Of course, coming is also a guest. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info especially the brother manufacturers in their own system, so naturally they should be warmly welcomed. Although the factory director was very anxious and wanted to negotiate with Jiang Chen and them as soon as possible, but this was on Jiang Chen's territory, so he could only be a guest.

Then he began to take these people to visit, especially Ma Guoliang and Xu Shijie seemed to be very enthusiastic about it. Basically, every time there are leading cadres and brother manufacturers who come to visit and inspect, they are very active. At first, Jiang Chen didn't understand it very well, but later he realized that it was because they had had enough of other people's cold eyes and ridicule a few years ago, and now it was time for them to raise their eyebrows, so they were naturally actively happy. Of course, confidentiality is still required, and this tour is limited to the open part. Then it was the reception dinner, although Jiang Chen didn't like to participate in this kind of dinner very much, but he was the general person in charge of this project. Moreover, the B507 factory also has to negotiate with Jiang Chen, so he still has to participate in this dinner. The dinner was chosen on the second floor of the old canteen in the factory, although the factory is now rich, but the factory leaders and old workers who have experienced hard times are very frugal, so some of the dinner banquets are also held in the old canteen. And although now due to the expansion of the B17 factory, the number of employees has increased, and two large restaurants have been built in the factory, and the environmental facilities are much better than here. But the factory leaders and the old workers prefer to eat here, they say that the food here is more fragrant and tasteful.

Early the next morning, the negotiations between the three parties officially began. The three parties are the B507 plant, the B17 plant and the Western Industries Company. So for this negotiation, Fat Man and Dongzi also came. And the leaders of the B17 factory also joined in, plus the people of the B507 factory, basically packed the conference room.

Before the official start, Jiang Chen gave a brief introduction to the project. This project Jiang Chen called it 'truck-type self-propelled artillery', or 'truck gun' for short. That's right, it's a truck gun, this is Jiang Chen's next development goal.

Truck guns, also known as truck-type self-propelled guns and vehicle-mounted guns, are organically combined with a low-cost towed gun and a wheeled truck chassis. A highly mobile wheeled gun without a turret was formed through a clever design. This type of vehicle-mounted self-propelled artillery has strong tactical mobility, rapid reaction capability, precision strike capability and autonomous combat capability. The weight of the artillery is generally light, so it is more maneuverable and more agile in combat compared to towed and tracked self-propelled howitzers. Moreover, because the truck gun is a wheeled vehicle turf, it has the outstanding advantages of fast driving speed, good road mobility, light structural weight, and low cost, and is now widely equipped with light mechanized troops and rapid reaction forces in various countries around the world.

Truck gun, as the name suggests, is a new type of artillery weapon developed on a wheeled truck heavy chassis, mainly used in light rapid reaction forces and mobile task forces, its important characteristics are fast driving speed and good road mobility, can achieve "hit and run". Since the end of the last century, our country has worked hard to develop a variety of wheeled self-propelled artillery, and in later generations it has become a technological power in the world's wheeled artillery research and development. Moreover, a variety of truck guns developed and produced in China are a big step ahead of similar advanced products in the world with superior performance, and it can be said that it has truly become a flag leader in this field.

According to the traditional idea of artillery design and development, large-caliber suppressed artillery represented by howitzers/howitzers of more than 100 mm should be developed in accordance with two main modes: towed and self-propelled. The towed artillery is simple in structure, light in weight and low in cost, and is suitable for large-scale equipment, but it has a low degree of automation and no protection capability at all. The self-propelled artillery uses a tracked chassis or a few wheeled chassis and armored turrets, with powerful firepower, a high degree of automation, and good off-road maneuverability and protection performance. However, there are advantages and disadvantages, this self-propelled gun is huge, technically complex, and costly, and only a few countries have the ability to design, produce and equip it in large quantities. Although various new technologies have emerged one after another, this basic pattern of large-caliber suppressed artillery has never been broken. This situation continued until the early 90s of the 20th century, when the development of large-caliber self-propelled guns gave birth to 155mm vehicle-mounted guns, which swept the global arms market for a short time with their unique design concept. And our country has also become one of the main countries affected by it, and gradually developed to take the lead and be at the forefront.

The first countries in the world to introduce this truck gun were the FH-77BW 'Archer' in Ruidian and the 'Caesar' vehicle-mounted howitzer in France. These two countries have been carrying out relevant research and development work since the sixties and seventies of the last century, but due to the influence of traditional artillery thinking, the progress of these two countries is very slow. It was not until the mid-to-late nineties that its own prototype was introduced, and it was not until the beginning of the XXI century that it was equipped with troops. Even up to this period, you can see the FH-77BW 'Archer' from Ruidian, whose tracks are self-propelled guns, and the huge armored turret on the truck. And the French Caesar also installed the cannon on the truck, which is far less mature than the truck gun technology we developed and produced in later generations.

The truck gun cleverly combines the advantages of self-propelled artillery "acting on its own" and towed artillery "simple and practical", and has achieved a good balance in the performance of large-caliber suppression artillery and the cost of installation. It is precisely because of this obvious advantage that the vehicle-mounted gun has attracted wide attention and export from the vast number of small and medium-sized military countries as soon as it appeared. And Jiang Chen considered developing it, on the one hand, he took a fancy to its huge market prospects. On the other hand, because its development threshold is relatively low, it is very suitable for Jiang Chen's actual situation at this stage.

Moreover, it was Jiang Chen who was the first to put forward this concept, which means that Jiang Chen can, on the one hand, take the lead in equipping our army with this kind of large-caliber firepower strike weapon that is in line with the current situation of our army. On the other hand, it is to seize the opportunity in the international military market, so as to stabilize the position of the B17 plant in the arms market. Moreover, in Jiang Chen's plan, this technology will also be registered worldwide, although Su * does not recognize it, but Jiang Chen does not care, anyway, it will not accept it in a few years. As you know, in the military industry, there are very few equipment technologies that have been registered for patents. Because once a patent is registered, it means that your technology must be disclosed. Military technologies like these are basically kept strictly secret by various countries, so they will not be disclosed for the purpose of registering patents. What Jiang Chen wants to register is this shape and structure design patent, which depends on who is the first to register, and there is no secret to this technology itself, just like Jiang Chen's previous registered gun guide patent. It depends on who thinks first, who has a fast hand, and who registers first. (To be continued.) )