Zhu Yusheng emphasized that after the rise in R&D costs, he began to lose dates, lest Lao Ba lack confidence and finally lose the deal.

Waving, a technician with glasses pulled out an A0-sized drawing and hung it on the wall at the long end of the elliptical conference table.

Liang Yuan was taken aback when he stared at this sketch line diagram for the first time, even if Liang Yuan didn't care much about army equipment, but in addition to knowing how to count wheels, he could still distinguish several iconic appearances of the Republic tank turret.

The line of the turret in front of me is not at all 85- The MBT2000 type or VT1 type with wedge-shaped front armor welded on the basis of the 2 type, the 85-2 tank turret exported to Pakistan by the Republic can clearly see the traces of the oval cast turret of the Soviet tank, and the turret appearance of the MBT2000 tank is basically welded on the basis of the 85-2 type with two pieces of forward oblique armor, which looks quite bluffing from a distance, but a closer look is actually two pieces of reactive armor folded in half and welded on the surface of the 85 turret, which is simply rough and can not be rougher.

If Liang Yuan is not mistaken, the goods on the drawings are definitely the resurrection of the VT4 turret, although the tank's observation and sighting equipment cannot be reflected on the drawings, it is estimated that it must be different from the VT4 type, but the "<" This kind of fully enclosed wedge-shaped front armor with a great inclination angle similar to a sharp arrow, plus the long square tail cabin is full of the atmosphere of the king, it is definitely the iconic appearance of the VT4 tank, Liang Yuan will definitely not be mistaken.

I'm a big, is Lolita going against the sky, Liang Yuan has a feeling that he was suddenly struck by lightning, and North Industries has taken too big a step, Mr. Zhu, are you sure you're really not fishing?

Liang Yuan knew that if Brilliance hadn't come up with the horizontal fork of the gem power package, NORINCO would have signed a contract with the Pakistani military a long time ago.

After learning that the Pakistani side has a strong approval of the Type 85-2 tank and intends to continue to cooperate with the Republic in the development of the Arjun main battle tank for India, NORINCO has carried out four upgrade plans on the basis of the Type 85-2 tank.

Scheme 1: On the basis of the original 85-2 type, replace the power system to increase the power of the tank from 730 horsepower to 1000 horsepower, reserve space to upgrade to 1200 horsepower, upgrade the power of 125 guns, and install the basic scheme of the gun commander's upward trans observation and sighting system.

Scheme 2: Install FY series additional armor on the basis of scheme 1 to improve the level of protection of the basic protection upgrade scheme.

Scheme 3: On the basis of scheme 1, the turret of the Type 85-2 is improved and upgraded, and the performance enhancement scheme of the anti-circumferential sight on the commander is installed.

Scheme 4, on the basis of scheme 3, the performance enhancement and protection upgrade scheme of the FY series of additional armor are installed

However, there are no 1,000-horsepower tank diesel engines in China for the time being, and at this time, the Republic's international diplomatic situation is very embarrassing, and it is difficult to place orders from foreign power manufacturers.

In the end, under the uncertainty of the power system, NORINCO chose the No. 3 plan, first to optimize the observation performance of the tank that does not occupy much power, and the armor protection of the power system was considered later, and the No. 3 strengthening plan directly led to the birth of the MBT2000's very copycat style of forward oblique armor.

In fact, if there is no Liang Yuan, the choice of the upgrade plan of North Industry can be described by the four words of foresight, MBT2000 the selection process of the tank power core is extremely bumpy, and the Britain, France and Germany in Europe have turned around for various reasons, and finally thanks to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the tank diesel engine imported from Ukraine was urgent.

For the republic, the sequelae of choosing option No. 3 is that in ninety-six years, the Pakistani military spent $650 million to order 320 T80UD tanks from Ukraine, and the republic's military industry lost a large piece of fat.

If the republic can get even a 1,000-horsepower tank engine early, the Pakistani military will definitely seriously consider the possibility of importing T80 tanks from Ukraine from the perspective of logistical unity.

With the addition of Brilliance, things started to look very different.

The standard output power of Brilliance's localized gem power pack is 822K, and under special circumstances, it is allowed to run safely at 844K power for an hour, because the tank on the ground is no better than the plane floating in the sky, even if you need gem drugs, it will not take more than ten minutes, which means that the maximum output power of gems can be regarded as 1147 horsepower, although there is still a gap from the final goal of 1200 horsepower, but the technical difficulty of overcoming this gap is almost negligible, and a small version of the engine upgrade and strengthening is enough to get it.

