518 Longwei Tank (1)
"The 541 has not yet completed the technical transformation work, and the number of Longwei models produced is not too much......," Xie Heping replied with some embarrassment.
Liu Yijiu immediately frowned, Xie Heping was not like this in the base.
"How much, I need to know an exact number, it has been several months now, even if it is manual production, we should produce dozens of vehicles in our base, their production capacity is stronger than ours, it shouldn't be too little, right?"
Hearing Liu Yijiu's unkind tone, Xie Heping suddenly didn't know how to answer.
Liu Yijiu is indeed very young, and he didn't take it seriously before, but now he finds that he usually doesn't ask about these things, but now he asks about these things and directly talks about the most critical place.
Manual production, the production environment like the base can produce four vehicles every month!
"A total of 35 vehicles have been produced, and the production over there has also increased recently, so there is such data, and the technicians in the base have been mobilized over there for technical guidance, and this side is mainly researching armored vehicles, so ......" Xie Heping replied a little speechlessly.
He participated in the transformation of the 541 base, and he was also in charge, but he should not be responsible for these things.
He is not rightly named, Yan Pingyuan's control of the 541 base is very tight, and Lin Fulin, the chief engineer who has been transferred here, is mainly thinking about technology every day.
"Why is the yield so low? Now that almost half a year has passed, the average monthly production is only five? The corners of Liu Yijiu's mouth twitched, and he became angry.
Based on the original inference. The 541 will complete some of the technical upgrades in three months, which will allow it to produce 15 Ryvier units per month. By the time all the technical renovations are completed, the monthly production should be expanded to more than 25 vehicles. Iran's order, which should have been completed in the first half of 81.
"In the first three months, there were a lot of things over there, and many of them started from scratch, especially the digestion technology, and the production was basically an experiment, and there was no output at all. Up to now, the monthly production is less than 15 vehicles, which is well known to them...... "Xie Heping put the matter off.
Inside the 541 base. He didn't have a good time.
"I can't believe it, their production is so low!" Liu Yijiu immediately remembered that Yan Pingyuan and Chen Shuhao had infighting, and it was very likely that Yan Pingyuan was expressing his dissatisfaction with the Ninth Academy.
The Ninth Academy replaced the 541 base with the people of the Ninth Academy in some key positions, and Liu Yijiu did not say that he only temporarily let his people go there, and when the technology over there is mastered, they will still be transferred back to develop new tank technology.
"Director Liu, our Ministry of Defense hopes that you can start providing us with the tanks and other equipment we have procured as soon as possible, and now the international embargo is increasing against us. If the Americans impose comprehensive sanctions on us, it will be difficult for all kinds of weapons and equipment to get in! Canon saw Liu Yijiu again, his face full of anxiety.
Liu Yijiu squeezed out a smile and didn't tell Canon about the problems they were currently experiencing.
"Liu. This is indeed very important, as Iraq's Saddam Hussein is expanding his armaments, and the border between the two countries is becoming more and more dangerous. If Iran loses the war, it is likely to cut off the current oil export cooperation with us...... "The Iran-Pakistan oil pipeline project has already begun. The oil pipelines, as well as some oil equipment, are from China.
This gives the relevant units in China a very big opportunity.
Moreover, for such a project. Liu Yijiu is also very much looking forward to the fact that once Iran's oil export pipeline is repaired to Pakistan, it is completely possible to take advantage of Pakistan's relations with China to expand investment in the construction of western China. In this way, it will be possible to build a large oil reserve warehouse in western China.
China now, basically, has no oil reserves!
"I know that we also want to be able to fulfill the order as soon as possible, after all, in addition to Iran, your country also has an order for 200 vehicles, as well as an order for 110 vehicles from our Ministry of Defense. It is impossible for our national army to have only such a small number of orders, mainly because there is too much backlog of orders in front of us......" Liu Yijiu shook his head.
Said helplessly.
He is very busy now, and his main energy is devoted to technical research, and he usually has no time to manage the production unit.
