Although the establishment of the new tank leading group heralded the official start of tank development, compared with the long development process, the newly established leading group was only the first step of the long march, so on the second day after the leading group was announced, Xu Yuan, Lu Jiadong and others threw themselves into the intense and busy development:

Selecting capable personnel to form a new tank research and development team, clarifying the internal division of labor, strengthening the coordination and contact of the participating units, improving the infrastructure to ensure the smooth flow of goods, researching the introduction of relevant equipment to improve production efficiency, and efficiently using funds to ensure the development process, all kinds of things can be described as complicated and abnormal, far from being comparable to the previous new artillery and artillery reconnaissance and school firing radar, so that even Lu Jiadong, who had been in the development process of various weapons and equipment before, was a head and two big.

Xu Yuan is the same, and even bluntly said that this is much more difficult than fighting a war, but no matter how difficult it is, both Lu Jiadong and Xu Yuan know that what is now is only the beginning, and the real difficulties are still to come, if we do not straighten out the military factories and scientific research institutes involved in the development of the project now, and establish a set of effective internal mechanisms, then the difficulties they will face in the future will inevitably increase several times, and it is precisely because of this that Xu Yuan and Lu Jiadong will focus their work on the rationalization of internal mechanisms after the establishment of the leading group.

Fortunately, both of them have rich experience in this area, needless to say, Lu Jiadong is a military expert who has traveled through later generations in his bones, has more than ten experiences in participating in large-scale weapons and equipment development projects, and has a mature system for the establishment and management of internal mechanisms, and Xu Yuan himself is a resourceful battlefield general, commanding thousands of troops and horses to sweep the enemy formation can be tightly organized without making mistakes, it is enough to see that his leadership ability is really not low, therefore, the combination of the two quickly stimulated a good chemical reaction, and the internal operation mechanism of the new tank leading group was quickly straightened out。 It's officially up and running.

However, for the research and development of complex weapons and equipment, the most important thing is not the question of whether the internal mechanism can operate normally, but the question of whether the expected weapons and equipment can be developed in quality and quantity.

The most important of these is that most of the entire new tank development team has no relevant experience in the development of tank armored vehicles, although at several general division meetings, Lu Jiadong has refined and split the overall performance of the new tank that was previously determined. And set up a research and development team of relevant subsystems, in order to be able to quickly and efficiently promote the development task.

However, the problem of serious lack of relevant experience is still exposed, which can be clearly realized from the design plan submitted by the development team of multiple subsystems in the past few days, either it is too advanced in pursuit of performance and adopts a large number of immature new technologies, or it is too conservative, and the technology is very mature but too backward; or the independence of the related system is too strong, and the single performance is very good, but if it is applied to the whole it is not greatly reduced in performance, or it does not match at all!

Anyway. The design plan submitted to Lu Jiadong, the chief designer of the new tank, was not very optimistic again, and just this morning, Qi Junwen, who is in charge of the fire strike system, also handed over the design plan of his team to Lu Jiadong.

Holding the text of the plan, Lu Jiadong only glanced at it, Lu Jiadong's brows twisted into a pimple, Xu Yuan, who had just finished the day's work assignments, pushed open the door of the office and saw Lu Jiadong's sad appearance, so he asked with concern:

"Xiao Lu, what's wrong?"

Seeing Xu Yuan coming in, Lu Jiadong's brows also stretched slightly. But before Lu Jiadong could reply, Xu Yuan pointed to the draft design in Lu Jiadong's hand and continued to ask:

"It's not going to be a draft design for the subsystem again, is it?" he said. Xu Yuan put his hat on the desk, then picked up the teacup and drank two sips of tea before continuing:

"There may be some problems with the previous subsystem, but the artillery development team led by Qi Junwen of Wanshan Factory should not have a big problem, in any case, they have developed a 52 times caliber 155mm howitzer, and they are still very rich in artillery development experience. Yesterday I passed by their office and heard their discussions, and my understanding of artillery is still very good!"

"This is the result of their full understanding!" Lu Jiadong still didn't have a smile, his tone became very cold, and as he spoke, he handed Xu Yuan the development plan for the firepower strike system that he had just received. And Xu Yuan only turned a few pages after taking the plan, and the two thick eyebrows like knives gradually squeezed together:

"How did this Qi Junwen get it, the caliber of the tank gun was set at 105mm, and it was not even as good as the Type 69 tank gun for export, and there was no breakthrough in the overall performance, so where did they learn the 'Chieftain' tank on the spot?"