When the power system is determined, it is easy to determine the armor level of the tank within a certain range, and the armor that attaches importance to mobility can be a little thinner, and the maximum off-road speed that attaches importance to protection will be a little slower, all depending on the tank designer to weigh the pros and cons.

In fact, after a long period of communication and understanding between Zhu Yusheng and Li Yuanling, they were convinced of Li Yuanling's conclusion that the maximum power of the Brilliance Gem series in the future can reach 1200K.

1200K is equivalent to 1600 horsepower, and in Zhu Yusheng's opinion, this power gem is enough for the main battle tank to be applied before 2050.

After determining the installation of the jewel, Zhu Yusheng, who knew that he was wealthy, directly chose the No. 4 upgrade plan, which was to overhaul the 85-2 tank, and the three major parts of mobility, firepower, and protection were all redesigned and strengthened.

Then, someone saw the birth of VT4 in advance.

The name of the tank in research and development is different from Liang Yuan's memory, it is not called MBT2000 as for VT4, it is not even a shadow, but changed to the code name of Storm 21, the meaning of the code name is very obvious, the code name of the 85-2 tank in the Republic is Storm 2, and now it has been changed to Storm 21, which obviously indicates that the new tank in development is going to the 21st century, and the ambition is very big and even clear.

On both sides of the tank three-line sight map, a series of data were written in large font, and Liang Yuan, who was shocked, carefully read the two rows of data with great interest.

The total combat weight is 51 tons, the length of the vehicle is 9.8 meters, the width of the vehicle is 3.5 meters, the ground clearance under the vehicle is 0.38 meters, the 125 mm smoothbore gun, the welded turret is mounted on the front of the modular large-inclination wedge armor, the maximum road speed is 75 km / h, the internal fuel tank is 1260 liters, and the maximum range is 485 km ~~~.

Liang Yuan didn't know that considering the fuel consumption of the gas turbine, Zhu Yusheng increased the thickness of the car body and turned the original ground clearance of 0.46 meters into 0.38 meters, and the saved space became a fuel tank.

For soldiers, talking about weapon performance or something is almost a favorite, especially when you don't have to think about the budget, you can simply fly coolly.

Since the sketch was hung on the wall, the two Pakistan Army officers have been in a similar state for the time being.

Obviously, this sketch plan should have been brought over by Zhu Yusheng from Baotou just now, because Zhu Yusheng was not here most of the time because the Tieling base could not do any other work except for power experiments.

However, in order to get first-hand information on the operation of the gas turbine, the two old buses chose to squat at the Tieling base, which is the Brilliance led by Li Yuanling is extremely confident, and other manufacturers in the republic will never dare to do this.

Of course, Brilliance's confidence in daring to do this is based on the series of data on the Long March 3, although the operating environment on the railway is not as good as tank off-road from an extreme perspective, but it is not much better.

The running of the Jewel Power Pack on the Long March 3 is not a matter of several hours, and it is often encountered in running long-distance tests for 24 hours day and night, and the periodic vibration of long-term clattering on the rails will definitely not be easier than off-road.

The two officers should have seen the new tank plan of NORINCO before, and after asking Zhu Yusheng a few questions, they did not sit in the original position, and the two walked to the wall where the sketches were hung together, standing on the left and right sides of the drawings like door gods, holding the fountain pen in their hands when they had just made records, and asked Zhu Yusheng a lot of questions about the line drawings on the drawings.

Due to the emotional excitement, the speed of the two old buses increased significantly, and Liang Yuan had to pack up his emotions, put aside the inherent impression of VT4 or something, and concentrate on the translation problem.

This technical exchange meeting, which was slightly of the nature of a product launch conference, lasted until five o'clock in the evening, and the chief engineer Zhu Yusheng satisfied the two curious baby-like old bus officers.

When Zhu Yusheng announced that the exchange meeting was over, it was obvious that the two Pakistani army officers were extremely satisfied with the new tank plan brought by Zhu Yusheng, and gave them a very high evaluation, and after walking out of the main entrance of the conference room, they did not forget to pay tribute to Zhu Yusheng's thumbs up.

Watching the two old buses leave the conference room, Liang Yuan rubbed his forehead that was a little tight, relaxing the tension in his brain that had just been caused by his preoccupation with translation work.

"Dashao, our job is not bad. ”

Zhao Tianshi finished cleaning up the materials on the desktop, smiled and pointed to the three-view of the Storm 21 tank hanging on the wall.

