements.

Without a suitable chassis, is it just like a towed cannon, dragged by a car?

That's not going to work.

Seeing that Liu Yue did not object, Wei Hongtao and the others began to calculate, taking this opportunity to get more people with strong technical skills from their domestic counterparts.

The stronger the technical strength, the brighter the future and the better the money.

Without technology, there is only a dead end.

Chu Xingyuan finished reading the sketch given by Liu Yue, and his face was full of embarrassment: "Vice President Liu, this plan is very good, but it is very difficult to complete, and it is not easy in a year...... Whether it's the powertrain or the drive, you need to start from scratch......"

What he said was the truth.

"The headquarters will give enough support, and they promised at the beginning that they would ask for people to give people and money to give money...... Anyway, as long as I get the result, if it's too late, the investment in this project may be wasted......"

Liu Yue said calmly.

Anyway, this is something that the leaders of the headquarters need to worry about.

Of the 8 million rocket artillery research and development funds, 4 million yuan has been allocated to 2186, and it is impossible for the headquarters to give up because there is no vehicle-carrying system.

Wei Hongtao and the others didn't doubt it.

The leaders of the organs at the headquarters attach great importance to this matter.

In this case, they could only take the assembly design sketch given by Liu Yue and go to the headquarters office.

"Mr. Chu, can it be solved technically?" On the way to the headquarters organ, Wei Hongtao asked Chu Xingyuan.

If you can't solve it, you're in trouble.

"The technical difficulty is indeed not small, if we get out, we can surpass all our peers in this respect, become the first in the domestic special vehicle factory! Moreover, the headquarters organ did not say that we want people to give people, and we want money to give money? We will take the opportunity to get more people, and when the time comes, we can directly develop other vehicles, otherwise, the factory can only produce spare parts for other units......

Chu Xingyuan saw the prospect from the sketch given by Liu Yue.