No matter how fucked up the name of this project is, at least it seems to be the most formal and appropriate project name in all respects now, and not only Brazil and Malaysia agreed, but even the army of the Republic, which is also following the defense exhibition in the imperial capital, applauded after learning of the news.

The military can invest 40% of the R&D funds to have a quasi-third-generation aircraft in advance, and the most important thing is that this thing is quite cheap, which is most suitable for the army of the republic in the current window period, as for the name of the project. According to the army, people in Brazil always have to see a splash first when they pay money.

As a result, Southwest Science and Industry, Brazil, Malaysia, and the Republic of China Navy and Air Force sat together and began to secretly discuss various details in the small black room, striving to start the whole project as quickly as possible.

At the same time, the entire defense equipment exhibition is also in full bloom, especially in the ground tank equipment has also ushered in two teams of special guests, first of all, this team of old friends of the republic.

"Are you friends from Pakistan?"

That's right, this defense equipment exhibition can not be without Pakistan, the traditional buyer of military equipment of the republic, people from Pakistan came to the imperial capital of the republic early, with a small notebook ready to record all kinds of interesting projects, to see if there is a need to go back.

Seeing that the people here came out to greet them in person, this group of Pakistani visitors was busy putting down their small books, politely greeting them, and explaining their intentions.

"Yes, we are a Pakistani military equipment research and procurement team, this time I heard that the big brother republic held a comprehensive defense exhibition, let's not come to see what we need, maybe we can gain something!"

Pakistan is very blunt. Obviously, I'm going to see what military products are worth paying attention to, and a large group of people are looking at their booths. No matter how stupid the people in the booth here are, they can see the situation.

To seize the opportunity, you have to climb up the pole: "Then did the Pakistani friends take a fancy to that tank?" Our tanks can be used for foreign export, and Pakistan's old 59 tanks really need to be updated. ”

As he spoke, he led people up to the booth outside. I didn't know I didn't come out to explain it just now, but now it's different, and it's necessary to explain this kind of thing.

But Pakistan has long had its own goals, and there is no longer any need to explain more, so they directly pointed to a tank on the side and asked, obviously having an idea of this tank for a long time.

"Forget about the rest, we need to look at this new tank with a welded turret, I can feel that this is going to be a very good main battle tank, and Pakistan needs it."

While talking. And pat the solid armor of this tank with his hand, especially a lot of draped reactive armor, with this thing the tank is obviously more secure, the only problem is that the 105 gun toothpick gun used by this tank is indeed a little too small, and there is still a gap compared with the mainstream of the world, which is a big problem.

Seeing that there are finally people interested in this Type 85 tank, the exhibitors here are happy, and there is finally a glimmer of hope to continue the transformation of the Republic of China's tanks, and the chief designer himself is also excited about this tank.

"This tank is numbered Type 85 in our interior. It features a new reactive armor design that greatly increases the survivability of the tank, the new Long 105 gun provides greater penetration, and the welded turret is our first attempt at tank development. The results are very good, and they can effectively avoid the inherent defects of the cast turret. ”

At this point, the mystery of this tank has been initially revealed. As a main battle tank, the Type 85 tank was undoubtedly the most advanced of all the projects of the eighties of the Republic. The development of this tank began in 85, but the time when this tank was finalized was 88.

The Type 85 tank also has a rival: the Type 88 tank. As two competing models, it was the Type 85 tank that was chosen by the domestic army in the end.

The opponent who won the project naturally received the official number of the Type 88, and the loser naturally had to name it after the time when the project began to be developed in 85 years, which is where the Type 85 tank came from.

It stands to reason that the Type 85 tank is so advanced and adopted, and even uses a welded turret design in a new way, so why did it still lose to the Type 88 tank?

The reason is that the reliability of the Type 85 tank is somewhat low, and the technology is indeed a bit radical, and the army of the Republic at that time chose the Type 88 tank with a more conservative scheme for various reasons.

This is why the chief designer of this tank was so excited just now, because the technology is too advanced and the competition fails, can this kind of thing be more sad? Fortunately, things are taking a turn for the better.

However, Pakistan still has some ideas about this advanced tank, and this tank is indeed better than the current Pakistani tanks, but it is not obvious that it is still excellent.

"We are indeed interested in this tank, but we in Pakistan still need to improve it, for example, the main gun of the tank does not meet our needs, our opponent India's Arjun tank is already using a 120mm main gun, and we require this tank to be able to reach the same level."

Hearing this request, Chief Engineer Fang smiled, it is really difficult to modify a larger caliber of the main gun according to common sense, after all, the increase in the caliber of the gun will inevitably lead to a corresponding increase in the fighting compartment of the main gun, which is very difficult to make room for a tank with an inch of space and an inch of gold.

But the Type 85 tank did not have this concern: "There is no problem at all in retrofitting a larger caliber of the main gun, and our Type 85 tank was developed with this situation in mind, and we have increased the diameter of the turret seat from 1840 mm to 2100 mm, and with this extra space, we can completely integrate a larger caliber main gun." ”

Speaking of which, Chief Engineer Fang would not have to be a little happy for his own precautions, if he hadn't advocated a large-caliber seat in the development of the project, now this Pakistani project would be yellow.

When the chief engineer confidently affirmed the requirements of the Pakistani side, Pakistan here was finally satisfied, a welded turret, the caliber of the main gun can also reach more than 120 is almost enough, this is the tank that Pakistan needs.

"Well, we in Pakistan are going to have this tank, listening to your introduction, this tank should have just passed the engineering test stage, but this is not a problem, and then it is enough to improve it according to our Pakistani requirements, we have enough time to wait, we must come up with a main battle tank that can fight Arjun."

In this way, in this defense equipment exhibition, the 85 tank, which was supposed to wait until 89 years for the two sides to come into contact and start cooperating, finally let the two sides meet two years in advance because of this defense equipment exhibition, and the 85-2AP tank exported to Pakistan in the future will start one year earlier, so how big will the butterfly effect of the project that started in the first two years be? It all depends on the subsequent development.

In this way, in the entire defense exhibition, not only the aviation industry led by Southwest Science and Industry has achieved project harvest, but also the ground armor development unit has opened for the first time, and a large news is about to come out again.

On the other hand, another unit is also very happy, originally this time to participate in the housing exhibition did not report much hope, in line with the principle of coming to see the world, symbolically pulled out their own various products, as well as some projects in the development of the project, did not expect that this time actually unintentionally planted willows into the shade. (To be continued.) )