"It's not bad, but when I first saw the drawings, I was shocked, and the things on the drawings were like alien products compared to the five-wheeled cars outside. ”

With someone's age and the corporate culture that Liang Yuan has worked hard to establish, there is no way to pretend to be deep and angry, so Liang Yuan never hesitates to praise the following.

"Brother Zhao, although I don't know much about land armored vehicles, from the analysis of the exchange between Zhu Lao and the two Pakistani officers just now, the tank indicators on that map should be said to be quite high, is it possible to complete it in the end?"

"Whether the index can be completed mainly depends on us, as far as the international development trend of tank power is concerned, it is already the general trend for the power contractor to be responsible for the transmission system, so in this project in Pakistan, Mr. Zhu intends to be in line with international standards and subcontract the entire transmission part to us. ”

"Not to mention anything else, at least Brilliance's equipment is countless times better than that of North Industry in Baotou, and the smelting of special metals on some transmission parts, we can easily find North Industries to complete, and replace it with North Industry, and it depends on whether Mr. Liang is in the mood to take care of them. ”

Liang Yuan laughed, and also felt that the uncle, who was already busy and crazy, could not have the heart to take care of any Pakistani tank project.

"Because Pakistan has not yet locked in the technology, the contract for transmission parts has not been negotiated with us for the time being, but I heard from Chief Zhu that because India's next-generation main battle tank has been rolled off the assembly line, this time Pakistan has made a determination to find a new equipment that can fight against Arjun's main battle tank. ”

"Because Arjun's index is very high, once this contract is won, the profit will be very rich, according to Chief Zhu's analysis, this list is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts. ”

Hearing Zhao Tianshi say this, Liang Yuan also vaguely remembered that in the nineties, Pakistan seemed to have signed a big contract with Ukraine.

"I said why did Zhu Lao choose such a difficult new plan, it turned out that he was eyeing the overall replacement of Pakistan's next-generation main battle tank. ”

Liang Yuan remembered India in his previous life, and he always liked to set high equipment indicators, such as Brown Sport Agni missiles, Tejas fighters or something, just looking at the data will definitely scare a large number of surrounding countries to death.

Liang Yuan and Zhao Tianshi chatted happily, and Zhu Yusheng on the side sent away all the technicians around him.

Since the Storm 21 tank is a new plan from Baotou, these people at the Tieling base have never seen it, but as soon as the new plan appeared today, countless technicians, like Liang Yuan, were stunned by the technical span of the new plan.

Liang Yuan finally knew that it was easy for the future republic to complete this plan, and he was also shocked Liang Yuan felt that he was afraid of being, but the engineers in the conference room were shocked that the steps were big and the goal was high, and the project would be finished if it was not done well.

As a result, as soon as the two Pakistani officers left, Zhu Yusheng's water could not be drained.

Fortunately, Zhu Yusheng had a very high prestige in the entire tank project team, and after briefly explaining the reason for choosing the Great Leap Forward in technology, he held a meeting two days later to unify the team's thinking, and then the matter was temporarily ended.

The reason given by Zhu Yusheng in the face of the team's questions is similar to what Liang Yuan guessed, and the technical indicators are set low, I am afraid that I will not be able to win the big contract for the Pakistan Army's redress, after all, the Pakistan Army's imaginary enemy, the data of the Indian Arjun main battle tank is there.

Liang Yuan saw that there was no one around Zhu Yusheng, and planned to go over to say goodbye and then take the car back to Shengjing, but before Liang Yuan could pass, Zhu Yusheng walked over directly.

"I have to thank Comrade Xiaoliang for your help today, if you didn't have a cameo as a simultaneous interpreter, this meeting would have to be opened until midnight. Zhu Yusheng smiled heartily, and then said in a loud voice.

"Zhu Lao calls me Liang Yuan or Xiaoyuan, it is also a rare opportunity to exercise English in a high-intensity context in China, in fact, it should be me who is grateful, Zhu Lao is not afraid that I will mess up the bad thing, and directly let me be on such a big scene, but I am still many years away from Comrade Xiaoliang, at least I have to graduate from college and go to work to be promoted to that title. ”

Liang Yuan also replied with a smile.

"I heard Lao Wu say don't look at you with ordinary eyes, and don't use the standard of ordinary juvenile class students, I didn't believe it at first, but now I find that what Lao Wu said is not wrong at all, all the people who can do simultaneous interpretation in China are counted, Xiaoyuan should not be modest. ”