In terms of management, the base is a very weak unit, and even if it has various systems, it has to be formulated by Liu Yijiu one by one, otherwise there will be problems. For units that operate in accordance with the market, they will not be able to form an effective management system at all without going through some exploration and suffering some losses.
The Ninth Courtyard could not afford to lose.
There is not enough time and energy to implement it.
At present, if the Ninth Academy wants to implement various management systems in the mountains to the 541 base, it is simply not possible, and the environment is different.
At the urging of the Pakistanis and Iranians, Liu Yijiu had to stop his work and take them to the 541 base again.
In the summer, Zhongtiao Mountain is full of vitality and has a bright future, and the 541 factory, whether it is an ordinary civilian unit or a military production unit, is busy, and each production workshop is full of banners, desperately working overtime to produce.
After the reorganization of the civilian products workshop of the base, the 130 light truck was soon introduced, which is very popular in the market, and through understanding, Liu Yijiu also knows that it is precisely because a large part of the processing capacity is transferred to the civilian production, so the efficiency of military production is very low.
For such a question, Liu Yijiu is simply angry!
"That's why? What is needed to ensure nation-building? Are we planning to produce? We are a military production unit, civilian production, which is matching. Secretary Yan, Director Yan, this is the first large-scale heavy equipment export in China, and I have to tell you which is more important? Liu Yijiu didn't ask Yan Pingyuan who was innocent in front of him very loudly, but asked coldly.
Yan Pingyuan disagreed, saying that the production of civilian products is the focus of the country's economic construction. For the country to develop, light trucks must not be missing. Only with a sufficient supply market for trucks can the economy develop more rapidly.
And. Only these works that he presided over by himself will be his own political achievements.
What about the production of military products, and what about exports?
Anyway, the other party has even paid the money, sooner or later, there will be no problem.
He couldn't understand Liu Yijiu's layout, and there was no way to clearly know that Liu Yijiu was starting from this batch of tanks.
300 new tanks, in his opinion, are not much more advanced than the Type 69.
"Director Liu, or. Let's provide them with a batch of Type 69 first? Although the performance is much worse, but ......" Yan Pingyuan didn't realize his mistake and proposed directly to Liu Yijiu.
"You think the Iranians are fools? They have money! They want the best, Type 69 tanks, how much are our own troops equipped with? Use the price of a third-generation tank to buy a second-generation tank, and you think the other party is a pig? Liu Yijiu immediately laughed.
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"If you feel that you can't use your talents in the 541 base, I will apply to the higher authorities to transfer you to a unit that can give full play to your talents. But within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Academy, you have to do your work according to the requirements of the Academy! What about the light trucks that come out of the market and continue? We are a military-industrial unit. What we need is the production capacity of weapons and equipment! Wang Shunyi didn't expect that these things would become like this.
He has an unshirkable responsibility for such a thing.
"I don't care what you do, June 10th. I ask to see 50 Ryo-I tanks roll off the assembly line, and if I can't do it, replace them! Liu Yijiu is too lazy to give the other party nonsense now.
The Iranians are gambling. The Americans cut off their supply of Patton tanks, and they turned to China. The market will be even bigger in the future, and he definitely doesn't want to lose such an opportunity. Medium tanks. Being able to open up sales channels in the international market, in the future, Saudi Arabia and other tyrant countries will purchase a lot of money, and how much combat effectiveness they can exert has nothing to do with them.
What Liu Yijiu wanted was that the tanks they made could contribute to the development of China's military industry.
Yan Pingyuan didn't dare to say anything more, Xie Heping and the like could be sent away at will. But Liu Yijiu can't do it, and people like Wang Shunyi are even more difficult to dismiss.
Fortunately, by now, 30 vehicles have been produced in the final assembly plant, and five more are on the assembly line.
Immediately, at the request of Liu Yijiu, he took the impatient Iranians to the final assembly plant to visit the tanks that had been assembled.