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Yuan threw the draft design in his hand on the table, and the "Chieftain" tanks he was talking about were the two British-made "Chieftain" MK-5 main battle tanks that Lu Jiadong had brought back from Iran.

For this reason, the Armament Department of the General Staff Headquarters and the Commission of Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense handed over this task to the experienced Northern Factory to be responsible for completing it, and allocated them a "Chief" tank for study, while the other was asked by Lu Jiadong to be used as a prototype for the new tank development team to study and reference.

After the new tank leading group was formally established, Lu Jiadong and Xu Yuan organized members of the tank development team to conduct an extremely in-depth study of this British-made tank, and they did get a lot of inspiration from it.

Even Xu Yuan is the same, although he does not know about production and manufacturing and related processes, but as the commander of the tank mechanization group, and has the experience of confronting the Soviet armored group in the Northern Heavy Army, Xu Yuan's research and familiarity with tanks are also better than ordinary people, otherwise he would not have seen the problems in the draft design of the fire strike system at a glance.

"It can't be said that they didn't study seriously!" As soon as Xu Yuan's words fell, Lu Jiadong walked up to Xu Yuan with a water glass, flipped two pages of the draft design manuscript that was thrown on the table, pointed to the design sketch on it and continued:

"For example, the recoil system, smoke extraction device, thermal sheath device, and most importantly, rifling, Lao Qi and they are all borrowed from the L11A5 120mm rifled tank gun equipped with the 'Chieftain' tank, but"

"It's just that it's still too conservative!" Before Lu Jiadong finished speaking, Xu Yuan picked up the conversation, although he was not clear about the specific details of similar recoil systems and sampling devices, but he was extremely clear about the indicator data of the artillery, although the new tank gun designed by Qi Junwen was significantly improved in structure and weight compared with the tank guns equipped by the troops,

But in terms of muzzle velocity, maximum chamber pressure, maximum range and armor-piercing power, there is no essential improvement compared to the 115mm tank gun equipped with Type 69, which is why Xu Yuan will say this sentence so with certainty, Lu Jiadong also nodded in agreement, and then closed the design draft:

"Lao Qi still doesn't know anything about tanks!"

"It's not just Lao Qi!" Xu Yuan sighed helplessly while picking up the thermos bottle to store water for Lu Jiadong and his own teacup: "Lao Zhong of the Central Plains Electronic Radar Institute, Guo Zhipeng of the Yunnan Factory, and Lao Zheng of the Guinan Factory, don't know anything about tanks, speaking of which, Qin Jingbin of the Materials Institute and Zhu Haifeng of the Hunan Special Steel Plant know a little, but the two of them only know about the old-fashioned tanks of more than ten years ago, and they don't know much about the current trend of tank armored vehicles."

Xu Yuan continued, it sounded like he was pulling a running account, but after many days of understanding, Lu Jiadong also knew that this was Xu Yuan's style, before some major decisions, he would list all the favorable and unfavorable factors, so as to weigh the pros and cons and find a breakthrough to solve the problem.

Because of this, Lu Jiadong did not interrupt him, but listened quietly, after all, Lu Jiadong at this time also needs to find a way to make up for the existing shortcomings, otherwise, the entire new tank development plan may be abandoned halfway, not to mention, the production consortium that he has worked hard to unite will also fall apart, and the most critical question is what method should be used to solve it

"Although we are facing a lot of difficulties!" Lu Jiadong thought while listening to Xu Yuan's analysis of the current advantages and defects: "However, it is much stronger than when our country was first founded, at that time we were poor and white, and the industrial base was backward, so it is better for us to have relatively complete supporting facilities now.

"Soviet experts guide by hand?" Hearing Xu Yuan's words, Lu Jiadong's eyes suddenly lit up, and Xu Yuan saw Lu Jiadong's thoughtful appearance, his frowning brows stretched slightly, nodded at Lu Jiadong, and said sincerely:

"Although we don't have Soviet experts now, we have Xiao Lu, a military genius, from your understanding of tanks and armored vehicles, you are definitely better than the Soviet experts back then."

How could Lu Jiadong not know what Xu Yuan meant, Lu Jiadong didn't think about it, but now is different from the past, the technical difficulty of equipment such as the Type 78 assault rifle was low, and it can be developed while learning, but now things are complicated, and there are many units involved, how can it be possible (to be continued......