Chapter 113: A Fork in the Road (Part II)
The design that is about to be finalized will change or not change, and the power will be supported by a large number of designers in the R&D team.
Speaking of which, at the beginning of the design of the three generations of tanks, there were two lines of thought in the design team that were fiercely hedged, one was that the Republic should be based on the present and design the next generation of the Republic's main battle tank based on the T72 tank, and the other was a very radical technological leap forward, suggesting that the Republic's next-generation main battle tank completely abandon the design style of the Soviet-style tank and move closer to the Western tank standard.
The advantages and disadvantages of these two design ideas are not mentioned for the time being, after a technical demonstration on the WZ1224 tank, the backward industrial base of the Republic can not support the third-generation tank of Western standards for the time being, and the development of the next generation of main battle tanks based on the T72 tank has become a team consensus.
However, no one could have predicted that Liang Yuan would be born out of thin air, and he would do many things in just two years.
Firepower, armor, and power are the three most important systems of a tank, and the important factors that determine firepower are the thickness of the tube and whether the fire control is advanced.
When the R&D team got all the corporate information of Yuanjia, an earthquake occurred.
The tank fire control system can be divided into two parts, one is the fire control part that controls the calculation and shooting of Zhuyuan, and the other part is the tactical integrated communication command part.
The fire control computer of the tank is slightly different from the aircraft system, and the aircraft needs to process a large amount of signal data returned from the radar system, so that the data processing capacity of the fire control computer of a typical third-generation fighter basically reaches 100 million times per second.
The tank fire control computer does not have high requirements for the running speed of the chip, and the 16-bit 386 level chip can meet the operation requirements, but the working environment of the tank fire control computer chip is very bad, and the reliability and maintainability of the chip are extremely high. It must be able to withstand the shock and vibration of tank dust, drastic changes in ambient temperature and humidity, as well as hull bumps and firing.
In the top industrial-grade chips produced by the Science and Technology Park, the working temperature is minus 50°C~70°C, damp heat 95%±3%, vibration (10Hz~2000Hz), impact resistance 9G, system integration terminal supports daylight radiation protection, waterproof, anti-sand and dust, anti-mildew, anti-salt spray, and supports modular and rapid maintenance.
Not to mention that this thing is used on ground tanks with a fairly normal environment, even if it is used on fighters with an almost uncontrollable environment, there is no problem.
In that part of the tank fire control system about the integrated communication command. The F2 communication processor used by Yuanjia in the Chinese character pager that has just come off the assembly line is also an exciting choice.
At this time, although the military industrial system of the Republic of China has developed a stable image fire control system, the degree of automation is very high, and the collection and identification of the target completely depends on the tank crew with the help of the naked eye with the help of the optoelectronic system, and the tracking of the target also depends on the gunner's manual control and tracking.
The electronic system integration capabilities and electromechanical equipment development capabilities revealed by Yuanjia through the Long March 3 gas forest locomotive and Chinese character pager project were very weak links in the third-generation tank R&D team at this time.
For the research and development of the third generation of tanks of the Republic, the gem turboshaft engine imitated by Brilliance Power is the product with the highest degree of completion, and the domestic gem power package assembled by Brilliance has more than 600 hours of single-engine trouble-free operation on the Long March 3 gas turbine locomotive. This record has already exceeded the full life of the Type 59 tank engine.
Of course, compared with the working environment in which the tank engine has been running in a state of drug abuse, the working environment of the power reduction and tuning gem power pack is basically equivalent to the relaxed state of eating and waiting for death.
If coupled with the optical, electrical, infrared, magnetic and other sensing devices that the Hong Kong-based current collector discrete device department is vigorously developing, the R&D team was stunned to find that if Yuanjia can do a good job in the two vital subsystems of electronics and power at hand, then other industrial departments of the Republic only need to do the important subsystems of armor, artillery, and suspension and integrate the whole vehicle. The development path of the third-generation tank, which was completely based on Western standards, does not seem to be so dim.
It's a pity that the first thing in front of the technological radicals is not the question of whether Yuanjia's technical ability is qualified. Rather, there are no documents, regulations, or precedents that would qualify Yuanjia to participate in the research and development of the Republic's third-generation main battle tank.
Of course, the technological radicals finally saw the light of day, and naturally they would not be stumped by this artificial obstacle, and some people proposed to simply treat Yuanjia as an overseas advanced industrial group, and use technology introduction to subcontract the team's current weak R&D capabilities.
As a result, this proposal not only did not solve the problem, but muddied the water even more. The end of the 80s was a bitter era for the republic's science and technology industry, when selling missiles was far worse than selling tea and eggs.
It is not easy to make a living with a third-generation tank research and development project, and the factory in charge of any subsystem in the development team does not want to become the one that is eliminated, which is related to the food and survival of hundreds or even thousands of people up and down the first (factory).
From questioning Yuanjia's real R&D capabilities to the major rights and wrongs of the surname society or the surname capital, from state secrets to the original sin of capital, the third-generation main battle tank, which was only the last step away from the quarrel, was unable to lock the drawings. It has been suspended for more than half a month.
The turning point of things appeared in the formation of the Inspur, and Yuanjia to deal with both the 102 Institute and the R & D team are a little at a loss, but there is no obstacle to deal with Inspur such a large state-owned enterprise, although Yuanjia has a certain stake in the Inspur, but 70% of the state-owned equity makes the Inspur belong to the public enterprises The mark is very eye-catching.
After all, the sensitivity of the power system is much smaller than that of the tank's fire control electronic system, and the remaining problems are much easier for the R&D team.
In fact, Zhu Yusheng's suggestion of using Yuanjia's power to improve the performance of the third-generation main battle tank is still very tempting, otherwise on the eve of locking the design, it is not difficult to use the authority of the chief engineer to suppress the disagreements within the team at all, and even the reason for "ensuring that the development progress is completed on time" is ready-made. (To be continued......)