Outside the final assembly plant, there are neatly arranged rows of earthy yellow desert camouflage Longwei tanks, which are different from the conventional semi-circular tank turrets in China, which are diamond-shaped turrets with large inclination designs, which look mighty and domineering.
"Just a few?" Seeing the tanks in front of him, Canon counted and counted, and the number here was less than ten!
Immediately showed a look of disappointment.
Iran and Iraq were originally evenly matched, but after Khomeini overthrew the Pahlavi dynasty in Iran, Iran was embargoed by Western countries led by the United States. Iraq, on the other hand, is still importing weapons and equipment on a large scale.
Because of religious issues and territorial disputes, this battle between the two countries will start sooner or later.
If it weren't for the fact that the Soviets were supporting Iraq and did not agree to agree to their terms to abandon arms exports to Iraq, Iran would have even placed an order with the USSR!
"Mr. Canon, these tanks have already completed the test, and they can be directly put on the battlefield with oil and shells......" Seeing Liu Yijiu and the others as if they were about to kill, Yan Pingyuan hurriedly explained, "Other tanks are being tested in the mountains next to them......"
Immediately, he led the group in the direction of the extension of the ravine.
"Boom! Rumble! ”
Before I had left the factory, I heard the roar of the engine faintly in the air.
It was even accompanied by the sound of shells exploding.
"Who came up with this? Train our fighters with a customer's order? Liu Yijiu took the binoculars and looked into the distance, and found that more than 20 tanks in the distance were emitting black smoke from their buttocks, desperately rushing up the hillside as if they had eaten a strong King Kong pill, and from time to time they turned their turrets to shoot at targets in the distance.
Although there were only more than 20 tanks, they were still very imposing, and in an instant, they brought everyone to the battle-torn battlefield.
"These tanks, immediately loaded, loaded onto ships! We have priority, in addition, your country has to be responsible for after-sales service, especially the training of combat capabilities, so I hope that these tanks will be packed to our Iran together with the soldiers and related technicians who have tested the vehicle, and after the training, ...... "Canon saw those tanks in the distance that have very strong trench crossing capabilities and climbing capabilities, especially when climbing slopes, and immediately drooled."
Iran's military personnel do not have a high level of education, and the same is true for China.
He believed that Chinese soldiers would have a way to solve the problem of their soldiers' low level of education.
"General Canon, many of these soldiers can't even speak Mandarin well!" Liu Yijiu immediately smiled bitterly.
"Rest assured, we have a sufficient number of translators while they train our tank crews! And before that, we have recruited a group of college students from China who understand Chinese, and they will become the grassroots backbone of our new tank force! Canon said nonchalantly.
Liu Yijiu immediately frowned.
This matter needs to be decided by the central government.
"You mean to send a group of fighters to Iran?" Long Yaohua and Li Yunlong are now in full charge of the weapons and equipment exported by the Ninth Academy, just to prevent them from getting too out of control.
"It has to be sent, and those fighters have to take off the uniforms of our troops. They are no longer fighters, but test drivers of our tank production units! No one has any excuses for this, and no one has any reason to trouble us! Liu Yijiu nodded firmly.
"That's right, General Long, I think you are also very aware that all kinds of after-sales service and training will be provided for the export of weapons and equipment in the world......" The tank troops sent here by Iran to take over the training are still learning Chinese!
They can't wait for this to happen.
Although Liu Yijiu translated some technical materials into Persian through relevant technical personnel in Pakistan, the operating system has not changed. Changing the new generation of the tank's computer operating system to Persian would be a huge project.
What's more, in order for them to stand more firmly on China's side, they must be culturally accepted by China.
Just as English has become a mandatory language for all students in China, Liu Yijiu wants to make it mandatory for China to influence the official mandate of the state to learn Chinese!
After all, learning Chinese is much easier.
He didn't dare to tell the above, after all, this is cultural aggression, and God knows if the bigwigs above will agree. (To be continued......)